Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free december 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 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller Clearing web air the Nitikman inquiry into the workers compensation conceived in election Campaign panic by the Lyon has been aborted in haste by the Pawley instead of allowing retired judge Israel Nitikman to hear testimony from a dismissed web employ injured workers and the new government will receive the written submissions that Are in preparation and will Send an investigator around to make discreet inquiries and report privately to the government on what seems to be going on at the labor minister Vic who recommended the axing of the Nitikman inquiry just before dumping the whole matter in the Lap of his colleague Jay explains that the judicial inquiry would have taken too would not necessarily have produced useful results and would have focussed too narrowly on the accusations of the dismissed web Ken minister in charge of the web and of the labor departments workplace safety and health explains that continuation of the Nitikman inquiry would have prevented the government from making reforms to workers compensation legislation and policy such As those proposed by the Lampe the complaints of publicized by the Manitoba federation of labor on the eve of the election to the great embarrassment of the have raised Public doubt about whether web personnel Are applying the workers compensation act and the policy of the Board in a reason Able which is a question of judgment and not purely a matter of they have also revealed a division within the ranks of web staff Between those who wish to go out of their Way to help the injured worker and those who do a division which has led to internal bickering and a kind of bureaucratic guerrilla warfare in the the Nitikman inquiry could easily have turned into an informal court of Appeal from web decisions for injured workers who feel they have not had a fair though the inquiry would not have had the authority to give them Oetter it would certainly have magnified and exacerbated the division within web it would also have allowed the Public presentation and examination of evidence proving or disproving Carrolls accusations and a Public verdict on whether the act is being reasonably under the procedure the government has Carrolls accusations will never be publicly dealt they will just hang there in the Public the government will arrive at some conclusion of its own on the basis of what its investigator turns the Public will have no basis for judging whether the governments conclusion is Carrolls complaints relate to the ways in which the purposes of workers compensation Law and policy May be perverted in the an inquiry into those complaints need not prevent the government from studying the Lampe commission report and preparing reforms in the Law and the policy the government has no idea now which of the Lampe commissions if it wants to adopt and probably will not have for several the Nitikman inquiry was unsatisfactory because it threatened to be unduly the private investigation is unsatisfactory because it leaves important Public questions without a Public the first responsibility for ensuring that web employees fairly and reasonably apply the workers compensation Law rests with the chair Man and the employer and Union nominees who make up the the government should be demanding from that Board a Public answer to Carrolls subsequent action or further investigation should depend on the sort of answer the Board can come up the governments Effort to limit the damage to the functioning of the workers compensation system is under but it appears to be going trying to Clamp a lid Back on after the pot has already boiled sep on the March he says he sees your Complete nuclear destruction and counters with limited total annihilation if youll reduce your peaceful holocaust potential to simple megadeath i Britain fledgling social democratic party is keeping up its steady pressure to become an important Force in the country political last Shirley Williams took her seat in fresh from her by election Victory in a Middle class tory suburb of Liverpool that massively rejected the tories to Send the first Ever social Democrat my to she joined there two dozen former labor maps who have become social a former conservative my who has done the and the dozen liberals who make up the balance of the social democratic this the social democrats will be moving Forward the sep will take control of its first Ever government one of the municipalities of sprawling it will happen because a majority of the ruling labor faction in Islington has defected to the the defections followed by some months the seizure of control of the Islington municipal labor group by doctrinaire militants who subscribe to far left politics and who ousted the moderate who had been the local labor coincident with these events in the municipal group has been a similar infiltration and policy switch in labors Islington constituency management the result has been that All three Islington labor maps have resigned from the of them to join the sep at the last to sit As an Independent at the sep has been making advances at the municipal a source of bitter Council level throughout the country in recent labor switching allegiance men and women Are councillors Are so winning election under the sep Islington is the Dps first achievement of political what this indicates is that the sep Appeal is More widely based than was previously if voters Are beginning to see its position in the Centre of the political spectrum As an answer at All Levels of then its accession to National Power at Westminster cannot be far armed forces housing it would be easy to compare reports about soldiers in Calgary being forced to apply for Public welfare with reports from the where some soldiers qualify for Public assistance in the form of food both reports could be dismissed As indicative of the rather unattractive pay available in military in one that of the Canadian sailors and airmen Are finding finances More difficult because they Are caught in the game of bureaucratic increasingly complicated bureaucratic Deci Sions Are often offered As solutions to earlier bureaucratic the Choice of a