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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1980-05-29, Page 3.Mine workers return Sift() Salt mine employees returned to work for the 8 a.m. shift Wednesday to negotiate their concerns of poor ventilation in the mine. Management had requested the members of Local 16 .of the Chemical Workers of Canada return to their jobs before negotiations would take place. Unionrepresentatives and Management were holedup in meetings Wednesday rnorning at press time and there was no indication the; workers concerns were resolved. A statement from the meetings was expected late Wednesday. The employees, members of Local 16 of the Canadian Chernical Workers inion, walked off the job site at 2 a.m. Thursday morning in protest of what they term poor ventilation in the mine. The 24 surface workers joined the 156 underground emplyees in the walkoff but returned to work on a later shift Thursday. Union representative, Russ Pratt of simply a protest against ventilation. "Management calls it an illegal strike lout it's just a protest," he said. "What we want is a promise of written :action. While the negotiations continued over the protest the two sides remained at odds over the conditions under which work should resume. The employees wanted ,• . a written gw rantee•of action in connection with. their poor ventilation charges while management is unwilling to negotiate until the employees have returned to their jobs• Pratt, . the union southwestern Ontario representative, is trying to persuade the employees to return to work after the company threatened it may seek to prosecute the union and. its members for an illegal walkout. The employees had received telegrams from the company stating that their protest •and walkout violates the collective agreement. of THE CLINTON NEWS -R CORD, 'THURSDAY, MAY 29, laso.T.GE a London', SWid the—un-dergrOUIld .he..members_o£Loeal,lfi_have_just,.a-_. workers complained about the lack of completed the second year of a three•. proper ventilation in the mine and year agreement with the company. walked off the job after .blasting was completed Wednesday night. Employees stayed around the.mine area Thursday but . claimed their action was not a strike, but rather, a protest against health and safety conditions. They were not stopping other workers from reporting for duty, they did not set up picket lines and trucks are allowed access. Employees at the site Thursday said there was no air circulation in some of the mine areas and they claimed they often encounter pockets of dead air. They insisted . their grievances ' are four years old and' added that ventilation equipment at the mine is 10 years old. The workers said the situation is much worse in the summer months One employee said their action was-.. r s#uck in he middle The company has notified em- ployees that they were required to report to work and the union was cautioned that disciplinary action deemed appropriate under the collective agreement and such legal process as is •required.tosatisfy the law and recover damages isbeing considered and most probably all actions will be taken. • Following the notification, Pratt met with, the employees in the Park Theatre ` Saturday, urging them to report for duty. Some of the surface ,workers have returned to work but all . of The un- derground employees have main- tained a solid front, The mine employs more than 204 people' and operates 24 hours a day seven days a week. I love getting mail, bills I'm not so crazy about,. but anything from, junk mail, to magazines, to the occasional letter really starts the day off right. Most of the'tha'g'a rues never -get read, the great bargain offers from companies usually end up in the trash and my letters pile up waiting for an answer, but I still love getting mail. The crayingsto receive my own envelopes of correspondence is really a selfish little. quirk. I get in quite a snit because my friends never write but I realize that this is only due to the fact that they rarely get letters from me. I excuse myself from letter writing by reasoning that I write all day at work but truthfully I'm just plain lazy and I must learn to be more meticulous and respon- sible in my replies. I'll start with a letter I received last week, it came from an old friend. We haven't seen each other since college days, four years ago and we now live nearly 2,000 miles apart. She's almost as bad as