Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 13, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon takes a swipe at the press calling it biased in favor of the Klup Howard Paw Ley says the conservatives have neglected the social needs of Manitoban with their mean natured and ineffective approach to social services and three candidates of 70 invited debate the Alcan Issue at a Public forum at the University of 14 election u81 dismiss rights officer urges by Cecil Rosner complaints from 23 Metis and Indian workers alleging racial discrimination by Canadian National railways should be the acting regional director of the Canadian human rights commission in Winnipeg has recon in a letter to a car employee relations David Hosking said a final decision on the complaints will be made at a rights commission meeting in Ottawa but he said his office has investigated the matter and recommends the complaints be in 28 Metis and Indian workers walked off their jobs on a car work gang repairing track in ochre near they complained work ing conditions were bad and said they were being discriminated against by the work gang the workers said they were called pigs and dogs by the gang Foreman and subjected to threats and they also complained washrooms were inadequate and dirty and drinking water was unsuitable on the work train where they lived for 15day stretches at a Hosking refused yesterday to release any details of his investigation or say Why he is recommending dismissal of the he said the Ottawa commissioners can accept the recommendation and drop the Case or dispose of the matter in a number of other including a tribunal into the Ferdinand Vic president of the Manitoba Metis federation for the Dauphin said yesterday he would wait for a final decision on the complaints before he said Mejiad not been notified of Hoskings earlier this the Federal labor department asked the car to Correct problems of overcrowding and other health and safety violations on the work Twenty three who were arrested and charged with railway act Are due to appear in court in january and the protests were called off after the car agreed to rehire All the workers for seasonal a final 250 with supplements Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 Cloudy tonight 4 Cloudy tomorrow 10 second Glass registration number 0288 november 1981 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets some mortgage Aid Fira under review defence spending up few find Joy in tinkering budget at 4hfl by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa finance minister Allan Maceachen has reduced taxes or avoided an increase for the vast majority of raised them for the nations wealthiest and made other tax changes which will one Way or another affect almost every Canadian who earns in his budget tabled last night in the Maceachen highlights d general reduction in tax rates resulting in lower taxes for 12 million canadians d limited assistance for homeowners with mortgage renewals requiring payments of More than 30 per cent of total Gross family d reduction in unemployment insurance premiums d plugging of tax loopholes which will result in higher taxes for the wealthiest d elimination of tax deduction on interest for borrowed to buy d implementation of an interest rebate scheme for Farmers which will result in farm credit corporation Loans of per d preferential treatment for Small businesses carrying heavy debt As result of High interest d reduction of billion in Federal Transfer payments to the d Grants of per rental unit to encourage construction of More rental housing across the d Federal tax credit doubled to for Low income d income tax indexing increasing personal d child tax credit increased to per child from budget option Little help for also served notice that the provinces can expect billion Lessen Transfer red tax Money from Ottawa while those worst hit by High interest rates homeowners and Small businessmen will get a limited Aid pro apartment dwellers also get a mar Ginal theres a new plan in the budget to ease the passed on effects of High interest rates in regions where vacancy rates Are the budget projects the government will get in revenues in resulting in a deficit of Down from the current billion opposition spokesmen warned yesterday that the budget does nothing for the average Canadian and will push the country into a new democratic party Leader de Broadbent said the liberals have canadians Zed refer ring to the United states policy of allowing interest rates to soar in the belief they will Knock the wind out of Enow have Clark Calls it Shell game opposition Leader Joe Clark called it a Shell game budget because it offers Only slight Relief for the average person struggling with financial former progressive conservative finance minister John whose budget two years ago led to the defeat of Clarks Maceachen was just tinkering with the and labelled the document Maceachen Turkey Trot one step Steps paraphrasing critics of his own Bud get and lampooning Liberal promises to help those in dire Crosbie said Maceachen had prescribed Short term pain for Lon term dire Fer most from a bigger Federal tax bite on fringe removal of interest deductions on Money borrowed buy registered retirement savings plans higher tax on personal service corporations and a Host of similar moves designed to earn the government extra billion in fiscal 198283 the period covered by the new figures which show How the average Canadian is affected Are slightly mis leading because they compare what a taxpayer will pay under the new Bud get to what he would have paid under the old one if indexing was also re but the finance department estimates 12 million taxpayers will pay an average less this of million Are people who earn less than a about taxpayers will see their Federal tax according to a departmental estimate of the combined effect of All tax see spending Page 4 up photo while finance minister Maceachen Drew applause from his reaction elsewhere was generally negative Canadian space Arm flexed businessmen weigh pluses and minuses by Chris Smith Federal finance minister Allan Mac Eachen stuck both hands in taxpayers pockets last local businessmen and tax experts with one he put Money into taxpayers pockets through reduced tax rates with the other he took it Back with new taxes on employee Perks and they the budget received mixed reviews Here last night As business spokesmen and tax experts tried to sort out the mass of but they All agreed that it adds a number of items to the taxable offsetting benefits from a reduction in marginal tax plans to Aid Farmers and Small businesses facing devastation because of High interest rates were hailed by local business but at the same time they were concerned the plans would not help enough saying the budget referred generally to those in financial distress without any see Winnipeg Page 4 Cape a columbian working aloft on a Day today flexed the space shuttles remarkable Cana Dian developed space Arm today for the first time successfully completing a test essential to future shuttle missions and the Success of this the ships return to Earth could come As soon As As late As a fuel cell failure threatened to shorten the but the ship and its Crew were soaring smoothly and safely 252 Kilometres above whatever the length of their mis astronauts Joe Engle and Richard truly were intent on completing a Busy flight plan jammed with looking said truly after the first exercise of the 16metre Canadia built or the movement is much smoother than it was in the Sims theres no Jerky ment Engle was asked to take photo graphs of thunderstorms Over Australia As part of a second expert he said As he went about the As flight officials huddled to weigh the risks and rewards of a longer Engle and truly tested and stowed columbian developed for shuttles to deploy and maintain i with Columbia making its 15th flight director Don Puddy said a Deci Sion would come in the afternoon on whether to schedule a weekend land the flight was plotted for 84 orbits but astronauts prepared to implement their minimum flight calling for completion of Hig Priori to duties in time to land in California tomorrow after 36 revolutions and 54 see astronauts Page 4 promised witness by Steve Pona a Crown witness testified yester Day he stands to collect in Reward Money if the owner of a West Kildonan Bowling Alley is convicted of setting fire to his Daniel skor Bohach told a court of Queens Bench jury that an insurance company has promised to pay him if he Sticks to his Story implicating the Wain Anthony win and John Donald he said he has been guaranteed another if the jury convicts win owner of the gutted skor Bohach testified he made the Deal with the insurance company last july with the help of his but he told the two woman jury see Page 4 United Way with five Days left in its 1981 the United Way has reached 79 of its goal of new jobs Northern telecoms Canada is planning a expansion in Winnipeg that could create As Many As 400 new naughty boy budget director David st9ckman made a visit to the woodshed yesterday with a very chagrined president Ronald nuclear fear Lac Dubonnet residents say a provincial government decision has paved the Way for the use of radioactive materials in their rated use Quebec legislature video equipment May have been used to make porno Index Ann 20 33 Bridge 19 7 47 21 29 6 8 Jumble 24 33 49 sports 58 17 to 18 i i ;