Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Jit Winnipeg free press tuesday october 10, 1978 Union threatens to strike on Day of by elections govt. Would Force cup to end walkout Lamontagne by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa postmaster general Gilles Lamontagne has said the government would have to act quickly to legislate the Canadian Union of Post Jil workers Back to work should they persist on going on strike oct. 16, because the country cannot afford a prolonged postal strike. It is the inside workers who have announced they will walk off the Job next week on the Day that 15 Bielec tons Are to take place. On monday the letter carriers Union the outside postal workers were reported to be voting in favor of accepting the settlement of their Dis Pute. A Vancouver report said that the leu members in Vancouver Montreal and Toronto had voted for acceptance. But cup the inside workers have adopted a Hartline in their lengthy negotiations with the management of the Post office said the postmaster general. I doubt that a Crown corporation is the solution to the said Lamontagne. I have my doubts be cause if they have the same attitude they keep the same mistrust to wards management a Crown corporation would t make much change in their he was referring to the govern ment s proposal to convert the Post office department into a Crown corporation to try and solve its labor difficulties. Lamontagne was inter viewed sunday on ctr s question period program. Jean Claude Parrott president of the cup has said Quick action by the Cabinet to appoint a new mediator could Avert a strike. Without that action he said the Union leaders Are ready to order a walkout oct. 16. The postmaster general Over the weekend was studying three Sepa rate reports issued by members of a conciliation Board. He expressed Surprise that Parrott had rejected the report from the chairman of the conciliation Board. I think the report was a very very responsible report. I think there was a very Good suggestion and the thing i am considering now is to see if i m going to recommend the govern ment accept this report As the basis for new future negotiations. I cannot understand the cup rejecting that report after 15 months of hard work on the part of the three Mem said the postmaster general. He said if there was no Chance of resuming negotiations the govern ment would have to be very firm. Lamontagne said cup appeared to be resorting to a Little bit of blackmail in announcing it would walk off the Job oct. 16 As it was aware thai the by elections were set for that Date. He said he hoped cup would get together with the government s negotiators and consider the Concilia Tion Board chairman s report As a basis for resuming negotiations. Lamontagne said it was different negotiating with the letter carriers. They were ready to communicate and to discuss their grievances and differences. With the cup obviously their Carter join talks Washington a president Carter will take part in the opening of the egyptian israeli peace talks Here thursday a White House official announced monday. Carter will participate in the open ing of the conference of defence and foreign ministers to underline the importance that we americans place on it and our continuing role in the official said. Official who declined to be identified left open the possibility that the . President will meet at the White House with members of the israeli and egyptian delegations be fore the Start of the session. Israeli defence minister Ezer Weizman told reporters in Tel Aviv As he prepared to leave for the Washington conference that both sides a re very experienced in War but this is the first time we Are dealing in peace we have lots of detail to negotiate a lot on the essence of Good Weizman said. Frameworks for the peace treaty were announced sept. 17 by Carter israeli prime minister Menachem begin and egyptian president Anwar Sadat after 13 Days of intense negotiations at Camp David my. Meanwhile israeli foreign minis Ter Moshe Dayan who is heading the israeli delegation urged other Arab countries to join Egypt in the peace process. But he defended israeli control of All Jerusalem and jewish settlement of the West Bank of the Jordan River. In a speech to the United nations general Assembly on monday Dayan said Jerusalem is the one and Only eternal capital of Israel and added we have resolved never again to Compromise the Unity of egyptian defence minister Kamal Hassan Ali who with acting foreign minister Boutros Ghali Heads the egyptian delegation said in Cairo that he is carrying a draft treaty to the Washington conference. He said he expects the negotiations Here to last two to three weeks. Up photo these Canadian citizens monday testified before a Senate subcommittee on health care costs telling americans of the expenses they avoided throughout illnesses. Most were Happy with the services they received. Our health plans the envy of . Al Washington up five american families faced with enor Mous medical debts and harassed by Bill collectors listened in Awe and envy monday As canadians with similar health problems Sang the praises of government health insurance. The families whose problems Range from cancer to severe deformities among their children were testifying at a hearing on a proposal by senator Edward Kennedy dem. For a National health insurance plan. Kennedy said he invited the canadians to compare differences be tween the Canadian health system where health care costs Are being contained and the ., where hos Pital costs Are increasing at the rate of million an two of the couples at the hearing had children suffering from