I am when it comes, to regular correspondence but we do ex- change a yearly letter and manage to remember U one another at Christmas and birthday time. I excuse myself from writing to Deb 'because she always seems to be on the move, but now she's caught me without a crutch and at last has bought her own home and has a long term address. I'm forced to answer this time, just to straighten her up on a few L.......things before the rumors start i9 4 •.1'1 k • Shelley by mcphee spreading. She wondered how Doug was doing and asked when we planning to stari"afamily. It seems that our lapse in writing has resulted in some misinformation and I'll have to inform Deb that I'm not married yet and the fellow in my life is not named Doug. Deb will also have to be told not to pull any smart stunts again. She began telling me about the new addition to her family,, Thor. "They've ' had a baby," I squealed, but when I gained control and gathered ;the crumpled letter off the floor I read farther to find that They is a hairy little monster, a dog. Very funny Deb! Anyway, I'm really glad that Deb and I can keep in touch. We only knew each other for a year before she went home to Thunder Bay. Since then we've vowed to visit one another, but we've never quite fulfilled the promise. There's the occasionally spur of the moment phone call to one another, but they're dangerous and usually end up in an hour long chat and a horrendous bill from Ma Bell. So phone calls are out, because it's always to hard to say goodbye and cut the conversation short. That means it's back to 17 cents Correspondence, and I'll start tomorrow. Better yet, I'll start today, I'll seal up these ramblings and ship them off to T. Bay! P.S. - And don't forget Deb "Brill," write again real soon. :loveShel DON'S � e `ittiv IGtlj ALL - FOOTWEAR JOGGERS HANDBAGS OFF - EVEN OFF SPECIAL PURCHASES SAVE UP TO 5O % OR 568.00 FROM.8 P.M. - 12 MIDNIGHT THURS. R FRI. MAY 29 & 30 Don's Shoe Place "Because You're Worth It" SUNCOAST MALL GODERICH 11 Cynics can now see that town councillors do work and Clinton Councillor Frank Van Altena was found hard on the job, painting the trim around the town hall to give the municipal, office a fresh bright look for the Shriners' visit. (News - Record photo) Wording stumps council By Shelley --McPhee The definition . of the word "structure" in the town's zoning bylaw has . stumped the Clinton Council. - It was decided at their May 20 meeting that a committee of council would determine whether the word - "structure" includes fences. Then a decision can be made as to whether John Alilovic, of 140 Ontario Street, will be allowed to keep his newly • constructed fence where it stands, or whether he'Il have to move it. • Council learned that Harold Work- man, a neighbor of Mr. Alilovic, complained that the chain link fence he had built violated the bylaw because itt was built beyond the limit's" stated in the rules. Mr. Alilovic explained to council that he knew nothing of the bylaw and he understood that the fence was legal as long as it was kept on his ,own property. He said that the fence was constructed for privacy and to protect his Fawn from cars parking at Work- man's real estate business next door. Mr. Alilovic said, "I don't want to argue with anybody," but objected to the . fact that Mr. Workman com- plained. Mr. Alilovic said he didn't object when Mr. Workman was given a not non conforming status to set up his business in the residentially zoned area. Y! .�•Wit. .. WE/ HAVE 11 ( 14,44;A' , yiAmACA, ban rain.• He said that the rules should' be - clearly pointed out and people who are enforcing the bylaws should brief the contractor and the owner. Reeve Macaulay also said, "The bylaw states the word `structure' and it comes down to whether that in- cludes a fence or not. Dryden and Smith, the firm who drew up the bylaw told Clerk Cam Proctor that it did, but Clerk Proctor noted that the Huron County planning department said a fence wouldn't be a problem. - Mayor Harold Lobb said he was not against Mr. Alilovic but he said he couldn't agree with this exception and explained, "If one bylaw is con - ravened, then others will be as well. Mayor Lobb said that he -had spoken --with-Mr. Workman and he said that he had to go to a lot of work to meet bylaws when his business was zoned and he felt that other people should follow the laws as well. Councillor Chester Archibald ob- jected and said that Mr. Workman was given special permission to operate in a residential area and special permission could also be given to Mr. Alilovic to protect his property. . Councillor Rosemary Armstrong added, "The fence looks fine. There are many others that are an eyesore and if it's a flexible area in the bylaw, then let it go." EXTRA SMALL PRICES I14a1.,Gy,wd ONxenirted kik eth, hoid NICE'N EASY $ !69 HAIR COLOUR • FINAL NET HAIR SPRAY 341 m I BODY ON TAP • f1AIRAl' SHAMPOO AM P OO .I fins/ ; %net4 50 ml f , CLAIROL CONDITION II 991 AFTER SHAMPOO CONDITIONER 450 ml. Inv nth. onddition ULTRA BAN SPRAY ''' DEODORANT $1 9 200 m1. 