HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1969-09-04, Page 44 OODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, Till-WIWI, SEPTEMBER 4,1969
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A fine effort
The Goderich Industrial League held
its first fastball tournament on Sunday
and Monday, August 31 and September 1
and it proved to be one of the major
events in sport in Goderich this year.
The organization of the event was very
well handled and the people responsible
for the initiation of the tournament and
the, organization should be complimented
on bringing, to Goderich .a tournament
that could well become an annual affair.
There are those who hope the event
will make a summer counterpart to the
Young Canada Hockey Week Pee Wee
Tournament sponsored by the Gbderich
Lions Club. To these we would wish all
success.
They have shown what ca R be done
when a few men — and women — get
together and literally start the ball rolling.
We would ask them also, to remember
• Young Canada Hockey Week was also
"started by a few dedicated people like Nip
Whetstone and Guy Emerson and the
tournament did not develop overnight. It
took' years of careful planning and a lot of .
hard work by these and others to make
,the thing •go and so it will be with the
' Goderich- Industrial League Fastbalt
Tournament of years to come.
But these people have also shown they
have what it 'takes to make the grade and
make a, tournament successful. Keep at it;
Good luck and be assured you will have
the supp,ort, of many, many people around ,
town,
And to those who belong to small
teams from small towns, learn a lesson
from the crew from Holme'sville. They
came from the smallest village in the.
tournament; they had a team that had not
even practised together, and they won. So
can you.
The Safety Council
With the formation of the Goderich
Safety Council, measures will be put into
effect that will enable residents of the
town to make hazardoUs areas known to
the proper authorities.
There are intersections, crosswalks,
certain roads, parking areas, dead ,trees,
high bushes, bad turns, poor .practices of
drivers, bad roads, poor signs, poor
lighting,,,pnd a host of other things around
town that create hazards and present a
potential danger to anyone near them.
The Safety Council.will, if informed of
these hazards, be able to do much of the
leg 'work of the proper committees of
council
council and investigate complaints
thoroughly and reach a decision as to
whether or not the complaint is valid
before presenting it to the proper
committee of council or to the Goderich
Police Department.
• The Safety Council wilt work in close
liason with town council and the police in
an effort to reduce the number of
accidents AND the number of hazards
that could create accidents.
• We Safety , Council is made up of a
number of responsible conscientious men.
It is to be hoped town council and the
police department vilt have sufficient
confidence in the ability of these° men to
accept their recommendations as they are
presented.
From the reaction s� far, there is every
reason to believe that they will. Of course,
council and the police can only do so
much. with the funds or personnel that are
available so no *one should feel that this
will be a means to solve all problems. The
problems that will be placed before the
authorities will be the serious ones. These
are usually the hardest to solve. But by
working together, with a genuine interest
in the safety of the people of the town,
and with the co-operation of the people of
the town, the Safety Council will be able
to bring about things that will only be of.
benefit to the town asa whole;
A measure of safety
The summer months are fast becoming
something of the past. On Tuesday, the
children went back to school and things
are once again settling into a routine for
mothers. Around town women's groups
that have been idle during the warm
summer months have started up or will
'soon be starting up for the long season
ahead and before we know it the snow
will be flying and that will be an end to
1969.
Two new additions have been built
onto schools. in town and "many of the
children will be either going to a nem
school. or Will be going to school for the
firsttime.
• The Goderich Safety Council, in
conjunction with countless police
departments throughout 'the country; will
be advocating stricter safety precautions
be carried out by drivers in view Of the
added number of children on their way to
and from school.
It would seem logical 'that the boards
'of education would join these bodies of
people ii asking for greater safety for the
children and would do all they could to
aid programs that would promote safety.
One of the bestmethods known to
prevent motor vehicle accidents is to keep
children, particularly small children, off
the roads.
The chtldren that started school for the
first time this week are_certainty nOt old
enough to have much road sense; the
children who have started to attend- the
new wings at the schools in the south end.
of town will now have further to travel to
and from 'school and have more roads to
.cross during the trip. Yet there are no
facilities at the schools for lunch and the
youngsters will have to travel home at
noon and back again afterwards.
