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Involvement the Key
To New Alternatives

Recreation.

For many of us, the word fails to conjure
up a precise meaning.

It has been used as pigeonhole for a
wide variety of activities, ranging from last
weekend's up-against-the boards pockey
game to tomorrow night's whiskey:
smoko-filled poker game,

Yet its importance to the human animal
Is obvious. Equally important as modern
man's advances In working conditions and
living standards has n the creation of
leisure time to provide refreshment the in-
dividual is‘unable to obtain from food or
sleep.

Instilling in local residents the
awareness of this need for physical and men:
tal renewal through some form of

rodeo, a tennis clinic, a .community strect
dence, a fitness exhibition, and on-stage
demonstrations of such activities as karate,
golf, square dancing, disco dancing, and
weightlifting to stress the fun of physical ac-
fi

ty.

In addition to planning displays by the
Heart Foundation, the Cancer Society,
Alcoholics Anonymous, Action B.C., Sports
Canada, and the B.C. Hall of Fame, com-
mission staff have received queries from a
weavers’ guild, solar energy proponents and
other groups not normally associated with
the fitness concept.

The key to the success of the Fitnoss
Festival is
ihe commission will rocaiva n some. financial
ani

activity Is essentially the purpose of the
planned May 25 and 26 Fitness Festival, One
of only eight such events to be sp d by

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government tt will rogue the support of in-

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provincial recreation authorities this year,
the festival has been designed by Recreation
Commission No. 1 as @ mecns of demon:
strating the broad range of recreational
alternatives available to people who sight
otherwise never become involved
recreational activities.

Using the theme of “personal ecology,”
or.improving the human body as 9 place in
which to live, the festival will incorporate
such diverse events as a bike-a-thon or bike

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As Importont as the sponsorship of the

various events planned for the festival will -~

be the support of the public at lar: argent [ust
those persons normally Interest in physical
activity but those who are looking for or
want information on forms of recreation in
which they want to become involved as well.

We have come to accept the importance
of maintaining the quality of our environ-
ment. We owe the same consideration to the
bodies and minds inhabiting it.

Not a Typical Example

Of Western

Hospitality

{An editorial in the Victoria Daily Colonist.)

Travel is broadening, they.say. It must
have been for the 32 French-speaking ex-
change students from Montreal visiting’
Bowness junior and senior high schools in
Calgary this week.

"There were all kinds of rude commen-
ts," says a Calgary girl who was hosting
one of the Montrealers. “People would say:

What are those frogs doing here? or things
like: Send them back where they came
from, A lot of people got really hurt.”

After all, it happened in Calgary. Of
course we all know this isn’t typical
western hospitality or humor. Can you
imagine any responsible person in British
columbia calling a French Canadian a
rag?

Castlegar News Headlines from one year ago:

Mayor Audrey Moore announces CanCel will help the city seek provincial government funds for
the proposed Lower Arrow Lake water system | for Castlegar and outlying areas.

Regional District of Central Kootenay isctira ave decided Castlegar is to continue to pay

duplicated planning costs.
* 8

.
} affairs and housing ministry is

College principal, Mitch And

says tl
prepared to repair the rundown student A aie at Selkirk College provided the education

minister has no objections,
s 6

Dr. Nick Schmitt, director of the West Kootenay Health Unit for the past 14 years, has
announced his retirement from the public health service.

By CHARLIE FOX

{A column in the Kamloops
Daily Sontinol.}

IF WE WERE TO FOL-
low the original latssez faire
principles of free enterprise
then under a system of free
collective bargaining, essential
service ought to provide the
highest paid jobs in the whole
system,

Governments have at least
two alternatives in dealing with
“essential services". They can
acknowledge the value of the
tasks being performed and
allow the rewards to rise
accordingly, or they, can inflict

‘ “special status” on them and
through the use of law and
police power attempt to keep in
heck the of a whole

Banks Next on the List for Spoctal Status?

To create special classes of
citizens, stripped of certain
rights enjoyed by the majority,
is to ask for trouble, and those
who contemplate it should
think it over. seriously before
they embark on such a venture.

WELL, MY FRIEND THE
banker wouldn't see this whole
thing the way I do, but I know
he'd have a tough time running
his bank without all those
tellers who work for a pittance.

I think they are important
just as all those named under
the Essential Services Disputes
Act are important. They are
the ones who keep your roads
ploughed in the winter, who
thaw your water pipes, who run.
your buses, who clean your
schools, who help educate your

children, who do a thousand
other important jobs. If they
are essential then what they do
is important and valuable.

WAS AT A PARTY THE
other night for a bank manager
friend of mine who is being
transferred to Port Alberni. Of
course, like most bank mana-
gers he sees unions as a threat
to the nation’s financial {nstitu-
tions, so'l like to rub it in a bit
that the banks are being or-
ganized, and that their workers
will havo the opportunity for
the first time to negotiate like
adults the conditions under
which they work. As we said
goodbye I wished him well and
hoped he would not be hit with
any unfair labor practices char-
ges.

