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Page 4, News, Tuesday, May 1, 1990 'Tel.: 825-3747 ° Editorial The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Tuesday by Laurentian Publishing Limited, Box 579, 13 Simcoe Plaza, Terrace Bay, Ont., POT-2W0 Tel.: (807)-825-3747 Fax (807)-825-9233. Second class mailing permit 2264. Member of the Ontario Community Newspaper Assn. and the Canadian Community Newspaper Assn. Single copies 40 sei Publisher............. A. 'Sandy' Harbinson *CNA Subscription rates: per . . : year / seniors $10 (local); Otfice Managet............. Gayle Fournier. ~ $27 per year (out of 40 mile News Editor................. Angie Saunders radius); $36 in U.S. Advertising Rep.......... Sheryl A. Knighi =e Which union is better anyway? It seems as though an all out war of words between the UPIU (United Paperworkers Union) and the CPU (Canadian Paperworkers Union) has been going on in Terrace Bay for over a month now. Both unions want the right to represent the mill workers. There've been words passed between the opposing union reps in the past few months that would make a sailor blush. UPIU- Local 665, the union representing the Terrace Bay workers since 1947, will not give up fighting. They claim they are the best union for Terrace Bay because no strike or lock-out has occurred since 1947. Local 665 insist they are the voice that direct what terms and working conditions will be for their union. CPU claim they are close to 70,000 Canadian members strong and everyone else is voting them in...why not Terrace Bay? The international rep told me that Terrace Bay people, "asked for the chance to change unions," but never gave a reason why . I'm not sure if I agree with the CPU tactics. "Thousands of organized workers in Ontario have switched to the CPU," stated Cecil Makowski (CPU national Rep). If everyone else sailed over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel, I would definitely not follow. Fort Frances and Georgetown recently voted CPU as their union of choice. Terrace Bay mill workers should have the right to make their own decision. Do the Terrace Bay mill workers want to stay with the union that's seen them through for 43 years or jump on the CPU bandwagon? The choice surely must be theirs. Angie Saunders MEECH LAKE "Letters to the editor' are very important to the readership and to the community which the newspaper serves. The letters act as a forum for discussion, a means to inform the public or authorities of a concern, or sometimes they can provide a great topic of conversatio over the fence or kitchen table. They also provide ideas and suggestions for and criticism about local issues. They can be funny, angry, sad, or a little of everything. Write one today, sign your name, and help provide.a service to all. Write: Box 579 Terrace Bay, Ont. POT 2W0 Fashion trends dividing country Is this a David Letterman Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Maybe it's a late-breaking epidemic of spring fever, but Canadians are suddenly, inexplicable prattling about fashion, of all subjects. This is an unexpected development from a people whose contributions to the world of High Fashion to date are the toque, mittens-on-a- String and toe rubbers. Fashion plates we ain't. When it comes to fancy dressers, the Americans have Cher; we Canucks have Cher- ry. As in Don. But that, as I say, may all be changing. Suddenly, Canada is a-buzz with fashion gossip. And it's getting louder. First, it was the Mountie hats. A court decision decreeing that Sikhs could legally wear turbans while handing out parking tickets on horseback plunged the country into two bitterly divided camps. On the pro- Choice side were the Canucks who thought that turbans were fine -- and while we're at it, why not bicycle helmets, yarmulkes, feathered headdresses, Raiders-of-the- Lost-Ark. fedoras and Beanies-with-propellers too? These Bolshevik faddists were strenuously opposed by the Traditionalists -- staunch, loyal patriots who liked the Mountie hat just the way it was, thank you very much, If I understand the kernel of the Traditionalist position it's "if the hat is good enough for Yogi Bear it's good enough, by God, for Canada's finest." But the Mountie hat is not the only brush fire on the fashion front. Ed Werenich _ has joined the fray as well. A few weeks back, on his way to the World Curling. Dress codes for curlers??? sketch? Nope, Ed was serious. He hates those track suits that European curling teams wear. "It's like a pyjama party. They look like they should be Arthur Black out jogging instead of curling." The Canadian skip favours the time-honoured sweater and pleated-stacks approach. Well, whether or not you agree with him, you have to admire Ed's chutzpah. Here's a guy with the silhouette of a municipal water tank telling us what's chic and what is not. I'm not saying that Ed is unduly chunky...but he is the only member of the Canadian Men's Curling team who was forced to wear a T-shirt with the messageI AM NOT THE ZAMBONI, PLEASE GET OFF MY BACK. And as if fashion uncertainty on the curling sheets and in the Mountie's saddles of the nation wasn't turmoil enough, we've got vogue vagueness in the Post Office as well. Canada Post nabobs chose the Spring of '90 to unveil their all-new 'Posties On The Job' Fashion Line. Were the 27,000 new uniforms (trousers, shorts, jackets and baseball caps all in acrylic royal blue) a critical hit? Well, they took the Canadian Union of Postal Workers collective breath away. Most of it, anyway, The Posties still had enough wind left to say words like "ugly", "baggy", "synthetic" and "clownish". "Most people could leave the Post Office and start working at Burger King without changing clothes" said one official. Looking sideways at the 'transparent- when-wet' top, a female letter carrier commented "I'm not too fond of entering wet T- shirt contests." Ah, me. Costume quandary and uniform uproar everywhere you look, these days. Personally, I don't know what the Mounties, Ed Werenich and the Posties are whining about. Those new get-ups aren't so _ bad. Somebody should tell 'em to Straighten up and stop complaining or we'll hit them with some truly hideous uniforms. Let's see now...the Vancouver Canucks are out of __ the playoffs, aren't they?