Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba U of poll forecasts pc a University of Manitoba poll has found the Manitoba nip would be crushed in a provincial election and buried in a Federal conducted by the University Institute of social and economic re the april 9 to 12 poll of 881 Mahito bans gave the provincial progressive conservatives 38 per the new democrats 17 per cent and the liberals per but 27 per cent of those interviewed said they Are six per cent refused to about per cent said they would not vote and per cent said they would vote for another political the poll also said that if a Federal election were held the tories would get 37 per cent in the liberals 22 per cent and the nip per cent of the decided Institute director Greg Mason said a Large number of undecided voters is not but he also said the 20percent Gap Between the provincial pcs and new democrats shows that if a provincial election were held there would be a pc Mason said a Clear leak in nip support was found of 100 respondents who said they voted nip in Only 43 said they plan to do so eighteen said they would vote Conser six Liberal and 33 were unde the nip have taken a real drub Mason said by of 100 professed 1981 tory 80 said they will vote tory three would vote two Liberal and 15 Mason said he int surprised people moved from the nip to the pcs in Stead of liberals because people move to what they believe to be viable asked about the Premier Howard Pawley said that since it was taken before the government announced its Northern Hydro and Alu Minum Plant it is already see nip Page 4 nicaraguans voice election fears rain today 3 show tonight 3 27 1984 free Home delivery classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Don free press three including the two occupants of this escaped injury yesterday when Strong gusts of wind blew sheets of aluminium at a University of Winnipeg construe two sheets to the wind Tion neither Cliff Bolin nor Ronald keeper was Hurt when the trucks Windshield was a passerby was struck by another but was also labor reforms tag As pro discussion paper on legislation described As incredibly on sided by Brian Cole the majority of Manitoba labor leaders and business spokesmen contacted yesterday said the govern ments proposed changes to the prov inces labor Laws Are Complex and generally while at least two labor leaders expressed concern about some of the the majority of those contacted said if would make Manitoba one of the most regu lated and pro labor jurisdictions on the is it pro Union you bet your David labor lawyer and management representative on the labor management review said of the to its incredibly from the unions i think this is an incredible Opportunity to organize All employees in the prov who generally represents management in labor he also noted the proposed changes give unprecedented Power to the Manitoba labor Board to interfere in the collective bargaining the theme running through the whole White paper is rather than hav Filmon accuses Schroeder of about pcs advocating sales tax Rise by Fred Youngs opposition Leader Gary Filmon accused finance minister Vic Schroeder of lying during a heated Row in the legislature yesterday Over a letter the minister sent to Manitoba pm the Row ended with speaker Jim Walding taking under advisement a motion to censure Filmon for his re budget failure Las on both of the House hurled insults during the Stormy ques Tion the storm revolved mostly statement in schroeders letter saying the nip preferred implementing the payroll tax to a tory suggestion to increase the sales tax by two per who at one Point was shout ing at said the conserva Tives never have proposed raising the sales tax two per Filmon said Schroeder should admit that that a lie and withdraw that statement and Send out a Filmon angered by letter in his response to the Filmon said Schroeder is willing to stoop to almost Sleazy actions in order to put his perverted Point of View Hilmons accusations angered the nip front benches and Lead to the motion to censure if the nip motion for him to withdraw his re Marks wins and Filmon he be expelled from the outside the Filmon said he was standing by his asked whether he would continue to do so in the face of he replied Well Cross that Bridge when we come Schroeder told Las the phrase in his letter was based on statements by John a University of Manitoba economics professor and tory Schroeder said he did not say the tory caucus had suggested the sales tax but one assumes when an official adviser he Speaks for the Schroeder was often drowned out by opposition shouts of blatant lie and the outbursts brought a warning from who said Las should see t Page 4 ing the marketplace determine its better to have government appointed people who Are going to decide what is appropriate i would think Many unions that dont have the same Confidence in governments and labor boards As Dick Martin president of the Manitoba federation of labor and his people would be and they should when i say its in the Short term it but in the Long run it might make them More labor minister Mary Beth Dolin introduced the changes wednesday in a discussion claiming the Docu ment was neither pro labor nor but rather an attempt to reduce strikes and lockouts and pro vide Manitoba with stable Industrial one of the More significant propos als is the establishment of an arbitration called the final offer among other the discussion paper proposes Banning the hiring of permanent speeding