Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2 Winnipeg free press wednesday april 15, 1981 local organization derails Montreal based Union employees at car approve affiliation switch by Tom Goldstein a fledgling Winnipeg based Union has won a lopsided Victory in its two year Battle to represent about employees Canadian National rail ways. According to results released yester Day the workers decided by a margin to 410 to switch their Union affiliation to the rail Canada traffic controllers from the Montreal based brotherhood railway airline and steamship clerks freight handlers express and station employees. The workers involved Are train dispatchers agents and train order opera tors. The latter Are responsible for the movement trains along Canada s main lines. Two year fight the results Mark the culmination the a Etc s two year fight to break away from Brac. About 800 up rail workers in similar categories who will cast their ballots within the next few weeks Are expected to vote the same Way As their car colleagues. A Etc chairman de Yerex expressed Surprise at the strength the support and predicted other affiliates May break ties with Brac which now has about members in Canada. The troops Are restless in the other unions and this could affect their a Yerex said. More might decide to break with the Collin Gribbons Brac s information Canadian National railways traffic controller Bob Clarke and his Winnipeg colleagues have become Union members rail Canada traffic controllers. Director said the workers have made a mistake in shifting their affiliation to the a Etc. We think what they tried to do is Gribbons said from Montreal. We have 17 railway unions in Canada and to add another is just economic suicide. From our Point View alone i guess we can take a win some lose some attitude but we believe these people Are making a mistake because Suzuki warns scientific advances require close scrutiny by Public by Chris Smith scientific advances with far reaching effects can pass seemingly unnoticed because most people do not fully assess them . David Suzuki warned yester Day. Suzuki told a Winnipeg seminar that the cloning humans is not a techno logically insurmountable problem yet most people Lack the information the interest to fully assess such advances. Many scientific and technological advances Are so far ranging that the discoverers themselves cannot predict All the consequences let alone the Man the Street Suzuki said. Canadians Are information junkies but they Lack the ability to sift out Ali the garbage in their daily dose information he said. To them every thing carries the same weight. Suzuki a. Geneticist and television science show Host said he is amazed at How Many people Are totally unaware that science plays any part in their lives let alone a major role. Suzuki said a mouse was cloned ear Lier this year and it is a relatively Short step from a mouse to a human. Yet most people Are not really aware it happened and have not consid ered the implications human Clon ing. Scientists Are now injecting Dan into crippled children trying to undo hered itary handicaps Suzuki said. Raises fears and while Only an inhuman person would argue against such a Noble Ven Ture Suzuki is worried that it will Lead to producing Only certain kinds Chil Dren and said a moratorium should be established the subject until guide lines for its use can be set. But profit becomes a very powerful motivator and a number scientists have already won Nobel prizes and become millionaires through their work with recombinant Dan he said. People live with the misconception that if technology gets out hand we can simply Stop using it just unplug the computer for example. But the notion that you can go backwards is simply ludicrous. We can t give that technology up once we have people applaud new innovations without knowing what Impact they May have the world he said. Alexander Graham Bell did not know How the Telephone would change society. The father the Oral contraceptive could not predict the women s liberation movement and the people who started television did t realize it would prod uce a generation that does not read. Five years ago scientists said guide lines should be set for the use recombinant Dan in genetic Engineer ing experiments because no one knew where it was going he said and there was Public outrage through the Media. Now those concerns have been pushed aside and it s the hottest thing our mistake City Calendar a Story yesterday said wrongly that a parents committee has recommended that 109 grades 7 to 9 French immersion program students be transferred from Ecol Guyot to Louis Riel High school. In fact the 109 students to be Transfer red would come from Ecol Guyot and Ecol Howden. Weather Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny today with a moderate South wind. High 16 to 19. Low tonight near 3. Afternoon Cloudy periods and showers tomorrow. Moderate South wind. High near 18. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba Cloudy Friday a few showers saturday Cloudy sunday. Temperatures near Normal readings 10 and -2. Northern Manitoba flurries Friday and saturday sunny sunday. Temperatures below Normal readings 5 and -7. Northwestern Ontario Cloudy with rain showers Snow flurries. Temperatures near Normal readings 8 and -2. Temperatures Canada and the world Lloyd Axworthy Federal employment and immigration minister will speak at the Canadian club s luncheon meeting the Winnipeg Core area and Western initiatives develop ment package at . Tomorrow at the downtown Holiday inn. The latin american association Winnipeg will present the Maya and their hieroglyphs an examination a classic pre colombian society with slides and commentary at 8 . Tomorrow at 211 Edmonton Street. Churchill High school will present the musical Guys and dolls at 8 . April 21 to april 24 in the school auditorium 510 Hay Street. Miles Macdonell collegiate will present a night out an evening drama and music at 8 . Beginning