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vji the tribune stouffville ontthursday 13 1945 t t f z -j- fiv svs w i iuf tmiffttuuribunp established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffvjlje ontario subscription rates per year inadvahcev in canada 200 in usa 8260 a v nolan son publishers 1 1 d a 4 i r f x vu f if- notes arid comments public utility commission it is becoming increasingly evident that stouffville is in need of a public utilities commission to handle its hydro and water systems the amount of work involved annually for a council in directing the affairs of these two departments is steadily increasing and becomes more technical too as the years pass almost every town operates their water and hydro by means of a commission responsible to thepeople- just as councillors are elected council personnel changes so rapidly that its members scarcely become proficient ere they are out of office then- councillors are not elected because they have any particular qualifications to operate the water and light systems where as commissioners chosen and elected for this work alone usually show some aptitude for such work before they are considered for the job a public utility commission is composed of three members one of whom is elected annually for three year terms such as members of a school bottrd thus there are always experienced men on the commission when such a body of men are giving satisfaction and making a success of the job they are not likely to be removed from office in the case of councillors there is always the urge of younger v members to reach the top and while that is a good thing it may not besb good for the publicutility of the town which usually suffers whenever there is a change- stouffville water works must be expanded to care for the new needs the supply of water appears ample for the present but the amount of v mains must be developed and small pipe lines relaid with mains where they have been put down as- a matter of expediency in bygone years these are wearing out and will shortly cause considerable trouble a commission with no other town affairs to think about could devote their undivided attention to these matters with better chances of success it is very well said that we have done without a commission and have been successfulrthat is true- but the attention demanded by the water system is about doubled in recent years while the hydro which at first sold around 100 hp is now servicing 400 horse power and that calls for double the amount of work it once did commissioners are likely to offer their services free whereas if the council is to continue to handle this work the time is near at hand when they will have to be paid for their services 33 its ardware new s for christmas gifts oem aluminum ware coffee perks til r vu practical tool gifk games t ii s fv- i oinolbtii pncam vffi vrf xn 30j bmibocikiozi4v y fit istu prr a ckiiivs heart s novo vfeje n rrts vi -j- give xjsef id hardware items j rihb an-i- i it t i stanley theatre box office opens daily at sixthirty pui bhoirs begin 7 pm now playing here is shown jocelyn easton 14yeairold daughter of joe eas- ton herdsman at the w j russel farm in markham township holding the 1190 yound klaymor toby 17morfths shorthorn cham- pionat the ontario winterprovincial fair sorrow fills heart of tribune windsor found scarity amid plenty which kecalled the hungry thirties believing that a first hand report on the situation at windsor where numerous people from stouffville and district are more or less affected by the strike at the ford plant your hometown paper arranged for a reporter to visit the city last week and record what he saw was his re action to the whole thing stouffville has put up imposing sums of money during the war and from its 1300 inhabitants nearly 100 donned the uniform and we are concerned when we hear it said peace peace where there is no peace it is true that during the past six years the people of canada have enjoyed prosperity and immunity from war while people in the war zones have lived in a perpetual state of fear have been blasted out of their homes and have suffered terrible privation now the war is over we have allowed a peacetime war to crop up reflecting on this situation the tribune special correspondent entered windsor the striken city here is what he says as i entered the city there were of course no signs of physical wav fare the residential and business sections of the city were quite peaceful and things seemed to be going on as usual but as i came into contact with people in various walks of- life i felt that they were living in a state of extreme tension the strike had been on for nearly three months it had been entered into by the men with enthusiasm and confidence in a quick victory for their union but as the weeks and months passed by and one confer ence after another had failed to bring about a peaceful settlement a tense feeling of tiopedeferred and of the futility of the strike prevail ed i took the bus to no 1 ford plant where there had been riotous scenes j of the some weeks beforet but i found the settled by negotiation streets around deserted except for usually settled by that means event- about 25 pickets milling two ually so why should the workers entrance a larger group was circling about the entrance of the power- house a bleak- wind was blowing from the river and the men were hunched up with the cold i felt sorry for them- andi was reminded of much larger groups of unemployed men gathered day after day outside of plants and employ ment offices in toronto during the depression years but here the situ ation was reversed for instead of seeking jobs these mep were there to prevent- the work of a great industry from being carried on a strike is thus a selfimposed period of unemployment it is a planned andorganized local depres sion windsor was hit hard during the great depression a reminder of that miserable period of unem ployment appeared in a daily feature column of the windsor star entitled bygone days in which were quoted excerpts from the news columns of that paper in former years this was from the star of november 30 1930 plans were being made for the establishment of an old clothes bureau in east windsor for the relief of the needy and jobless that was fifteen years ago there were no strikes in those days there was no work or wages to strike over today there is more work at higher wages than ever the people do not need an old clothes bureau but thousands of men- are jobless and families have been impoverish ed by the strike hardearned sav ings have been spent grocery bills have been run up and business is said tohave fallen off 50 per cent in many instances during the hunjny thirties it v said that wc had scarcity amid plenty and as a result of the strike there was abund ance of work and wages amid an organized scarcity of labor it has been well said that the people have short memories- union leaders can surely think out some other way of improving the working conditions and raising the wages of their members with out putting them out of work and rendering them wageless to say notlnngof the injury to local busi ness and the disrupting of industry in general strikes may have been necessary in the early days of the struggle for the rights of labor and union recognition but there is little in the present day demands of labor immediately affecting the interests workers that could notbe a strike is rtnrvjnnr 118 mkm is- 8 thurs is foto nite offer 275 friday and saturday djeembeitu ahdis whiw mxck mawitii ifiovgg meetstwoounlaw phr laugrloj monday and tuesday december- 17 and is marguerite chapman pass directedby z0ltan k0rda wednesday and thursday december 19 and 2 one body too many iifadwithin tjfiwams and ther families and thecommun- ity be made to suffer in the mean time beaverton horticultural society is being revived after being dormant throughout the war years a simi- 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