Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free press tuesday june Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published and printed six Days a week at 300 Cariton Street. Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 943-9331 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor More violence in Iran editorials it was to be expected that iranian officials would immediately blame the great satan As they Call the United states or the bomb blast that killed at least 69 iranian politicians on sunday. The americans have usually been blamed for anything that has gone wrong in Iran since the overthrow of the Shah. There is a Long list of other More Likely suspects however that they could easily have drawn names from a list of enemies created by the ferocity and fanaticism of Ayatollah Khomeini s government. Sabotage and violence have been common in Iran since the islamic revolution took place in 1979, and has been on the increase since president Abolhassan Bani Sadr was ousted earlier this month by the fundamentalist clergy who Rule the country. Last week one of the leading politicians was wounded when a Booby trapped tape recorder exploded in a mosque and there have been Many other incidents. The bomb that destroyed the Headquarters of the islamic Republican party killing chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammed Beheshti and 68 others was Only the most spectacular and the most bloody. The violence is a sign of the accelerating disintegration of Iran As the fundamentalist mullahs who Rule the country increase their suppression of All other political groups. The consequence of sunday s bombing May be to further that disintegration. Ayatollah Beheshti was second in Power and influence Only to Ayatollah Khomeini and the explosion killed four other ministers and six Deputy ministers As Well tearing a great Hole in the Power Structure of the islamic Republican party. The bombing is also Likely to inspire the government to new excesses of revolutionary Justice. Since or Bani Sadr was dismissed and went into hiding the terror waged by the government has increased. Scores of or. Bani Sadr s sup porters have been executed As Well As members of leftist groups and other iranians accused of waging War against god. Eleven were executed on the Day of the bombing. Now the mullahs Are calling for even More vigor in crushing enemies of the revolution. As the government closes off All outlets for legitimate protest and political activity in Iran the violence will continue. It is tragic but perhaps inevitable that terror will be answered with terror and the great danger now is that it will Rise to the Point that Iran will fall completely into chaos. Certainly the country at War with Iraq and torn within itself into Many factions appears to be near to it. Competition in the air the economic Council of Canada in its report on the Cost of government regulations says it has no illusions though it does have Hopes that the removal of regulation of Canada s air Industry and their replacement by Competition will solve All the problems of air transportation in this country. What deregulation will provide the report suggests is a greater Choice of services and fares for Consumers costs held Down by Competition and the Opportunity for the air transportation system to adapt More easily to future changes. Winni Eggers see regular television advertisements that offer . Customers the Chance to visit England for a fare substantially lower than the lowest offered in Canada even after the different Dollar values Are calculated. They Are bound to suspect that the difference is due in part to the fact that . Carriers Are virtually free from government regulation. The economic Council says this is True. While it does not expect the mainly East West routes available to Canadian carriers to be affected to the same degree by deregulation As were the mainly spoke and wheel routes so common South of the Border it suggests that there Are benefits to be gained by Canadian air travellers if the government backs away from its present control of the air Industry. The Canadian system uses the same technology As the ., has available to it the same labor skills and because of the trans Border traffic faces Competition from unregulated carriers. The last Simi Larity is apparent to travellers who notice the change in prices for services such As in flight drinks whenever a Canadian Carrier enters . Air space. The two systems Are not identical. Canada has problems with sparsely settled regions that do not exist in the . The Canadian air Industry is More highly concentrated than its the up tunnels up rail has announced that it will file an application with the Canadian transport commission to build two tunnels costing More than million to eliminate the Rogers pass bottleneck. In making the announcement Canadian Pacific president w. W. Stinson said that while the railway wants to Start construction next year the project will be Able to proceed Only if a solution is found to the losses incurred under the Crow s nest pass agreement. No one should blame or. Stinson for attempting to put As much pressure on the Federal government As possible to solve the problem of the statutory Grain rate. In doing so he is in fact performing a service for Western Canada. But up rail needs the tunnels and the double tracking to do other things than move Grain. The Lack