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Gaye Lamb says she and her New Democratic Party unders tand the plight of the working people That was one reason Mrs Lamb says she decided to run as candidate in Simcoe South Mrs Lamb has been active in the local labor movement for several years She was shop steward recording secretary negotiating committee member organizer and is now fulltime representative for the United Steelworkers of America She recently organized cer tification at Fisher Stoves and Radio Shack Mrs Lamb was working for Coopers Tool in Barrie and suffered three layoffs in year shesaid She went to McMaster University and recently com pleted course in leadership and how to handle problems She was attracted to the NDP by the fairness of its policies The policies are aim ed at helping people she said tax credit system was devised by the party to help the lower and middle income workers UNDERSTANDS WORKERS The NDP seem to be the only party that understands the executive of Progressive group in high school There have been unusual in cidents and phone calls during this years election says Al Froom chief returning officer for Simcoe South The national returning office in Ottawa will be seeking action against an Innisfil man who deliberately misled us said Froom Froom told The Examiner man gave enumerators the name of his children as eligible voters Some of them were no more than six or seven years old Froom said By DENNIS LANTHIER Of The Examiner Neither Simcoe County nor politics is new to Simcoe South tory candidate Ron Stewart Stewart an enthusiastic ad vocate of the Lets get Canada working again slogan ha liv ed in the Barrie area since 1931 Stewart who went to Barrie Central Collegiate has been in volved in politics since he was youngster My family always sup ported the PCs he told The Examiner My dad used to drag me to political rallies but always enjoyed them Stewart said he was on the the Young Conservative But this is the first time Stewart said he has run for of fice he said coe Southbiggest problem enumerating Froom said the man told the office he had done it inten tionally to crew up the elec tion complaint was received from two persons who Froom said didnt want to vote in Roman Catholic church They didnt want to enter Catholic institution of any kind even to vote Froom said There have been other com plaints about theenumerators during the election he said The remarks have been primarily of chauvinistic nature Froom said Stewart said he wanted to run in because he wanted to see Trudeau thrown out GET INVOLVED want to be part of this to get this country moving again Stewart said This country is too good to be run by socialist ATTACKED RECORD He said the prime minister is trying to leave his personal record out of his speeches But we take them into account said Stewart He said there was great deal of spirit and optimism following 1967 You could just feel the spirit we had then Stewart said There wasnt one separatist seat them now whats left of it all The economic and language policy did much to divide Rav Ramsav Liberal candidate New Democratic Party knows plight workers are lacing and have been facing for years said Mrs Lamb On the whole the working man who asks for wage in crease is only asking for Enough to live on Mrs Lamb said The NDP would reintroduce subsidy on bread and milk to give $200 more to each family year she said six per cent costofliving tax credit would also be given to those on fixed income sid Mrs Lamb Those persons are hurt by the federal govemments cutbacks in social services the NDP can working peoples needsLamb didatesaid The NDP introduced medicare to help people struggling to make $10000 year The party will do everything in its power to preserve that setup Mrs Lambsaid There are not enough appren ticeship programs she said On the job training is needed so young people can get jobs she said Rather then build new facilities existing buildings should be used for such train ing she said ENCOURAGE PROGRAMS The government should be speaking to companies to en courage the programs she said The recent cutbacks in unemployment insurance are hurting those that need it she said The number of persons misusing the system is very small said Mrs Lamb RESPONSE GOOD Mrs Lamb said the NDP is getting good response from the people she meets It seems people are concerned and theyre looking at some long term solution to the economic problem in Canada she said People say industrial strategy makes sense platform The surprising part of the campaign to Mrs Lamb IS how many persons it takes to run it she said The election and the work in volved is nothing new to the In nisfil resident because she is busy regularly with her union activities Ive been told by some peo ple that Im crazy to are so much she said Its the type of person am No matter what get involved with put my all into it Mrs Lamb supports price commission which would have powers