Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free August by met Mil a Federal Al enc nuts washes hands of Kasser Case the key figure Fol pwt industries scandal Whf to i de id Yean 1ft die ties and Exchange commission launched of vol action against rivets Sawmill chairman James flown and other principals and corporations involved in the hog Mil publicly funded logging and Mill ing operation at the the action sought to restrain the defendants from continuing their alleged fraud respecting the use of Public Freo a Floum it int p8s was it Taxa at receiver snap i is i and Haa since been operated As a de earlier this new Vincent a Iuorno signed a judgment agreed to by Kasser the main effect of the says Bill special counsel in the Sec enforcement is to get and of litigation the judgment provides for no ment to the province beyond what was in the Manitoba he said in i l4t3l kai8bf Jomjo p pay Effii Iofi fid a of vol wet the and Tut of Trtat amount has Wen once the Manitoba settlement was to Eosin be i Gatior would lot have mob top any amount awarded Over and above Manko Tui Iet Llfra Mem would Nave to have town enforced in Austria where Kasser new Sullivan said a settlement with Brown was reached if 197s and at that time action was concluded against All parties except in the judgment amounts to a Fllch arc Telu by Rosser thai he runs of tit Cfall win w halt 09 of fid lit kgf06fmnt by flip Sec to end litigation without a claim for restitution Rof r but it if Fefie fort it Kwh settlement Ift Flat t of wades of if any of of pts tills a Felt also at state in the Awn Battle was a Challenge to the authority of the Sec to pursue participants in International frauds plotted in the United a Philadelphia court ruled that the Ufi ease involved enough business conduct within boundaries to being actions of the defendants within St Sullivan said Al application Tor supreme court review of that decision was settling the jurisdictions question in secs this months new Jersey action comes shortly after a decision by an austrian High court to quash an indict ment of criminal charges relating to the cf1 affair brought against Kasser in that country an Innsbruck county after More than five years of preliminary found insufficient Evi Dence to uphold the indictment on multiple charges of grand bankruptcy with in Light work installer Lou Bertrand of Merveon signs finds himself on a lonely Perch yesterday As he tackles the Job of replacing the bulbs on three signs at the Winnipeg convention it will take him at least a Klaus general manager of the said the conversion to Neon lighting is expected to result in a 25to 40percent reduction in maintenance Union raps strike manual Call police get nonunion health organizations advises by Glen Mackenzie a confidential Manitoba health organizations strike manual recommends hospitals bring police to the picket line As Early As try to persuade no strikers to do strikers jobs and solicit massive help from nonunion the 39page obtained by the free also says institutions should hire Security personnel equipped with cameras and notebooks and consider hiring of duty police to record picket line deals with anti picket Laws the bulk of the manual deals with Security and with Laws which May be used against Eugene health care coordinator for the Canadian Union of pub Lic said the main emphasis of the document int to provide patient care during a but to break the strike it seems they want something to happen on the picket he said in an Brian Mhos assistant executive director for employee said he could understand a person lawfully picketing would feel intimidated by the Early presence of police on the but picket line infractions often result from he said in an the manual says if a Hospital can arrange for police to be on hand when a strike a sense of Law and order can be instilled in the Situa Siegner said the hospitals have had an excellent relationship with Winni Peg who Send officers out to explain the Law to Siegner said he knew of no striker charged with an offence during a Mani Toba Hospital but believes management has a responsibility to be prepared in Case a violation he said mho is updating the partly because of what management Learned during Hospital strikes across the province this refuses to specify charges he refused to specify what changes would be the manual said the help of other employees in Manning areas formerly operated by striking employees should be solicited As soon As it becomes inevitable that a strike is to take place management should review the personnel records of All such employees to determine their ability to operate the facilities in As Normal a manner As Siegner said supervisors May find a clerical worker can also operate a switchboard during a he also said a review of personnel records Doest mean the Hospital should Check into a persons beliefs or connections regarding the manual also recommends Security guards record the names of pickets and How Many there Kostyra said he fears a Hospital could use this against a worker once a strike is keep Tab on records this