Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Impending strike Al w causes last minute liquor store shopping last time this happened we realty tested tar he he Raea Ted that during past wsf6 Openell on 8 fort Aifiti basis and were Oteta Helred Fey the Mant Teba govern Welt fees in plan to initiate further negotiations with representatives of its liquor commission employees they take a strike vote Day atternejm3eneral Kerry Mimer if a a Tralee Lii he reaps million in revenues monthly from liquor will do everything we can to provide ser vice to the who is responsible for the told a press asked if outside staff would be he replied Well Deal with that if there is a Mercier suggested that perhaps Bill president of the Toba government employees association Mega representing the pm is Overly optimistic about the outcome of a strike Jack son has said he is confident the workers will vote to the commission and the Mega Are at loggerheads Over both the size of a wage increase and the length of a new both sides agree that Antii Fla Tion guidelines limit the increase to six per cent for the year ending 31 and the government wants to go ahead and sign that agreement and leave the 1979 increase for negotiations next the Mega wants an 18 month contract six per cent for 1978 and what it claims is an per cent increase in the first six months of claimed Union proposals for 1979 have been costed out by management to amount to Between 24 per cent and 30 per cent including fringe a settlement of that magnitude toe accepted try tote tent it Cotil d set a precedent for other negotiations in the he the government has made no offers lot and int prepared to sign an 18 month contract this Mercier despite the minister said he has some sympathy with liquor control employees who fell behind Ether workers in similar jobs because they emerged from a three year tract just As ant inflation guidelines were while he said he was prepared to make some allowances for catchup he want prepared to go As far As Mega Mercier said with both sides agreeing to six per cent for it seems to Lack common sense not to sign that agreement and get the six per cent which is Long that Way employees lose wages by going on on Friday the Manitoba liquor control commission head of fice was overrun with people trying to fill occasional permits for wed Ding and socials in the coming were jammed Here at the head Veillet theres a bit of a theres no doubt about he the pressure in our stores has been he Manitoban will be Able to Pur Chase liquor until store closing time saturday he spokesmen for Manitoba breweries said they anticipate no difficulty fill ing the demand for Beer if commis Sion employees walk out on tues Veillet said we believe with management personnel we can process Beer we feel that within a Day of the strike we will be Able to process Beer orders on a regular he trans air keeps route until 1 Ottawa by John Mcmanus the Federal Cabinet has allowed trans air to keep its Winnipeg Toronto service until when it can Start serving Saskatchewan and but the Fate of Many employees across its system is still not the Cabinet postponed an air trans port committee order allowing nor Dair to take Over the Winnipeg to Ronto service 29 after trans air appealed the order saying it could not Start the Prairie service on that and As a result would have to Lay off More than 200 trans air said Friday it will Start meeting tuesday with Union officials representing the employees to consider bids by members involved for transfers out of Toronto and relocation in the company base at Winni Peg or elsewhere on the proposed Prairie trans air said it will move immediately with properly phased plans to establish a Prairie service from Winnipeg to Edmonton and Calgary the airline said the Cabinet Deci Sion delaying a Norair takeover was a reasonable trans air said it could not immediately say How the decision would determine the number of employees to be played if the company now has to come up with a plan for dismantling its equip ment and person Ell base in to Ronto and still be Able to Complete its weekend charter program out of to is expected to run until the end of april when airline schedules trans air said Norair has made an offer to allow the Winnipeg based Carrier to operate a Friday flight to Toronto for Norair after which would allow trans air to place a Jet there for charter work without flying empty of Revenue passengers to meet the to allow trans air to Fly to Saskatchewan and air Canada has agreed to drop some flights for the regional airline to take air Canada promised the routes in an agreement allowing Pacific West Ern airlines to takeover trans air without opposition from the Public in return trans air had to cancel its Eastern gave says plan is same up photo Netherlands overseas Mills safety carries out a great train Holdup in his own to highlight a situation which is making Mill staff a Little several times a year train Crews move ears too fast and too far