to roll back unwar ranted increases to avoid infla tion the NDP and its One person thought they were too old others thought they were too young said Froom One man thought the women should be wearing skirts and dresses rather than slacks Preliminary lists show total of 57429 eligible voters in Sim coe South including 23615 in Barrie and 3380 in Bradford It is the first time Bradford is classified as an urban centre in federal election Froom said To classify as an urban centre an area needs population of Canada said The bilingualism issue was not handled properly by Trudeau he said Intelligent people arent against the French people Stewart said They Object to how it was done If the prime minister really wanted to do something about national unity said Stewart he would ask Quebecers plainly if they wanted to separate Never said Stewart has minority been coddled the way Quebecers have On the other hand Tory leader Joe Clark has become fluently bilingual in the past two years WILLING TO DEBATE He said Clark was willing to debate with the prime minister on French television but that Trudeau has not been willing to He said he refers to the Tory leader as Joe Cool because Clark has taken much abuse since he became leader yet has not resorted to swearing In addition Clark has stuck with the same policies he had when he first became leader Stewart said He cares about minority groups and doesnt divide the country by going after migority groups or insult the provmces said Stewart the Tory candidate more than 5000 must be record edFroom said There was some difficulty conducting the enumeration in Innisfil township Froom said The geography of the area is different he said You have some streets with no names and streets on the map that dont seem to exist In Innisfil lot of preliminary lists posted either blew away or were stolen Froom said Theres high amount of it theft said Froom cant help but think it was deliberate in some cases Get Canada moving again says RC Ron Stewart Unemployment remains huge problem in the country and the Barrie area Stewart said There are many living in Bar rie but who work in Toronto he said There are some who would live and work here if they could find the right type of job Stewart said One of the Tory leaders pro grams would support research and development and put in dustries in places where they will be most strong Stewart said The government policies such as the recent revamping of unemployment insurance com mission UIC benefits is an ex ample of Trudeaus socialist position says Stewart Stewart said it would be dif ficult to find persons who have not abused the UIC system at some point in the past five years Taxes continue to increase and the Canadian prime minister wants to keep on put ting money in the hands of the state Stewart said The Tory leader is not dictator as the prime minister has proven himself to be Stewart said Stewart said he will become fulltime politician if elected and said he finds the entire campaign process tremendously exhilarating In Simcoe County there will be 266 regular polls set up at 25 locations in Barrie Three polls will be set in Bradford at the Bra ord Garden apartments Bradford Public School and Bradford Marie of the Incarnation School In Vespra polls are set up at the Revolver Club Grenfel Community Centre Skyline Motel Midhurst Community Centre Dalston United Church and Minesing Community Cen tre oxmlnorFnaayuayw1muj Community Public School the Spoke Sandy Cove Acres and the mall Sandy Cove Acres Lakelands Com munity Hall Stroud Communi Centre Thornton Arena and Innisfil Central School s1 Innisfil polls are at Holly Service Wamica Polls in EssaAngus are to be set up at the Nottawasaga Inn Baxter Cookstown Thornton Arena Utopia Com munity Hall and Angus Public School Pubhc Central School School Ron Stewart Conservative candidate Ray Ramsay thinks Liberals can capture new riding Ray Ramsay is businessman who believes he can lead the Liberal party to victory in Simcoe County Ramsay once involved in real estate and more recently in mining says putting business men into parliament is more beneficial then someone with little experience in the business field He told The Examiner there are too many intellectuals in politics today who speak without experience and as result have little understan ding of problems facing Caner dians major problem Ramsay has found is with the tanning in dustries which are being depnved of their source of sup ply He said the exporting raw cattle hide was depriving Cana dian industries of leather pro ducts and creating job layoffs In later speech Ramsay sug youngster for different areas Its difficult to canvass be considered WORKING FARMERS from work out of it together good reaction manager twice in Toronto his duti gested pigskin be utilized at the tanneries as well basic part of the Ramsay platform is need for good sup ply of replacement parts for machinery At times said Ramsay farmers have