Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Field hockey bosons on Road to perfection see Page 65 merry s Jay win is first homered Victory in Downs Gold cup see Page 67 Burn at 35 or 55 in our loneliness we struggle see Page 25 Cloudy High 20, Low 5 free press tuesday october 10, 1978 final 15 cents 35c with color cd comics vol. 86 no. 9 strike closes liquor stores Mega president Bill Jackson Good will can and strike by Ritchie Gage Manitoba s 390 government liquor store workers begin their strike today for higher wages. The workers voted in favor of strike action at a meeting monday night at the Winnipeg convention Centre. They have been working for 10 months without a new contract and negotiations with the liquor commis Sion Are at an impasse. Today s strike Marks the first time liquor commission workers have legally withdrawn their services. They stayed off the Job on a rotating basis two years ago to protest a wage Rollback. Bill Jackson president of the Mani Toba government employees association which bargains for the work ers issued a Public statement Friday which called for strike action. The strike concerns wages and Little else. It s Crystal Clear. For the past five years we be had restraint. We be done our part. We Don t want to fall any further Jackson said monday after the meeting. The strike has closed 40 stores in the province 16 of them in the Winni Peg area. Louis Veillet chairman of the Manitoba liquor control commission which employs the workers said the commission will assess the Situa Tion and May open a few of its stores in Winnipeg. The buying was so heavy Friday and saturday we Don t know if any of the stores have any Veillet said. He said the commission expects to keep two services going. One is liquor supplied to temporary liquor permit holders the other is Beer deliveries to hotels. People will have to come to the head office to get the liquor. It May be a bit slower but Well fill the Veillet said monday. He added that hotels and restau rants bought heavily Friday and sat urday with prospects of a possible strike. Jackson said the announcement of the impending strike was issued Fri Day As a Public relations Effort. We wanted As Little Public inconvenience As he said. All of the liquor that is consumed in Manitoba goes through the Manitoba liquor control commission. The government gets million a month in profits from liquor sales. Manitoba attorney general Gerry Mercier minister responsible for the liquor commission said Friday the government would try and keep the stores open. Bargaining Between government and the Union s negotiators had gone on for the past ten months with wage increase being the main obstacle. Mega wants an 18-month con tract with a six per cent increase retroactive for this year and an 11.3 per cent increase for the first six months of 1979. Mercier said however that the Cost of that 11.3 per cent including fringe benefits would amount to More than a 24-per-cent raise. He said this would set a precedent for other work ers. Mega on the other hand seems steadfast saying workers Here Are paid Between and annually while their counterparts in Saskatchewan get when asked How Long the strike would last Jackson seemed optimistic. If there Are still some men and women of Good will on both sides we might solve he said. Mortar fire snipers Beirut ceasefire fraying at edges As talks recess the Washington Post Beirut after inconclusive talks in Damascus lebanese presi Dent Elias Sarkis flew to saudi Ara Bia monday As the two Day old cease fire Between syrians and lebanese christians showed signs of unravel Ling. A mood of scepticism following Sarkis apparently fruitless political talks with syrian president Hafez Assad was underlined by occasional mortar rounds or snipers bullets interrupting the ceasefire Here. Further hampering Sarkis efforts to satisfy both christians and syrians was a successful general strike in predominantly moslem West Beirut called to protest the president s Secu Rity plan. The plan featuring replacement of syrian troops in East Beirut by untested units of the lebanese army which fell apart in the 1975-76 civil War been implicitly rejected by Assad and his left Wing and moslem lebanese allies. Backed by armed gunmen and machine gun equipped jeeps these groups which had largely disappeared from View since that conflict drove Down West Beirut s streets. Sarkis is seeking a Compromise Between moslem and leftists deter mined to keep the predominantly syrian Arab deterrent Force and christians dead set on preventing re Newal of the Force s mandate which expires ocl. 26. Beirut radio said that after a score Board Cal Montreal 35 Sash. 35 Calgary 22 Toronto id . 15 Edmonton 3 Hamilton 25 Ottawa 5 nil by jets Buffalo 14 Pitts. 31 Atlanta 17 Washington 21 Detroit i new England 24 Phil 14 Green say 24 Chicago 14 Baltimore 30 St. Louis 11 Cleveland 24 new Orleans id Tampa Bay 34 Kansas City 13 Dallas 24 by slants 3 san Diego 23 Denver 0 21 Houston 17 scuttle Minnesota a los Angeles j7 san Francisco 10 Miami 21 Cincinnati 0 sports fourth Assad Sarkis meeting ending at Dawn monday the syrian Leader said we have covered three quarters of the Way in our discussions and Are but he was one of the few optimists judging from a nearly unanimous sampling of newspaper and diplomatic analysis. Sarkis also appeared to have failed to persuade Assad to Back a plan for a lebanese Cabinet drawn from leading warring factions to re place Sarkis largely discredited technocrats government. Assad was said to want an Over All settlement including reforms of everything from the political sys tem dominated by maronite catholics to the army command also a maronite stronghold. Officials of the International com _ glow Cal Milter of the red Cross suggest about Morden Fine foods Ltd. On King Edward Street gave away about weather and absence of Frost left plenty of Corn in the Fields so it was 4011 civilians have been killed. Dozens cobs of Corn on saturday. A company spokesman said Cool picked and dumped in a parking lot for Corn