We had a laugh about that,
and then’some wit — not Jan
Weir — made some rude
remark about my column on
volunteers, so I chimed in
saying that working for a bank
was almost like being a volun-
teer, considering how little
they pay their workers,

BUTTHEY ARE REALLY
worried in the banks. They've
never had to negotiate anything
but loans, and this union stuff is
a different ball game alto-
gether. Of course, if things get
really bad, they could always
ask for essential service status,
They've already got laws gov-
erning how long they can stay
closed at a stretch, so it
shouldn't take too much per-
suasion to convince the powers

Sf Wages Don’t Reflect ‘Essential’ Service

that bo that banks’ provide a
service which’can not be inter-
rupled by, labor dispute,

Of course, “essential” in
our timo does not indicate
worth or value but only grudg-
ing necessity, and you can
muzzle the ox that grinds out
the corn if it is “essential” to do
so, It is one of the anomalies of
the free enterprise system that
while prices and wages in
theory at least, should be
allowed to float without govern-
ment interference to find their
own level based on value and
worth, in reality those tasks
which have been’ deemed “es-
sential", have traditionally been
among the lowest paid, despite
the value inherent in their very
name,

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new class of subjugated people.

GOVERNMENTS TODAY
seem to be leaning toward the
second of these options, but
there are some serious lessons
to be learned from history on.
this subject and it warrants
some thought.

In Italy, in the latter days

of the Roman Empire, there

was a society which deemed its
slave class as essential, but it
took a standing army to keep
them under control.

When the willingness of
the average citizen to serve
under arms began to decline,
the presence of that slave class
posed a threat to the survival of
that society, for every human
being kept in check under a

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Does it Pay to Picket?

Strike Cost Paid from ‘Striker’ s Pocket

(An editorial in the London
oes Guardian.)

THEY STAND IN
the hd and the driving rain,
the people on the picket lines
outside the docks, the factories
and the social services depart-
ments must sometimes wonder
whether it is all worth while.

But Don't
Hold Your
Breath, Folks

HAVE WE CROSSED
the great divide?

A poll by the Washington
Post indicates that for the first
time since television settled
into almost every home a
quarter-century ago, Ameri-
.eans are watching the tube less
than they did. Until this year
they have always reported they
were watching more.

OF ALMOST 1,700 PEO-
ple who responded to a poll,
slightly more than half said
they are spending less time
watching than they were five
years ago. Likely the same
trend would be found in Can-

la.

That's the kind of message
which just might lead the
networks to struggle for -more
quality. Up to now, viewers
have been signaling that any-
thing will do.

7 The Bierman Bite

“7 CLARKMAN is HERE...!

. GET LOST TRUEALMAN..

Man to man talk.

The simple answer is that it
sometimes is not.

Long strikes are by no
means an i

The point is not just that
strikes are not always won, or
that fighting them may be a

of fatter pay packets. Nor do
fatter pay packets guarantee
higher living standards. We
have seen examples in the past
few months, too easily for-
gotten in the welter of new
unrest, of strikes collapsing and
strikes defeated.

WE HAVE SEEN THE
Ford workers returning to
work after nine weeks with an
offer no better than the one
they would have won after only
five weeks out of work. We
have seen the firemen resisted
and resisted. The provincial
journalists have now gone back
to work with little better than
the offer over which their
strike began. Up and down the
country, there are sporadic
reports of lorry drivers settling
for the offer which the em-
ployers recently tabled.

cold and busi-
ness. It is also that there is no
guarantee that workers-come
out ofa strike financially better
off — even if they win a bigger
pay settlement than their em-
ployers originally offered.

A STUDY OF THE 1971
postal workers’ strike showed.

tha} the strikers, on’ average, °°
* weze $175 worse off over the

first year as a result of the
dispute; and a study of a
14-week strike by maintenance
electricians at Chrysler (U.K.)
showed that it had cost the
strikers an average of $700
each — the difference between
income lost during the dispute
and income gained from the
higher settlement that result-
ed.

More recently calculations
‘on the Ford strike and bakery
strike last year show a similar

result, The dispute cost the
average Ford worker some-
where between $552 and $996
in lost income — the difference
between earnings foregone and
income from strike pay, tax
rebates and .social security
benefits for his family. To earn
this back, after tax and national
insurance contributions, will
take a Ford worker anything.
from 40.to.68. weeks,

SMALL WONDER THAT
Sir Terence Beckett was able to
say recently that Ford's wage
bill in the year from the start of
the strike would be 96 per cent
of the wage bill in the previous
year — simply because of the
stoppage.

The bakery workers, who
were out for five weeks and
won only three per cent more
than they were originally of-
fered, will have to wait for
between 1’ years and three
years to earn back what they
lost during the dispute.

THERE ARE TWO MOR-

als. One is that a large part of
the cost ofa strike, particularly
of a long strike, falls on the
savings of the individual work-
er. For all the talk of stopping
social security benefits and. tax
rebates to strikers, roughly 80
per cent of the cost of a strike
comes from the strikers’ own
pockets.
Secondly, for all the easy
flourishing of a strike weapon,
more glamorous" for’ years of
pay policy disuse, the union
does not always win. It may
simply cost its-members and
their employers a lot of money
and some discomfort.

