Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Pole fasts Wilf Liffey free 1982 Elf Eft a flee of Tess by Tom Goldstein a polish immigrant is in the fourth Day of a hunger strike to Force Imoni Gratiot officials to allow his Mother and Mothe Ritlaw to visit Canada for his sons Andzej Andy Rydzak said Satur Day applied for visas for the women in september but heard Noth ing until last when he was told no such permits would be issued to i polish applicants until a backlog of polish applications of landed Immi Grant status in Canada is speaking through an he said he ate his last meal Light cupper about 10 thursday and on water and cigarettes since pull out tubes if 1 collapse and am fed int Raven i will pull out the he i will go As far As the democratic society of Canada will let me you see your dont he said in turning to his born in Winnipeg in asked if he was prepared to die Over the Rydzak in a pole and a pole is a he i dont want to cause any prob lems for but i dont see any other Way to get Rydzak came to Canada in having applied for landed Immi Grant status from his whom Rydzak Imet in route to arrived about two years they were married 11 Days after she came to hav ing corresponded for about two years before she left they plan to apply for Canadian once Grazyna has completed the three year said she has mixed feelings about her husbands hunger tears brimming in her she said she wants her Mother and Mother inlaw to come to Canada for a but she is concerned about her husbands Rydzak said he will not let his wife participate the hunger strike be cause she must care for their Rydzak said he will try to follow his Normal he said he planned to go to work today at motor coach industries and will continue to work As Long As his health with wife and is set on seeing his Rydzak said he was feel ing few effects from his hunger strike just some dizziness and head food Doest even bother me at the moment he As his wife placed plates of cookies and potato chips on a table beside him for some Rydzak said he had shed about two kilograms five pounds from his Beefy 98kilogram eight Inch Frame during the first 38 hours of his Nick departmental assistant to immigration minister Lloyd confirmed that no visitors permits would be issued in Poland until the current backlog of landed Immi Grant applicants is he said he had no idea when that might noting that the departments Warsaw office has been flooded with requests for landed immigrant Sta while expressing sympathy for Ryd Zaks Oosterveen added that succumbing to such pressure could establish a bad precedent for department others might follow his Lead and find themselves in a potentially dangerous situation like Rydzak in an Effort to Force the department into issuing visitors he said Rydzak could apply to Spon Sor his Mother and Mother inlaw As landed immigrants to but Rydzak firmly rejects that he said he cannot afford to look after the nor does he have room in his on bedroom apartment to put them up at Ages 47 and he the women have much Chance of cracking an already tight Canadian Job More As much As they want to visit and see their grandchild for the first the women dont want to both Are established in Poland where they Are Well taken care he Rydzak said he Hast seen his Mother in five years and has yet to meet his the Canadian polish Congress plans to talk to Axworthy on Rydzak said John pc Manitoba 9month school year urged to help students education officials should consider operating schools nine months a year with teachers receiving professional development in the 10th Alec vital division assistant us said he told a Manitoba association of school trustees seminar that teachers could use this help to Deal with changes in society which affect them in the Boyes also said if High school Stu dents finish the school year about the same time As University they would have a better Chance to compete for summer Manitoba 10month school schedule was established in the 1930s and Hast been changed Boyes he also suggested some teachers could come to work Early in the after noon and work into the so More residents would have Access to the education Boyes said any proposed change is bound to bring some but this deter a school Divi Sion from he said flexible hours have been discussed informally in but have not been officially saturdays seminar centred on the school systems Public and the Media received More blessings than psychiatric patients have shortage of Beds the head of psychiatry at the univer sity of Manitoba medical school says there is a continuing shortage of Chatry Beds in Winnipeg Harry Prosen said pressure on existing Beds occasionally necessitates a speedup in the discharge of psychiatric patients to make room for emergency he said the Manitoba government and various health authorities Are now talking about the problem and he is hopeful it will be resolved weve had this shortage of Beds for a Long the psychiatrist its not something that sprang up last elderly woman Hurt in House fire an elderly woman was admitted to health sciences Centre in serious condition who Burns suffered in 9 fire at her Mckee Street Home Winnipeg police say