Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free june 1987 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council Mumm or or him thatchers Agenda some legislative measures proposed by conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the British throne speech sound rather extreme but they have the virtue of being attempts to solve real problems that have for too Long been shelved previous National for her most bizarre for replacing property taxes by a tax of annually on every person aged 18 and has been developed partly in reaction to the vindictive property tax policies of municipalities controlled by local wings of the labor the councils of Many major cities and towns in Britain Are Labo controlled because millions of working people live in Public housing whose rents Are kept artificially Low by labor huge numbers of such houses were built locally after the second world War with the financial and political support of both labor and conservative National governments because the prewar Urban housing Stock in Britain had been allowed to deteriorate disgracefully by greedy private since Low rents for Public housing guaranteed reelection for labor these councillors made up the shortfall in revenues needed for municipal and social services by imposing disproportionately High property taxes on they also imposed heavy property taxes on owners of commercial a Surpris homeowners and commercial property owners tended to see their natural interest As voting conserva which reinforced the View of labor councillors that these voters deserved financial the trouble with this almost tribal municipal voting pattern was that it like so Many things in in existence Long after the Basic reason for it had passed into once most British people had been supplied with modern housing and once average incomes had risen which happened towards the end of the the need for Revenue raising discrimination was Public housing rents could have been raised gradually to realistic Levels and property taxes could have been held at fairer things changed Little for a further Quarter until Thatcher became conservative Leader in 1975 and began beating the drum for an idea that had first popped up in the 1974 election won by she thought property called rates in should be abolished and the lost Revenue raised another it has taken her 12 years to reach the Point at which she feels Able to do she had prepared the Way for new attitudes to Public housing by what seemed to Many to be the revolutionary idea of not occupants of such property to buy them at an attractive labor ideologues damned this As a policy designed to turn honest working people into selfish capitalist labor councillors raged at the policy As a plot to deprive them of knee Jerk Many thousands of occupants jumped at the which is one reason Why the percentage of homeowners in Britain climbing whatever the presumed political loss to labor and Benefit to the there were powerful incentives for Many occupants to repair and maintenance of Public housing is very poor in Many vandalism occurs in publicly owned apartment blocks and clusters of houses because no one feels responsible for Council owned communal ownership would no immediately solve such problems but it would give owners a stake in improving and protecting their own recognizing that some tenants do not or feel unable to to buy their Homes or Thatcher plans to give groups of tenants the right to form management with control of their own to run their Public housing instead of having it run by the local recognizing that punitive property taxation of Urban commercial property has led to Weed choked vacant lots and seedy zones of rundown buildings in downtown areas of major Thatcher has the revolutionary idea of having the National government set the tax on downtown commercial these ideas will be debated in Britain As if they would slay the socialist dragon or condemn working people to a hobbesian life that is brutish and in they represent a sorely needed new look at chronic social and economic problems that politicians of All parties discreetly ignored until the intimidating Thatcher Hove into fighting for arbitration Bernard president of the Manitoba food and commercial workers is Manitoba most vociferous advocate of final offer labor minister al Mackling and a faction of the Manitoba labor movement Are tagging along behind Christophes propensity for trying to organize workers who do not want a Union and do not want to bargain collectively May explain Why he wants new rules in which organizations with the privileges of unions but not the responsibilities will be Able to achieve let pretend labor contracts without bargaining for the Benefit of Christophe and others who do not believe in collective the Manitoba government might consider enacting a separate labor employees could decide at the Start whether they want to conduct collective bargaining on the Well understood basis of Union and company or whether they want to play the Little league game where nobody gets nobody has to make any Tough decisions and nothing matters Mackling is not doing it that gratify he is imposing his Little league rules on All the provincial jurisdiction employers and unions in some of whom Are pleased and some of whom Are most once they have thought it will conclude they should not touch it with a ten foot companies can never be sure of and so the existence of the final offer which the Union can impose upon the company after the bargaining has begun under the usual will infect All collective negotiators will not As they Exchange whether they Are supposed to be settling with the other Side or setting up the pitch they will Lay before an unions who doubt that their members have the stomach for a strike can play at bargaining but make no attempt to intending All along to throw the matter before an outsider after they have fiddled All they can out of the company by pretended collective bargaining works because the parties have to both sides having much to lose if they fail to both sides have a big stake in the resulting contract because they worked hard and took big risks to achieve Iti the never never land of al Mackling and Bernard where children never have to grow the suppose