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Page 4, The Herald, Thursday, October 19, 1976
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A question

The federal government has legislated an end
to the postal workers strike. It has, however,
adopted a hands off policy with regards the grain
handlers strike.

The question of who, if anyone, should be
allowed to strike is going to be one of the con-
tinuing sores that will keep labor and
management at each others throats. ;

Exactly what should be defined as an essential
service. Should private negotiations between
two groups, especially when they are over
wording in contracts and the peripheral issues in
negotiations, be allowed to tie up the nation’s
economy? ;

Prime Minister Trudeau is likely going to use
the governments handling of the postal workers
strike as an issue in the next federal election. He
will wave it as a flag of leadership.

Do you think the right of the worker to with-
draw services is an integral part of the
bargaining process or an outdated confrontation
tactic which was necessary to gain the initial
strides in labor organization and bargaining
rights? The Herald would like to hear from the
readers on this question. It is one on which we
will have to make a decision.

EDITOR'S JOURNAL

BY GREG MIDDLETON

A woman phoned me saying she was involved
in the letter carriers union and they were
unhappy about the bad publicity they were
getting.

Her complaint was that whenever the inside
workers (the bad guys) got into a hassle and

--walked out,-the press labelled them -“posties' in
the headlines. She said that the term posties
should only be used to refer to the letter carriers
(the good guys).

It seems the reference ‘posties’ is near and
dear to their hearts and souls. I argued that the
letter carriers, who used to be mailmen but now
seem more and more to be women, and the
sorters and clerks are all postal workers.
Therefore they are all posties. She was not to be
convinced.

I went on to explain that posties had a nice ring
to it and fit the space. It didn’t matter. If you
don’t walk the route, say hello to the kids, nod to
the housewives and pat the dogs you're not a
postie.

I conceded, What could I do. Posties they want
to be then posties they shall be,

And a reader sent me this poem:

It’s sure a good thing God above has never gone
on strike,

Because He wasn't treated fair or for things He
didn’t like.

If He had ever once sat down and said ‘'That’s |

it—I’m through
Ive had enough of those on earth so this is what
ll do.

Pll give my orders to the sun—cut off their heat
supply,

And-to the moon—give no more light, and run
those oceans dry.

Then just to make it tough and put the pressure

on,
Turn off the air and oxygen till every breath is
gone.

Men say they want a better deal, and so on strike
they go.

But what a deal we've given God to Whom so
much we owe!

We don’t care whom we hurt or harm to gain the
things we like,

But what a mess we'd all be in if God should go

on strike!
—Author Unknown

J offer the poem without the intention of getting
into a religious debate. I would, however, like to
observe that I don’t know if God ever goes on
strike or not but Mother Nature sure seems to
withdraw essential services, like rain and
sunshine frequently enough and with disastrous
consequences,

And while we’re on the subject of religion, it
seems we credited Lance Stephens with an ar-
ticle he didn’t write on last Friday’s church
page.

Lance is one of the members of the local
ministerial association who is writing for us. He
did write the article headed ‘From the Church’
but he did not write the article about change
requiring patience.

Local church leaders are taking turns to offer
a church oriented comment.

RERAAN

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“Dearly beloved, as this is John’s third wedding and
Beity’s second, Ill make this as brief as possible.”

CHICAGO (AP) — David
Buckley has been away from
his New Zealand home for
nearly a year now, living it
up on a 64,000-kilometre trip
thruughout North America
on $3.50 a day.

“It’s easy when you-have
friends,” said the clean-cut
21-year-uld why claims to be
the world's No.1 hitch-hiker,

He has eriss-crossed the
United States several times
and has been through must of
Canada. He said he
frequently writes his
parents, who live in the
northern part uf New Zea-
land and have 10 other

mail drops along his routes
to receive their letters “and
when I feel a little homesick,
I phone them collect.”

Buckley, passing through
Chicagu recently en ruule to
Turunto and Quebec, said he
doesn’t know when he will
return home. Bul he con-
ceded he misses his special
girl, Sue McShane, more and
mure.

“T’ve met quite a few girls,
but I still like Sue the best,”
he said, “She understands
me and knuws I have to get
this travelling out of my
syslem. My only definite
plans now are to visil friends
in Minneapolis for Christ-
mas. I've never seen a white
Christmas. In New Zealand
it’s summer that time of the

year,”

DRINKING PROBLEMS
Women suffer them too

“Thank God 1 came here, things were
going from bad to worse,**

The 47 year old woman sits In the com-
fortable living room discussing her
problems, her recent life. John, her
husband, is a successful businessman, too
successful for her liking. He often stays at
work until late in the evening and he works
many weekends. Her two children are now
in their late teens, one at university, one
living the other side of town. She has never
worked outside her home, and her husband
John is proud that she hasn’t had to work in
an office.

in recent years she has begun to fil! the
void in her life, her long afternoons and
lonely evenings, by drinking alone. Her
fanily can ignore her drinking no longer.
Her friends find her company at bridge
parties embarrassing and they are tired of
hiding it. ;

But this woman is lucky, a friend has just
told her about Aurora House, a residential
treatment facility in Vancouver for women
with problems, for women who drink too
much. Aurora House is one of fifty agencies
dealing with alcohol abuse funded by the
Ministry of Health through the Alcohol and
Drug Commission.

tn British Columbia It is estimated that
there are over 40,000 women who are
“problem drinkers’’ or alcoholics.
Whatever the ferm, the suffering for the
woman, her family, friends and fellow
workers is the same.

