Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wmma october its decision certification Likely to fee challenged banker didst lie under oaths lawyer wide balanced budget Fata by Paul Solovey Winnipeg lawyer Hansel says the Canada la Btu relations Board wrongly concluded that a officer 0 it Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce had tied in testimony to the Board about his knowledge of Union activity at the Banks Sioux Lookout the which this week approved Union certification of the pm Ontario was critical of the Bank James for being deliberately untruthful under oath during a fixation hearing conducted by the Board in septem Haddow would not com ment because he said the Bank May Appeal the who acted for the Bank on the agreed that Appeal was a possibility and added he would also press for an port Unity to prove the Board was wrong in eluding Haddow had the Board said Maddows testimony that he want aware until last june 6 of Union activity at Sioux Lookout was contradicted by the Branch Robert who testified lie had phoned Haddow Jones to ten Ransett said he could prove Best had been taker in naming Haddow As the person he had to Best had phoned another officer of the Bank on june Hansell Haddow was then regional personnel manager and has since become assistant manager at a Winnipeg the subsequent which the Board said were orchestrated by the Bank in a bid to undermine Union were on june Best held a staff meeting to discuss Union matters with his who were preparing to apply on june 8 to be legally certified As gaining unit of local 409 of the retail clerks International Union the next june Haddow arrived at Sioux Lookout from compan led by Vic president and regional general Haig and Haddow conducted a Sec Ond staff meeting the same a Teller who had signed a Union certification but who had Given two weeks notice of her intention to leave for will buy major wot Tern Canada lumber Yard retail interested in fix Anding into Winnipeg will Purchase existing lumber Yard with minimum of 4 acres or undeveloped land zoned for lumber Yard and outside piling Box free press was released Turiy with the Teller was replaced t by june the Day the application for Union certification was the Bank had brought in two additional employees one from Kenora and one from flin Lonj the three new employees opposed which resulted in the Union losing its majority of ers supporting the cation said Jeff president of the retail clerks Mcmullen said the Union originally had 11 of the 18 employees favouring when the Teller was prematurely the count became 10 out of and the final count became 10 out of 20 or one vote Short of a majority when the two new employees were he Mcmullen said the labor Board excluded the three new employees from the count on the basis that the Banks decision to add them was a contrived Effort to dilute the unions me said the boards Deci Sion to exclude the three employees gave the Union its required and the certification was a they said the two new people were not to be counted because they were brought in specifically to break the Union and they said the Teller Nave been let he said the labor Board concluded the timing of tire visit by Winnipeg manage Mem Amsi Ittner illegal in this visit tended to intimidate the particularly cause a visit from the Vional general manager was a he Haddow said the general was planning to make a ruled visit to Cryden he simply decided to accompany Haddow to Sioux Lookout As part of his visit to Northwestern the Banks said the labor boards criticism of Haddow was unjustified in View of the fact that he was Able to prove the Board wrong and had offered to provide Evi Dence to this chaired by the Board wrote in its a nation that we Are con Vinced that Haddow was deliberately untruthful under oath in his testimony to the to draw such a conclusion causes us great concern when we Sider his responsible Posi Tion in this major Canadian institution which operates on a base of Public our disappointment is heightened when we consider As regional person Nel Haddow is Cas trunk Ling notice of dividends notice is hereby Given that the following quarterly dividends have been declared payable on the 15th Day of 1978 to shareholders of record at the close of business on the 31st Day of preferred shares series c dividend s3 dividend of per share on the outstanding cumulative redeemable preferred series series d dividend 40 dividend of per share on the outstanding cumulative redeemable convertible preferred series 7v4 series dividend 19 dividend of per share on the outstanding cumulative redeemable preferred series dividend 11 dividend of per share on the outstanding cumulative redeemable preferred series dividend 9 dividend of per share on the outstanding cumulative redeemable preferred series dividend 4 dividend of per share on the outstanding cumulative redeemable preferred shares common shares class a dividend 65 dividend of per share on the outstanding class a common the 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november we recommend investment in Ghi mortgage investors directly or through exercise of As advisor to Ghi we will be compensated in respect of this for additional information or please canted our Walwyn Stodgell co Eghrari Murray limited Portage Man 831 183 responsible for went interests of the very employees whose interests and rights he sought to thwart in his actions and Hansell said he was shocked by this critic adding that his offer during the hearing to Clear up any confusion about the june s phone Call was ejected by the 1 think in seme Way Well just prove to the Beard they were Hansell adding that this if they had More experience As the courts have More expert be so Hasty to jump to Hansel added he understand Why the Board decided the Early release of the Teller constituted illegal interference with the for mation of a he said it was common for employ ers to make an Early Missal with pay when an employee has Given two weeks he also said the two new employees were needed by the which invalid ated the conclusion that they were brought in to defeat the the employee from Ken Ora was needed to relieve the existing consumer Loans who had be come overworked due to bankruptcy in february of of an increase in business due to tft8 summer tourist influx also justified additional be Mcmullen of the retail clerks Union said the unions lawyer had argued if extra help was in fact needed due to the february the staff addition would have been made in february and not june Hansell said this delay was explained by the fact the bankruptcy workload did not begin to Peak until some time after the client had