Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 15, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Queen joins inn crowd during snowstorm Tracey Wainman daily London London Queen Elizabeth was among about 100 snowbound travellers who took Refuge in a country inn at the height of the weekend blizzards that struck great she spent seven evidently agreeable hours at the Cross a historic former coach House at old after on metre snowdrifts halted her return by Road to Windsor it was revealed two Fourshee drive vehicles carry ing the Queen and her entourage her personal two two chauffeurs and a lady waiting found roads impassible about six kilo metres after leaving Gatcombe where she had been staying with her Princess after repeated attempts to struggle through the the vehicles backed up for a Short distance and went into the parking lot of the Cross it was about 4 on sunday and inside the 15bedroom where the staff was already hustling in trying to Cope with a sudden influx of stranded the Queens bodyguard quietly asked manager Roberto Cadei to prepare for an unexpected during her unscheduled the Queen was Given afternoon Tea in her room before moving into the private apartment of cadets she made herself comfortable in the dining room while the Kitchen staff prepared Din which was personally served to her by the Cadei preferred yesterday to draw a discreet veil Over precise details of the service the Queen it does appear she was sufficiently impressed by her treatment that de spite the closeness of Gatcombe Park she insisted she would leave the hotel Only for her original Cadei still had another Surprise to after a series of Telephone Calls Princess Anne arrived at the inn about 10 with her were Captain Mark Phillips and former racing Driver Jackie also a weekend guest at Gat by 11 Snow lows had Man aged to Clear roads and the Queen left As quietly As she had Cloudy tonight 22 sunny tomorrow 15 december 1981 free press Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 class mail registration number 0286 polish siting fall far Short of total strike by the associated press Satin strikes were reported in major industries across but the pro tests against the governments crack Down on Solidarity apparently were far Short of the general strike urged by militants in the Independent Trade the polish and soviet government news agencies said major factories in Warsaw area were operating nor but the bbl reported from London that workers at a Warsaw steel Mill were on strike for the second there were also unconfirmed re ports that students occupied a University building in last the soviet news Agency Tass said polish authorities broke up a strike at a steel Mill in Southern and that the provocateurs will be tried under the criminal code in conformity with the martial Law Poland ambassadors in Paris and at the european Security conference in Madrid said Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was negotiating with polish Ouellet unveils foam Aid Capstaff almost a year after urea formaldehyde foam insulation was banned be cause it is a health the Federal government yesterday announced it will compensate several thousand of the estimated families whose Homes Are insulated by the consumer affairs minister Andre Ouellet Ottawa is acting on humanitarian grounds rather than Legal obligation compensation will be provided where the foam produced health problems or formaldehyde Levels exceeding parts per million of a Manitoba homeowners group says the program is a step in the right but Ottawa will have to do More for those who have installed the foam in their want foam removed we want our houses restored the Way they said Glenn mar coordinating chairman of the homeowners with urea formaldehyde foam in he said Ottawa will have to address other problems faced by homeowners with urea formaldehyde foam before february if it is to avoid Legal the group in just like the other groups in Are looking for the removal of their foam insula he everybody that has urea formaldehyde foam in their House has got a problem problem the Federal government put in Ottawa banned the insulation last after federally appointed experts concluded it tends to break Down after installation and releases formaldehyde see one Page 4 authorities near Warsaw and that his influence might ease the indicating the regime wanted him to urge unionists not to go on other Western diplomats in Paris reported Walesa was under House arrest near the polish government later denied the Wlodzimierz chief Delegate to the Europe an Security conference in told reporters Walesa has not been arrest he said he was acting on instructions from his government in War Walesa is not Konarski he is near Warsaw and he participates in negotiations with the danish travellers who left Poland last night said although the polish government has deployed soldiers and Armor across the country it was Send ing Large convoys of food to Charity groups in the Netherlands said the polish martial Law government also was allowing Christmas parcels into the communications Cut travellers coming from Poland to West Germany say authorities have asked foreigners working there to leave the country because their safety cannot be said bavarian Border the reports today could not be con firmed in communications have been Cut and its Borders closed to most people during the state of Emer gency declared by the in Washington the government announced suspension of new food Aid to the action might turn into permanent diplomatic and economic sanctions by the United states and its allies if Poland decides to crush the Solidarity labor Canada is unlikely to follow the and Cut off food Aid to Federal agriculture minister Eugene Whelan said in in foreign ministers of the european economic Community urged polish authorities to solve the crisis without the use of and said All including the soviet should refrain from any interfere strikes reported Solidarity and other sources reported strikes yesterday in the silesian Coal steel Mills in Katowice and Krakow