Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wayne free press Union claims Victory at its by Cecil Rosner the communications workers of Canada say they have won the first skirmish in an inter Union Battle to represent employees of the Manitoba Telephone Union National representative Leo Dowhaluk said yesterday a major Ity of the Utility 700 Telephone opera tors have joined the Csc and applied to the Manitoba labor Board for Cert Ifica vote ordered the operators Are part of a group of about its workers who Are re presented by the International brother Hood of electrical Dowhaluk said the labor Board has ordered a Union preference vote to be taken among and will decide this week on details of the voting pro but he predicted his Union would saying the Ibex was reluctant to agree to the the Ibex was suspended from the Schulman acclaimed by tories Perry Schulman was acclaimed progressive conservative candidate for the provincial fort Rouge constituency and immediately announced his resignation from the Mani Toba police the Winnipeg said yester Day he didst feel it would be appropriate to continue As chairman or member of the government appointed commis Sion while running in the Pas president of the Manitoba Law said he wants to continue encouraging Community involvement in crime prevention in a positive Effort to assist the police to reduce in another nomination meeting yes Rodolfo Antiveros Defeated Bart Monaco to become the Liberal candidate in Ellice 39 is a special event coordinator for a local garment Manu he replaces the original lib eral candidate in Claro who opted out because of ill Canadian labor Congress in ate along with other building Trade for nonpayment of the which is affiliated with the is now trying to organize the Telephone system clerical and Plant workers who Are also represented by we ran a very clean said Dowhaluk of the communication workers he said workers were told their wages were Well below other Telephone operators in other provinces which Are represented by the Dowhaluk said a contract just signed in Saskatchewan puts operators hour ahead of their Manitoba counter while Csc operators in Quebec and Ontario also earn but he said if the labor Board Grants the Csc it will inherit the Ibex 1 contract which runs to Ibex representative Wayne Bra eau said yesterday the Issue of representation has still not been adding that he preferred not to make too Many comments until the labor Board had decided the Brazeau disputed Dowhaluk claim that the Csc initiated its organizing Campaign Only after the electrical workers Union had left the Canadian labor the next phase of the which involves a Challenge to Bews representation of about clerical and Plant May be complicated by the involvement of a third literature distributed Gary president of the Manitoba government employees said yesterday his organization feels it can effectively represent the Telephone systems office he said the Union has had meetings with groups of its employees and has distributed but the drive is not yet doer said he want surprised to learn that the Csc had applied to represent because the Union had about a two month jump on the Mega in talking to the its although both Csc and Mega come under the umbrella of the labor con doer said he saw nothing wrong in having both unions present their arguments to the employees and hav ing them decide which organization they feels there should be no problem organizing the rest of the weve made it Clear the Telephone Industry is our he Winnipeg free september 3 climber i i 11 in i i i i Valley gardens residents work together building playground aimed at breaking racial most private buildings still of limits to wheelchairs most private buildings Are still off limits to about people in the province who Are confined to wheel a structural design expert said Ben a professor of Environ mental design at the University of food prices increased in August monthly food prices compiled by the Manitoba Bureau of statistics show Price increases in Dau the and Winnipeg for the month of the increases ranged from per cent in the Pas to per cent in added to totals for the year ending August Liis leaves Gimli with a per cent increase in food prices for the Winnipeg with per the Pas with per and increases of per cent and per cent in Morden and Portage la Prairie respect although the Cost of the 38 major foods used in the Survey showed a significant increase in Portage la Prairie in the july in August Portage went Down by per cent and Gimli was the hardest oranges decreased in while August prices for salad Oil and Peanut butter and cof fee were relatively some selected items showed wider variations Bacon prices increased per cent in Gimli and per cent in Morden for but declined per cent in Portage la pork sausages went up 44 per cent in and per cent in said while most Public build Ings have been made accessible to paraplegics and other wheelchair bound owners of Many private buildings Arent making the necessary structural they Arent going to make the changes on their own because the changes Cost Harnish told Manitoba members of the Canadian paraplegic association at a panel discussion winding up wheelchair awareness week in what is needed to prevail upon Pri vate owners is More Harnish building standards for new buildings have been modified to accommodate wheelchairs in recent but Progress in ensuring accessibility in older buildings is he the problem of stairways can Al most be put into dollars and Harnish explaining that most owners consider the costs of installing ramps and elevators members of the meeting at the Holiday inn identified problems limiting their accessibility and renewed their determination to improve accessibility the group Felt provincial legislation is needed to guarantee accessibility for the disabled to private As Well As Public they said