Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october Page 3 better palliative care sought for moving scrapyard considered by Glenn free press police watch As locked out versatile workers picket during Start of what is expected to be a Long versatile lockout legality disputed the Union representing locked out versatile farm equipment workers has filed unfair labor practice charges against the Hemi spokesman for the United aerospace and farm implement said the Union feels versatile didst have the Legal right to lock out the workers according to the Manitoba labor relations it is illegal for an employer to lock out employees until 90 Days after a collective bargaining agent has been certified by the labor Mitic said the company was about two weeks premature in its lockout because the Union was certified about the Middle of the labor code also makes it Ille Gal for employees to strike until 90 Days after a collective bargaining agent has been both offences carry a maximum Fine of a while individuals found to be involved in calling or causing a premature lockout or strike Are liable to a maximum total Fine of the versatile workers began pick eting the company fort Garry Plant aside from some initial disorganization among the More than 300 police said there were no problems or Inci acting District 6 police superintendent Bob Taylor said police met yesterday with company and Union officials to explain what both sides Are legally allowed to do in regard to police plan to Monitor the scene he Mitic said picketing will take place about 12 hours a Day from monday to beginning about 7 the locked out workers will begin collecting strike pay from the Union in about two he although most of the workers were to be Laid off Friday regardless of the labor they Are not eligible to collect unemployment insurance benefits because the lockout took effect contract talks collapsed after the Union refused to accept a company proposal that workers take an imme Diate 15percent wage Mitic said he expects the dispute to be lengthy because versatile had planned to Lay off most of its employees until Penner attacks rights group stand c3 cd Al nip afraid to implement changes before Marl charges by Fred Youngs complaints by a local civil rights group that the nip government is afraid to implement changes to the human rights act Are distorted and attorney general Roland Penner said Penner reacted angrily to claims by the Manitoba association for rights and liberties that the prov Ince is trying to avoid the organizations eight Point plan for changes until after the next election because it fears a Public the meeting was a total waste of Chris Marl Board member and a director of Gays for told reporters after a meeting with the nip caucus yes Penner said he was surprised by comments from Marl executive director Abe Arnold and others that the government is unwilling for political reasons to toughen up the he said the accusation want made at the they certainly didst say so to our Penner adding the Marl members clearly didst understand the governments they May have but they didst he the com ments of Marl Are out of context and do a disservice to the meeting that i and the Premier and others in caucus thought took place in Good Marl president Brent Stearns said the organization was disappointed with the on hour meeting with government there has been no action for a year and a half and it appears there will be no action in the near fun he we May have to live through an election and then who knows what Arnold said the organization presented its list of proposed revisions to the code last it includes suggestions for a new definition of As Well As affirmative the group is also concerned about a backlog of cases being handled by the Manitoba human rights com Arnold noting there Are delays of three to five months in some its really a matter of getting up the political will to do at the they probably do Lack the political Arnold claimed that Premier Howard Pawley had said the govern ment is worried about a backlash if it passes the changes into but the Marl official warned a Lack of action could also result in an and verse political reaction from groups that support the its a question of timing they cant decide when to bring it Arnold Penner said other fac tors besides timing have to be considered before the proposed changes Are he also noted the changes would have to be made in the and the government Hast decided whether it will have another session before going to the the government has demonstrated its commitment to rights in the Penner citing affirm Tiv action hiring programs on the Limestone dam Arnolds comments ignore Marls responsibilities and the requirement to educate the Public on the need to make fundamental changes to the Penner on Many issues there has to be and that equally their he Penner also noted the government has provided the human rights com Mission with funding to hire two More officers this Lions liable for Rogers concert promoter claims a director and major creditor of make Miracle promotions says Lions club officials Are mistaken if they think they can walk away from More than in debts from two Kenny Rogers Charity con there Are a few people who think they can Bury their Heads in the Sand and this thing is going to go Jack Seitz said last i think that if they do that it will be a sorry Day for Lions clubs in who invested More than of his Money in the july 2627 Star concert 85 at Birds Hill was commenting