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WIIITBY IFRE l-[I> SS WEDNESDAY. MARCII14, 1981, PAGE 3 Peacock "fed up" with Tory policies With two weeks to go until the polis open, opposition candidates are building up their att.acks on incumbent PC MPP George Ashe and the government of Premier Bill Davis. hast week, Hugh Peacock, the New Democratic Party's Durham West standard bearer, attacked the gover- 'hment over its handling of the automobile manufac- turing industry. "When layoffs threaten one out of six workers in this province, something is very wrong, " he said. "Something has to be done and done now," he said, ad- ding that he was "fed up" with the government's "handwringing" over the economy, especially in the auto sector. Peacock called for a bet- ter deal for Ontario in the Auto Pact. "Instead of handouts from the public purse," the lob- byist for the Ontario Federation of Labor said, "iwe need to drive a harder bargain with U.S. car makers in Ontario." "If they prove unwilling to meet our job demands," Peacock said, "Then the government should seek overseas firms, Canada is the sixth-largest market for cars in the western world. That carnies clout that both the provincial Tories and federal Liberals haven't wanted to use. What's it worth to them (car manufacturers) to tap this market? " The Whitby resident has suggested a short-term plan to deal with those people laid off by plant shutdowns., These include: temporary benefits for dîsplaced workers; pension guarante legisiation; job security laws; and, "a community adjustment fund to create new jobs and take pressure off the welfare rolîs. " "Why is it that virtually no research and development facilities exist for the auto industry in Ontario? Why is it that Ontario Workers assemble the larger, less saleable cars so that when sales slump in the U.S., our workers suffer? " he said. Peacock said that in the long term, the province and Durham Region will need a "voice that will yell long and loud" for the development of Canadian expertise in al areas of manufacturing. "We are more than the old chestnut says - hewers of wood -," he said. "We are the screwers of boîts who have no control over our own future. It's time we took that control. " Front and centre is Hugh Peacock, the New Democratîc Party's candidate in Durham West for the upcoming March 19 provincial electiony, at the recent officiaI opening of his Whitby campaign office located at 406 Dundas Street West. Battie for barriers not over Bugellistli fot .happy The battie of the Highway 401 sound barrier is flot over yet. At last week's meeting of Whitby Town Council, West Ward Counillor Joe Bugelli said that he wilI continue to press for the barriers to be installed on Whitby's stretch of the freeway after the March 19 provincial elec- tion. Last December, Ontario Minister of Transportationi and Communications James Snow told council that the town would flot be getting sound barriers along the north side of the 401 at Bayview Avenue. Snow said in a letter that other sections of the high- way needed the barriers more than Whitby. Bugelli was angered by Snow's response beca use he did not state the criteria for deciding whether or flot to instali the green-colored barriers. In a letter received on F'ebruary 12, Snow said that the criterie used in deciding whether or not to build the sound barriers was the number of homes involved, the existing noise level and the cost of installation. The minister told council that seven of the barriers are to be built in Metropolit.an Toronto both this and next year. 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