HS 50 years ago 17.4.1974 | The public radio strike is leaking and crumbling

Employer took extraordinary measures on Tuesday to break down Yleisradio's strike, which has paralyzed a large part of the program activities.

Yleisradio made agreements with its two “non-striking” organizations, as a result of which the WC hockey matches will be televised at least abroad, possibly even in Finland.

The strike was “leaked” on Tuesday on television, whose main network showed the program of Mainos-tv in addition to Tenavatuokio.

Jorma Reini, the general secretary of STTK, or the Central Federation of Technical White-collar Organizations of Finland, which is behind the strike, thought that “the game is getting tougher”.

Employers and competing trade unions have not undertaken similar strike-breaking projects for decades.

The push to stop the strike has mainly been given by the President of the Republic Urho Kekkonen's demand that international connections must be taken care of. In addition, SAK has disapproved of the union strike.

An unidentified substance was found in Stig Wetzell

Finland The results of the urine tests of Stig Wetzell, the goalkeeper of the national ice hockey team, change from day to day.

At the request of the Finnish team, the final examination of the tests carried out on Sunday, early night and in the morning at the Department of Forensic Medicine of the University of Helsinki shows that there was no longer ephedrine in the urine, but some other substance.

The doctor of the Finnish team thought it was a “substance characteristic of urine”.

According to the Department of Forensic Medicine, the official test taken after Friday's game against Czechoslovakia, which Wetzell was caught, definitely showed ephedrine.

Olutpankki was sentenced to compensation of 50,000 marks

Jyväskylä (HS)

The Jyväskylä apartment building's beer bank case was decided in the Jyväskylä court of bankruptcy.

In addition to the fact that the house company that bought 30,468 bottles of beer from Alko over four years paid its beer to Alko in the normal way, it now has to account for more than FIM 50,000 in compensation and fines to the state for striving for good service.

The process started last fall, when a resident of Asuton limited company Keskikatu 1214 called Alko's local manager in Jyväskylä and announced a beer bank intended for sauna users in the building.

Helsinki canceled Ulappasaarenti's employment loan

Helsinki has canceled the employment loan of Kiinteistö Oy Ulappasaarentie 6.

The real estate company still has FIM 871,200 in unpaid loans. The cancellation period for the loan is 3 months.

The housing company initially received an employment loan of FIM 990,000 from the city, which was 25 percent of the construction costs. At the same time, the city got the right to name a quarter of the tenants.

The loan was granted with an interest rate of 8.5 percent and a repayment period of 22 years. The company has managed to repay the loan by a little over FIM 100,000.

Last fall, the owner of Kiinteistö Oy Ulappasaarentie 6 completely paid off the mortgage on the house, exchanging it for a bank loan with a higher interest rate. After that, rent increases of 30-70 percent were demanded from the tenants of the house.

The rent dispute is being handled by the Helsinki Housing Court.

Movie tour

Rauni Mollberg's Mukka film “Maa on sintinen laulu” has been selected for the program of this summer's Berlin Film Festival as Finland's representative film.

Only two films from the Nordic countries have been selected for Berlin this time; another one of them is Vilgot Sjöman's novelty from Sweden “Handfull kärlek”.

It features the main parts, e.g. Ingrid Thulin, Anita Ekström and Gösta Bredefeldt.

The final selection of the program was carried out by the directors of the Berlin Film Festival at the end of the week.

The festival will be held between June 21 and July 2, as usual.

We invited Risto Jarva's “One Man's War” to participate in the Karlovy Vary film festival in July.

Patricia Hearst already as a bank robber

San Francisco (Los Angeles Times)

of the United States the federal police FBI announced on Monday that Patricia Hearst, who was kidnapped by terrorists, participated in the bank robbery in San Francisco on Monday.

At least three members of the organization that kidnapped Hearst were involved in the robbery.

However, the police suspect that Hearst was not involved voluntarily.

Witches are needed

Geneva (Reuters)

A A senior official at the World Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva on Tuesday that witch doctors are as important as psychiatrists and should therefore be allowed a defined role in health care.

Dr. Adeoye Lambo, WHO's deputy director-general, said the rituals of witch doctors are often beneficial in treating diseases.

“There is no doubt that some of these so-called witch doctors, who I myself prefer to call traditional healers, are as valuable as psychotherapists or psychiatrists in the Western world,” said Nigerian Dr. Lambo to the WHO publication “World Health”.

Swedish radio is reducing the budget for Finnish programs

Stockholm (HS)

Migrant radio operates under the protection of Swedish Radio's mighty Glass Palace. The Finnish-speaking department is struggling with financial difficulties; a quarter budget reduction is looming.

One Finnish-language program hour costs 911 kroner, the price of a Swedish-language hour is almost 3,000 kroner. In this way, a Finnish-language lesson is created much cheaper, because it has to be: there is no money.

There are four permanent and a dozen freelance journalists working in the Finnish-language department, the program is produced for more than eight hours a week.

The new law that will enter into force in July prohibits the use of freelancers for more than 18 hours a week. If the Finnish-speaking department does not get more vacancies by then, it is threatened with a crisis.

Izvestija praised Tito's new line

Vienna (Erkki Pennanen)

Six a week before the gathering of the Yugoslav Party Congress, President Josip Broz Tito's hardened domestic political course has received noteworthy recognition from the Soviet Union, which seems to foreshadow Moscow's favorable attitude towards the decisions of the Party Congress.

In an exceptionally extensive report “Impressions of Yugoslavia”, the Soviet government's newspaper Izvestija pays critical attention to many phenomena of the past years in the country's internal political development.

However, according to the newspaper, the change in direction initiated by President Tito a couple of years ago and the consistent strengthening of the party's voice in all areas of social life is a guarantee that the future looks brighter than before.

Izvestija says that the Yugoslav Communists preparing for the Tenth Party Congress have considerable self-criticism for past mistakes.

According to the magazine, such mistakes have been, for example, excessive faith in the so-called to the automatic progress of a system of workers' self-government, and fetishism, “the market according to which the free market would automatically, or at least almost automatically, solve all problems.”

Ukkola does not wrestle on the PM mat

Pertti Ukkola (57 kg) will not participate in the Nordic Greco-Roman wrestling championships held next weekend in Trelleborg, Sweden.

Ukkola, who wrestled well in Lahti at Easter, has injured his hand and has to give up the trip.

As of Tuesday, a man has not been named in his place. There are two candidates, Jussi Vesterinen and Ilpo Seppälä.

Compiled by Jarkko Rahkonen

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