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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-03-06, Page 4PAGE 4 A lot of hog wash We get more than a little tired of all the arguments against tighter control of guns. With the crime rate mounting by the day and firearms as the key to violence, we still have this great howl whenever any form of control is suggested. The big argument from the gun -lovers is that controls would be useless. The criminals would still be able to secure guns when they wanted to . That is about as sensible as leaving your doors unlocked because a smart burglar can pick it open. One night recently there were seven crimes in the City of Toronto alone --all perpetrated at gunpoint. Detroit's murder rate is appalling, and guns figure in nearly all cases. What's more, the murders in that American city are largely the result of family and neighbourhood quarrels, not the acts of hardened or professional killers. If guns were harder to get,many of these tragedies would end in a broken jaw rather than a dead body. What in the world is the objection to enforcing the registrat- ion of firearms? If you happen to be a hunter or a marksman you would be permitted to own a weapon, provided you had a good character record. That is precisely the case at present for the owners of hand guns, all of which must be registered in this province. The need for a permit would eventually prevent the possess- ion of firearms by those people who have no need for them other than the possibility of use against another human. (Mount Forest Confederate) More salary o less wage According to some who appear to know what theyare talking about, part of the national and international inflationary problem results from minimum wage laws and too much wages and not enough salaries. The distinction between wages and salaries is rather technical but it serves our purpose for this thesis. Wages are usually paid on hourly or daily basis for shorter term employ- ment and usually for the labor type of employment. Salaries are paid usually on an annual basis or monthly basis and usually include the executive and managerial type of employment. A letter to the editor of the Alberta Handicapped Forum seems to hit the nail on the head in this regard. Because of the minimum wage act and the Bill of Rights and the Individual Rights Protection Act, and a few more government regulations imposed by governments, the individual employers and employees have lost their rights. They have lost their rights to discriminate between jobs and the amount that they will work for or have to pay in order to have a job done. The free market competition has gone out of the labor market. The aged and handicapped have been deprived of the opportunity to work and employers are not permitted to select the kind of people who can best do the job for the price that the job will pay. The letter referred to states, "Every person obliged to seek work after the age of 50 is handicapped." While we do not agree that every person that age is handicapped, certainly many older people and inexperienced are at a disadvantage. Employers required to pay certain wages would be foolish to jeopardize the financial status of their business by employing people who were slower or less competent than the able and experienced for the same wage. Many older people and many handicapped would love the opportunity to work slower for a lesser wage or salary. Many employers would love to have competent workers, who for some reason, worked slower. But the minimum wage laws and the so called Bills of Rights and protection deprive both the employers and employees of this privilege. Such a situation adds to unemployment problems, to inflation, to financial problems for the handicapped and sometimes to financial problems for margin- al businesses. With the great power permitted unions in our country (incl- uding unions based outside of Canada) it seems that we don't need to legislate the minimum wages. Where has gone our freedom to choose --choose the employer we want, the empl- oyees we want, the wage or salary we are worth or are worthy of, or the kind of work we desire most to do? Currently there is one way around the minimum wage law, where unions do not interfere, for those employees and employ- ers who can work it out, and that is for the employer to pay on a salary base or hire the employee on a contractural basis for the job to be done. While this is not always as satisfactory as wages for a lesser amount, it may often serve the purpose and provide the employment required by handicaps to help them with necessary financial assistance. Very often, more necessary than financial assistance, is the feeling that one is making a worthwhile comribution to society and earning his own way in a world of social but uncharitable handouts. (Nanton (Alta) News) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB. TURKHEIM., Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 13854��sy=k Member: NQ Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; t Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association '�y tied Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States aiid. Foreign; single copies 15¢ ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS 'THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1975 i�tern �t Io.n al Scene (by Raymond Cannon) O,P.E.C, A FOUR LETTER WORD Too many oil consumers in this world, O,P.E.C. is the worst of four-letter words. In case it is not included in your vocabulary, let me explain. It stands for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Count- ries, and is responsible for the high price of oil presently being charged in the world today. So far, the member nations of 0,P.E.C,, which include just about every oil producing nat- ion in the world except Canada and the Communist bloc, have been very successful in sticking together and keeping the price of oil up to what a great many people consider to be unrealist- ic levels. A great deal of midnight oil has been burned by the various petroleum consuming nations, trying to figure out how to break this monopoly but, so far, with- out too much success. The lat- est attempt, of which very little has been mentioned, is directed towards the small nation of Abu Dhabi. If, by chance, you don't know ehre this place is and hap- pen to have an atlas handy, take a look at the Persian Gulf. It may not even be marked on your map, but it's there, al- though you have to look very carefully, even when you're flying over it. It is one of the former Trucial states, which are located between Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. Abu Dhabi is the most prosperous of these, simply because of the oil locat- ed underneath the surface. The sheik, who has a name so long I wouldn't try to spell let alone pronounce, is known for his free -spending ways and his total lack of knowledge of the oil -pumping business. For this reason, he has to get others to pump it for him and, at the present time, a group of major oil companies are putting pressure on him to break the world price in oil. They have managed to cut production to less than half of what it was last July, and are planning to cut it still further. The sheik can't afford such drastic losses of revenue, and is trying to figure out some way of increasing oil production. Strange as it may seem, not everybody is agreed that this attempt is the right thing to do. Some of the members of O,P,E.C, are cheating already by selling oil out the back door, and it may be that the cartel, like so many before, will simply fall apart anyway after a little while, It is better, so goes the argument, to let O,P,E,C. fall apart by itself rather than pick on one of the smallest members. When the major oil compan- REDI-MIX CONCRETE (ALSO FORM SVORKI McCann Const. Ltd. DASHWOOD Plane 237.1 er 237.3422 fes which are putting the squeez on Abu Dhabi talk about reduc- ing the price to seven dollars a barrel, they no longer have the support of such countries as Great Britain., The British real- ize that seven dollar oil makes all their efforts in the North Sea unprofitable, and London is banking very heavily on being able to utilize this North Sea oil to cut down on the large outflow of money at the present time.for petroleum products. 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