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On Monday Twin City residents were without home delivery as letter carriers walked off the job at midnight on Sunday as part of its union‘s rotating strike policy. The union is pres2ntly trying to force the govâ€" ernment to an agreement which, the union feels, if justifiable. We will not go into all the details of the current negotiations but rather lopk on strikes as a means to a compromise between an employer and the employees. Possibly the time has come for a more realistic means of settling laborâ€"manageâ€" ment disputes. This is not to say the letter carriers are wrong or right but when a country or a city or any comâ€" munity has to suffer, even for a day, then someâ€" thing is wrong with our present system. Union lgaders say that strikes are necessary to win contracts. In the 1930‘s when the automakers hired goon squads to breakâ€"up picketers and, at times, even murder them, this attitude held some truth. But today things have changed. They have beâ€" come harder and more demanding for all Canadiâ€" ans. Unions have used strikes for so many years that they may be afraid of change. Management is no less to blame as they try again and again to demoralize the workers prior to contract talks by using almost any excuse to intimidate their employees. Management has used the union as a constant scapeâ€"goat for rising prices yet a careful analysis will show company profits reaching new highs and the payroll accounting for only a slight increase in the company‘s budget. We are not saying the postal workers are wrong and that the government is correct as this would be far from the truth. Possibly the postal workers have a legitimate reason for demanding more money and the government, with inflation lookâ€" ing over their shoulders, wants to cut back. Mayâ€" be they should cut back on their own 33 per cent pay boost. We do not know the answer but we feel that when a union must strike or a company force their employees on the street with a lockâ€"out., then the persons involved are not bargaining in good faith. Strikes in their day served a necessary purpose and Canada was stronger for it with men who would present a united front in the face of strong opposition. Possibly both union officials and management personnel have been involved with the strike system of negotiations for so long they either can not or will not arrive at a workable solution without them. But we are not living in 1930 anymore an d strikes and intimidation by management are not the ways to arrive at a workable compromise. Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 225 Fairway Rd., Kitâ€" chener, Ontario. Address correspondence to Waterloo Square, Waterloo. Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. Page 4 â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Wednesday, April 23, 1975 Is there another answer * Editor: Mike Roy SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 waterioo chronicle ESTABLISHED 1854 Early policy conditions were almost dumbâ€" founding and certainly formidable. For inâ€" stance, no policy could be issued for a sum greater than 2,000 dollars. Limitations were set on travel by the policyâ€"holder. One policyâ€" The government charter provided. that before policies could be issued 500 applications had to be obtained and accepted for life assurance amounting to no less than a halfâ€"million dollars. Moses Springer obtained the greatest number of policies while undertaking a series of lecâ€" tures throughout western Ontario on the true principles of life insurance. He was considered the company‘s first sales representative. The first annual meeting of the Ontario Mutual Life Assurance company was held at their offices on Wednesday, February 15th, 1871. The President of the company was Isaac E. Bowman, a member of the legislative assembly of the United Canadas. The provisional directors included Cyrus M. Taylor, Moses Springer; John B. Snyder; J.W. Walden and John Allchin. I. l lt l Now that‘s communication‘ Meanwhile, satellites are flashing picture messages around the world in seconds; computers are spewing out a volume of informative messages that boggles the mind, and sometimes the compuâ€" ter. How many telegraph wires and cables are sending messages at this very moment? How many telephones are ringing right now with potential messages? * The irony of it is that in this great age of communication we find more and more eviâ€" dence of lack of communication, between husâ€" bands and wives, parents and children, minority groups and the establishment, management and labour, and between nations. Individuals, groups and nations reach out for help of marriage counsellors, psychiatrists, group therapists, strike mediators, special amâ€" Isn‘t it marvellousâ€"this age of communication in which we live! Just imagineâ€"flying from London, England to Toronto in a little over two hours! That‘s what the new Concord Jet can do, and since it beats the sun by several hours, it could deliver a letter in Toronto today that was sent from London tomorrowâ€"(barring a mail strike, of course). .omment Do you get the message? Mr. Moyer is the author of This Unique Heriâ€" tage and Waterloo County Diary. Another man, a William Cathra, was refused permission to travel to California. The reason for the refusal was not stated. Later, policyâ€" holders were permitted to travel "with the regâ€" ular organized limits of the states or territories of North America, and between the 38th and 35th degrees of North latitude, provided such travel was not extended beyond the recognized range of local municipal government;; or to sail in good seaâ€"worthy vessels, in time of peace, from any port within said limits to any port either in America or Europe."‘ holder, Alexander Cameron asked for "licence" to navigate the rivers and lakes of Ontario for two months each year. He was granted that privilege on condition that he pay an additional premium of $2.50 a year. A Mrs. Jane Halstead asked for permission to travel with her husband to South Carolina.. She was granted permission to travel and to remain there from January to June. In time, the friend was sent to a distant land and after many years, the old gardener was thrilled to receive a letter from him. The letter was very brief but it brought a flood of memâ€" ories and joy to his heart. It said simply ‘"‘Today I pruned my rose tree."...It took months for the old gardener to compose a reply to his friendâ€" one that would express all his affection, his memories and loneliness. At last, the return message was readyâ€"an expression of the ties that bound the two old men togetherâ€"and it read as follows: ‘"Today, I too, pruned my rose trees." Surely, his friend got the messageâ€"loud and clear. ° There is an ancient story which is, in itself, useful commentary on the art of communiâ€" cation. It tells of an old gardener and a very close friend who shared his love of gardening. They used to take long walks together and they drank their evening tea together, saying hardâ€" ly a word but exchanging views and emotions by a shake of the head, a smile or a frown. bassadors and truce teams, all in an effort to communicate. Words pile on words to create a monument to our tragic inability to communiâ€" cate with each other in a significant way. by Bill Moyer