up the certification process by granting automatic certification to unions with signed membership cards from 55 per cent of the employees in a under final offer a Type of arbitration employees and employers will be Able to present their final offers to a selector who will pick one proposal for the basis of a but under the Only the workers will be Able to veto a request for the procedure made by an employ if the employees request the proce the employer will be forced to go according to a labor department statement on the proposed the selected proposal will be imposed without Appeal by either see labor Page 4 by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the Manitoba government and the giant aluminium company of America have signed an agreement which could Lead to the joint financing of a lion smelter in the Energy minister Wilson Parasiuk yesterday announced that he and Alcoa president Fred Fetterolf signed a letter of understanding March 28 which will immediately launch a year Long study into the feasibility of build ing a smelter for opera Tion in if the feasibility studies Are favor Manitoba and Alcoa will sign a smelter pact by March the construction of a smelter would create about direct jobs and its operation would result in 600 Perma nent no site has been selected and Para Siuk said no Sites Are Parasiuk said the letter Demon Strates the serious intentions of the government and although much remains to be Premier Howard Pawley said the new joining last weeks announced Power Sale to min Nesotas Northern state Power and the transportation Accord with the Federal indicates our province is on the verge of a Takeoff Point to a number of very very important opposition Energy critic Harry Enns said conservatives Welcome any major economic investment which could bring Manitoba this brings us precisely to where we were four years he referring to a letter of understanding for a feasibility study which the former tory government had signed with the aluminium company of under the terms of the letter of understanding with if smelter construction the government would pay up to 50 per cent of the construction costs in return for a Simi Lar if no smelter is Alcoa would pay All costs of the feasibility under the Alcoa would buy about 350 megawatts of Power annually for the smelter from Manitoba Hydro at a still unspecified allowing an incentive rate for a limited num Ber of All the costs to Hydro will be Reco Vered Over the life of the Parasiuk told the Deal with Alcoa differs from the letter of understanding which the for see study Page 4 police brutality claimed by Dave Roberts Winnipeg police were to decide today whether to launch an internal investigation into claims that two officers beat up two drunks in a downtown Alley earlier this Don head of the depart ments internal investigation said yesterday he haunt received an offi Cial complaint from witnesses who say they saw the officers beat the Day lights out of the men behind the Nymha building on Hargrave Street late police incident reports confirm that two drunks were picked up in the area around the same time witnesses claim the assault took the two were taken to the Public safety building and held under the intoxicated persons detention the reports do not indicate that either of the men was injured when they arrived at the a police spokesman it is not known whether the men were abusive toward police or but the spokesman said the incident report Doest show police had to use excess Ive Force to apprehend two witnesses to the alleged Inci see officers Page 4 China urges renewal of nuclear arms talks from Reuter sap peking China today urge the United states and the soviet Union to resume nuclear arms reduction talks and said it opposes some actions in Central chinese officials in a meeting this morning Between president Reagan and chinese Premier Zhao the officials said Zhao had what he termed a Friendly and serious review of International Reagan arrived yesterday for a six Day Zhao was quoted As saying he Hopes the United states will halt deployment of medium Range nuclear missiles in while the soviet Union should Stop what he called its counter Mea Zhao superpowers to re turn to the negotiating table to work out an agreement on nuclear arms reduction and said if this is not done it will mean an inevitable and Progress Ive escalation of the arms race in who will have a second meet ing with Reagan this said China is concerned about the continued increase of nuclear missiles deployed in Asia by the soviet he said the soviets should reduce their missiles in Asia and destroy the chinese officials quoted Zhao As telling Reagan his country wants to normalize relations with the soviet soviet first Vic Premier Ivan Arkhipova is expected to visit peking in Midway for talks Likely to focus on expanding Trade and technical Cooper but peking insists that Moscow move its military threat to the officials the briefing reporters on the said the talks covered a Broad Range of International from the Middle East to South Africa and tension on the korean on Central the officials quoted Zhao As saying China is very much concerned see capitalism Page 4 islanders slip Montreal canadians beat the new York slanders 42 last night and grabbed a 20 Lead in Stanley cup playoff Poison pen nurse Phyllis Trayner has denied suggestions in a Poison pen letter implicating her in the deaths of babies in a Toronto big wedding two of Canadas 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