Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1982 3 pole ends hunger strike As Ottawa agrees to allow visit by relatives by Tom Goldstein polish immigrant Andrzej Andy Rydzak munched a Sandwich at lunch his first food since he ended a 4y2day hunger strike to or test the Canadian governments apparent refusal to Issue visitors permits to his Mother and abandoned his fast after immigration department officials told him they would Send the necessary lawyer no court told by Kevin Prokosh former lawyer Jack Bass May have been inept and Sloppy in his dealings with his but he is not a criminal who cheated investors out of their an Assize court jury was told Jay Prober opened the Case for the defence yesterday and during his address to the jury said Bass acted honestly on behalf of his clients when he accepted More than from them to invest in apartment build he May have been disorganized incompetent negligent Sloppy As the court has perhaps a very bad business but not a not Dishon said Bass and two of his dal Las enterprises and Omar hold Ings Are charged with a total of 32 counts of theft and criminal breach of the Crown has alleged the defendant misappropriated from 14 clients Between 1977 and the accused has pleaded not guilty to All during the seventh Day of the trial the final witnesses for the Crown described yesterday the chaotic Man Ner in which the accused Carlton Street Law office was totally disorganized Mary a lawyer who worked with Bass for More than two said the place was totally disorganized mostly due to he never knew where anything she said Money for general Upkeep of the office was hard to come by and the firm continuously received termination notices from utilities for nonpayment of Beehler said that to obtain Money for the Bass would search through his clients Ledger cards to see who owed him then he would trans Fer Money in their accounts to his general she said Bass never used his clients Trust account Money for his own Beehler said she left Bass because she was doing most of the work in the he was in these syndication and i get him she testified that was an honest Man and not a he thought he was involving his clients in Good Beehler testified Bass has lost every thing and has been living with his parents who could also lose everything because they consigned for the accused on Many Grant a business associate of the said Bass admitted to him he was having trouble administer ing his on one occasion he said he found the lawyers work so Sloppy he confronted him with the evidence in the court of Queens Bench trial is being heard by 11 jurors after Justice Hamilton excused one jury member who told the court he knew some of the paperwork to Warsaw to allow the women to visit when the visit will take place re Mains Uncertain because it is up to the polish government to decide when the women will be issued exit Rydzak said he Hopes it will take place next Spring or he added he will not blame Canada if the polish government refuses to allow the women to a landed immigrant who has lived in Canada and Winnipeg for More than four Rydzak began his hunger strike thursday in an attempt to Sway Federal officials to allow his Mother and Mother inlaw to come to Canada to the trip would Coin cide with the baptism of his aged eight the government was reluctant to Issue entry visas because it wants to give priority to poles who wish to immigrate to rather than just John special assistant to immigration minister Lloyd said the minister decided to intervene because of the publicity surrounding Rydzak hunger Conlan said immigration depart ment officials in Poland Are still issuing visitors but Only to imme Diate family Over age of Canadian James free press Morgentaler will cite medical necessity if he is prosecuted for performing abortionist says hell risk prosecution in Manitoba by Larry Hill Henry who has been and three times within the last decade for performing illegal abortions in que has vowed to risk further prose cution and open a Winnipeg abortion let the chips fall they the Montreal doctor told a press conference yesterday after meeting attorney general Roland during his own press Penner said he would not Issue a stay of prosecution if Morgentaler is charged under the criminal code of Penner said he wont Rush out onto the Steps of the legislature and scream prosecute but no doubt someone would complain about a Morgentaler clinic in Winni from that the Crown May choose to press he Federal nip policy Calls for easing the Stringency of abortion under a 1971 a Federal nip government would Pardon All qualified doctors convicted under sections of the criminal code dealing with i fully believe in free Choice but an attorney generals personal Posi Tion or the position of his party cant enter into the decision of whether to stay said criminal code Section 251 of the criminal states abortions can be performed Only with the consent of a therapeutic abortion committee in an accredited consent hinges on the committees belief the continuation of the pregnancy would or would be Likely to endanger life or health of the woman opened a private Montreal abortion clinic under his name in along with he is eyeing Saskatoon and Cal Gary As Homes for other in not challenging the Morgentaler in just going to use the Legal precedent that has been Ive been acquitted three times by a jury whose main concern was for the life and Liberty of women in he Morgentaler said if he faces new criminal his defence will Point to