1 1 BIC DISPOSABLE PACK OF LIGHTERS 69 SHOP THE TRIANGLE STORE IN YOUR TOWN! THE SQUARE MAIN CORNER GODERICH CLINTON & SEAFORTH TR IAN B LE DISC sroats ( o r. Kay Reid, Bayfield Historical Society President chaired the meeting on Monday night and members filled the meeting room to hear Mr. Jack Pounder describe the geology of our area, particularly as it applies to the oil industry. The: speaker was in- troduced by Brig. Fred Clift who- referred to his close association with the village where his holidays were , spend as a child. Members of the Pounder family from Stratford built four summer cot- tages in the village. Jack married a Bayfield girl, --Beverley--York; and tl now , have a permanent home here. He attended McGill University and the Haileybury School of Mining and was em- ployed by, Imperial Oil 'from, 1951 until 1970. He became the company's Exploration Manager for its eastern division. He now supervises Shell exploration in the Huron portion of the Michigan basin. In his talk, Jack said he wanted to dispel the impression that he and Bev have `retired'. If he is seen gardening which he enjoys, or playing tennis, he also `burns the midnight oil'. He is a partner in Pounder and Harmon Consultants and is also a partner in the most active oil and gas exploration _company in, Ontario at the present time, The speaker used slides to explain the geological formation of this area in which the possibilities for Oil and -gas development are enormous. Due . to discoveries in the Michigan basin, the State of Michigan has ,.become, self-sufficient in these. fuels in the past " few years. Jack stated that he wanted to beat the drum for- the industry and expressed frustration that although natural gas is readily available in the area, its. use is prevented. because Union Gas holds ley--the--iranchise•--and- -unfit the company is ready to come There, nothing can be done under the present rules. . He ' explained how the storage reefs in the Essex -Kent area were discovered and how natural gas storage in these reservoirs can, and has, prevented hardship when the Trans Canada pipeline flow is in- terrupted. He showed enlargements of drill cores which indicate 'to geologists the presence of oil in the soft Cambrian rock as he talked about how the layers were deposited from 200 to 500 million years ago." The History of man is a very recent addition," ' he commented. , In praise of the multi -nationals the speaker said that Canadians will not invest in research and ex- p, big coralorationpaanieswhereas will obligthee at any "time,". They are still our training ground. Research money from Canadian sources is pot fprthcorning". He showedone gas find in the area where ear- phones have to be worn within 300 yards because of the roar of escaping gas. 'It was a fascinating story and Mr. Pounder ept busy answering questions afterwards. He ;w:asasnkk thanked by Mr. Bur -ch.— The President an- nounced that the in- coming president of the Ontario Historical Society, Dr. Gerald Killan of London will address the next meeting on June 23. On that 'date members will rendezvous at the municipal building at 5:30 p.m. and proceed to the Hindmarsh log cabin for a pot -luck supper, before hearing the speaker. Mrs. Elva Metcalf, Huron County Historical Society representative announced that the of- ficial opening of the County Archives will be held at 2 p.m. at its new home at the Library in Goderich on July 3. The next meeting of the Huron County Society will be held in Gorrie on Friday, June 6. DEPENDABLE COMPACT. TRACTORS FROM CASE All Feature Case's exclusive Hydra -Drive - a direct -drive system, with no belts or chains to break. Olt ?0,40Sk ,�W Ott ,8 h.p., 36" cut Suggested list '1575. CASE 80 SALE PRICE 1375. Discounts apply to in -stock units only. 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