Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Colonial bus Drivers vote to strike Winnipeg free press wednesday april.29, 1981 s Ottawa up Drivers mechanics and other workers eur colonial Ltd. Voted to go on strike today when they rejected the company s latest contract offer by a vote of 38g-to-19 tuesday. In effect that Means there will no runs after said Union official de finn. The strike will affect bus routes virtually everywhere in Ontario and halt service Between Ottawa Toron to and Montreal As Well As charter trips to Wisconsin and Florida. But finn spokesman for the Cana Dian brotherhood of railway trans port and general workers Union said buses in transit at the time would not be affected until they reached their destinations. This is the Voyageur workers first strike since they were unionized in 1946 and they Are prepared to stay out As Long As necessary anywhere from a few Days to five or six finn said. The workers who demanded 12 per cent increases in each year of a two year contract rejected an offer from Voyageur of wage increases of 10 per cent and eight per cent in two years. The Union members earn about annually on average. They seek parity with employees of Cal Gary based greyhound bus lines Ltd. Who Are on strike in Western Canada and Northern Ontario. Finn said he believes Voyageur accounts for about so per cent of the bus passenger volume in Ontario. Vancouver publisher elected up president factory clearance correction to our birthday Sale supple ment in your april 27th paper pm 6-24 is not As shown. To our health and Beauty aids and in your april 25th paper. A tips should have read a. 2.17. Sorry for any in convenience. Group ii 100% acetate Western shirts regulars samples and subs. Sizes so Lxi group i assorted plaids Plain shades regulars subs and samples sizes so a Al first course begins May 25th phone or drop in for full details. 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Directors elected to two year terms Atlantic Tom Crowther Fredericton gleaner Ontario Quebec English William Newbigging Ottawa citizen r. J. Doyle the Globe and mail j. Peter Kohl Thunder Bay chronicle journal Prairie and . Frank Swanson Cal Gary Herald p. O Callaghan Edmonton journal British Columbia and Yukon c. W. Davey Vancouver Sun Peter g. White port Alberni Valley times French language Charles d amour trois rivieras be Nouvel Liste. Continuing directors elected last year for two years Atlantic e. W. Larracey mom ton times Wallace Mckay Sydney Cape Breton Post Ontario Quebec English George r. Maclaren Sherbrooke record Michael l. Davies Kingston whig Standard Martin Goodman Toronto Star Prairie and . Michael c. Sifton Saskatoon Star Phoenix British Columbia and Yukon Colin Mccullough Victoria times colonist French language Jean Robert Belanger Ottawa be Droit at Large Alain Guilbert Granby la von de i est filling the unexpired term of Maurice t. Custeau Montrealle journal who resigned for health reasons. Suspected Leader of chetnik Bakich killed in Auto Accident Edmonton up Jakov Bakich the retired Edmonton janitor who made headlines in Canada when he was held in Yugoslavia for months As the suspected Leader of an execution squad was killed yesterday in a car Accident near Faust alta., about 200 Kilometres North West of Edmonton. He was 68. He lived a very tragic said Branny Schepanovich Bakich s lawyer and a family Friend who was in Strumental in obtaining his release from Yugoslavia. He seemed to have a lot of bad Bakich who came to can Ada in 1948, was arrested in May 1978, when he returned to his native Yugoslavia for a visit. He spent 10 months in a yugoslav jail before he was tried on charges that he headed a royalist chetnik execution squad during the second world War killing communist partisans and turning them Over to the nazi occupation army. He was eventually acquit Ted and returned to Canada in october 1979. 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