Spina Bifid a congenital disease in which the Bones of the spine do not close around the spinal Cord. Mrs. Daniel Corbeit of Newton mass., whose husband earns a year owed in medical Bills. And when any of her other children get sick she is terrified that her family will be wiped or. And mrs. Richard pole Zuck of Montreal on the other hand have had More than in medi Cal Bills for their two children with the disease taken care of by the health insurance scheme. Mrs. Fred Sheagley of Kokomo ind., whose husband works in a Small Auto shop said health care Bills for treating her epilepsy and for her two retarded children have driven the family to file for bankruptcy. The family is about in debt she said. Julia Wilsack of Hamilton whose husband Andrew also works in a Small Auto shop has no worries about paying for illnesses. Medical Bills for her husband s heart valve operation treatment of her medical problems including arthritis gallstones and an ulcer All Are covered by the provincial plan. Marion Gosling of Mart Lack sask., whose cancer treatments Cost last your said the govern ment plan that took care of her Bills really is and asked what canadians would do to any politician that tried to abolish health insurance she replied get rid of across the Border another farm ing family is facing in debts for treatment of Mary Cihak s three children suffering from cerebral palsy. Mrs. Cihak of Mcgrath minn., says she sees no Way her family can pay the Bills on a total monthly income of Laverne Ervin of Saskatoon said she was so pleased with the health plan s treatment of her 13-year-old son whose 1977 Bills came to that she wrote a letter of thanks to the government. Emily and Walter Griffen of to Ronto who at 74 and 82 live on a fixed income would be unable to pay for their medical costs without health insurance. Kennedy who says he will press for National health insurance for All americans in the next Congress Dif fers with president Carter on the Issue. Carter is advocating gradual implement Ion of Universal health insurance depending on economic conditions. Kennedy said his proposal would be less expensive than the current system and less than Carter s plan. His approach would mean that America will no longer have 10 hand a National Blank Cheque Over the health care if these families Don t make the Case for National health insurance then no one he added. Srael confident of meeting o the following dispatch was subject to israeli military censorship. Ramat Marsh Imam a five years Afler syrian tanks Over ran this jewish settlement on the israeli occupied Golan Heights of Syria the Bullet holes Are neatly pal rhed the Battle ravaged Apple Orchard blooms again and reorganized defences present a stiffer Chal Lenge to any future invaders. Last week after israeli naval ves Sels shelled moslem West Beirut in the midst of syrian attacks on Chris Tian positions in the continuing conflict in Lebanon there were fears of another War Between Israel and Syria. In any such conflict the Golan Heights and such settlements As Ramat Marsh Imam would be the front line. When Israel was attacked on two fronts on oct. 6, 1973, Egypt s successful assault across the Suez canal into the Sinai desert attracted most attention. But while israeli troops fought a holding action on the South Ern front hundreds of Kilometres from population centres an out gunned tank Force Clung desperately to the Golan Heights to Block a syrian thrust into the heart of Israel. The attack was repulsed in some of the fiercest fighting of the 30-year Arab israeli conflict. But five years later while Israel prepares to make peace on its Southern front with Egypt the israeli syrian Border still simmers with the potential for an o ther explosion. Syria leads the opposition to egyptian president Anwar Sadat s peace initiative and refuses to join be Economy no 1 for maps Ottawa up National Unity ranked a definite second to the problem plagued Economy with maps tuesday As they gathered for lie resumption of parliament after a 14-week summer recess. Measures to curb unemployment and inflation and boost a dropping Lullar appeared the top priority for Bull Liberal government strategists Aind opposition parties. There s no question about it people arc talking about the econ omy and we re hearing less about notional said Liberal Frank pm Albrook Halton in a recent interview. Prime minister Trudeau and his a i hindi must decide on specific measures to follow a series of eco nomic restraint announcements made after the prime minister s nationally televised address aug. 1 in which he promised tax cuts still unspecified and spending restraints. The government will Likely make its intentions clearer wednesday when it announces its legislative plans for what is expected to be a Stormy new session in the speech from the throne. Today was the last Day of the current parliamentary session. Finance minister Jean Chretien has promised a budget before Christmas and is expected to in clude personal tax cuts. Prominent economic groups have warned that without such tax cuts the government restraint program will Only increase already High Levels of unemployment and inflation in the coming year. Maps interviewed across the coun try last week said constituents have made it Clear they Are worried about the unsettled economic state of the country. Quebec Liberal my Hal Herbert Vaudreull said this is True As Well in his Riding the constituents Are half English and half French. He added that criticism of tru Deau s leadership has grown in re cent months although he could t specify Why. John Fraser South said economic insecurity has caused an anti government mood among