Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba James free press Eaton s reviews policy by Pamela Fayerman the to Eaton co. Has started a review of its internal Security system following a court Case in which the store was ordered to pay damages for falsely imprisoning a Winnipeg youth. Hugh Clarkson Eaton s Prairie re Gion vice president said yesterday the review is necessary to ensure we Don t put anyone else in an embarrassing in the Case heard last week a court of Queen s Bench jury was told that in youth 16, was arrested and handcuffed by an Eaton s Security guard after trying to Cash a payroll Cheque from the restaurant at which he worked. Police had earlier warned that a Large number of the restaurant s cheques were stolen during a break in and Eaton s believed the youth s could be one of them. The court ruled we were in error and we can t disagree with the Clarkson said. Refused to comment he added that he does not believe most suspects As a store Security offi Cial testified Are handcuffed. Clarkson refused to comment on any changes in the store s Security policy which May have been implemented since the 1977 incident. Stephen Alsip lawyer for Edward Marks who was awarded to be paid by Eaton s and the City of Winni Peg which was named As a third party by the court said he is pleased to hear a review is under Way. He said the incident was scary and smells of Gestapo tactics even though i can see Why they have to make arrests Alsip said he Hopes that following the review changes will be implemented so that Security guards act like human beings and allow the suspect to prove his innocence immediately. In the Marks Case pleas by the youth to Security personnel to phone his Mother or employer to verify his innocence were ignored until police arrived. Arrogant attitude Alsip said the testimony of a Security official during the trial indicated an arrogant attitude on the part of the guards toward the suspect. He seemed to say apologize Why should police staff Insp. Joe Gallagher said there is no written Law pertaining to the hard and fast rules of what you can and can t do in detaining a suspect. Section 25 of. The criminal code says peace officers Are justified in doing what is required and in using As much Force As is necessary to enforce the Law if they Are acting on reasonable and probable grounds. Gallagher said department store Security officials have got to be tactful and diplomatic because they Don t want to make a when we the police arrest some one we Don t lose customers. Eaton s could so they have to worry about their Allan Brent manager of the Down town Bay store refused to discuss the store s practices regarding internal arrests. It s not High on my priority list to find out what we do in these instances for he said. Investigation sought into cadmium labels a Union spokesman representing employees at motor coach industries Ltd. Said yesterday the labor department has been asked to investigate Why workers in a soldering area were not aware of labels warning of hazardous cadmium fumes from a solder they were Given to use. Mike Macisaac of the International association of machinists said he was incorrectly quoted in saturday s free press As saying the company deliberately removed the labels. Macisaac said the Union has evidence the labels were on the solder when it was shipped to the company but wants the government to decide whether All workers should have been made aware of the labels. Winnipeg free press tuesday april 21, 1981 3 Lapdog Petry Gavlas puts pet Crystal through some paces leaping for a Twig at Assiniboine Park. The two were among hundreds flocking to the Park to enjoy the recent warm weather. Today s temperature is expected to reach a pleasant conservatives Block bid to probe Craik s conduct by John Sullivan the opposition s latest bid to have the conduct of Deputy Premier Don Craik investigated through a legislative inquiry was blocked by the conserva Tive majority again yesterday. At Issue in a two hour debate in the legislature was a comment made last week by Premier Sterling Lyon which described a key document in support of the allegations As fabrication. The statement led to a demand last wednesday by progressive party la Sidney Green for an inquiry by the legislature s privileges and elections committee. Green said the Premier had questioned the integrity of nip Hydro critic Jim Walding who attempted april 10 to table the unsigned document in the legislature. Lyon offered yesterday to withdraw the remark but the opposition refused the offer after speaker Harry Graham ruled a Prima Facie Case of privilege had been raised by Green and could be debated. Seven Page document the unsigned seven Page document purports to be a 1979 recommendation by lawyer w. Steward Martin to Mani Toba Hydro s Board of directors urging court action against the government appointed Tritschler inquiry into Hydro development. The nip have accused Craik minis Ter responsible for Hydro of mislead ing Las on his knowledge of Martin s recommendation and his role in the Hydro Board s rejection of it. Conservative Las have voted solidly during the last two weeks against several opposition Calls for a commit tee inquiry and they refused to Budge from that position yesterday. Natural resources minister Harry Enns the government had no alternative but to reject Green s Call for an inquiry into Lyon s Fabrica Tion charge because it would set a precedent for acceptance of unsigned documents by the legislature. No responsible government could do Enns said. The minister said nip Leader Howard Pawley had presented a pitiful Case for an inquiry. I m simply appalled at the thin ice that the Leader of the opposition is willing to skate he said. And the further he gets from Shore the bigger the splash will be when he Falls but