Renee of 307 Mcgee suffered bums to her legs and when fire swept through her Frame Home about property damage was estimated at and the Blaze believed have started As result of careless at the health sciences Centre we now have 82 adult psychiatric Beds plus 15 paediatric psychiatry Beds and 13 acute care Beds in the chemical withdrawal if we had another 20 acute adult psychiatric Beds i think we would be somewhat comfortable at the health sciences Prosen emphasized that patients Are not released from psychiatric treat ment facilities before they Are ready to go but said it is often necessary to Speed up release when patients urgently needing treatment Are hospitals sometimes phone All around the City to see who has a bed available if theres a patient who must be admitted right he he Sam geriatric people requiring forensic assessment and other lon term patients tend to tie up psychiatric Beds for Long periods of time Prosen said Winnipeg needs a Neu work of Hospital based psychiatric tended care units such As the one now under construction at Grace general facilities Are Only one of our prob Prosen the other is the manpower shortage and the Button of psychiatrists in Norm seven Oaks school Divi Sion assistant said education officials get much better coverage when they Deal openly with and reporters Are usually More interested in hard news events than feature stories about education Isler urged educators to Stop using the phrase no to admit 1 mistakes when they make them and to Send out news releases about their Linda Transcona Spring Field division said the Media is generally accurate but Doest provide enough detail about education but on the other when a problem the school Board Doest usually share All the facts with she Hughes encouraged divisions to Send out newsletters the Public can under despite charges that these Are just propaganda and to dear x with All school Board matters except personnel in Jack a vital division teacher and Manitoba teachers society Public relations committee chair said people form attitudes about education from hearsay and sensational Media he encouraged educators to talk about the Many Good things going on in endorsed the use of Bill boards and bumper and said educators forget non Par ent Man charged with negligence a Transcona has been Given a notice to appear in court to face criminal negligence charges after a striker on a picket line at Export pickers was hit thursday by a Allan was knocked unconscious by a car passing through the picket line at the strike bound he suffered a minor cuts and bruises and was in Hospital for i worked at the Plant have been on strike since while manage ment has lured replacement staff to Cross picket Economy measures v by Manfred Lief Manitoba hospitals aft fiust Fig Homes Are completing lists of proposed costs Vinig measures the of Vince had requested Froni them by Midna vef Hoef Hie of orifice had asked for the Belt tight Nefs during two sessions administrators and Board members had with health minister Larry Tesja Ritts and finance minister Vic Schroeder in the Economy measures were reported to be based Ott nary government plaits to keep spend ing increases in the health Field to per cent in wages with no if creases for Quality of care a government sol circe said administrators May have slightly mis understood the ministerial it would still be up to Manitoba health services commission to allocate get Money for next year As it sees As Long As total Cost increases Are kept to per the official said Misc will Likely be limited to extra Money in its own allocation from the government for the health facilities budget which coincides with the april to March government fiscal operating 85 hospitals and an equal number of personal care Homes will Cost almost million during the 12 months ending March new budget proposals for next year must be forwarded by pre budget Cost containment Mea sures Are particularly Tricky because the province has told healthcare administrators to ensure Quality of care is not Bill administrator of the 131bed Portage general said he told a meeting of his hospitals Board of directors last week the re Quested Economy measures May have involve staff though they would constitute a last Point were making out Here is that first of All were a very efficiently running and have been for a of Devine said in an Large institutions in the City have much More room to save Money than we contract talks Devine said that when cos saving options Are As limited As they Are for his they have to include the possibility of staff the Point in trying to make is that efficient institutions like ours cant effect any further significant Cost Herman executive director of Manitoba health organizations said staff layoffs May Well be out when it comes to saving Crewson said he understood Many facilities have asked the province for a deadline Extension before coming up with their cos cutting the critical element will the contract settlement with the Crewson negotiations Between hospitals and Manitoba organization of nurses associations for a new collective agreement 1 started Early this but quickly broke Down and went