Dear Editor:

I thought your readers
might like to know of the kind
of statements that are being
made by employers to their
employees when faced with
trade union negotiations or
strike action.

The following incident hap-
pened to me, when in co-op-
eration with the Retail Whole-

~ sale Union, I became involv-

ed personally in the Union’s
attempts to unionize car
salesmen.

The place was Belmont
Motors on East Broadway. I
was told — upon asking the
salesman what the picket line
was doing outside his prem-
ises — that the trade union
movement wanted to organ-
ize the sales force, which

“POSITIVE
WELFARE”

“Tet’s look at the dollars
and cents cost of interest.
Consider a $15,000 mortgage
to be paid off over. 25 years.
At last year’s NHA rate of
64% percent, payments. on
principal and interest would

‘total nearly $29,500 — nearly

$2 repaid. for every $1 bor-
rowed.

“At 814 percent—and some
borrowers are paying that
much for home mortgages
right now — the cost goes
out of sight. On a $15,000 25-
year mortgage. :

—interest alone would to-
tal $21,000.

—the added interest cost
over last year’s 6% percent
mortgage would be $6,500.

—that breaks down to ex-

tra monthly payments of
$21.67.
“The federal Liberal gov-
ernment tries to blame it on
inflationary pressures. Hous-
ing construction, they say,
must be slowed down to ease
these pressures.

“But why housing?

“Ts housing so low on our
list of priority needs that we
should turn it on and off like
a faucet?

“A satisfactory home at a
reasonable cost is more than

_ good housing policy. It is posi-

tive welfare. It is a contribu-
tion to better education. It
builds communities and it
builds people.”

—Woodrow Lloyd, Opposition Leader,
Saskatchewan Legislature, on CBC
Radio, June 1, 1966.

TRUTH WILL OUT

would mean that salesmen
would only be allowed to
work four hours per day, and
not earn more than $5,000 per
year!

This statement was so
simple in its implications that
I am sure your readers will
appreciate again the problems
of successfully organizing new
units,

May I say, on a personal
note, that on the following
day when I was on the picket
line with Ray Haynes, Stan
Colbert and John Squire, I
saw at first hand the use of
ex-parte injunctions, about
which I am sure this news-
paper is devoting much of its

space.

ERNEST HALL,
N.D.P. Provincial Secretary

WOODROW LLOYD

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