Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba A photo 4 Winnipeg free july 1987 postal pickets pledged carriers doubt Success in talks by the Canadian press a letter carriers Union spokesman confirmed late last night that rotating strikes will resume today As the postal talks appeared to be headed for their third Al night bargain ing session with Little Concrete there had been a three Day sus pension of the rotating strikes Fol lowing the appointment of a Federal the spokesman refused to say where the walkouts would earlier Robert president of the member said the next 24 hours of negotiations will be critical and More walkouts appeared Neces sary to convince Canada Post that the Union will not accept contract All areas of the country have been affected since the Union began rotating walkouts june at some he will Federal mediator Bill Kelly either decide that yes there is a Chance for a settlement or no and i would think the next 24 hours is the crucial Peri Kellys mandate from the Federal government expires Harold chief negotiator for Canada told reporters yesterday some movement had occurred on some issues but the Union played it Dunstan so tired Hes dream said Vic president Bill we heard someone singing eight Days a week and thought it was a new added Ralph a Union bargaining team the last time Kelly mediated a postal dispute Between the same Union and Canada Post a year ago he worked out a settlement after 39 hours of nonstop Mcgarry said a major problem this time is that negotiators for Canada Post have no authority to make final every time we agree on some they have to take it out for they got people holed up All Over the then it gets shot Down from the one source said Kelly demanded and got a meeting yesterday with Canada Post president Donald Lander to demand More autonomy for negotiators at the John head of Media relations for the said he could say whether such a meet ing had taken the Union is attempting to fend off contract concessions demanded by Canada Post to implement a Post office restraint program imposed by the conservative Cabinet last no the Agency wants carriers to give up full Job work longer accept a oneyear pay remain out on routes Over lunch deliver More mail per shift in the Case of new provide their own cars for transport the carriers want their current contract renewed with an increase to offset the Impact of inflation on their Basic hourly the tory restraint de signed to wipe out Post office operating deficits by next would eliminate Union let Pri vate business run most counter ser close hundreds of Rural Post raise postal rates annually to offset permit slower Deli very standards and make group boxes the Norm instead of Home delivery in new Union Headquarters said yesterday the count of carriers disciplined by Canada Post for strike related incidents has risen to 60 firings and 23 indefinite suspend Mcgarry says no new contract will be signed until All such workers Are the not can Ada should Deal with violence or he some carriers have been Dis missed because of charges Laid by others have been disciplined for actions such As wearing pins and shirts in support of Bill approved to Seal milk Price loopholes legislation to close loopholes and prevent Manitoba retailers from Selling milk at less than govern men fixed prices was approved in principle agriculture minister Bill Uruski closed debate on the changes to the milk prices review it must now go to committee and then return for third Reading and Royal assent be fore becoming tories accused the government of taking Money from the poor and hurting Dairy but Uruski said the legislation he was amending had been introduced by a former tory Ruskis latest changes will out Law the use of discounts or rebates to get around minimum Lone survivor Cut Hole in Wood floor of insulated Boxcar Hole in Boxcar floor was Only source of air As heat claimed illegal continued from Page 1 but As the water ran the others lost with the darkness i Tell about the i thought some of them would be but when the doors were they were All freight trains Are among the common Means of transportation used by undocumented immigrants trying to Cross the Accord ing to the chief Bor Der patrol agent in Sierra a town of about 110 kilo metres Southeast of Al the victims had been sealed in the Missouri Pacific Boxcar for about 14 they apparently entered the car at 5 met wednesday in the Elpaso freight Yard about a mile from the rib were locked in and were not discovered until about 7 when Dudley men checked the eastbound agents in Elpaso said that at least 20 other aliens had been caught trying to Board the train in Al the Boxcar had been locked from the officials said they suspected that a third smug Gler locked the car so that the passengers might avoid detection in Sierra the trains first Stop on the Way temperatures in West Texas have hovered near All the Only source of Relief in the according to was a Small Hole in the which the survivor managed to carve for himself with a Railroad officials said a series of unusual events led to the deaths of the 18 including the fact that they hid in a Boxcar specially insulated to haul Beer at an even track repairs and several West bound trains also delayed the East bound freight train before it reached Sierra where a Border patrol inspection was officials said the men probably would be alive if they had hidden in a Standard air inside the insulated Boxcar remained at the temperature of the outside air at the moment the doors were a estimated and would not have dropped despite a trip through the Cooling desert officials speculated that the temperature would have increased with the body heat of 19 and although the car was not completely air would grow Short in an insulated Alex a spokesman for Union Pacific which now includes the Missouri Pacific said the train left Elpaso at and was delayed by track maintenance it had to take the siding several times to wait for westbound trains to the delays forced the Railroad to Send a new Crew to relieve the original Crew at at West of Sierra delaying it chief denies Blind Eye turned to operation continued from Page 1 they had a few weights on the floor and a he the weights disappeared within Basset adding it quickly became obvious from the quantities of bottles and odor that heavy drink ing was going on in the Basset said he was called Back about every three weeks to take Cash from the he said he would pay the operator a