military life has always involved Trade to begin it is the Only career As a condition of the employee has to agree to put his life on the line if the organization he is joining is Ever used for the purpose for which it was members of the armed forces give up much in the Way of personal including the Freedom to refuse company moves in the Are More frequent than in any other in members of the forces were Given implied guarantees of Protection against the economic forces of the civilian some of these guarantees have been found in the provision of housing to members Are single soldiers live in married soldiers have an Opportunity to occupy what the military Calls permanent married quarters or the drawback to the system has always been that there Are never enough pms to satisfy the but the Price was normally a percentage of the individuals because living costs vary in different parts of the Canadas armed forces put into in a National weight Factor for government provided a scheme that meant that wherever a Soldier was his pm would Cost him the there were objections from those not Lucky enough to get so living allowances were in 1973 the Federal Treasury Board directed that All government provid de be it department of transport or be charged for at rates that reflected prevailing local the governments expert in the Central mortgage and housing was to provide the Chc May have been an expert in but was obviously not aware of the requirements of the if the forces had put the Chc report into effect Many rents would have or a bureaucratic Compromise was the rent increases were phased at every three the net effect of the new policy has been particularly from the Point of View of two members of a graduating both receiving the same May be posted to bases where housing costs in government buildings differ by a Factor of most the bureaucracy has offered another an individual housing assistance allowance has been included in the forces most recent tire percent pay housing officers admit that its application is so complicated As to defy any simple the question that remains is Why the Federal government needs to ignore the requirements of its National defence Force in order to collect the going rents in Canada on buildings that were and paid years by Frank Walker special to the free press Montre Althe official Lan Guage better known As Bill and the cultural White paper which preceded had one purpose to pro vide French speaking that with the Means to live better lives and to develop As their tastes and talents these tastes and Tal As Are a combination of the most pragmatic realism and the most idealistic a fact which the White paper also a new reality for the Young and the studious the White paper nurtured ideals and for the older and less educated it offered Hope of a better of a new reality in terms of labor and rereading the 1978 paper in the Light of the acrimony which surrounds the implementation of Bill it re Mains an impressive and powerful Call to a at once dignified and uplift More it has in part at the Job it set out to it has Given a sense of Pride and purpose to a society which had survived by with by becoming a marginal excluded from the great move ments which gave birth to contemporary North this is an achievement which in All should not be All that has happened in recent years in this province is not the result of Bill but much and its Basic intention to give a new dignity to the lives of French speaking Quebe cers must be the past was not something of which we should be even if responsibility for it can be traced to Many including French speaking Quebe cers has this the goals of which Are so become such a source of bitter controversy and if unsatisfactory to Many French speakers and bitterly resented by a majority of the population what has happened in the execution of its policies to degrade its intentions Why does a Law created to achieve one purpose better lives for a major Ity have to result in lesser lives for the minority Why should so Many find it Neces sary to exile themselves from Quebec because an attempt is made to make Quebec a better place for Quebe cers the first answer is simple Broad statements of intent Are difficult to translate into practical it is easy to talk about reality and much More difficult to translate that reality and those dreams into the conditions of daily a Broad worthy of becomes something very different when it shows itself in an unfair Lan Guage in rigid rules governing individual lives and in the deprivation for Many of the comfortable and famil a French City this is what has that Montreal is a French City is Clear Only 28 per cent of the population is not this alone would justify Mak ing All the symbols and signs understandable to the but does it justify removing everything that is intelligible or familiar to the minority can anyone really argue that English signs inside an English school must be rendered in French or that even signs relating to Security and safety should be in a language different from that spoken by both teachers and children does it really make sense in an English Hospital to try and make French a compulsory requirement for when what is important is the ability to communicate Between staff and Between staff and patients does it make sense to permit communication Between government and citizens in and then to refuse this service when it is requested does it have any bearing on the reality of French culture to order a businessman to change the name of his or to write his letters in when these or his do not Cater to a French clientele the examples Are but they turn invariably on a policy of of a general nastiness which distorts a decent that what is and has is uncomfortable to French speaking while infuriating to English is Clear from a recent poll conducted for the dual language research even though 75 per cent of French speakers believe the in has been Good for about 62 per cent of Montreal French for exam believe that Bill 101 should be amended to allow English speaking canadians from other provinces to attend English language schools in and 64 per cent believe that Bill 101 should be amended to allow signs in both a steady exodus a few modifications would also go far to change attitudes of English speak even though 75 per cent of them believe Bill 101 has been