Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday Une 25, ,1973 ii new cure needed sir As a member of the working class As someone 1 who a known poverty on a level where do cell people Are forced to live Wilh thieves drunks and prostitutes where privacy is unimaginable where families eat sleep sicken and die in one room. I speak As an observer who notes that after 100 years of liberalism and conservatism such hideous conditions still exist. Looking at history 1 Sec the old parties fought tooth and Nail against social reforms from free elementary school for the Chil d r e n of common people right up to medicare and a topic of the present. When re form became expedient they sometimes expedited them after much pressure and took the bows. 1 know that Mankind s tragedy is that he can draw up Blue prints for goodness but cannot carry them out. I am not so foolish Aslo confuse Good Hon est High minded envy Wilh eco nomic policy. But when i hear n Man like de Schreyer who even his enemies have to admit is a mature and ratio Nal Man who works within uie system who avoids extremes Villi find As out for slate control 1 am revolted. F cannot believe Izzy Asper is ignorant or wicked. I can Only conclude his experience in life has been narrow and that neither he nor Sidney Spivak have Over had their noses rubbed in the harsh reality of economic oppression. It is less than honest it is villainous to Label or. Schreyer s efforts to halt the takeover of farms by Agri business the elimination of Small businesses by giant corporations and paternalism towards Hie poor and aged As Sale it is the old old charge of autocracy which once cried out bolshevism Over old age pensions the liberals and conserva Uvis have had 100 years. And by their own account there Are a lot of social ills As a re sult. Or. Schryer has hardly had time to Ripen a Strawberry my question is what makes them think More of the same will cure the very conditions in caused ill the first place Ann Henry Winnipeg London Reuter a new attempt to ban whale Hunting s expected this week at Tho 5th annual general meeting Lere of the International whal ing commission experts Are sure the move vill fail As it did last year. Scientists of the inc claim Hal the whale is winning its cattle for survival an o v e r a 11 population level of More than a Gra dually fighting Back from the near extinction Levels to which some species were reduced by objects to manifesto sir 1 have just received the Liberal party manifesto self control or Sale control and Obj cello in strongly. First there is a Section on welfare where a picture of massive freeloading is painted. This View is contrary to the fact and runs counter to the realities and our economic sys tem and is discriminating. It is contrary to fact because according to the Barber report the category of general Assis Tance As of March 1972 involved million per cent of total welfare expenditures and cases in pay. It runs counter to the Reali ties of our economic system because of the philosophy of welfare expressed by the lib orals is not different than that expressed when the Elizabeth an poor Law was enacted. It is discriminating because in selects a particular group o people for the contempt o their fellow citizens. My second objection applicable to All parties is the immoral manipulation of people 5 minds and the insulting of voters intelligences through the use of meaningless slogans whal is self control or slate control supposed to mean any Way it sounds much like free Enterprise versus socialism the key question is not should government interfere in our economic and social in Lilu Lions or even in our Persona lives. It already does. Rather Here Are a series of questions about in what ways and to whal degree. I Cir Hussni Winnipeg question of Freedom sir 1 have read several Lel ices obviously from nip sup porters and i feel very strongly that other opinions must be voiced if Freedom ;