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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1974
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The teachers were advised by
Mr. Carey that they would be
enrolled as employees of the
OECTA and would receive pay
of $75 a week if married and
the sole supported of a family
or $50 if single, per week for
the duration of the dispute.
(This amount was raised at an
OECTA meeting this weekend
to 500/o of previous salary).
The teachers were asked to
clear out any personal belonging
from their schools before the
keys were returned to the board.
By 10:30 Friday morning teach-
ers at St. James' Separate
School in Seaforth were taking
record players and other person-
al materials out of their class-
rooms.
Friday afternoon the teachers
staged a protest march along
the sidewalk on Seaforth's
Main Street from the Legion
to the HPRCSS board office to
return the school keys to the
board. Carrying signs and led
by Huron -Perth OECTA presid-
ent Sister Audrey Dumochelle,
Principal of Immaculate Con-
ception School, in Stratford and
union leaders, the teachers
waited quietly outside the board
office while Mr. Carey put the
keys inside the door of the
board office,
Pickets, carrying signs in
English and French saying "let
me teach, " "We demand just-
ice" and "Negotiate, " marched
in front of the board office until
normal school closing time
Friday afternoon. Other teach-
ers attended professional devel-
opment activities, organized by
teacher Brian Morrissey of
Stratford, at the Legion.
On Monday afternoon, Bob
Cooney, of Windsor, president
of the OECTA and Rejean Bel-
anger, assistant secretary of the
Association Des-Enseignants
The International Scene
PLAIN TALK ON THE ENERGY
CRISIS
I don't know when I have
seen so much confusion as there
has been with the current energy
"crisis." Every day something
that is said or happens seems to
change the picture and the end
result is that nobody or almost
nobody really knows what is
going on.
Even governments seem to be
included in this group. From
Franco Ontariens, from Ottawa
attended the teacher's meeting
and both recommended accept-
ance of the contract.
In the new two year contract,
the board 'has agreed to pay a
bigger share, 75°/o up from
66.6°lo of the teachers' OHIP
and life insurance coverage.
They have agreed to administer
coverage of teachers by a drug
plan.
The new contract allows
accumulation of a maximum of
200 unused sick leave and for
payment of a sick leaved grat-
'uity upon retirement. Other
provisions include the establish-
ment of an educational improve
ment or sabatical leave select-
ion committee, to include two
teachers, two trustees and the
superintendent.
A contract interpretation or
grievance committee has also
been established,
Dashwood
Mrs. Ray Rader, Mrs. Earl
Keller, Mrs. Delmar Miller,
Mrs. Ernest Miller, Mrs. Gord-
on Bender and Mrs. Stuart
Wolfe attended the training
school at the Exeter United
church, January 31 and February
1, for the project "Taking a
look at Yourself."
Bowling scores at Zurich Lanes
SENIOR MIXED BOWLING LEAGUE, January 31, 1974
Whippoorwills - L. Gascho - 628
Varieties - I. Laporte - 542
Newcomers - E, Zimmer - 486
Ramblers - H. Finkbeiner - 618
Hi Hopes - E. Horner - 641
Hawkeyes - F. Denomme - 652
HIGH SINGLE - Ray.Jacobe - 324
HIGH TRIPLE - George Sweeney - '757
Total
Points Points
0 18
7 89
2 67
5 '72
2 55
5 98
WOWS
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what I have seen of their actions
lately, I am sure that they are
more than slightly confused.
Are we or are we not in the
Arabs' good books? The govern-
ment says we are and yet there
is no evidence of the amount
of oil coming out of Kuwait
and Saudi Arabia that we are
supposed to be getting. More
important is this question. How
much do the multinational oil
companies know and are not
telling? My guess is a great
deal, especially the amount of
oil that is being juggled about
after it leaves the Mid dle East.
For a country that has been cut
off from oil as much as Holl-
and is supposed to be, they are
not doing too badly at all.
There are a few facts, how-
ever, that I believe to be in-
contestable and which I wish
to share with you at this time.
The first is that I do not believe
we can hold the Arabs respons-
ible for the current crisis. At
least, not to any degree. If
there is a crisis, it is mainly
because of the shortsightedness
on the part of both governments
and oil companies. I know of
at least four reputable reports,
the earliest one dating back to
1952, that predicted an energy
shortage in the 1970's unless
something was done to increase
production,. Of course, none of
these reports coui.d be aware of
any political action on the part
of the Arabs, but the reports
certainly emphasized that there
was going to be a shortage. As,
I indicated, I honestly believe
that the recent action on the
part of the Arabs is making very
little difference as to the amount
of the shortage. It is just that
it is easy to make them the
fall guys in this business.
One other bit of food for
thought is the possibility that in
a very few years this oil short-
age could well turn into a glut,
the likes of which we can hardly
conceive of at the present time.
There are several sound reasons
for believing that this will, in
effect, happen. First of all, it
doesn't take much to recall that
there have been at least a dozen
major shortages of commodities
since the Second World War,
and all of these so-called crises
have melted away almost as
fast as they came.
In 1947 there was a coal crisis
and it was claimed at the time
that no coal miner in Europe or
Japan would have to worry
about losing his job before the
end of the century. Before the
end of 10 years most of these
coal mines had been complet-
ely closed. In 1956 France and
Britain went briefly to war with
Egypt because the closing of
the Suez Canal for a week was
supposed to starve Europe of oil.
It was also supposed to put both
Britain and France in the Arabs'
bad books for the next 100 years.
Just look and see who are the
Arabs' friends in Europe today!
If the oil producing nations
such as Iran and Saudi Arabia
have made one mistake, it is
that they have jacked the price
of crude oil so high that it opens
the field to all sorts of cheaper
substitutes. With Western tech-
nology, it won't be long before
these substitutes are in full
production and then watch out!
It has even been predicted that
by 1980 the Arab countries may
even be in need of foreigh aid
because their emphasis on oil
may ruin them when the glut
does occur.
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