Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, June 20, 1981

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Las vegas Tough careers carving a living Home finder dream Home did t just today baseball Pitcher times in sin practices Medicine Camp should be child s right by Vince Leah i always have Felt that it is every child s inalienable right to stand at least once under a towering Spruce to feel the wind off an unspoiled Lake to come face to face with a Cheeky Chipmunk. There is no thrill to match Curling up under the blankets and shiver in Delight As an owl begins to make itself known or a Loon Calls across the lonely water. Thus i think All kids should have one crack at going to summer Camp. I remember the first time i went away from Home to the Beach at the age of 12.1 was terribly homesick the first night and threw up All Over the tent floor. But the kind lady i was staying with knew All the answers and i survived nicely until mum came to get me a week later. There is so much to do now at Camp especially where there Are lots of kids of the same age qualified supervision and a Busy program. The Manitoba camping association and the free press jointly sponsor the Sunshine fund for kids who May never get to Camp. As of yesterday the Sunshine fund had 70 kids going off to Camp. It costs an average of to Send each child see nothing Page 4 sunny today 22 Clear tonight 9 fund to boost textile makers a new million Federal fund should help Winnipeg s textile Industry to modernize and rejuvenate itself Dur ing the next five years employment and immigration minister Lloyd a worthy said yesterday. Axworthy speaking at an Airport press conference hours after Industry minister Herb Gray announced the creation of the fund to Aid Canada s textile Industry said up to 20 per cent of the available Money could come to Winnipeg textile manufacturers who apply for Loans and Grants to modernize and expand their facilities. As Well As setting up the fund Gray also announced Ottawa has decided to to prop up the textile and clothing Industry with a five year Extension of import quotas protecting Canadian Industry from Low Cost foreign Competition. Workers he declined to say whether the quotas will be eased in five years How much the Industry will be expected to spend on its own or How Many workers May lose their jobs due to modernization. The Industry currently employs about persons More than half of them in Quebec and most of the rest in Ontario. In Winnipeg about people work in the textile Industry making the City the third largest textile Centre in the country behind Montreal and Toronto said Axworthy. The Federal government s quota Extension will protect Winnipeg s textile Industry while it. Updates and expands its capacity he said. Axworthy characterized the Winni Peg garment Industry As one of the most Forward looking in the country. See fund Page 4 Absentee s jail term reduced by Steve Pona a higher court has reduced the sen tence of a Man jailed for 60 Days after he was convicted during a missed court appearance of theft and possess Ion of stolen goods. Lawyer Jeff Gindin acting for the accused condemned the provincial judges court hearing in Steinbach As improper and a denial of natural the Man Larry Edward Eigler was out of the province at the time the matter was heard under a Section of the criminal code of Canada rarely used in criminal cases. County court judge Armand Dureault said the presiding judge had the Power to proceed in the absence of Eigler but it was most inappropriate and is contrary to practice in judge Dureault who heard the a peal yesterday in county court in St. Boniface ruled the sentence was excessive and reduced it to time spent in custody. See judge Page 4 saturday june final 200 with supplements Home delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Some of the Indian and Metis workers who walked off their jobs with a car extra gang june 12 attend a town Hau meeting in Crane Ilver Indian Metis groups vow to Block rail line by Cecil Rosner Winnipeg free press Crane River Indian and Metis workers who say they were subjected to discrimination and bad working conditions by Canadian National railway plan to step up their protest by sitting on the car rail line in Dauphin Mon Day. At a meeting in this Metis Community Northeast of Dauphin yesterday the rail workers and town residents said they Hope to mobilize Between 100 and 300 men women and children to Block the track monday. Representatives of the Manitoba Metis federation who were at the meeting said they would support the action. They re going to see we mean Busi said Bernie Morrisseau of Crane River. We Aren t going to take this treatment any 25 walked out Morrisseau was one of 25 Indian and Metis workers who walked off the Job on an ochre River car extra gang june 12. The workers say they were called dogs and pigs by the Foreman and subjected to discrimination and bad working conditions. Car spokesman de Donohoe said the railway investigated the allegations and found no evidence of discrimination. But he said yesterday that the internal car investigation did not include interviews with any of the workers who had walked off the Job. The workers who Are also taking their complaints to the Canadian human rights commission say they were told by the gang Foreman follow ing their walkout that they would be put on a blacklist and would never work with the railway again. Joe Anabess Metis federation vice president for the Pas said at yester Day s town Hall meeting that people in his area would join in the track sit in if car tried to divert trains from the blocked Dauphin line. Support is also expected from the Crane River and ebb and flow Indian reserves As Well As from other Metis federation districts. Metis federation spokesman Ferdin and Gui Boche said rail unions will be contacted during the weekend to enlist their support for the protest. The rail gang which included about 145 workers who Are moving across the country doing track repair left ochre River for Saskatchewan before completing its work in the area. The Indian and Metis workers were from Crane River ebb and flow watermen and Mallard and had been on the Job less than three weeks before they walked out. Manitoba Metis federation president John Morrisseau said he was told by car regional vice president Ralph Hansen that the men had been replaced and no longer had jobs. The workers interviewed yesterday said they de Pended on the summer rail jobs As their Only source of employment throughout the year. Included in a list of allegations cited As reasons for the walkout Are bad water d Only one washroom and four Shower stalls were provided for a group