Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, November 27, 1978

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weekend jets treat Ferguson to a tie in his first game As pm see Page 56 Back up the truck but this time for those so called experts see Page 54 Price testing the tissue we be come a Long Way since the Days when department store catalogues played a major role in the Frontier outhouses seepage 17 Cloudy Low-21, High-10 Winnipeg free press monday november 27, 1978 final 15 cents 3ih with col opt comics vol. 86 no. 49 pm stresses vital issues by Victor Mackie staff correspondent Ottawa prime minister tru Deau called on the 10 premiers to give particular attention to the issues of inflation and unemployment when he opened the Federal provincial Confer ence of first ministers today. The Lead off speaker at the three Day economic conference Trudeau said i am satisfied that nothing has been More destructive of our economic fabric of our economic and Politi Cal institutions and of the sense of equity among canadians As has the process of he said that in the three Days ahead the first ministers will be seeking to identify where the responsibility for action lies provincially federally jointly or As the minis ters were coming to understand not with governments at All. We will not be Able to avoid issues of the division of Powers amongst us is an important strand which links this conference to our constitutional he said. Trudeau stressed in his opening remarks that the Federal government is willing to respond to Many of the concerns of the provincial premiers. This is the third time this year the premiers have gathered in a Federal provincial conference. They met 10 months ago in february to renew and reinforce a process of collaboration and to discuss eco nomic opportunities for Canada and economic problems of their respective governments they met again last month to launch a process of constitutional renewal and revision. They will meet for the fourth time in a year next february when they discuss the Constitution. We launched a process of constitutional revision that i am convinced will succeed where we have failed for Over half a said tru Deau. He said he realized there were some canadians who believe the constitutional talks were a process that diverted the Federal government from the More pressing economic concerns. To us however these matters Are said Trudeau. To fail to make constitutional Progress will i am certain inevitably have dra Matic and fundamental Conse see Trudeau Page 4 liquor workers end strike stores closed for restocking up photo the City of Winnipeg float was chosen Best float in the 1978 Grey cup Alou ettes 20-13 in the Canadian football league classic. See stories on Parade in Toronto saturday. Edmonton eskimos Defeated the Montreal pages 53, 54 and 55. Gruesome Job finished . Troops leave Guyana Georgetown a . Troops flew Home today after sending the bodies of More than 900 victims of the Jonestown murder suicide rites to the United states. But guyanese authorities gave no indication when they would release More than 80 . Survivors of the Peoples Temple cult. . Embassy officials said the guyanese government is still investigating the deaths at the Jonestown Jungle commune in Northwestern Guyana the Airport ambush nearby in which representative Leo Ryan . And four others were killed and four slayings at cult head quarters in Georgetown. Larry Layton 32, of san Francisco and Charles Beikman 43, of India Napolis Are under arrest and police sources said More arrests Are expected soon. Stench lingers Over dead town Page 52 on is charged with murdering Ryan three . Reporters who went with him to investigate the Settle ment and a defecting Joetown cultist. Beikman is accused of killing a member of the cult s Georgetown staff and her three children and of trying to kill a fourth person at the cult s office in Georgetown. Embassy officials said the Guya Nese government will not permit pos sible suspects or material witnesses to leave the country. But a state department spokesman in washing ton said the survivors were expected to begin returning tuesday. The survivors were to be flown to the Charleston s.c., air Force base where dozens of Fri agents were waiting to question them and arrest see troops Page 4 Manitoban can assist refugees front Vietnam Manitoban and local Volunteer organizations and Church groups who wish to offer assistance to some of the 600 vietnamese Refu gees Canada has decided to accept Are asked to Contact the Federal immigration office or can Ada employment Centre in Winni Peg the refugees were among the vietnamese who were stranded for 43 Days on a ship off the malaysian coast. Federal officials will compile a list of Manitoba residents and groups offering help in an Effort to process the refugees As quickly As possible. The immigration department said it was t known How Many of the refugees would be coming to Manitoba. One Hundred and fifty nine of the vietnamese arrived in Mon Treal sunday. Some among this group will be staying in Montre Al while others will be heading for Edmonton Vancouver Toron to Hamilton Ottawa and Sher Brooke que. Another group will be arriving at Dorval on tuesday and two More flights in the following Days. Since 1975, Canada has accepted More than indochinese refugees and presently has two refugee programs in Southeast Asia. The government will provide assistance and language training for the refugees. Interested groups or persons can sponsor one or More refugee families. For further information phone 949-2225 or 949-3755. A Voct Nameete girl hosta Canadian Flag m three of 161 leave a Canadian armed plane to Montreal. Two prison guards die in stabbing Kingston ont. Up two guards at Collins Bay Penitentiary were stabbed to death a third was in stable condition in Hospital and a prisoner was arrested following an incident at the Penitentiary sunday. Provincial police and Penitentiary officials Are investigating the Inci Dent in which officials say a Man went berserk in the Kitchen and stabbed the employees before other guards brought the Man under control. The two killed were Francis us tace 56, of Kingston and Paul Maurice 40, of Amherst View ont. Frank Davall 56, food services supervisor at the Penitentiary suffered Stab wounds but was not injured severely and is in Good spirits officials said today. Teng to be new chinese Premier Tokyo a Teng Hsiao Ping apparently Riding a wave of Public and communist party support is expected to replace Hua Kuo Feng As China s Premier. But it is not Clear yet whether Hua will also lose the chairmanship of the chinese communist party the top Job in the chinese Hierarchy. The new Power struggle among the top chinese leaders was revealed last week in a barrage of pro Teng Wall posters in peking that sharply at tacked policies of the Lite chairman Mao tse Tung. The poster Campaign was followed by a series of weekend demonstrations by Teng supporters which appeared to have party bless Ings. Teng twice resurrected from Polit ical exile after being purged by com see Teng Page 4 although the seven week strike by Manitoba liquor control commission employees officially ended sunday when workers accepted an improved contract offer All Manitoba liquor stores will be closed today to restock shelves. Stores at Manitoba Avenue and main Street and Grant Park shopping Centre will open from 12 noon to 6 . Tuesday with All stores Hope fully open towards the end of the the liquor commission announced monday. Employees will be returning to work on a callback basis beginning today. Following the membership ratification sunday Manitoba government employees association president Bill Jackson called it an excellent contract but the wages Are still far too Low and Manitoba liquor work ers still will not be paid As much As those in Saskatchewan. There is now a Gap Between some component classifications and their Saskatchewan counterparts instead of the Gap that formerly existed he said. What the workers accepted was considerably less than their negotiators originally asked for but it also was More than the government s so called final offer of nov. 17, though attorney general Gerry Mercier claimed the nov. 17 offer was the basis for the final negotiated Settle it is a 27-month pact ending March 31, 1980. From Jan. 1 to dec. 31 this year there is a six per cent across the Board raise in accordance with Federal wage control guidelines which terminate at year s end. On Jan. 1, there is an across the Board five per cent raise and on july 1, 1979, a six per cent raise for about 40 per cent of the component and an eight per cent raise for about 60 per cent Jackson said. 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