Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Att test c committee rejects tax break for Racquet clubs smudges wont wipe out leftists political Fervour there she dressed in her Iron Gray head wrapped in a Black a vision of grim East euro Pean she stood her face set in Roc like she was dabbing a Little Brush into a Jar of shoe polish and with circular motions of the was trying to obscure the words on the marxist Leninist posters slapped on the Wall of Al Golden is building at Portage and Al Golden Wall is the closest thing weve got to peking famous democracy armed with a a glue or a Spray can of furtive fanatics deface als property in the name of eternal in doing Treyve got to be prepared to take evasive action if he catches Al Doest kindly to furtive fanatics Messing up his it looks like he i guess it marxist Leninist Post ers dont win awards for design Excel everyone is cordially invited to at tend conference against racist and fascist violence they proclaim in utilitarian red Block let competing with the freeform Spray can scrawl of an Angel of the lord holy ghost charge mute opinion an ally of sorts of this Christian the lady with the Iron Gray hair continued to express her mute opinion of the theres a kind of cockeyed irony in All the marxist Leninist have proven Invulnerable to All Legal and illegal the posters appear like but Are a lot harder to get off the but those who live by the defacement of private property will die by it and the marxist Leninist have no defence against the Little old lady and her can of shoe the funny thing Shes not even East no apparent victim of commie purges or she has a faint West Kildonan every thing else is shrouded in i dont care to answer any questions and in not about to be Call it a some people have their this is she returned to her still sturdy and vigorous after five hours of blacking out self defense is the Only punish police criminals and their Bosses and no to War and fascism the communist party of Canada marxist Leninist will probably survive the assault of the Little old its already survived the disastrous revisionism of the Peoples Republic of its former ideological one without China firefighters holding vote on contract about 950 Winnipeg firefighters Are scheduled to vote today on a tentative contract with the City of Dennis president of the United firefighters of refused yesterday to reveal details of the he said civic and Union negotiators reached agreement on the pact Friday after three Days of conciliation the Union leadership will recommend firefighters ratify the Loyd Deputy mayor Pearl Mcgonigal said civic executive policy committee approved the tentative agreement and recommended City Council approve it at its meeting next she said the contract is similar to other settlements with civic workers which provided pay increases of about 22 per cent Over two Paul Sullivan started shamelessly courting the War mongering freaked out by reports of Bob Hope on the Road to peking and the adulteration of com Mie tooth enamel by the abandoned China for the Only ideologically pure country left in the world a Grumpy but feverishly nonaligned Little state in Eastern Home of about two million already beset by abject Pov bad poor and a primitive the poor devils now have to Deal with the albanian secret but Are hanging in there with fabled peasant this too shall in the marxist Leninist is Only one of four car carrying communist parties other purveyors of the Correct line include the communist party of Canada old Moscow the revolutionary workers league followers of Leon hence their nickname and the communist workers a splinter group of the that decided to stick with chairman Hua Guofeng throughout his coca cola Advent they hate each others guts and Are at this time in no danger of uniting to throw Over the capitalist running dog jackies of the Yankee imperialists who manipulate the levers of Power in this its a Safe for that the in Winnipeg num Bers no More than 30 Brave but the Only people who know that for sure Are the party itself and the and neither one is very communicative on that one watcher is sure the ramp taps marxist Leninist phones and hovers near marxist Leninist meetings in grotesquely unmarked but int really sure nothing else to i he the marxist Leninist Are fiercely proud of their ramp surveil despite mountie or per haps because of the party has been around town for attracting a virtually unchanging number of Politi Cal purists mostly from the ranks of University students and Young intellectuals disgruntled with their members used to sell the Peoples Canada daily on Street Corners before China went out of it was writ ten in a ranting a style lovingly copied from the official peking Peoples which is trans lated from the mass meetings when there not pasting posters on the Golden marxist Leninist Are having mass which usually attract masses numbering in the counting the Clandestine ramp offi the next mass meeting is scheduled for 2 24 at 469 a former now the Desh Bhagat Buddhist the North the meeting has been called to com Bat racism and As the three organizing the the East Indian defence committee and the Winnipeg residents defence com Are convinced those twin evils Are on the Rise in this the people who brought you that Catchy slogan make the Rich pay Are still alive and Well and vigorously demanding their right to Freedom of political the strident braying of the marxist Leninist May offend your sense of Good but like a Good they purge our system of its chairman believe it or never said by Pamela Fayerman in a 32 vote civic finance committee recommended the City continue its practice of applying its 10per cent amusement tax on profit Orient de Racquet v the decision came seven months after an and hoc committee was appointed to study the feasibility of exempting clubs from the chaired by prank Johnson Al with members Alan Wade nip notre Dame and Harold Macdonald the committee held Only two meetings before arriving at its according to he said Wade did not attend either meet Money the study was directed to Racquet but like the motion Pic Ture were also we received Strong recommendations from the administration that the Money is the City is million a year from the id like to see the tax dropped because i have a