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( “Here! let the press the peopte’s rights mai

By GEORGE DOBIE

(Reprinted from the Van-
couver Sun, of which the author
is labor editor.)

EACH TIME THE POST
office and the inside workers’
union have tried to negotiate a
settlement they have walked
deeper into the quagmire of

la a 7
The Broken Window

A Castlegar alderman reports the
number of acts of vandalism in the city in the
first elght months of 1978 have increased by

100 per cent over the same period fast year.

The School District No. 9 maintenance

supervisor reports nearly $1,900 In damage -

te local schools within one month.

And residents wait for the cost of this
colossal waste of time, material and human
energy to trickle down Into thelr tax
assessments.

Reactions to the damage follow a
farniliar pattern. Maintenance staff who find
themselves repeatedly repalring the same
bulldings or facilities grow bitter and
frustrated at the lack of respect for public
Property.

Elected officials are

“the age of the ‘throw-away’ generation,””
according to the study, has affected so-
clety’s attitudes to personal and public
property, while the family unit, which would
otherwise provide a sympathotic setting for
an with p
breaks down.

The growing size of sommmunilias WW
both urban and rural areas

It's doubtful if any pre-

anywhere has taken so long and
achieved so little,

Take Monday as the latest
example. The nation was on the
brink of a national strike. All
the necessary pressure was on
both sides to come up with a
format for renewed bargaining.

BUT THE LAST CHANCE
to avert the strike that began
Tuesday disappeared in the
muck when the government in-
sisted on a no-strike commit-
ment,

The government would
then be Prepared to shelve its

vious major round of bargaining .

Canada Post Contract Talks: A Osopaks of Disagreement

feet

PEAY post
OFFICE?

anonymity of individuals, and a decline in
respect for authority has resulted In an-
tagonistic attitudes.

: It is relatively easy to attribute the same
factors to vandalism outside as well as Inside
the Juctadtation of school districts. Similarly

the that
school Peas encourage the eatalstment
jade

in

dealing with the problem by a lack of data
and an Issue that can be 40 politicized as to
make constructive action on the problem
difficult, Police, members of the institution
within the community which Is most
concerned about vandalism, renew thelr
request for public support and become
Involved In 'y school-

fevel prevention plans.

Taxpayers, who ultimately bear the
brunt of vandalism, complain of Its growing
cost and Incidence but mostly feel resigned
to accepting It as inevitable.

A school vandalism study released In
August by the B.C. School Trustees Assocla-
tion predictably placed the onus for preven-
tlon on Individual schools.

But a number of soctal factors cited In
the study tend to undercut any suggestion
that the schools are solely responsible for
the marked Increase In vandalism.

Greater affluence and emergence of

and
ssh take part in

Peters Dayton'O Y9e}y News

the ie g strike issue and They include wages, technolo. mium, weekend premium, over-

under “Med-arb"—mediation to
be followed by arbitration, if
necessary—or through a con-
ciliation commissioner.

The union wanted to see a

able to conclude a tentative

up of 8 of all groups par In
day-to-day school life.
Reporting acts of vandalism and prose-

. cuting thelr perpetrators may help deter

potential window-smashers, but if the rea!
causes of such senseless destruction are
based on attitude they will not prevent the
commission of such acts In the future.

As In the school districts, extenalon of
thls approach to a commnuntty level would

in-
still a greater sense of shared responst-
ity,

peer influence among not only, the potential
victims of vandalism but the potential
vandals as well.

The answer would not come cheaply. It
would require fong hours, hard work,
co-operation and dedication.

But when weighed against the growing
cost of vandalism, the effort would be well
spent.

Easy to Swallow

(An editorial in the Vancouver Sun.)

We don’t know whose idea it is, or even
if it’s original, but the provincial govern-
ment's campaign to cut down on the number
of children polsoned by prescription drugs
left carelessly around the home deserves
nothing but praise.

