Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 1981 garment Trade output soared in depression the depression was a time of expansion for Winnipeg garment this the first in a series about the looks at the roots of the Needle trades in by Heather Frayne the chadian press when Mendal Moser decided to sink his last few depression dollars into a sewing machine and chum out made he became part of an Industry which was just Over 30 years old in that what happens with a Man when he cant get a i said Sam president of Midwest garments the company descended from Moses lonely he buys himself a machine and he goes into Midwest modest Start in 1930 is typical of Many of the 90 or so garment factories Here born in lean Midwest garments has be come a highly automated shirt manufacturer employing 225 people and enjoying brisk sales even with High interest rates now eating into the garment Industry in Winnipeg today provides work for about mostly it All began Winnipeg shirt and Overall manufacturing in like the 30 or so businesses which sprang up before Moser bought his Jingle Midwest survived the Tough depression years almost unscathed As Cash strapped Manitoba retailers found there was an advantage in patronizing local buying locally meant doing away with Long Waits for Eastern shipments As Welt As the feed of costly it want the first time the Needle trades were Able to turn misfortune in their the opening of the Panama canal during the first world War had spelled disaster for Winnipeg great turning competitive ship Ping rates upside Down and ending the cites Days As a leading distribution n apparel entrepreneurs saw Dollar signs in the emptying warehouses and snapped them that coincided with an immigration of jewish said Paul professor of economics at University of the combi nation of people experienced in the garment Trade with the cheap rents of the wholesale houses led to a major expansion of the garment the Industry produced regular mens work gloves and things like with the Advent of the second world War came contracts for military uni forms which necessitated larger labor new machinery and big Ger when the War ended the plants were adapted to produce uni forms for such workers As milkmen and bus in the six years following the local clothing Industry virtually Dou Busy garment workers turn out clothing at Hammonds tailoring and furrier department in Winnipeg about bled in terms of number of workers wages paid and output pro said Ruben a univer sity of Manitoba economics in his Winnipeg first Century an economic even it want a soft life for garment recalled 79yearold Jimmy a Union organizer in the 1940s and a Well known figure in Winnipeg labor at that particular time the mini mum wage was 25 cents an hour and a worker could be called in for half an hour a Day and Only be compensated for the work she did people afford to pay Union by the manufacturing Boom subsided in the next three dec Ades As the Industry was hard hit by cheap imports from such countries As Taiwan and Hong As a the Industry has All but abandoned Standard Wear in favor of what Phillips terms fashion with particular emphasis on fur goods and Winter garments where Winnipeg has a comparative in fact the quilted Down coat was originally a product of so it has moved much More into style goods rather than into regular Winter cloth in the the Federal government stepped in to help by imposing import restrictions on textiles and clothing from 17 Ottawa announced recently these will be extended for at least five the Industry has always drawn its workers from recently arrived Immi Grant groups filipinos in the last few chileans and Southeast in told that in some theres up to 13 different languages said very few Wasp but a few of them task Force attempts to improve government accessibility by Sheila bean the Public has become impatient and frustrated with obstacles they meet when trying to talk to government a spokesman for a Federal task Force on service to the Public said Al Sackman told the rotary club of Winnipeg that government must be More we Are living on the threshold of an information revolution increasing the demand for comprehensive and accurate information from govern he the task Force was created in 1977 because the Federal government was concerned about its Public Sackman studies indicated that canadians viewed their Federal government As being insensitive and often he they saw its bureaucrats As overpaid and under Sackman said the cause of Discon tent is usually something such As the number of Calls an individual has to make to reach a government so if frustrations arise from the simple we feel that the solutions May also be simple and inexpensive he the first thing the task Force he was overhaul the Telephone list other Telephone services the commit tee initiated Are a Tollfree government Telephone service and a Telephone re ferral another part of the program is the establishment of 15 service bureaus across the country to accommodate those people who prefer to get help in Sackman which the committee recognizes As the worlds most advanced information retrieval is the last phase of the Zelidon enables the user to Call up a vast Range of information on a modified television it is available in Many of the service bureaus and unmanned Sackman said the government a Cess program has been endorsed through to March when it will be he said it has had absolutely no opposition so but admits it is too Early to be predicting Suc Western express ill five tickets Worth each and five Worth each were picked in the Western express lottery draw last the tickets Are 1527091 and the tickets Are and there Are prizes of for tickets with the last six digits of the top for the last five digits and for the last weather h High i l Low or cold f worm Winnipeg area forecast sunny today with a brisk Southwest wind this High near Clear tonight with a Low near sunny tomorrow with a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny saturday and sunday with temperatures above Cloudy periods with tempera Tures near Normal readings of 17 and 5 Northern Manitoba variable cloudiness Cloudy sunday and monday with periods of rain tempera Tures above Normal saturday and sunday and Cooling to near Normal readings of 13 and 2 Northwestern Ontario Cloudy with temperatures near nor Mal sunny with above Normal temperatures Sun becoming Cloudy with temperatures near Normal read Ings of 16 and 7 temperatures Canada and the world drought study launched the University of Manitoba agriculture economics department will carry out a study aimed at develop ing a Lon term water management strategy to help reduce the Impact of drought and improve chances for eco nomic plans for the three year funded by the Federal and provincial were first announced a year the faculty of agriculture said yesterday the contract has been signalling a Start to the the study will evaluate the effectiveness of existing drought roofing programs Many which were established in 1935 propose strategies for the a University statement City Calendar the Canadian National Institute for the Blind will offer an eight month braille course to interested volunteers starting in Early Contact the 1031 Portage ave Harold principal of Acadia divinity will preach at 20 and also at a service of ordination at monday at Broadway first Baptist Craig currently working in will be formally ordained to the gospel ministry on this Winnipeg Branch of the Canadian authors association will launch its 61st year with a gala cruise from 7 to 10 24 on the paddle wheel the cruise will Honor Manitoba authors of National for Contact the the Nymha jewish Community Centre will offer English classes to newcomers from 7 to 9 monday and starting Register before 30 at the 370 Hargrave our mistake a Story yesterday said wrongly that seven Oaks Hospital Hopes to open 40 new Beds by the end of the in the Beds will open within a As the Story attributed to Hospital administrator Gudmundur Myrdal a statement that the Hospital has the capacity to reduce bed shortages in the but Hast the in he made no such Wicker and bedroom How to Cut Corners on buying a like should be purchased with Long term reliability in Thatte Why inclusive India Vinyl thicker and stronger than Ordinary water mattress Van i inter c Ooms Tang Lipport Celli Slop bottoming and irked a Patent pending free floating Horny bomb quickly Topi motion reinforced Comer construction deaths classified death 54 National 24 9 27 is 29 10 30 6 21 4 u 4 ii 6 11 8 16 1 14 8 Thunder 14 5 18 8 17 6 18 6 17 u International 15 10 16 8 new 19 is 17 14 18 12 26 20 18 8 10 5 30 18 20 16 Madrid 33 is Moscow 12 Paris 21 10 28 17 Stockholm 13 4 Tel Aviv 28 21 resort spots los Clear 26 20 Las Clear 36 26 fair 41 32 fair 31 25 fair 30 23 fair 32 24 fair 28 24 Cloudy 33 24 mean 16 last year Normal a Watt an record in 1979 lowest on record in 1881 total for april 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