in the Mill and they overshoot the end of the pm pans Clarks proposal Toronto up prime minister Trudeau swing through three to Ronto Ridings Friday was an Appeal to the Lowe income working Man and the fixed income voters who make up much of the inner campaigning for candidates in the 16 Federal he repeatedly panned progressive conserva Tive Leader Joe Clarks proposal for income tax credit for mortgage calling it a plan to take from the poor and give to the he boasted of record growth in Job creation and housing starts and of recent changes in family allowance benefits that favor the Trudeau made a Las minute change in his tour to Mai Street though the party troubled Rosedale where candidate John 48yearold former president of the University of is trying to retain Liberal Power in a Riding said to be Well within the grasp of former City mayor David the prime ministers appearance was not in the stately North end of the but in the Concrete canyons of James a massive High Rise housing development where Lowland fixed income families Are the unlike tory candidate whose Campaign literature and signs ignore the conservative party and its Evans is campaigning strongly on his party platform and Trudeau Evans told a boisterous crowd in a school auditorium that being an underdog in a Riding held previously by Liberal strongmen Mitchell Sharp and Donald Mcdonald has turned into an advantage for Trudeau scored Points when he said his family allowance benefits would be Cut by a month but that families of lesser incomes would receive More a year in tax credits because of such he said borrowing Money on for eign markets to help the Dollar was a temporary measure that would be unnecessary when Canadian exports reach a More competitive Price in the world the prime minister repeated his position on income tax Breaks for mortgage again outlined How reducing family allowance benefits for the wealthy would help the Essaf fluent and was visibly agitated when an unemployed Man in the audience complained of his who Are you the prime minister asked the a slacker when was the last time you went to the unemployment office and asked about work every people come from All Over the world because they think they can work Here and they they find work in progressive conservative Leader Joe Clark ripped into the Trudeau government Friday accusing the Federal liberals of fiscal and constitutional in Hyacinthe Riding for a Day of electioneering before the 16 Federal told enthusiastic party supporters crammed into the Headquarters of conservative candidate Charles Auguste Gauvin that the Only Way canadians will be Able to accomplish meaningful constitutional change is by electing a new government that will be Able to work with each of the the pc arriving in town a Day after a platoon of 17 Federal Liberal maps held a travelling Cau Cus received a warm Wel come from residents As he pressed through crowds of shoppers at an open air Farmers shaking hands on All a conservative stronghold for More than two dec was represented for five years by Claude now a Clark appeared relaxed before the partisan crowd at the Campaign of joking about his schoolbook French and deriding the judge fines sugar firms each Montreal up three major Eastern Canadian sugar refineries were Friday each fined for conspiracy to prevent or Lessen unduly Competition in the manufacture and Sale of Quebec Superior court Justice Kenneth Mackay sentenced Redpath industries Lawrence sugar and Atlantic sugar to the biggest fines Ever in Canada for conviction on such a spokesman for Redpath Indus tries said the company will Appeal the while Yves the lawyer for Atlantic sugar said he would be very surprised if the company Doest accept his recommendation to Pierre the lawyer for Lawrence said he was still thinking Over his recommendation to the we Arent Lamontagne we have 30 Days to the sentence came seven months after the Quebec court of Appeal found the companies guilty of the Mackay had originally found the companies not guilty of the and of another charge that of Price fixing in following a nine monthlong the Crown then All three had pleaded guilty in 1963 to a similar charge of conspiracy from 1954 to for which they had each been fined and received an order prohibiting them from continuing the prac what is perhaps More invidious is that they were convicted of doing so at the very time the prohibition order was issued and continued to do in full contempt of the for another 10 the judge said the sugar companies were convicted of a 13yearlong conspiracy which began three years before they pleaded guilty in demands that the Whites in Rhodesia share Power by the end of the year with the million Black but the guerrillas say the pact is a reporters will get their first Thanee to talk to Smith at a luncheon on Smith will appear on meet the Prem a news Eon Ferenzie is scheduled for breakfast with reporters on and a speech at the National press club on in Between the Smith is expected to see Vance