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Editorially Speaking... t WE'RE GLAD TO BE BACK.. .incidentally, 'Mom' 'Dad' and our three youngsters will be moving in at the end of the school-year, June 30. To all our friends we say, after June 30, drop in and see us at 53 Yonge Street, Brighton. We'll be THERE Thanks, for the many generous expressions of goodwill, as we begin two new publishing efforts! UNIONS-MANAGEMENT, the right to work, and the right to bargin for oneself, enter into the picture when the question of whether or not a union should be certified under the Ontario Labor Relations Act is involved. One reason companies are attracted to communities such as ours, is that the firms know a surplus labor supply exists. They know, labor can be obtained at hourly rates lower than those in highly urbanized, industrialized centres. Also, there is the fact, we are now experiencing ; social-economic change in our way of life. Many are switching gradually or partially, from 'marginal farming enterprises', to off-season, or even year-round work with local industry. This situation is not new to the Colborne-Brighton District. It arose last year, when a union attempted to obtain recognition as the bargaining agent for a Colborne area company. "Fortunately, these difficulties seem to have been mutually resolved, satisfactually in this instance. Now, however, it is reaching the stage of a legal showdown between management and, what is worse, two factions of the labor force of one of Brighton's oldest and largest industries. Personally, we find it a matter of regret that union management matters end up in court battles. As fo r ourself, weve always made our own income arrange ments with our employers. This, however, doesNOT mean we are NOT one hundred per cent behind those who are entirely dependent upon the take-home pay they get each week, whetherfrom a corporation, local business firm or a government department. Two things management seems to have generally over-looked (not only here but elsewhere). This is, that in large industrial areas, there is a vacuum in relationship to standards of living (in relation to rising living costs) established over a period of years. Secondly, to defend these standards, it is to be expected, that unions are certain to follow-through with their responsibility, by trying to protect the interests of workers. This is particularaly true, when management seeks to obtain labor-cost advantages (however temporary they may be) by decentralizing or locating in a rural-urban area. Again, speaking for ourselves, we've worked with leaders of both management and labor on community projects. We've been impressed with their responsibility and re cognition of the community's best interests. While we have never individually felt the need for a union we recognize the importance of a large group beingabk to press its case with management through one or at least, a group of democratically elected representatives. (After all, we served farmers in this area in this role). If any company however, finds that as a matter principle or policy, it is simply against the equally de mocratic principle of organized labor speaking for it: members with one voice, then, we have what we feel i: some sound advice to offer the company. . .advice that we feel will be that of the majority of citizens genuinely interested in the progress and development of our South Northumberland area. The advice is this: the company might look to its re lations within the community in which it operates. It can do this, by really doing something to show that it is t part of the community.. .rather than being mainly de dicated to preserving its own interests through main taining the lowest possible wage rates (within the new Ontario minimum wage law). As well, such a firm can do its best to avoid discour aging, through whatever influence it may be capable of exerting, higher wage-rate industries from locating in a community because of what may be a genuinely sincere (but we think out-moded attitude) in regard towage rates and employee benefits. Dollars and Sense 'X'hE sensible carriage buyer knows that a little judgment often saves many dollars! He knows that there is a price below which a good carriage cannot be made and sold. We have everything that is modern and desirable in runabouts, surreys,- top buggies, phaetons aiiid carriages. They represent a certain exclusiveness in style not offc-ed generally. We seek the trade of those who do not permit a few dollars to stand between them and satisfaction. We think we have the most complete and most up-to-date line of pleasure and business vehicles in this neighborhood, but we may be prejudiced. Suppose you ask any one who has had occasion to buy of us. We have pleased mighty particular people. Why not give us a try at you' J. H. MORROW WE ENJOY PUBLISHING THIS AD FREE. This isn't always the case, because THE BANNER depends on revenue from advertising space and subscriptions to exist as a business. However, this carriage ad of the area's Ford Dealer is one we thought