Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba My Eaton s reviews policy by Pamela Fayerman the t. 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 cant 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 1 his innocence immediately. In the Marks Case pleas by the youth to Security personnel to phone his Mott. Or 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 cant 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 3 Loc Mes free press 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 latest opposition bid to have allegations of misconduct against Dep Uty Premier Don Craik investigated through a legislative inquiry was blocked by the conservative 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 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 Hac questioned the integrity of nip Hydro critic Jim n Alding 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 said 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 it 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 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 said the opposition will continue to Hammer away at the Issue. Yanofsky contends no tag policy used in error yesterday motorists who Over parked at downtown meters yesterday but did t get a ticket can thank Insp. D. A. Hicks of the Winnipeg police department. But Abe Yanofsky civic finance committee chairman says Hicks May have exceeded his authority in giving the Public the one Day break from tickets. It seems to me he May have taken on More authority than he s entitled Yanofsky said. It easter Mon Day is not a he said he would bring the matter up at the next finance committee meeting to clarify policy for similar situations in the future. While yesterday was a Holiday for municipal provincial and Federal civil servants most workers in Pri vate Industry were on the Job. Benefit of doubt Hicks said that because govern ment workers had the Day off a lot of people May go Uptown thinking it s a the parking meter situation presented a Legal Grey area he said and he decided to give the Public the Benefit of the doubt. He said he told his sergeant to instruct commission Aires not to tag meter violators until noon. If a senior officer had objected by noon the policy would have been reversed in the afternoon Hicks said. He said there were no objections yesterday although he expects he May hear about it from chief Ken Johnston who had yesterday off. Yanofsky not a i m the officer in charge when he s not Hicks said. Commission Aires were tagging cars for other parking offences As usual As they made their 9 . To 5 . Rounds the inspector said. As for the loss to the civic Treasury on the parking violations Hicks said i think the City can live with out the Money for a single because the no tag policy was not announced in Advance Hicks said he expected most motorists fed the meters. But motorists who May feel ripped off after feeding the parking meters have been advised not to show up at the police station looking for a re fund. Hicks said there won t be any refunds. Yanofsky agreed. Exiled chilean labor Leader says new Constitution legitimizes Junta 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 exile said the Junta headed by Gen. Augusta 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 approved by a plebiscite last september in which voters faced maximum 60-Day vandals in car Chew up three Southwood 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 worse i be Ever seen in the 13 years i 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. Two men Are in custody and Are expected to appear in provincial judges court today in connection with the Inci Dent. Prison terms if they did 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. He said the Junta allows unions to exist in Chile but can dissolve them by decree. He said there Are now about workers in Legal or illegal unions compared with 1.8-million be fore the overthrow. Right to strike workers do have the right to strike but for Only 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. U of m hoping for million Worth of research funding 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 includes 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 Nippon 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 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 that 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 ;