Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 6, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba East indians ready to fight racism by Kevin Proton members of Winnipeg s East Indian Community have threatened to take the Law into their own hands if police cannot protect them from racial at tacks. Although the police Are Law enforcers they Are not giving proper care to said Kuldip Singh who attended a meeting called to show support for a victim of a series of racist inspired incidents. If they can t solve the prob Lem we will have to fix it up our the East Indian Community gathered yesterday to show support for Sansar Singh Mannas who has withstood two years of racial slurs and property dam age by unknown perpetrators. Windows in Manhas s House on an trim Road have been broken it has been pelted with rocks and eggs and a newspaper was set on fire on his door step. Ten Days ago obscenities were painted on the Side of his Bungalow. I feel relieved that the Community came Here today and said they Don t want me to suffer said Manhas 43. I be taken it for almost two years alone and i can t take it about 60 people showed up at his Home Many of whom announced they will have to protect themselves if the authorities cannot. If the Law does t protect us we have to do something else to protect said Rupinder Dhillon. That s what our religion the police think this is a minor said Kuldip Singh. But we Don t think this is a minor some of those attending the meeting cited incidents of verbal abuse but none had encountered the same Type of attacks on property faced by Manhas. Despite repeated complaints to police and local politicians nothing has been done Manhas said. Those in attendance signed a Resolution which appealed to the relevant authorities and agencies to take appropriate actions to contain and condemn the acts of violence and oppression of a racial plans Call for the Resolution to be brought to the police chief and mayor Bill Norrie in the Hope of easing the situation. If nothing this and the attacks continue we will have no other said Kuldip Singh. If some one is on my property breaking my window i will have to break their Teeth see East Page 4 the Duke of Windsor took part in plots bordering on treason a new Book Cloudy tonight 3 showers tomorrow 5 monday april 6, 1981 109now free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Final for Home delivery 957-0550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 it a i quit i Winnipeg free press czech hints at invasion of Poland frustrating season ends fans mob Winnipeg jets Willy Lindstrom As he leaves the ice last night at Winnipeg Arena for the last time in the 1980-81 National hockey league season. The jets wound up a season that started with great Promise but caused mostly pain with a 5-5 tie against St. Louis blues. The jets failed to make the playoffs which for 16 other teams Start 32 progressives pose threat to nip votes for new party can swing Many Ridings 1977 election result indicates by Mary Ann Fitzgerald based on 1977 election returns Candi dates for the progressive party of Manitoba could influence the outcome the next provincial election in As Many As 16 constituencies by siphoning off Only a few Hundred new democratic party votes. The party founded recently by three former nip Las and two former party executives is considered even by new democrats As More of a threat to the nip than any other party. There Are 57 seats in the Manitoba legislature and redistribution will mean shifts in boundaries in the next election which must be held before october 1982, when the Lyon govern ment s five year term expires. 200 to 450 votes conversion of 1977 voting patterns to the new boundaries shows progressive candidates will Hays to receive Only 200 to 450 votes from the nip to have an Impact on results in Churchill Ellice Dauphin Concordia flin flon fort Rouge Kildonan Osborne Radisson River East Rossmere Rupert land Ste. Rose Wolseley and St. Vital. In Inkster and Burrows i dings held by Las Sidney Green and Ben Hanuschak two of the party s founders progressives would have to poll much More heavily to damage nip chances of retaining the seats. However it is not known to what extent the Las familiar names and their personal support will count. Green says the fledgling progressives Hope to recruit candidates for at least 35 constituencies. So far 12 Candi dates have announced their intentions to run for the party but have not yet chosen their constituencies. Green says candidates currently Are expected in Inkster Wolseley Swan River Ellice Burrows the Selkirk Gimli area the Osome Crescent Wood area and fort Rouge. The party also is looking at Candi dates in constituencies in Northeast Winnipeg which could include River East Rossmere Concordia St. Johns seven Oaks and Kildonan and in areas South of the Assiniboine River which could include River Heights Tuxedo fort Garry St. Norbert Tuxedo Kirk Field Park and Charleswood. A Survey of 50 of the 130 nip Mem Bers who signed a pro Green petition shortly after his defection 16 months ago shows the vast majority will re main new democrats. "1 Don t have anything to do with the said former party presi Dent Bob Murdoch. He said he endorsed Green originally because most of us hoped for a Only two of those surveyed said they May desert the nip and follow Green. Thirteen refused comment. Of those who said they will remain new democrats however 20 expressed concern about the growing influence of labor