percentage and make out receipts to the Mcgee mens police chief Herb Stephen yester Day defended the police investigation of the homeowners and City councillors have said police should have closed the operation months a cabbie who frequented the operation said it and other similar operations in Winnipeg Are tolerated by we dont tolerate booze Stephen we Haven ignored the contrary to what people think we cannot just walk into a we have to operate within the Bounds of the Stephen said the first complaint about the a noise com was made he said police did not suspect the building was a booze can Slang for bootlegging operation until sometime in at which Point an undercover operation was started to collect sufficient evidence to permanently shut the he said the undercover work was near its conclusion when Magnus Eliason told the free press police were not reacting quickly enough to dispel residents Stephen refused to say when police planned to raid the we were working on it and we were going to have the problem resolved within a very Short period of All i can say is the publicity Given to it is going to make our Job More difficult but the Job is going to be disputes assertion he also disputed the cabbies assertion that it was impossible that cabbies would know about the booze cans but not Why would it be that we would not know about he because a cab Driver knows does he Tell the police everything you think cab Drivers Are going to Tell us i doubt very much they want to Tell us because they need booze cans so that they can take peo ple there at if there were no booze cans there would be a lot less business for the cab Stephen also disputed charges that two officers who investigated a com plaint at the building june 21 could have done More than Issue an of Fence notice for a noise court documents show the officers were told 100 people were in the building when they arrived at in the documents the officers refer to the building As a known after hours drinking what More would you have them do Stephen do you think they would have gone in and arrested people for running a booze can do think they would be Selling liquor openly in front of those police you can go in there and find that booze in there but that not an youve got to have them you can have a 100 people Over to your House tonight and have 150 cases of Beer in there and if we catch you Selling that an if we catch you giving it away to your friends that not an we cant just go in because someone has that liquor in the House and charge Stephen said he expected the operators of the building will open again at another there like he just move on to another exemption for City sought continued from Page 1 taxi trips this police officers will require while Parks and recreation employees will need the report said mayor Bill Norrie appealed to the province to exempt the City from the labor minister Al Mackling rejected the saying the City is not eligible for an Mackling could not be reached Chris Lorenc Sisler said Council will be looking at lobbying against the regulation at wednes Days Council i dont know what compelled the province to make the he there was no human outcry for a spokesman for Mackling office said the change was made without assessing the possible Impact on pm the spokesman said the amendment requiring males be provided transportation was made to remove discriminatory references in the act based on i dont think anyone objects to the Bill general manager of the Winnipeg chamber of they object to having to pass these costs on to the consumer in higher Draper predicted the change will Lead to reduced hours for Many especially those in food services All employers have to do is re strict the hours of employees so that they Start at a Quarter to 12 or quit at a Quarter to he he predicted University and other students working in fast food restaurants will As employers will close Early to save transportation he said it was bizarre the province took the Steps without assessing the but that not uncommon for this government to put Forward Amend ments without doing an assessment of the they do things that sound great and put people out of he that not very Denis director of the Mani Toba restaurant and food services called the regulation i can understand the logic on the surface but i dont see where the outcry he said additional costs to restau rants and bars sending workers Home by cab ultimately will be passed to the with restaurants the Consumers will with the City it will be the pay inequity angers doctors continued from Page 1 she said unlike the doctors did not have a casual list to rely on when they Felt too sick to for Chochinov one doctor returned to work two weeks Early following surgery because no body could replace the province gave Community Hospital emergency doctors a raise this week which increased their starting salaries to an Chochinov said the starting level at Boniface general Hospital is More than an but he said his four doctors handed in their notices before the raise was announced he said they quit after learning their counterparts at Misericordia general Hospital had received a 40percent he said about 30 patients Are seen each night at Grace emergency be tween 6 and 8 the nearest emergency depart ments Are at health sciences Centre and he the four Grace doctors Are among 24 emergency doctors citywide who did not renew their contracts this t the other hospitals found re four doctors at Victoria general Hospital Are considering breaking their contracts Over the salary said Laurie Gold one of the Victorias head of Glen said emergency department Heads from Community hospitals plan to meet Early next week the Concordia Hospital assistant executive director John Koschuk said his emergency Ward is properly staffed with eight Koschuk said they Are on contract to work until june but department morale is Low because of the higher salaries at Hsc and and the pay increase Given to Moe emergency director at seven Oaks general said he has his full staff level of Lerner the reduced hours at Grace could affect situations in other these things go in if one Hospital closes the others might be he new f87 Calais Suhok 2 new 87 a coif Well Cavalier loaded 13430 Community of reconditioned previously owned automobiles 85 fully loaded Moon Rool 85 Tui Isio 2 trans your exclusive Chevrolet fantasy dealer in Winnipeg one of the Best on Regent West Vickar Community i Chev Olds Ltd 964 Regent ave 6618391 i ;