april 21 and continuing to april 24 at the collegiate 757 Roch Street. Father v. Jensen Rector St. Paul s College will speak the history the Catholic Church in the red River settlement its role in the lives the people during the fur Trade Era the agricultural years and the time mass immigration at 8 . April 21 at St. Mary s Cathedral 353 St. Mary Avenue. Silver Heights collegiate will present its annual musical production Carousel at 8 . April 21 to april 24 in the collegiate auditorium 350 Lodge Avenue. Mary Ann Keller executive director the american diabetes association North Dakota affiliate inc., will discuss our common goals at the annual meeting the Canadian diabetes association Winnipeg Branch at 8 . April 22 at 330 Edmonton Street. Vincent Massey collegiate principal players will present its production the Broadway musical go spell at 8 . April 22 to april 25 in the collegiate auditorium Pembina Highway and Dowker Avenue. Deaths classified death National Victoria. Vancouver. Calgary. Edmonton. Regina. Winnipeg. Thompson. Kenora. Brandon. Dup Hon. Thunder Bay i Oronto. Ottawa. Montreal. Halifax. International Chicago. Minneapolis. New York. Boston Amsterdam. Athens. Berlin Helsinki. Lisbon. London. Moscow. 14 i Paris. 22 u Rome. 25 7 Stockholm. 18 u Tel Aviv. 23 13 resort spots los anoles Cloudy 17 13 Las vegas Clear 31 22 Phoenix Clear. 3-1 ?6 Honolulu showers 28 20 Tampa Clear 29 ?1 Miami fair 28 23 Bermuda clout a. 23 is Nassau fair 28 18 Kingston rain 2v 23 Barbados rain 30 23 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Max. My. Mean april 15. 4.3 -12.8 -4.3 last year. 15.0 0.9 8.0 Normal. 9.4 it 3.j highest in record 1958 lowest in record -16.7 in 1893 precipitation total for april 1 to april 14 0.3 . Normal 12.7 my. Atamanchuk Nick 94. Boutet Mary Isabel 87, Morris formerly Dominion City wife Joseph Boutet. Clasper Mary e., 94, widow Robert Clasper. Collen Susan Alice 68, Beausejour formerly a Bagoon ont., wife James g. Collen. Johnson William Andrew 88. Of 821 William Avenue widower Rose Johnson. Jones Beatrice Eliza 92, 70 Poseidon Bay widow William v. Jones. Kane Mina 56, 396 Ken Nedy Street wife William Kane. Kozmiuk Caroline. 81, Highland Glen widow Dymtro Koz Melnuk. Ogilvie Elizabeth Walker 87, widow Stewart Ogil vie. Rempel Hilda 69, 575 valour Road wife Ber Nie Rempel. Houston Thomas Vic Toria. B.c., formerly Winni Peg husband Thelma Ston. Schoenthal Chloe o., 92, Hollywood fla., widow Joseph Schoenthal. Vermette Joseph Jean Ca mlle 70. Of 60 Don Wood drive suite 1, husband Mary Vermette. Wagner Ora Elmer 87. Of Brandon formerly Leban an ind., husband Bea Trice Wagner. White Ada Frances Van Couver . Williams Mary widow Willie Williams. Winslow Ronald Douglas 60, 27 Agate Bay husband Jean Winslow. Wolfe Peter 70, 147 Provencher Avenue husband Julia Wolfe. Young Ethel Alice. 86, 24 Carlton Street widow Joseph h. Young. Zulkowski John 64, 410 Winona Street widower Jessie Zulkowski. In the next round negotiations with the railways we can expect a concerted attack some areas we have already negotiated into our contract. We already expect a concerted at tack to water Down the cola Cost living he said. Yerex disagreed. We re in quite a sensitive position in that we move the he said. We expect that now we Are free Brac Well be Able to bargain better for Yerex conceded Brac has helped improve the lot workers in other categories but he said it has done nothing for dispatchers agents and train movement operators. The move to break away from Brac began in 1979 after the Union had signed a three year contract with the rail ways. The pact which expires at the end this year called for annual wage increases 10 per cent in the first year and eight per cent in each the other two. With the cola clause the annual raise is 12 to 12.5 per cent Gribbons said. However except for shop craftsmen and the running trades such As Engi neers and firemen the first two instal ments were calculated in terms cents 66.5 cents in 1979 and 58.5 cents in 1980 with the last expressed As a percentage. We were grossly dissatisfied with the said Yerex a dispatcher since 1948. In 54 we were in rough parity with engineers and have since gone approximately a year behind he said dispatchers agents and train order operators earn about a year and engineers earn at least and can easily earn up to Yerex and about 13 colleagues in Winnipeg decided to form their own Union in 1979 and try to get rid Brac which began representing the workers in 1969 following a merger with the order Railroad Teleg Raphers. Willy Nilly All these things happened in the United states and we were just a Small part dragged along Willy Yerex said. He said the workers also had non monetary grievances against Brac including the larger Union s procedures and american affiliation plus its membership in the Canadian labor con Branch office the Al american federation the a Etc is affiliated with the confederation Canadian unions a Toronto based National organization founded in 1969. Yerex and two other Winni Eggers Art Wattis and Henry Shipley com prise the a Etc executive. They talk about these internationals but they re really no such Yerex said. They re just american unions with Canadian Gribbons said the a Etc is Misin formed. Brac s Canadian division has been autonomous since 1976, and dues collected by the umbrella organization Are spent exclusively in Canada he said. Gribbons said the current contract is not the first in which wage increases were put Forth in cents rather than per cents but it May be the last. Yerex said the a Etc began organizing through a National newsletter. We did t have the Money to travel it s the fledgling Union has raised since its inception primarily through monthly dues about from its members who also continued to pay their fees about to Brac. The a Etc applied oct. 16 to the Canada labor relations Board for certification and a vote for car workers was held in february. 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