Doug Collins @ get this straight ® YES! WE all know that the good old days didn’t exist. But the pushing and shoving and cussing and kicking and goonery and swoonery that’s been going on in the Canada Post strike makes me wish we could put the clock back a bit. Consider these 1872 ‘‘rules for office workers’? discovered a few years ago when a Boston office was being moved. Reprinted in the Canadian Banker magazine, they came my way via a North Van- couver reader: 1. Office employees each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks. Wash windows once a week. 2. Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s business. 3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to your individual taste. 4, Men employees will be given an evening off each week for cour- ting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go regularly to church. 5. After 13 hours of labor in the office, the employee should spend the remaining time reading the Bi- ble and other good books. 6. Every employee should lay aside from each pay day a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society. 7. Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form, or frequents pool and public ‘alls, or gets shaved in a barber shop, will give good reason to suspect his worth, intentions, in- tegrity and honesty. 8. The employee who has per- formed his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of five cents per day in his pay, providing profits from business allow it. According to a Boston press report, the office manager who found this stuff wanted to read it out to his staff. But they were all out on a coffee break. ek ok Anyone who has ever bezn on the labor beat knows what is wrong with Canada Post: overstaffing, overpaying, featherbedding and all the ills that crown corporations, in particular, are heir to. The bosses, after all, don’t go out of business even if they lose money 20 years ina row. So_ it's been easy to agree to what the unions wanted. In the present dispute, though, it would be helpful if Canada Post management laid its complaints on the line in detail. But it doesn’t have the brains to do so. The newspaper advertisements it ran last week v.ere next to useless as far as providing the public with specifics was concerned. I phoned to find out more but got nowhere. It was policy not to negotiate through the media, I was told. Who said anything about negotiating? All I wanted was some information. Ain’t my bucks in- volved in that mess, along with yours? 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