Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Venn Liefl free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name end the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to Winnipeg free press january Page 7 readers forum restraint is on sided it is with great interest that i have been following the news reports re lating to the recent activities of the Board of trustees of Winnipeg school division it is a big mistake to allow these people to vote them selves a raise in if my own Case is a Sample of How they they should be ashamed to even suggest i am a former teacher of Daniel Mclntyre collegiate at that i had designed and con ducted a career exploration pro Gram for a period of five the program was so successful that it received National recognition in the form of a Hilroy Fellowship which rewards teachers who have contributed creative innovative Fea Tures towards the improvement of last i made a request to the authorities within the school to pro vide me with an because of the popularity and Success of the program my work Load had become so heavy that it was impossible for me to handle it my request was with the excuse that funds were not available for this this was a foolish taking into consideration the tremendous value of the program to students at a time when youth unemployment is under my 500 students were Able to gain direct exposure to a work environment of their this resulted in Many of them walk ing into a Job after for the Sake of the i directed my plea further to the proper authorities within Winnipeg school Divi Sion they offered no support aft no i appealed in writing to the Board of school trustees on May plead ing with them to find a Way to allow the program to after a series of deferrals in handling my it was not until july that i received a letter from Winnipeg school division 1 informing me that the Board of trustees had re Quested them to advise me that they had dealt with the matter and that no further action will be taken at this Point in i was forced to either take a leave of absence or face the pressure of an unreasonable work i chose to take a leave of the person who re placed me is earning a salary that surpasses mine to the extent that it would have almost provided for the extra help that i had requested in the first it is my duty As a concerned citizen to let the Public know the extent to which Power is being it is a serious situation when a school Board places its own inter ests ahead of the interests of the last for the Sake of a few they refused to support a program which left a door of Hope open to Young people faced with the despair of there seems to be no limit to How much Money they Are prepared to spend for their own sue Shklov Winnipeg discrepancy i find it interesting that the Board of trustees of Winnipeg school Divi Sion should Grant themselves a 60 per cent wage after 11 months of negotiations with the the Best cupe local 110 could ring out of them was a Mere three per cent wage each year the division lays off approximately 12 temporary employees at Christmas and retires them four to six months some Job which become open through Are left surely some of the yes could be used to fill vacant positions and create new some of the temporary staff earn less than the the Board has granted obviously the school boards concept of restraint is very Gil Windjack Winnipeg support for Enesco in your editorial forsaken by Enesco free january 12 you attack the organizations direct to general for accepting the retire ment request of Percy director of the cultural heritage although i can imagine an assess ment of this event quite differ ent from yours without identifying with the Cdr governments Posi i will not refer to this part of your comment for Lack of sufficiently recent and reliable in in your last you take this As an example of the kind of management attitude and action that has progressively degraded the former High reputation of Une from my own personal views and information about the current Une so i cannot agree with your nor with the image of the organization you have Given your although it is True that the government scolded Enesco for waste of resources and political the general accounting invited by the director general to did not substantiate these reproaches in a Way which could not be raised against any larger bureaucratic or the governments Campaign and departure Une so has other and much More important reasons behind it d within an organization of 161 the Western group and its Leader can no longer claim Domi Nance but find Accord ing to All democratic in a minority d the discussion within Enesco about the new world information among has called in question the role of the news agencies and their dominance in the world news As Well As the role of other multinational Cor especially in the develop ing d the Campaign is directed against Une cos director general being Muslim and a citizen of a developing does not fit into the interest the so suddenly shows in the it must be surprising to the careful observer that none of the governments you cite for criticizing except the refused to approve the organizations biennial working plan and it is obviously not by coincidence that Only the new conservative governments in the West follow obediently the american this is not to say that