These are women who drink to the point
where it interferes with their personal {ife,
affects thelr physical and emotional health
and intrudes on their roles as mother, wife,
homemaker, employee.

Alcoholism is not an urban problem. in
all areas of the province women suffer from
alcohol abuse.

Women fiving in male-orlented company
towns, where their own employment, social,
medica!, transportation and day care needs
are not met, often lose their feeling of self-
worth and become depressed. These
women speak of their isolation, of being far

from family and friends. They speak of the.

weather. of long, cold, rainy winters,
particularly oppressive fo women house-
bound with small children. They share their

concern for the lack of day care facilities
and entertainment for their families. And
these women Speak of the difficultles when
the breadginner works long shifts and is
away from home when the family needs him
or when he requires sleep while the rest of
the family is awake and active.

Sometimes the stress results in family
break up, in other cases the woman finds
herself resorting to tranquilizers in order to
cope. These drugs are legally and readily
available. But few women appreciate the
danger of using them regularly. And
women who are pregnant run an additional
risk because fetat devetopment.can be
affected by the mother’s use of alcohol and
other drugs.

It usually takes longer to detect a woman
alcoholic. A woman who drinks to excess,
especially a homemaker, often manages to
hide her problem from family and friends
for years. Nobody wants to achknowledge
that a woman regularly drinks tao much.
And when the prablem becomes acute her
husband, in despair and embarrassment,
may leave her. He seldom will encourage
her to enter treatment.

lt is a big step for any woman to admit
that her drinking is out of control and reach
out to an agency for help.

However, if she does decide to seek
treatment, she will find that there are out-
patient counselling facilities in all the major
centres in British Columbia.

In addition to out-patient facilities where
individual and family counselling, group
therapy and information sessions may be
available, there are also detoxication and
residential treatment beds for women
willing and able to participate in a five-in
program. Unfortunately, family respon-
sibilities prevent many women from going
to a residential facility.

The woman at the beginning of this article
has now successfully completed a treat-
ment program. She has faken the first step
back to good health. :

Now she must deal with the problems
behind the symptom of drug abuse. if she is
to become a fucntioning, healthy woman
again she will have to begin making
changes in her life. And she will need the
support of her family, her friends and, if she
is working, her employer.

Buckiey said he worked 75
hours a week as a diesel me-
chanic to save enough money
for air fare and enough to
average $3.50 per day on the
road.

“{ told my parents [
wanted to see the world and
that they'd see me again
when [ walked through the
front door,’’ said Buckley.
“They have travelled around

children. He has mapped .

Kiwi hiker
still moving

he world twice and gave me
a list of friends they
made and their addresses.

“As I hitch-hiked | made
more friends who gave me
iheir addresses and aske
me to drup in when I'm in
their area, I have a buok of
300 names uf friends in the
U.S, and Canada.

Buckley carries & red
backpack that includes a
small tent—“I’ve only had to
sleep out in it once”—and a
sign that reads: “One Little
Lost New Zealander to
Chicdgo” (or whatever his
destination may be). He has
painted a Kiwi bird on it.
“phe Kiwi is the flightless
bird uf the world -and my
country’s national bird.

The sign seems to work
wonders aS Buckley waits
roadside for rides. ;

“J'yve never had to wait
more than 1'¢ hours before
being picked up,” said
Buckley. “And I'm really not
hitch-hiking. I'm just sitting
there with my sign, and if
they want lo stop they can.

Buckley said the secret is
to “louk clean and tidy at all
times, and nv long hair.”

“T have the New Zealand
flag on the back of my pack.
Being a foreigner helps when
you are out on the road," he
said.

“Motorists shuuld never
pick up two ur mure hitch-
hikers. And 1 never get ina
car unless there is only one
person or a family in it. I
prefer families so I can talk
with the kids as well as the
parents.”

Buckley said the must
interesting sights in his
travels “were the Grand
Canyon, the Playboy
headquarters (in Chicago)
and the Sears Tower (the
world's tallest building, in
Chicagy).””

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Theskipper of a 9.5-metre
sailbuat which — cir-
cumnavigated the Nur-
thwest Passage says he is
angry over trealment the
buat's crew of five
received frum _ the
Canadian Coast Guard.

Real Bouvier, Montreal
journalist and skipper of
the J. E. Bernier 1], which
arrived here Sunday, said
Sunday that the Cuast
Guard tried to discuurage
the crew frum making the
28-menth voyage, telling
them they didn't have a
chance in 100 of cum-
pleting the trip.

