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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR.

This is what our
community propagandist;
should tell the people in
South America and
elsewhere: “Work, work
bard and learn to stand on
your own feet”,

Evenright herein Canada
some people are poor (not
really), because they don’t
want to work. I don't want

To the Editor: ©

There is 30 much
propaganda ‘against the
United States lately for
shipping arms to El
Salvador. This . is
supposedly a crime against
the poor.

As tar as shipping arms is
concerned: Russia and
Cuba has been shipping
arms to Africa and South .
America for years and
pobody said a word about it.
The United States is not
supposed to build up its
Armed Forces, but Russia
has 10 times the amount of

groups, but just look around
you. They are too amart to
go and Jook for work, the
government will give it to
them for free, they laugh in
your face when you work
and have a great time

arms that the United States hanging around bars and on
has. Still, it is America - the streets at our taxpayers
according to public opinlon- expense.
“that is preparing for war. :
And if we feel we should
The Russians can

help the poor the world
aver, why do labor unions”
and big boases alike scream
for more and more money
while our standard of living
is already the highest in the
world? It in our greediness
that wrecks our economy,
and we are culting our own
throats, Millions of us came
a8 poor immigrants from
Europe and Asia, not even

“peacelully'' invade
country after country, but
still it is the Americans who
are the imperialists. Where
is the logic in this? If there
are no poor in the “workers
paradise” why do $4 per
cent of the population want
to leave the country if they.
hada chance? There must
be something attractive in

our free enterprise system!

if would not } able to speak the language
ve oo country, but we

the of cheap labor ourselves “up” and

we did not remain “poor”.
If we can do it, than
everybody can do it, Indians
and white man alike. Only
the sick and the old need
government help. The rest
should smarten up and go to
work. .

(prisoners’ and exiles in
Isbor camps) its economy
would collapse in no time.
Now it is also leaning on the
capitalistic West for
economic help! It is
America that keeps the
communist countries on
their feet and now Red
China is desparate for our ~
help!

Communism was
apparently no solution for
the poor. I repeat: it seems.
‘that there is something good -
with our free eoteepeiag
system!

And what about the poor
(this propaganda horse) in
El] Salvador? Compared to
our wealthy standards a ot
of people there are poor
indeed. But only is
comparison, for is our
wealthy standard a honest
measuring stick to go by?

In years gone by the Latin
American people (of whom
most were Indians) did not
consider themselves poor.
Did our Indians consider”
themselves poor before the
white men came with their
liquor, cars and T.V.'s?
They were happier than -
they are now. The same in
Latin American countries.

The population is Indian” they want that luxury, let
or mixed with Spanish
bleed. People from the
outside’ have been going
around making = their
subversive propaganda in
schools.

In these rich countries of
ours nobody have to be poor.
. But nobody will work for a
dollar if you can get §2 for
free from the government!
It is the government! blame
most, not the people.

As far as I am concerned
the employment centre
should pick up all these
young druggedup vandals
from our streets and send
them to labor camps (which
they can build themselves)
up North and make them
work for the welfare money
they get. We are far too soft
on these “poor” guys. Or is
this “discrimination” . and
stepping an somebody's
‘rights” by doing “that?

poor, really help them,
because I love them. I am
going te vote for that
candidate who sees the need

I happen to know a few
teachers from Terrace who
‘wen their to tell the poor”
to revolt and take up arms.
I wonder again: whe is
preparing for war? Who
was shipping arms in the
first place?) Wan it the
United States? Where is our
honeaty these days?

Canada and the United
States did not acquire their
wealth by revolution and
Killing. We are living in the
beat countries of the world,
because we worked for it.
We worked hard under the
free enterprise system.
Workers want = their
freedom. They don’t wart
to be told everything by an
almighty state. We can look
after ourselves and the
Governménts should ‘mind

to mention names or. &

Well, [have my rights too. 1”

j

MONTREAL (CP) — Despite polls showing the Parti
Quebecois with a firmer hold than ever on the affections cf
decided voters, Quebecers cast their ballots in a general
election today with a nagging sense of uncertainty as to who
will form the next provincial government.

The PQ would be breathing more easily were it not for
Liberal Leader Claude Ryan's knack for running in the
teeth of. opinion samplers, -

Ryan has measured up to every electoral teat since be
took over the party in 1978, compiling victories in 11 straight
byelection and the sovereigntyassociation referendum,
often against @ backdrop. of red-faced polisters.

Premier Rene Levesque, although pleased with weekend
-opinion surveys giving his party a lead of between eight and

ws

14 per cent of the vote, advised caution as be drew his cam- :

paign to o close Sunday.

