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Red Cross Speaker Urges Consumers to "Know Your By Maureen Corkery If you receive counterfeit *imoney from someone and are -tnable to identify it at the time, unfortunately you're ituck with it, said OPP :Commwiity Services Officer Tom McMillan. ast Tu nmght. Therefore, it's import "know your money lit back of your hand." Constable MeMillan guestspeaker at the î meetig of the Durharn StoplIn SPECIAL SAVI truck caps, trailers ai units. 8 Fi.Truck Ca Seeps 4, stove, f rg, f urr SPECIAL-------------... TRUCK CAPS & TRAILI Hwy. 115 NewCastle 1'ALEI iSoon Foi INGS ON Mi slip-on imper iace 1 )RT ER SALES <416) 987-51 [oney". iesday Branch of the Red Cross held in Memnorial Park Clubhouse., rant to He gave a slide presentation [e the and talk on counterfeit money and how to detect it. nwas If you suspect a bill is annual counterfeit, he said, compari- m East son is the most reliable way of checkig. The best hrtis tics1 to compareI are the portrait and the serial number. On a counterfeit bill the portraits are usually not as sharp as they are on genuine money. They tend to melt into the background instead of standing out from it. The, background is usually poorly done as well. Frequently the serial numbers on a counterfeit bill are out of alignment. One or two digits may be lower than the others. T he best way to check this is to place a straight edge or ruler under the number. Also note the color of the serial numbers - the one on the right is red and the left one is blue. Ail genuine Canadian cur- rency is prlnted on paper embedded with little green dots. These are known as planchettes and can usually be peeled off. When checking a biil's autheiiticity, said Cst. MeMUlan, look for these green dots. Color, he added, is, not a true test for counterfeit. Cst. McMillan told his audience that none of the new Canadian bills has been counterfeilted yet. "There are just too many colors used in printing the bills." It is American counterfeit money the police are having the most trouble with, he said. Wben checking American currency to see whetber or not it is counterfeit, comparison is, again, the best method. Compare the portraits and the U.S. treasury seal for clarity. In 1977 the Ontario Provin- cial Police recovered $3.1 million in counterfeit money and ini 1976 they recovered $7 million. The biggest haul, recalled Cst. McMillan, occurred some time ago in Timmins. A railroad 00 attendant noticed a $20 bull sticking out of a women 's suitcase as she was walking tbrough the station. He alerted the police and they discovered the woman had $50D,000 i counterfeit money in her suitcase p lus the plates, to ;14 make it.- Cst. McMillan point- ed out, many counterfeiters are very sloppy. Beat Defence Againat Counterfeitlera OPP Community Services Officer Tom MeMillan explains some of the dif- ferences between counterfeit currency and the real thing. If You suspect a person of trying to pass a counterfeit bill, try to staîl him and cal the police immediately, he directed. If you can't delay him, get a good description and his license number if lie drives away. Write the, date and license number on the phony bill so it, can be used for evidence. Neyer return the note to him even if he offers to exchange it for a genuine bil. Many documents besides money are counterfeited, Cst. McMillan warned, and these inchude traveller's cheques, drivers icenses, birth certifi- cates, etc. One very important thig to remember, he stressed, is don't dispose of deposit slips you have written on in the bank. Take them home and throw them out there or rip them up in very small pieces and then get rid of them. A professional garbage picker could easily find the discarded slip in the rubbish pail at the bank, take down the account number, trace the signature and write a cheque on your account. Also, don't use another slip as a pad when you are writing out your deposit. The imprint of your account number and signature could easily be found and used by a dishonest person to forge a cheque. It's important that the public is able1 to detect counterfeit money, said Cst. McMillan. If you fail to identify it, you are the loser. The Great Canadian: Wallpaper ,Sale - Il .Al Canadian made,, wal Ipapers HoUp Support Canadian manufacturers and SAVE! Choose f rom, Su nworthy-Waldec and Norwall Many wallpapers in stock No Waiting Free ParkIng at Rear Enter off Queen Street Paint and Wallpaper Ltd.' 623-5431 Bowmanvllle Letter to Editor Newcastle, Ontario, LUA iHo Dear Sir:- Please read carefully the enclosed article. The senti- ments expessed are those of thousands of us Ontarians, and I would hope, of you also. If so, perhaps you might summarize it in an editorial, - or better still, - print the whole article in an issue when you have plenty of space for it. Smnce I am not a regular subscriber to the Statesman, it may have been called to your attention before by someone else, in which case you may disregard it. Thank you for readîng my letter. Sicerely yours, Mrs. R. W., Helen Goheen LABOR TYRANNY IN CANADA? By Ed Vanderkloet Froni the Canadian Monthly 'Faith Today' Ernie Belanger is a deephy frustrated man. As the owner, and manager of Tecumseth Insulation Services Ltd., a small Weston-based industrial insulation firm, hie faces loss of work and layoff of his employees. During the past haif year, hie was low bidder on a number of construction jobs in Metropolitan Toronto and under the normal rules of the game le should have been awarded the contracts. Yet he lost out. When the contracts were finahly let, they went to his competitors whose price had been higher. What's wrong with Ernie and his company? Nothing. He