Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba A reasons for firings at Boeing unclear by Gregg Shilliday management and unions tradition ally blame each other in bitter strikes such As the one just ended at two Boeing of Canada plants in the but when 99 Many with Young children Are there is no confusion about who the victims Leanne a single Parent with a three Earold was earning about a year As a Semi skilled worker repairing air Craft parts when she was now she says she has applied for welfare to supplement her unemployment insurance i want making much Money be but now i wonder How ill make ends she said i never thought id say but i sure Hope welfare decides to give me some Hnatiuk said she was on welfare briefly when she first had her child and swore at the time shed never go Back to i hated i promised myself id never get Back into the welfare that Why i took this Ive Only got Grade 10 and its hard to get anything worthwhile without an Edu cation Doest blame Union Hnatiuk int sure who to blame for her she joined the but Doest consider herself an so Why were we fired some say it was because we were in the but not All of us others say it was because we lost so much business with the strike and but i dont blame the Union for that because we needed so i just dont the Boeing with an Eye both on the nip election Victory and a fast approaching Christmas without ended their strike they cited the Dps Promise of compulsory first contract legislation As their main reason for returning to but earlier last week 99 members of the United Auto were a management let Ter to them said the recall of a number of work packages from the Winnipeg division to Seattle because of the strike has necessitated a work Force reduction of approximately 100 the letter added that the workers Ken free press dismissed Boeing worker Leanne Hnatiuk and daughter Lindsay May end up on welfare Mair Hatt May be called Back if worker Barbara Mother of four is in much the same position As re fused to join the i voted against it the but i didst Cross picket line so i dont know Why i was she Binns said she was told by a super visor that workers were dismissed if they had a High absenteeism i think Ive missed two Days in the year and a half i worked i dont know what there talking Binns Union lawyer Mel Myers said yesterday he is convinced that the management termination notices Are Ille Gal under the Manitoba labor relations act because management Union negotiations were but Myers say whether the Union plans to Appeal the firings to the labor relations the strike began 19 when 450 workers at the two Winnipeg Boeing plants struck to protest slow negotiations for a first outstanding issues included Union demands for costo living adjustments and an Ini tial pay increase of Between 15 and 20 per the strike became increasingly bit Ter with management busing in non Union daily mass pickets were usually watched closely by a Large contingent of Winnipeg police and several pickets were arrested for attempting to obstruct buses carried the nonunion workers into the Winnipeg free november 1981 3 surviving quadruplets improving steadily three surviving quadruplets born to a Moose Lake Indian Reserve couple last month were on month old Satur Day and improving officials at the health sciences Centre and Boniface Hospital said yesterday All three infants Are eat ing Well and gaining two of the Marie Lorna and Marie Are at Hsc where they Are Are expected to remain incubated for some time As their weight is Only about two the other Marie Jane is at Boniface where she is also Progress ing a spokesman said yesterday she now weighs pounds and is in stable the fourth baby died two weeks ago from complications at the babies parents Are Lorna and lome their quadruplets were born at the Pas health Centre has already Given update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free birth to two sons and a the the first quadruplets born in Manitoba in recent were flown to Winnipeg a few hours after the quads were to have been taken to but it was decided to Send two of them to the Hsc to defray the Burden of caring for All Walesa cancels visit Lech Leader of the polish labor Union will not be visiting Winnipeg this month after it was announced a couple of months ago that Walesa would include Winni Peg As one of his stops during a five tour of a Canadian labor Congress spokes Man said Friday Walesa has been forced to cancel the trip due to the volatile political situation in Alan Amey of the Clos International affairs department said in a Telephone interview from Ottawa that Walesa has his hands full with inter Nal problems Over he said he stills wants to come Here but it Doest seem Likely that hell be Able to get away until next year Queens visit in limbo Queen Elizabeth ii May be com ing to Brandon next last year Brandon City Council asked the Monarch to help celebrate the cites Centenary by issuing an invitation for her to visit the Western Manitoba Brandon was incorporated As a City in a spokeswoman for brand6n mayor Ken Burgess said yesterday the City has yet to receive any word from the Queen or her she said they have now waited a year and a half for a Burgess wrote the Queen on behalf of the City Council and the directors of the Royal Manitoba Winter fair in 1981 asking her to open the which is also celebrating its 100th a reply was expected to take a Long time because protocol demands the mayors letter be sent to the Lieuten an governor who then notifies the governor generals As the Federal government must be consulted before the invitation can be lieutenant governor Pearl Mcgoni Gal said yesterday she was unsure what the Queens response would i know my pre Dessesow Bud Jobin passed their request along to the gov but there has been no response yet and that May still take a Organ says verdict vindicated him victim of excessive police Force wins three year Battle for credibility by Greg Bannister it will be a Long time before i hear a Siren without David Mark Organ said it will be a Long time before i can pick up the phone and Call the police and not think in going to get some idiot at the door whose More inclined to take at me than anything five Days a county court judge gave something hed fought for desperately for More than three years the divinity student was awarded a civil settlement by judge who found that William Bell had used excessive Force when he shot Organ during a scuffle outside the Occidental hotel in it was a credibility Battle All said Organ in a weekend inter View in the fort Rouge apartment he shares with his Story consistent in jubilant Over the fact that he judge Jewers said very clearly in his judgment that what i had to say when i was first interviewed by the police Back in 1978 is consistent what i had to say on the stand almost three years and what i was telling him he believed completely Ive been waiting All this time for someone in the judicial system to come out and say the decision Marks what appears to be the end of a three year period in organs life during which he served two months of a six month jail sentence in 1979 for assaulting Bell and spent More than in Legal it was also a period in which organs Faith in the police and the Justice system was severely i started out three years ago with what i guess is everyone Complete Faith in the system and the he Ive been disappointed by there Are some things that took place that 