Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ottee onto Boeft 1976 nation end to shipping strike Good news for Farmers Montreal up shipping Oti the great lakes and Lawrence rivet system should be Back to to total later this week with the return of striking Marine engineers who respected a backs work order tuesday from their return was Good news to Prairie Farmers worried about lost Grain sales and to Eastern Iron Ore producers unable to move their Ore since the strike started 1c Days by midday most of the 375 engineers had reported Back to their permitting an immediate resumption of loading or unloading in Many that allowed Grain elevators in Thunder to rescind Layoff notices sent out monday to Many of the cites Grain the backs work legislation was brought in Mon rushed through the commons and the Senate at a torrid and by Early the next Day had received Royal that presented Union leaders with a fait a com since they had no desire to defy the they told workers phoning Union Headquarters Here to re turn to work were but since the Taw has been we have no Choice but to go said Oil president of the Canadian Marine officers Norman president of the Canadian Lake carriers said most of the 122 Lake freight ers would be operating at full tilt by the end of the Day although a couple of shippers said they be Back to conditions until thursday or the walkout caused a backlog of Grain at Thunder and there were estimates that the country was losing up to million a Day in lost Grain sales As a the strike also affected Coal and shipments to Mills on the great some companies chartered United states vessels to move Iron Ore from North pm Quebec and preliminary estimates from the Lake carriers Indi Cate they lost More than million tons in mainly to the companies and the there Are also predictions from Industry officials that not All of the backlog of cargo can be moved before the Winter paced with the breakdown of negotiations the shippers decided to go ahead with their threat to Mothball All ships for the it was at that Point that Ottawa stepped the special the 14th such backs work Bill passed by parliament since 1950 and the second in a was opposed Only by the new democratic it provides for binding arbitration to Settle out standing differences and order the engineers to re Frain from strike action until May the Arbi display your possessions or keep them conveniently put in one of these distinctive Wall use your Bay account and Benefit from these savings now Pecan finish unit warmly complements the decor of office or apartment consists of open shelf desk Bookcase and two door priced right unit Only two Horary in creamy White with Rich Brown Ideal in mod Ern consists of two open Book cases with two draw and one two door unit with two unit contemporary de sign finished in sleek White consists of bar Wall two door Wall and piece with two Glass doors and two solid save now Deal the Bay accessory furnishings sixth floor downtown second floor us cite when youre thinking of redecorating its hard not to think of the downtown open daily thursday and Friday Tel Ebuy 24 hour i tact 786 6596 4 uni Eity fashion Square open monday to Friday saturday Tel Ebuy 7832112 Kratof could extend that by two years in his final Gauthier said his Union is concerned that the arbitrator May Force them to take the same terms accepted last week by the Canadian merchant service representing 450 deck officers who had walked out at the same time As the Marine that settlement provided for percentage wage in creases Over three years of nine and with costo living adjustments if the Marine engineers want an additional one per cent for the first Gauthier said the Guild settlement provides for additional monetary benefits which apply to the that is Why they want the extra one per the total percentage value of the contract be different from the ones the deck officers and the general seamen Gauthier the Only thing were asking for is a different division of the Money unlike striking postal the Marine Engi neers will cooperate with the arbitrator once he is he hourly wage rates currently Are for a fourth for a third Engineer and for a second he expressed disappointment with labor department officials and the labor code in noting that a Federal conciliation commission had sided with the Union by recommending that they get the extra one per management requested the conciliation commission the Union Leader the Side which requests the commissioner should be bound to accept his recommend we at least accepted the in a related roman presi Dent of the seafarers International said his Union has approached the take carriers to reopen the current contract for the general with a View toward extending it for another two years with some of the better features from the new deck officers bomb threat suspect remanded for 60 Days Thunder up Donald Joseph of charged in connection with the three hour delay of a via rail passenger train earlier this was remanded for psychiatric assessment for 60 Days when he appeared in provincial court Albert was charged with Public mischief after a Man boarded a train in claimed he was wearing a bomb and demanded to talk to prime minister police boarded the train at just West of and after a three hour delay a Man fled the no bomb was there were 223 passengers aboard the train at the even better value a Winter Utility Bonus in addition to amazing Low rents from i 2 i of Kiln Oil to of Kifft i i u1ak i 6 a Voltl i v 15 1 h or inc 2571883 Jii ily of Mil u h i ;