Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba No beards Rule faces new test Canada Safeway no beards policy is facing yet this the Issue which has Al ready been dealt with by a provincial labor arbitration the Manitoba court of Queens court of a peal and the supreme court of Canada will be scrutinized by the Manitoba human rights the commission ruled it has Jurisi cation to hear a discrimination claim against Canada Safeway filed by the Manitoba food and commercial workers local the eventual decision of the supreme court ruled in favor of How the Union Felt the supreme court had ruled on the technical appropriateness of the Case and not on its issues and left room for a further Appeal to another body such As the Winnipeg free september 1981 it commission divided the unions complaint was filed ear Lier this after two members of the Donald Champman and Dennis encountered difficulties with Safeway Over the food chains no beards commission chairman Sig Enns said the decision to hear the claim was not a unanimous one and several members of the commission argued the Beard Issue Doest fall into one of the areas protected under provincial human rights he said the commission decided to hear the complaint after a meeting Enns said the Issue of beards in the workplace does not easily fit protected areas such As religion and National origin where employers Are prohibited from discriminating against employees or potential Ontario is believed to be the Only other province to have dealt with a similar complaints there were upheld on religious a commis Sion spokesman Enns said the commission will at tempt to resolve the Issue through he that Given the lengthy Legal history of the dispute it was unlikely the matter could be resolved through t Bubble burst it looked like a banana opened up when an Bubble ripped in High winds saturday and settled on some 40 cars at Park Pontiac Buick Gumc on Regent the Vic president of the Auto Dealership Ron Dveris estimates repairs to the deflated Bubble May run to exl Abor Board chief has troubles conciliator named to end strike at Plant Par owned by former chairman by Greg Bannister the department of labor has appointed a conciliator to resolve a three week old strike at a Souris cheese fac tory owned in part by a former chair Man of the Manitoba labor City lawyer Murdoch who was chairman of the provinces labor Board from 197173 and again for a oneyear term in is one of the owners of Superior cheese Canada who ran unsuccessfully for the nip several times in the has been nominated to run for the Progress Ive party in the next provincial election in Wolseley the 20 cheese Plant Mem Bers of the United food and Commer Cial workers have been on strike and picketing the Plant since said Union president Ber Nard he said several Union members have crossed the picket lines and returned to the issues outstanding after negotiations include wages and but Christophe said the key Issue is Union must join Union Mackay said the company is insist ing on the right of new employees to stay out of the Union if they its an antiunion said Chris the Union wishes to maintain the status quo at the Plant where any new employee must join the Union and pay Union the company has said it will collect dues for the Union from nonunion pm Christophe said the Union is unimpressed by this offer because Manitoba labor Law demands the com Pany do that where a Union has been certified As a bargaining agent for the majority of Mackay said he and the other owners of the Plant agreed to a Union shop in the first contract signed by the Compa but have had second thoughts we dont want to compel people to join an organization they might not want to join if they unions Are so beneficial they should have no trouble convincing people to he said the strike could be easily settled if the Union would come to terms on the Security Christophe also commented that the two sides Are not far apart on the Issue of the Cohen named Ottawa editor of free press Joan Cohen joins the Winnipeg free press today As Ottawa her first an analysis of the supreme courts Constitution appears on the focus Cohen is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and studied economics and administrative Law at the Mcgill school of business administration and the University of from 1958 to she covered the provincial legislature and City Hall for the free press before joining the weekly farm the family in As editor of the current events she worked for the Ottawa citizen from 1965 to 1974 As a reporter and editorial writer for the past seven has worked in the parliamentary press gallery As a freelance Cohen replaces Peter Thomson who returns to Winnipeg to take a Post with the Canadian wheat company has offered a wages and benefits package Worth about an percent increase while the Union is looking for a 24percent the Union has proposed a two year con were Only 31 cents that not that it could be said the two sides also disagree on the Issue of Christophe said the Union wants the company to agree to a plan totally supported by but controlled by the the company has at this pro Cohen new Ottawa editor bookkeeper fined told to repay stolen she pleaded guilty in july to two Crown counsel Bruce Mellon said of t via it c9hh Tia to Huitao Tuch Kir a film on i by Pamela Fayerman a bookkeeper who stole up to from her employer More than seven years ago was ordered yesterday to repay the sum she pay a Fine and do 250 hours of Community service in sentencing Josefine provincial court judge Ian Ubienski expressed concern that the ramp took so Long to locate the who fled Winnipeg in 1974 after her offences were detected by her Cen trial Auto parts and Central truck and trailer sales court was told Stahlmann committed the offences Between and police didst locate her until March when the nation wide outstanding since was was eventually found in she pleaded guilty in july to two counts of theft Over an ramp officer did not elaborate on problems faced by commercial crime unit investigators in locating except to say that she was not listed in any Telephone Ottawa police found Stahlmann while conducting an unrelated fraud investigation in which she was a an exemplary life judge Ubienski said that in the seven years since the offences were Stahlman has reestablished herself in been employed continually by companies which think highly of her and has displayed remorse Over the How much punishment can you inflict on a person i cant avoid consid ering the fact she has lived an exem Plary life in the past seven he Crown counsel Bruce Mellon said the