Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 16, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Leaf rapids assessing Cost of mine layoffs by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Leaf rapids the reality of what the pending layoffs at the Sherritt Gordon mines operation could Cost this Community is becoming Clear to garage and service station operator Tom Vanwalleghen said its Clear that if they Cut the Ruttan mine work Force by a third it will mean my business will be Cut by a Vanwalleghen noted that As Well As the Sherritt staff about another 100 men working for several construction companies doing development work at the mine site Are already being transferred at two United steelworkers of local membership meetings the 491 hourly paid workers at Ruttan were told their numbers would be reduced by 189 if the budget proposed by Sherritta Manitoba management is accepted by the company Toronto Board of the proposed budget would Cut the Fox mine hourly paid employees to 196 from 273 and the salaried staff to 64 from at Lynn Lake the hourly group would drop to 27 from 59 and the salaried to 60 from there would also be a Cut in the Ruttan mine salaried local 8144 president Jasper Robin son said after the meetings morale is very the Guys just dont know whether to spend on Christmas for their kids or put Money away for a Rainy Day which could be just around the Mobile Crane operator Felix who has worked at the Ruttan mine for 10 years and was one of the first Sherritt settlers at Leaf rapids said the layoffs were a big for years we thought talk of big layoffs were just his longtime Workmate de Marion Felt signs that the Layoff was coming were easy to see with the Low Copper prices and the size of the Sherritt Gordon losses in their third Quarter see miners Page 4 where poverty come face to Clear tonight 30 sunny tomorrow 17 december 1981 Sun risks Roo a m Rota 49r n m whom Dimao 1 Akk m final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Rescue workers Rush injured woman from ruins of the iraqi embassy in Beirut where As Many As 20 persons were killed and dozens injured in a bombing authorities Are not embassy demolished certain who is responsible but one report said a terrorist in an explosive packed car sped through a Hail of machine gun fire into the building before detonating the finance meeting inconclusive talks end on amicable note but Only decision is to continue talking by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Toronto Federal and provincial finance ministers yesterday ended two Days of talks in an unusually amicable but they have made no deals on How to save Canadas deteriorating Economy or on How to Settle serious disputes Over Federal Transfer pay ments to the provinces slated for the at Issue for the National Economy is whether Ottawa following the right course in keeping Money Supply tight and allowing interest rates to be High As part of a general fight against some provincial ministers suggest Ottawa could loosen the Money hold interest rates Cre ate jobs and allow the Dollar to making exports More attractive and producing yet More at Issue on Transfer payments is a new formula for Federal provincial equalization and a dispute Over whether Federal payments to the provinces for hospitals and pos second Ary education can be the ministers have decided to continue talks at a january would be preceded by a meeting of officials and will be Fol Lowed by a meeting on the Economy Between the prime minister and the premiers in Manitoba finance minister Vic Schroeder said last night he was Gen israeli army units prepare for possible syrian attack Golan Heights a reinforced israeli army units backed by tanks dug in today against a Possi ble syrian attack on the newly annexed Golan where Arab residents began a three Day protest shops and schools in the main Masadeh and Majdali were closed and local Arab leaders said workers employed in Israel stayed we Are making this strike to let the israeli government and the world know we Are against this said Suleiman Kanj Abu a Majdali Shams we Are syrian arabs and we will continue to be syrian israeli police turned out in strength around one but no apparent Effort was made to break the strike some Golan who support Isra were said to have been against the in a labourer who asked not to be identified said Only 30 per cent of the areas arabs favor the its just the Rich people who wanted he Israel is not so saying it was taking All Neces sary Steps to counter any apparently moved Large amounts of Mili tary hardware northward yesterday afternoon and last defence minister Ariel Sharon toured military bases on the plateau overlooking Northern Galilee yester the military chief of Raphael Cut Short a visit to Cairo and flew Home in Case Syria retaliated for the abrupt annexation monday of the territory Israel Cap tured in the 1967 Ara israeli there was no report of syrian troop movements or other Mili tary preparations to support the talk of War in official syrian statements and see Israel Page 4 really pleased with the outcome of the today he said he is convinced that Manitoba will lose much less than the million Cut in Federal Transfer pay ments provided for in in the 12 and he said Maceachen seems con Vinced that a safety net proposal by Manitoba on equalization could be use the present