He alsuv said that the
Coast Guard icebreaker
Camsell couldn't even
give the crew an accurate
weather repurt during the
Bernier’s journey and,
while the lwo were
Sheltering from a nor-
thwesterley gale at Cape
Parry, N.W.T., adjacent
the Amundsen Gulf, the
Coast Guard ship ignored
the Bernier,

Bouvier’s biller cun-
demnati9n came just
before the steelhulled
ship, the smallest to ever
sail the Northwest
Passage, was greeled by
a flotilla of boats and a
official civic welcome as
it. sailed into English Bay.

“Instead of trying tu
discourage us they (the
Coast Guard) should at
least have given us advice
and the support of their
knuwledge,'' he said.

“K's said it isn't often

Their treatment
angers skipper

Canadians do something, -

but every time a
Canadian dues sume-
thing, we try Lo diminish
his achievement.'’

Bouvier said at Cape:
Parrz, “they (the
Camsell) never even
invited us for supper.”

“They weren't even
able to give us a good
weather forecast,"’

Bouvier said at nv time,
huwever, even in pack
ice, did the crew fear for
their lives, but navigation
was difficult because the
Arctic is poorly charted.

“The land is low and its
difficult. to du eyeball
navigation. You've gut to
gu by guess and by God.”

The boat did have a
couple of close calls, he
said.

“The sirst time, off
Greenland, we were
making a study of a
glacier and a huge swell
came throwh in the
middle of the night.
Because the shure was 50
steep, I couldn't anchor
normally, out had tu put .
(wo lines un ihe rocks.

“The swell broke one of
the lines and when I woke
up we were swinging
twwards the shore, I
turned on the engine and
pushed the: thrvitle just
befure we were washed
ashore.

“Another lime we had
trouble with our tran-
smission, We were in ice
and drifling towards the
Shure. I ralsed the sail
and finally that day we -
made 35 miles under sail
through the ice,

Amoco
Petruleum Co. Ltd. is

AND IT PAYS TO FIND OUT

This

CALGARY (CP) —
Canada

However, replying to
questions frum Bruce
Willsun, a member vf the

exploration, development
and production has varied
between 49.7 per cent and

argued that much new The
gas has been discovered
and it seems likely much

company believes the gas is there

polential af
Canada’s petruleum
resources, including such

of Metrupolitan Turunto's
three million residents for
10 years,

putting its money where
its uplimism is, the
National Energy Board
was luld.

Company officials told
a beard hearing that
Amoco is confident large
reserves af natural gas
remain to be found in
Alberta, enabling Canada
lo resume large-scale gas
exports to the United
Slates,

Vice-president Tony
Neidermayer said the
company is backing ils
cotifidence with cash,
Spending 102 per cent of
its cash flow in the first
half of this year un ex-
ploration, development
and pruduclion,

Committee for -an_ In-
dependent Canada, he
said that Amoco iater this
-year will pay its U.S.
parent a dividend on the
order uf $30 million, less-
ening the percenlage of
cash flow devaled to
exploration,

Amuco is wholly owned
by Standard Oil of In-
diana,

Neidermayer said the
102 per cent of half-year
cash flow was $87.86
million, defining cash
fluw as revenve [rom
Sales less |axes and ex-

TSS,

In the last five years, he
said, the percentage uf
cash flow devuled lo

. enough lo

78.2 per cent. In 1971, it
was 148.3 per cent and in
1972 it was 107.3 per cent.

Willson said Amucu's
confidence thal much new
gas will be found is nut
justify
resuming large-scale gas
exporis.

"In such a vital malter
as energy supply we need
sume(hing mure than an
expression oof —cun-
fidence," said Willsun.

The energy beard ef:
fectively froze expurts in
1971 afler determining
that Canada did nut have
a long-term surplus of
natural gas available fur
export.

Neidermayer, huwever,

mure will be fuund in (he
coming years.

The key was to
authorize large scale
expurts su (hat the in-
dustry would have mure
cash income to du mure
exploratiun and
develupment; “The more
you. spend, the more
you're guing tu find.”

AlthoughAlberta
energy authorilies
estimate the province's
ultimate gas supply at 110
trillion = eubic geet,
Neidermayer said there
is probably abvut 200
trillien cubic ‘feet that is
economically recoverable
with present bigher gas
prices.

areas as the uil sands,
presents an_ historic
opportunity for Canada,
he said.

“We're well enduwed in
Canada on a global basis
in energy, on a globe that
is guing iv be lovking to
Canada fur energy... .
We ought lu get aut there
and get with it.”

But if the expurl freeze
continues, he said, future
exploration and
development will be
hampered by unsaleable
surpluses.

_ Amocu estimated il has
1.5 trillion cubie feet uf
gas left idle fur lack of
buyers. That amount
would heat all households

The company also
estimates that ils ac.
tivities account for 10 per
cent of total industry ex.
ploratiun,

Tu help get rid of ex-

plorationstifling — sur-

pluses, the company sai
the NEB should bves ins
amount of gas it sets
aside lu meel future
Canadian needs, The
Company suggested that
insiead of setting aside 25
times the gas expected to
be needed in the fourth
year, established under
the existing formula, the

ard shuuld set aside
nly 20 times the gas
teeded this year,

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