Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 5, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba L 1 Kajj division walkout averted a threatened on Day work stoppage by about 200 River East school Divi Sion employees was averted last night when negotiators for the workers Union and the division tentatively agreed to a two year terms of the contract wont be revealed until ratified by the division and the members of the Canadian Union of Public division chairman Alex Novak said in an inter the workers bus Drivers and maintenance workers planned to conduct a on Day study session today to Back demands for higher the Board is expected to vote on the retroactive to last March at its meeting next Novak adding he is optimistic the pack age will be Union spokesman Bob Fifik refused comment on the All weve got is something to take Back to aches our they Are expected to vote on the Deal within the Novak said he was elated the study session was averted because it could have forced some of the divisions Rural students to miss but there were no plans to close any of the divisions 28 Jim free press extracurricular activities at Winni pegs four jewish schools May be disrupted tomorrow As teachers begin a work Rule Campaign to Back their Battle for higher Sandy a spokesman for Winnipeg jewish schools teachers As said yesterday when the schools reopen tomorrow after the passover Union members will begin refusing to supervise extracurricular the work Rule Campaign will affect such programs As yearbook preparation and other activities teach ers have been supervising on their own she Hurwitz said unless the contract Dis Pute is resolved the work Rule Campaign could also affect Spring camping trips for some of the 960 students who attend jewish and Campaign the 110 teachers and the Winnipeg Board of jewish education have been without a contract for 15 in a newspaper advertisement yes the teachers Union announced plans for the work Rule Campaign and charged the jewish school Board is threatening the education of the and outlines the teachers Side of the dispute and asks parents to let Board members know they support the the school Board May Cali its own meeting with parents in the next few Days so they can discuss the issues in the said Evelyn publicity chairman for the jewish school Katz said it is still too Early to Tell How the work Rule Campaign will affect the schools and their extracurricular the Board wants to see it in operation for a few Days before she teachers in the jewish schools have the right to but have not held a vote on whether to strike if an agree ment is not Hurwitz said despite the lengthening the two sides have met since a recent study session by the she said the school Board is mov ing but very beheaded a trocar crash at Isabel Street and Bannatyne Avenue yesterday brought a Light Standard crashing to the lopping off its the Accident caused Only minor spurs by Brian Mcanulty special to the free press controversy Over police use of guns has prompted the Winnipeg police department to Issue its officers with Wallet sized cards laying out the rules for gun police chief Ken Johnston says the plasticized condensing firearms gun should clarify gun use the guidelines say police May fire their weapons Only if their life or someone else life is in danger or if an officer or someone else faces grievous bodily the guidelines state firearms Are not to be used to Stop a fleeing to immobilize a fleeing to act As warning shots or when there is a danger to opposed Law to give workers claim in bankrupt employees will have first claim on the available funds of a bankrupt firm under legislation planned by the nip labor minister Mary Beth Dolin said last secured creditors currently have first claim under the provinces pay ment of wages a position which the former conservative government refused to Lloyd president of the Winnipeg chamber of said later such a move will make investors hesitant to come to Manitoba because their risks will be we Are becoming a Labo biased province and that is bound to influence investors who might come to the he we cannot be out of step with what is happening across the nation or we disadvantage ourselves from the economic development Point of Dolin told the legislature she is Hir ing a consultant to rewrite Manitoba labor Laws into a labor code which will improve Union increase worker Protection against layoffs or unjust dismissal and promote Equality of the Manitoba now has about 20 pieces of legislation which affect labor and they will be consolidated into the proposed new labor pressed by opposition labor critic Gerry Dolin said Public hear Ings Are planned the opposition Las also accused the government of making a payoff to labor for its help during the 1981 election Campaign by funding the Manitoba labor education the dedicated to helping both unionized and nonunion workers understand their role As workers in so received from the provincial government last this the Grant has been increased by 50 per cent to Dolin the Centre received provincial fund ing for the first time last since it was founded in it has depended on Grants from Dolin adding that the Federal funding want Ransom attacks claim pcs torpedoed plan the government never mentioned anything about when it asked the conservatives to take a holi Day easter opposition House Leader Brian Ransom said Ransom objected in the legislature yesterday to finance minister Vic schroeders claims thursday that the tories had torpedoed a plan to save thousands and thousands of dollars by closing the legislature for four instead of Schroeder said thursday if the legislature adjourned for four Days it would save about in expense allowances to but Ransom said government House Leader Roland Penner never mentioned this when he approached him last week about the Ransom said he pointed out that the legislature traditionally sits on the monday following and if it didst it would have to make up for the lost Day by sitting on july 31 Friday before the August civic Long Ransom said he told Penner that under the it would per haps be Best if the legislature resumed sitting Penner Ransom Penner con firmed yesterday that ransoms recollection was Schroeder admitted that when he made his comments he assumed the tories had been told Why the govern ment favored such a he he Only raised the matter after tory la Jim Dow Ney started ranting and raving for the 100th time about the government wasting on a Grant to a recent marxist conference in Wley accuses by Fred Youngs an angry Premier Howard Pawley lashed out at the opposition accusing them of re baiting and exaggerating incidents at a protest at the United states consulate where an Flag was Pavloy told Las that opposition Leader Sterling Lyon deliberately win ii bout to magnify this Issue out of All the tactics smack of Mccan hism and appear to be a Campaign aimed at whipping up he said outside the the tories believe they can create anti nip feeling by creating the bogeyman of its an