Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Egg producers to be paid to kill off hens Ottawa up egg producers Are being paid up to million to kill off 1.5 million hens but Industry spokesmen say the Cost of the program is not being borne by Consumers. Producers themselves will pay 100 per cent of the Jean Brassard general manager of the producer run Canadian egg marketing Agency said in an interview yesterday. It won t affect Consumers in any the program was launched earlier this month by the Agency in an attempt to reduce massive Over production of eggs particularly As the Industry enters the summer months when de Mand for product demand is at its lowest Point. It will help to alleviate the Low de Mand period in bras Sard said. A spokesman for the National farm products marketing Council which oversees National marketing plans for poultry and eggs agrees that producers Are paying the full Cost of the fowl reduction program. It is not included in the Cost of production formula used to determine producer returns for eggs and there s no pass through to the said Glenn White. It is a Levy that is paid right out of the retained earnings of the producers in the fowl reduction program the fifth of its kind in 10 years comes As the Agency continues to grapple with production Levels far in excess of the National demand. At present surplus eggs not sold on the Domestic Market Are sold to breaker or foreign markets at prices subsidized by producers. The voluntary program financed by All egg producers pays Only those Farmers prepared to kill hens in the final months of the laying Cycle. Earlier Agency chairman Harold Crossman blamed egg Over production squarely on the Agency s shoulders. The giant surplus of eggs is the Agency s he said in an inter View. We Over estimated the consumer demand for the past two a spokesman for the Consumers association of Canada has suggested that a reduction in egg prices would be the Best Way to get rid of the surplus. But Brassard disagreed saying it is very difficult to make the consumer eat More eggs or the hens Lay Tess eggs. I think the proof is made every time Chain stores put eggs on he said. The consumer buys More eggs that week but after is not buying More _ u of my Carter May face charges Over libyan Cloudy today 6 Cloudy tonight 0 wednesday april vol 109 no free press Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Dave free press a stranded passenger catches some sleep at Winnipeg depot after bus workers went on strike. Greyhound strike leaves bus travellers stranded by Tom Goldstein about 15 westbound bus travellers were stranded in Winnipeg last night As greyhound workers Between Vancou ver and Sudbury went on strike. About members of the Amalga mated transit Union local 1374, which covers workers Between the West coast and Sudbury ont., went on strike at Midnight local time after last ditch talks in Calgary Between the company and Union failed to reach a Settle ment. About 150 Drivers ticket clerks of fice workers and mechanics in the Union s Winnipeg unit set up picket lines around the mall terminal at 6 . Talks were to resume this morning in Calgary. I think a certain amount of Progress was made in the talks but we re still a considerable distance said Mel Little vice president of the Union. I would Hope we could have a Settle ment As quickly As possible and i m optimistic right however both the Union and management have indicated they Are pre pared for a Long strike the first by greyhound workers in Canada since they won bargaining rights in 1947. Of the passengers stranded in Winni Peg last night four spent the night with friends while the others looked for alternative accommodations or settled in at the mall terminal. Most expected to resume their trips by train this afternoon. A group of passengers who arrived from Eastern Canada about . Yesterday said they were not informed of the impending strike action until they were already in route. Nobody knew the trip was going to terminate Here until we were on our said Patrick Burrell of Yar Mouth . Cathy Dies who was to Start a Job in Banff today said she first Learned the strike was possible from the agent who sold her a bus ticket monday in Hamilton ont. He told me i d make it on time but we were told in Sault Ste. Marie that we d Only make it to see Cost Page 4 god Prairies earn Liberal recognition by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Federal liberals have decided to put god in the Constitution and to do away with a Section of its amending formula which would have left the Prairie provinces in a weaker position than most other provinces on future constitutional changes. Constitutional the liberals also accepted new Democrat amendments strengthening the rights of women and aboriginal Peoples although the latter did not go As far native leaders sought. Justice minister Jean Chretien said the government had been getting thousands of letters because there was no reference to god in the Constitution. A spokesman for Premier Sterling Lyon said last night Lyon was unaware of the new Liberal proposals and would not comment. Winnipeg Cabinet minister Lloyd a worthy said changes in the amending formula favouring the Prairie provinces will go a Long Way toward negating charges made by the tories and follow ers of former Liberal defence minister James Richardson. Until yesterday the amending for Mula placed on the table the Federal government would have required agreement from Ontario Quebec two liquor win prices soar May 5 Manitoban will pay Between 75 cents and More for a bottle of liquor and up to 60 cents More for a bottle of wine when annual Spring Price increases go into effect May 5. Increased Federal and provincial taxes coupled with inflated costs from suppliers will translate into higher prices for most liquor and wines effective May 5. In addition the province s share of Revenue on liquor sales Only is going up by five per cent in line with an announcement in last week s