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Time To Act There may be doubt as to who is winning the postal dispute, Ottawa or the unions, but there can be no doubt at all about who is losing it, writes "Industry' a monthly publication of the Canadian Manufacturer's Association. For weeks now, the public at large has been increasing ly inconvenienced by the rotating-on-again-off-again postal strike and resultant closures of local post offices which have rendered. the mails unreliable and unpred- ictable from one end of the country to the other. Small businesses are especially hard hit. Many of them depend heavily on the mails for orders and pay- ments. Their cash flow is not such that they can afford the problems posed by frequent. interruption of mail services. In some cases, too, perishable products are in- volved. In short, the mail of the individual citizen and of business alike is being subjected to the kind of dis- ruption which no private monopoly would be allowed to get away with for a week. worsens, during the last four months of the year which traditionally are so busy in terms of postal service and so vital to commerce? As the Treasury Board nas noted, the Government offer of a 41 cents per hour increase is above that which was recommended by the employer member of the Con- ciliation Board and a supplemented by a cash offer of $275 in retroactive pay plus comprehensive provisions 'for employee protection against the effect of any tech- nological changes which might be introduced. It is important to note that even without an increase, Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures for March, 1970 showed that average hourly earnings for postal workers were above the average for skilled and un- skilled workers in manufacturing. Settlement on the terms demanded by the postal unions would make a mockery of everything that has been done to reduce inflation. There must be no weak- - ening now in the resolve of Government to insure that any settlement is both equitable and sensible. The postal unions will not like this and it may be that they will play even worse havoc with the mails in the weeks ahead. But the state is stronger than any union and if this must once again be proven so be it. If necessary, Parliament must meet in special session and pass legislation ordering an' arbjtrated settle- ment and an end to thé sporadic strikes as harm- ful to the public interest and increasingly injurious "to the nation's commerce. © It should then rescind the so-called right-to-strike provisions of the Public Service Staff Relations Act which are at the root of the trouble. These should be replaced with new provisions for binding arbit- ration in the case of future public service disputes, The need for such action has been amply demon- strated this summer. Failure to learn from past mis- takes will inevitably bring other public service strikes in the future. In the meantime, a decisive answer ' 7 must be given to the question of which is the stronger: 505 the postal unions or the federal government. The latest 4s 'Yeasury Board Offer must be the last. £1 PORT PERRY STAR % COMPANY, LIMITED ax i Sams, i W#WNA (0m) 1 > Lo -- : "ns rg Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Area Ran aa P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor 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, Second Class Mail Registration Number 0268 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year, Single Copy 10¢ W Editorial Topics | | What will be the effect if the strike continues, or mr ---y, eo] ET ron ee i mAs rea a YY Bill Smiley | : Once upon a time, summer travel was for the very rich. They went to Europe on a luxury liner, ate eight times a day, stayed at fashionable places on the continent, dressed for dinner, and all that jazz, while the rest of us sweated it out. The not-quite-so-rich, but still wealthy, flocked to the great lodges and summer ho- tels: St. Andrews by the Sea; Manoir Richelieu; Jasper and Banff. They were safe there from the hoi-pollo i and sub- serviently served by secretly insolent bell- boys and waitresses. The moderately well-to-do had a cot- tage, perhaps a day's travel from home, with a backhouse, an ice-box with real ice in it, coal-oil lamps and a rowboat. They lived quietly, simply, and went to bed with the whip-poor-wills. The poor, the working class, picniced in the park, attended ballgames, and watch- ed parades, In the evening, they sat on the front porch, murmuring gossip, drink- ing lemonade, and listening to the cries of their young, playing run-sheep-run or red- light in the velvet dusk. : Things have changed. The rich now fly to the Greek Islands, or Japan, or Rome where they can live exactly as they could at home, but with slavies of whatever nationality assuring them that they are still the very rich. The not-quite-so-rich have deserted the big hotels and lodges, most of which are on the verge of bankruptcy. These places have, in desperation, become a haven for conventions and middle