of 70 men which often meant that workers who spent 15 continuous Days working on the gang before getting time off had to go without washing in the morning and after work. D drinking water was obtained from an unsuitable Creek and some workers complained of feeling sick. The Foreman was constantly insult ing and mistreating native employees and carried a stick to threaten work ers. D often there would be no break for lunch in a 10 or 12-hour Day and the Only Chance some workers got to eat was when a piece of equipment broke Down. D in one Case a Metis worker injured his hand and was told by a doctor to have a one week Layoff. But the gang Foreman had him do Light duties in Stead. Donohoe said he had no response to the allegations about inadequate toilet and Washup facilities. He said the workers would be considered if they reapplied for jobs. But the workers say they will not go Back to work for the same Foreman. They say the car investigation was a coverup. My dad has a big family and seven kids to said Wayne Spence of Crane River. We would t have left our jobs if our claims were in condemns Israel for bombing of Iraq by Jeff Endrst special to the free press United nations the in Secu Rity Council condemned but did not punish Israel yesterday for its destruction of an iraqi nuclear Plant near Baghdad on june 7. The 15-nation Council voted unanimously for a Resolution saying that Iraq is entitled to appropriate re dress for damages and confirming its right w run nuclear programs for peaceful but the Resolution does not contain any punitive measures against Israel. Neither does it include an Appeal to the United states and other Western coun tries to Stop providing Israel with technology and weapons which could enable it to repeat similar acts against its Arab neighbors in the future. After the vote israeli ambassador Yehuda Blum told the Council that Israel will treat this Resolution with the respect it so richly he had previously said that Iraq should not expect a single brass Farthing from Israel in reparations. Iraqi foreign minister Saadoun Ham Madi bemoaned the fact that the adopted Resolution lacked a Call for Manda tory sanctions against Israel As most Arab moslem and non aligned coun tries demanded throughout the week Long debate. Hammadi blamed the weakness of the Resolution on the United states for first supplying Israel with Maxi mum degree of military nuclear and economic Aid and then holding the threat of veto As protective weapon Over Israel s interests. He reserved Iraq s right to take the Issue to the in general Assembly which could presumably suspend Israel s voting rights in that body. . Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick . Oil firms accuse canadians of adopting Bucca Neering policy Washington up . Oil com Pany executives charging that they Are being stripped of their subsidiaries by Canadian economic Buccaneer asked Congress yesterday to help pressure the Canadian government into amending the National Energy pro Gram. Philip Wood executive vice presi Dent of cities service co., said Trudeau government policies of nationalistic economic discrimination have created a situation in which certain opportunistic Canadian companies aided and abetted by Canadian Banks can fearlessly conduct raids on . Com testifying before an Energy and com Merce subcommittee of the . House of representatives Wood asked for emergency legislation to suspend temporary acquisitions by any Canad an of significant Stock holdings in any . Energy company. He was joined by former ambassador George Ball now senior managing director of a new York investment banking firm in urging the Reagan administration to use All Means at its disposal to end Canada s discriminatory Ball labelled the National Energy pro Gram intended to Canad Anize the Oil Industry by raising Domestic ownership to at least 50 per cent by 1990 while providing incentives for Canad an firms a blatantly discriminatory act against american corporations. I Hope the president will see fit to raise it forcefully with prime minister Trudeau at the economic Summit in Ottawa on july 20-21, Ball added. While emphasizing that he prefers to use diplomacy to convince Canada to change the Energy policies Ball noted Congress May Send the right Sig nals by starting preliminary work on legislation which would penalize Cana Dian corporate activity in the . Seemed to qualify american support for the Resolution by saying that Israel s attack on the iraqi nuclear facility violated the in charter Only in that Israel failed to exhaust peaceful Means for the Resolution of this Dis she also said nothing in this Resolution will affect my government s commitment to Israel s Security and nothing in these reservations affect my government s determination to work with All govern ments of the Region willing to use appropriate Means to enhance the peace and Security of the when it was All Over the diplomatic consensus was that the Resolution negotiated chiefly by Kirkpatrick and Hammadi despite the fact that Washington and Baghdad Don t have Diplo Matic represented a rare Compromise that did not damage any one s vital interests. It affords Iraq to claim a moral Victory without meting out any unduly harsh punishment for Israel. Diplomats were Quick to note that Iraq was not in the strongest moral position to demand too much from the Council which has yet to condemn Iraq s aggression against Iran or re Spond to Iran s demands for reparations from Iraq for damage caused to its Oil Fields and refineries. The . Delegate later told a press conference that her negotiations with Hammadi May provide a marginal boost to the chances of Success of the Philip Habib s which is to get syrian missiles out of Lebanon through diplomatic Means before Israel seeks a military solution. Bitter Pill opposition maps Are bitter about a controversial tax Bill whose targets include Beer drinkers Art lovers and the Royal disco Windsor Castle s ballroom went disco last night As the Royal family and about 500 guests marked Prince Andrew s 21st the West Bank Canadian press reporter John Goddard takes a close on the spot look at the Ever tense Arab israeli situation on the West Bank of the Jordan . Open what s going on yesterday a Little known golfer named Jim Thorpe had the Lead in the . Open. Today it s George Burns no not the one with the big Index Ann Landers. Answers. Business. Careers. Classified. Crossword., deaths. Editorials. Entertainment. Home finder. Horoscope. 30 53 14 33 .54 24 6 .21 85 28 Jumble puzzle.58 Jumble entry.81 legals.49 letters.7 Millroy on to. 25 movies.27 relax.53 Russell. 7 sports. 73 sports record.77 stocks. 15 sullivan.53 to listings.53 Werier. 6 ;