Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free november 1981 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1 890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller essential and humane two actions taken by the Canadian government last week will provide some help for Poland and the polish immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy announced that immigration rules will be relaxed to make it possible for poles visiting relatives in Canada to stay and to make it easier for polish citizens in Poland who have relatives in Canada to Axworthy plan is a Welcome humanitarian but it does nothing for those poles who May need his help the the who have already left Poland and Are now staying in refugee Camps in Axworthy immigration program for 1982 is to be released soon and he has said that it will take into account the polish it is to be hoped that it specifically will take into account the plight of these later in the wheat Board minister Hazen argue announced that this country will extend million Worth of credit to enable Poland to buy the Grain is desperately needed and Poland has no Money to pay for other Western nations Are also helping to ease the food shortage the United states recently allowed million in credit for the Purchase of Dairy and France and other common Market countries have also Given credit to Poland for the Purchase of Poland already owes Canada million for past Grain the new credit will total owing to More than is Only a fraction of the staggering amount that Poland owes to Western the total is now More than it increased by More than billion this year and the state of the nations Economy is such that it is having trouble paying even the interest on the it is if some Western nations Are reluctant to offer More Money to the United for earlier this year is reported to have been reluctant to go along with a secret common Market proposal for increased Aid to both because of the huge amount already owed to the and because it looked As France might receive most of the credit for the although there is Little Prospect of Poland being Able to pay off its debt in the foreseeable Aid to Poland is essential for humanitarian and political poles Are heading into a hard Winter in which Many of them will be cold and food is scarce and a fuel shortage is aside from the human misery this will it has dangerous political Solidarity and the polish government Are already locked in a confrontation that neither Side really wants and which the nation cannot if living conditions continue to it will be difficult for either the Union or the government to control the and the Prospect of chaos in Poland this Winter could provide the russians with a pretext for intervention if the Kremlin decides that the polish Experiment has gone too Poland needs a period of Calm in which the Union and the government can work towards finding a cooperative approach to the country economic the Best Way of achieving that is by helping the country resolve its present the Western in their own self interest As Well As the interest of the must do everything they can to Swift kick indicated the workers compensation Board stands accused by some of its own employees of using bureaucratic roadblocks to fend off injured workers seeking compensation for ont Ejob rejected claimants Are not told clearly How to go about claims Are rejected if the paperwork is not in order even if the claim is legitimate and the through language difficulties or unfamiliarity with bureaucratic is unable to put them in the Board should have no difficulty in writing and providing to All claimants a Clear and straightforward brochure setting Forth their rights under the workers compensation act and the help they can expect from the it should be Able to Tell its staff to consider claims on their intrinsic merits and not strictly on their conformity to the but if the Board cannot see its Way Clear to satisfying those elementary requirements of sound adminis a Swift kick administered by the minister of labor is the web also stands accused of pressuring employers to find jobs for their that is exactly what the Agency should employers should not be allowed to toss injured workers on the scrap Heap if they Are capable of gainful just because they cannot do their accustomed continued employment is far bettor than enforced idleness for All but the compensation system should reimburse the worker for loss of earning Power resulting from an senior officers of the web staff have been condemned for their management described As management by and for treating claims so As to keep Down costs even when that involves cheating the it is up to the Board and the not to the senior to decide How the line is to be drawn Between defending the fund and helping the if the senior staff Are quietly sabotaging Board they should be either brought into line or but if the Board and its chairman must answer for the Way claims have been it is abundantly Clear that the web staff is polarized into hostile Camps one which has spoken up using every Opportunity to help claimants get the Best possible service and results from the Board the which has not yet been heard working in some other direction and arousing resentment among the first that is a most unhealthy condition for any an Alert Board and a skilful chairman would not allow it to the first response of the web has been to get rid of the most senior of the dissatisfied employees and threaten him with prosecution for disclosing to the Manitoba federation of labor information from claimants that action is ludicrously Remote from the roots of the which relate to an honest disagreement Over the webs Mission and to a kind of guerrilla warfare within the disclosure of file information has to be severely limited to protect the privacy of the limitations should not be used to obstruct efforts of a workers advocate to gather information that is needed to argue on his the first responsibility for defining the Agency Mission and for uniting the staff in fulfilment of that Mission lies with the Board and its labor minister Ken Macmaster must decide whether the Board and chairman Are capable of doing an inquiry of some kind May help him assess the extent and nature of the but the province does not need a massive exercise in second guess ing every decision the Agency has made that would merely extend the disruption and crts rebuked the by a Newfoundland provincial that the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission has no right to control the satellite