Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Francophone demand English for children by Julia Necheff Winnipeg free press Pierr Jolys angry francophone parents told school trustees last night they were sick of having French rammed Down their about 85 people in this predominantly French speaking town appeared before a red River school Board committee to demand that their children be Given More instruction in we simply dont accept and wont accept any longer to be railroaded into becoming parents spokesman Marie Hebert the division had imposed its Lan Guage policies on residents with the unrealistic aim of trying to make All students fully Hebert told the but orderly lets be we want our children to learn some but not be bombarded with some of the most of whom were charged the division was turning out students incapable of speaking fluent English by the time they reach High they said they fear their Chil Drens French language education will be More of a Handicap than an asset in future Job Hunting or at the pos secondary some parents in mixed language marriages said their families Are disrupted because the English speaking spouse cannot communicate with the children in Pierre resident Henri originally from said he immediately realized when he arrived in Manitoba 13 years ago that his Mother Tongue was an impediment to him he said he wants his own Chil Dren to learn English As their main not everybody can be a French not everybody cart be employed by the Federal government or the society Boulet said in halting Hebert and others charged that the divisions policy is being dictated by a Small group of trustees and see French Page 4 Sandra Good remains committed to the philosophy of Charles Clear tonight sunny tomorrow 15 april 1985 final Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Home delivery classified 9562330 second class mail hegis1 ration number 0286 Ken flee press Reagan argues cemetery visit morally right tracking Down Blaze Winnipeg firefighters a grass fire in Boniface that raced along rail tracks running parallel to Mission Street yesterday a fire department spokesman said the cause of the Blaze was but it might have been ignited by a passing train sending off nearby buildings were not two waitresses awarded former Cook ordered to pay in sexual harassment Case by Tom Goldstein a Winnipeg restaurant and one of its former Cooks have been ordered to pay two former waitresses almost in damages and lost pay for sexual the described As the Lar Gest of its kind in Manitoba and among the largest in was levied by Manitoba human rights commission adjudicator Yude Henteleff against Platy enterprises operator of pharos and former Cook Tommy Gram Platy enterprises lawyer Randy Minuk said yesterday he will consider appealing the judgment to Mani Toba court of Queens former waitresses Tracey go Vereau and Dianna Janzen complained to the commission that Grammas sexually harassed them in 1982 while they worked at the pharos location at 9 marys in finding both Grammas and the restaurant firm guilty of sexual Henteleff rejected minus argument that the prov inces human rights act violated the charter of rights and freedoms by denying procedural fairness to the human rights act makes it quite Clear by its provisions that it is retired managers Aid airline by David Roberts retired air Canada managers who Are staffing ticket counters at Winnipeg International Airport Are nothing More than a spokesman for the airlines striking agents said id Call them strik Breakers be cause there no longer employees of the Brian Telfer of the Canadian air line employees association the Union term for people who walk in off the streets and take your Job is were kind of disappointed because some of these peo ple Are former passenger these people have voluntarily left the ranks of air Canada and received pretty generous retirement for them to come in As strik Breakers kind of upsets air Canada spokesman Ted Morris said five former managers approached the airline to offer their services during the nationwide strike by its ticket now in its third Morris said the former employees All retired within the last year and Are helping supervisory and clerical staff to substitute for the Union work ers walked off the Job these people Are he they were hired because of their Morris said the recall Doest Vio late the Federal labor code or any labor agreements Between air can Ada and its Henry see air Page 4 neither an advocate for or against any the adjudicator a Winnipeg lawyer and member of the Canadian human rights said he believes the Challenge was the first of its kind in the neither Govereau nor Janzen were available for but a com Mission official who talked to the women said they were elated by the restaurant owner Philip Anastasiadis appeared stunned when in formed by a reporter of the Deci that pretty he i want pleased in the first i didst think i had to go through this for a Misander Anastasiadis and Minuk said they dont know the whereabouts of the former who did not testify at last years during a today human rights commission hearing just Over a year testified that Grammas sexual advances began shortly after she began working evenings in october see harassment Page 4 from the news services president Reagan said yesterday in a live television interview broadcast to Europe he believes his planned trip to a West German cemetery where members of hitlers is Are buried is morally brushing aside protest at Home and the president said from the White House i think it is morally right to do what in doing and in not going to change my Reagan leaves today on the first overseas trip of his