and bis workers have been in the insulating business for many years and they know their trade thorougbly. They have always delivere mater- ials and workmanship to the full satisfaction of their cus- tomers. The reason why Tecumseth Insulation is ba rred from construction job sites and recently bas lost over haîf a million dollars of business is that its employees decided last year to joi the Christian Labour Association of Canada, a trade unionl that rejects the adversary system and promotes the Christian concepts of love and co- operation among emnployers and employees. The C LAC bas been on the Canadian labour scene for many years. It bas been certified by the governments of Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta on more than 500 occasions. It- legally repre- sents the workers of 200 Ontario companies, most of them operating in the con- struction industry. More than one-third of aIl electricians in the city of Windsor work under a CLAC collective agreement. But despite government rec- ognition as a bona fide trade union, the CLAC bas neyer been accepted by the interna- tional construction trade unions chartered by the AFL-CIO. Frequently CLAC. workers were harassed and sometimes their work was sabotaged. Tecumsetb's scaffolding, forexample, was tampered with so that it would collapse wben a person reacb- ed the top tier, but fortunately these deliberate attempts to cause injury were discovered i time. On numerous occasions, the international unions, picketed job sites and brought ahl work to a stop because of the presence of a CLAC-organized crew. Quite often the CLAC was successful in obtaining an mnjunction fromn the Labour Relations Board against sucb illegal work stoppages. The Board severely reprimanded the international unions for engaging i unlawful activ- ities designed to expel CLAC- organized workers from con- struction projects. Faced with the prospect of frequent injunctions, the inter- national unions devised a new strategy in their attempt to eliminate the CLAC and otber heating, insulation, bricklay- ing, roofing and painting. The international unions managed to pressure general contract- ors into signing agreements which stipulate that work will be subcontracted only to firms who have a collective agree- ment with one of the AFL-CIO- affiliated craft unions. Natur- ally, this meant that a subcontractor whose workers had chosen the CLAC as their trade union would neyer be awarded a contract with such a general contractor - no matter how low his price or bow competent his work force miglit be. Members of a Christian trade union, which promotes stewardship, indus- trial peace, harmonious labour-management relation- ships, and Christian respon- sibility are thus treatedi as social lepers to be shunned and quarantined. Most alarming, however, is the fact that the Labour Relations Boards in B.C. and Ontario recently ruled that collective agreements (ex. cluding non-AFL-CIO worli forces from jobs) are perfect. ly valid instruments in thE hands-of trade unionsfô6r 1114 protection of their own juris dictions. In 1977 the B.C. Board declared: Now along cornes the CLAC. It's not a traditional tradi union. . . Because it hasa different philosophy of collect- ive bargaining, the standardç developed in its Collective agreements differ markedly from those of the traditional building trade unions. . . Il tbey (CLAC organized work- ers) wish to work on major construction projects in, the Province ... they will have tc join one of the traditional unions. In November, 1978 the Ontario Labour Relations Board issued a ruling that is strikingly similar and, in many respects, is based on the B.C. decision. Labour legisiation in Ontar- io and B.C. specifically rec- ognizes the right of workers tc The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanvîlle. March 14, 1979 -décide by majority which a' k trade union they wish to join. Lb -L el L- 'Workers who exercise that le right, however, and opt for a le 1 hristian trade union such as, K -the CLAC or any other B wling Lag *independent union, will in March 6, 1979 creasingly find themselves out Team Standings *of work simply because they Roberts 17658 - 21; Schose the "wrong union. 17407 - 19; Sleep 17530 i Their employers, like Ernie MacDonald 17166 - 11 b- Belanger, will more and more Osborne 17806 - 16; E B receive the stereotype reply 17472 - 15; Chant 17472 le from general contractors: Robinson 18215 - 14; P y' "Don't bother bidding on the 17518 - 14; Lunn 17470 -1 d job; you won't get it anyway Forsey 17347 - 12; C( If as long as your men belong to 16394 -7. ,- the CLAC." H-igh single - 256, F. Sle ,r The CLAC has protested this High double - 414 (158, le sad state of affairs to the B.C. F. Sleep. o and Ontario Ministers of 400 Doubles i Labour. It bas also appealed C. Roberts 405, B. F to ail Canadian churches for 404, D Fox 403, C. Hai e their help in opposing this 4()0' s flagrant abuse of freedom. We- Top Averages s would urge the readers of this C. Roberts 200, F. Slee i article to express their S. Robinson 193, M. Fl e concern to their elected repre- 193, H. Duna 191, J. McIN sentatives in the provincial 188, M. Alldread 186,.. - legislature about the rapid 185, J. Brown 184, E. 1 - erosion of fundamental rgt 183, P. Forsey 183, B. OsI o in the area of labour relations. 183. SCHOOL BREIAK SPECIAL March l4th - 24th CHILDRENl 2 yrs. and unde r) Wash, cut and blow dry Long hair extra. CHARGEX VISA $6300 Ca/I 623-5019 or Stop By 71 King St. E. Bowmanvllle OPEN 6 DAYS AWEEK Tues., Thurs., Mr. svsnlngs <Uv aonolntment) les lue Fice 0- 17; 17; B. Brown 2- 15; Pearce 13; P. 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