of the tunnels is a bottleneck to the shipments of Coal Potash and Sulphur that already pay their Way on the railways of Canada. There Are Many Good reasons for implementing new Grain transportation rates. The necessity of two new tunnels in the Rogers pass area is just one of them. . Counterpart. Canada s local airlines usually carry fewer passengers but cover longer distances. However the Council report suggests there Are lessons to be drawn from . Deregulation. Traffic grew More than predicted mainly because . Carriers introduced a two fare system with the second fare Structure designed to attract the non business traveller usually 30-to-50 per cent lower than the Standard Cost. Larger airlines in the . Reduced the number of stations they served but were replaced with smaller carriers often offering More frequent service on less sophisticated air Craft. The Council report states there is no evidence to support the suggestion that deregulation in Canada would eliminate efficient ways of meeting the Public need for air services. It finds that Canada s airports have generally the time slots needed to permit new smaller carriers. It suggests that air Canada can no longer be considered a fledgling airline in need of Protection and that the loosening of Price and entry controls on the Canadian airline Industry would result in a wider Choice of fares and Quality of service and in greater efficiency. Terry Fox donations in support of cancer research Are one practical Way of paying tribute to Terry Fox. It was what he asked for. But there Are others. His limping run Halfway across Canada set an example to the handicapped. But Many of them do not need to be reminded to Rise above their disabilities and find new Powers and possibilities within themselves. Those who Are sound of mind and body however constantly need reminding not to get in the Way of the handicapped. A crippling Handicap and the threat of Early death spurred Terry Fox to invent a tougher Challenge for himself to live More fully than Ever to test the limits of endurance and Effort. He rejected the conventional Wisdom that the crippled and the dying should allow themselves to be pushed aside and go gently into that Good night. Those who Are thought of As handicapped commonly insist they have More potential than they Are Given credit for. Terry Fox made the Point in the most forceful possible Way. So another Way to pay tribute to Terry Fox is to accept the Point Stop Selling the handicapped Short learn not to impose on them the second Handicap of unsought pity and unjustified Low expectations give them the Chance they seek to pursue their goals like anyone else. For Terry Fox the struggle has ended. May he rest in peace. For the dying and the handicapped the struggle for recognition and acceptance must continue strengthened by his example. Behind the postal dispute by . Wilson special to the free press Ottawa the social political and Broad economic issues involved in the latest Post office dispute Are even More important than the actual dollars and cents costs of the Union s demands. The demand supported by the conciliation Board chairman for 17 weeks paid maternity leave raises questions of personal and family responsibilities. Is it really the responsibility of the state or of private sector employers to take Over a Good part of the father s responsibility to support his family at the time of the birth of a new child Basic question this is one of the Basic questions that must always be faced when issues of social policy Are considered where does the individual s responsibility end and that of society take Over it is very broadly accepted in this country that society acting through the state should prevent disaster from overwhelming the individual or family in the areas where this can be done. That is the rationale behind medicare programs. Without them some forms of illness can be catastrophic financially As Well As physically for the victim and since it is possible for society to make provision against this it is Desir Able to do so. But it is Normal for people to marry and have children. With the spread of the Multi earner family it is clearly socially desirable that married women should be Able to take maternity leave from their jobs with Assurance that they can return to them when it is discrimination the occurrences of racial discrimination and bigotry such As the alleged incidents against Indian and Metis in rail line workers Are an unfortunate reality of our times. The allegations stemming from this incident As Well As recent similar experiences by asian canadians serve to illustrate that in difference to racial discrimination is a common phenomenon. The alleged discrimination is indeed reprehensible. But what is More reprehensible is the Inadequacy of in s actions in response to the situation. The scope of in s investigation was limited specifically to interviewing the Foreman in question. In failed to inter View the Indian and Metis workers or for that matter fellow workers who could have attested to the Validity of the claims. Furthermore the haste with which the investigation was completed could not have provided the full scope of the incident. These two facts in combination with the questionable impartiality of an internal investigation serves to reinforce the Validity of the discrimination charges. It would appear that the investigation was aimed at lessening the full Force of the workers charges As opposed to uncovering the real truth. It is to be hoped that investigations being initiated by the Manitoba Metis federation and the Canadian human rights commission will uncover the facts. If discrimination indeed took place appropriate compensation is called for. Jack j. Ever Winnipeg figures by Dot i refer to the Canadian air traffic controllers salary reflected in the Arti Cle air threats free press june 18. For the record controllers salaries in Canada Start at and normally after 15 years of experience he or she will reach the maximum salary of per year. The average salary for operational controllers in Canada is per year. I would appreciate a correction published As i am sure our salaries will be a topic in the coming months. 