Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Tuesday january jobless rate i Down slightly in december continued photo by Dave Bonner members of the National Farmers Union staged protest because the Public. From left Doug Gamey Strathclair Goldwyn Jones Tilston Tony government Industry Grain transportation conference was closed to the Riley Strathclair and Keith proven of Basswood. Lang interested in sask. Rate plan Crow nest rate for Farmers while encouraging the processing of Field crops by subsidizing their transportation by rail. Clang said he would like to see a common plan rather than plans Dif Fering Between provinces. While Manitoba s Premier Sterling Liyon labelled the Saskatchewan plan interesting and the prov Irice s agriculture minister Jim Dow Ney said he could t see Manitoba accepting the provincial subsidy proposal. You enter into is provincial treasuries competing with each other for Industry. It s a dangerous Prece continued Downey said. Saskatchewan s proposal for a transportation coordinator to co ordinate quotas rail cars terminals and ships for All grains was less enthusiastically received even by Lang who had earlier proposed a similar Lang said he preferred a co opera Tive approach to working put the technicalities of a Czar or co Ordin Ator. Premier Peter Lougheed of Alberta rejected the idea of a coordinator claiming we have enough players the scene right now. I Don t think we need another Lyon said he hoped the meeting could agree on an on going commit tee to Deal with Grain handling and transportation problems. The Manitoba Premier confined his opening statement to listing five major problem areas but suggested no solutions. Along with other participants he identified a shortage of rolling Stock As a major problem. During the meeting up rail agreed to earlier Federal government pregnancy moods a myth i it is common sense that one would expect the physical differences. Most of the women were towards the latter third of their but our data does not support the big emotional difficult Hies suggested by the literature although it is a Small says. Twenty one pregnant women and in 14 cases their husbands took in the study. 5 the women reported that people tended to give them the kid Glove treatment to be protective sup and interested in their condition. The husbands Felt a new of responsibility because their wives were pregnant. Lips says other studies have shown that to women s discomfort strangers will stare at them partic continued ulary at their stomachs. A couple of her subjects reported that strangers patted them on the Stom Ach even though there normally is a Strong taboo against touching. The women in the study who were working found their colleagues gave them support although men did not seem to know How to handle the lips says. One woman encountered a Nega Tive response. People stopped giving her anything difficult to do at work. Students have shown a Simi Lar reaction to pregnant Peers who get top Marks in class. It s As if they assume the women s abilities Are affected by their pregnancies lips says. Some of the women resented changes in people s attitudes to Ward them the Way people assumed they Only wanted to talk about their pregnancy As if every thing else had left their minds. Lips suggests we do have a mythology about part of it stems from earlier times when the condition was considered a mys Tery. Another part reinforces the dichotomy Between men and women. Pregnancy is a hyper feminine role while men Are expected to exert their masculinity. It s one area where femininity and masculinity Are appropriate and assured. So we maintain the stereotypes of what pregnant women should be lips says. Requests to participate in a Boxcar repair program Cost shared 50-50 be tween the Federal government and the railways. The railway said it will repair boxcars this year for Grain ship ments at a Cost of million. Up rail said the program would create about 85 additional jobs at the Weston railway shops in Winnipeg and cars repaired at the rate of about 80 per month. Canadian National railways ear Lier entered the agreement to repair older cars at a total Cost of million. The premiers postponed comment until today on a proposal by British Columbia agriculture minister Cyril Shelford that workers in the Grain transportation Industry be paid a substantial Bonus each year. For a trouble free year of efficient opera Tion of our transport Shelford an Effort be made to bring about Central bar gaining for Hie whole Industry As any one of the 25 unions can tie up the whole he noted 16 per cent of loading Days Are lost because of labor problems. Sex of not told of charge tenths of a per cent to 14.3 per cent. For men aged 25 and Over the rate declined by two tenths of one per cent to 4.9 per cent. For women aged 25 and Over the rate dropped to 7.4 per cent in december from 7.5 per cent in november. Newfoundland which consistently registers the highest unemployment rate in the country showed an in crease of nine tenths of one per cent to 17.4 per cent. The unemployment rate in Prince Edward Island increased to a season ally adjusted 11.2 per cent in Decem Ber from 11.1 in november. Quebec which has the second largest work Force after Ontario showed an in crease to 10.5 per cent from 10.4 per cent. The rate in Saskatchewan Rose to 4.8 per cent from 4.6 a month earlier and in British Columbia it jumped to 9.1 per cent from 8.5 Par cent. Other provinces showed slight de Clines. The rate remained unchanged in Nova Scotia at 10.5 per cent. In new Brunswick the december rate declined to 11.6 per cent from 11.9 per cent in november the unemployment rate in Ontario dropped to 6.9 per cent from 7.3 per cent a month earlier to 5.8 per cent from 6.4 per cent in Manitoba and it declined to 4.1 per cent from 4.5 per cent in Alberta. Statistics Canada said the total labor Force in december was 000, up from in Decem Ber 1977. There were per sons working in december compared with a year earlier. The actual number of unemployed in december was compared with in november and 000 in december 1977. Of the total labor Force 63 per cent was either employed or looking for work. This figure known As the participation rate was up from 62.8 per cent in november. The unemployment rate on a seasonally adjusted basis which takes into account labor Force trends stood at 8.5 per cent in december 1977. Although the rate has slowly crept Down to its current 8.1 per cent few economists expect there will be a significant improvement in the unemployment rate this year. Although the declining value of the Dollar has improved the country s Trade position significantly producing a record Trade surplus in 1978, the labor Force has been growing almost As rapidly As the number of jobs created. Slow growth in the United states this year destination of about 70 per cent of Canada s exports