Enesco is without shortcomings that deserve Reform is under Way in the Paris Headquarters since the beginning of the american the Western countries should not blindly Bow to american it seems to me a quite unwise decision to quit Enesco and thus not Only severely weaken an organization with immense but also give up any influence on its ongoing re Bernd Hamm visiting professor of sociology the University of Manitoba Winnipeg artists work ignored an item in the column Back stage free january 4 struck a most curious note that of in regard to the lavishly illustrated compilation of old ukrainian Folk literature As referred to by your writer in his or her description of the recent publication Down singing centuries Folk literature of the Ukraine no mention is made of the Stefan Czer who is indeed responsible for part of the books so highly considered Are Czer necks special talents that the prestigious italian journal Domus will devote a feature article on him in Domus surely is one of the worlds classiest Czernecki graduated from the University of school of in 1969 with particular attention paid to him by George a teacher with an especially keen one can Only question the integrity of our Only see fit to spell out the current Manitoba group of five or in their of it is possible that the Colum nist did not have time for proper Czernecki paintings specifically designated for the Folk tales Book in question Are As vital a component of the publication As is the printed his Talent is worthy of attention equal to that of the translator and Leonard Marcoe Winnipeg birthdays father Ignatius Michael Osulli service Winnipeg born january Olav Gil Lesham Manitoba born january some say welfare recipients get too others say its not nearly two views of welfare your recent series of articles on welfare told of a Mother who can not live on a month one who has to shoplift and yet another who says she needs a to live do these people who want so much yet contribute so Little real ize who is supporting them it is Many like who work full time and do not make anywhere near a i raised two children on less than a month while working full my monthly income now is about More than the Mother of three who gets to stay Home and complains that it is not out of her Money she does not have to pay dental Eye glasses or doctors school furniture All these Are extra and paid for by the City or province in other the working people who Are on welfare do not have to get up at 6 and walk to the bus Stop in 40 below weath they do not have to buy extra clothing needed in order to stay warm while waiting for the or clothes for lunches and All the other incidentals yet they continue to complain that they need More which Many of them cannot manage and better which Many would not look after properly if they did have that better this my employer has not Given me a at least welfare recipients get another More a year which is better than the Zero raise Many of us working full time will have to live Yvonne Barbour Winnipeg dismal world thank you for your excellent articles about it is ironic that our government cannot find enough ways to spend million in the Core beautifying build Ings and but never consider ing spending some of it to help poor welfare families get enough to welfare families do not get their full food budget because they must use food Money to pay welfare systematically underpass family systematic rental underpay ment causes salvation army food free school malnutrition and health problems and de some mothers consider turning Over their children to the childrens at least childrens Aid will provide them with More food Money in a Foster of the welfare Bureau Cracy claims its rates Are Ade they want to keep their like Indian is a Mammoth parasite living off the if welfare had True concern for people it would give free phones and free bus passes for Onrush these would help the poor in Job searching and visits to the if welfare had common sense it would provide work to employable work keeps peo ple at their with causes people to Meterio As your articles Joe Caulfield social worker Winnipeg a comparison with regard to the article woman Breaks Law to feed her children free december i have heard so often How Wel fare fails to provide Basic Hogwash Johanna Scheepers can afford hockey for her son and figure skating lessons and a cab Bage Patch doll for her How is that she has to steal and write bad cheques for food i have been doing a Little com paring Between Johanna Scheepers and what it is costing the province to support her and her two and my who is working for an hour 25 cents an hour above minimum he is married and has an 11monthold Scheepers receives from welfare and family allowances per plus per month that is per or add to this per year special my son in a 40hour week earns after he takes Home per or per add to this annually for family allowance and he now has per subtract travelling expenses to and from work at per or a he now has to pay buy clothing and any plus his he therefore has less a year than i submit that Scheepers and others like learn How to Man age the dollars they receive and be Happy we have a welfare system that provides the Basic it is time we provided an incentive for people to go to Why does the welfare recipient require and receive per year More than the