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SA - a Oi BN x ~~ | 5 1 "work stoppages. In PSRTQ PERRY Job (Canada's greatest problem is another word, strikes. There is plenty of ark to be. done and almost enough people to do it. That cannot be said too often. But interruption in production of goods and serv- ices is so frequent that it threat- ens national well-being. Strikes nowadays come for no good reason. There may have been good reason for the Homestead steel strike in the United States in 1892, when people were being worked too hard and paid too little. Cana- dians today are not being work- ed too hard and are not being paid too little. The right to strike invloves responsibility. Tt is the respon- sibility of every worker and every union to keep industry moving, operating, producing, and strikes should be a last re-- sort as a protest against intol-- erable conditions. Does anyone know of intoler-. able conditions among the wor- kers of Canada? If they exist - they are isolated instances; cer- tainly they do not exist where there is a sensible grievance procedure. The postal workers were en- gaged in a national service and are supposed to perform a re- sponsible duty to the public. There are procedures that en- able them to get their case be- fore the negotiating authority. Apparently the government ne- gotiators in the case of the post- men were lax in the application of their duty. If the grievances were genuine they should have heen taken care of long before. But some means other than a strike should have been found Editorial Page| Do You Remember? For A Statesman to veil an RATA agree- ment. In this year of grace 1968 there have been several strikes that have injured everybody, including the strikers. There was a strike of workers on the St. Lawrence Seaway which immediately stopped the operation of the Seaway, in which Canada and the United States between them had in- vested a billion dollars for the purpose of promoting the wel- fare and the transportation fa- cilities of the two countries. As soon as that strike was over, the strike of grain hand- lers at the head of the Lakes began, a strike sure to injure the strikers themselves and to hurt the country. When the postal strike was over there was a strike of handlers of mail in Montreal - which held up overseas mail for some days. Similar threats occur all over . the country. How long will the public: put up with these ever- recurrent problems? How long before the public tells Parkia- ment that legislation must be such as to prevent strikes. Individual grievances there may be. Collective grievances there are not. The real culprit in the case of strikes in the public services is Parliament, which, out of fear, granted the public services a "right they did not need and should never have had, and of which they should now be de- prived. Statesmen who actually wrestle with this problem will be statesmen. "The Printed Word" _ aging way. 50 YEARS AGO September 19th, 1918 The barn formerly own- ed by Mr. W. T. Reader, Scugog and lately purch- ased by W. S. Samells was destroyed by fire. Pete. I. R. Bentley has been transfered to Van- couver. Pte. Everett El- liott, son of Rev. & Mrs. W. Elliott has been re- ported wounded and is in hospital at Boulonge. Mr. Wm. Haniilton has been appointed Police ma- gistrate for Uxbridge. 25 YEARS AGO Mrs. Newham and fam- ily have moved into Mrs. F. Vickery's house in rince Albert. i Mr. Oscar Beare has all bil listed in the Service Police Division of the Air Force. Owen Reader, Keith Cro- zier and Roy Humphrey's, Scugog, left last week to help with the harvest in Manitoba. Suits or overcoats made to measure $29.50, $35.00. Guarantee to fit. 15 YEARS AGO September 17, 1953 The Lions Club is stag- ing a musical minstrel in the High School Auditori- um, Sept. 24, 25. The title of the show is "On Stage Canada", and includes children in the Tiny Tot Popularity Contest. Fire of undetermined: origin Monday morning reduced Oshawa Arena to a smoldering mass of ruins. Estimated damage was $500,000. Mrs. Jonathan Aldred of Scugog Island placed sec- ond in the "Over-50" Hobby Show at Canadian National Exhiibtion.. She entered in a class of pic- tures and jewell cases de- corated with fish bones & scales from fish out of Lake Scugog. 10 YEARS AGO Septmber 18, 1958 70 year old barn on the farm of W. F. Batty, 'Brooklin 'was gutted in a $50,000 blaze. Construction on. the Port Perry Curling rink is pro- ceeding at a rapid pace. Mr. Fred Christie and Paul visiting relatives in Winnipeg. Msds. Roy Turner, Ivan' bliin Neil Bailey &- 0 Evy ing s fast u have to bber oli oh ion hitch Lf i bi "ind, i Northern Ontario. that. - g hs gu tA 31 x ii ( 2 iy o a y 10 ¥ vy 7] CAI of n b 4) 0) i 4250s HAY oy bel ie X BY, a» PLY $ So Pe E RT ty Go AAT x aren 3 by Sy Sens 8 OS on 7; BILL SMILEY 'THEY EAT ANYTHING I've never raised pigs, but there can't be too much to it, according to what I've - seen in the past week. You merely give them all they. 'can eat, and then clean up aftey them. And there's no trouble at all in preparing their food. One of the great advantages is that there's no garbage. Apparently the only thing pigs won't eat is returnable bottles. This is a fine way to talk about my son. Hugh and his friend Alex, but it's the solemn truth. It's not meant in a dispar- I'm not full of disparagement, but of despair. When I was their age, I was a pretty fair trencherman. On one occasion, as I recall, I set a new family record for corn on the cob. I ate 13.cobs. On another, I ate 12 baked apples. } But these were individual feats. They pale alongside the stuff Hugh and his mate put away. ; They start off slowly. "Just a cup of tea, Mrs. Smiley, if you like. Oh, well, maybe I'll have a fresh peach, if they're turning bad and you want to get rid of them." Half a basket of peaches later, they might succumb to a few cobs of corn (it's noon by now, because they never get up until it). Before the corn, they've had a can or two of cold beans and a half-loaf of toast "just to be sociable". When the corn is gone, they look up with their little, beady eyes glittering and *. absolutely refuse dessert, "Unless you have some old cake and ice-cream that's maybe going bad." There always seems to he some old cake or pie that's on its last legs, and some ice-cream that's going bad unless you eat it the day it's bought. They manage to get through the after- noon with the 'odd hamburger and a few bags of '¢liips and a couple of beers. But by dinner time, their snouts are prying the lids off pots and their little, feverish paws are stirring the gravy and the saliva is Sugar and Spice THE AU : SCHOOLHOUSE I've dropped $5,000 bombs in fields in Holland, a slaugh- were guaranteed gold mines. tering of 10,000 turnips. I've tried for 20 years to make 'my wife base her arguments on reason, not emotion, I know what it is to lose. No, I don't expect any return. It's just pure fascination. Where in the name of -the Holy Old Jumpin' Jehosophat do they put it? They're not big, fat, fellas. They're young and .slim. I give them a plate of steak or turkey and spuds and vegetables and salad that would make a lumberjack ill. And I start to eat my own. And I look up, and there they are, twiddling their hoofs, plates licked clean, eyes fixed on the main platter. That's not the worst thing.. If I eat too much, maybe at Christmag or New Year, I have enough sense to subside in a corner and 'belch amiably as I watch television. (Continued on Page 5) PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the ontarle Weekly 'Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. 8 goon Rates, FH 'Canada' $3.00 per yr, Elsewhere, $4. fo, per year, Ll 1 Single Copy 10c. L