old tactic that goes Back Many the conservatives Are avoiding dealing with problems such As unemployment Over some silly Galoost in a mask that burned an american Flag that want even part of the demonstration or the who said natural resources minister Al Mackling and economic development minister Muriel Smiths attendance at the rally brought embarrassment and discredit to the wanted the Premier to prod uce copies of the protest sent by the government to the Federal Exter Nal affairs department last Pawley refused to table the protest to external but promised to prod uce his Lyon appears to be waging a deliberate Campaign to smear and re bait in this it Doest Pawley told the Premier pointed to accusations made during debate last thursday night and Early Friday police Are advised that use of fire other than in must be reported to the police chief before completion of a there has been criticism in the past Over rules governing police use of this criticism has centred on alleged contradictions Between policy and interpretation of the question of police gun use was raised again at a recent hearing before the Manitoba police 1 Constable was acquitted of wrong doing following a High Speed Chase March the which began in involved a fleeing car pursued through the several shots were fired before the car was stopped at the acquittal was overturned by who ruled the officer had improperly handled a the penalty was two Days Winnipeg police representing police took the Case to the Manitoba police commis the commission upheld John Stone ruling but reduced the pen Alty to a rules unclear the majority decision found the rules dealing with use of firearms during a Chase were not Clear and there should be improvements in communications Between the department and members of the Force on this the fatal shooting of one Man and the wounding of another outside the dental hotel on main Street and the mistaken shooting of a 16 year old youth outside the Stock Exchange hotel exacerbated the Johnston said in both cases he Felt police actions were justified As the officers believed they were in Norm president of the police said officers should comply with the regulations and by issuing them in card form the depart ment has clarified its one when asked if he had received a said he had but was already aware of department weapon use we have cards for Reading to impaired cards on Legal rights to read to those we and now he Rebai the personal allegations were Pawley there was a deliberate impression made that Mem Bers of the officially endorsed by the engaged in a Flag burning that not what he adding the Flag was burned by someone wearing a television film con firms he the ministers and six Las who attended the protest have disassociated themselves from the Flag he the nip has maintained that Mackling and Smith were at the rally Winnipeg free april 1983 3 rent review puts couple in Retro Shock by Murray Mcneill Carol Perch and her husband Are two tenants who wish they never heard of Manitoba rent review thanks to a review boards intervene the Boniface couple recently was hit with a 41percent rent in they were Given 30 Days to pay a rebate to their Perch said in an interview yesterday that although they can live with the rent they never realized the review Board could make it retroactive to last it absolutely shocked we believe she we haunt budgeted for anything like this and we dont have the Cash on hand to pay the while their landlord has indicated he will help them out of their Jam by allowing them to pay the rebate in several Perch said she Hopes the publicity about their predicament will spare other tenants from experiencing a similar complained to ombudsman i think people should be made aware that it Doest always work that you get Money Perch said although she and her husband dont hold out much Hope of having the rebate order they have complained to the provincial ombudsman and opposition housing critic Gary Filmon raised the matter in the legislature objecting to the review boards handling of the Filmon said and Perch have been tenants in their Block the Nia Kwa Park Plaza for 13 last their landlord applied to the rent regulation Bureau to raise their rent by 19 per while rent controls limited increases to nine per the landlord argued a larger increase was warranted because controls enforced in the late 1970s had kept the couples rent inordinately Low compared with that allowed for other similar size suites in the Filmon said the rent review officer who heard the Case approved the 19 percent and both the couple and the landlord were apparently sati sifted with that because neither Side appealed the officers other tenants who were unhappy with their increases appealed their cases to a review the Board apparently decided that rents throughout the Block should be brought closer in or and raised the couples rent by 41 per cent instead of Filmon the tory housing critic demanded to know Why the rent review Board is allowed to interfere with a rent in crease that had been acceptable to both the landlord and housing minister Jerry Storie said rent controls allow for rent to be but he was unaware of the particulars of the Perch he said he would make inquiries and report Back to the neither the landlord nor a spokes Man for the rent Bureau could be reached yesterday for Perch said she Doest begrudge her landlord a 41percent we dont deny the fact weve had very reasonable rents for Many and its still not unreasonable com pared to other Manfor chief shifting posts Leifur president of the provincially owned Manitoba forestry resources since will leave his Post May 1 to become chairman of the municipal Hallgrimson said air an interview yesterday he is switching jobs because he Felt it was time for a Wilson minister responsible for the Manfor Plant in the said yesterday Hallgrimson replace ment will be announced Hallgrimson was approached about the municipal Board Post after chair Man John act him said he would retire at the end of Andy free press next one firefighter emerges As another goes in to fight a Blaze in a House at 517 Craig Street the believed caused by a portable Heater in the caused an estimated there were no to express their concerns about policy in Central outside the Pawley said it is More and More obvious that both the provincial and Federal conservatives have tried to use this Issue for their own political Lyon questioned the very loyalty of the government he Lyon is the main Hawleys office has received some Calls protesting the ministers pres ence at the but they were based on the belief they had participated in the Flag that belief was in Flag Flap created by the oppositions miss Ere said the Pawley said the Basic Issue involves speaking out against repressive re and Cabinet members have spoken at Many such protests including ones backing Solidarity in Poland and ukrainian i dont give a Damn whether its fascist dictatorships or communist dictatorships or military were going to speak out against those kind of i ;