the big Lenin shipyards in where the Union was born in the strike wave of 1980 most factories in Poznan and the big Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw and other factories in the the military Council Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski named when he declared martial Law sunday tried to Check the protests by putting the steel and Coal industries and other factories under military this made strikers in them liable to prison terms or even the death police and soldiers surrounded Sev eral of the strike bound including steel Mills in Warsaw and witnesses Warsaw in a broadcast monitored in West Ger said there were Between 20 and 50 arrests of irresponsible Solidarity extremists at the big Huta steel Mill in see general Page 4 members of local 6166 celebrate end of three month strike at Inco metals by burning log shelters Oit picket Inco workers approve pact vote 79 per cent in favor miners Back on Job pickets Burn shelters by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson underground work ers return to work for the first time in three months today As a result of a 79 per cent vote in favor of ratifying a new three year wage and Benefit agreement with Inco metals a sense1 of Relief and eagerness to get Back to work was demonstrated yesterday when pickets burned log Cabins they built for shelter during the three month the burning took place hours before the final count was the supervised by Manitoba labor department showed 977 in favor of the 245 against and 20 ballots seventy nine per cent of the miners voted on the con Many steelworkers were still smart ing from what they called so Little gain after three months of after the results were Steelworker Bill Ward criticized those who supported the agreement saying you cant just Back out in the Middle of a we could have gotten More if wed Hung Gordon a 21year Veteran Steelworker and Inco employee in said its a Good agree but each one of us has paid High Price for it on the picket a Steelworker threw a United Steelworker of Ameri local sign into a burning log commenting that All i think of the this thing has Cost me in others said their lost pay amounted to from to and they had also cleaned out savings local 6166 president Blake Mcgrath said it was a Good contract considering the state of the country and the Indus some will be some but Many will be glad to get Back to it is definitely the Best con tract we could get and i would say it is the Best in North he noted that according to the unions the value of the agreement in terms of benefits and costo living allowance was an compared with an hour in the offer which was turned Down when the strike began by the end of the third year of the the annual average salary and benefits package of some of the workers in the Middle income Job classifications will Rise to those same workers now Are paid about a incas employee relations manager Terry Lineker said he was pleased with the results of the he said one Benefit of the strike was that Many employees had travelled around the country looking for he said that As they compared conditions else they would put a much higher value on our style of life in Thompson and on being part of he said the new agreement was a reconstruction of the original septem Ber he said that because of the Long duration of the some cola payments were not we were Able to turn that around in a Way that met the needs of our people As requested during Lineker said the underground work ers would be asked to report for the afternoon shift today and that the entire work Force would be Back on the Job by employees Are Given 30 Days Grace in returning to mayor Don Maclean said the Settle ment of the strike is the greatest possible Christmas gift for Thomp he said the town had pulled together during the three month Long realtor Stella locker said the news was but she Felt it would take some time before the local econ omy showed signs of picking people will be Back to but it will still be quite awhile before they will have Money enough to make any thing other than pretty essential Pur she la Steve Ashton a member of local 6166 and still technically on said he was pleased with the Clear vote in favor of the in also pleased to have played some part in the the Day labor minister Vic Schroeder was appointed i got in touch with him about the four Days later top Inco and steelworkers officials met with Schroeder and started things Northern Manitoba mining firm expects to Lay off More than 400 Lynn Lake staff on third of the More than Sherritt Gordon mines employees Here and at Leaf rapids May soon receive Layoff no Gary general manager of the company Northern Manitoba of said yesterday a decision on the layoffs is expected to be made by the Sherritt Gordon directors in Toron to within the next 10 layoffs would not become effective before the new the company said the cutbacks Are necessary because of the depressed Copper in the third Quarter this Sherritt lost More than Sherritt directors turned Down an operating budget for the Fox mine West of Here and the Ruttan mine near Leaf rapids which was proposed by Manitoba the directors recommended major cuts and sent the Manitoba officials Back to the drawing Hughes said the on third Cut was proposed in the new budget which still has to be approved by the Hughes provided the information to Les president of United steelworkers of America local 5757 representing 332 Fox mine hourly rated employees and to Jasper Robin president of local represent ing the 491 Ruttan mine during a Union membership meetings Are to be held at Leaf rapids today and at Lynn Lake Hughes said the cutbacks would apply to both hourly rated and salary the number of hourly rated employees Laid off would be larger because there Are More of Hughes is to meet with provincial government officials in Winnipeg thursday to discuss the dire warning provincial finance ministers Are warning finance minister Allan Maceachen Federal policies Are savaging the perfect 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