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Jack discovered, with horror, that he was 41 years old, that he had fairly limited skills, despite his good reputa- tion as a worker, and that there were hundreds of young .guys, who knew more than he did, looking for jobs. He and the other foremen were told that there might be a job for them at the home plant in Waukegan, if they wanted to make" the move. Not as foremen, of course. The home plant al- ready had foremen. Jack and Jean had an income of $110 a week, unemploy- ment insurance. Their mortgage payments were $320 a month, car payments $90 a month, fuel and hydro $70 a month. It cost them $50 a week to put bread on the table. They owed the bank $1,200 for the boat. I feel sorry for Jack and Jean, and all the other people whose grasp exceeded their reach. They're not really to blame. In a society that puts money. things, possessions. status, at the top of the list, and people, thrift. humility, and integrity at the bottom. they're just a couple of the casu- al casualties. be a marriage. Jack and Jean fight l, lot these ddays'l‘vhe'ir kids don't like them much these days. Jack gets awful drunk on Saturday night. Jean cries a lot. That's unemployment. l977 style. Show me some bread- lines, soup kitchens, men who would literally sell their soul to the devil for a decent job, and I'll show you some 1930s unemployment. A horror stoi'y'? Nope, just a modern fairy tale, about two babes lost in the woods of our material society, where every- body wants to get quite a bitlyrre, and give quite a bit less. That's why they don't show up at the curling club and the golf club. That's why they never throw a party any more. That's why they don't go on holidays. That's why their kids don't get new clothes on demand. That is unemployment. Boat is long gone. Transportation is now, a beat-up pickup truck that Jack uses for his business. Oh yes, he's working. He scraped up a thousand dollars and, with his knowledge of welding and such, started a small auto body repair shop. The thousand he owes has increased to $1,500, but business is picking up. A second mortgage, at 18 per cent, saved the house. put there'll be no money to educate the kids. There'll be no more dreams of retiring on a pretty good pension, and buying that place in the country. There may not even Then - earthquake! Jack's company announced, with the utmost regret, that it would be closing permanently within a month. In business double talk, the employees were informed that for some vague reason to do with the parent plant in the States, it was no longer feasible to main- tain production at the local plant. Translation: the fat fed- eral subsidies the company got td build the local plant had run out, a' mg with the special local tax deal. Suddenly the roof fell in. Jean's job was declared redun- dant as the small firm she worked for tightened its belt against rising costs. She, tried for another, but there were 10 younger women, with more skills, for every jotrshe ap- plied for. With a rather forced laugh, she told friends she'd decided to stay home and be a housewife. And, after all, she was collecting unemployment insurance. Still no real financial problem. Then the pogey ran out. Canada Manpower, that hunk of-bureaucracy as useful as teats on a bull, had nothing for her. No real finalicial problem, iiikiuiriG'liGirinoney seemed rather scanty, with _in_fl§ti_on. _But all payments met on time. His wife Jean has been working, too, for the past seven years, since she got the kids off to school. She was pulling in $7,000. Between them, they had a good income. Like every- body else, they wanted the good life. Bought a house with a 30-year mortgage. Traded the car every three years, on a bank loan. Plunged for a boat. Enjoyed a week's holiday in the south each winter, and two week's at a rented cottage in the summer.Jilven went to Europe last year, It's simply and purely that a heck of a lot of guys and gals can't afford the fees any more, because they are simply and purely out of work. As a child of the Depression, I grew up under that big black cloud, and I know full well what a brooding shadow it can cast over an individual or a family. It hung over mine for more than a decade, and it left its marks on the soul, if notthe body. Let's take an average family of today confronted by this spectre, without any preparation for it. Jack has worked for.15 years in a plant. Working conditions were good. Pay was good, and got better every time the union growled. Jack belonged to the union, but didn't attend meetings. He had worked up to $14,000 a year as a foreman. 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