bad for a conviction they Are showing by a steady and persistent which has reduced their numbers from 34 per cent in 1971 to the present 28 per like their fellow French speaking Citi they also favor a change in the school and sign policies and there is no doubt coupled with modifications in the language this would make a great Deal of differ ence to English speaking the one would would be easy enough to the school change would add another or so children to the English school system hardly a valid Point of con Cern but there is no evidence that it will be the government is not As As the and while bilingualism May seem valuable to the Ordinary citizen Survey showed per cent of the French speakers believed it to be desirable and practical is no evidence that the government so not for the first and certainly not for the we have evidence Here that government by the people is some thing different from government for the Turkey losers with regard to Fred Cleverley column even Canadian dollars buy More in free november 23 there is More to this than meets the occasionally the word filters through to canadians that major segments of american agriculture Are in let us take the american Turkey Indus try As a Case in for the last two decades it has been going through increasingly severe Boom and bust in the they operate very Low labor Cost including Low pay totally integrated they quite regularly lose sub Stantial sums of Money per Bird at Turkey Market Down least one year out of what would you say about a business where even the largest and most efficient producers lost big Money every third or perhaps oftener some years ago i asked a major american grower How he survived the Down and he said he had a very Good since the Down years have been getting and this year has been particularly in Early octo my husband and i visited a major Turkey production facility in Mineso the Day we were Turkey prices dropped five cents a Pound at the wholesale and were at that Point seven cents a Pound below Cost of now we hear things have got much the processors Are also in and in Many cases Are Refus ing to accept Birds for they Are being held on the rearing facilities for four or More weeks past Market which is a costly period in which to feed the in the Industry this year is in a shambles and we have heard rumours of a major for Many reasons popu lation and others Canadian costs Are if we in Canada did not have marketing arrangements in overproduction and fir Sale prices could wipe out our Turkey the time is Long overdue for a decent agriculture desk on every major news How about a thorough reporting Job on what is behind those american food prices huts Al letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to liberals out i can Tell Willaine Kroft with re Gard to her letter not free november 28 what River Heights has done to deserve Warren the liberals in that area refused to acknowledge that the Liberal party in Manitoba is and supported Jay Prober instead of David now will someone please Tell both of us what Winnipeg Assiniboia has done to deserve Dan Mckenzie All these years Robertson Winnipeg shopping carts the problem of the abuse and destruction of grocery shopping carts seems to have got out of hand judging by the Way they Are being strewn on the streets of various areas of the k these carts Are As costly As the supermarkets then let the stores responsible get their act together and bring this situation under phoning the supermarkets As to stray carts does not seem to Halverson Winnipeg myopia when the doctors in Manitoba were bargaining for a salary increase i was appalled at the offer by the govern ment and the settlement the doctors Are not but who would work for less pay and Long hours Here when they can get a better wage elsewhere Are the physic ians of this province to be looked upon As self sacrificing dogo oders More and More of our doctors Are choosing to practice in other provinces or the United where they get a Good wage for their the Quality of health care in Manitoba has been on the decline in the last decade and will continue to be As Long As our government refuses to face if nothing is done Manitoba will become a dumping ground for incompetent doctors who cannot get appoint ments it is not Only the practising physic ians who Are getting the Short end of the funding for medi Cal facilities and support staff Are ridiculously we have some of the finest heart and cancer specialists in but we risk losing them to better positions it is time someone did something about the Issue of health Leslie Gaudet Winnipeg a Cross of Iron it is interesting to note that today mad buildup of horrendous weapons of War by the superpowers is not a recent on april Dwight Eisen in an address to the american society of newspaper editors said every gun that is every warship every rocket signifies in the final a theft from those who hunger and Are not those who Are cold and Are not this world in arms is not spending Money it is spending the sweat of its the Genius of its the Hopes of its children this is not a Way of life at All in any True under the Cloud of it is humanity hanging on a Cross of Nels Thibault Winnipeg fou year night the lights Are starting to come on again All Over Manitoba after the four year it will take a Long time to recover from this to rebuild the shattered Manitoba civil service to reestablish the research and information processing branches of government to rebuild the network of services to citizens that was so ruthlessly torn apart during the tories four years in Power to rebuild the decimated air division to reestablish the principle of responsible govern actions that affect citizens lives Are done Only by Agen cies or people Over whom the citizens have control most to try to recover the Many Bright Young people who left Manitoba in it will be a difficult Job to pull Manitoba Back into the 20th we must do it so thoroughly that Manitoban will never again be subjected to such William Winnipeg More Canadian every time i have visited in the United states i have missed hearing news of i find myself suddenly in the same situation in Why All the Washington datelines in the free press which of is the reason for All the Reagan let us have More Canadian or world less Washington and More Yates Winnipeg one thing for its not 4 ;