pur readers would enjoy too. We 're indebted to Mrs Hilda Hutcheson who turned over a veritable 'treasure chest' of old time glass negatives, many taken before World War I Thanks to the photographic skill of our news editor , we'11 be publishing them from time to time Views from the Editor's Chair Type gremlins, a hazard all editors face caught up with this corner, and, it came out, "choir' instead of Chair. We promise not to confront our readers from now on with any efforts at choral reviews, just "views" on whatever happens to occur to us from week to week. A christening of our first grand niece in Peterborough, Sunday, changed our annual tradition of attending the Me -morial Service at Salem (ably reported by our Salem area correspondent) It was a real Father's Day Sunday, for great -grandfather W. W. Mutton, to see the family's first-great-grandchild, Shelley Anne Summers, baptized. On being shown to the pew, Sunday morning, we were attracted to the l^figO^ From the Brighton Centennial Book of 1959, we learn that probably the first white men to visit the area were Sulpician missionairef in 1669. There headquarter* were in nearby Prince Edward County. Next on the scene, were LaSalle and other French explorers of the 17th century Brighton's first white settler, Obediah Simpson, arrived in 1796. He was followed by other UEL families and immigrants from the British Isles. 802 a site was chosen on Presqui'ile Point for the projected capital of the new (to be known after the county seat of Northumberland England ) but the site was Speedy, ON THE REDISTRIBUTION subject, the way inwhich the news was handled by the Government, the commission or whoever was responsible, is as much a source of irritation as the fact that the healthy advertising supplements were placed only with dailies. Surely some member of the Prime Minister's retinue of press, cum public relations advisors, must have been aware that weeklies would have difficulty getting an important story of such wide public interest pub-li shed when they elected to break it late Monday night. Also, on the matter of advertising, redistribution was BIG NEWS. All news media were sure to give the Commission's report extensive and thorough coverage. Why then was there any need to spend so much of the taxpayer's money on daily newspaper advertising? He who would be a man would be a nonconformist. - R. W. Emerson. fine calendar cover ph oto of the Very Rev. Dr George C. Pidgeon, first Moderator of the United Church of Canada, and surprised to learn he was born i n 1872. Church calendars, are n ot a usual source of wit and whimsy but we thought this well worth passing along: 'Lord use my tongue for worthwhile stuff, And nudge me when I've said enough. And, for good measure, on the same calendar, we found this gem: "An optimist is one who takes the cold water thrown upon his idea, heats it with enthusiasm , and uses the steam to push ahead." sank of Presqu'ile enroute to the pro posed new capital with many officials MP Critical of Government Prince Edward-Lennox MP, A. D. Alkenbrack, took the federal government to task in a strongly worded attack June 17 in the House of Commons, for the Government's failure to place advertising about the new redistribution areas pro -posed for federal ridings. Excerpts from Mr. Alkenbrack's speech as reported in Hansard, follow: .... "My point deals with discrimination against an important part of the Fourth Estate, the most important part of our news media in Ontario, the weekly newspapers. This Government has again shown its capacity for downright stupidity, and has portrayed its usual ingrained arrogance in what has been allowed to happen this week with respect to advertisements under the Redistribution Act. The placing of approximately $250, 000 worth of advertising exclusively in the columns of the big dailies is an indication of a certain complete consideration or, shall I say, Mr. Speaker, "Valuereceived", Visa-vis, the daily papers to keep them quiet and clear of criticism regarding many evident gerrymanderings in the political redistribution. A good, timely cartoon, in this regard, would show the right hon. Prime Minister and the Secretary of State hurrying by the office of a small weekly paper , with furtive glances, on the way to their destination, the office of a large "daily" to which they intend to give all the business. I submit that the advertising don under the Redistribution Act need not have cost a quarter of a million dollars; it needed to entail, possibly, only paying for the publishing of the maps." The BANNER offers a free - mnual subscription each ly created Newcastle District week to the reader of THE COLBORNE AND THE BRIGHTON BANNER who submits the best anecdote abandoned after the schooner about people or events of years gone by addressed to: The Editor, "Tales of Yesteryear." POST OFFICE BOX 306 COLBORNE, ONT. yTHE BRIGHTON SERVING SOUTH-EAST NORTHUMBERLAND an independent weekly newspaper Editor-Publisher: DONALD S. SWAIN News Editor: Wm. W. REID POST OFFICE BOX 190, BRIGHTON, ONT PHONE 475-2723