Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 11, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Wednesday october 11, 1978 Schreyer blames restraints for Large jump in jobless by Mary Ann Fitzgerald finance minister Don Craik said tuesday he could Only speculate on the reasons for the Large jump in the ranks of Manitoba s unemployed last month while opposition Leader de Schreyer Laid the blame directly on the government s restraint program. Statistics Canada figures re leased earlier in the Day showed More unemployed in the prov Ince last month than in August for a total of actually unemployed. That was a six tenths of a Point increase in the seasonally adjusted rate. Manitoba still ranks third lowest in unemployment in the country. In an interview Craik said the increase was disturbing but the government would have to wait to see if it were a trend or an anomaly which sometimes occurs in reporting statistics. The govern ment does t intend to go into make work projects at the moment he said. Craik said he regards the month to month figures More As general indicators of what is happening at that Point in time rather than indicators of Long term trends in Manitoba. He noted the labor Force in sep tember was up Over september 1977 but the total labor Force was up by during the same period. This he said increased unemployment because Job creation was t sufficient to absorb All the new entrants to the Job Market. Meantime Schreyer predicted a rather miserable Winter in terms of unemployment and in the econ omy generally. He noted that september historic ally is a time of a High level of construction activity and economic performance. Their the government s poli cies of restraint certainly Haven t helped. They have had to aggravate the unemployment problem be cause when the Economy is relatively sluggish to pour on extreme restraint aggravates the Situa the opposition Leader said. Schreyer said the government should offer some stimulants to the private sector. The Only real answer is economic development and that s not going to happen in the Short Craik said. If the trend to higher unemployment persisted he said the government would certainly look at prior izing construction projects. He said it could be that the government s restraint program had some effect but i Don t know How you can Tell whether the Statis tics would have been the same without the Craik said that while the numbers employed in the province had grown in the year the 1976 to 1977 statistics showed a drop of while he had no statistics to prove it Craik said he suspected out migration from the province a year ago might have held Down unemployment rates then. However he also suspects that out Migra Tion May have slowed so that even with More jobs the unemployment rate is higher. Jobless govt. Employees trying to return to work Schreyer Lames restraints. By Mary Ann Fitzgerald about 90 former civil servants or term employees Laid off under the Manitoba government s restraint program Are still trying to get Back into government service according to a spokesman for the civil service commission. Bob Best a member of the com Mission and of the government s redeployment committee said in a interview there Are approximately 00 vacant jobs but difficulties occur with Matching the skills of those seeking jobs and the Job requirements. The committee has encountered a further difficulty in the geographical location of the employees and the jobs with some employees not wanting to relocate. Approximately half of the people seeking jobs Are in Winnipeg with the remainder in the North and Rural areas. Meanwhile Best and Bill Jack son president of the Manitoba government employees association report approximately 60 Laid off employees have been re hired by the government. As a Job requirement comes in we first try to fill it from the redeployment Best said in a interview. Of those Laid off by the govern ment he said 45 have resigned because they found work else where. Jackson said there has been some co operation Between the Mega and the government Over redeploy ment but he won t be satisfied until All employees on the list have been rehired. The two were questioned after Premier Sterling Lyon said his government has Cut civil service ranks by 13 per cent or employees almost All through attrition. Lyon said the biggest reduction was in contract employees who numbered when his govern ment took office last october and who now number 268. Jackson agreed most of the reduction had come through not Ren Ewing contracts or through Attri Tion contract employees Aren t Mega it has t had a drastic effect. In the ranks of our membership under 200 were Laid off and 60 to 70 per cent of those were subject to Lay off because they were in term the Mega president said. 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Marci Byshyn said he planned to set up a meeting with the town s Council immediately to resolve the stand off. He said it was Only a matter of deter mining whether the Council had enough Cash flow in its own budget to pay for the truck of whether another source of financing within the department would have to be found. South Indian Lake councillor William Dysart said the town had been arguing with the government for Over a year on the replacement of a second hand water vehicle that has been serving the Community for the past three years. The truck is badly run Down and it s Only got a makeshift tank on the Back. Besides there s no driveways into Many of the Homes so it s difficult to service Dysart said. He said Only about 10 per cent of the Homes in the Community Are connected to the town s water and sewage Supply. The province has been told Many times that we need a new truck but they refuse to look at the need of the Community Dysart said. The government says they Haven t got the Money they be offered to landscape some of the Community which in t nearly As important to us As our water Dysart said if the water Supply is Cut off the school and store will Likely be shut Down. He said emergency water supplies would be delivered to the nursing Sta Tion. The town Council operates the sewer and water Plant which it received As part of the compensation for relocating the Community prior to flooding Southern Indian Lake. Southern Indian Lake is part of the Manitoba Hydro Churchill River diversion project which supplies water to the Nelson River Power plants. 3 charged with rape three men have been charged with rape in connection with an incident shortly after Midnight Friday involving a 19-year-old woman. Charged Are John Leonard Clarke 19, Blandford Boilard 18 and Myles Nel son Able Duguay 19, All of Kapyon bar Racks Canadian forces base Winnipeg. Drugs right across from the Capitol theatre 318 Donald st. 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