1 am sure you would agree we do not want to mislead the Public. Carl Fisher regional director Canadian air traffic control Assoc. Inc. Winnipeg editor s note the figures carried in the article were supplied by the department of transport and represented maximum salaries of the various classifications of air traffic controllers. Or. Fisher s lower figures Are for the minimum salary. Letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters torn readers. Writers must give their name and address. The author s name will be used and letters Are subject to editing. Birthday Metis protesters Herb w. Blake Winnipeg born Mon Treal july Northener replies Flora Avenue and the North end Are old areas of the City populated by people of Many different incomes Edu cations ethnic and religious Back grounds languages Ages and life styles. Of course there is violence and hopelessness Here but these Are not unique to the North end. Alcoholics drug users the unwashed and the unholy Are All part of life whether one lives in the North end or in the most affluent and exclusive area of the City. Charles Polcyn principal of Argyle school seems to suggest otherwise. Or. Polcyn was quoted As saying we have been painted with the same is or. Polcyn not guilty of painting an entire populated area with the same Brush or. Polcyn Speaks of the North end View of is he seriously suggesting that All people who live in the North end have a different Peculiar View of life the View out of the window of a Low rental Home by the car tracks May be different than the View out of the window of a High Rise on the River but the person looking out those two windows will have the same View of life. If environment is so All important As or. Polcyn seems to think How would he explain away All the decent Law abiding citizens who live on Flora ave nue and conversely the not so decent who live in say River Heights if the location of Argyle school does indeed deter some students from other areas attending so be it. If this is their chief concern then i put it to you that they Are not particularly interested in coming at All. Supposing or. Polcyn wins his fight to have the school moved to a More affluent area does he really believe you could automatically run a better school or your students would suddenly Blossom Forth As Brilliant scholars these students will Blossom even on Flora Avenue and the school is As Good As the staff and students make regardless of location. Bonnie Chudo Winnipeg gory film i took my two daughters to see clash of the titans now playing at the Capi Tol theatre. I cannot understand How this movie could possibly be rated general. The violence is so graphic that most children could not even watch. There is a Man being burned at the stake a City is destroyed killing thou Sands of people Many of them in gory a monster s hand is lopped off and offered to the Princess while the monster walks around with a bloody stump. All this to the accompaniment of scary music with crescendos during the very gory parts. Even Star wars was classified mature and was much More amusing and less violent. The film classification Board exists to protect us from this. This film should be reclassified at least As mature. We sat through Only half of the movie. 1 imagine it gets even worse at the end. As it is i anticipate my children will have nightmares. Mrs. C. Blunderfield Winnipeg not As bad recently my parents went shopping for groceries at a mall and forgot Worth of goodies on the sidewalk. I told them Don t go Back because the groceries will be my father did go Back and the Gro Ceries were still there undisturbed at the curb. This suggests to me that society today is not As bad As i thought it was. There Are still people who Are honest. R. Moskal Winnipeg practical to make other arrangements for the care of the child during the Mother s working hours. It seems questionable however to extend that to the proposition that the employer state or private has a responsibility to take Over part of the father s support responsibilities during that time. When the unemployment insurance system was revamped a dec Ade ago provision was made for the payment of maternity benefits Al though it is questionable whether maternity leave and unemployment Are the same thing. These Are issues that need consideration in a broader context than a specific Row Between the government and a militant Union. This particular dispute also raises the important question of the value of the work performed and the relation ship Between that and the compensation paid for it. The inside postal work ers do not perform highly skilled work and at present