Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press wednesday june 18 women taken by ramp from Dauphin rail line a huge air Tanker drops fire retardant chemicals yesterday As flames rage out of control in California s Napa Valley Region. Arson Blaze Burns 65 Homes Napa Calif. A winds that fanned an arsonist s fire Over More than acres turned against the Blaze late yesterday after it already had destroyed 65 Homes in the wine Rich Napa Valley. Now the wind is turning around and blowing Back on said Chuck Chrysler an information officer for the California department of forestry. The winds were blowing out of the Northwest and Are now out of the South he warned that it would be Prema Ture to say How much of the fire might be controlled by today although the wind shift appeared to be helping Only 10 per cent of the Blaze was controlled and 20 per cent was contained. The 18 wineries nearest the fire and the posh Silverado county club were spared in the initial conflagration but Chrysler said 65 structures destroyed timer they said. At one ruined Home the bottles in a wine collection had melted into a shapeless mass. Investigators reported finding incendiary devices at two of the four Sites where the fire began monday. The devices used a cigarette As a crude As the fire advanced through the tinder dry canyons about 60 Kilometres North East of san Francisco were All Homes. Damage was estimated at million. It looked like an atomic bomb had been said Maureen Grenell one of the hundreds of people forced to flee their Homes. Ten people deluding at least two firefighters were injured As they fought the Blaze before last night s shift in direction winds blowing at about 48 Kilometres an hour Down at least 32 Kilometres from had pushed the Blaze toward Vacaville site of a state prison 84 per cent of inside postal workers vote in favor of taking strike action continued from Page 1 in the commons nip Leader de i Broadbent tried to get Johnston to Promise the 17 weeks pay recommended by the conciliator. The minister knows that As of Mon Day we could be faced with a postal strike which is desired neither by the inside postal workers nor the people of Broadbent said. Considering that the chairman of the conciliation Board in the postal dispute has recommended a fair for Mula Why does the government not live up to its commitment to women. And postal workers. By accepting his the nip Leader asked. Johnston said the government demonstrated last year in negotiations with Federal clerks that it is committed to the principle of maternity benefits. It is a very important area and one that we believe has to be he said. Whether or not it should be addressed during the course of these negotiations is another Johnston said he wants Federal negotiators to sit Down with representatives of cup As soon As possible and he pushed aside extra questions on the grounds that he does not wish to negotiate in Public. He said he would not immediately get personally involved in the talks. Besides maternity pay conciliator Jasmin recommended statutory Holiday Jan. 2 and four weeks vacation after five years instead of 10 years. The conciliator s report was weighted in favor of the Union although Union nominee Jacques Desmarais differed with the final result. Jasmin took the Union s Side on the question of closed circuit television monitoring of postal employees. The cameras installed to Stop mail theft should Only be used if their benefits outweigh the damage they represent to worker dignity he said. And Fairfield near Travis air Force base. Fire information officer Richard Schell said firefighters were backed by 15 air tankers four helicopters 108 fire engines and 20 bulldozers in their efforts to Stop the Advance of the worst Northern California fire this year. The fire began in four locations about . Monday. Officials Sald it appeared that one person probably in a car sped along the Silverado Trail through the heart of California s wine country setting the blazes As he went. Wind scattered Sparks and flames touched off Brush and scrub dried by temperatures and the Lour fires merged into one sending a thick plume of smoke thousands of metres into the air. Jerry Burns said he tried to reach friends in the fire area and got within a few Kilometres of their Home when the temperature gauge on my truck pegged out and the paint started Ray Dominga a rancher whose Home was reduced to ashes said he had been offered for the place last year. I laughed at the Guy and said which Fence Post do you Raymond Berendsen fled to a High school gymnasium after watching his Home Burn to the ground. Asked what they managed to save his wife Maudie Bell said this purse and the forced retirement ban urged continued from Page i live agreements Between and employees. His remarks contrasted with those of Sam Newman a Semi retired music teacher who said such agreements should be allowed. Otherwise Newman 68, said employers should not be permitted to dismiss workers simply because they have reached an arbitrary age. Some people can work until they Are 60, others can work until they re he said. It s not a matter of age it s a matter of Sheila Crawford of the senior Citi Zens Job Bureau told the inquiry that health of older people is less Likely to decline if they Are allowed to retain their jobs. Arguing that people should have the Choice of when to retire she cited that indicate the aging per son i Good health remains mentally and physically fitter when continuing in the work she referred to evidence that people with cancer who have taken casual jobs made Progress against the disease be cause they Are being treated As use Ful participating human beings and not dying people " society by dismissing a healthy Vig Orous worker merely because of his age is condemning him to hours a year of compulsory calling this a form of slow death she added that loneliness and the sense of idleness and of not being useful As experienced by some elderly people Are among the greatest handicaps known to she said jobs give people a meaning end to fixed retirement unemployment linked removal of mandatory retirement could push some older workers into the unemployment lines before age 65, says the Winnipeg lawyer conducting a provincial inquiry into the forced retire ment Issue. Marshall Rothstein said yesterday if workers received the right to keep jobs indefinitely older people May have their work More closely scrutinized and perhaps be is there not going to be a financial hardship on those people who Are forced out earlier i have some concern about Rothstein said at a hearing last night. Rothstein said any worker released at age 58, for example could face financial difficulties while waiting to receive Canada pension plan benefits seven years later. In a later interview he cautioned that he has t yet found comprehensive data to show there would a serious problem of older workers losing their jobs should mandatory retirement be scrapped. However he said has been told by some personnel managers