budget. Finance minister Brian Ransom said the province expected to collect a total of million More in the next year because of the higher Mark up. A statement from the provincial liquor control commission says retail prices for spirits will increase Between 75 cents and per 710 my 25-ounce bottle. Some May drop the recent Strong performance of the Canadian Dollar in relation to european currencies will mean some imported wines will maintain their current prices or drop slightly. But most Domestic and imported wines will increase up to 60 cents a bottle. The Price changes will affect All of the approximately wines spirits and imported Beers sold in the prov Ince. The exact Price change will de Pend on product Type and supplier. A bottle of Canadian club Rye currently Selling for will go up to for example while imported Beefeater Gin goes up to from drinkers of imported Black Tower wine on the other hand will see the Price drop to from Atlantic provinces plus two Western provinces with More than 50 per cent of the population of the Region. The Nev amendment tabled yester Day by the liberals drops the 50-per cent clause. Under the old scheme . Would have held the lion s share of Power because it would Only need one other province to Block a constitutional change whereas the three Prairie prov inces would All have had to agree to achieve the same effect. . Has a population of 2.6 million whereas Manitoba has one million and Saskatchewan just under one million. Alberta has about 2 million. The result is that any two provinces regardless of population can agree to constitutional change and let it carry see god Page 4 crts to accept licence applications for pay to services Ottawa up pay to will finally arrive probably by next year but it will have a distinctive Canadian Fla Vor i the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission said yesterday that companies seeking a licence to provide a pay to service first run movies sports and entertain ment specials not otherwise Avail Able must apply before july 10. Hearings Are scheduled for the fall. But the regulatory body also issued guides saying the service will not be a monopoly and that at the Start it will be free of advertising. It also said pay to services must not Only provide Canadian programming but some of the profits must be allocated to produce such Content. Crts chairman John Meisel told a news conference he is opening pay to to virtually anyone with a plan mean ing that in some areas there could be several such services. The Cable to Industry estimates the Cost to the subscriber would be Between and a month. The crts said applicants must include a user fee schedule in their submissions. Gordon Keeble head of the pay Tele vision network a consortium set up by the Cable to Industry to apply for a licence to Market pay to said the crts is on the right track and has opened the Way for innovation. The crts said that besides Broad casters and Cable operators anyone wanting to lease facilities from Cable to operators or set up other transmission systems May apply for a pay to licence. But superstitions those which would beam regular programming nationally under the Guise of pay to Are out. Broadcasters won t be Al has been the Case in the United states to switch their sys tems to pay to from free to during their regular broadcast Day. The Call for applications comes after a debate which started in 1975, culminating in a crts committee report last year which said pay to should come after licences Are approved for Remote and under served communities. The approvals came last week. The crts said it will not at this time License pay to service drawing on advertising and applicants must show that some profits will be spent to produce Canadian pro Grams. A major objective in the introduction of pay to is that it produce a flow of Revenue to Canadian program producers from Canadian audiences with a minimal disruption to the operations of existing Gas workers vote on contract today the greater Winnipeg Gas co. And the Union representing its service and maintenance workers have reached tentative agreement to end an 11-week strike. If the pact is ratified by a general membership meeting this morning the workers will Likely return to their jobs tomorrow Arnie Makinson president of Energy and chemical workers Union local 681, said last night. Picket lines up since feb. 2, would be removed from company locations this afternoon. Makinson refused to provide details of the tentative settlement reached after about hours of off and on negotiations yesterday. He said the Marathon bargaining session was prompted by the rejection Friday by 91-per-cent of the Union s membership to the company s last offer. That made both sides More realistic about he said. Makinson said the Union has lost at least three of its 260 members since the strike began but Only one As a result of the walkout. The Union had initially sought a 35-per-cent wage increase Over two years to achieve parity with Saskatchewan Gas workers but later lowered its demand to 32 per cent. The company s last offer was 28 per cent up from the 24 per cent which led to the strike action. Workers earned a net weighted aver age of an hour under their Previ Ous pact which expired Jan. 31. They earned a week strike pay. Regular company service was suspended during the strike As supervisors handled emergencies. The withdrawal of regular maintenance caused heated debate in the Manitoba Legisla Ture where opposition members unsuccessfully demanded the company re store the free service and pay for such work done by private contractors. Fire one the . Last month amazed delegates from about 150 countries when it torpedoed the seven year old in Law of the sea let it be titanic buffs urge two Winnipeg titanic buffs oppose any notion of raising the Gigantic passenger ship 727 Surprise Many Whites said they d leave Zimbabwe if Robert Mugabe became prime minister. 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