actually gone evidence to show this came out at the hearing and was not contradicted by the he Mcmullen said the Ora employee was known to management As being against this was because the Union had attempted to organize the Kenora Branch in Gebru a move which the employee in question had of Hansell said he had no knowledge that the employee had demonstrated such he added that once a Union tries to get certified it Doest mat Ter what the employer the Union Wilt Start screaming unfair Tabor a economist Robin rec Tarason to reverse it disastrous economic coarse of slow growth and a grating it Folie Tow Ive conservative candidate for m the next Federal election told the Toronto chapter of the society of management accountants this week that the Twe Ruments share of the Economy must be budgets cannot be left adrift in a sea of democratic he the extraordinarily Cavalier attitude of British economist John Maynard Keynes that Mem debt financing increases consumer demand and therefore economic growth makes no Richardson it results in inflation and he caned for substantial tax cuts that would result in a progressive reduction in size of the Public sector and the shifting of Powers and spending to the provinces and Export backs sales the Export development announced thursday it has approved surety and Export credits As Well As foreign investment guarantees totalling million to support Canadian Export sales to eight the sales Are to Al the United kingdom and the soviet where Canadian companies potential sales Are the corporation the transactions Are for Export sales of such goods and services As mining Road Power pumping units and data processing the corporation said neither details of the transactions nor names of the Canadian companies involved could be released As some contracts Are not the Edc is a federally owned company which offers financial assistance and other Aid to increase Canadian stockbroker Dies Toronto stockbroker Alfred founder of Alfred Bunting and died wednesday of a heart he was he started the company in 1953 and was president until when he relinquished control to his Pearce now president of the Toronto Stock he remained As chairman of the firm until he raised in Bunting in the Royal Canadian dragoons in the first world during the he was on Canadian championship Polo a funeral is being held speculators warned growth feared jeopardized Berne Reuter Switzerland top govern ment banker has warned currency speculators they will be losers if they Gam ble on forcing up still fur ther the foreign Exchange value of the powerful Swiss franc Over the opposition of the Berne National Bank president Fritz Leutwiler told a news conference Here the Bank will resist any attempt by the foreign Exchange mar Ket to test its announced earlier this to act vigorously to reduce the clearly overvalued franc Exchange the Bank has been Mak ing huge purchases of United states dollars and other currencies on the foreign Exchange its aim is to reverse the soaring franc Exchange rate which Swiss officials say has put Export companies in Dan Ger and discouraged for eign looking for a career think real estate Call Bill Minuk Park realty 77474o5 2841085 the partners of Mcfarlane chartered accountants Are pleased to announce the admission to partnership of David did your interest mature at the wrong again your Mang life representative can offer you an investment a tax sheltered annuity has Many benefits for you and your for More without Complete the Coupon and mail today to alternatives Man Uuie Lombard place r3b 0x3 or Call 8424041 abdre6s 6ity Canadas economic growth could be jeopardized if its dwindling Supply of venture capital is not the pension investment association of Canada has been Tristam senior budget adviser for pension policy in the Ontario ministry of Treasury and told the association in Toronto the government is examining proposed changes in the pension benefits act aimed at giving Small businesses Access to capital held in pension Canada needs a Large and sustained infusion of venture capital to the Small business Lett this will let those with entrepreneurial capacity exploit their Dominion textile earnings up Dominion textile of Montreal reported net earn Ings of or 31 cents a for the first Quarter ended up from or 28 cents a share for the same period in Dominion had first Quarter sales of Thomas president and chief executive told the annual meeting of this represented an increase from million the year a substantial improvement in results from Cana Dian operations and a modest profit in overseas activities offset a decline in earnings from dominions United states Bell the company has also increased its Canadian manpower by 675 since last he adding if an economic climate exists in which business can earn a reasonable and adequate then employment will uranium find encouraging Westfield minerals of Toronto announced this week it has found encouraging uranium values in Sandstone fragments in the Vicinity of the upper Humber North of grand the uranium bearing frag ments were obtained from three Small pits in overburden of unknown the pits were sunk along the Bank of a Small it is emphasized that no Mineral Zed Rock in place has yet been found in this the company there is presently no indication of a source for these Bruck Mills changes hands Bruck Mills of which owns and operates a polyester and Nylon weaving and dying Mill in about 80 Kilometres East of has been sold to consolidated textile Mills it was announced this under the Toyota of Japan will sell All Brucks issued and outstanding shares to consolidated for an undisclosed nominal the Sale must be approved by the foreign investment review Bruck president Peter Sembinelli said that after years of operating the company finally made it into the Black this sync rude Oil arrives the first delivery of Oil from the sync rude Canada Plant in Alberta has arrived at Gulf Canada Montreal East a company spokesman con firmed this week that Gulf has taken delivery of an initial shipment of barrels of the synthetic which had travelled Miles in 35 Days by pipeline from sync Rudes Oil Sands Plant at fort further shipments to the Montreal refinery will begin at barrels a reaching about barrels a Day by air express a division of Continental air freight Craf daily am express service Between agreement reached Toronto up Claude Neon industries of Toronto reached m agreement in principle to sell its electrical sign division to Jim Pattison enterprises us of Van we or afloat Road said the 44 Vison will the gun Busi which includes the company my and that it was Tom us pint rot of Iohp to retain the divisions of the transact in ;