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Real Estate Show Place Nov 22 I will never forget the day that Jeremy the undertaker came Into the Grunt and Thunder office to cancel his ad He was dressed In a black Immaculate as a taltora dummy and his face was like those which received his expert attention His glassy eyes looked through me and his voice was a monotone carried on a breath of peppermint the camouflage for his secret at the bottle Jeremy was like no other undertaker I had ever met Ha was not Just an odd he was To this day I am not sure If he was a pokerfaced comedian or merely repeated stock phrases which had a double He held out his hand and I thought I had grasped a cold damp fish When he spoke his glazed eyes seemed to be analysing my skeleton as If he were measuring me for a casket I deeply regret fhat I must cancel my weekly advertisement There Is no competition In this area and mine Is strictly none repeat business His face was expressionless Actually he droned my establishment Is an advertisement In Itself It Is Ideally located on the main street the dead centre of if you know what I mean I knew precisely both meanings For a moment I was about to lose control of myself and burst Into laughter but the loss of eight dollars per month advertising revenue was not exactly funny A dollar was a dollar In those days Jeremy Fraser could not have operated his business without assistance Unfortunately his continuous binges and alcoholic fogs did not create a good employment climate Hlrlngs and firings were frequent but I suspect that more assistants quit than were actually fired One case In point was an apprentice called Willie Simpson Willie was a bag of nerves with a vivid Imagination hardly a natural for the profession He was goaded Into taking the fob by a widowed mother who found It necessary to have her son In very steady employment Willis was her sole means of support After a period of preliminary Instruction which did nothing to Improve the lads neurotic state he was launched on his first solo mission Willie dropped off Ontarios Workplace Strikes lockout manhours lost collective bargaining arbitration A whole new language A whole new reality Since World War I the growth for trade unions and the of provincial legislation greatly changed the climate and activity In the area of Industrial In province More worker in more Industries were organized and more unions earned the tight to bargain with management for wage benefit and working conditions In 1948 and 1950 Ontario passed It own labour relations legislation The Ontario Labour Relations Act we have today is the result of the last yean of experience and growing pains The Labour Relations Act determines how a union Is certified with the exclusive right to bargain with for all employee in their bargaining unit It outlines he procedures whereby a group of employees can choose a union to represent them without interference from management during the organizing period Once a union Is chosen provisions in the Act promote orderly collective bargaining and obliges the parties manage ment and the union to bargain In good faith The Act lays down the rules for the bargaining process and timing of strikes of lockouts The Act also provides for fair representation by the union and the provision of information about the conduct of union affairs In recent years Canada has had one of the worlds high est rates of manhours lost by strikes and lockouts among industrialized nations This record seriously affects our economy and hurts our international competitive position There appears to be a trend lately to lower our man hours lost position and Ontario as Canadas leading Industrial province has great deal to do with the overall figures Industrial relations seems to be entering a new phase in its evolution and the outcome of these developments will to a great extent determine our future as a people and a trading nation Cooperation can replace conflict in managementlabour relationship a Quality of working life needs to be given priority over shortterm material gains The Ontario Ministry of Labour is part of this Important debate and the realities of application The Ministry invites and welcomes your participation It is most for Information contact Information Service Branrti Ministry of Labour Avtnua Toronto Ontario M7A ITT 4tS at an isolated farmhouse 0 prepare an old bachelor for his last Journey Pit be back for you In one hour Jeremy told the boy Heres the key Be sure to lock the door when youve finished It was almost dusk and the sky was pregnant with storm as Willie case in hand reluctantly made his way up the driveway to the lonely house There was a strong warm wind blowing cutting swaths through the overgrown grassland and turning the blades of an ancient windmill causing It to screech in rusting pain Across the black clouds in the west a blue streak lightning snaked to earth and thunder echoed ominously over the rolling and To a stronger character than Willie the scene would have been eerie and foreboding The lad shivered involuntarily On otherwise warm evening he felt Icy hand of fear clutching at his Innards and his mouth was parched and dry A man who e as no fear Is either a liar or a lunatic his mother had told him to for his nervousness Youll git used to It so will somebody as do it Willie wondered why he had to be the one There must be some other way to make a buck any way but this He leaned Into the wind eyes half closed against the blowing dust and gripped the brim of his hat with his free hand When he reached house he paused to catch his The law and you The granting of these cert ificates is based on financial criteria and In terms of the offence or cause of action in volved An individual can then take the certificate to a lawyer willing to take his cose As well duty counsel service ia available at provincial and family courts Their primary function Is to advise accused persons on their first appearance Continued from page Under this latter jurisdiction some judges have been quite innovative and have ordered that jveniles undertake various community projects in lieu of more traditional punishment Can the Family Court make orders respecting the care and custody of children A Yes however the juris diction of the court to make an award as to custody under the Deserted Wives and Childrens Maintenance Act Is restricted to where a financial award has been made Since only wives can apply for maintenance under this Act only wives can be awarded custody If a judge decides the husband should hove custody then he will no indicate with reasons but no maintenance or custody order Is made in his favour Most of this will be radically changed by the proposed Family Law He form Act whereby it will be possible Tor either spouse to apply for maintenance and therefore custody of the children as well 11 Rather than convict an offender Judges will often hand down a stern warning and give the person charged an absolute discharge What arc the implications of this A- An absolute means that the accused has been found of the charge but that he has not been convicted of the charge The accused does not have a criminal record as such but while there has been no con viction recorded or registered by the court the court will have registered a record of the discharge The Criminal Records Act treats the dis charge the same as a con and in this sense it will be necessary Tor an accused person to apply for a pardon one year from the date of the discharge 12 One often finds Judges or Justices of the Peace legal counsel What if person cant afford a lawyer A If a Judge docs not mention It to a person that person will usually request an opportunity to speak to counsel before they enter a plea on a charge whether or not quilty For those who cannot afford a lawyer the Ontario Legal Aid Plan may provide a certificate breath and debated whether he should go Inside or return and tell Jeremy what he could do with his Job The recollection of his mothers face both demanding and appealing decided the issue He fished In his pocket for the key and with trembling hand opened the door and groped for a light switch The late or present owner had not advanced with the times In the fading gloom he found a dirty oil lamp on the kitchen table and touched a lighted match to the wick Fighting against his fear Willie found his way to tho staircase Hecllmbed slowly carrying his case In one hand and holding the lamp front of him with the other like a protective weapon Every squeak of the stair treads added to his terror By the time he reached the landing his nerves were on a razors edge He guessed at ttie room ana picked the one the yellow glow lighting the silent form which required attention Placing the lamp on a littered dresser he opened his case and prepared to go to work- Willie never knew what triggered the fiendish noise which Instantly reduced him to Jelly It was human or was it Inhuman like a groan of agonizing pain drawn out and terrifying At the same moment the room was lit to brilliance by a nearby lightning bolt and the house was rocked on its foundations by a boom of deafening thunder As far as Willie was concerned he stood at the very gates of hell He left everything his bag lamp still burning arid stumbled down the dark stairway and out Into the night sobbing a child Tho house was left open at the mercy of the storm and the door swung to and fro in the wind It Is said that he ran all the way back to Redtrees in a torrential rain and little was seen of Willie or his mother again Perhaps she found him a steady Job In another community Shortly after the incident Jeremy placed a Help Wanted ad In the Grunt and Thunder At that time he gave me a few more samples his double talk I may not be very popular he reflected In his usual monotonous tone but sooner or later everybody pays me a visit As a parting glance he measured me again with his glassy eyes Ill be seeing you he said AKERSCLARK REAL ESTATE LTD PERSONALIZED SERVICE OUR SPECIALITY 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