that it was a very real possibility. Rothstein said he hoped to collect evidence on the extent to which work output Falls off with age and whether companies now Are keeping older work ers on the payroll despite declining output. Sheila Crawford of the senior Citi Zens Job Bureau told Rothstein that employees whose work is falling off should be moved to another position. If they re slipping in their Job surely there s something else the company can find for them to do. They Don t have to fire employers have the right to dismiss employees but this should be done on the basis of ability rather than age she said adding that Many 65-year-Olds Are let go even though they had been performing Well. They say i was doing a Damn Good Job and i got kicked out in life particularly the current Genera Tion of senior citizens who tend to have a Strong work ethic. Crawford whose government funded Agency finds jobs for the retired also said Canada has a shortage of skilled labor and older workers can help fill this Gap. She downplayed the claim that keep ing a senior worker in his Job reduces opportunities for younger colleagues to Advance. People on the Way up the ladder would just have to wait a few years longer to attain the top jobs. Levesque will Boycott conference Quebec up Premier Rene Levesque irritated by Newfoundland s support for Ottawa s omnibus Energy Bill abruptly announced yesterday he will Boycott a conference of Eastern premiers and new England governors opening in St. John s on thursday. In a Telegram Levesque told Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford of his dismay with the province s backing of the Bill which would allow Newfoundland to build a Power line through Quebec to Send Labrador Power to . Markets. It is no longer advisable for me to participate in the St. John s Confer the Quebec Premier said. Not Only would there be no Progress on Energy the top item at the annual conference there is also a risk of displaying in front of our american colleagues and eventual clients our inability to solve differences through negotiation. Quebec has stressed for three years its desire to reach in Good Faith through negotiation a mutually advantageous solution to the problem of development and exploitation of Labra Dor Energy resources. We still believe that such a negotiated solution is the Only one Levesque added. Continued from Page 1 Lin told them they had five minutes to Clear off or they would face trespassing charges. He said ramp were acting on a complaint from a Dauphin in offi Cial. Shortly afterwards All the male demonstrators left the track while the 18 women and girls sat Down and tried to shield themselves from a heavy Down pour of rain. They refused ramp re quests to leave the track or to walk voluntarily to police cars after they had been arrested. Soon after ramp had cleared the track a via rail train bound for Churchill with about 60 passengers aboard arrived at the station. The protest follows a june 12 walkout by 25 Indian and Metis workers on a in extra gang at ochre River. The workers accused the gang Foreman of harassing and racially insulting them and they also complained about work ing conditions which provided just one washroom and four showers for 70 men. Demonstrations continue demonstrations Are continuing today at the Dauphin station while simultaneous protests Are scheduled to take place in Cormorant today and in Wabowden tomorrow. The protesters Are demanding reinstatement of the 25 workers to their jobs with Back pay removal of the work gang Foreman and other provisions related to native employment on the railways. Four nations confederacy grand chief Lyle Long claws arrived in Dau Phin last night. He said both his organization and the emf will bring More people in to bolster the protest and they will be calling on in regional vice president Ralph Hansen to come to Dauphin for talks on the subject. Earlier yesterday Morrisseau said he offered to ask the protesters to suspend their demonstrations temporarily if Hansen would come to Dau Phin for a meeting but the Winnipeg based railway vice president declined. Morrisseau accused the railway officials of acting in bad Faith and was particularly critical of an internal in investigation of the walkout which found that there was no discrimination. The workers who walked off the Job were not interviewed during the in probe. In a statement yesterday Hansen invited the Federal government to hold an investigation into working conditions at in s extra gang or at any of the railway s other operations. He said he Felt the Canadian human rights commission which has already been notified of the Metis complaints is the appropriate body to Deal with charges of discrimination and he said in would co operate with an investigation. Morrisseau said officials from the humans rights commission telephoned him yesterday and suggested the pro testers Stop dismantling the rail track a suggestion which was rebuffed. Hansen expressed concern that rail Way property was being damaged and that Normal train operations were being threatened. Freight trains delayed both yesterday and monday freight trains were delayed for several hours As a result of the Dauphin protest. Two More work Crews will be in the Crane River area on july 15 and aug. 1, but those men who have been charged with damaging in property will not be eligible to apply for work on them Hansen said. Other Metis and Indian workers May apply and Wol be consid ered he said. The 19 women and four men who have been Given court appearance notices As a result of the demonstrations could face fines of or two months in jail each for violations of the Federal railway act. Morrisseau said other locals of the emf across the province have been notified of the protest and May be joining in support at other areas. He said neither he nor the emf could t be held responsible if people take it upon themselves to dismantle track at various locations. Long claws said the Dauphin situation represents one of a number of attacks which have taken place against native people across Canada recently. He said natives will be staging a protest on july 1 to denounce the attacks and assert their rights. Two Banks hit at same time Bank robberies occurred simultaneously in two areas of Winnipeg yester Day and netted robbers an under Ter mined amount of Money City police report. The two robberies happened at . At the Toronto Dominion Bank 953 St. Mary s Road a Lone thief with a handgun demanded Money. He was wearing a Bell shaped motor Cycle helmet with the plastic visor pulled Down. He was Given Money and left shortly after entering. Those in the Bank heard the sound of a motorcycle outside but did t see one. At the same time two men wearing Black Nylon stocking masks and dark clothes were robbing the Bank of Nova Scotia 1169 Rothesay Street. One with a Shotgun guarded the door while his partner went behind the counter and cleaned out the Cash draw ers. 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