formula for equalization has broken Down and in any Case runs out in Federal and provincial ministers meeting Here were unable to agree on a new in part because changes which would improve the situation for one province would harm Schroeder Manitoba proposed a safety net which would ensure that if if a province lost out unduly under a new it would would be compensated to a level of about 95 per cent of what it would have received under the old equalization equalization is a system of balancing the Rich provinces against the poor so that All can provide canadians with about the same level of government the principle is enshrined in the new but just How much the Rich should pay and on what basis the poor should get it was one subject of the Quebec and Manitoba in that order see Schroeder Page 4 riot troops raid polish factories from the news services martial Law troops ousted protesting workers from factories and arrested strike reports from Poland said the strikes and govern ment actions paralysed much of to lands heavy the reports the soviet Union blamed the West for whipping up violence in its Warsaw pact imperialistic circles were sup porting and instigating to violence counterrevolutionary elements in Czechoslovakia and most recently in the soviet news the world soviet troops crushed a revolution in Hungary in 1956 and the Reform move ment in Czechoslovakia in there were but no that soviet transport planes landed in War saw soviet bloc news which issued statements of support for imposition of martial continued to report labor unrest in in a report from said Security forces resolutely Cut Short the attempts of extremists from the Solidarity organization to provoke conflicts at enterprises in diplomatic sources in West said there were indications that polish troops used tear rout workers from the Ursus tractor factory and other the who asked not to be said the reports also indicated troops May have fired shots in the air but there was no sign that they shot at the government also appeared to be wooing the intimidated population with sudden deliveries of stores of food and consumer goods in quantities unseen for this did not eliminate Long lines at but it at least promised some Reward in the the Huta Warszawa steel the largest factory in Warsaw and a Solidarity was stormed by riot police and soldiers shortly after Midnight they hauled away about 20 Union in the about 100 family members and onlookers gathered in the Snow near the front talking about the they clustered around a tall Man in a fur Cap who had been inside the Mill since two Oclock the previous Day and who told How the workers morale had gradually How they became and then scared when they Learned that cars and soldiers with automatic weapons were surrounding it was quiet for a Long he we were All in different build then we began to get information from people at the Gate that the troops were going to attack us one group wanted to do everything to but there were also people with Small children at Home who were see silent Page 4 the spirit of Christmas our sport departments spirit of Christmas fund has another big Day to report and the sigh of Relief in the background belongs to Byrde executive director of the Christmas cheer our grand total is nearly 62 envoy stranded in Ottawa up the government has no immediate plans to impose economic sanctions on Al though Ottawa has expressed its con Cern and disapproval Over the imposition of martial Law in that external affairs minister Mark Macguigan said Macguigan told the commons he had already met the polish ambassador to Canada and planned to talk to him again to make Strong representations for the restoration of communications the Canadian ambassador to to stranded in Paris As a result of the imposition of martial Law in that country said yesterday canadians believed to be there Are in no immediate John ambassador in Warsaw since last said he is still in limited Contact with his embassy de spite the severing of All telex and Cable liberties suspended Eraser was attending a meeting of Canadian diplomats in Paris during the weekend when Wojciech Jaru the polish declared martial Law and suspended Union and civil Canadian diplomats Here Are looking at various ways to allow him to return to Poland As soon As Proba Bly within the next or three he none of the canadians in including a number of retired polish canadians who have gone Back to their native country to Are in any physical he its a delicate with the dangers one can Fraser but there is no need to at least not under the present Cir not purporting to predict How things might there Are about 40 people in the embassy Community in among the 200 other canadians in the country Are students studying at Vari Ous universities and a group working on a project for Pratt and Whitney see Canada Page 4 third worldly Javier Perez de Cuellar of who declares himself a partisan of the developing has been confirmed As the next in Secretary general Homework Edward Schreyer has announced the setting up of the first governor generals Canadian study Elba res fifty years ago this Alfred Butts invented scrabble the spelling game that outsells even morale falling a Federal report says degenerating morale in Canadas foreign service has driven almost half the employees to contemplate Index Ann 29 43 29 30 72 6 8 Jumble 40 40 7 61 sports to i ;