thefts were detected by a firm audit ing the companies the auditors discovered that Stahlmann would rec Ord customers payments properly on their but would not record the full Deposit in the companies she pocketed the which she used to cover losses in her own International gifts in Osborne the gift shop was placed in receivership to pay off her creditors and cover defence counsel Michael Tracy said Stahlmann financial woes in her own business caused so much pressure that she succumbed to the temptations at her bookkeeping he said she is eager to pay everyone so she can get on with her life in and that is Why she allowed her car and All her personal in addition to her business to be converted into postal because the pension would not be portable and the Union would retain the funds if the employee leaves the com Pany and the said he said the company will have difficulty attracting employees if it adopts a pension plan that is not Porta the Union claims production at the Plant has dropped off by almost 50 per cent since the Start of the said production usually drops off As Winter were not missing any orders were doing All that we would expect to do this time of soviets to accept cup copy by Brian Cole the final bit of spit and polish is being applied to a tured copy of the Canada the nearly two weeks in the was Nickel plated this morning and is now ready to be presented to a delegation from the soviet Union in a ceremony at Portage Avenue and main Street on George the Man whose idea it was to present the soviet hockey team with a duplicate sent a telex to soviet officials in Ottawa yesterday informing them the Canada cup facsimile is ready for they have assured me someone will be Here to pick it he said following a Telephone conversation with soviet officials details of the including the time and the names of the wont be known until All the arrangements have been made later this the duplicate is a near perfect copy of the original which stands about 76 centimetres High and weighs about owner of George Smith transportation of said he Hopes the presentation will make up for can Ada cup organizer Alan Eagle sons decision to prevent the team from taking the official trophy Home follow ing their 81 Victory Over team Canada earlier this the soviets attempted to take the Canada cup but Eagleson inter saying it belonged to the people of Canada and would be placed on display at the governor generals Resi Dence at Rideau Eagleson later said he would loan the soviets the trophy if they put in an official the soviets Haven asked to borrow the while Smith came up with the i pfc its earnings reach record million Manitoba Telephone system earned a record profit of million in marking the second straight year of record net the Utility annual report for the year ending March 31 shows total operating revenues jumped to Mil lion from about million in a the revenues have risen nearly 70 per cent Cerit since Utility general manager Gordon hol land said in his report that Long Dis Tance services contributed substantially to the increased they make up about 60 per cent of the Telephone company on an average Manitoban make Long distance com pared with More than million local Holland said the improved position of the Canadian Dollar during 198081 also helped the which paid out More than million to service its debt earlier this Holland told the Legislatures Public utilities committee that rate increases for residential and business users in Winnipeg june of last year and in Brandon last Decem Ber were big factors in the improved the rate increases came into effect automatically after an extensive its advertising Campaign promoting the use of Extension the Campaign helped boost the number of phones in Winnipeg to bringing the City into a new and higher rate residential rates Rose 12 per while the charge for business phones jumped 22 per in several other including areas where Bell Canada Extension phones Arent counted when As Sessing the total number of phones in a rate group but the provincial Public utilities Board allowed the Telephone system to include extensions in its the annual report says million of the increase in local service revenues is directly attributable to the placement of Winnipeg and Brandon in higher rating Holland said the company spent million on its Rural service improve ment As a about customers benefited through reduction in the number of customers on party lines and through introduction of sin Cleparty service to several commune at the end of the fiscal the Utility had telephones across the the company employs people who were paid million in wages last the annual report says More than Kilometres of buried wire and Cable were added during the year As part of an capital expenditure the Utility expects Capi Tal expenditures will exceed million next Bunn gets life term in murders Justice Ben Hewak of Manitoba court of Queens Bench yesterday sentenced Dennis Clifford Bunn to life imprisonment with no parole eligibility for 15 years for what he called the brutal murder of two is the first person to be convicted of double murder in Winni Peg since court was he was convicted by a fireman jury Friday in the stabbing and strangling deaths of Ida and Phyllis whose bodies were found in a Pritchard ave nue House judge Hewak said the murders had no apparent motive and that Bunn had threatened to add his own Mother to his list of he said the accused has a propensity for which can be easily Lorna Bunn testified her son told two months after the murder charges were dismissed for want of evidence at a preliminary that he had killed two women and she would be the third if she didst shut after the dismissal attorney general Gerry Mercier granted the Crown a direct indictment and the charges were put before a judge Hewak said he believes Bunn is a dangerous Man and should spend at least 15 years behind second degree murder is punishable by a mandatory sentence of life Imp is with no parole eligibility for 10 Jim free press George Smith with locally sponsored copy of Canada he says the duplicate Canada cup be Longs to about people who Contri buted about to pay for the estimated to be Worth about it Hast been its the there the Canada some people have been very he adding that he is still receiving letters and he quoted one letter from Minnie of who wrote than you for saving the Honor of the Canadian people who believe in fair the trophy was cast out of a High Nicke Alloy engine Block at heritage foundry in it was then machined at Wesley Industrial machine shop 1108 Wall and Nickel plated at Galaxy 29 Keith ;