Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba August rejects tax break if for Racquet clubs is 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 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 Ais property in the name of eternal in doing Treyve got to be prepared to take evasive action if he catches Al Doest take 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 Alt 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 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 agree 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 Lloyd Deputy mayor Pearl Mcgonigal said civic executive policy committee approved the tentative agreement and recommended City Council approve it at its 20 meeting 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 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 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 they hate 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 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 und 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 mass meetings when there not pasting posters on the Golden marxist Leninist Are having mass which usually attract masses numbering in the not counting the Clandestine ramp the next mass meeting is scheduled for 2 p 24 at 469 a former now the Desh Bhagat Buddhist 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 i was worried when City in a fat headed attempt to Mem the Lide of passed a bylaw making it illegal to put them 1 have no doubt living in a free country by Pamela Fayerman in a 32 vote civic finance committee recommended the City con to inuits practice of collecting a 10per cent amusement tax from profit Moti rated Racquet the decision came seven months after an and hoc committee was appointed to study the feasibility of exempting clubs from the chaired by Frank Johnson Al with members Alan Wade 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 making about 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 in an interview Akman said he will plead with City Council at its next meeting 20 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 tax was 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 not so far 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 v in an interview late mayor Bill Nome said that if he had attended 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 two men who fled to Israel almost three years ago while facing rape 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 said 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 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 request 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 nig a 21yearold woman in Northend Winnipeg Back Lane 7ij faces two counts of rape and one of indecent and Friedman charged with one count earn of rape and Gross indecency 1 he pair fled the coi Iii alter to appear in Manitoba court o Bench in in Pleat to the i he attorney general been trying to since working with the Winnipeg twi list Friedman to Ici arrested on May i he two men were order in by an i judge Kiev appealed tin the supreme court of lower i out order in Man h in migrant for Legal fees urged citizen group May receive for costs in bylaw Battle by Pamela Fayerman the civic finance committee is recommending the City pay concerned citizens of Winnipeg in a special Grant to help offset Legal Bills incurred when the group sued Borger Indus Only finance chairman Abe Yanofsky Voied against the amended motion yes saying that if the City pays the Boniface a dangerous Prece Dent will be set and Many More citizens will Start coming to City Hall with requests for funding of Legal until Frank Johnson memorial the committee appeared in agreement with Yanofsky Johnson argued the City had a responsibility to reimburse the group for at a portion of their Legal Bill because 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 con if we dont pay the City is hiding behind technicalities 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 Down in an interview Johnson said he was surprised his motion won there want a great Deal of sympathy on the part of most councillors before i assumed my motion would fail in sure it will be very close at the full Council level next concerned citizens of Winnipeg is a incorporated group made up of South Dale and Windsor Park for the last two it has fought to have the Borger Indus tries Asphalt Plant moved out of its neighbourhood because of its polluting effects the group was successful when the supreme court of Canada let stand a Manitoba court of Appeal decision that Borger violated City zoning bylaws of the total Legal is still owing the lawyers who helped win the and 13 of the cow members have signed personal on the amount cow president Dennis Riene said the matter is one of Cay responsibility you cant Cut the cake any other but a report submitted b me i administration recommended i u turn Down the Grain Uquam the City is not Respoli Iboje citizens of Aie Jed tons of bylaws if the City belled is Lii e 1 it flies a complain fhe i Vincini Crown Partheni then who Tui to prosecute in the Borger the group prosecuted in pit e Cha not in place of the the rep said it a july seem pubic Fie Clov silk Jim Lulli no appear juice of j o Ancog private i Crown decide l Pru cute ;