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.

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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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