on the announcement yesterday that make Miracle promotions had declared Allan treasurer of the promotion said last night the formal application for bankruptcy was signed at noon yes an said the company owes about adding creditors might realize six or seven cents on the Dollar when the books Are finally he said the major creditors in clude the Royal Bank of owed and who had advanced to set up the com odometer tampering results in Fine for businessman by Paula Martin a City businessman pleaded guilty to rolling Back odometers on 40 used cars and was fined an amount equal to his profit was ordered to do 400 hours of Community work Donald George pleaded guilty to 40 counts of fraud for reducing the number of Kilometres on lat Model used cars that he later sold to Auto Crown attorney Phil Schachter said rollbacks amounted to about million or 43 per cent of True mileage on the 40 the offences took place Between 1 and Schachter said the average car had Kilometres on it when purchased by but was rolled Back to show before he sold the Crown led a court of Queens Bench hearing through a complicated Trail of transactions showing How Phinney bought and sold the i three Winnipeg wholesalers Brierwood motors Sten Ning enterprises and Kyle enterprises bought the the list of 12 local dealers who in turn bought the cars from the wholesalers reads like a who who of the Winnipeg automotive Indus he they included Carter Landau Lincoln Parkside Eastern James Volkswagen and Jim Gauthier Chevrolet Oldsmobile Cadillac Reading from a preliminary trial Schachter said Many of the dealers testified they never would have bought the cars if they known their actual dealers paid More than Neces sary for cars that they might not have handled in the first the whole of the Public was put to risk and Many people suffered he while it is impossible to pin an exact Dollar amount on the Schachter said one dealer estimated it at two cents a Kilometre a car for a total of 1 defence lawyer Tim Killeen said his estimates put Phinney per car profit at about or he said Phinney did not actually Roll Back the odometers though he would not say who in an emotional address to the Phinney said he deeply re Grets his Ive been absolutely removed from any business dealing in the he i would like an my to redeem Justice Sidney Schwartz said the failure of a businessman to be truthful brings All commercial transactions into the judge said he was satisfied at his age and with a previously unblemished would not become involved in crime his business reputation is presently he he said if there is a problem with odometer the High ways department could consider a system where mileage is noted when cars Are who is in the insurance Busi said last night he is the major not the but he re fused to say How much he stands to lose in the the numbers Are he adding its possible he will launch Legal action to recover some of his Webster said other unsecured creditors include the workers who set up the owed in and Delta which is owed for work at the concert believe we looked at All the but in spite of our the size of the in excess of has proven too much for us to Webster the concerts by top country per formers were planned As a major fundraising project for the Lions the was Well Short of the needed to break Webster said neither the Lions foundation nor Manitoba 100 Lions clubs Are liable for any of the debts incurred by the promotion the foundation was supposed to get the profits from the minus a 10percent fee to Seitz said there Are some Lions who think the service club can Sepa rate itself from the promotion com Pany he and fellow lion Mem Ber George Glatz set up to handle the Rogers but this was not a private Ven he it was a project of the Lions of Seitz said the company was formed at the request of the directors of the provincial fundraising body for Manitoba Lions he said the declaration of bankruptcy surprised adding discussions at a directors meet ing a week ago had centred on holding casinos to raise Money and pay off the up until a few weeks i was still trying to get Bruce Springsteen for another he police officers reprimanded for Pawn role two Winnipeg police officers were reprimanded yesterday for collect ing from a woman to pay Back a pawnbroker who had bought her stolen television police Deputy chief Paul Johnston said the officers should not have acted As intermediaries Between the victim and the when they took the they left the entire department open to suggestions of he Verna complained last week she had to pay to the officers to get Back her stolen television which had been found in a main Street Williams withdrew her complaint when she Learned the thief was an Johnston said once the complaint was there was no he said the officers should then have returned the set to the pawnshop and told Williams to get it Wayne director of criminal said the police policy of expecting people to pay the pawned Price for their stolen property is not allowed by he said yesterday that legislation is needed to Stop the Johnston said he plans to meet Moshkowsky soon to Clear up the but he denied police demand payment from people whose stolen property is found in he said officers Only suggest the victim pay the Al though he later agreed a person could interpret a police suggestion As a Johnston said police frequently do not seize stolen goods from Pawn shops but put a hold on in cases of police he conceded he did not know what the department would do if a person refused