“Forget the polis,’” he told PQ. workers at one rally,
urging them to be as determined in getting oul the voters as
if the pollsters had said the party ivas losing.

About 4.4 inillicn’ Québecers are eligible to vote today.
Poll are open from 10 a.m, until 8 p.m. EST and mild
weather is forecast far the entire province.

There are 525 candidates vying for 122 seats in the ex-
panded legislature, Standings at dissolution of the old 110-

* seat house. were PQ 67, Libérals 34, Union Nationale 5,

Independent 2 and Vacant 2.
Turnout in-the' last far Qpebee elections hos bored
around the 80-per-cent mark. .

The emo peaks and valleys that have characterized
the Liberal ign were in evidence Sunday, as the

devoutlyCatholic Ryan soberly told supporters in a suburb

ASUN'S

FRIENDS! QUEBECERS!
Leg AUTRES! LEND ME.
YOUR WALLETS!

Polarization engendered by the referendum a

~ bare thatthe election oulcome isin the hands ofa “superiqe
will." .
‘May the will of the Father be done, ad he conehided in the

speeches at later stops on his hectic last-day itinerary,
Levesque, meanwhile, got a gratifying welegme from

about 600 members of Montreal’s Greek community, which

is usually viewed a3 a Liberal preserve along with the rest

of the the city's non-francophone ethnic groups.
Campaigni=:; less arduously than’ his main rival,

. Levesque took the last night off, saying he and his wife.

Corinne planned to open a bottle of champagne in honor of
their second wedding aniversary.

Union Nationale Leader Roch LaSelle, whose party

scores no better than four per cent in the polls, finished his

campaign in rare style with a Sunday rally that drew 1,000 °

people in the rural UN riding of Maskinonge. =

LaSalle sounded confident of winning his own riding of!
Berthier, and he pleaded with the voters not to send him to
the province’s national ass¢mbly alone. :

“] knnaw what itis like to be alone, because I was alone in|
Ottawa,’ he said, harking back to his recent experience as .

the only Conservative MP from Quebec.

Levesque had toyed with the (des ofan election iad tan,
ata time when the Liberals were o topping the
Polls in the wake of the federalist referendum victory. + :

But his decision to hold off seems.to be paying dividends.

v3
have worn off and the intensifying constitutional with
Oitawa has given the PQ a convenient platform from which
to thunder its devotion to provincial autonomy, .

TORONTO (CP) -
Executives searching
for the essential
ingredient that makes a
company successful
may find an answer in
the way a corporation
organizes middle
management, says
Ronald Grey, director of
Research For
Management,

In a survey of W
Canadian and. US.
firms, Research For
Management has found
recurring traits that
distinguish the suc-
cessful enterprise from

. the lacklustre,

the factors intuitively,
Grey said “the prin-
ciples that seem to
emerge are: Provide

people what you want,
and then pay them for
doing it."

AS its index of cor-
porate success, the
survey used com-
pounded annual rates of
profit growth over the.
past five years.: The

clarity of direction, tell .

— Quebec voters uncertain of. elections winner

Oncol Levesque’ first acts was to manoeuvre the party sl .
continued commitment to sovereignty. out of the spotlight

* by pledging not to hold another referendum on the issue”
same,downcast tone. But he rebounded to give confident .

during-a second: mandate. .

if the pole can be believed, the tactic has been as ef-
fective as the party's original urdertaking — which belped
it take power in 1976 — not to alter Quebec's constitutional
arrangements without consulting the electorate,

The PQ entered the campaign stressing Levesque’s
perwonalliy and the goreetanata. rend, capporten by

_ polls rating the premler’s popularity mare than twict as

high as Ryan's and showing a high degree of voter con- .
teatment with the party's social democratic legislation .
Ryan initially tried to engage the PQ on.its own turf,con-

. demning it for adding some $10 billion to the provincial debt

in years of government. But the Liberal Jeader abruptly .
changed course when the first batch of polls showed bis

party trailing.
In speeches that were almost carbon copies of his
referendum oratory,- Ryan linked Quebec's sluggish

‘economy: with continued constitutions] uncertainty aod

invited the voters to “finish the job” begun when they re-

- jected sovereignty-association.

Both main parties handed out séemingly-endless ele-

eral promizes, tnést almed a helping families cope with

the ring cot flving, and squabled bitterly aver. wha .

a, The PQ; tor instance, offered low-interest home-buying
_ Jeans of $10,000 to couples with one child under the age of 2,

offering to write off portions of the loan witheach new child

" Attempting to neutralize that promise, the Liberals

countered with an offer of unrestricted $5,-00 grants to
People baviog bones worth lesa than $56,000, oo

. Management is: key |

companies were growth also had
selected randomly irom Labor managers who
Research: For knew what resulis were
Management files and expected of them and
bad anoual earnings were heki.

