Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba C Winnipeg free december 1981 7 Dyment use by David Nyhan Boston Globe growing unemployment in the West Ern democracies is in danger of creat ing a serious threat to their political since the Spring of ment in Europe has jumped by More than it is the Young who Are hardest and the result is a growing disaffection with the political and economic systems that have served previous people Over 30 Are in the wrote a youth commentator in the dutch weekly Groene those under 30 Are in and for those under it is beginning to even More than in North european governments seem Vulner Able to disaffection among the influencing their policies toward nuclear the nato Trade regulations and relations with the Viet Edward former British conservative prime has assailed the economic policies of his govern ment and his own party As morally wrong and threatening to rekindle the kinds of tensions that led to fascism and the second world Britain last summer was racked by rioting that was exacerbated by racial tensions and severe which hit hardest at Young people and the there is growing sentiment among european youth that rioting and Vio Lence Are acceptable ways to promote political change d fort two per cent of unemployed Young people polled by Britain Sun Day times thought violence sometimes two years ago Only 30 per cent Felt that n two thirds of the youths polled be Lieve unemployment was the Basic cause of last Summers and 28 per cent said the riots were d fifty five per cent of German youths Between 17 and 23 surveyed by West Germany largest state government agreed with the statement Regretta violence must be used to draw attention to justified d seventy seven per cent in a West German poll agreed that Young people looking for work wont find it easy to get a Good d eight two per cent of the females polled in France think they will be even though most want to some american labor leaders claim the conservative economic policies of the Reagan administration May Lead to a Thatcher nation of the United states that will trigger widespread social unrest in contrast tothe conservative eco nomic policies of the govern ments of France and Greece Are Socia France is nationalizing Industry and increasing government spending to promote Greece is also nationalizing some private and the government wants to pull out of negotiate removal of military bases and conduct a referendum on whether to pull out of the european common every country in the european com Mon save tiny has higher unemployment than a year there Are More than million jobless in Western Europe and there Are fears that 15 million people could be without work within four the european common Market countries reported an average of per cent unemployment for the advanced technology that used to make Europe an Industrial Leader has been exported to the rest of the poorer nations with cheaper labor Are undercutting traditional european Export the recession has dimmed the Market for expensive consumer goods that kept factories unemployed people demonstrated in May in Britain against governments British Paradox puzzles visiting we ourselves out of markets because our labor costs have been too a British businessman sir Raymond pen president of the confederation of British said pay is at the very Root of this word competitive Britain is particularly vulnerable be cause it exports on third of its manufactured More than any other Industrial the blowing of fresh Money into new Ven dropped 15 per cent this year and is expected to fall at a lower rate next two years ago the european unemployment rate averaged per now the per cent rate is the highest level recorded since the european common Market was founded 23 years with Over three million Young peo ple already unemployed in the euro Pean Community and Many millions More knowing the same Fate awaits this Community is destroying its said european common mar Ket employment commissioner Ivor the common Market Heads of government agreed at their Summit in june that a joint approach was Neces but failed to agree on what to do about Here is a rundown of the troubled economic situation Britain the unemployment rate 4 is per never before have three million britons been out of unemployment has More than doubled since Thatcher took Over in her government is in deep she has difficulty commanding the loyalty of a majority of her which has been reshuffled to give her a stronger at the same the opposition labor party has turned sharply to the Heath is leading a conservative revolt against a devout be Liever in the Supply Side economic theories pursued by president Ronald the situation is getting not said who claims the economic policies and High interest rates of the Reagan administration Are dragging Europe deeper and deeper into the two thirds of the Young britons who leave school this year will be unable to find one Cabinet minister Thatcher fired by James Reston new York times London the British in Trou ble these Days they but trouble is what we handle Are they tired of the ideological arguments and failures of the conservative and labor parties they so let us try the new social Democrat Liberal do they know what that new coalition would do but they let us give them a they Are an paradoxical the always dramatizing their failures in the Fleet Street but insisting that somehow everything will be All right in the Christmas has come Early to Regent Street and Oxford Street Are glittering with festive but the stores Are advertising sales and Dis counts before