Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 27, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june Page 3 marketing boards on Trade City allowed to sell fort Garry local air to ask courts to ban by Lisa priest West fair foods will seek a court injunction tuesday to ban mass pickets at its strike bound supermarkets after the arrests of 14 people thursday a company executive the move follows an incident in which 29 police cruisers were called to the Supe Valu store at Grant Avenue and Kenaston Boule Vard when a demonstration by about 500 striking workers and members of various unions grew out of were not going to tolerate this Type of West fair spokesman Dave Rye Bol said Ryzebol said the whose employees Are on strike across the will ask the courts to set limits on the number of pickets and where they can set Bernard president of the Manitoba food and commercial workers Union on strike against was charged with mischief thursday night and remanded out of custody for two police allege a Man grabbed a Windshield wiper of a Van that was driving through the picket line at the Grant and Kenaston Supe Valu Christophe said yesterday he went to the Aid of a limping woman who told him she had been hit by a and motioned for police to come the Van started to so i guess i was trying to act like Superman or something and i grabbed on to the Windshield wiper so i could Stop the Van and they arrested i didst even break the someone else Christophe adding that he would fight the he said about half of the 14 people arrested were West fair employees and the others were members of other Christophe said the violence at thursdays mass picket was an isolated after the first person got arrested the crowd and the police got More i certainly regret the violence and i cant see something like this happening the accused who appeared in court yester Day and the charges they face include Jan assault Douglas obstructing a peace officer Michael obstructing a peace officer Kenneth driving dangerously Christina assaulting a peace officer Kenneth assault with a weapon James assaulting a peace officer Ruby possessing a weapon dangerous to the Public peace and Brian who was charged with assault at the Gateway Road by Gerald flood a North end Man might have fared better in blocking a provincial housing project had he dressed for the occasion and been As sophisticated As Consul Tants for the City officials and councillors Gerald wearing pain spattered shoes and a checked shirt he haunt tucked into his at times lost his temper and lapsed into profanities and garbled complaints that the City was no better than the soviet Why Are you shouting John Angus University admonished during one of Zug Calichs Zug Cawrich appealed to Angus and other councillors on the cites Vari Ance committee to reverse a Deci Sion allowing Manitoba housing and renewal to transform a duplex at 356 Stella Avenue into a five unit he said that when he tried to sell his identical size property a few doors West at 378 Stella for redevelopment As a five Lex last the City turned it i dont know what the hell is going on but it certainly int he i think this is totally where Are we in Russia whats going on welfare recipient City officials said who lives on was comparing apples and when he wanted to sell his prop the Developer proposed to tear Down the House and build a five unit Row House that was out of Char Acter with the they to transform two boarded up one a 538 Square metre into five housing units for Payuk Inte trib Al housing Coop three consultants from Dpi Tan dem Coop resources dressed in fashionable casual appeared before the committee in support of the they said their company special izes in developing coops for one of Stan said they have a budget to Reno vate the which stand on adjacent lots that were combined As one property to meet City objections about housing he did not say How much Marc had paid for the he said the houses Are although the interiors Are Phi free press kills dress unkempt Man bid to Block housing project Zug Cawrich stands in front of they Are what you would expect of any House that been boarded up for two both houses were open yester the Fence had fallen Down and Trees had been left to grow and Block the garbage was littered throughout the once grand interiors of the Walls were holed and co Vered with plaster ceilings had fallen Down on to floors fouled by Bird who lives in his neigh Boring said he had repeated Stella Avenue duplex which by asked City health officials to condemn the structures but they they wont placard it because its he its All the pull these people that the whole Damn Don Mitchelson Hender son said he could understand Zug Calichs he May not have had the Grea test command of the English Ian Mitchelson but As you listened to the Guy his Basic Point was that he Felt there Are two the province wants to convert standards one for individuals and one for with its eco nomic advantages and a consulting group of three with the right flavor of language to get a rezoning for the same amount of density on a similar property that he was Den i dont think there was any Bias in i think really he just Doest have the resources or the manpower to put together a smooth enough he would have made it a very difficult decision if he had conduct into de himself in a More prudent Fash District planner Robert Nichol other councillors were less sym he should be looking at this As a positive Harold Tay Lor memorial he should get some ideas its the mean the sour grapes that coming Angus its More sour grapes than the committee denied Zug Calichs chief admits we slipped by not telling of charged officer police should have released information sooner on an officer charged last tuesday with uttering a death chief Herb Stephen said yes maybe we Stephen i suppose that information could have been included for the wednes Day news but at the time the report had not yet been prepared for Don Peters to Stephen said there was no intent to withhold information on the charge Laid against Jerry a nine year member of the he said the charge was filed tues Day afternoon and a meeting of the police suspension panel convened at 5 to decide if Keenan should be removed from Active duty until any court the panel decided the charge would not interfere witty Keenan ability to carry out his duties and allowed him to continue a report on the meeting was not filed until wednesday Stephen and police Felt it would not have