Certainly some parents have cars and
will be able to ferry their children to and
fro; but what of the families who have no
second car or who have no car at all?
Their children wili,. have to walk. And
that's a mighty 'long haul, for youngsters
to make four times a day in winter.
Some arrangements should be
a jitney service or a pick up service of
some kind at least tor the children living
the farthest distances from school:
It would help to prevent accidents;
would help to prevent colds_ and chills
gained fromwet feet (children will always
get wet whether dressed properly or rot)
and it would give parents peace of mind
when the nights get dark earlier as winter
progresses.
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Litter
John Q. Public was caught throwing an
empty cigarette pack out of his window.
It wasn't the first time he had done this
but it was the first time he was caught at
it.
Mrs: John Q. Public tossed a couple of
tissues nut of- the car window While
cleaning out her purse. It wasn't the first
-time for her either. Junior was caught
ditching a , pop bottle. He was learnitig
fast. '
They are representative of sOrre of the
353 persons fined in, 1968 for littering
_Ontario's. highways_ and of the hundreds
of others who were stopped by the police
and warned about the law against
littering.
Cleaning up after Ontario's motorists is
an expensive business. Last year the
Department. of Highways found that it
cost $970,000. »
WhPt the John Q. Public family forgets
is that any way you look at it, it's their
money that pays the cleaning tab.
It could be put to better use.
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Bill Dobie at Dominion Road MaChinery Company
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Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
The owners of .the transit
elevator are walling up a new bin
for rna1I shipments , of grain.
The wall is of re -enforced
.concrete, 65 feet in height and
10 feet in wideth. The wall
thickness is nine inches, and the
bin will contain 6000 bushels.
• ‘he new steps leading from
the Hotel Sunset to, the beach,
are being erected this Tieek.
They are three feet in width and
will have a hand rail on the one
side. This will be a great ,
.convenience to ethers and we
understand the Sunset bathina,
houses will be open to the public.
Mrs. G. Steep, cif Goderich,
brought a charge of assault
against her father; Mr. George
Evans. It seems the parties live
together and have not been
getting along well. Recently Mrs.
Steep refused to allow her father
to light a fire in the cook stove.
This angered the old gentleman,
who is nearly 82 and he struck
his daughter lightly with a lifter.
Magistrate Kelly advised them all
to go home and try to live
peaceably together.
Mr. Benj. C. Smith charged
Morris Grey with assault. From
the evidence it: was plain that
Grey and Mrs. Smith had been
leading immoral lives, and
although Smith was cognizant of
' the fact he had invited Grey to
come and stay at the house until
he found a home for himself. On
ruesday, the 14th, at the noon
hour, Smith took a notion that
he did not want Grey around
any longer and invited him to go
by throwing a chair at him. This,
Grey resented, and proceeded to
explain it to Smith by seizing
him by the throat. Mrs. Smith
then took a hand and succeeded
' in scratching her face
and tearing his shirt. Both
Magistrate Kelly and Crown
Attorney Seager • seemed to
.kliow more aliourTire case than
was revealed by the evidence and
told all the parties concerned
that they were a disgrace to the
town in very plain language.
Sentence was suspended.
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25 YEARS AGO
- A will of Alexander
McKenzie, of Kinloss township,
made. March 24th," 1942, has
been declared invalid by a
judgement issued by Mr. Justice
Kelly at Osgoode Hall.
McKenzie, a farmer, had
amassed a fortune of $100,000,
and a great deal of -interest was -
taken in the district in the
matter of its disposition. The
will was made when the testator
was eighty years of age, and the
judgement said that he had not
the mental capacity to make a
will at that time. Frank
Donnelly of Goderich was
counsel for some of the parties
interested.
Western Canada Flour Mills
will close its plant alt next week
and ° some 150 employees will.
be given their annual vacation
with pay. Maintenance men will
remain at work and with experts
from Montreal major repairs are
to be undertaken during the
shutdown.
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10 YEARS AGO
For the second successive
year, The Goderich sign -al -Star
has placed among the prize
Winners in its circulation division
in a Canada -wide Better
Ne'wspapers Competition.
