Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Fidel blows Horn Over old Victory Bay of i 743 bodyguard sidelined As Charles faces student Pysanky pre Christian Fertility Symbol Cloudy today 1 2 Clear tonight -2 saturday april 18, 1981 John Hinckley s letters to Jodie Foster just tip of the fanatic fan final 30c with supplements for Home delivery 957-o550 or 942-2161 classified 956-2330 Farmers win Union pact in Poland homeless but alive residents of a Kansas City mo., apartment building use bed lire swept through the lobby. Authorities suspect arson in Ilu spreads and a lancets to cover themselves Early yesterday Blaze which killed six people injured most of morning. The residents were evacuated from the building when injured were elderly. Cadmium labels removed unionist by Cecil Rosner cautionary labels warning users to guard against potentially hazardous fumes were deliberately removed from materials provided to workers at motor coach industries Ltd., a Union spokes Man has charged. Mike Macisaac business representative for the International association of machinists said the labels were taken off soldering material containing the suspected Carcinogen cadmium. He said the Union has evidence the labels were on the materials when they were shipped to the company but were removed before they were issued to the employees. The provincial labor department is investigating the allegations sent to the government several months ago. Company vice president Werner Martin refused to detailed comment yesterday. He said As far As company officials Are concerned the Issue of cadmium at the workplace is behind them. Motor coach used cadmium in its unventilated Silver soldering area be tween 1968 and december 1980. After complaints from employees last year the government conducted tests and found cadmium concentrations in the air in excess of a threshold limit set by the american conference of govern ment Industrial hygienists. Macisaac said the labels Alert users to the presence of cadmium and advise using adequate ventilation. It s Safe to assume somebody did t want people to know about the labor department issued seven orders dec. 22 to rectify the Situa Tion including an order to install proper ventilation systems. The company discontinued using the cadmium the same Day and now uses a substitute. Macisaac said that though the cadmium has been removed other fumes Are present and ventilation systems have yet to be installed. Labor minister Ken Macmaster said his department first became aware of the motor coach problem oct. 16, 1980. He said the end of the use of cadmium relieved the department of the responsibility of insisting a ventilation system be installed. Macisaac said one of the government orders had asked motor coach to sup ply a list of names and attendance records of everyone who has worked in the area since 1968. He said Between 10 and 15 people work in the area at any one time and As Many As 500 workers could have been directly affected by the cadmium the last 13 years. Although the company has submitted plaintiff insures judge s life by Brian gory a Federal judge who presided Over a costly trial Here a year ago has been insured for hundreds of thousands of dollars in Case he Dies before he returns his verdict. Cae industries Ltd. Which is suing the Federal government Tor almost so million took out the insurance policy at the suggestion of the judge. Justice Frank Collier. If he Dies before he has ruled on the Case the Money could be used to pay for a Tiew trial. Although the judge was t available for comment his Secretary in Ottawa said he has made similar suggestions to lawyers in other cases. The judge is 58. This in t the first time a judge has been insured in a Winnipeg trial. Lawyer Michael Mercury took out a policy on county court judge Patrick Ferg eight years ago auning a mechanics Lien Case against Chur chill Forest industries. Mercury said he was nervous about the judge driving to on other cases while the Chi matter dragged on for two years. You invest a lot in a Mer Cury said. He was driving Back and Forth Back and Forth. It could have All he recalls judge Ferg thought it Peculiar but he underwent a medical examination anyway so the policy could be issued. In the policy on judge Collier s life cae industries did not want to reveal the amount since the judge is still considering his verdict. But one of the firm s Winnipeg lawyers David Hill said it was in the hundreds of thousands of the Complex trial took place Over a two month period Early last year and judge Collier has been poring Over pages of evidence including hundreds of government documents. The judge estimated the trial Cost an hour. Cae has claimed the Federal government owes it million for de faulting on an agreement to provide its now defunct Winnipeg subsidiary aircraft Ltd., with a lot of work in the Early 1970s. Cae industries is based in Toronto and manufactures lightweight Auto Mobile parts aircraft flight Simula tors and is working on a control system or the . Space shuttle s Remote . Luther Chambers the Federal government s lawyer in the Case said the government is not sharing in the insurance policy on judge Collier be cause the government insures it Brian gun is a Winnipeg free Lance Irneli r. A list Macisaac said it did not in clude attendance records and omitted names of some workers including one who filed a compensation claim after working in the area. Of 10 motor coach workers who were checked by a doctor recently six were found to have hoarseness and other Throat problems one was found to have cancer of the Larynx and one had pre cancer cells. Another worker had pneumonia. At a meeting of the advisory Council on workplace safety and health March 27, labor department spokesman John Reimer said he had known about the problem of cadmium being used in the workplace for about a year. He said two incidents of sickness in areas where cadmium had been used were reported but there was no conclusive proof they were cadmium induced. A nurse from the workplace safety and health Branch has visited the Plant several times this year and has had no employee complaint about Adverse symptoms he said. The department is directing people who were not feeling Well in december and january to seek medical assistance. Czechs defeat Canada Goteborg Sweden up two Quick goals in the opening minutes of the game set the tone and Czechoslovakia skated to a convincing 7-1 Victory today Over Canada in the opening match of the championship Pool at the world hockey tournament. Milan novy gave Czechoslovakia a 1-0 Lead just into the game and Darius Rusnak added another at beating goalie John Garrett of Hartford whalers on rebounds for both goals. Morris Lukowich of Winnipeg jews Cut the deficit to 2-1 just 22 seconds after Rusnak s goal but Pavel Richter gave the czechoslovakian a two goal Lead again at and Arnold Kadlec made it 4-1 on a Power play goal Only two seconds before the end of the period. From the news services Warsaw in an emotion charged ceremony heralding further liberalization of polish life the communist government signed an agreement yester Day paving the Way for registration of an Independent Union of private farm ers by May 10. Some 40 Farmers Many embracing and weeping for Joy joined government negotiators in signing the pact in the Headquarters of the United peas ants party in Northwestern Bydgoszcz where demonstrators held a month Long sit in to press for registration of their Union. A spokesman for the Independent Union Solidarity said the agreement seen As a major Victory in the farm ers five month struggle against government and communist party opposition would end sit ins in Bydgoszcz and neighbouring in wroclaw. Major defeat Bui it was a major defeat for the country s rulers who had made it Clear they did not want another rival Power this one in the Countryside springing up alongside the already existing Independent Trade unions for workers in the cities. The agreement paws the Way for full Legal activities by the the official Pap news Agency said in announcing the agreement. The struggle to legalize the Farmers Union though drawn out Over the last six months was in its own Way As hard fought As the Battle last summer to Register the Industrial Trade Union. Soli Darity which now claims More than 10-million members. And like its More senior brother the new Farmers Union to be called Rural Solidarity will almost certainly develop into a major political Power in Poland beyond the control of the government or communist party. Leaders of the new Union said they represent some of Poland s 3.5 million private Farmers who own much of the agricultural land and produce 80 per cent of the country s food. It is not known immediately How Large a percentage of Poland s 3.5-Mil lion private Farmers who produce some 80 per cent of the country s agricultural output will Rush to sign up with Rural Solidarity. Stanislaw Kama tin polish communist party Leader said he was Fli ulv opposed to Rural Solidarity because he did not want to see the Countryside become a theatre of political struggle. The Farmers refused to give in How Ever and with the backing of i in powerful Solidarity Union began a Long series of talks with the aug homilies thai went so slowly the Farmers occupied several buildings in Bydgoszcz. Lyon blasts from the news services Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon accused prime minister Trudeau yester Day of misleading Canadian about ;