", growth rates ranging for performance. .
widely, from minis 18 “tis really in the Eke

per cent to 35 per cent.
Grey said the suc-

from clear strategic
direction to char in -

cessful firms appeared dividual managerial di-
to have employees who rectlon that many
identified with company companies will miss the
goals and who had a say boat,” said Grey. “They
in the way those goals will articulate organ-
were achieved. : izational goals but then
Less successtul fail to relate them back
companies made to what they mean to the
“motherhood : individual.’ ~
statements” on the The survey found that
matler. the abeotute level of pay.
“You can have very did . not appear
‘impressive goals significant, but what

came through was

developed within an
whelber salary pode

organization, but if they

iy i bia os i ma cgay OL a3
rl not going to be’ dary? Apo ets Bi
implemented ef- wecority ise of ‘the

fectively," he said.
Another factor that
set apart firms with

more successful
Too mich

companies.
and too little security

“rapid profit growth was tended to undermise
the way information morale. .
was gathered and Management‘ style
organized for decision- was not arily a
makers. factor’ In success, with |

‘In the bess effective

both delegative and
companies we found

authoritarian types |

that information was working for same firms.. © -
inadequate, not the kind __ ‘The survey aleo found

decisions, or it was
delayed.”
Firms with rapid

be a technological
keacer to ave the best
rates of profit

Employers often fire pregnant women.

VANCOUVER (CP) — More than one woman in
British Cofumbia has discavered the hard way that
her employer no longer considers her a valuable
employee ance she becomes pregnant.

And although it is against the law ta fire a woman
because she Is pregnant, some emplayers try many —
ways to clreumyent the law.

Last year 41. women — about half of whota had
host tieir jobs — filed complairits of discrimination
on the basis of. pregnancy, says Graham Hope,
spokesman. for the B.C. human rights branch = -

This discrimination particularly affects women at
the bottom of the economic ladder, says Hanne
Jensen, a. senior officer with the branch. Often,
these women work in industry with litle he
security and high- turnover. .

Problems are more likely to arise in small ,
businesses where there are no unions and no con-
sistent. policies 6n maternity leave, she adds. .

“We find executive secretaries are offen per-
mitted to stay on while someone: with only six
months experience and marginal job traiaing won't
be. When the empioyer has found a replacement, ©
she will be terminated. But he'll say it was because
the was late from coffee or she made to many

Hope says employers often say pregnancy was

* gniy one of many reasons behind a firing. “But in
our opinion, if only five per cent of that decision is
based on pregnancy, then that's discrimination.”
- Employers are often worried that pregnant
workers will be too busy throwing up, craving
bizarre foods or bursting into tears to work a full
eight-hour day, says Jensen. ‘Employers are often
concerned about & lat of nyihs about pregnant

“Bren vies management acknowledges that ail
aren't affected, in some occupations pregnan
workers find That lochs can ba cnothet comes of
er fumetimes there argsemual overtones to the job,
* eupectally for cocktai¥ waitresses,” says Jensen.
‘“Thare's‘a feeling that a pregnant woman won't
Jook good on the job and that customers. would be
embarrassed."

Lealie Rodrigues of the Hotel, Restaurant,
Culinary Employees and Bartenders Union says she
always tells women they can work right up to the
end, but most quit before the fifth or sixth month.
“Sometimes the employer will find her a job
elsewhere in the hotel — taaybe behind a desk or .
somewhere the public won't see her."

ff
Fright atieodanis have i similar protiem, says
., Anthea Bussey of the Canadian Airline. Flight At-
‘ tendants Association.
“The airlines try to project the image of the flight
_fatlendant as someone whe is glamorcus, beautiful
’ and available. Unfortunately, society's view of the
_Erperaet woman, is name of teve.”

"the association is fighting Pacific .
Western Airlines in the Appeal Court for the right of
flight attendants to continue working until the end of
their pregnancies. Their contract requires that a
woman book off no later than 11 weeks before the
_ expected birth date

The airlines angue tat flying ate in pregnancy i
tnsafe, but Bussey counters: “Their objections are‘
based mainly on appearance. They try to disguise
‘them under the benner of safety, but there are no
‘conchusive shudies saying you cannot fly asfely to

the end of your pregnancy.” -

7 Colin Kay, operations manger for the Em- .

: ployment Standards Branch, says the new Em-

* ployment Standards Act will rejoce the red tape for
& pregnant woman seeking her job rights. . .

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