contract is written entirely by one Side and neither Side needs to take it seriously because it does not even pretend to reflect a hard won joint everyone who has conducted labor relations knows that achieving a collective agreement is Only the first half of the enforcing which is the other is the part that actually determines whether the employees have benefited and whether the Enterprise carries on its a piece of paper which is not a collective agreement but rather results from a halfhearted Exchange in which the employees need not take the least interest will not lend itself to enthusiastic enforce Christophe has entertained Manitoban with his antics in support of undermining collective while the legislature debated Mackling Christophe joined in a disorder outside a Supe Valu where his followers Are conducting a Long and unprofitable and was said these outbreaks of picket line violence would not be happening if we had final offer unions and companies in Manitoba usually Able to conduct their affairs without picket line even in the absence of a provincial Law compelling one Side to accept final offer final offer selection is available to Christophe and Supe Valu right now and has been from the Start of the but its availability did not prevent a disorder on the picket the disorder happened because some individuals chose to act in a disorderly As some times Mackling Law is a Law to allow people like having lost the to make the company say Uncle just the if he has some compelling reason to gratify that faction of the labor he should find a Way to do so without sabotaging everyone else labor Freedom carries a Price tag by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press How much of that Money from the Sale of arms to the iranians actually went to president Ronald reagans beloved Contra Freedom nobody seems to know for especially the contras what does seem is that a great Deal of Money was lived off for other projects before it passed through the cleansing Swiss Bank account and into the waiting hands of the Freedom the latest revelation is that a Large sum was loaned to Ollie North so that great american could put up an elaborate Security system around his other gifts and Loans have been alluded to during but nobody seems to have kept books and president Reagan May never know where All the Money fear the worst perhaps he does not want to general who appears to have hands like seems to know some of the Story after he is a retired general not a chartered at this Point we can Only speculate about the possible Fate of All that due to the Lack of hard there As a tendency to fear the one Contra who has been told repeatedly that the Cheque is in the claims that so far he has received Only an autographed Pic Ture of Oliver a copy of president reagans a humorous birthday card from Gen eral Secord and Worth of Green Stamps redeemable at any a and p another Contra Dante Ernesto claims that the Only Cheque he received a suitcase said to contain delivered to him by a girl he thinks was Fawn Hall at a bar in Miami turned out to contain nothing but a change of four pairs of soiled a pair of a a Little Black four novels by Judy Blume and a baby doll night when he called the White House to complain to he was put on hold and left listening to Hail to the chief arranged for string a third Contra Leader claims that he was told that North has for gotten the number of his account in Geneva and that the Cheque would be forthcoming when he remembered a former member of the norths Cord Pedro of has hinted that sickening revelations will soon be made re Garding the loss of millions of dollars intended for the Gonzales claims that expenses for the Iran Contra caper were so High that Little or nothing was left for distribution among the Freedom All need cars first of he recently told everybody needed a you cant take a bus in an operation As Large As this one the executives got the rest of us had to Settle for Topo theline then there was the Small executive Jet the Safe houses in Nas Miami Hono Geneva and san Juan the computer network the Lin of credit the scramblers for the Tele phones the anti bugging equipment and the american express Gold All according to added but even then the opera Tion proved to be far More expensive than anyone had norths karate lessons were not cheap and the repairs to be cords summer cottage were far larger than in the mid dle of it North pulled a muscle and had to go into physio therapy for two then the Furnace broke Down at the norths place outside Washington and it was decided to install air conditioning while the repairs were being Cost a packet the new swimming Pool was More expensive than estimated because workmen had to blast through solid then there was a problem with records wife which developed transmission that Cost a packet to set right and even when the car came Back from the garage it didst seem to be right so the Bow was sold and replaced with a Small Secord then traded in his Cadillac on an but the Alf Romeo was a Lemon and was always in for repairs so a Mer cedes was obtained As a air fares to al Salvador were ruinous by so it was decided that another executive Jet was then the first Jet was taken out of service so that the we bar could be a third Jet was leased As a at this Point Fawn Hall decided that her clothes were All wrong for the the Bills Are still com ing Gonzales How much did president Reagan know we told him the cheques were in the Gonzales re return Flag it was with sadness that i read the article stolen olympic Flag kept As trophy of War free june 11 about the official Flag stolen from the 1972 olympic games in the situation is indicative of All of society although the statute of limitations prevents any probability of the courts ordering the return of the i believe there is a definite moral obligation to return the Flag it has been was Vaughan a City lawyer and chairman of the aquatic Hall of Fame of was quoted in the article As saying i thought it was very smart this state referred to the strategy of putting the Flag on display at Winni pegs Panama Pool in an Effort to enhance Canadas chances of being picked As the Host of the 1994 olym 1972 olympic Flag Pic the article also reported that Baird received