Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba To Hvamb to Sain Olito Eft the of Tress by Tom Goldstein a polish immigrant is in the fourth Day of a hunger strike to Force Immi Gration officials to allow his Mother and Mother inlaw to visit Canada for his sons Andzej Andy Rydzak said Satur Day of visas for the women in september but heard Noth ing until last when he was told no such permits would issued to polish applicants until a backlog of polish applications for landed Immi Grant status in Canada is speaking through an he said he ate his last meal Light supper about 10 thursday and has subsisted on water and cigarettes since pull out tubes if i collapse and am fed int Raven 1 will pull out the he i will go As far As the democratic society of Canada 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 a pole is a he 1 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 met 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 citizenship once Grazyna has completed the three year waiting 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 in 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 optic 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 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 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 told a Manitoba association of school trustees seminar that teachers could use this help to Deal with changes in society which affect Vliem 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 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 bed shortage plagues psychiatric patients the head of psychiatry at the univer sity of Manitoba medical school says there is a continuing shortage of psychiatry 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 jts not something that sprang up last elderly woman Hurt in House fire an elderly woman was admitted to health sciences Centre in serious Cen edition with Burns suffered in a fire at her Mckee Street Home Winnipeg police say Renee Maries of 597 Mckee suffered Burns to her legs and thighs when fire swept through twos prey Frame Home jiq5 Petty damage was estimated at and the Wae was believed to have started As a 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 said geriatric people requiring forensic assessment other lon term patients tend to tie up Beds for Long periods of or sep said Winnipeg needs a net work of Hospital based psychiatric extended care units such As the pne new under at Grace Qeni ral facilities Are put one of Owr other is the manpower she stage and the Mai distr in v 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 urged educators to Stop using the phrase no to admit mistakes when they make them and to Send out news releases about their Linda a 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 Deal with All school Board matters except personnel 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 Bilu boards and bumper and said educators forget non Par ent Man injured on picket line a has been Given a notice to appear in court to face criminal negligence charges after a striker in a picket line at Export packers was hit thursday by a vehicle Allan was knocked in concilus by a car passing through the picket line at the strike bound he suffered minor cuts and bruises and was in Hospital for a Day workers at the Plant have been on stride since while manage ment has hired replacement staff to picket healthcare facilities to list Bettig by Marifred Jazef Manitoba hospitals and nursing Homes Are completing lists of proposed cos saving measures the province had of Oft them by mid no the province had asked for the Belt Tightener during two sessions administrators and Board members had with health minister Larry Desjardins and finance Vic Schroeder in the Economy measures were reported to be based on Hary government plans to keep spend ing increases til the health Field to per cent in wages next with no in creases for Quality of care a government source said administrators May have slightly mis understood the ministerial it would still be up to Manitoba health services commission to allocate Bud get Money for next year As it sees As Long As total Cost increases Are kept to per cent the official said Misc will Likely be extra Money in its own allocation from the government for the health facilities budget which coincides with the april to March government fiscal v 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 to involve staff even though they would constitute a last the Point were making out Here is that first of All were a very efficiently running and have been for a Good number 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 be 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 Rhana ment negotiators asked Mona to scale Down the talks have since Shefi the two provincial Fin Steft met with health administrators in sep Crewson said they emphasized cutbacks must be i dont think the government would condone cuts if they created hew prob lems on the Othef Side of the like causing More unemployment that might have to be alleviated by Job Coffa Toft get Sofij me it Foffi of insult if Tafry w there pretty Well All Basic and Crewson word from the ministers was that Basic and essential service tuts ate Judas much to be avoided As staff that leave Yea vein of Fulti room to he a decision Pend ii 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 s 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 a 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 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 Sebastian Kadi Al ind Tother Elisii fifth help weigh some of the four to five tonnes of a applies being sent to Poland by Winnipeg the the sixth since inc a second kidney dialysis machine and medical update a followup to bringing readers up to Date do stories have appeared in the free employees called Back All 68 Laid off employees Frank fair Boniface manufacturing Plant have been recalled to work following the settlement of a strike at motor coach industries Pemba his Brian staff representative for local 9074 of the United steelworkers of said Friday the vied keys began returning to the Plant almost ment of the Pembina strike abortion Challenge set Joe Legal Federal Law is heard in Regina either april or r r we Haven an exact Date butt will be hailed Down the end f Puffie said Borowski the former Manitoba Ter is hoping the 1969 Federal Law therapeutic abortions ice will his Chance in Saskatchewan i of Queens Borowski said he lawyer have been Able to line up Many auth Ellk they need testify said medical authorities v to fight the Stoft m has been collecting Depati from people across Canada Ali with his stand on abortion tit sep More than in donations had arrived to Borowski supreme court of aug Misuo Challenge the Validity of the will reconvene in Winnipeg from 17 to 21 to finish hearing unfair labor practice Loomis armoured the Manitoba f6od and fun workers Union filed 22 comp unfair labor practices stemming from what the Union claims was Atic attempt to destroy i since it was certified to represent up pms guards and custodians in during a week of hearings earner this month the Board hear Al Union witnesses who testified the company repeatedly harassed l v development Agency As eme Aid to the Davjd Wop be the Arder for an Oil staff purchases by Western lip door Tai Kwi sales tq4 which has the j pie in two me firm Ted and the company get a r an the ;