they receive an average a year for it if they have two years service. Is the level of compensation to be determined merely by the fact of working or by the value of the work performed Pace setter on the Broad economic scale the dispute raises again the question of whether the Public sector should be the Pace setter determining wage and Sal Ary Levels. That Issue is extremely important because of the fundamental difference Between the Public and Pri vate sectors. In one there is no profit and loss discipline imposed on the employer in wage negotiations. In the other there certainly is. If govern ments agree to settlements that run Well ahead of those in the Community at Large they touch off determined catch up efforts by others. Union Power very closely related to this aspect of the present dispute is the question of Union Power. A demanding and deter mined Union striking against a private sector employer can if it goes to excess put the company out of business and this has happened. Even the most excessive Union demands backed by prolonged strikes will not put a govern ment out of business. In this sense Public sector unions make demands on the Economy As a whole whereas those in the private sector make their de mands Only on one segment of it. This is a vital difference that has been end Lessly talked about but never squarely faced in the government of Canada s labor relations. More specific to this dispute not involving such Broad issues is the Quality of service provided by the Post office. It is bad. The heavy Reliance that is now placed on the vices which Are far More expensive to use than the postal system is evidence of How bad. People do not spend to Send a letter from Ottawa to Toronto by courier for the fun of it but because they cannot rely on the Post office to get it there on time. In the private sector such bad service would be a serious curb on Union de mands because of the probability that the employer would go out of business in Short order anyway. Death penalty again we have found ourselves watching Ottawa approach verbal gymnastics to determine by free vote whether the death penalty ought to be reinstated in our country. If statistics proving that last year the homicide rate decreased by six per cent cannot move our politicians to think More clearly then surely their own concept of human dignity should bring them to a More concerned and thoughtful pos Ture. There have been studies made about this Issue and churches among others have tackled the subject head on. Many of our spiritual institutions have spoken out strongly against reinstating the death penalty and they have presented plausible papers to support their stand. It behoves the citizens of our country and particularly those who have any particle of belief in the possible redemption of their fellow human beings to grapple again with the Issue to search their souls for an answer and to write their maps. Let us All consider carefully regard less where we stand on the Issue How we might bring about improved conditions in our penal institutions so that the words redemption and rehabilitation take on improved strength of purpose. Ros Friesen Winnipeg by example i read with disgust a recent front Page article regarding the placement of a group Home for four mentally Handi capped adults on Aikman Street in Boissevain. In the article Allan Jamieson who led a three month Battle against the facility was quoted As saying that the children could be mean to the mentally retarded mean in language and everything or. Jamieson said about ten children under the age of nine live along the Block and with the tendency for Small children to behave cruelly there could be problems. Do not blame the children or. Jamieson. They learn by example. The adage Charity begins at Home could be altered somewhat to accommodate or. Jamieson s twisted Outlook by say ing prejudice and discrimination begin at if children Are taught to respect All people they will treat the mentally handicapped no differently from anyone else. It is Only when their role models exhibit prejudice that Chil Dren imitate them and when problems arise the kids get the blame. These mentally handicapped adults Are not the ones who will molest a child or use a weapon to intimidate and Hurt others or steal and vandalize some one s property. No it is the so called sane members of our society who commit these crimes. I applaud the decision of the Boisse vain town Council to approve the group Home. But i would like to see them go further and approve a second group Home in the 700 Block of Aikman Street to House the 76 per cent of the people there who truly Are mentally Handi capped handicapped in that they Are not capable of seeing beyond them selves. They have my sympathy. D. Lachaj4ce Winnipeg most experienced i read with interest which slowly turned to concern Deborah Reid s examination on the consequences of an aging society. The municipal hospitals possibly one of the most knowledgeable organizations in Canada on the treat ment and care of the aged was not approached. Some of our staff have International reputations. For Over 70 years municipal Hospital staff have cared for the population in Winnipeg. I find it difficult to under stand How a reporter doing a study on the aging society could have neglected to interview the most experienced individuals in this Field. . Cavey administrator municipal Hospital Winnipeg ;