the medical necessity of the proposed City three hospitals in the City offer therapeutic but Only for women in their first trimester the first 12 weeks of Morgentaler said 20 per cent of his patients Are into their second Trimes using a vacuum suction proce Dure that takes about 15 minutes and costs patients up to Morgen Taler perform abortions on women As much As 15 weeks women in their second trimester and others who simply cannot get abortions in cities like end up going to some he he said Manitoba women go to the for abortions each about 500 letters protesting Morgentaler proposed clinic have been arriving daily for Penner and pre Mier Howard said Paw Leys Media Balkan negotiating for new pm Dealership by Paul Moloney Terry Balkan has begun talks with general motors of Canada at reentering the car business on the main Street site of his bankrupt Chevrolet Oldsmobile pm zone confirmed yesterday discussions have taken but said no decision had been made to reappoint whose previous business was forced into bankruptcy there is no commitment that we would do it or we do Brown he added the onus is on Balkan to satisfy general motors that the bankruptcy has been satisfactorily concluded before discussions could enter a serious Balkan could not be reached for com his Doug said yesterday he has not been brought into any negotiations with pm or the land Barry who has an inter est in a company which owns the property at 180 main said bal Kan has approached him about moving Back but no firm arrangements have been Balkan owes More than in Back rent and Shenkarow would not say whether All or part of this debt must be paid off before a new lease could be Terry asked if he was thinking of moving Back How would i i said to make me a proposal and ill look at said who is also president of the Winnipeg the former one of Mani Tobas was placed in receiver ship 16 after the Canadian Impe rial Bank of Commerce called in an operating the Bank forced the company into bankruptcy bankruptcy trustee Leigh Taylor said recently that liquidation of assets will Only partially repay the the 160 smaller creditors and 95 employees will recover nothing from the Commerce is expected to receive about less than the million it is owed the Continental owed about will suffer a loss of about Balkan is disputing a Manitoba labor department order that he Perso Nally pay in Back wages owed to his former the matter is to be heard by the labor Board the employees Are to be paid from a special government the wages would be paid by the government if the Money could not be recovered from because Rydzak is still a landed immigrant and the women involved Are both under he does not meet that Conlan Axworthy decided to intervene because Rydzak had been in Canada Long enough to qualify for Rydzak said he plans to apply for his citizenship papers once his also meets the three year residency she has been Here for about two health officials salaries examined management pay hikes tied to employee settlements spurs probe by Manfred Jager a Toronto group of management consultants is examining the salaries of senior administrators in Manitoba hospitals and nursing Hay associates was hired by Manitoba health organizations a year ago after it became Clear salary in creases for supervisory and manage ment staff must be redesigned to avoid unfair pay hikes tied Only to percent age increases unionized pm Brian mho associate executive said the study was commissioned after the last wage Settle ment with Manitoba the agreement gave nurses 38 per cent Over five increases Between and last the thinking was that if senior administrators ought not to get the same percentage increases automatically because of the higher salaries they already then what should their increases be Siegner one of the study considerations will be the size of an administrators institution and the scope of his response by the Hay company was hired for the study because of its past experience in determining management Bompensa and its ability to work out comparative figures for other Western preliminary data available before the study began indicated that Manitoba and Saskatchewan health facilities pay below the Canadian average for All 10 Job classifications under Examina Tion by except for medical directors and administrative data on past experience was based on Only two responses from 52 institutions and was therefore not Manitoba and Saskatchewan salaries this year were found to be per cent behind the National average for chief executive per cent behind for purchasing per cent for assistant administrators and per cent for chief finance As for preliminary data Indi Cates vacancies were lowest this fall in Saskatchewan and pay for general duty nurses was found to be generally equal across Manitoba and Saskatchewan nursing directors were found to be the lowest paid in with salaries five per cent below the Mari times and 15 per cent behind the National aver the Hay study will also improve the ability of Manitoba health facilities to compete for administrators across the country when vacancies in senior management need to be the Market is Siegner we advertise for an administrator not just in Manitoba but right across the doing we must have an idea of what were talking about when it comes to offering salaries they must Bear a relationship to the Cost of for they must make sense to a person from Nova Scotia or British Columbia contemplating a move to this the mho project is reported to Cost about