the Normal shopping Rush has even the most famous and elegant old once an exclusive male Are now available to women and even to wandering Mem Bers from foreign the British retain their sense of history and their sense of for a member of the House of commons from Nottingham whose name is Michael has proposed a Bill for the consideration of his whereas in this he of a Queen Elizabeth and a second Margaret rules As prime minister and though he did not mention a third Shirley has emerged As a Leader of the new social Democrat Liberal coalition should the succession to the British throne not go to the firstborn child of the male or regardless of that Childs sex needless to says Philip Howard in the times of Michael English is not unaware of a certain Happy he has timed his on Slaught to coincide with the pregnancy of the Princess of saving that he believes in the Equality of the sexes surely he if the Princess of Wales were to produce three or four Daugh All As charming As few would publicly bewail the Lack of a son imagine if Prince Charles were to have three after a Long a is it just that the eldest girl should be brought up to the throne Only to be this is what we have been waiting sorry your Royal you just wont do of English Bill will not but the English keep plugging away at the anachronisms they and keep asking sensible questions they Are very gentle about All these personal and political and even they do not attack presi Dent Reagan for they merely almost whether his remarks about limited nuclear War Are to be taken and what is All this fuss about Richard Allen and pictures of Nancy Reagan the bbl put on a spoof the other showing Allen on the Telephone negotiating deals with japanese Maga Zines for pictures of How much for a song How much for More risque picture sit was supposed tote but for an american it had an for Allen has embarrassed the president and in this part of the world there is a whiff of mockery in the the British government backs the Reagan but the British press has serious and so does the British foreign policy they Are relieved under pressure from the Reagan finally came Forward with an arms control program to negotiate with the but they Are wondering How Long this will and thinking vaguely that if Only they had Washington How much better they could Deal with to a visit to the British foreign office Here and 10 Downing Street is not the old tradition of the civil service goes officials Here Are still under standing of the East and North and and even but they Are almost too aware now of the limitations of their and doubtful of their capacity to influence the main political and economic currents of the even the buildings in Westminster Are symbols of Britain declining in the foreign once gleaming with British Pride and a is now dim and and even 10 seems neglected and Pedes one wonders at the in Pri vate conversation on the great issues of the the British officials Are still the most perceptive and the bbl is still the most informative news Bureau in the and coming Back to Washington on the British they Are precisely on hours and 39 at a height of Over and an average Speed of Over Miles an Why Are they in such trouble so experienced in the politics of the so effective in and yet in such difficulty with them selves and their natural allies this is what we would like to touching Down Ever so gently in the Mist of Airport in Virginia outside mocked her Call for British you May be leaner but youre not if youre standing in a Dole unemployment Northern Ireland this Trou bled British province an official unemployment rate of per in some working class Catholic neighbor such As Strabane and West it is 40 per seven thou Sand citizens a year emigrate from a province of Only million in be the most drastic government Effort in Europe to create jobs to lower social the Brit ish government gave american Auto maker John Delorean a huge incentive the government put up million in Grants and Guaran while private investors put up Only million to enable Delorean to make his sports the Deal required him to build his Plant in West and employ both Catholic and protestant Britain is thus paying up to per Job to create work in a province where manufacturers find Little in the Way of local and must Export most of what they West Germany the ranks of the million West germans currently jobless will expand by 25 per cent next officials giving that country an Overall jobless rate of seven per seven years West Germany was at full and importing High wages have stalled Job the number work ing now is the same As five years the antinuclear movement has taken Root among the who ques Tion whether the government has a commitment to values they whether it be creating jobs or avoiding Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said there has never been a generation Lik today youth that has been so in misinformed and deformed b the mass his government mus pay billion a year in Unzem Pluymen and his economic advised have recommended a billion scheme to create More elsewhere in the Small nations old line Industrial cities Are being devastated by an unemployment rate of per cent militant follow each fresh round of unemployment costs take 10 per cent of the National the country is being torn a belgian Union Leader told the Wall Street in where unemployment is per cent of the thousands of workers Are Laid off Industrial swelling the chronicle High unemployment other rates Netherlands per Republic of Ireland per Denmark per Competition from less industrialized nations is hurting workers in