The Signal -Star placed third in
the Best Front - Page
Competition.
"Waiting for bricks" is the
report from the construction job
at Goderich District 'Collegiate,
bu t otherwise , work is
progressing well. West of the
present building, footings are in
and concrete being poured, for
'THAT'S LIFE!
By G. MacLeod Ross
AFTERMATH OF CAERNARVOI\I
- Even the shopfronts vied with one another in their royalist fervor.
Caernarvon Gas had congratulatory telegrams from Oslo Gasswerke,
while Hongkong, not to be outdbne, the China Gas Co. sent a wire;
All displayed on the shop front.. The Left Luggage office was sane
mass° of "Ich Diens." But most shops opted for the boyish features,
s� that you could sit on him, wear him, stand on him, drink out•of
him, dry your dishes with him, and even hold your casseroles with
him. The lady in 'the' Welsh Rock shop said "We're going to put 'God
bless the Prince of Wales' right thrinigh our special humbug rock." It
is true that Lord Snowdon was nearly killed by a Welsh cannon ball.
Racing in his Viva, his speed boat, towards a nearby h6adlandand a
cocktail party, he was greeted by a fish and a. roar from Lord
Newborough's personal cannon, set up on his front lawn. Snowdon
thought it was merely fireworks until the ball landed in a spray of
water a few yards from Viva's bow. "Such a pity you didn't hole
him" said a fellow guest. "Think of the honor to Weigh lifeboatmen
to have picked up Lord Snowdon." This cannon shot is a local
tradition. Back in 1911, the Royal yacht was nearly sunk by a stray
shot from the loyal salute by one of Lord Newborough's ancestors.
Examining a dashing Welsh dragon strutting across a banner, it was
found to ,be a committee designed dragon. "We wanted one beast,
the heralds demanded another. This camel -like biast is the
compromise!" As Colonel Cloodchild, the chief silyer staff officer
remarked: "There are a lot of arty-tartY committees in London."
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the six classrooms to be added.
At the southeast corner" of the
school; foundations are poured
for the board room, gymnasium,
cafeteria and kitchen. This
addition may be ready for the
fall term, said William Stevens,
in' charge of construction for the
general contractor, Ball Bros., of
Kitchener. There is much more
work to be done on the other
part. 67 •
When Mr. and Mrs.' Gerald
Schapple, of Port Huron, Mich.,
signed the register • at Huron
County Pioneer Museum on.
June 28, they brought the total
number of visitors up to the
6,000 mark for this season.
ONE YEAR AGO
Three students of Goderich
District Collegiate' Institute will
receive Ontario Scholarships for
their work in. Grade XIII this
year.
Hugh Aldis, Janet MacDonald
and Andrew Pirie will receive the
awards for 80 percent standing.
Graduating student Wendy
Ryan was the valedictorian at
the Victor Lauriston Public
School _graduation ceremonies
Wednesday, June 26. Miss Ryan
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Ryan of Goderich.
Guest speaker Anna Meyer, of
CKNX-TV, Wingham, told the
84 graduates that "eggheads" are
no longer ridiculed and stresied
the inipOrtance of gainiiig
knowledge.
Rev. R. Moynahan officiated
at a morning folk mass attended
by St. Mary's School Grade 8.
graduates Friday, June .28.
Arthur Barry Deathe, B.Sc.,
M.D., will begin medical practice
in Goderich Monday, July 8.
* THE 1863 STORY
Part II — THE CONTRACTS AND.THE Anov:
One gathers from the records that when the men who- worked for
Dominion Road Machinery in 1944 felt the need for a union and
made it plain to the owner they were serious, Mr. Attridge countered
with a proposal to lower the wage rate. It took eight months of hard
bargaining and the complete replacement of the negotiating
!committee to hammer out something that was good enough to be
-accepted by the Lodge.
Mr. Attridge eventually came to terms with the newborn 1863
and although the Sullys were not pro -union when they bought the
plant in 1945 they too were able to come to terms with the idea of
having a union.