reception of programs by Cable television companies will be encouraging for canadians who want the open skies policy opposed by Many broadcasters and the Newfoundland Case was Over Shell Bird Cable television of Corne Brook had been distributing the pro Grams of the Public broadcasting service in the to its these signals Are licenced across Canada by the crts As part of its three Pulsone policy that allows Cable companies to deliver the signals of three networks and one education Type where Shell Bird ran afoul of the authorities was in the Means by which it obtained the plus one it received the signal through a satellite much the same As stations on the pcs network receive the crts had taken the position in Newfoundland that it would be acceptable to have the Cable company distribute the signal As Long As it used the More expensive microwave network to obtain Shell Bird chose to save its customers Federal authorities seized the Shell Bird satellite dish and put the signals off the the programs will be put Back on the the More significant part of the court proceedings can be found in the decision that Cable compan ies Are not As defined by the this if it will have a far reaching effect on the entertainment and information canadians will be Able to receive through their Cable if you Fino a legally Neutral tackling the budget deficit by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa prime minister Pierre Trudeau warning in Toronto last week that chronic budget deficits Are inflationary is belated but sound and it carries with it some Assurance that the budget will avoid the worst collapse of Confidence the collapse of consumer Confidence which the conference Board has just along with the country other economic creates the temp tation to put off action on the deficit in Hope of stimulating the if Trudeau and his finance minister Are on the same Wavelength that temptation will be there was nothing surprising about the conference boards report on the Black pessimism that grips Consumers these the effects of the psychology inevitably produced by months of extreme interest rates were already there for anyone to see the fall off in retail the downturn in Industrial the housing slump and the Rise in the number of on the surface and to a Large degree in Allan Maceachen has been one of the most inactive finance minis ters this country has Ever behind the he has been hard nosed in dealing with the spend ing proposals coming from his Cabinet whether he actually believes the monetarist theories he is he has been engaged in a genuine attempt to Cut it has been inevitable All along that interest rates at the Canadian and american Levels would bring on a re cession if they were the Only economic tool in in the United the Reagan ites have been relying upon their so called Supply Side economics principally tax and spending cuts to stimulate Industrial production and business the essential Dif Ference Between Canadian and Ameri can policy has been the exclusive re Liance upon monetary action and spending restraint in this in neither Case can anyone foresee the classical economic to which no one has paid much Atten Tion tells us that the recession developing in Canada should bring with it some abatement in Economy falters in the United the Hope has been that the policy mix will produce the reduction in inflation without the the american is faltering and there certainly is no Assurance that it will escape at one time in there would have been Confidence that these poli cies and the situation they Are producing would in fact have borne heavily on that is by no Means Clear now because Union Power May be great enough to prevent any reduction in labor costs and much of Industry May have the strength to maintain administrative pricing that in to prices on a cos plus basis rather than in response to Market con the danger confronting the policies adopted by the Canadian and Ameri can gov is under con temporary inflation will not yield to anything Short of a full scale depression and will resist a less severe the social and political consequences even of a moderate recession brought on by deliberate government policy or As in he Canadian Case by an abdication of responsibility to the monetary Are More than most politicians in Power would care to logical yet if either government turns Back at this what was the Point of All the pain that has been inflicted Brit Ains prime minister Margaret Thatcher is not a politically attractive figure but her refusal to change the course upon which she has embarked is at least in preparing this the finance minister is faced with the reality that he and his predecessors left it too late to come to grips with chronic Maceachen cannot escape his share of because his budget a year ago did not Deal with the problem that the budgets from his predecessors had last Spring he again failed to grasp the the most optimistic inflation fore casts these Days suggest by the rate May be Down to about 10 per cent or a Little that would hardly be a howling Success for these poli pie in the sky nip Leader Howard Hawleys re cent Campaign pledge to create a government Oil exploration company would Lead us to believe that Manitoba taxpayers in the near get u piece of the Oil profits As Pawley improve social pro this Pierin Shesky reasoning is typical of the Dps ant business where corporate profits Are and Only by pure heart Bureau cratic technology can the citizens be properly Hawleys views apparently Are predicated on his absurd notion with qualified professionals there would be Little Chance of wasting tax payers Money drilling dry the nip Leader should consult the Statis tics of Oil exploration across North America to learn for the ten year period Only one in 45 exploratory Wells drilled was successful in discovering Oil or the exploration companies involved were using qualified if Only the Cost of drilling an exploratory which averages about is considered that excluding the considerable costs of setting up a new government department and Hir ing dozens of High calibre profession Oil wealth for Manitoba it would take about to find the first producing a Good producing Well in Manitoba May generate As much As 150 barrels of Oil per Day at Canadas barrel less Federal production the Well might pay for itself in four Given that the average time from initial exploration to actual production is probably More than five a total of nine years will have elapsed from the time the nip spends our tax dollars to the time they Start earning a that is a pretty poor