Larry Desjardins Boniface said the government s Refus Al to allow an inquiry had lessened the Public s respect for politicians and had shown the tories to be afraid of the finance minister Brian Ransom said Walding had brought his integrity into question by lending credence to an unsigned unsubstantiated document. Ransom said the opposition was making allegations without one shred of evidence and challenging the government to disprove them. He said this was a total reverse of our system of Justice As i understand Pawley said the Premier s suggestion that Walding had tried to deliberately hoodwink Las about the document was a question of parliamentary Privi lege that demanded investigation. What is the first minister afraid to see Martin come before the committee and say whether the document is a Pawley asked. The first minister is obviously trying to hide he said Lyon s attempt to put Wald ing s integrity on trial was a red herring intended to divert attention from the government s continued blocking stonewalling and the Call for an inquiry was Defeated by a 31-to-18 vote. Pawley said the opposition will continue to Hammer away at the Issue. Poor pay hinders staff replacement say u of Deans by Manfred Jager three University of Manitoba Deans say Low wage Levels have aggravated staffing problems created by professors moving on to Greener More lucrative pastures. However the three also say the num Ber of staff turnovers in t As alarm ing As described to the University s Senate last week. The matter arose when professor d. A. Young of the u of m s computer science department proposed forma Tion of a committee to investigate staff losses in the faculties of Medicine science and engineering. He described the situation As inordinate and alarm calling for research support pay and fringe Benefit comparisons with other universities Young told Senate the medical faculty alone had lost 11 part chilean exile raps Junta s Constitution Chile s new Constitution does nothing More than legitimize the country s Rul ing military dictatorship an exiled labor Leader said in interview yester Day in Winnipeg. Rolando Calderon president of the chilean Union of trades in said the Junta headed by Gen. A Austn Pinochet has not extended social rights since the new Constitution was declared. The Constitution does t consider the aspirations of the majority but Only sanctions the violations which have Calderon. Speaking through an interpreter said. He said the Junta cannot be ousted by a popular revolution because it has the support of the military latin american dictators and the new Reagan administration in Washington. Canada condemns the chilean government he said but still recognizes it. Chile s new Constitution was a vandals in car Chew up greens golfers at the Southwood Golf and country club will now have an excuse for any missed putts on three of the course s greens this summer. On Friday and saturday nights Van dals drove across the course chewing up three greens with a series of Power turns and skids. Southwood s professional Barrie Mcwha said damage to greens on the fifth and sixth holes is estimated at there s no question the destruction will affect the play on those said Mcwha. Despite what we do it will be three or four months before the scars on the greens heal. All we can do is Patch it level it off and wait for the grass to grow although Southwood is the target of vandalism three or four times every year Mcwha said the destruction on the fifth Hole s Green during the week end is the worst i be Ever seen in the 13 years 1 have been at the Mcwha said he had no idea what prompted the vandalism but figures it was done just for following the second incident Satur Day night Southwood s Green keeper determined the direction the vehicle left the course from the tire tracks and on a Hunch circled the area in search of the vandals. The search netted police two suspects. The 18-year-old men Are in Cus Tody and Are to appear in provincial judges court today. Proved by a plebiscite last september in which voters faced maximum 60-Day prison terms if they did not cast ballots. Chile has been in constitutional transition since March 11 and no presiden tial elections will be held until 1989. The military has ruled Chile since sept. 11, 1973, when it overthrew the democratically elected marxist government of Salvador Allende. Calderon a former agriculture min ister was in Winnipeg As part of a Cross country tour to seek support from Canadian labor leaders. Unions allowed he said the Junta allows unions to exist in Chile but can dissolve them by decree. He said there Are now about workers in Begalor illegal compared with 1.8-million be fore the overthrow. Workers do have the right to strike but Only for up to 60 Days after which they must return to their jobs or be fired Calderon said. He said workers went on strike last year but received Little and in some cases even lost benefits. Contract negotiations he said Start from scratch not on the basis of the current agreement. He said workers now earn about As much As they did 10 years ago about a month on average. Their Purchas ing Power has declined 29 per cent since 1973, he added. Calderon who was expelled from Chile and now lives in France said there Are a million chilean exiles living throughout the world. He claimed the Junta has killed people and an other Are missing. Time professors operating their own private practices As Well since 1978 but in an Iorii View declined to give Over All departure statistics for All three faculties he expressed concern with. Young s motion was referred to the University s research Board. Or. Arnold Naimark Dean of the University s medical school and presi Dent elect of the University of Manitoba said he was not current on the number of departures of teachers who also practise