Means slower growth in Trade and the rate of growth in new jobs is expected to barely keep Pace with growth in the labor1 Force. The slight improvement in the unemployment rate Over the last year is the result of Job creation outpacing growth in the labor Force. The labor Force increased in the last year while the number of jobs increased by fighting rages in Cambodia continued compiled from dispatches despite vietnamese claims that the War in Cambodia has been won heavy fighting continues today in Many parts of the country and about troops Loyal to the government of Premier pol pot Are holding out in a handful of Western provinces. Many of these troops were report edly guarding and escorting a Large number of chinese technicians and advisers who Are making their Way to the thai Border. About 625 chinese have already arrived in Thailand along with about 50 North koreans and a few other diplomats from to mania Yugoslavia Egypt and Burma. Meanwhile at the United nations victorious cambodian rebels void the in Security Council monday that any hearing granted to the overthrown phenom penh regime would be Fla Grant intervention in Cambodia s internal affairs. The government of pol pot which fled the capital of phenom penh before it fell sunday has sent Prince Noro Dom Sihanouk to the United nations to charge Vietnam with aggression against Cambodia. Vietnam is re ported to have backed the rebels by committing troops tanks and War planes in the offensive. Sihanouk left peking by air tues Day for new York via Tokyo the cambodian embassy in peking said. The embassy said he was accompanied by his wife Monique and two representatives of the government that fled phenom penh. Monday Sihanouk gave an extraordinary news conference in peking. Saying he will ask China for Asylum and if that fails spend the rest of his life at his Villa on the French Riviera the 56-year-old Sihanouk reeled off a Litany of restrictions on internal Freedom imposed by the 45-month-old government of pol pot. I am disgusted with political he said. Intelligence estimates of the num Ber of chinese advisers in Cambodia were once As High As some of these have been evacuated by air within the last 10 Days and perhaps a few thousand departed aboard Chi Nese ships leaving the Southern port of Kampong som before it was seized by advancing vietnamese troops Jan. 6. Although vietnamese troops and their insurgent allies of the National front control virtually All major population centres with the exception of a few Western towns there Are significant pockets of resistance remaining in Cambodia. Military analysts said that the in Tensity of vietnamese air raids had not diminished indicating that significant resistance continued. The strikes were said to be directed at cambodian units that were bypassed by the rapid vietnamese Advance. City staff productivity probed age wage of a civic employee is committee councillors outbid each other monday in an attempt to cite cases of civic employees non productivity. The City s Snow removal opera lion was a favorite target with councillors charging that the level of Snow Clearing and hauling had decreased Over the past several years. Continued coun. Alf Skowron led the attack criticizing administrators for not listening to complaints. "1 for one can no longer tolerate All the excuses. I can t seem to pin them Down on Why things Aren t said Skowron councillors said they had received complaints that the blowing of sidewalks was usually late and almost useless. Filmon said the City Clearing sys tem required plows to go up and Down residential streets several times until the Roadway was completed that leaves the Homeowner shovelling himself out every time the Snow plow goes said Fil Mon. Huband said he had no idea his client was charged with fraud until about a month after the fact when a judge mentioned it to him in pass ing at the Law courts building. Eventually Huband discovered that the charge was in the Possession of a judge and need not be made Public. He said the laying of the charge without proceeding any further was highly chief provincial judge Harold Gyles said in an interview monday a charge is not on the Public record until police Issue a warrant or sum Mons. Therefore there is no Obliga Tion to inform anyone of the action although he said he did t know Why Smerchanski himself or his Law yer had t been told. Judge Gyles said it was t unusual to Lay a charge without proceeding any further but agreed that this is most often the Case in private prosecutions. The police raided Smerchanski s offices and the offices of a number of companies he is associated with in Toronto Montreal and Winnipeg last january. Police were investigating alleged fraudulent activities in relation to trading in and promotion of the sales of shares of seven companies. The ramp received permission in april last year to extend by six months the period they could retain Smerchanski s documents for examination. They argued that they needed a great Deal of time to computerize the information and Complete their investigation. On oct. 18, the ramp said they needed More time to investigate be fore they could Lay any charges and received a further Extension to april 1979. Six Days later however the ramp Laid the fraud charge with judge Gyles which allows them to comparable figures on december jobs Ottawa up statistics Canada december compared with the previous mates in Canada labor Force employed unemployed Newfoundland labor Force employed unemployed Prince Edward Island labor Force employed unemployed Nova Scotia labor Force employed unemployed new Brunswick labor Force employed unemployed Quebec labor Force employed unemployed Ontario labor Force employed unemployed Manitoba labor Force employed unemployed Saskatchewan labor Force employed unemployed Alberta labor Force employed unemployed British Columbia labor Force employed unemployed reported these Job figures for month and a year earlier Esti dec. Nov. Dec. 1978 1978 1977 870 850 882 192 198 186 159 167 155 33 31 31 50 45 6 51 48 46 42 6 5 349 351 329 314 316 296 34 35 33 276 283 266 2-13 252 228 33 31 38 297 276 314 278 278 277 476 481 458 447 452 428 29 29 31 429 430 416 408 413 395 21 17 21 951 946 901 915 905 862 36 41 3ft 103 105 93 Margaret Trudeau admitted to Hospital Ottawa up Margaret tru Deau estranged wife of the prime minister was admitted to Ottawa general Hospital monday Hospital officials said today. The Hospital would not release any information beyond confirming a published report that mrs. Trudeau is a patient. Staff has been instructed by the prime minister not to say anything about mrs. Trudeau s affairs since the couple s separation 19 months ago. Local press and radio reports said mrs. Trudeau is scheduled for sur Gery today possibly a Tonsillectomy. The prime minister has been skiing in Vail Colo. He is to return 10 ;