We have to reconstruct the first contract. We know it was signed
in May 1945, but we have no documentary evidence of the pay rates
but they were probably about like this: —apprentice... 40 to 70
cents per hour; helper... 70-79 cents per hour; production worker...
80-89 cents per hour; journeyman... 90 cents -$1.00 per hour. There
were six paid holidays, Christmas, New Year's Day, Good Friday,
Dominion Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving.. However 'to get paid
for the holiday it had to fall on a workday. ,
The wage structure for the 1967 to 1969 contract was based on
job classification. The jobs in the shop were all eValuated in terms of
skill, heat, dirt, mental concentration, physical concentration, etc. It
was found that eight groups covered all hourly rated employees and
where a man fitted into his group was determined by his rate of pay.
Where he went from _there was determined by his "merit
assessment."
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Under the present contract we have the folloOing group wage
structure:— group one...$1.64$1.83; group two...$1.84-$2.03;
group three...$2.04-$2.23; group four...$2.24-$2.43; group
f ive...$2.44-$2.63 ;. group six... $2.64-$2.83; group
seven...$2.84-$2.93; group eight...$2.94-$3.03.
In the 1948 contract " onor holidays" were introduced. The
company allowed each hou y rated employee who was on the job
and on time every regular working day, six extra paid vacation days
per year as "honor holidays." If the employee was off sick it was not
to mar his perject, attendance record. The man: who was too sick to
go to work but not too sick to go to the horse races must have had
some interesting sessions with whoever had the job 'Of deciding
whether he was sick or not. Honor holidays were discontinued in the
1952 contract. In this contract (1951-52) Civic Holiday became a
paid holiday.
In the 1952-53 cOntract the -present system of holiday pay came
into effect, i.e.: no matter what day of the week the holiday fell on
the employee west° receiVe a full day's pay.
The company set up the Personnel Department in 1955.
In the 1955-57 contract:— Vittoria Day became a paid.holiday
August 20, 1955 the work week became 42 hours; August 20, 1956'
the work- week became 40 hours.
In 1958 hospitalization came into effect and was compulsory to
join. The 1957-58 contract brought the weekly indemnity, if sick,
up to $35 per week and doctor fees to $4 an office tall and $5 fcir a
home call. This contract also saw the introduction of the pension
plan, and also began the system of "bereavement pay." -
The 1962-64 contract set up the Unemployment Insurance
Benefit Fund and a cost of living bonus.
Prior to 1962 fringe, benefits were paid 50-50 by company and-
dmployee. Since 1962 the employee has paid 25 per cent and th,e
Company 75 per cent. .
The present contract provides for raises at stated intervals
.increasing all wage rates by 32 cents over the life of the contract.
This contract also raises the weekly indemnity to $75 per week and
life insurance for married employees was increased to $4,000. On
retirement an employee with 10 years service is to be presented with
a paid up insurance policy for $1,000. The half day before Christmas
and New Year's Day are to be paid holidays. A 10 minute break in
each half shift completed the present contract.
In 1944 top men were getting $1. an hour. The first mention of a
$2. per hour wage was in the 1964-65 contract. The first mention of
a $3. per hour wage is in the 1967-69 contract. There is quite a
difference in the length of time needed to go from $1. to $2. as
compared with from $2. to $3. Could all this have been done
without the union
THE MEN
Of the 73 Charter Members of 1863, Steve Helesic, Vic Hey,
Warren James, Frank Horton, and Len Jeffrey are continuous dues
paying members. John Mohring and Harry Beattie are back with the
firm after absences. Bert Squires ancrKit White are still with the firm
though not as union members.
Over the years the company hasrecognized that a man who 1863
picks as its president, is a good man to keep in mind for promotion.
Quite often they didn't wait until hjs term of office was over and
then the individual concerned was placed in the awkward position of
trying to serve two masters — a feat which requires a great deal of
dexterity. However 1863"has never had to remove or try to remove a
president for any reason; they weren't so lucky with one early
treasurer_ Albert ...Stubbington and Art Wasson, our first two
presidents are dead. The remainder are still very much alive and 12
of them are still with Dominion Road Ma4hinery though four pf
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