class poor tippers. The original inhabitants have fled to Mexico City, Scandinavia or the Carribbean, where they can still excape the hoi-polloi. The moderately well-to-do still, in many cases, have a summer cottage. But is now two or three or more hours of maniacal driving. They now have indoor plumbing, a refrigerator, electric lights, and everything from a power cruiser to a canoe. Some are bereft because they receive only one TV channel. They seldom get to bed. before three am. And the working class, as they used to be' called when they worked? They hire a trailer and cover two thousand miles. Sugar and Spice * if Ty wes AND 12 DROP roiiz 7" Or they rent a cottage and sand-and-sun it._ for two weeks. Or they get together and fly in to a fishing lodge once reserved for millionaires. There are a lot of reasons for the change. Everybody has a car. Highways are better. Holidays are longer and you even get va- cation pay. And, of course, air travel on chartered flights has made it possible for people with nothing to go almost anywhere. The only people who are poor enough today not to travel are the young people. But that doesn't stop them. With rucksack and sleepingbag, they can cross the country on next to nothing. I'm not knocking all this. I think it's great. But I'm just beginning to wonder "where and why I missed the boat, in this travel boom. We just got home from our big trip for the summer - 110 miles to visit Grand- ad. My sister and her husband are in England. My brother and his wife send a card from a cruise on the Rhine. A colleague, with four children, drops a card from Virginia. A reader, Bob Cunning- ham of Omaha, has just encircled the Great Lakes. An old friend and wife are spend- ing three weeks in Europe. And I sit in the backyard, with a six-mile trip to the beach as my Great Expectations. There's something wrong somewhere, Each and every one of those people can afford what they're doing doesn't mean I should be envious. . I was a bit burned by a card from my daughter. She set off two weeks ago to hitch-hike to Vancouver with a friend Her card says they are just about to leave Cape Breton, by ferry, for New- foundland. Seems a rather circuitous route to Vancouver. With no money. Well, they may all think they're really 'seeing the world, but there are some pretty exotic things right around here. For example, we might slide out tonight to a little fresh vegetable roadside stand four miles out of town, pick up some sweet corn, eat it, and have a whiz-bang of an evening watching a re-run of Green Acres. There's not a one of them who can do that, 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 19, 1920 The principal for Port Perry, High School this year will be Thos. H. Follick, MA, with a staff of four teachers. Mr. John Joblin, who bought the general store on Scugog Island, about 2 months .ago, was badly injured when his team of horses ran away. Rev. J.J. Robins, rect or of Blackstock Anglican Church preached his farewell sermon. He is going on a leave of absence to England. * Port Perry lawn bowling rink skipped by Dr. Mellow won the Carew Cup at the annual tournament held in Lindsay, Fourteen Rinks were in the playoffs from the Central Ontario League. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 30, 19456. Another robbery was attempted on Monday Night ", at the Post Office. A effort to move the safe, got it as far as the back door. Mr. Bentley seeing the flashlight called Chief Holmes and Ben Smith of Prince Albert. When they arrived, the thieves were on their way out.- Shots were fired on the departing auto without effect. . Miss Rose Marie Hochbery Uxbridge is visiting her friend Miss Norma Levinson. Flight-Lieut, W.C. Rey- nolds and Mrs. Reynolds spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Heron, Ashburn, 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 25, 1955 Troop Leader James Hun- ter and Patrol Leader Albert Fulford are representing the 'First Port Perry Boy Scout Troop at the International Scout Jamborie, Niagara-on- the-Lake. Wednesday afternoon the barn of Mr. Jim Baird was burned to the ground in a matter of minutes. Sunder- land, Port Perry and Uxbridge fire birgades were called but little could be done to save the barns. Mr. and Mrs. G. Hunter, Prince Albert joined the re- union picnic of the Robert- son family tree held at Cold Springs on Sunday. The home of Mr. Russell Hood was destroyed by fire. All available men fought the blaze, but the house was lev- elled to the ground. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 23ra, 1960 On Wednesday, August 24 Port Perry Juniors took the second game of a 2 out of 2 series from Havelock in the Central Ontario 0.A8.A. Junior "C" Playdowns. Gary Spence of Greenbank received head injuries, and his companion Donald McCaig a scalp cut when the bicycle they were riding was struck by a car. Mr. and Mrs. R.H. Cornish received two hundred and fif- ty guests on Sunday, August 7th on the occasion of their "twenty fifth wedding anniver- sary,