The fact that every year 3,500 children
four years old and younger have to undergo
emergency treatment is justification enough
for concern and action at any level. When
the government throws In an antidote and
the inducement of a Mexican holiday as
well, the results can only be goo

Health Minister Bob McClelland says
British C are to be by
@ province-wide advertising campaign to
drop off their old and unused drugs—those

that sit around the house inviting the
attention of. little. fingers—at. the .nearest,
drug store, where they will be thrown into a
garbage can.

While they're at the drug store, they'll
be encouraged to buy a bottle of syrup of
Ipecac, which Mr. McClelland describes as
‘tan essential antidote for most of the
poisonous products swallowed by children,”
and to enter for a draw which will give the
winner a trip for two to Mazatlan.

No one can deny that it’s gimmicky but
in an age of gimmicks this one has a real-life
ring to it.

There's nothing phoney about wanting
to save a child's life.

Use of the city's Old Arena hall as a youth centre is among the People Interaction
recommendations for settlement of a dispute between owners of the Wizard's Palace Funteria on 123

Main St. and residential neighbors.
*

*

Castlegar's Doukhobor Village and Museum, the Brilliant Cultural Centre and Pass Creek Park
are among the sites of 23 Canada Works projects approved by the federal government for the

Kootenay West constituency.

without having to
run back to the cabinet for
instructions.

BUT THE DISCUSSIONS
never got that far because of
the demand for a strike ban.

In addition, CUPW presi-
dent Jean Claude Parrot said
that, for the same reason, the
union did not get a chance to go
through a list of clauses on
which it was prepared to com-
promise,

Any government negotia-

sensed the union was ready to
compromise and would have
got a look at that list before
doing anything else, But not
even: Bill Kelly, the deputy
minister with long experience
as a mediator, or Shirley Carr
of the Canadian Labor Congress
could save the day at Monday's
talks. Kelly was there for the
government and Carr for the
union.

THESE DAYS THE LIB-
erals have a propensity for
blowing their chances. Their
government ignored the lesson
that compromisé—not! compul-
sion—is good labor relations.
Instead they followed the
course they must have plotted
from the beginning to introduce
the heavy back-to-work law.
They have succeeded in putting
the union in a deeper hole but
that strategy won't improve
their waning popularity.

It is not difficult to under-
stand the union position. It has
had the right to strike, so why
give it up for nothing?

“THERE IS NO WAY WE
are going to give away any of
our rights today,

special mediator who would be ©

‘we have today, the

tor worth his salt should have .

not
even close to being resolved.

By BETTY ROPER
(From a column in the

Creston Valley Advance.)
IN THE TRADITION OF
Allan Fotheringham, columnist

for Maclean's, who periodically -

features a Great Canadian Quiz,
Great
Creston Valley Quiz...

1. If you were going to test
the Human Rights Bill in court,
would you:

(a) hire a good lawyer

(b) hire a stray dog

2. In the event of a fire,
would you phone:

(a) the Fire Department

{b) the police

({c) your doctor

3. What time is it? Ex-
plain.

4, What is your attitude
rebarding the proposed pybse

(a) drive

(b) overdrive

(c) park

(d) neutral

5. Who.is responsible for
the current lockout situation in
‘the’ East Kootenay School Dis-
tricts?

(a) CUPE 3

{b) the School Boards

(c) Mickey Mouse

6. Who is Lorne Nicolson
and where is he hiding?

Richard J...
Needham |
, (From columns in the Tor-
onto Globe and Mail.)

The prime function of a
is tomake whack

any day,” snapped Frank Wal,
den, CUPW's western regional
director. The union already had
nine locals on a legal strike but
Walden pointed out that’s not
unusual.

“There are lots of disputes
where the workers are on
strike during talks.”

big profits. I'm allowed to say
this because I've worked for
newspapers which made whack-
ing big losses, and paid their
staff accordingly.

ee

The 2,000 employees of
Westinghouse Canada in Hamil-

ton, it and Ei

And to think that the

major clauses—not to mention

eo The Bierman Bite

+ have gone back to work after a

four-month strike that cost
each one of them some $4,500.
The company itself took a
beating during the strike be-
cause it lost so many orders and
customers, Is this what the

goonybirds in Ottawa ‘mean ©

when they talk about a “na-
tional industrial strategy?”
‘+. 8 8

Thad a taxi driver who was
quite upset; he-felt like eating
an apple, so he hopped into a
grocery, chose a B.C. Delicious,
and paid 56 cents for it. I
wonder how much the British
Columbia apple grower got for
it? Perhaps one of the readers
can advise.