goes hand in hand with recommended checks on personnel records of employees who Arent on he the manual also recommends Mas Sive use of nonunion resources during the including d ladies auxiliaries of churches and service clubs d Candy stripers d the provincial emergency measures organization d private garbage collection agencies and other outside contract Siegner said ladies auxiliaries have been helpful at some Rural institutions during they Are relied on be cause the women Are familiar with support staff workers not because their attitudes Are believed to be he Siegner said he knew of no instances where a Candy Striper or an emergency measures organization employee has worked As a regarding private the manual said care should be particularly in major that such companies Are not themselves Union and that the policy of the company is such that it would not deter them from performing these duties if a strike Siegner said the manual is Only a guide for member hospitals and Nurs ing who Are free to use whatever suggestions they the mho manual contrasts markedly with Cupes 13page National strike which deals largely with administrative matters such As selecting a strike providing strike benefits and establishing the Section on the Law and the picket line covers two pages and simply tells pickets such things As they May not obstruct a person who wants to Cross the line or a member of the Public passing mho decided to Cope after it got strike notice the Manitoba health organizations decided even before a strike last year to Tell the Public it was coping with the in a confidential letter dated the health organization told its Mem Bers it would say in the event of a strike that we Are Able to Cope with the the letter was sent out after the mho received strike notice from the International Union of operating Engi neers at Grace and Miseri Cordia hospitals in Winnipeg and Hospi tals in Dauphin and letter signed by Siegner it was signed by Brian Mhos assistant executive director for employee Siegner said in an interview he saw nothing wrong in advising the five member hospitals before the strike started that mho was stressing that the institution was coping with the he also said if a Hospital found it Cope with a mho would say so Hospital and mho spokesmen said during that strike they got by with supervisory personnel and strike break neither labor nor management spokesmen reported severe service Dis but in every strike at a Manitoba Hospital or nursing Home strike the past two mho personnel have said throughout that they Are coping Ade Siegner said mho never denied there were some difficulties and that services we rent but hospitals were Able to Cope with these problems during the he Siegner said he Doest believe a Manitoba Hospital would Ever put win Ning a strike ahead of patient but he also said there is a difference Between failing to provide service and inconveniencing the Manitoba health workers have the right to strike and Public inconvenience is a Price that should be he Siegner also said that whether the Quality of patient care is reduced is As when paper plates and limited menus Are Lead tests made but data withheld by Ritchie Gage interim findings of Lead contamination tests in greenery and vegetables near three secondary smelters in Winnipeg have been available since but Haven been released to the press because of fears of disinter Deputy environment minister John Mason said Mason said the department will Issue a general statement to the press after the matter has been brought to the attention of environment minis Ter Warner the minister was unavailable for Mason said he had no criticism of press reports on the Lead but the interim report is highly technical and 1 dont feel comfortable with we have medical questions to ask and we also dont want the press to misinterpret the Larry head of the air pollution control unit in the environmental control said there were fears the press might take numbers they didst understand and run wild with he said the Lead situation is a particularly sensitive Public tests were conducted near North West smelting and 2185 Logan Avenue can Ada Metal 1221 James Street and Canadian 15 Bury Strachan said there have been ongo ing discussions with owners of the whose workers have been tested for Leadin blood the provincial department of labor is now investigating complaints from two workers at North West that they were Laid off after they were tested and found to have excessive Leadin blood Mason said his concerns were mainly in View of the residents living near the we want the residents in the area of the smelters to be the first to know the asked How the department will in form Mason said the department would Issue a press tent to defraud and reckless an Appeal failed last Oil assistant Deputy min ister in the Manitoba fattome Geir reals said the Sec action in new Jersey was unrelated to the austrian but was part of the Manitoba civil he said a decision by attorney Gen eral Gerry Mercier on whether to Pur sue criminal charges against Kasser in another jurisdiction is