Doug Collins

@ vel this straight ®@

THERE ARE some important lessons to be drawn trom
the mail carriers’ strike and vou can bet that the post office

unions have learned them all.

The first is that violence pays
and no one will ever be fired for
smashing up a few trucks,
slashing a few tires, knocking a
few people about, or trashing a lot
of letters.

The usual double standards ap-
ply, too. Professional fems and
harpies in parliament may howl
about wife-battering, but it's OK
to batter a wife if she's a ‘scab’,
Didn't we see women being beaten
up by brave mail carriers? And
was there any word of protest
from the Shirley Carrs, the
Pauline Jewetts and the Margaret
Mitchells?

All is now officially forgotten
and forgiven and hypocrites at the
top level on both sides grin and
shake hands. But we all knew,
didn’t we, that those dismissal
notices to thugs meant nothing.
That was only Canada Post
management, so called, playing
games,

The thugs knew it, too. They
kept saying they would get their

1 jobs back. And so it has come to
pass. The mail must go through,
you know. Ha Ha!

Oh, there may be a couple of
suspensions, But not of the right
sort, capital punishment also hav-
ing been defeated.

You can bet next year’s higher
mail costs, though, that after the

f union has ‘‘grieved’’ nothing
much will happen. At the most, it
will be a case of: *‘Take a day off,
Jack. Then you can do some over-
time to make up for it. You're all
right, Jack.”’

Jack will then enjoy 18 days’
absertecism instead of his usual

| 17. Or perhaps they’ll get him to
sign the visitors’ book with no
reduction in take-home pay. In
any event he will be a labor hero.
Any bully-goon who applies for
the Canadian Labor Congress’s
Distinguished Service Medal will
gel it.

You showed the enemies of
labor what it was all about, Jack
old lad. And if you see any of
those female scabs on the street,
give ’em a couple more whacks.

A ‘further fesson is that too
many media people can't
distinguish a thump from a jump.
Many of them blamed the
violence on Canada Post and
Ottawa.

Both can be blamed for much,

Hospitals

they being dumb above and
beyond the call of duty. But |
always thought it was the guy who
bonked the other guy on the nose
first who was the violent one.

Anyway, Jack the nice kind
violent’ postie has achieved his
aim, Which is an overpaid, under-
worked job for life. A postman he
was born, a postman he will die.

To compensate him for all his
trouble he has even been given
$500 to cover the gap between the
running out of the old contract
and the running in of the new.

Jack can have a party!

The reason for Canada Post's
miserable capitulation is not hard
to find. We have union president
Robert McGarry’s word for it that
the order to back down came
from the feds. But what else did
you expect when Brian Baloney
himself boasts he has never cross-
ed a picket line and never will?

Come and give us a hand, Mag-
gie Thatcher.

kt ok *

Now that the possibility of get-
ting rid of our Clifford Olsons
doesn’t exist, the next step will be
the reducing of the sentence for
first-degree murder. Depend upon
it.

Leading this
“humanitarian initiative’? will be
the churches, future Justice
Minister Svend Robinson (the
gays’ MP) and afl other wimp
politicians, which means most of
them.

My witness is the Anglican
House of Bishops, which in
February, 1985, decided not to
publish a church report that
recommended earlier parole. The
bishops thought it would be fine if
first-degree killers were eligible
for parole after 10 years. Second-
degree killers should be allowed to
roam the streets after seven years.

The report was not made public
because it might have persuaded
some politicians that the death
penalty should indeed be re-
introduced.

In March of this year the Royal

fresh

* Commission On Sentencing went

in the same direction. Perhaps
they were bishops, too? It sug-
gested that first-degree murderers
be made eligible for parole after
IS years.

How about five? Olson could
then become a senator.

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