1 find the thing with getting caught up in a system like this where youre telling the truth and you feel in your heart that youve done right and youre not Able to get it across is that you very much feel a grinding process going you feel you Are being ground under by a system that Doest Organ now clings to judge Jewers decision As a but he sees it far from he has escaped the full punishment he de in my View an officer did something wrong and i think he should have been held zip As More of an example for in his the judge accepted organs description of the scuffle which led to wounds in his Side and organs Karol Franklin Sobkowicz was fatally shot in the head by while the officer was wounded in the stomach and Organ maintained during his trial that he and Sobkowicz did not know Bell and a second Man were police he testified Bell and his part Ner had yelled obscenities at them from a passing car and provoked the scuffle which led to the fatal shoot Organ said he went to the Aid of who was struggling with Bell on the but had stopped fighting and had raised his hands in the air when he was wrongly and intentionally assaulted by the seeking degree hoping now to Complete his masters attain a doctorate in religious studies and then Organ said the civil judgment by judge Jewers is crucial to i can go to people and plunk it Down in front of them and say heres a Man very an impartial who found i was impressive on the stand and everything i said was the i was making an accusation saying youve done something and the judge has said youre right he did do something it helps the people close to me have never that never been an its always and Only been a question of the general Public read and in glad that it comes out publicly at this time and i can finally say with satisfaction that the three years Hast been a total waste Organ insists he no longer feels the bitterness he had toward the system after his conviction on charges of com Mon assault and Possession of a Wear City retailers reaction mixed to free parking by Greg Bannister several downtown merchants have proclaimed saturdays free parking Experiment a Success following what they described As above average Busi Ness but other retailers reported Little difference in consumer com said they handed out As Many parking tickets As one who reported Little difference in suggested one hour want enough for he said he wants the City to give commis Sion Aires a Holiday on the which provides motorists one hour free parking at 409 downtown spaces will run until it was approved by City Council after a deter mined lobbying Campaign by the downtown Winnipeg and is expected to Cost the City Between and in lost i think our Walkin traffic was improved by it free said Blaine manager of Advance television and stereos downtown i would say it had a very Good effect on our business Mcvety said there Are several metered parking spots in front of his store and the free hour of parking was a definite advantage to he said he watched the spots closely All Day to see if cars were staying for the free hour or they were turning Over pretty rap i was worried that they and a car would sit there All but they were moving in and out regular under the free parking meters in the area bounded by main Colony memorial and Ellice and Mary avenues were free for the first hour of Bright Orange stickers had been applied to the meters informing motorists of the parking extra traffic i think its been weve had All kinds of extra traffic said Breslauer of Breslauer and Warren a director on the Board of the merchants agreed sunny weather and the Christmas sea son helped bring shoppers but insisted the free hours parking was the other things helped a but we Are much busier today than we were this time last year several people have told us today How Happy they Are to have the free parking nearby rather than having o walk five or six blocks to the he said increased traffic in his store vindicated the merchants who had claimed easing the parking would stimulate Ted manager of the Portage Avenue metropolitan said Busi Ness picked up around 11 and was Good for the remainder of the Ken free press but while stating he was Iri favor of free downtown Shaw questioned if the hour Tim limit was much of a judging from our sales on this Day last i would say saturday was Normal for this time of i dont know if we had a Good Day because of the free parking or because of the weather and the time of Shaw said he had heard some com plaints from shoppers who misread or misinterpreted information on free parking 1 talked to a couple of commission Aires also who came in for a cup of Coffee they were ticketing a lot of cars out received tickets he said the hours free parking could Hurt business because those who received tickets might be reluctant to return downtown to shop he suggested a longer free parking time period of two or three and pulling the commission Aires off the streets entirely on several commission Aires inter viewed confirmed there had been com plaints from shoppers who misunderstood the parking arrangements and parked longer than an or outside the designated free parking Ida manager of or Entique Bazaar said she did not notice any increase in traffic on Satur but pointed out saturdays were not a Normal Day for her saturdays Are kids Day most of them drive and need a parking we had our regular crowd and our regular flow in classics Book store manager Joanne Newton said she had not noticed a Large increase in volume on boy Dodges Auto inside food store a Young boy narrowly escaped injury last night when a car crashed through a plate Glass window and slammed into shelves at a Corydon Avenue 7eleven food Shirley was working in the store at 781 Corydon at about when she heard a loud i thought it was an she Ostian said she spun around and saw the car come through the window and slam into shelving a Young about 13 years jumped out of the she Ostian said a passenger in the vehicle said the Driver meant to step on the Brake but released the clutch by launching the car a Man who was sweeping Glass from the Hood of a car outside the store said i have nothing to say to absolutely nothing to say to on dangerous to the Public in a bizarre sort of Way i might even be said to be More pro police now in the sense that i am More interested now in seeing they get things like that they have Good that their training is adequate which i dont really think it i think their policy regarding use of deadly Force requires a lot of Clarifina but i dont see that As a negative thing i see it a thing that tends towards making it in not a angry Man but on the other hand i have an enthusiastic interest in seeing things like his lawyer Norm criticized the internal police investigation which cleared Bell of any wrong where a matter is so hotly contested and so clearly an Issue for the judicial the police should have made no attempt at an internal invest he the whole thing should have been left up to a had to fight Organ also expressed disappoint ment and Shock Over what he claimed was a Lack of police cooperation in providing documents for his i had to fight Ever Inch of the Way to get information to conduct my defence during the current Organ said his belief in along with his wife helped him tremendously in the last three theres been Many nights when if it haunt been for my Faith in god i would have gone organs Faith in police and Justice was severely 1 ;