minimum wage earner with the same family Heidy Black Winnipeg a real Burden should welfare recipients get More Money this question comes up frequently in the a re cent Story in the free press makes one we have Here a Story a woman struggle to make ends meet on it is a real sob but according to the facts printed in the article she was getting considerably More Money than a family which was existing on the minimum in cases like this what incentive is there to even look for a Job with All of the social services today it is a real Burden on people who Are trying to make a they Are taxed almost out of exis people in the lower income brackets Are having Clayton Schroeder fears draconian restraint measures Manitoba finance minister Vic Schroeder agrees Federal provincial relations have moved into a new but he believes that the cooperative atmosphere has More to do with necessity than with the change in government in in the the Battle was Over in the the two Levels of government Are looking for ways to have the other level pick up the costs for programs and services they can no longer in an interview following his re turn from the first finance minis ters meeting since the Federal elec Schroeder said the sweetness and Light expressed at the gathering was simply because no decisions have yet been Schroeder was prepared to give full Marks to Federal finance minis ter Michael Wilson for his Assur ances that Ottawa plans no cutbacks in fiscal transfers to the provinces in his april he was also pleased that Wilson and several other provincial minis ters picked up on Manitoba Call for a review of the estimated billion Worth of tax expenditures foregone by Ottawa each year in the form of deductions and other shelters and in his formal statement to the Schroeder had pointed out tax expenditures now Are Worth 50 cents of every Dollar of direct spend ing at the National that is significantly higher that the entire Federal financial requirement last unlike direct spending tax expenditures Are Frances Russell rarely subject to any meaningful corporate income tax incentives have reduced the Federal corporate tax rate from 36 per cent to 15 per the statement As a the Confidence of canadians in the Basic fairness of our tax system has been Wilsons willingness to examine broadening the tax despite his generally pro business Doest Surprise As finance he is looking for every Dollar he can the current amiability How be the Calm before the i Rule out draconian restraint measures by Ottawa Down the Schroeder i be Lieve a Large portion of the Public sector is on the table As part of the Overall review of Federal spending being undertaken by the Neilsen com the chaired by Deputy prime minister Erik Neilsen and including Treasury Board president Robert de Cotret and some private sector is combing All aspects of the Federal budget to Root out waste and i am very concerned that the Neilsen committee will slash Federal spending on the backs of the prov Schroeder with drawing from areas of shared Juris like housing and the would allow Ottawa to show an improvement in its deficit while increasing the expenditures of the if that Schroeder pre the current provincial Lovein with arising from the fact there Are eight provincial conserva Tive will How Long the Good atmosphere will last will depend on How Well the new Federal government under stands the glue that holds the federa Tion even Schroeder it is too simplistic to portray the Only nip finance As the doonesbury Odd Man he characterizes Ottawa As fur ther to the right than most of the the Federal perspective is somewhere in the same area As they have a bit of a fixation about the private in they seem to worship he describes Wilson himself As tremendously right he is very articulate so Long As he is on Bay Street subjects such As invest interest rates and monetary but he cant seem to conceive of jobs and he thinks about not now there is an Overall conservative perspective on the Economy at these meetings that ignores everything we do As a Community through our i guess that Manitoba most important function to bring the viewpoint to the table that a Community col lege teacher imparting life skills to a group of students is at least As important to the Economy As an employee in a pinball the Federal government particularly does not seem to see the Public sector As having a role to Schroeder says he had to remind his colleagues that 30 per cent of Canadas investment traditionally comes through the Public they were focussed entirely on the private they we rent recognizing something As important As the possible Startup of the billion Limestone generating the finance minister says he will be confronted with some hard choices in his next budget even if he recovers the million equalization Manitoban seem Likely to face tax Schroeder says he Doest regret his governments decision to spend freely in its first two if we had not done we simply would not have had the same level of Job Schroeder says Manitoba leap from lowest unemployment rate in Canada to third place above Saskatchewan and Ontario in the de Cember statistics May Only be a on month but it could he be confirmation Manitoba was hit hardest by the Federal spending cuts announced last by Garry Trudeau Tome is Friss i 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