Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday november 27, 1978 Sci refugees arrive in Montreal i up photo a vietnamese girl holds a Canadian Flag As three of 161 refugees leave a Canadian armed forces plane in Montreal. They had been stranded aboard the ship Hai Hong off the coast of Montreal up the 159 Viet namese refugees who arrived Here on the weekend after being rescued from a ship off Malaysia enjoyed their first Canadian meal sunday. Bundled in a Hodge podge of temporary clothing the refugees Dis played an enormous appetite for the fare offered by a military cafeteria Here. They piled their plates with broiled Chicken carrots Sloppy Joes and loads of Rice among other items. They stepped onto Canadian soil late saturday night ending a 43-Day ordeal stranded among refugees on the Hai Hong ship. After resting for 12 hours in bar Racks at the Tongue Pointe military base Here they appeared to be in High spirits smiling and chatting As they ate Ai found cafeteria tables. Some will be staying in Montreal while others will be heading for Edmonton Vancouver Toronto Hamil ton Ottawa and Sherbrooke que. They were the first among 604 Refu gees expected in Canada. Another group will be arriving at Dorval on tuesday along with two More flights in the following Days. Mostly vietnamese of chinese Ori Gin few of the refugees spoke English or French and fewer still consented to interviews. Luu Phuoc 49, thanked his adopted country in excellent English. Canada is a very Nice country. I thank you very much. We will be Good new he said he was formerly a sales Man in Vietnam. Life was very hard on the Hai Hong for himself his wife and their six children. But we had conviction we would sur Phuoc said his first priority was getting a Job. The refugees had received a Shower and a change of clothing before boarding a Canadian military plane in Malaysia. They appeared tired but clean and healthy As they stepped off the plane at nearby Dorval Airport. They were immediately wrapped in blankets by military officials and taken to their temporary quarters at the base. After a Short welcoming speech by Federal immigration officials the refugees ate sandwiches and went to bed. Of the 159, about 100 were Chil Dren under the age of 20. A Federal official said eight of these children were admitted to Hospital one with measles and others with skin rashes. The newcomers seemed to find the below freezing temperature Here difficult to adjust to after coming from temperatures approaching in Malaysia. Many wore their Coats and ski Caps even while indoors. Underneath the Coats some wore Long underwear pyjamas or ill fitting turtlenecks and pants. They were to receive proper clothing later while going through immigration formalities. Union ratifies liquor pact continued stores will be open today Park shopping Centre and the outlet at main Street and Manitoba ave Niue. Other stores will open As soon As Stock becomes available he said. Supplies of popular brands of liquor Are Low because buying was heavy before the strike Veillet said. There is no sense opening a store for a couple of hours and then closing it because it has no he said. Following the membership ratification sunday Jackson called it an excellent contract but the wages Are still far too Low and Manitoba liquor workers 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. But he said the contract adds 1.5 per cent to the government s nov. 17 offer and adds the warehouseman ii classification to the two others store clerk ii and inspector ii who will be getting the eight per cent raise next july 1. Although Money was the main Issue in the strike he said the contract also includes improvements in clauses dealing with Severance and overtime pay promotions and layoffs and a new bumping rights clause. We believe it s the Best we could he said. The ratification meet Ings displayed Little if any negative there was some after the Vot ing but by then it was too he did not say How Large a majority of the membership ratified it. To conduct the vote province wide Mega officials held sunday after noon membership meetings in bran Don for the Western Region and flew to Churchill the Pas flin fion and Thompson for meetings there. The largest meeting was held Sun Day night in the Winnipeg convention Centre for the Winnipeg and inter Lake Region and most of the Union s 330 members in the area turned out to cast ballots. Jackson said government threats to reopen the liquor commission stores by Early december regardless of whether the strike was resolved to prosecute strikers for alleged picket line lawlessness and to turn liquor distribution and retailing Over to the private sector were All pressure tac tics. Negotiations Are always pressure packed. The government was using those avenues and i would be lying if i said they did t have some Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau and the 10 provincial pre Miers begin today to forge an Indus trial strategy that is expected to create jobs and economic strength in the 1980s. Documents released sunday in Advance of the three Day meeting their second this year say ail agree that private business must be the instrument to seek out economic activity and turn it to productive activity " but while the 11 say the individual firm is the prime actor in the set on Industrial strategy economic system they disagree on the role governments should take in steering private business activity. Facing Trudeau is the Job of convincing provinces particularly the Richer ones to set aside their own narrow interests in favor of a National Industrial policy that can help penetrate world markets and Gen Erate badly needed jobs. Background papers released Sun Day indicate the enormity of the task. One document paints a gloomy future for such uncompetitive Indus tries As textiles clothing footwear appliances and Metal fabricating suggesting they have Little Chance of surviving against foreign Competition. The Federal government insists it has no plans to end its support of these industries immediately. How Ever the meeting is expected to endorse some programs that would help such industries adjust. Retraining programs for workers employed in these industries Are under consideration. So Are plans to help workers relocate. A conference Brief prepared for employment minister Bud Cullen forecasts a need for two million new jobs by 1985 if the unemployment rate is to be Cut to just 5.5 per cent. That s Down from the current rate of about 8.2 per cent but Well above the rates of two and three per cent of the 1950s and 1960s. That would require about new jobs each year up from the current average rate of about 000. Iranian strike backed by opposition National front Tehran a a general strike called by moslem religious leaders and politicians who want to topple the beleaguered Shah of Iran virtually shut the strife torn country sunday and new anti Shah violence erupted in the provinces. Official reports said troops shot and killed at least nine persons and wounded 30 in the town of Gorgan about 300 Kilometres Northeast of Here when anti government demonstrators did not obey orders to Dis Perse. Rioters were reported to have tried to set fire to several buildings and a Bank but were driven off by Security forces. The official pars news Agency said a giant demonstration in the holy City of Mashhad near the soviet Border 746 Kilometres Northeast of Here was kept under control by soldiers backed by armoured vehicles. Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Mashhad to protest the shooting of seven persons last week and the alleged maltreatment of a moslem religious Leader. The general strike called to main Tain pressure on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and protest the actions of his troops in quelling riots was backed by the opposition National front whose Leader Karim Sanjabi is in custody for allegedly inciting Public dissent to the Shah s 37-year old reign. Employees of the government s Central Bank Here nerve Centre of Iran s monetary system stayed off their jobs for the second straight Day crippling the country s ability to con duct Day to Day financial affairs. The Bank controls payments to govern ment workers and to the Many state run industries. Edmonton wins 1978 Grey cup continued the one major weakness was i Barnes inability to generate a balanced offence time and time again sending his running tandem of David Green and John o Luary into a Edmonton front four nicknamed Alberta crude refused to although he played most of three Barnes passed just nine ".times, completing six for 73 Yards r Veteran Sonny Wade on the other hand generated most of the consistency in the Montreal offence in a i Relief role late in the game completing seven of 17 for 74 Yards. Wade twice failed to convert third Down ambles first led to fourth Field goal from the Montreal 25-Yard line the second stalled at the eskimos 27 but kept j Montreal in the game until the last 14 seconds. Photo by Wayne glow Cal it was All Over but for the shouting. David by Esoline left and Alex Phillips braved the Snow and the cold to demonstrate their feelings about the outcome of sunday s 1978 Grey cup classic in Toronto by holding up this sign on Portage Avenue for All passing motorists and maybe even the world to see. New York hotel Blaze kills seven canadians out about a.m., said town supervisor Don Riley. An unofficial report said 275 guests were Regis Joe red at the time. We were just lying in bed and All Jot -.a. Sudden it sounds like Beds being rolled Down the said Gail Roth of Waterdown ont., who was with a group of Canadian on a Holiday bus tour. All of a sudden i heard it i there was a fight because i windows smashing. But i continued opened the door and there was smoke Black smoke. So we shut the door and smashed the the fire erupted in a basement of the three Storey Structure and spread quickly to the second and third floors because of a stairway draft officials said. Phelan said police and firefighters helped 109 persons escape from the burning building. Some people were jumping from he said. The injured were taken to Hospi tals and officials said 17 persons were admitted and four treated and released. Six persons were reported in serious condition. The fire raged out of control for More than two hours sending flames More than 30 metres in the air and collapsing part of the Walls of the 15-year-old, Cement Block Structure. A couple who refused to give their names said they heard what sounded like a fire alarm shortly after Check ing into the hotel. Michael Fantigrossi an arson investigator with the Monroe county District attorney s office said the cause of the fire is not immediately known. Photo by we inc Glowacky outdoors enthusiasts got an Early Start on the skating season at the Assiniboine Park Duck Pond saturday. They began before the formal opening of the rink and warm up Shack in the afternoon. Bodies taken to . Mortuary continued first known non american among the bodies was not immediately known. The evacuation of bodies was finished saturday night with the Depar Ture of the last . C-141 carrying 83 coffin like containers with More than 180 bodies Many of them those of children to the mortuary at Dover air Force base Del. No one has Ever been involved in something As massive As this before and it was a distasteful Gordon said. He said All . Equipment and personnel have been moved out of the Jonestown area and should be on the Way Back to bases in the Panama canal zone and the . By this morning. . Helicopters with loudspeakers had been flying Over the dense Jungle near Jonestown broadcasting appeals for americans to return to the Settle ment. Maybe there Are one or two people still missing in the Gordon said but we can t be sure about except for cult Leader Rev. Jim Jones and two women All three of whom died if Bullet wounds none of the bodies showed any signs of death other than by Poison . Air Force capt. John Moscatelli said. Bodies returned to . From commune tragedy Dover air Force base Del. A the bodies of More than 900 members of a . Cult who died in Guyana were Back in their Homeland sunday As experts renewed the seemingly hopeless Effort to identify the decomposed dead. The last 183 bodies were unloaded from a . Air Force c-141 cargo plane the ninth flight of the Airlift from the country where the Jonestown commune tragedy occurred. Officials said they were told that 912 bodies had been sent to Dover. Maj. Brigham Shuler a Pentagon press attache said As of sunday evening 512 bodies had been Finger printed by an Fri disaster team and 26 had been positively identified including the cult s Leader Rev. Jim Jones. The others names were not released. The number of bodies is More than this base s mortuary the largest on the . East coast normally handles in a peacetime year and officials stored the overflow of hundreds of coffin like cases in hangars and a storage shed. A cold snap Here with overnight temperatures near freezing aided at tempts to arrest decomposition Long enough to allow identifications to be made. Shuler said 35 forensic pathologists dentists radiologists and others were dispatched from the armed forces Institute of pathology in Washington to try to identify the dead through dental and medical records scars signs of old surgery and similar clues. Relatives will not be allowed to View the remains. Timothy Washington an Auto re Pairman from new York City came saturday Uncertain of the Fate of six relatives including his 83-year-old Mother a sister and a brother. Washington said his sister and the others believed Jones could make you live ;