HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-03-25, Page 20THURSDAY, APRIL 1,1971
ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
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School Custodians
Vote Against
Union Deal
Huron -Perth Roman Catholic
separate school custodians last
Wednesday voted solidly against
having Local 220 of the Building
Service Workers International
Union act as their bargaining
agent.
The union applied earlier
this year to the labor relations
board for certification after the
local secured nine signed cards
favoring certification from amoni
the 17 custodians.
Murray Parson, of Stratford,
chairman of the local's Perth
County section, said a petition
was later circulated protesting
the union's application and the
labor relations board then order-
ed a vote.
Mr. Parson, accompanied by
representatives from the dual -
county separate school board
and labor relations board, travel-
led almost 200 miles Wednesday
collecting the 16 eligible votes.
One custodian recently resigned.
All the custodians voted agains
affiliation with the union.
Mr. Parson, who said he work-
ed almost a year in an attempt tc
organize the small but awkward
unit, said Thursday night the
union could try again in six
months to organize the custodians
but this would be unlikely. He
said they may be asked back in
one or two years - but added
this too was unlikely.
Harry Mak, of R. R. 5 Seaforth,
custodian at St. James Separate
School in Seaforth, said the cust-
odial staff has no serious griev-
ances with the school board -
and has since formed its own
association to promote continued
good relations and open avenues
of communication with school
board officials.
Mr. Parson said the custodians'
self-created association has no
formal organization.
Huron MP Predicts Marketing Bill
Will Come Prior To Easter Recess
The controversial national
farm products marketing bill
will be aired in the Commons
before Easter, R. E, McKinley,
MP (PC - Huron) said Friday.
Mr. McKinley, a member of
the standing committee on agric-
ulture which is dealing with the
proposed bill, assured about 250
farmers at the Huron Agricultural
Conference that the committee
is "working diligently with a un-
ited force to implement the best
legislation possible."
The committee has been plag-
ued with all-night sittings and a
flood of amendments from Con-
servatives representing Western
ridings. So far, only nine of the
40 clauses in the bill bave been
passed by the committee.
"In its present form the bill
does not provide safeguards to
the abuse of power, nor does it
assure that farm products will be
produced in those areas having
the greatest comparative advant-
age, " said the MP.
In its present form, he charged
the bill would give the cabinet
power to control the marketing
of agricultural products without
the producers having any effect-
ive means of countervailing the
controls other than through a
federal election.
"With the decline in the relat-
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at Seaforth Community Hospital
with a broken leg and heel, and
multiple bruises suffered in a 30 -
foot fall last Wednesday at Mit-
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Peter, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fo-rant Bisback, Hensall was re-
pairing a silo elevator belt at
the plant of W.G. Thompson and
Sons when the belt apparently
broke and he lost his balance and
fell.
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ive importance of the rural and
farm vote, producers would larg-
ely be unable to influence the
marketing policies concerning
their products, " he said.
Gordon Hill, president of the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
said a "hate -the- East" campaign
is being waged by a few Western
PCs but the blame will be shared
by all of Conservative members.
The bill is designed as a feder-
al umbrella covering the market-
ing efforts of the provinces and
would mean a more orderly
system of marketing, according
to its advocates.
Mr. Hill said it is being
fought in Western Canada on the
theme that "the East is going to
get you if you don't look out, "
Western farmers are being told
that the East is where the mark-
ets are, and the votes, and that
the East will dictate the rules
with the Western producer losing
out, he said.
However, he said, "If the
producers don't wish a specific
marketing board, then there
isn't a government in this country
that could enforce it or make it
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