PAINSTAKING NEGO-
tiatons may have come, inmany
unionists’ minds, to seem a
tedious and unrewarding pro-
cess, Better a short, sharp
strike? By no means always, on
the figures, for the.short and
the sharp can often prove the
long and the expensive.

/ Voice of the People

CUPE’s Pay Award Justified

Editor, Castlegar News:
Needless to say the recent
six per cent interim pay award
to CUPE members of School
District No. 9 in this area by
Dr. Noel Hall i

expensive new homes going up
around this place, many of them
in the luxury bracket with
pools, and saunas,

The base rate for workers

hotel room with a six-pack of
beer, ©

Many members of the
public are possibly ‘still not
aware of what this very ques-

brought forth the remark from
Mr. John Dascher that this is
going to cost the taxpayers
around $16,000 and that the
members will each receive an
average of $400.

But there was not one
word about the thousands of
dollars saved last fall by the
not-very-justified six week lock>
out. While we are on that
subject, it is interesting to
speculate on how much money
out of our local school budget is
spent on such’ unnecessary,
expensive items as expense-
paid trustee trips, and last year
the purchase of.a $7,000 new
car (no Honda Civic).

. Lam sure the majority of
taxpayers in the Castlegar area
will agree that in this day and
age the wage award to CUPE
members is fully justified. Why
do unions in the public sector
always get penalized rather
than unions in the private
sector, such as in

at our three major e

Cominco, and the Cancel pulp-
mill and the sawmill is now
pretty close to $8 per hour. In
the average-yearly expendi-
tures of the above taxpayers in
the West Kootenays the pay
awards to the CUPE members
now. are sheer peanuts.

It is worthy-to note that at.
least Trail is opting out of this
B.C. School Trustees Associa-
tion in June, thereby saving
much to the taxpayers of the
retroactive pay award, a sen-
sible move on the part of School
District No. 11. Let's hope it is
not lost on our own repre-
sentatives in other areas, who
apparently did not read the fine
print: on huge

tionable means in
the way of taxpayer expense,
and it is to the credit of Trail
trustees that after ‘due con-
sideration they are opting out
of the BCSTA in June:

It seems also that even if
prospective candidates like Nan
Hendrie in the Nelson school
district are completely elimi-

“nated as trustees in an election,

they can still be appointed by
those responsible to represent

them on such bodies as the -

Selkirk College council over
and above the wishes of the
electorate.

Surely if this was CUPE
making such a move the fires of
hell would be called down on

pertaining to membership and
ridiculous management — em-
ployee relationships by the
BCSTA in the first place.
Information still goes
around that the West. Kootenay
boards are still involved i in ie

in 1978 with a raise of over 21
per cent in profits?

No-one ever says much
about that and many other
increases, such as the impend-
ing $25 per year increase in our
water rates. It is no doubt
justified, but is not the pay
award to CUPE justified too?

This area seems to be quite.

ially when

the past, particularly a eeihe
coming trip to Vancouver for
quite a number of trustees,
which includes a stay at a
prestigious, expensive hotel
(the Hyatt-Regency, no less),
May a good time be had by all.

CUPE's few members tak-
ing part in a serious discussion
on the ee situation

Prosp' Pp
one sees all the scores of

last No
for holding a iaily in their

Our readers are in-
vited to express thelr
views freely in letters to
the editor. All letters dis-
cussing timely issues will
be published provided
thay are within the laws of

I. Although noms: de
branes may be used when
necessary, letters should
be short and carry the
name and address of the
writer. The editor retains
the privilege to edit letters
for brevity, style, legality
and taste. Add

wer 3007, Cas-
tlegar, B.C. VIN 3Ha

them and such moves would be ~

deemed ilegal.

It would be very interest-
ing indeed to have all the
expense to the taxpayers of the
West Kootenays of the lockout
and strike totalled up in the
news media. This would include
the former mediator's travels
between here and Victoria,
with hotels, air fares and meals,
and now the thousands of
dollars spent on Dr. Noel Hall's
travels back and forth.

This arbitration appears to .

be in for many months dura-
tion, all for the sake of parity
with the Okanagan on the wage
scale, which amounts to pea-

nuts out of budgets dealing
with millions of dollars. The
recent convening of the B.C.
legislature in Victoria to deal
with this situation saw the B.C.

taxpayers again having to fork ”

out well over $100,000 to force
the West Kootenay CUPE
members back to work — a
sledgehammer to crack an egg.

Of course, all of us were

_ well aware of the implications

of this move. It was against the

whole B.C. Labor movement,
Against the power of the
Socred government the work-
ing man needs to muster all his.
forces. Our only hope may be a
return to power of the NDP,
who hopefully will have learnt
from their last session in office
to have corrected their errors

in government.
Local 1298

Canadian Union

of Public Employees
the

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