second he is making an overnight flight to Bonn for the annual Summit of the seven major industrialized democracies that begins in yesterdays interview he said it is not going to Honor any its going there in that to More visibly bring to the people an awareness of the great reconciliation that has taken nazi list he said he wanted the visit on sunday to make Plain that never again should there be anything like the it was designed to Mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the second world War and pay tribute to democracy in West Ger Many and the 30 years West Ger Many has spent As part of the West Ern he jewish politicians at Home and abroad and War veterans have urged Reagan to drop the bit Burg cemetery fort nine members of the nazi which ran concentration Camps where millions of jews Are buried there among German prime minister Mulroney said in London yesterday that reagans decision to visit the cemetery was i sympathize with Asim sure All reasonable people be cause his commitment to Israel and his commitment to the jewish Community has been a lifetime commit ment for Mulroney in retrospect i think clearly were All Wiser in that decision clearly would have been but there it hours before reagans the House of representatives was due to vote on a Resolution urging the Morgentaler defence Crown argues by Barbara aggerholm Winnipeg free press Toronto Henry Morgentaler was not compelled to per form abortions by a sense of Emer gency and a feeling there was no Legal the Ontario court of Appeal was told in the opening Day of the prov inces Appeal of the jury acquit Tal of Morgentaler and two Asso Crown counsel James Blacklock said three standards must exist for Protection by the defence of the Montreal physician fails the third test by being unable to show the harm avoided by performing an abortion was greater than the harm he he Blacklock argued the jury that acquitted the abortionist 8 should not have been allowed to consider the necessity that defence says the need for abortions outside accredited Hospi tals justified the doctors the defence of necessity is no licence for any individual or judge or jury to second guess the legislative policies made by parliament Blacklock the province is appealing the acquittal of Leslie smoling and Robert Scott in Ontario supreme court on charges of conspiring to procure a Miscar the term in the criminal code referring to the cases importance is High lighted by the presence in Toronto largest courtroom of five of the most see Morgentaler Page 4 president to reconsider the during debate on the measure new York congressman Charles a said Reagan is taking our moral Leader see alternative Page 4 Bishops blast retailers Ottawa up the Canadian conference of Catholic Bishops has blasted Canadas multimillion Dollar retail Industry for exploiting its naming the Eaton department store Chain As a prime in a policy paper reminiscent of its blistering economic statement two years the Bishops urged the country 10 million roman Catho and canadians to support retail workers in their bid to form unions and improve their the timed to coincide with May 1 International workers Day observations called the drive to organize the retail Indus try a new Frontier in Canadian Here mainly Are engaged in efforts to organize themselves into unions for the Pur pose of securing their rights to collective bargaining and fair employ ment today these concerns for Justice Are evident in the current dispute at More than a million canadians work in retail not including the automotive and food Many Are Par time workers and virtually none a spokesman for William Vic president of personnel for Eaton said it is difficult to respond to this kind of situation when were talking slightly More than 300 employees out of the spokesman said Stark refused v further about workers went on strike 30 at six Eaton stores in Southern seeking a first see Bishops Page 4 Zundel deportation hinges on appeals Toronto up ant jewish publisher Ernst ordered yesterday to be deported from Cana will be allowed to remain in the country until his immigration and criminal appeals Are an immigration department spokesman said both appeals could go to the supreme court of a process that might take the deportation order was handed Down by adjudicator David Benning at the end of a routine immigration inquiry that lasted less than an Benning said evidence at the inquiry proved a citizen of West had landed immigrant status in Canada and that he had been sentenced to More than six months for a criminal code offence sufficient grounds for deportation under the immigration whose face was blackened with shoe polish when he arrived with placard carrying supporters at the downtown Toronto immigration said he expected the Deporta Tion order and would take his Case to the immigration Appeal said he blackened his face because members of nonwhite minorities in Canada get better treatment than i thought id conform myself to the Canadian he told re canadians give a prefer red position and treatment to some ethnic some minorities Are More equal than he removed the shoe polish and his red hardhat before entering the Small hearing see Zundel Page 4 Manitoba Hydro stores pc Laden Oil in environment minister Gerard Lecuyer right track team Canada posts a Victory Over team Usa in its first game of the world hockey championship medal problems astronauts on Board the space shuttle challenger struggle with mechanical pms role Mulroney says he will take up the cause of the third world when he meets with world leaders later this week in Index Ann 17 34 38 20 38 6 31 7 Jumble 42 33 17 17 sports 46 35 27 to 17 ;