lovers to carry away. Rhodesia scrapping All race discrimination Salisbury Reuter Rhode Sia s biracial transitional govern ment announced today that All racial discrimination in the country will be ended. Making the announcement in front of prime minister Ian Smith s office a Black member of the government s supreme executive Council Bishop Abel Muzorewa said his finished. All racial discrimination finished scrapped. I m so Happy i could jump on top of the he said All discrimination in residential areas hospitals and schools would be eliminated As soon As the government introduced the Neces sary legislation before parliament. He did not say when that would be. The move he said meant the scrapping of the controversial land tenure act which for years has divided White ruled Rhodesia into Black and White areas. The Bishop said the decision by the executive Council made up of him self White Premier Ian Smith chief Jeremiah Chirac and Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole had been unanimous. Smith and Sithole currently Are in the United states seeking to persuade americans that their majority Rule agreement was a True step to Black majority Rule in Rhodesia after 88 years of White minority supremacy. Bishop Muzorewa flanked by chief Chirac Black joint foreign minis Ter Elliott Gabella and White joint finance minister David Smith said he was convinced the scrapping of discrimination would help sell the agreement and could help Stop the six year old guerrilla War. Our enemies will be disappointed. But from men of Goodwill and people who Are interested in seeing democracy at work and Freedom Here 1 believe that it is going to be received with he said. Meanwhile prime minister Smith has blamed the United states and Britain for prolonging the conflict in inside anytime 7 Bridge finance.17 la Jumble 3j weather Sun rises . Sets . Moon sets . Looking for a this and is under 7j5 Loo Eishiro per fat condition so. Mi-m4j. Seasonally adjusted rate steady at 8.5% jobless Ottawa up the number of unemployed in september fell from a month earlier but the seasonally adjusted jobless rate which Indi Cates trends remained steady at 8.5 per cent statistics Canada reported today. The Federal Agency said there were without jobs compared with in August. Last septem Ber there were unemployed. The actual jobless rate before changes to take into account season Al factors was 7.7 per cent com pared with 7.5 in september 1977. The labor Force in september was Down about from a month earlier reflecting the return of Many students to school after the summer Holiday. There were persons with jobs last month compared with in August. Declines unemployment among women 25 and Over Rose by two tenths of one per cent to 7.9 per cent and fell by three tenths of one per cent to h.7 per cent among men to 24. Jobless rates for women 15 to 2-1 and men 25 and Over remained steady at 111 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively. The jobless rate Rose in six prov inces and fell in four. Newfoundland s unemployment rate worst in the country Rose to 16.9 per cent last month from 16.5 per cent in August. There were improvements in Nova Scotia and new Brunswick As the unemployment rates fell significantly. Nova Scotia s rate in sep tember was 9.8 per cent compared with 10.4 per cent a month earlier and new Brunswick s fell to 12.8 per cent from 13.6 per cent. Bui in Prince Island the jobless rate jumped to 10.1 per cent from r.8. Quebec with the largest number of unemployed at saw a modest improvement in the jobless rate to 10.9 per cent in september from 11 per cent in August. Ontario the largest Industrial province had its unemployment rate climb to 7.5 per cent from 7.1 per cent. There were actual unemployed in the province. Jobless rates across the Prairies Rose last month but the Region still had the lowest unemployment. In Manitoba the jobless rate in september stood at 7.3 per cent up from 6.7 per cent in the previous month. Saskatchewan remained with the lowest unemployment rate at 4.9 per cent up from 4.6 per cent in a gust. In Alberta the unemployment Rale was 5.1 per cent up from 4.9 per cent in August. The jobless rate in British Colum Bia fell to 8.1 per cent from 8.4 per cent. The figures show that after sea Sonal adjustment there were More persons of working age in the labor Force in september than in August. The participation rate for last month was 62.9 per cent compared with 62.8 per cent in the previous Munch. The proportion of women who were in the labor Force was up and participation by men was Down. Statistics Canada released the Fig ures Only hours before parliament is to resume with he government due to come under fire for its handling of the Economy. Consumer prices Fig. Tires will be released wednesday. His country. The american and British govern ments seem to be holding us Back from bringing in majority Rule on a democratic Smith said. He is visiting the United slates in an Effort to win support for Rhode Sia s transitional government. Smith said internal settlement aimed at bringing majority Rule to Rhodesia is what the americans and British have been pressing us to do for Oil sheiks hint at 5% increase from a Router Hamburg West Germany up the next increase in the Price of Oil will be More than five per cent Sheik Ali Chalifa Al Sabah president of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries indicated Sun Day. The loss if purchasing Power which we had to suffer due to the de valuation of the Dollar and inflation in Western countries is said Ali Chalifa ,13, of Kuwait in an interview published in the West Ger Man news Magazine Der Speigel. Asked How much the increase would be the Ali Chalifa who is also Kuwait s Oil minister said he would not give exact figures but they sure Are not going to be Small our loss in purchasing Power averages around 30 per asked if plans to increase prices by 30 per cent he said no. I Don t think anyone believes that. But it is just As sure that no one is going to be satisfied with As Small a Rise As five per ;