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6 - PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, April 19, 1972 Hank's Excavating] SEWER INSTALLATION BACK HOE. . COMPRESSOR RENTALS - Dig Depths up to 18% feet. Phone 985-2333 or Box 489 PORT PERRY | As | see it BY JOHN B. McCLELLAND Wow. What a week this has been for unions, labour and STRIKES. It almost seems that half the workers in the country are either off the job, or threatening to walk off. Let's see now; the garbagemen and outside workers are on strike in Toronto; technical employees of the CBC are on strike across the country; 200,000 employees of the Quebec government are off the job (again) in that province; there are rumblings within the organization representing Ontario high school teachers; Toronto Transit workers say they are going to bargain for a 15 percent pay hike when their contract runs out in June; transit workers in Halifax are off the job; CUPE spokesmen in Brandon say they will recommend strike action against two hospitals in that city; prisoners in a Canadian penal institution have just recently gone back to their daily fare of steak and ham after a couple of days of peanut-butter sandwiches in protests over something-or-other. Have I missed anybody? Oh yes, of all people, the baseball players are out on strike (Expos included). Who's next? The dock workers? The auto workers? The truck drivers? The trainmen? The postal workers? The airline employees? How about the members of parliament, maybe they should go on strike. Or, better yet, maybe whole darn country should go on strike. Yes, that's a good idea. Let's all go on strike. Why can't everybody make 10,12, or 15 grand a year? All the people in the country who have never carried a picket sign simply don't know what they're missing. In all seriousness, one has to wonder just where~ this is all going to lead. No man or woman should ever be denied a decent wage for a.. day's work, neither should any man or woman be forced to toil in unsafe or__ unhealthy working conditions. These are the reasons why unions were formed: to protect the worker from exploitation. . $ But I can't help but wonder if the whole' thing has not gone full cycle. Who's at the mercy of whom these days? In the old days, an employer would simply fire and black-list anybody causing trouble, or the employer could have the troublemaker roughed up, or even killed. But today, the Quebec government for example, can hardly fire its 200,00 striking employees,.or 'get tough' with them. So, what's to be done? As I see it, nothing. - Organized labour collective bargaining etc., is stronger than ever, and is certainly here to stay. Likewise, so are the huge corporations with their huge profits. And governments are going to continue to provide basic public services through the collection of taxes. It's the same old standoff; a public service employee wants more money, he gets it, and to pay for p his raise the government slaps more tax on his beer and his. cigarettes; a guy working in a factory wants more money, he gets it, but whatever is made in that factory costs a bit more to pay for his raise. It's called inflation, I think. It's also called greed. Everybody is out for as much as they can possibly get, even if it means squeezing the other guy dry. Greed, greed, greed. Gimme, gimme, gimme. The be- haviorists say that man is the only animal that wants more than it needs. All of man's problems on earth boil down to one factor; greed. Man is an upsetter of natural harmony. Man is a biological misfit. OK, that's enough about the condition of man. What's the solution to the strikes? As I said before there is no solution. (Unless of course our leaders in Ottawa would consider a freeze on wages and prices. ~ Would they dare?) Nope, higher wages are coming for all. But some old age pensioner is going to get an awful R shock one of these days when he walks into the food s market and finds bread at $2.00 a loaf, or an ordinary pair of shoes for $100. Of course those making $30 or $40 an hour will gladly pay these prices. But what about the pensioner on his minuscule monthly income? What's he going to do, go on strike for higher wages? Ba ED Be ol % i A y Re a pr rh Ps Tira rg Ys our clamour for the all-mighty dollar (love that word) A we really don't care too much about anything, except ourselves. Ho-hum, what else is new? 4 I see where Jack Nicklaus won $25,000 chasing golf balls around a pasture for a couple of days last week. $25,000. Let me see, a pensioner gets about $100 per month, there are 12 months in the year That's "what I thought, more than 20 years for a pensioner to Hospital Board : executive Officers of the Port Perry Community Hospital Board were elected at the Board's regular-meeting-of -April-12.- Mrs. Grace Love was elected chairman, taking over from Mr, Harry Phoenix who had held the position since 1962. At the April 12 meeting, the Board also received and accepted the resignation of Administrator Ben Bohan, which will be affective in May. Mr. Bohan announced his resignation at the Annual Hospital Public meeting last month, and said he would be accepting -a- position - else where. He has been admin- istrator at Port Perry Hospi- tal since March 15, 1968. He received the board's wishes for success in his future 'employment. The following officers and committee members were elected for the coming year. Chairman: Mrs. Grace Love. Vice-Chairman: - Lawrence Malcolm. Secretary-Treasu- rer: Mrs. Doris Watson. Management Committee: Lawrence Malcolm, Harry Phoenix, Dr. W. Cohoon, Mrs. Lucille Gray. Finance Com- mittee: Leonard Taylor, Vernon Asselstine, Howard Hall. Property Committee: Harry Phoenix, Robert Caw- ker, Gerald Jackman. Public Relations Committee: Dr. W. Cohoon, Mrs. Lucille Gray, and Mrs. I. Pugh. In accepting the position of chairman, Mrs. Love asked for the support and: co- operation of all the Board members. RALPH FAIRMAN Utica News | Servicewill be held in Utica United Church on Sunday, April 23, at 11:30 a.m. Sunday School meets at 10 a.m. There will be a meeting of the stewards of Epsom and Uticaat8:00p.m,on Tuesday, ~April 25 at Utica. United Church. 4 At Utica Community Hall, on Saturday, April 22, at 1:00 p.m. there will be an annual Hall Board meeting. Every- one is welcome. Sympathy is extended, to "the family of the late Mr, Charles Wilbur Brownintheir recent bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn MacCannell and Miss Jewel MacCannell spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Chester Holly of Owen Sound. Miss Jewel MacCannel! is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ron Jackson of London for a couple of weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Rusnell-- of -- Oshawa and Misses Grace and Beatrice Davidson of Oshawa were recentcallersonMr.and Mrs, James E. Mitchell. Mrs. James E. Mitchell visited her sister, Mrs. Frank Valyear, and family of Trenton over the week end, Mrs, Milt Parkin of Kinsale spent the week end with her father Mr.JamesE. Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Mitchell were guests at a wedding in Point Anne on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Rose of Oshawa were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Watson. Congratulations to Master Todd Wilbur and the White Feather Farm hockey team who won the Novice House League championship on Saturday, in Port Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Craig of Napanee, Miss Sharon Saunders, Miss Donna Yake, Mr. and Mrs. Ron Saunders and children and Mr. Gary Saunders wererecent visitors with Rev. and Mrs. I. L. Saunders, "Mr. Gerald Morganand Mr. Steve Valentino of Claremont were dinner guests of the Saunders on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilbur. spent Sunday 'evening With Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kendall. , Mrs." Dennis Thompson spent Wednesday with Mr, and Mrs. Jim Miller of Mount Albert. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Thompson called on Mrs, Shirley Barton of Usbridgeon on Sunday- evening. - Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sutcliffe were guests at a birthday * supper in their honour, at Mr, and Mrs, Clair Brochman's home in Courtice on Sunday. Now, it's ATRAZIN. "when a chemical you"re there, price it! PORT PERRY ATRAZIN UCO's Ag. 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