great Deal of sym Pathy for these but we concluded the City cant afford to lose that we looked for an excuse to eliminate the we find any so that the end of the discussion unless Council ignores our recommendation by deciding to Grant the the report cites amusement tax reve nue figures with the largest sum com ing from theatres in june Assiniboia Downs in rollerskating rinks the City collected to the end of june this an increase of Over the same period in total revenues derived from the tax in 1979 amounted to Bob shareholder in uni City Racquet club and spokesman for seven clubs opposed to the said he will continue his near yearlong fight against the in its desperate need for the City makes us victims of their Oversea they dont care who they tax As Long As they tax the City is right out of its mind and i Hope the politicians realize this he said Akman said he will plead with City Council at its meeting next week to not support the finance committees 1974 bylaw Akman said that if he Doest get satisfaction from the whole he will attempt to have the 1974 bylaw the policy of levying the tax against Racquet club users came into existence on the clubs which Are subject to the tax because they Are have never collected it from their shortly after the policy was Intro the clubs adjusted their fee schedules so that no More than is charged for one unit of playing the tax applies when the game Cost is or the amusement tax is applied much the same As provincial sales clubs act Only As collection if they fail to they Are liable for the amount uni City Racquet club has been charged with failing to collect the tax Between 1 and while supreme Racquet courts faces prose cution for refusing to let City officials inspect its books in a spokesman in the cites licensing department said trial dates will be set in mayor Bill Norrie said that if he had the he would have voted against the motion to maintain the status quo because he is personally opposed to the tax on Racquet David Friedman rear and Saul Engel cover their faces As police escort them from pair extradited from Israel in custody on rape charges by Joe Rubin two men who fled to Israel almost three years ago while facing rapt charges Are in police custody and will enter formal pleas at a 15 arraign Saul Edward and David Benjamin appeared in Manitoba court of Queens Bench yes Justice Peter Morse Noti fied them and their three lawyers of the arraignment judge Morse refused a request by Engels defence counsel Harry Walsh for a ban on Walsh Suid publicity about the Case May prejudice the accused when judge Morse asked if he had the authority to Grant the Walsh said the judge had such jurisdiction on bail the defence lawyer argued that since an application for bail May be filed and yesterdays court appearance could be considered a forerunner of that the judge could allow the but judge Morse did not agree that he had jurisdiction to Grant the ban yesterday and refused Walsh the judge asked the reporters to use their Good judgment in report ing on the relatives present also present in the courtroom were friends and relatives of the the pair arrived in Winnipeg monday night accompanied by two City police detectives who left for Israel last week after the israeli minister of Justice signed papers ordering the pairs extradition to both men Are charged with assault ing a 21yearold woman in a Northend Winnipeg Back Lane Engel faces two counts of rape and one of indecent and Friedman is charged with one count each of rape and Gross the pair fled the country after failing to appear in Manitoba court of Queens Bench in to enter pleas to the the provincial attorney generals department has been trying to have them extradited since working with the ramp and inter Winnipeg police traced Engel and Friedman to Tel Aviv where they were arrested on May the two men were ordered extradited in by an israeli court they appealed the but the supreme court of Israel upheld the lower court order in Grant for Legal fees urged citizen group May receive for costs in bylaw Battle a group of Windsor Park residents who won a two year Battle to have an Asphalt mixing Plant removed from their neighbourhood May have its Legal costs defrayed by the civic finance committee yesterday recommended that the City give a special Grant to the concerned citizens of the organization claimed Victory in june when the supreme court of Canada refused to hear an Appeal by Borger industries to overturn a lower court decision ordering the company to close its operation at 751 Lagimodiere cow initially asked the City to pay the groups total Legal Bill of about because it allowed the Plant to open id the even Chough it violated local it raised about towards the thirteen cow members have signed personal guarantees for the Only finance chairman Abe Yanofsky voted against pay ing any portion of the Legal saying a dangerous precedent would be set for Many More citizens to come to City Hall with similar a civic administration report also recommended the request be saying the City is not responsible for private citizens prosecutions of alleged of if the City believes there is a it files a the provincial Crown attorney generals department then decides whether or not to in the Borger the citizens group prosecuted in place of the not in place of the the report it would seem a Public such As the City should not have or give the appearance of having a policy of financing private prosecutions where the Crown decides it should not prose cute until Frank Johnson memorial the committee appeared to Back Johnson argued the City had a responsibility to reimburse the group for at least a portion of their Legal Bill be cause it had gone to court to clarify an ambiguous City we have Here a Well written argument against paying the the problem is i dont agree with the conclusion if we dont pay the City is hiding behind and As for the whole question of setting a Prece you can use that argument for just about he its strange we would compliment the group for having the guts to do what they did and then turn them after the Johnson said he was surprised his motion there want a great Deal of sympathy on the part of most councillors i assumed my motion would in sure it will be very close at the full Council level next i ;