the older Industrial not just the older Industrial democracies Are whose exported films Are carving for the Island nation an image As one of the last lands of with wide open is announcing a new immigration policy to begin next the government is worried about a Lack of jobs for unskilled the new policy will Only allow immigrants who have relatives in the who have skills that Are in or who have enough Money to Start a viable business last year britons migrated to there Are already More than North americans living permanently and in one recent 12month North Ameri cans suggesting there May be a fresh Rush to go Down under in the near Bill Uruski May think that a ten per cent increase in aut Opac rates is Low enough to boast but for the average Motorist it Means shelling out an extra or More for insurance this coming last when 1 suggested in this column that motorists in Manitoba could save on their Auto insurance by dealing direct with the rather than through the Agency sys the Calls that flooded in to my Home and office from disgruntled agents made me consider enriching the Manitoba Telephone system by getting an unlisted one of the More restrained callers we know where you and then Hung other readers of the column wanted to save Money and telephoned aut Opac for when aut Opac started Tell ing its callers that they had better phone i was convinced that there were quite a few motorists out there who liked the we have a new government in Mani a government of the same Politi Cal Stripe As the one that put aut Opac into business in the first in the Man responsible for piloting the aut Opac Bill through the Howard is now and a former aut Opac Bill is again responsible for the Corpora As envisaged by Howard agents Cost Cleverley Back in did not include setting up 349 mini motor vehicle licence bureaus in these by called aut Opac were added to the scheme when the appear Ance of aut Opac threatened the Liveli Hood of thousands we were told of the or More insurance representatives who crowded on to the legislature grounds to protest against the disappearance of their jobs convinced the government to create a an Agency system to sell a monopoly using agents to sell insurance Cost Manitoba motorists last if aut Opac goes up 10 per cent this As Bill Uruski says it is Likely to each aut Opac if he gets his will receive for putting those Little self adhesive labels on the insurance Bills prepared by govern ment computers and delivered by gov Enmen paid this Means come february every Motorist in Manitoba will pay about of his car insurance As the fee for the agent he if he Renews directly with the by mail ing his renewal or by taking it to the motor vehicle he saves this is known As protecting the Agency the agents will argue that it would Cost the government the same amount of Money if there were no but this is where government insurance has been a fact of life a lot longer than in Renews automobile licences on a monthly the same Way Manitoba Bills for Drivers depending on the Drivers the renewal instead of being crowded into the month of is spread out Over the whole it is time that the government started helping the half million motorists in this and stopped its help to the 349 agents should be free to take aut Opac and charge whatever they think it is Worth to get the customer into their where they can sell other forms of insurance to but if motorists decide to renew directly with the they should save the Agency this the saving could be enough to wipe out the 10 per cent increase that is almost certain to having an Agency system to take orders for a monopoly product that has the full Force of the government behind it is it was reason Able at first to allow the agents a few years to readjust their businesses to Cope with government it was reasonable As Long As there was any Hope at of getting out of the dictatorship of government insurance and allowing where agents could do what they Are supposed to and help motorists make a Choice among the available but there will be no Sterling Lyon underlined that fact for four he refused to allow compe while at the same time saying aut Opac was so Good that Competition would not Hurt if Sterling Lyon would not allow then Howard Pawley is not about to do there is nothing for the agents to they for extend credit because any cheques for aut Opac or licence fees have to be made out to the minister of they have no responsibility for collect ing bad the government has looked after this by preparing a list of Manitoban who cannot even Ouy their insurance by they Haye to pay the Only thing agents can do is to offer to take renewals after Normal office they should be allowed to continue to do and to charge for the the bulk of Manitoba motorists who Are Able to renew their Auto insurance by or during of fice hours suitable to the government should gain the financial Benefit of doing when is the last time anyone Ever got his agent to argue his Case if he Felt he was not being fairly treated by aut Opac the agent is there to take the and put the sticker for an average of Many motorists would be prepared to mail their even a week or two Early if if Manitoba is determined to have a dictatorship in the Field of automobile then the motorists of the province have a right to an efficient As for i think i will take my phone off the Hook for a few doonesbury Joul Plikero Holp an pm workshop in with the other i think that a i its Okay a Spont want to 6ftin i is whats air baby 6uar the constr ant5ep 0y the Tatiom its what youre trying covlvu5 get a copy of that i ;