on monday or after personally approving Smiths single 30day visa on an exceptional basis on said that he will discuss with the prime minister the question of whether the interim government is willing to take part in an Al parties i think if we Are to find a solution it is essential that we do hold an Al parties Vance such a conference is at the heart of the proposals for Black majority Rule in in a group of British parliamentarians announced they have invited Smith to visit Britain for they asked foreign Secretary David Owen to Grant Smith immunity if he accepts their under British Smith is liable to criminal prosecution because of his unilateral declaration of Independence the British government led by prime minister James Callaghan re fused Smith permission to travel through London on his trip to the United i suppose its the son of thing one should expect from Little venting their feelings on personalities As opposed to concentrating on main such As bringing peace to Rhodesia and ending the killing of innocent Smith said of that decision As he was changing aircraft in Johannesburg Friday Smith arrives with an unexpected boost for his publicity Campaign aimed at the 1 missing after boat overturns one Man was still missing Early this morning after an 18foot open boat overturned on the red River at around 9 a second Man managed to swim to Shore and was taken to Boniface general Harbor master Norm Bingham said the fibreglass boat with a 115 he was apparently trav Elling North on the River when it glanced off one of the pylons of the car Bridge near Point Douglas and he said a search of the Shore and the River Friday night failed to turn up any sign of the missing the search was scheduled to resume this no names have been prostitution Street childrens Treadmill it takes a year to learn All the tricks to be Batson another persons who knows the Core area is Dave executive director of the Winnipeg roys and girls the club operates two other in centres in the pore area in an attempt to Salvage Young one is at 20q Isabel Street in the freight and the other is in the heart of the Core area at 387 Puffer in near a Public housing Deve loped which is referred to by As Little Burnett said while Many of the Core area children Are left to fend Lor Oliver parents Are very concerned about the Wel fare of their he shares these parents concerns about the effects of Good children running with continued Burnett stressed Tore is a need or wholesome recreation Lor youth in the Core me said the children come Troia Remote communities to the main Street area for Tine Zesei caveat and they need Money to and native girls new to the City use internment prostitution As one Way to get we have been told some girls Are paid about for their Many Are never and others Are beaten or left to he Burnett saw there was no pimping of Young us just freelancing by these he gut the Winnipeg police juvenile squad int convinced about Bur Netts views about the frequency of but a department so iceman said pro station May be going of and were not to told about one of bosons drop in centres is near a Brothel that is been raided by the police Many he said the children that of was theother i Bui those Are the Only hookers Ive come across in the Post Bat son juvenile Hoys Are Coo routing Petty and and Batson and Burnett agree that glue and gasoline sniffing is ram Pant among area youth who number about 300 and Range in age from 12 to 16 the work of existing social Agen cies in the area need to he rather than creating new programs to help Burnett he blamed the increase in delinquencies partly on the opening of a number of pinball Parlours in the City and convenience these kids Are on the Street All night and they see these new attract they want Money for this kind of activity like other he said Burnett says pinball shops become centres for drug peddling and Selling of stolen he also said proposed teen dance Haus would cause centralized drink and drug he said they would do More than Good if run by Burnett said Street children need to be shown More productive ways to spend their time without having to spend an idea he said which goes for All Young Burnett said the problems of Street children Are in the Young was Are on the Street cause their afraid to go there often safer on the Street than being Home during a Drunken adult he they spend nights in vacant houses or they go to each others you can spot kids on the Street it All hours of the night in the Core he Burnett said if the children we rent out on the Street they would probably be the victim of crime of in the majority of Middle class Homes when kids go wrong they Are taken control of by a Parent who but in the Core Many Faff Lites dont seem to or they dont have the resources to control their said he said Core area children need to be Given a new perspective m Ute to show item that they dont have to spend their lives on a youth Worth Roddy Tefet to 9 owe area could Over and my Tough task in reaching those ;