into conciliation when management negotiators asked Mona to scale Down the talks have since shift the two provincial ministers met with health administrators if sep Crewson said they emphasized cutbacks must be i dont think the government would Abtido fleets if they created new prob lems on the other Side of the like wore unemployment that might have to be alleviated by Job creation Crews ii he predicted cuts will not result in any curtailment of health there pretty Well All Basic and Crewson he said the word from the ministers was that Basic and essential service cuts Are just As much to be avoided As staff that Doest leave you very much room to he Green steel firing decision pending a decision on the Fate of 19 former Green steel industries fired during a bitter strike in is expected soon from the Manitoba labor lawyer Lawrie who re presented the International molders and Allied workers Union during a lengthy Board hearing Between june and says he is awaiting word on the the 19 according to Green steel were not fired for Union or strike the company claimed it fired the workers because of steady drop in business which the at 975 Logan ave had suffered for several months prior to the company president Steward mar tin testified before the Board in sep tember that the 19 were selected from the total workforce on the basis of attendance and productivity this was disputed during the hearing by who called numerous witnesses to testify on their own behalf and to Challenge company Martin also told the Board in septem Ber he would close his company if the Board ordered him to rehire the 19 As the Board has yet to release its decision on a desertification vote requested by some Green steel work lawyer Denny who represented workers dissatisfied with the molders said last week the Board has counted the Kells also said the Board had earlier stated it might choose to disregard the vote count in making its decision on the Fate of the Union at he also said the Board has not ruled whether the votes of the 19 workers fired during the strike would be allowed to count in the desertification i expect there should be something a decision by the end of the Ken free press parcels for Poland Sehastian Kurdsiel and Mother Elisabeth help weigh some of the four to five tonnes of supplies being sent to Poland by Winnipeg the the Seth since includes a second kidney dialysis machine and medical update a followup to bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free employees called Back All 68 Laid off employees of Frank fair industries Boniface manufacturing Plant have been recalled to work following the settlement of a strike at motor coach industries Brian staff representative for local 9074 of the steelworkers of said Friday the workers began returning to the Boniface Plant almost immediately after Settle ment of the Pembina strike abortion Challenge set Joe Borowskiy Legal Challenge Federal abortion Law is expected to be heard in Regina in either april or we Haven an exact Date yet butt will be nailed Down by the end of the said the former Manitoba Cabinet minis Ter is hoping to Challenge the Validity of the 1969 Federal Law which allows therapeutic he will have his in Saskatchewan i of Queens Borowski said he and his lawyer have been Able to line up All the Many from outside of Cana they need to testify at the said Are recognized medical authorities on the subject of to fight the who now operates a health food store Winni has been collecting donations from people across Canada who agree with his stand on in septem More than in donations had arrived to pay for expected Legaj Borowski was Given approval by the supreme court of Canada in August to Challenge the Validity of the Loomis hearing slated the Canada labor relations Board will reconvene in Winnipeg from 17 to 21 to finish hearing unfair labor practice complaints against Loomis armoured car services the Manitoba food and commercial workers Union filed 22 complaints of unfair labor practices stemming from what the Union claims was a system Atic attempt to destroy it since it was certified to represent Loomis guards and custodians in during a week of hearings earlier this month the Board heard from sever Al Union witnesses who testified the company repeatedly harassed Union Coop touts potential in Sudan by Jack Francis Coop implements is shipping 320 land cultivators to the Sudan from its Transcona a order paid for by the Canadian International development Agency As emergency Aid to the underdeveloped african a Coop implements chief operating officer David Tait said the shipments would be completed the order for wide disc harrows made it possible for the struggling firm to keep an extra 50 production people on staff this fall who were slated for Layoff because of reduced machinery purchases by Western Tait said the order could open the door to future sales to the which has tremendous the cooperative has about 240 Peor pie on at its Peak two years the firm had about losses totalled million last year and the company got a refinancing package in Loans and guar1 a tees from Ottawa and the Prairie the Canadian cooperative credit and new i ;