to shut down operations because no replacement parts are available in the region he said CREATED JOBS The federal government created 350000 new jobs last year said Ramsay In the past four years over one million new jobs had been created across the country Ramsay said The rise in unemployment has been unavoidable because of the high rate of influx into the labor market Ramsay said Its the result of many young persons coming of age in the job market he said Unemployment is serious but its not disasterous Ram manager who has been interested in politics since he was Tollis was involved as campaign manager in other area including one time stint in Etobicoke Its challenging role youve got Barrie as city and youve got that mixture of rural life as well Youve got to think up different strategies Tollis told The Examiner lJ in the rural areas said Tollis because the time element and workschedule of farms hs to During regular daylight hours farmers will be busy work ing in the field In the urban centres however campaigning must wait until after pm when people start returning Tollis says the campaign is great show and exciting because you can meet all types of persons and attend rallies The more work you put into it he said the more you get The role of campaign manager said Tollis is to assess personalities and get people in tttthe organizatin workig While the managers job is to remain in the office Tollis said he canvassed door to door and he said he received Paul Wessenger the NDP Simcoe south manager has been involved with that party for 17 years He was campaign Wessenger feels he works about an 18 hour day combining as solicitor with those of camapaign manager say sid It is problem that will have to be tended to he said The opposition parties like to claim things are in terrible mess he said Its only wishful thinking They wish things were in mess Prime minister Trudeau is one of the leading statesmen in the world today said Ramsay He is far more famous in the rest of the world than in Canada the liberal candidate said Ramsay said constitution is needed for Canada written by Canadians and for Canadians The British North America Act is horse and buggy con stitution that needs to be replaced Ramsay said One of the problems now is that industries are being st up in areas that dont really need them Ramsay said HELP PROVINCES Lets help the provinces in Campaign managers lave iobs Long hours but love for politics categorizes thelSimcoe South campaign managers for the federal election The campaign managers are the men behind the scenes involved in the organizational aspect of the campaign Politics is nothing new to Aldo Tollis the Liberal LOVES CAMPAIGNS As is the case with Tollis Wessenger said he loves the business of campaigns and also is involved in some can vassing particular the Maritimes that need the help Ramsay said Industries have to be spread out well across Canada if Canada is to compete on world market Ramsay said Ramsay said he has always believed in the free enterprise system the mark of the liberal philosophy Canada has to stay ahead in the energy game and it is an important facet to Canadas future Ramsay said Energy conservation is im portant because oil and gas will be needed for many genera tions to come said Ramsay Ramsay went to high school in Newmarket and has been in volved in mining the baking business and real estate Ramsay is former president of the South Simcoe Liberal Association His place was taken by former Barrie alder man Janice Laking Part of Wessengers duties included making up leaflets on local issues He sid it takes great deal of time because the literature must be good intelligent and have the issues recorded The vote seems to be riding well in this area because of NDP leader Ed Broadbent said Wessenger Noone will disagree that Broadbent isnt the best leader he said Wessengersaid he would prefer to be knocking on door but somebody has to do the organizational work He will continue to support the NDP he said because he always has sympathy for the underdog the Tory Sim manager has more of personal interest in He went to school with Ron Stewart PC ca businessman and so am said Peacock businessmen involved in politics Bruce Peacock coe South campaign the campaign idate Hes more The campaign managers job is an organizational oiie to get everybody working together said Peacock Peacock said he has met lot of people across Canada who all have similar problems LOW PROFILE TRIED Peacock said he said he has tried to keep low profile dur ing the campaign Im natural optimist feel weve been doing really well he said Ive done tremendous amount of door to door canvassing in addition to numerous factory visits Peacock who runs his own oil business says he normally gets into work by am Two hours later he is busy on the campaign trail where he normally stays for the rest of the da Peacock is also experienced having worked in other elec tion campaigns in the ast