Basic such As being Able to enter a building and have accessibility to washroom Arent being while association members Felt some sympathy for building owners who have to pay for the most were confident that with continued education and lobby efforts those changes could be breaking racial barriers by Penni Mitchell residents of Valley gardens Are breaking Down racial barriers in their East Kildonan Community and replacing them with soccer tire swings and a Jungle gym More than 30 teachers and students erected the Metal and Concrete structures saturday in the playground of Bertrand Levin school As part of a Community involvement project initiated by school although the Home of Sansar where vandals last Spring Spray paint de racist is Only a few blocks there Arent Many racial Inci dents at the said physical Edu cation teacher Ken for the most part the kids get along everybody at the school works he nearly half the students at Levin came from Vietnam and other asian an area feels racial problems in Valley gardens Are no worse than other areas of the not very Nice the difference Between the East Kildonan Community and others is that residents Are working to improve Community spirit so racial tensions in the largely asian Community can be students at Levin raised 000 last year to buy the playground according to Glen vice Prin Cipal at the the object of the game is that were trying to get every one commenting on incidents of racial a Grade 5 Stu Dent said its not very Nice when they tease the Brown kids they Stu dents who tease think there so a Grade 4 Doest understand Why the Singh Home was lots of people Are from but we dont mind about she Many of the students said they learn More going to school with kids from different its said one Grade 5 Stu Brown is hopeful the project will curb vandalism in the area As Well As Foster Community two other area elementary Hampstead school and Besant started similar Community projects and constructed similar playground equipment on the school in the Wake of increased racist Inci dents in the City last mayor Bill Norrie promised to establish a race relations committee to advise the mayor and City Council on racial David executive assistant to the says there will be about a dozen people on the Dies after Street mishap a Winnipeg was killed Early yesterday morning in a car pedestrian Accident on main Street Between Flora and Selkirk police said Albert John rents of 69 Pritchard Avenue was crossing main Street about when lie collided with a southbound he was taken to health sciences where he died on the operating Jim Winnipeg Tret Prusis two Winnipeg doctors open an operating room for rent doctors Paul Walton left and Richard Greenwood display their private operating by Maureen Brosnahan two doctors have opened Winni pegs first private surgical Centre that rents an operating room by the the Winnipeg surgical Centre was opened last week by two Oral sur Richard Greenwood and Paul Walton who said the Centre will help patients and doctors avoid Long surgical waiting lists at Many they see it As a Boon to patients needing minor surgery but who want to avoid the Long Hospital waiting lists for Many elective very encouraging Walton and Greenwood have set up private practice at the Sargent ave nue location where they will do Oral other physicians will be Abole to use the premises for minor procedures such As tooth Eye surgery and minor plastic surgery which dont require an overnight stay in Hospi the two have done some Oral sur Gery during the past week but have yet to rent out their operating we saw our first few patients last week and its very its beginning to said an associate professor of dentistry at the University of the rooms will be rented out by the hour and the fee will be dependent on the kind of supplies and equipment needed for the Walton while the number of operations a Day the Centre can schedule will depend on the Type of Greenwood said the Centre could Han dle quite a few because Day surgery operations rarely take longer than an hour and a the patients will come in for their remain in the recovery room for a time and then go arrangements will be made through the doctor who will be billed for the rental of the room and the we have the potential to increase if we have the Walton similar Day surgery clinics have been set up in Calgary and red and in parts of Walton and Greenwood Felt there was a need for a similar clinic in the idea is that its purely outpatient Greenwood this takes the workload off the Hospital for simple the two said the clinic facilities surpass All the standards set by the Manitoba College of physicians and surgeons and the Manitoba dental James registrar of the College of physicians and surgeons said there is nothing to prevent Doc tors from opening privately operated and funded facilities As Long As medi Cal standards of practice and equip ment Are we Felt they would be Morison he was unaware that the surgical Centre set up by Walton and Greenwood was Al ready Morison said such clinics Are con but the Lack of control Over what procedures Are done is bound to be less than in a publicly funded in a private office it could get out of he two anaesthetists will join the clinic shortly noting the extreme shortage of we were very Lucky to get said a an operating room technician and a registered nurse make up the full time extra staff such As nurses will be available on an on Call criticism expected the pair expect some negative reaction to their venture from the hospitals and other health care pro i am sure there will be some members of our profession who will be Only too pleased to criticize Greenwood but he said All standards of care will be met and should complications he said both he and Walton have admitting privileges at More than one City if our Quality control int a Suc it wont said people wont use i i ;