not expected until to the province has spent about million in civil and criminal pro Amant Short probe told by Kevin proko4h a larger staff is needed at the Amant Centre to keep close watch on severely retarded children five year old Jeffrey Condon who wandered from the Centre in june and was later found an inquest into the Young sters death was told the staff Hast grown in proportion with the difficulty of looking after the said sister Bertha Bau executive director of the Provin daily funded i think the staffing is the most important seizure blamed yesterdays inquest also heard Testi Mony that the whose body was found in the red River after a died As a result of a seizure followed by immersion in at the Centre he had received anti convulsant drugs every four hours for a condition described As not be our opinion is that he probably had a seizure when he walked into the said Manitoba chief medical he did not drown because not much water was found in his although the boy haunt suffered a seizure for the last 20 Dirks said he could not be certain As to what triggered the although he theorized it May have been set off by the extreme heat of the Day or sudden exposure of a hot body to a cooler he said Condon could just As easily have suffered the seizure in the the boys disappearance from the centres playground june 22 set off a search involving More than 600 Volun dozens of police officers and 200 soldiers scouring the vital he was discovered submerged in Reeds about 300 Yards from the play 214 Days after he was reported the court was told the youngster scaled the four foot Fence while playing in the supervised recreation he was last seen by a nurses assistant at playing on the merry go he was discovered missing at 3 when a search of the building and the grounds failed to find the missing boy the police were notified and took 30 minutes to the court was five people usually monitored the 27 children from the Ward while they were in the but the number was reduced to two during Coffee Isabell who works at the told the court about difficulties in keep ing an Eye on the physically and men tally handicapped children on the play some would eat others pull Down their pants and others play on the Monkey she the need for More staff depends on How the children Are she Bauman said Amant has grown from 50 children in 1959 to More than 275 patients today and those in the care of the Centre Are More hyperactive and need closer since the tragedy there have been changes made at the now at least four people watch the children at play at All there is also More accounting of the children As they Are moved around the idea rejected i say it is better now but we could do with More the executive director Bauman and the nurses rejected the idea a higher Fence would have pre vented patients like Condon from no matter what the height of the the children could still get Over said it is close observation that will prevent children from climb ing the nurses and nurses assistants who monitored the Condon boy said he had attempted to climb the four foot Fence before the Day he wandered Ernest counsel for the Amant said in a closing state ment he did not believe it would be in the Best interests of the Centre or the children for the judge to recommend the Fence be he asked the judge to find no severe negligence against the Centre for Only once after 21 years have we experienced a judge Sam Minuk said he would give his findings Freedom goes up in smoke by Tom Goldstein Manfred scheduled to be released from jail today after serving six will stay where he is for up to another two the 30yearold having completed a sentence for driving while disqualified and fraudulently obtaining received his 56th criminal conviction in 13 years yesterday theft Over to which he pleaded Haufler dumped about 50 Cartons of cigarettes into a shopping cart March 4 at the Canada Safeway store on a Tum Wood without he pushed the untagged goods to a Bor rowed drive court was told Haufler unloaded about 10 Cartons into the Back seat of the car before a store employee chased him off the parking he was on police spot vehicle on Street Haufler was apprehended eight Days later after police spotted the vehicle on Portage arguing for defence counsel Ron Allard attributed his clients Crimi Nal involvement largely theft and fraud related to problems with Alco hol and his crimes of which include stealing some pork chops and a pair of swim were mainly of a shoplifting he undergoes a personality change after he becomes a Rounder and a Allard Hes a nuisance More than anything Haufler stayed out of trouble Between 1973 and 1976 and had Only one conviction until he returned to Winnipeg in his lawyer said he was a family Man who earned a year and owned two cars while a successful restaurateur in he was also chief chef at a Thunder Bay res but his marriage broke Allard and be fell Back into Petty in addition to imposing a two month jail county court judge Gerald j Ewers placed Haufler on two years supervised probation during which he must seek treatment for his alcohol and drug ;