Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Welfare rights expected to Spur new by Manfred Jager Winnipeg welfare rights mint of the and 70s is on the Rise again and its director says it will probably be As militant this time As it was the number of people who have w ask for welfare assistance in this and throughout Manitoba has of twi by leaps and Bounds and is increasing frustration and anger about particularly from people who have never had to go on said Olga director of the Tobl Ami poverty rallies As anger and the realization of the unavailability of jobs Foltz it would be no Surprise if we see rallies and tons of the poor just As we did in the 60s and Early who became known in 1970 As the first Winnipeg woman to duct her own divorce proceedings without the Aid of a has headed the Antipoverty group since it started up in the basement of Matthews Church last we used to be known As the Wel fare rights movement and that what we really still Are in the new there was a time when the Community had less need of an Agency like but now times Are hard and More people seem to need she said welfare recipients began approaching her in 1981 with problems encountered in the processing of their cases by welfare As the number of those running into trouble a new group was formed and five Church denominations fait refers Leas put Tea United roman Catholic and anglican ated to get it the group received funding from the Canada development Praneet and the Ito a employment action about Manitoban receive welfare assistance almost of them in Winnipeg Ron director of the cites welfare said welfare Rolls increased by an average 483 cases a month Between last june and the end of in 131 new applications were despite the drop in Hooper said the City carried an time High of welfare cases As of positive the decrease in new applications is Hooper its the first positive sip in a Long we see it As a Ray of the Antipoverty organization is running interference for individuals to make sure they Are neither shortchanged on benefits nor humiliated by the our relations with officials Are but we find that caseworkers do hassle people unnecessarily in their efforts to find those who Are abusing the Foltz she said most problems welfare Olga Foltz says Job Scarcity rights staffers and volunteers handle Deal with individual cases of people who Are either too upset or Unin formed about the welfare system and consequently have difficulty dealing with there Are also those who Are too depressed and too proud even to apply for we Are talking to one Man right now who has run out of unemployment insurance benefits and is just about at the end of his Sav the who came to our Atten Tion through says hell starve to death before asking for welfare will probably spark protests of the poor similar to those of the 1960s and Early in another Case the group intervened to help a person who had neither unemployment benefits nor savings and found himself reduced to a diet of porridge and Black Tea Over the Christmas he had applied for welfare just before Christmas and was Given an appointment for five Days they didst ask him and he didst Tell them whether he was All right for the holi Foltz said people Are generally de pressed and confused at the Point of As they will often withhold information they feel de Means such As the admission that there is no food in the be honest if you went Down to the welfare they ask you two routine questions do you have a place to stay and do you have food we Tell those who come to us to be brutally honest about their Pat executive director of the Otta abased National Antipov erty says the Reemer gence of welfare rights movements is a sign of the Johnston said that when the country emerges from the theres a deep seated belief that the Economy wont have jobs for All who can and want to that Means poverty for Many thousands of that also Means a renewed emphasis on welfare on the subject of Howe Johnston disagrees with there is far More resignation and despair than in the Early in not sure this will translate into the Mili Tancy of the Early in confrontations Between the Wel fare system and the canadians who depend on Johnston the sys tem has emerged the legislation to replace medicare alarms health official by Manfred Jager a Bill drafted to replace medicare legislation May open the door to medi care premiums and user fees for health warns the chairman of a Manitoba committee for the preservation of Vera cherries i says if Ottawa Felt it could get away with canadians could find themselves propelled Back to the Point before the introduction of medicare in the were one of 49 member organizations of the Canadian health coalition and weve become very concerned after we saw the second draft of the proposed Canada health which would replace the Hospital services insurance act and the diagnostic ser vices that Why were beating the Chernecki she said unless Community groups such As the Canadian health coalition keep the threat to medicare before the canadians could face medicare insurance premiums in All user fees for health services As Well As extra Billing from far More doctors than now follow the in medicare premiums come to a year per family unit in Between 50 per cent and 60 per cent of All doctors Are opted out of medicare and extra Bill their compared with Only about five per cent of Manitoba doctors who Chernecki said it will take Community awareness and vigorous lobbying to preserve the principles of equal portability and nonprofit administration on which medicare was the alternative is a two tier system in which those with jobs and secure incomes can afford the Money for Good while those who can come up with the Money Are subjected to de meaning Means plastic Indi gents cards for free Access to outpatient departments and ultimately second class health health coalition groups have argued that medicare can be streamlined economically without she we want More emphasis on health maintenance and less on sickness you can save a lot of Money that preventive care could involve services involving the whole individual and the Way canadians work and even if we were Only to get premiums right across the medicare would no longer be truly Chernecki a registered nurse on leave of absence from her nursing Home Job to be full time president of the Manitoba Organiza Tion of nurses said the medicare preservation committee was created by the Manitoba Council of health care the Council also comprises the Mani Toba government employees Assoc a the Manitoba food and Commer Cial the Manitoba paramedical the Canad an Union of Public the International Union of operating Engi neers and the service employees International lower uni bus charter rate sought University of Manitoba students have asked the City to forego in Revenue to save the uni bus system that carries students to and from the uni bus could fold because of a City decision to increase charter rates it charges the University for the Erik president of the University of Manitoba students said Tatarchuk told civic works and operations committee the 27per cent increase the City wants is too High and will add about to the the University pays to charter the Tatarchuk said the University could not attract enough additional riders to cover the higher he asked that the increase be Cut to per which would weather probably save the University about Tatarchuk said the students association would take Over publicity for the service to attract More riders uni bus now carries about 800 to passengers and will inject another into the service this year in addition to it already committee referred the request to City officials for City Calendar motorcycle training courses Are planned by the Manitoba safety Council for Milner and experienced Street riders interested in serving As As training instructors or for maintenance should Contact Donna or Jody at the Council room 213 notre Dame pottery and other works by 300 children will be exhibited in the Winnipeg Centennial Library until april the works were created during the saturday morning Art classes sponsored by the Winnipeg school division and the Winnipeg Art admission is d pharmacologist and specialist on of the University of the will speak on the implications involved in the prescribing and use of some common at today in room engineering University of Macdonald House museum Spring lecture series features a lecture and performance entitled an evening of Renaissance at 8 today at 61 Carlton admission is Winnipeg Art gallery will hold an Art drop in program from 1 to 4 today to thursday for children aged six to there will be a 50cent charge for and children must be accompanied by an Manitoba museum of Man and nature presents the Slid tape documentary unions in Central Given by two former Cuso at 7 30 in the Manitoba planetarium admission is cantors Gallagher at Quelch pork loins Cut for the Freezer Canada a1 a2 beef sides of beef Cut 4 Hinds of 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