a suggestion to pay the chief Herb Stephen defended the policy saying pawnbrokers accepting stolen goods would go underground if forced to turn Over merchandise free of Stephen said most victims of crime dont mind paying a few Dol Lars to recover valuable property and changing department policy might reduce the Quantity of stolen goods if we come Down hard on them pawnbrokers still buy the same goods under the table and Well never see it and neither will the citizens who Are Stephen told a Winnipeg police com Mission meeting commissioner Jim Ragsdill suggested pawnbrokers be required to photograph people who bring in in some he stores Are required to photograph people for whom they Cash Che the picture can later be used in court if a Cheque turns out to be he of four other police departments surveyed Only one had a policy similar to Jim Lyall of the Calgary police department said pawnshop dealers Are told its their responsibility to avoid buying stolen the Bottom line is Why should the victim have to pay to get his property Back Lyall spokesmen for the Edmonton and Regina police departments said they had similar but staff William Armstrong of Toronto property recovery Sec Tion said victims there Are required to pay the pawned Price if they want their property Back if they there advised to take civil action against the Pawn he adding the owners usually win in Soi oho now Sel Appeal approved by Murray Mcneill Thomas soph now was Given approval yesterday to represent him self at his forthcoming Appeal hear Manitoba court of Appeal decided not to override Sopho nows wishes and appoint a new lawyer to represent chief Justice Alfred Monnin told that his Appeal hear ing will go ahead As scheduled on and the judge said it will be up to soph now whether he represents himself or retains a Law who is appealing his second conviction for the 1981 slay ing of doughnut shop waitress bar Bara told the Appeal court on 27 that hed fired his Greg he said he had wanted to hire a Toronto but Legal Aid Manitoba refused to pay for he said he didst want a Manitoba Law yer and would rather represent Nim self at the Appeal but the Appeal judges said they thought he should have a lawyer to Deal with the Legal issues the court asked Crown attorney Stu Whitley to determine if it had the authority to appoint the Toronto lawyer and order the attorney generals department to foot the Whitley said yesterday it appears the court Doest have the authority to do but he said the depart ment has paid the Legal costs of accused in some past and the matter May be open to judge Monnin said although the court could appoint a lawyer and order him to represent without it do i appoint anyone unless he gets paid from he its an Brodsky told the court that so Phonon fired him because he re fused to write a letter to the Federal Justice department requesting an ramp investigation into the handling of his Case by Winnipeg to Brodsky said he refused because the Justice minister would not order such an investigation while the Case was still before the he said soph now refused to accept soph now also wanted him to pres ent certain evidence which he didst think was germane to the Brodsky adding he told the accused that no other lawyer would present it this led soph now to conclude that no Manitoba lawyer was interested in the he decision reserved on helmet Challenge a court of Queens Bench judge reserved his decision yesterday on the constitutionality of Manitoba compulsory motorcycle helmet motorcyclists Donald Fisher and John Prest have challenged the claiming helmets increase the risk of an Accident and thereby infringe on their constitutional right to Secu Rity of provincial court chief judge Harold Gyles rejected their argument last october and the pair appealed to Queens after hearing about 90 minutes of Legal Justice John Scollin said he wanted time to consider the he told Crown attorney Stu Whit Ley and defence lawyers Robert Tapper and Paul Walsh he would notify them when his decision is who represents argued at the hearing that judge Gyles missed the Point of their argue he said the judge focused on the question of whether helmets re Duce the incidence of serious injury and death whether they in crease the likelihood of an Accident Walsh argued there is evidence to show that helmets impair hearing and peripheral and produce heat buildup around the head All factors that can cause i he also cited a study that found 16 per cent More accidents in states with mandatory helmet Laws than in states without Tapper likened the situation to the government passing a Law saying All motorcyclists must drive at speeds of at least 160 evidence shows it is More dangerous to drive at High and the same goes for wearing a he the charter of rights and free Doms guarantees everyone the right to Security of person and forcing motorcyclists to Wear helmets in fringes on that he Whitley dismissed Walsh argue saying judge Gyles clearly dealt with the Issue of whether Hel mets cause he quoted the judge As saying there is no evidence to show helmets significantly impair hearing or peripheral or that they greatly increase head heat judge Gyles added that even if the Law infringes on the right to Securi it is justified because of evidence that helmets reduce head Whitley said the judge had heard the evidence directly and court of Queens Bench should not interfere with his Fisher and Prest launched their Challenge to the Law on april the Day the Law came into i ;