HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-09-27, Page 3•
Who's To Blame pot'
"Feath 'rbedding"?
For yetis, live word "feather-
bedding" hos almost automatical-
ly evole'd,images of union de-
errand:, strikes, E.nd abused tint -
players. But a study just publish -
t cl and underwritten by the Fund
for the Republic suggests that
the stereotype may be wrong.
"Dead ilorsc crud the Feather -
bird," by Paul ,laeobs, delves
deeply into the origins of "un -
wok" --the author's term for fea-
therbedding—in the newspaper
and airline industries, and eon-
etudes that blame for spread -the -
work practices must be spread
liberally among employers and
the. f;ovornnient as well as the
workers.
Jacobs, a labor expert at the
University of California in Berk-
eley, asserts that the "dead horse"
—newspaper copy which h reset
although it arrives ready to run
(or has run before)—was foaled
not only by the typesetters' pro-
tests against I'eady-made mats
but also by the employers; the
latter insisted on resetting as a
means of raising the labor costs
of competitors who used mats
extensively. In the airline indus-
try, Jacobs' one-year study found
that the "feat'herbird"—an idle
crewman who crouches in the
back of the cockpit—is not mere-
ly the upshot of the pilots' and
flight engineers' demands for
more ,jobs, but also of the man-
agement's and government's in-
ability to develop clear-cut per-
sonnel policies.
More than anything else,
Jacobs blames featherbedding on
job Losses duo to automation, "If
ien employee isiven choice g a L vee be-
tween doing 'unwmk' and not
working at all," he says, "he will
choose the 'unwork',"
Is there a way out? While his
study lists no examples, Jacobs
believes that "slow and systema -
tie" introduction of machinery,
such as took place in English
Weal mines, is preferable to all-
out automation, which he blames
for the widespread unemploy-
ment among U.S. miners. "Why
should it be improper to
place limitations on those exten-
sions of technology which seri-
ously injure (labor)?" he asks in.
his report, "Today, society must
judge technology not by what it
brings in benefits of efficiency
but also by the social costs,"
If automation is allowed to
proceed uncontrolled, Jacob s
snaintains, it might bring an Or-
wellian future where "only an
elite" will be gllowgd to hold the
few jobs available."
Trying To Pierce
Earth's Core
Scientists in many parts of the
world began a new international
operative project last January/
he Upper 1VIant a Project, a
three-year study of the interior
of the Earth.
Most glamorous item on the
agenda is the Mohole, the U.S.
attempt to drill through the crust
into the mantle, using oil -well
drilling methods, offshore in the
Caribbean.
Present idea of the planet's
structure is that at the very heart
there is a solid core, surrounded
by a liquid core, enveloped in a
mantle on top of which is a crust.
The crust is composed of basalt
with a topping of granite. Wrin-
kles in the granite are known, to
the inhabitants, as "mountains".
Canada's Precambrian Shield
is a very old layer, of rock which
is also very thin in some places,
The Geogolical Survey of Can-
ada will coordinate the drilling
of two 10,000 -foot holes in the
Shield. They hope to reach the
mantle and get some samples.
"Many adults drive snore reek-
Aessly than teenagers," says a re-
port. They've had more practice,
NEW LOOK ---- Coming soon
for some 30,000 U.S. postai
clerks is this trim uniform
modeled by Mrs. • Bonnie Del
Vecchio Lady clerks will wear
ti matching Peking blue fitted
iacket with a blue and/or
white blouse. Male clerks also
will wear o blue jacket.
A:.: AGE FIRST . - First express shipment in history by air-
plane took place on Nov. 7, 1910 when Phillip 0. Parmelee,
shown in old photograph above, flew a 60 -pound bolt of silk
in u Wright biplane from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, On
Sept 1, 1927 the first fleet of airplanes began regularly
scheduled air cargo service — now known as REA Express.
U 5 airlines are observing the 35th anniversary of that event
by designating September as "Air Express Month,"
Traffic Chases
Street Entertainers
A lone baggy-trousered figure
sat on the end stool in rows of
slatted wooden seats ranged.
along the covered side of a West
End theatre, He wore a battered
bowler, His S
clothes
were thread-
bare.
h ea -bare.
"Two stools please," we said.