his constituents. It s gone beyond an anti tru Deau he said. Conservative Jim Mcgrath St. John s East said economic prob lems in the rest of the country Are usually magnified in newfound land. He singled out unemployment As the most pressing local con Cern. V Walter Baker conservative House Leader said it was up to the government what tone the session took. We want the economic problems of this country to be confronted by a Strong government with a Strong he said. We Don t want a 10-month elec Tion got nations. Israel insists on keeping at least part of the Golan Heights from which Syria shelled israeli villages in Galilee until 1967 and rejects Sadat s Contention that the Camp David Prin Ciple peace in return for captured Arab territory would apply to the strategic plateau. Should War resume the israelis Are confident they have Learned the Les sons of the yom kippur War of october 1973, when a Surprise attack on Judaism s holiest Day found 180 israeli tanks facing an invading tank Force of Israel s civilian settlements in the sector captured in 1967 were evacuated when fighting erupted in 1973. Now they have become key elements in what the military chief of staff . Raphael Eytan Calls territorial speaking of this settlement Throe Kilometres from the Frontier Eytan said had Ramat Marsh Imam been then what it is today the syrians would not have even managed to get close to condemned convict forcibly fed in jail Huntsville Tex. A Doc inns have Force fed a death Row con vict sentenced to die for the murder of a policeman. Prison officials want to keep the keep the Man alive until his execution. David Lee Powell 27, condemned to die by lethal injection had not eaten in 13 Days and was trying to commit suicide by starving himself his lawyer said monday. Principle their philosophy is one of mistrust of management so it makes it very difficult when you meet some of these members and they even refuse to shake hands with you because you re he said. Lamontagne said that in converting the Post office department into a Crown corporation cup would then be negotiating directly with its employers As in the Case of air Canada. At present the Post of fice department negotiates through the Treasury Board. He said that May have made it a Little More difficult but not much. Csc Man Cambodia commits atrocities Csc correspondent Sheldon Turr Cott has just returned from Vietnam where he witnessed the Border War Between Vietnam and Cambodia. Here he describes the suffering inflicted on the peasants and the in part of the Ivar on the future of Vietnam. In Sheldon Turcott to Chi mini City Vietnam ice a vicious Border War be tween the vietnamese and cambo Dia s Khmer Rouge has resulted in shocking atrocities being committed against innocent men women and children. The fighting which May explode into full conflict is linked to a bitter Power struggle Between the soviet Union and China for dominance in Indochina. Cambodia is using chinese arms in Border raids on vietnamese villages slaughtering women and children under darkness and mutilating their bodies. Equipped by the soviet Union Vietnam has one of the largest armed forces in Asia. Until now Vietnam has been fighting a defensive War tending off attacks striking occasionally inside Cambodia. Now the raids have increased intensified by vietnamese air support and artillery fire. Aside from fear of chinese intervention Only the weather appears to be holding up a full vietnamese invasion of Cambodia. But All the signs Point to full inva Sion possibly when the Monsoon ends in november. During this reporter s tour of the Border area he saw convoys of trucks delivering new arms and ammunition to the front soviet t-54 tanks and heavy guns and truckloads of sol Diers. Hut Vietnam is unlikely to achieve any permanent peace through inva Sion. In chinese eyes Indochina will never be a zone of peace if it is dominated by Vietnam which de pends on the soviet Union for eco nomic survival. Vietnam is virtually bankrupt in Abie to feed or clothe itself. After years of fighting american forces the communist regime was hit by drought followed by floods that now Rover a huge area of the productive Mekong Delta. The country s Grain shortage this year May run to three million tons or 20 per cell of the Basic needs of the 50 million vietnamese. A huge International Aid program will be required to fill the Gap. Even now every vital commodity in the country is rationed. The monthly food ration for each person is 13 kilograms of Rice or other grains. To get More vietnamese must buy on the open Market. At the time of he american withdrawal from Vietnam Rice Cost 20 cents a kilogram now it costs More than each vietnamese is allowed five metres of cloth a year enough for one pair of trousers and two tops for a very Small person. Three years ago an extra Blouse Cost now it costs Medicine is virtually unavailable. The government has closed Many shops in this City which formerly was Saigon and has tried to move Many of the City people to new eco nomic zones in the Countryside. These Are totally primitive regions where arrivals live in Bamboo huts with a hatched roofs no electricity or running water. The former City dwellers Are ordered to turn this wilderness into productive farms. To escape the harsh life of Pio neers thousands of vietnamese Are living in the shadows in to Chi Minh hoping to avoid the Security police. But this in t easy since Viet Nam is virtually a police state As Well As an armed Camp. Each citizen must have a police permit to move from one Village or town to another he cannot associate with a foreigner or invite him to his Home without police permission ;