some of which has already been results of the study Are not expected until sometime next who holds both full time and Par time was pleased by the decision to allow his Mother and Moth Erin Law to visit he said he ate nothing during his subsisting on and was prepared to starve to death to make his he said he suffered few ill effects from not eating other than Light head Brief problems with his vision and stomach he lost about 10 inquest told safety rail order ignored labourer fell six storeys to death by Paula Martin construction ignored four provincial directives ordering installation of safety guard rails at a construction site before a Young la Borer fell six storeys to his death last an inquest was told Kenneth lost his bal Ance and plunged backwards almost 20 metres 66 feet to a second floor con Crete ledge from the top of the Lions place construction project at 620 por Tage where he was scraping a Concrete the Accident happened july he was not wearing a safety line and died from massive head the four directives were issued by the provincial workplace safety and health Branch As far Back As May Crown attorney Richard Saull told the the last directive issued just six Days before the Young mans death ordered adequate guard railings shall be installed and maintained at All floor Levels from which a worker May fall eight feet metres or last pleaded guilty to one charge of violating the work place safety and health the com Pany was fined project manager Henry Paetkae told the court yesterday his company acknowledged full responsibility for the Paetkae told provincial court judge Winston Norton that if an onsite supervisor was Given a directive regard ing safety it would be that supervisors responsibility to ensure the orders were carried out of my jurisdiction general supervisor Art Buller Testi fied yesterday he had responsibility for the but Only for the lower the top deck is out of my Juristic Buller adding it was never specified in the i do not take my responsibility on to the work deck it is left to the fore Man of the Concrete he told the Buller said it was not his business to know whether workers were wearing safety equipment while on that responsibility was left to the Crew he if the problem was serious there should have been a Stop work order Buller judge Norton asked Buller if this meant that you would not take any precautions on the top deck until there was a fatal Accident and Only eventually install guard rails be cause there was a fatality As a result of Buller re asked if he discussed the safety order with Buller replied he said the order was Hung on the Wall of his Field Buller said he had no control Over the Concrete Crew which was working on the top floor and any interference by him in the Crews operation could Siegner information needed Lead to tension and inefficiency on the construction Concrete Crew Foreman de Clemets the deceased said he has never seen guard rails installed on an open floor and was satisfied his Crew knew what it was he said he never discussed safety features with its a death trap Jake Hildebrandt a Crane opera Tor who was in a cab above the site when Klemenski lost his balance and fell said he was practically sit Ting on top of the Young Man when the Accident he was scraping the top of the form and he was sidestepping toward the Hildebrandt said As he de scribed the Accident for the As he saw Klemenski Brace his foot against a Metal Loop jutting out of the Concrete Hildebrandt said he thought to himself that the youth just might he he just its a death if you ask Hildebrandt referring to the Edge where Klemenski was standing As he scraped the Concrete the inquest was to continue 30 jobs linked to missile a contract to build components for the my intercontinental missile could Lead to an estimated 30 to 35 jobs at Winnipeg Boeing a Union spokesman said Chris bargaining commit tee chairman for the United Auto workers local at said manage ment has never told employees in so Many words that the Graphite components being tested Are destined for the my but most workers recognize that is where they will be used Boeing has confirmed that it is bid Ding on a contract to Supply Graphite epoxy components for military use to Avo systems of Lyle the Vic president of the Winnipeg refused monday to say whether the components were to be used in the my questions Aid the Issue was raised monday in the House of commons by nip defence critic Terry who questioned the Wisdom of offering Federal Aid to a Canadian firm which is bidding to Supply parts for the Boeing will receive for its test Wallace said the Issue of building components for the controversial mis Sile has not been discussed formally by Union were not taking a High level approach to it he we want to see exactly what comes in and what will be done with by next Boeing will know if it wins the contract for the it is competing with a Texas based firm for the economic development minister Muriel Smith said she did not think beings plan to build nose Cone material for the my missile was Worth the jobs it would we cant rest economic develop ment on better ways to kill the minister said her government is opposed to missile development in the Ever escalating nuclear arms but Manitoba can do Little to inter Fere with the plans of a private company and the development programs of the Federal she a spokesman for the Bosto Narea firm could neither confirm nor deny yesterday whether Boeing was involved in bidding on work for the ;