* *

I see the Manitoba govern-
ment is borrowing some $65
million in Swiss franes from
that country's Union Bank, at
an interest rate of 4.12 per cent.
The interest will of course be
much higher.when allowance is
made for the rapid appreciation
of the Swiss franc and the
equally rapid deterioration of
the Canadian dollar. The Swiss
francs that Manitoba is now
borrowing at 70 cents Canadian
will in my view be up to 100
cents Canadian in a year or so.

* 8 4

By the time you're 65,
you've found out a few things—
that two and two make four,
that there ain't no free lunch,
that human nature is untrust-
worthy, and that the emperor's
strutting around in his birthday
suit. That's why they have to
get rid of you—so you won't
make waves, rock the boat,
spoil the party.

gical change, job security, cost+
of-living adjustments, shift pre-

time, meal allowance, paid sick
leave, severance pay, weekly

Great Creston Valley Quiz:

_A,B, C or None of Above?

7. Where will you hear the
most local news?

(a) at the coffeeshop

(b) at the: coffeeshop

(c) at the coffeeshop

(d) all of the above

8. What time will it be
next week? Explain. ~

9. How do you feel about
the Kootenay Diversion de-
bite?

(a) afloat

(b) submerged

10. During the recent ro-
tating strikes by the letter
carriers for the Post Office, was
your mail service:

(a) the same

(b) a little better

(c) a lot better

(d) ridiculous

11. Where do you do the
majority of your shopping:

(a) Bonners Ferry

(b) Cranbrook

hours of work, annual leave, the
status of part-time and casual
employees, the union shop
versus the present Rand mem-
bership formula and thousands
of grievances filed by the union
since 1976,

IT’S EVEN IMPOSSIBLE
to get management and the
union to agree on how much the
postal clerks earn. Manage-
ment says a PO4's earnings
average $12,976, plus $1,686
from separate COLA payments,
an average of $1,659 from over-
time and $538 from average
shift and weekend premiums,
for a total of $16,759.

But unionists are skeptical,
about the employer's figures,
charging they are overstated,
And they are right on at least
one figure. Overtime is extra
work which should not be in-
cluded in an average wage
fi

‘ -—Use Compromise - Not Compulsion

igure.
PEOPLE WHO ARE IN-
clined to lambast unions every
time they get into a strike
situation should weigh all the
factors. It's difficult, but for

201-7th nists

once just try.

Don't explain why.

12. Where, in Creston, will
you find. superb cuisine, ex-
cellent service and an exciting
atmosphere:

(a) your house

(b) your mother's house

(c) your grandmother's
house

(d) Red Riding Hood's

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR
paper to the Chamber of
for marking.

te) L

Enterprising Job Seeker
Deserved Better Treatment

{An editorial in the Van-
couver Sun.)

ANY YOUNGSTER SO
desperate for a job that he
refuses to take no for an answer
and is willing to buck the
system to prove his worth
obviously deserves something
better than the Ford Motor
Company can provide.

Not that the company
treated him badly when 19-
year-old Anthony Opat was

ithout

-
tees been offi vee hired—on
the hood-stacking line at Ford's
Detroit plant. He was given a
$218 cheque to cover the time
he had worked before being
exposed—then told very polite-
ly to go home.-

FORD EXECUTIVES
could offer only sympathy. It
was left to another industry to
recognize the true worth of the
young man's enterprise and
offer him a job.

The statis-
tics in both the United States
and Canada probably disguise
any number of people like Mr.
Opat who genuinely prefer
profitable employment to gov-
ernment handouts, only they're
reluctant to force the issue.

TOO BAD, OF
course, if true, because if Mr.
Opat proved anything at all it is
that there are jobs available for
anyone willing to give it a
college try.

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