return on perhaps Pawley has overlooked the fact that our province is by any geological a promising fron tier for Oil the Mea Gre exploration activity during the re cent astronomical Rise in Oil prices has indicated i suggest the nip make some Siiple economic calculations on the subject of their proposed new Oil rather than carry on with its doctrinaire James Teller Winnipeg youre kidding Premier Sterling Lyon says that the nip would Transfer Money from health and education or put on extra taxes to keep their election who is he trying to fool one of the first things Lyon did when he took office was to Transfer the Money from the gasoline tax that was going into aut Opac and to put it into general so we still pay that and we also pay a big increase in from the time Lyon took office to the it is costing me More per year to insure my 1974 Chevrolet although the car is four years older and is Only Worth about on the to get votes with that kind of must think the voter has a very Low Gagnon Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to racist humor i note that you allow space in your letters column of october 20 to no fewer than eight letters from readers who Are disappointed at the fact that you decided to drop a couple of comic strips and replace them with new although i must admit As a fairly regular Reader of the comic i do not find your choices of replacement to be particularly inter Esting or funny for i think that perhaps for children Reading this Page they Are certainly More suitable than much of what you comic strips such As Mickey Little orphan Annie and Denny dim in the 1940s Long been used to portray the values of the political and ideological effect of comic strips cannot be denied As so Many studies of the medium have it is with particular that 1 note after making what i consider the Only Correct decision re Garding the strip tumbleweeds and that is to cancel As a result of the apparent Reader read you seem to have decided to bring Back at least one of obviously it is a popular one and if a newspaper wants nothing it certainly wants thus it would seem to be logical to bring on readers what they Are asking but As you also head up your editorial Page with the slogan Equality of civil i wonder at the Wisdom of your both to originally run such strips and to yield to Reader opinion after you wisely decided to presumably people read the strip because they like they like it either because it is As this one and redeye clearly intended to or they liked it because of its Well what is funny about the strip and what is its message in the strip published on the editorial Page of october there appear to be four or five seemingly funny things in the there is the incongruity of the scene and characters Indian people in loin cloths and feathers set Ting up a Pelican Stew stand in the Middle of the the fact that the customer is served with a dirty thirdly by and this seems to be the intent of the whole the bowl is cleaned by allowing a dog to lick it that the Vendor kicked the dog when the bowl was clean enough and that the customer is not fully aware of the manner in which his demands for Hygiene Are being May 1 suggest that the whole both the current one and most of the previous have engaged in what can Only be described As cheap or perhaps More to the racist it is obvious that indians Are vulgarly caricatured in this strip As they were in they Are portrayed As As being dirty and As being both stupid and this i would submit is vulgar racism and in direct contrast with your slogan of Equality of civil i am amazed that no letters have been published to this i am surprised that Manitoba and Cana Das various human rights and civil rights organizations have not protested this obvious racist particularly in these times of growing concern about the Rise of righting but 1 am equally sur prised that the free which pro fesses to be guided by the slogans of the French should fail so obviously to place the rights of minorities ahead of the financial benefits of sell ing a few More professor Len kam1nski school of social work University of Manitoba Winnipeg kids inflation Why do we have inflation a few Days ago i went to the store and bought some gum for 50 just a few Days later i went Back and the gum was 59 another thing is that chocolate bars went up five cents and gum went up five by if us kids allow ances dont go we wont be Able to buy a chocolate bar with 40 cents any More it will be Todd Kroeker Winnipeg not Miles the members of Cit Council have done it they have buried their Heads in the Sand along with a lot of other people and ignored the fact that with the rest of is going for the past two the Council has announced the new car allowances based on Miles when is the Council going to Wake up and realize the Speed limit on Portage Avenue is Given in Kilometres per not Miles per hour if the members of Council would care to Check the odometers in their late Model they would find Kilometres being not or do the officials making claims for the use of their cars simply submit those claims without converting from one distance Standard to the other if a claim was submitted in this the official would receive approximately 60 per cent More than his this taxpayer Hopes such errors Are being caught and Correct Eric Wells Winnipeg print the facts what is the role of a newspaper it is my belief that a newspaper is to report the facts in an objective and fair the free press in the recent article by Ingeborg Boyens Lyun brings Back 1977style socialist fails to uphold this the title implies that the article will not be objective and Boyen uses language that is unfitting a reporter such As the supporters were herded into standing upbeat music heralded his the article goes in to that pre Mier Lyon returned to his socialist do not most political leaders some form of entertainment to announce their arrival is it not Cus Tomary that candidates be seated near their Leader did not Lyon respond to his an upbeat crowd these people wanted to hear not a but a lets get them the above plus com ments made about were a distortion of the i feel an article such As this would have been belter placed on the editorial i would suggest that the free press print the facts and not every Effort must be made that objective and balanced reports about ail political parties be Only if this is done still the voter be Able to make a reasoned decision As to who should govern Manitoba for the next four Dwight Rutherford Winnipeg get me the prime 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