been fair to Keenan to release details of the charge before the results of the suspension hearing were prepared for we dont hold Back information on an officer who has been we never have before he who was responding to a free press Story on How police failed to release details of the charge during their wednesday news con said police had planned to release the information Keenan was charged after a Man having drinks with his Mother and her Friend at the Westbrook inn was threatened with death by a Man who approached their Kevin said the Man called him a wimp and told him he would be killed if he caused the Man any More Vermette said he launched a com plaint heard recently by the Law enforcement review Agency about a Winnipeg police officer after an incident in May Rescue dive too late lifeguard missed teenager by seconds Robert Winnipeg police spoke to Stephen about the matter on thursday and is satisfied police did not attempt to cover up the my observation is that the police were not holding but were just following their usual procedures on releasing Lunney Lunney added that he and Stephen plan to look at the Issue of How information is released to the Dave free press by Jack Lakey a lifeguard who Dove from a cruise boat into the red River in an attempt to save a student who drowned Early thursday says he was just seconds too late for a if i could have got into the water just a Little bit sooner 1 think i could have got to said Mike a lifeguard at the Steinbach Community he was still above the water when i Dove in but when i came up to the surface he was police have listed the death of Kenneth who slipped from the River Rouge cruise boat during a High school graduation party that began wednesday eve As a drowning by a Grade 12 student at West Kildonan collegiate had argued with his Girlfriend on the deck of the ship before going overboard about police divers found his body in about four metres of water just North of Provencher Bridge about 3 Wiebe said he and two friends were inside the boat when they heard people on deck shouting that someone had gone Over the he said he rushed to the deck area where Crew members were training a spot Light on Vannus in the water told them he was a lifeguard and Dove in after the crewmen were shining lights on him and he want very far from the Wiebe he was struggling and thrashing but he didst look i guess the problem was that he had his clothes searched area when i jumped into the water i could see but when i came up to the surface and looked around he want they kept shining the lights around but 1 see Wiebe said Crew members threw him a life preserver and he searched the area for about five minutes before a private boat came along and he was pulled out of the he said the water May have been cold but he was too intent on finding Vannus to it was just a really bad scene and i upset that i find when i came up to the surface he was Mike Wiebe and Mcleod Avenue store after a picket allegedly punched a hired freelance photographer who was videotaping picket line act staff Don Peters All were remanded out of custody for two four others have been Given notices to appear in court at a later the West fair employees have been on strike at the firms 12 shop easy and econ Mart stores in bran Dauphin and Thompson since june they want a guarantee of hours for Par time who comprise 85 per cent of West fairs Las accused of inciting violence by Patrick Mckinley the conservative labor critic has accused nip Las of encouraging picket line violence and making political capital out of a bitter strike against West fair foods Jim Mccrae Brandon West said four nip backbench ers showed poor judgment by attending a mass Union rally at a Supe Valu store which later escalated into a violent confrontation thursday Marty Dolin Harvey Smith Jim Maloway Elm Wood and Steve Ashton Thomp son attended the it was called to give striking Manitoba food and commercial workers members a show of support from other unions and to deter customers from entering the Supe Valu the demonstration ended with 14 people including a few president Bernard Ashton said the Las left the Grant Avenue and Kenaston Boule Vard site before the demonstration turned Dolin said they in no Way abetted the use of he said they were Only exercising their right As private citizens to show support for strikers getting a raw Deal from their the opposition has very amusing and bizarre perceptions of Dolin referring to Mccrae Dolin said the Supe Valu incident is an illustration of the need for Bill proposed legislation that would set up a form of binding arbitration called final offer in cahoots echoing comments made by labor minister Al Mackling thurs Day he said the Bill would offer an alternative to strikes and lock outs and the violence they some times Lead Mccrae charged those comments show the nip is capitalizing on the incident to build support for the adding it is a cheap Way to Advance the he also charged Christophe and the nip Are in cahoots to promote the Bill to give the Union Leader a Graceful Way out of the four week old if i were Christophe i be very proud of myself today after leading Good and decent workers into that kind of confront Mccrae he certainly would be better off getting Back to the bargaining instead of waiting for his nip friends to bail him he accused the nip Las of noting they recently accused him interfering in labor relations after he attended a peace Ful meeting of employees from a Neepawa hog processing Plant who oppose the United Rood and com Mercial sister Union to Christophes the Canadian Auto workers Union yesterday announced its support for the nip Hemi National director of organization for the said while Many Caw Mem Bers would prefer anti Scab Legisla Tion Banning companies from hiring replacements during final offer selection offers one Way of reducing strikes and province enforces Holiday closings most retail businesses should be closed on july 1 to observe Canada says labor minister Al Mack Mackling said the provinces re Tail businesses Holiday closing act restricts most retail stores from operating on a statutory he said in a statement this provi Sion has not always been strictly enforced and some retailers have celebrated the Holiday on an alter native this year businesses prohibited from opening by the act could be prosecuted for remaining Mackling stores allowed to open july 1 Are Small pharmacies and stores that employ four or fewer work ;