on the party. Some said they Felt nip Leader Howard Pawley should have taken stronger leadership to com Bat the problems but Only one said he should be replaced. The conversions of voting patterns to the new boundaries Are made in terms of the 1977 vote when the conserva Tives won 49 per cent of the popular vote. In january a random Survey of 300 Manitoban commissioned by the free indicated tory support has dropped. See new Page 4 Prague a with soviet presi Dent Leonid Brezhnev at his Side czechoslovakian president Husak today equated Poland s labor revolt with the uprisings put Down by soviet forces in Hungary in 1956 and his own country in 1968. Husak accused the West of inciting rebellion in Poland and called for a meeting of communist states to re View the Challenge. The significance of his remarks in a report to the opening session of the 16th czechoslovak communist party con Gress was underscored by Brezhnev s presence and by reports that Warsaw pact countries have bolstered up their forces manoeuvring in and around Poland. United states president Reagan meanwhile was said to have sent his soviet counterpart another warning against military intervention. The West has tried to pull one or the other country out of the socialist Fame said Husak citing his own nation and Hungary As examples and is now once again doing this in events indicate that the crisis development in Poland is he said. We Are not hiding the fact that our people Are following the events in fraternal Poland with Husak said it would in our View he useful to review these events joint but he proposed no time or place for the meeting. Brezhnev flew to Prague yesterday and was expected to address the party Congress later. Since the explosive birth of the inde pendent labor movement in Poland last summer and its subsequent legalization the czechoslovak communist party has been among its harshest critics and among the most persistent in intimating that it should be put Down. It was Husak who replaced Alex Ander Dubcek As communist party chief after soviet forces invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush due Cek s Liberal regime. There was speculation that Brezhnev would be joined in Prague by the soviet bloc s other communist party chiefs for a Summit meeting on the polish Situa Tion. But Mikulas Beno a top Czecho slovak party official said Brezhnev will be the Only foreign party chief at the Prague meeting. Court defines in act jurisdiction Ottawa up the supreme court of Canada ruled today that tie British North America act does not require municipalities and school boards in Quebec and Manitoba to legislate in both English and French. The court rejected the Federal government s argument that to the extent those organizations Are under the control of their provincial Legislatures they must use both official languages. But the court agreed that bilingualism is required in Semi Public Agen cies whose decisions Are subject to the approval of the government a minis ter or a group of the ruling by seven justices was unanimous. The court said bilingualism is also required of government agencies. The Quebec government s charter of the French language says Semi Public agencies in that province Are Public see court Page 4 Ryan campaigns anywhere for any voter who will listen by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press at the Graux roots level in is Clear Nur hearts Are with the people. They sense that intuitively they Are Quebec Liberal Leader Claude Ryan. Montreal it is Early in the morning and Claude Ryan is inside a Small shopping mall East of Montreal and he is shaking hands. Ryan is in fact shaking hands with anyone who will shake hands with him. Already two women have refused. He enters a Kresge cafeteria. He talks to the head waitress her co worker a bus boy. By now his victims Are blushing. A Man is sitting at the counter staring carefully at his Bacon and eggs. Ryan approaches. The Man does not turn around. Ryan claps him moderately on the shoulder. The Man stolidly works the eggs Over with his Fork and piece of Toast. The politician who might yet be pre Mier of Quebec next week moves on. He shakes hands until he is on the wrong Side of the counter and everyone but the stubborn customer has been dealt with. Another mall Ryan standing in front of the Grill leans Over to to the reluctant Man. He holds out his hand again. The Man stares straight ahead making circles in the Runny Yolk with his Fork. Ryan leaves. A few hours later Ryan is in another mall and the crowd is larger. At a Maple syrup stand he spies a Young Saleswoman. She is dressed in Blue jeans and she is wearing a parti quebecois Button. If he gets elected i la move to she says. It would be the same Ryan arrives. The woman blushes. Have one of our he says. An aide gives the woman a Button. Wear it on the left Side Over your says Ryan. She shakes her head and pins it on her right Lapel near the pm Button. Sometimes 1 Wear two he says laughing. After Ryan is gone she is asked were you convinced. Not at she says. She takes off the Button and puts it in the garbage. The rejections of Ryan in the two malls however Are infrequent. Vast numbers of people appear willing to talk to him and listen to him. And Ryan treats campaigning differently. When prime minister Trudeau and see Ryan Page 4 finding himself face to face with pm s education minister Camille Laurin Quebec Liberal Leader Ryan right smiles. 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