Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Times Square life at its provinces by if Egeborg Boyens provincial lottery ministers will con Fer within two Days to plot strategy against Ottawa proposed sports wagering Manitoba sports and fit Ness minister Bob Banman said yester either a conference phone Call or a facet face meeting will be arranged to Aid the ministers in their fight against the Federal ban Man said in an both Quebec and Ontario have suggested they May withhold lottery pay ments due Ottawa or May seek a court injunction halting the to fight they a to the proposal announced monday by Federal sports minister get Aid which they say would violate the spirit of a 1979 agree ment transferring responsibility for teries to local if the plan comes to Banman provincial lotteries will suffer from new a whole new including Cros Canada will have to be established to run the sports betting he Regan maintained monday that the proposed Pool will not infringe on pro Viniar me insisted the pro posed sports Pool is nothing like a lottery because contestants will have to prove their skill in guessing the Correct score of a hockey or baseball proceeds from the which could total million in the first year of would be passed on to Amateur sports the arts and medical Banman said the Federal government earned an extra million in 1979 after the agreement with the provinces was in the year prior to the Ottawa kept or five per cent of for itself after the agree it received million from the Banman said it was very frustrating to see Ottawa ignore an agreement that took six months of negotiations to its another Nail in the coffin of Federal provincial he the minister said the intrusion of another lottery could undo All the work the Manitoba government has done to ensure gambling is because it did not want to be accused of promoting the province took two lotteries off the de Casino required audits and Cut Back on lottery we Are trying to rationalize the whole he see Quebec Page 4 sunny today 15 Clear tonight 4 september Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final 250 Home delivery 957o55o classified 9562330 second class mail Hugi stration number 0208 Homeowner will get protest told by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa suffering homeowners will definitely get some kind of Mort Gage help in the next budget and both Bankers and those facing foreclosure should try to freeze the process for one month until details of the new budget become housing minister Paul Cosgrove said pm agrees to discuss Economy Ottawa up prime minister Trudeau has agreed to a Federal pro Vinci Al first ministers meeting on the Economy to be held in the next few his office said Reagan to but he has made it Clear the meeting will not be held until the Federal government presents its budget and its proposals for dealing with the country troubled Economy to parliament in the latter part of he will meet Premier Bill Bennett of British Columbia the Day before he leaves for a trip to to discuss the he also proposes that finance minis ters meet some time in october to Dis cuss the budget before it is the prime minister made his propos als in a letter to chairman of the 10member premiers earlier this the letter was re leased after Bennett revealed in Kim that Trudeau had agreed to a the premiers called for a first minis ters meeting following their annual conference in Victoria in pre Mier William Davis of Ontario has been demanding one for the housing minister was speaking after a demonstration on parliament Hill by a meeting with protest representatives that at one Point almost saw Cosgrove out of the committee room to face the the protesters converged on Parlia ment Hill As the liberals gathered for a caucus meeting in which Rankan file maps told their Cabinet ministers that the mood in the constituencies is angry and something must be in saving that to those people who say that they cannot meet mortgage payments that if they Are going to if they Are going to be that they should await the governments budget in the fall to see what the governments position will be visa is Cosgrove cavalcade of asked specifically if there will be he said there will be assistance finance minister Allan Maceachen was much less definite than he said no decision has been made on a particular program and that anything in the budget would help Only those worst hit by the ravages of High inter est the government will live up to the commitment in its april speech from the that commit ment reads in my government recognizes the need to protect those canadians most affected by unacceptably High interest my government will act to assist those unable to Bear the Burden of renegotiating their Home mortgages in the present abnormal situation so that the spectre of foreclosure will be avoid my ministers Are convinced that this objective can be achieved without the government embarking on a major subsidy Cosgrove tried to Tell representatives of about 500 protesters in Ottawa yes see Cosgrove Page 4 loopholes cited in Farmland Laws by Cecil Rosner provincial legislation aimed at curb ing foreign ownership of Manitoba Farmland is still not tight enough despite amendments passed earlier this says the chairman of the agricultural lands Protection i still have concerns about this said Harold even now its not tight enough to do what it was intended to do prevent foreigners from buying up Sneath said foreign investors can work through Manitoba lawyers to set up supposedly Canadian companies and even arrange to have the majority of shares held by but by putting up sizable capital investment for deals to buy they protesters speak out on parliament Hill in Ottawa yesterday against the Federal governments High interest rate Theo workers begin walkout Bob free press Are effectively controlling the Farmland and using it for speculative and other nonagricultural he provincial Law prohibits foreigners from buying More than 20 acres of Manitoba the Board has the Power to order corporations to sell land if the majority of shares Are foreign owned or if the company is effectively controlled from outside amendments passed in last Springs legislative session increased fines for violations of the act and tightened certain other but opposition members and lawyers said at the time there Are still considerable Sneath said he is hopeful the Amend ments will prevent some of the abuses of the but said he is sceptical that see loopholes Page 4 Las ditch talks fail at Thompson striking local 6166 was target of picketing yesterday by resses protesting suspension of two coworkers from Union by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson seconds past the stroke of scores of steel workers at Inco metals began their strike by sealing off the main Access Road to the to mine As Well As the smelter and others blocked off Entrance routes to the nearby t3 and Birch tree mine As Well As to the pipe Lake open pit mine about 40 Kilometres South of Thomp the hourly paid employees who voted per cent in favor of the strike monday began their action on schedule despite a Las ditch negotiating Effort last steelworkers were forced yesterday to Swallow some of their own Medicine at the Entrance to the Union pub adjoining the Union head twelve upset beverage room Wai tresses cleared the locked the door and paraded with picket signs to protest their own stalled contract talks with their the steel their walkout was the result of a decision by beverage room manage which includes senior steel to suspend two waitresses for refusing to serve customers in an Inci Dent monday according to an local 6166 president Blake Mcgrath was carried shoulder High into the pub by jubilant steelworkers following the strike but the waitresses lined up behind the refusing to work while Mcgrath was Paddy one of those suspend said the members of Manitoba food and commercial work ers local have been unable to Settle a contract dispute with the steel workers since last we get kind of mad because we make an hour which is less than half of what local 6166 is trying to get for its people from the strike ended last night when Mcgrath lifted the suspensions and said the contract would be dealt with As soon As the steelworkers settled with see length Page 4 school budget overspent Winnipeg school division expects to exceed its 1981 budget by More than pushing total spending past the Mark for the first an administration report made pub Lic yesterday showed spending this year is expected to reach or More than the budgeted for salary settlements with the Winnipeg teachers association and Winnipeg association of nonteaching employees added to the total while higher interest charges Cost Divi Sion an extra the Board underestimated by the Cost of two studies of the divisions administration conducted by Winnipeg lawyer Steward he charged for the two studies while the trustees had budgeted for the see education Page 4 Money Shower tonight fight Between welterweight champions sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns promises to Shower Money on everyone Back for More undaunted by the arrests of More than 500 of their antinuclear protesters Are reinforcing their blockade of a California atomic Power benched two of the top players at the British end of the Canadian constitutional debate have been shuffled out of their places in Cabinet Pope Speaks Pope John Paul ii sides with labor unions and condemns both rigid capitalism and the collectivist system in his most comprehensive statement on social Index Ann 20 39 24 64 25 52 26 8 23 Jumble 7 39 57 sports 19 to 6 1 i ;