We soon learned our mistake,
"I ain't nothin' to do with this
lot, I's just Paddy. The stool
guy's in the cafe if you want
'im," he said. His Irish brogue
was overlaid with Cockney
The stoolman emerged later.
We paid a shilling for two seats
and sat on them, waiting for the
gallery door of the theatre to
open. These "gallery stools" are
an old London custom for assur-
ing first come first served.
Our friend "just Paddy" stood
around. We were puzzled. Sud-
denly he started a floppy tap
dance, slowly at first, then
gathering speed. His worn boots
slapped the asphalt. Then he
sang a mournful Irisll ballad,
Suddenly, as at some invisible
signal, we all stud, Tlie pro-
prietor collected the seats. "Just
Paddy" stopped singing, and
seeing he hacl just time to bring
the hat around, collected a few
coins.
The last 1 saw of him were.
the tails of his old Morning coat,
flapping defiantly as he disap-
peared into the cafe,
"Just Paddy" is one of Lon-
don's
ondon's buskers or street enter-
tainers — spoonbashers, tum-
blers, escapists, jazz) ands, po-
etry readers, ballad singers —
who are being hounded off the
streets by the necessity to "keep
the traffic flowing." A • legal
sorting out is going on. It looks
as though "just Paddy" was on
the right side of the law because
he had not assembled a crowd.
The people were already there
when he started performing.
Other buskers, tapping out
rhythms at the curbside or in
the roadway, however, are
"moved on" and sometimes
hauled before the courts and
:fined for causing an obstruc-
tion.
"The Road Stars," a team of
three, well known around Lei-
cester Square are threatened
with having to leave their pitch
by the frequent fines they have
paid for obstruction. This three-
man team, in red fezzes, striped
night shirts, and polished black
boots, are a familiar sight to
theatre and cinema goers wait-
ing for the evening performan-
ces.
Fos' them the bombshell fell
the last time they were called
before "the beak" (magistrate),
No more appearances in court,
the magistrate said. It will be
prison, not fines, next time,
writes Melita Knowles in The
Christian Science Monitor.
The case won sympathy from
many who feel the buskers are
Part of the tradition althe
streets of London's theeta•eland.
"Why roust the police try to
drive the buskers permanently
off the streets?" asks a corres-
pondent to The Times, of Lon-
don. "Buskers make people
laugh and are in English Lradi-
U00. On both counts they should
have full public support and pro.
tection," wrote 5, M. ITernby of
W. H. Smith & Sona
The drift of artists from West
Enol pavements began before
World War I when the German
bands were recalled to fight for
the fatherland. Later, Messeliitd,
recalled the Italian organ -grind
Obey the traffic signs — they
are placed there for YOUR
SAFETY.
ors, A well-known pitch outside
I the National Portrait Gallery,
disappeared to make way for
I the statue of the actor, Henry
{ Irving,
Now the Minister of Trans-
port's one-way
schelne has brok-
en up the "dodge and let docige"
game which buskers and police
played for so long. Some busk-
ers adopt the "six-inch shuffle"
to keep an the right side of the
law which says they must keep
moving.
"Is this the end of the road?"
asked the Road Stars Trio .when
the magistrate threatened prison
next time.
For five weeks they decided
it was, They disappeared down
East, working the docks and the
markets of Whitechapel and
Canning Town.
Then something happened to
bring them back again with a
swinging "Here We Are Again."
A Bow Street magistrate dismis-
sed a summons alleging obstruc-
tion by another street enter-
tainer, saying he was not sure
that it was not the crowd which
was causing the obstruction,
When They Stockpile
They Don't fool!
Corrupt? — no, it wasn't cor-
rupt. Bizarre and fantastic if
you like, but almost certainly
hot corrupt.
Those who have followed the
stockpile investigations by Sen-
ator Stuart Symington (0), of
Missouri, call it one of Washing-
ton's strangest stories. But how
to classify it? Billie Sol Estes is
under indictment for alleged
fraud. The price fixing by Gen-
eral Electric and Westinghouse
was a conspiracy. But this af-
fair was carried through by a
partnership of government and
business for the loftiest motive
— national defense. Curiously
enough it was also used to justi-
fy a more questionable opera-
SAUY'S SALLIES
'tCan'E you convince your boss
that is steed more spending
money?"