privately. As for full time medical faculty members Naimark said the turnover is not unusual at All. We lost three or four during the last year in a staff of Over 200. If it was less than that i d be concerned that no one was interested in our reasons for the departure of part time professors who also practise medi Cine out of downtown offices could be multiple Naimark said. As for turn Over of full time academics there s nothing alarming about it. Good people can t help but attract attention elsewhere with the work they do. And once they have attracted Atten Tion they sometimes find themselves attracted away. Turnover often substantial turnover is often substantial in dynamic academic programs. I am much More concerned about our increasing difficulty in replacing people who have left. Under the tight budget conditions we must live with we just can t offer them the solid support they ought to Naimark said faculty replacement difficulties Are acute in a number of medical school departments including neurosurgery cardiology and obstetrics and gynaecology. Edmund Kuffel Dean of Engi Neering said vacant professorships in his school increased to nine from four after five faculty members left during the past year two each in electrical and mechanical engineering and one in civil engineering. Kuffel said he has advertised for new faculty members and Good people have shown interest in joining the University of Manitoba. When the time comes for Job inter views we find we re just not competitive and the people we hoped to hire Are no longer Engineer with a Bachelor s degree in science can make More Money in Industry than the to annual starting salary Kuffel can offer with an assistant professorship. Kuffel said one candidate told him he would have had to take an annual pay Cut to teach Here. The Dean whose faculty comprises 75 full time positions said Industry de mands Young engineers in such num Bers and pays so Well that very few recent graduates can be tempted to take the Post graduate training which frequently channels into academic teaching positions. Mini by Manfred Jager the University of Manitoba s new research administration office Hopes to generate about million Worth of research funds this year an increase of about million from 1980. Plant sciences chemist or. Walter Bushuk appointed to a three year term in july As Provost for research administration said in an interview yester Day the increases Are largely due to improved knowledge of granting agencies and More aggressive Strate Gies by both the new office and individual researchers. While last year s million tallied outright Grants Only this year s figure deluded both Grant increases and re i search contracts attracted by the u of m. We re doing All right Bushuk said. A year ago we weren t even at this Point there Are lots of Grant sources we Haven t tapped yet and in time will go most of this year s Grants and re search contracts have been announced already and the u of m is getting its fair share Bushuk said. Support from Ottawa s three major granting agencies natural sciences and engineering Medicine and the so Cial sciences and humanities has in creased 30 per cent since Bushuk s office was established. Bushuk said the social sciences and humanities Council s support this year is up by 15 per cent from last year at the medical research Council has granted million to u of m professors a jump of 17 per cent and funding from the natural sciences re search Council is up 38 per cent to million. Another for equipment purchases is expected by june. Individual Grants have risen Only nine to 11 per cent and have not kept Pace with inflation Bushuk said. We re up anywhere from 15 per cent to 38 per cent this year for the major research councils but if we average it out we can say we re up about 30 per cent from last year in the research Grants to the University by the Federal government s granting the three major government Agen cies and a few smaller ones this year will account for about million in research funds for the u of a up from million last year. Maybe i m sticking my neck out but i would say when everything is counted Well be looking at close to million this year. We won t be Able to double last year s million in Grants Only but we will More than double it if we count All the Grants and Bushuk said. Research contracts permit us to do basically the same kind of research and we essentially have the same Freedom to publish in the scientific literature As we do with the contracts dictate the specific re search projects the sponsor wants done. Government departments private foundations and business and Industry Are letting contracts on the same scientific basis As they give Grants. Bushuk said the University has attracted some substantial Grants in agriculture and others in the so called strategic programs of the natural sciences and engineering research coun cil strategic to National needs such As food and agriculture Energy environment and pollution and he cited a project for the develop ment of new wheat crops which will be More adaptive to colder weather thus pushing agricultural areas northward. We do need crops thai will Germi Nate and grow in cooler climates and mature in Shorter Bushuk said. We got a Grant of Over three years just for that one among research contracts attracted by the University Bushuk cited a five year project sponsored by the Canadian International develop ment Agency Cida to establish a Plant Breeding research program in Kenya and a economic Analy Sis and counter action study regarding drought effects on the Manitoba farm Industry. Bushuk also attributed the increase in funds to scientists being More aggressive in seeking Grants. While funds for research Are expected to be up substantially this year Bushuk says there is More that can be done ;