the Flag As a gift from a person whom he de scribed As a shrewd How Many lawyers and politicians Are of the unethical opinion that theft is permissible As Long As they Are not found out for 10 years what kind of example does this Type of thinking set for the rest of society is it then perfectly proper to steal in some to vandalize just a to cheat on our income to make false claims on our insurance or to pollute moderately and who will judge the degree to which crime is acceptable in my the Flag should be with there should be no other option consid Pierre Chenier Winnipeg unsettling it is a Little unsettling to an attitude such As that reflected in the treatment of Winnipeg annual walk for peace turnout Sparks de free june on a Day when issues of monumental importance for brought to the forefront and represented by wide spread support from a variety of groups both political and no Politi it seems that the reporter completely missed the purpose and the ideas behind the the trivial which found it sufficient to mention Only the presence of plenty of Bare skin and lots of ice Cream vendors As Well As the debate concerning the size of the serves Only to deflect from the meaning and Content of the event when these aspect should be the focus of the it is a Gross act of irresponsibility to misrepresent an important Issue such As the peace movement As the free press has David Cowie Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to satan editorial faulted the editorial a july kept in Igno Rance free june 11 referred to the recent prosecution of Willian Glen Wilson for sexual offences involving two teenage the Edito rial alleged that both the Crown attorneys and the courts mishandled this Case and suggested that Justice was not the particular allegations of the editorial writer was that the jury was never told that Wilson had been charged and was out on bail for charges of sexual assault and forc Ible offences allegedly committed in the editorial led to a tainted ver dict because the had they known of this pending May not have believed Wilsons a in the evidence of the Cal Gary charges was deliberately with held from the jury by the Crown attorney because it was absolutely to advise the jury of the existence of those charges would have led to an immediate Willian Glen like All other citizens of is protected by the presumption of he is presumed innocent of the Calgary charges until such times As a court of Law pronounces him a unless and until convictions Are registered on those Calgary no mention can be made of them in other criminal proceed i am aware that the editorial writ ers Are not lawyers and May not understand the principles governing the admission of having to write on the subject they have an obligation to inform themselves in a competent their errors in this Case have resulted in unfounded Asper Sions being made on the conduct of this if the jury was kept in the dark on this it was not because of the Crown attorneys or the courts but because of the application of principle of Law which has been Well understood in the Legal profession for Well Over a Hundred Wayne Moshkowsky director of criminal prosecutions attorney generals department Winnipeg running scared some of our City fathers Are at tempting to Cut 170 firefighters from the City As Well As to Moth Ball a number of vehicles and close some i am mad that we voted in councillors with so Little almost every week in Winnipeg we Are faced with a major hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal injury All too loss of it is not Only the dilapidated wooden structures of the inner City that fall the fire at the senior citizens Home on Smith Street of More recently the Cumberland apart Bear testimony of they were two modern buildings with audible fire alarms and up Odate sprinkler yet the damage was listed in the millions of dollars on each think of the catastrophe that could have resulted had cutbacks in the fire department been in effect on these two As a concerned citizen make your concerns phone your City councillor or write to the Ken Barker in your article snug satanist sat alone in bedroom free june 6 you quote a Morden student As saying in an area that fears any mention of calling upon the name of the Devil is kind of like having to refrain from mentioning satan is to deny his existence implicitly and in this he we must not be afraid to describe him As the Bible calling upon the name of the Devil is kind of like having Power in much the same Way As using heroin is kind of like taking medi Anthony Bergen sneaky worried Wanda wrote a letter to Ann Landers free june 12 complaining about her dads driving if this is Why did Wanda not discuss it with her dad or the rest of the family she wrote to Ann Landers who gave her a sneaky suggestion to have the police follow her dad when he is driving his car to ascertain if he should keep his Drivers that was a stupid answer designed to break up family Harry Ruby Winnipeg Hospital cuts this letter is to protest the Vic Toria general hospitals proposed plan to permanently close 48 Surgi Cal Beds As a deficit reducing Mea As we Are concerned that such a closure would create futher delays for patients awaiting longer waiting periods for patients requiring surgery and a general deterioration on the Quality of services being provided to our we have already experienced the effects of budget restraints of past years that resulted in increased patient workloads and a threat to Quality patient hospitals should be encouraged to implement realistic plan Ning which would be cos effective and without the drastic reductions in service and nursing the effects of budget restraints in the health care system always Falls on the shoulders of the while we believe in the need for Reform of the health care system form High Cost institutional care to a lower Cost Community based and Home care at this time there Are not sufficient Community sup port services in place to close Beds in we urge citizens of Winnipeg to write your la to ensure the Vic Toria general Hospital plan to close Beds not be approved by the Manitoba health services Elsa Michael Victoria general Hospital nurses Mona local 3 Frank is so Hes just finished his first now Hes going to read ;