'tun, tilt in t o.ining prieefv in ,t'(• -
.Everybody agreed is Ube 50's
that it would be a good idea to
have a store of strategic com-
modities for war. So the pro-
gram began. First it was plan -
nod for a five-year war, then a
three-year war, and then the
length of the war seems to heve
been manipulated, longer or
shorter, to justify continued
purchases of certain goods. And
here a new goal was .added, pur-
chasing goods to keep up de-
pressed prices.
In broad terms Congress
authorized the stock purchases
for defense. But Congress didn't
like to pry into details. When
security clearance was lifted last
January ocld things were diseov-
ered. We have a bloated sup-
ply of many commodities —
seven years' of tin, for example.
And somewhere along the way a
price -support program was add-
ed
People argue the merits of
federal price support; it is used
for farm products every day.
But the great oddity about -this
program was that Congress
never specifically authorized it.
And it was instituted behind the
scenes to aid certain favored in-
dustries.
Take lead and zinc. By 1954
the defense objects of the pro-
gram were virtually satisfied.
But lead and zinc industries
were in a bad way. So with
only limited explanations the
administration bought an addi-
tional 760,000 tons to sustain
prices,
"Political critics of the pro -
I posed purchase," wrote E. H,
Weaver, assistant director for
materials in the Office of De-
fense Mobilization, June 24, 1954,
to Director Arthur S. Flemming,
might find fault. They might
charge, Mr. Weaver warned,
'that businessmen in the gov-
ernment 'bailed out' big busi-
ness firms." This was because,
he said, the big firms would pro-
fit; "mast of the small domestic
mines," he said, were closed or
bankrupt.
But the administration went
ahead. The late Republican
Senator Henry Dworshak, of
Idaho, told the press last month
of accompanying a delegation to
the White House three times in
1954. General Eisenhower per-
sonally approved using the stra-
tegic stockpile to subsidize the
domestic lead and 1Sdustry,
he said.
One beneficial' St,
Joseph Lead C s s the
next four years' ant
of the govern
ness and a pa
got $53,950,000
companies shi.
business, and
ness, writes Rig
the Christian .y
Who organize'ct �`. .m?
Helping in the tr;. x E.
Wormser, who I,' . Jos-
eph Lead to beu''a=.y,: °s^sistant
Secretary of the I'iterior for
Mineral Resources and who later
went back to St. Joseph Lead.
The Symington committee heard
Mr, Wormser testify and went
On to other matters.
On Aug. 23, 1964, General
Eisenhower's press secretary,
Jaynes Hagerty, issued a press
release saying the President was
making new lead and zinc pur-
chases "in an expanded stock-
piling program for strengthen-
ing the lead and zinc industry,
as an integral part of the na-
tion's
a-
tion's defense mobilization
base,"
He did not explain that the
purchases were in excess of
stockpile needs. In order to
justify them, it is charged, the
stockpile objectives had to be
increased. According to sworn
testimony the objectives were
repeatedly manipulated.
Press and public couldn't de-
bate the natter because stock-
pile inventories as well as goals
were all classified "secret."
It's all in the way you look at
it—the flea is happy to see his
children go to the dogs.
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number one vacation spot. Doing
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and housekeeping cottage at rear.
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CLOCKS
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FARMS FOR SALE
298 -ACRE. farm Mth meat business.
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MEDICAL
GOOD ADVICE.! EVERY SUFFERER OF
RHEUMATIC PAINS OR NEURITIS
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MUNRO'S DRUG STORE,
335 ELGIN OTTAWA
$1.25 EXPRESS COLLECT
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Q. Bow can I prevent dis-
colanring of fruits I am using
for salads or desserts?
A. When fruits for salads or
desserts are prepared in advance
Of serving. they can be prevent-
ed from discolouring if sprinkl-
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The lemon juice aceents .the fla-
vour, toe.
Q.• Row can 1 do a good job
of cleaning the ceramic tile In
my .bathroom?
A. Mix up two parts of Iiquid
detergent with three parts of
household vinegar. Take -an old
toothbrush and, dipping this in-
to your mixture scrub the tile,
especially the putty strips which
join the blocks.
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PULLETS
Ready•to-Lay Pullets $2
1,700 Honegger pullets. Also May and
June hatch pullets. We deliver Shel-
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REAL ESTATE
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bushlands. Choose iron hundreds.
Lists, prices, details from: Printers 282
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