A8 - Friday, September 21, 1984 - North Shore News get this straight by Doug Collins ou cant eat slogans HEN THE BUS STRIKE was about to end, there was a picture in the paper showing a disgruntled driver outside Car- son Graham School. And he had a placard hanging from his neck Slavery.”’ Could there be any better illustration of the idiocies of Massthink? The youngest kid in school would know that that driver was not being forced back to work. True, the government had passed back -to-work legislation. But that driver and every other driver was perfectly entitled to say he didn’t want his ter- rible $31,000 a year job, and preferred to pick black- berries. When it comes to Solidari- ty for Ever and The Unton !Makes Us Strong, however, logic often goes out the win- ow. A kind of tribalism sets ,«there being phantoms to reading: ‘Enforced Labor Is de fought, and incantations sung - {f driving the buses 15 slavery, there are a lot of peo- ple who'd like to be wearing chains. As the unemployed youngster to whom I gave a hft one day put it, somewhat bitterly, ‘‘What have those Buys got to complain about?”’ The driver was mad because nothing had been gained. But who ever promis- ed him a rose garden? For the most part, strikes stink, and this one stank so much that 1t cost the average driver $7,749. The time to have thought about that, though, was earlier on. No one can eat slogans about slavery. In this dispute, nonsense spouted like oil in Leduc. Union leader Colin Kelly even denied there was a strike. He said it was a lockout. But that was the lockout that never was. Work stopped when the rivers tefused to sign new work- sheets, and.if everyone refuses to-Sign a sheet you're on strike. You would never guess it by reading the dumb Van- couver dailies, but the stop- page took place because the union objected to manage- ment’s effrontery in actually trying to manage. It though should manage — with drivers deciding what routes they would drive, and indeed what routes should exist, and how they could keep playing the lovely overtime game that HS mailbox [><| Two views of that Girl Dear Editor: We add our names to the long list of angry women who have protested your feature ‘‘The Sunshine Gurl’. The already shocking rate of violence againt’ women has risen sharply in the last few years In this country one of us is raped every 17 minutes, with the most fre quently used excuse from rapists being ‘‘she asked for we’) That a woman would encourage violence and ter- ror against herself is an un- reasonable judgment, possi ble only if men percetve us as being constantly seductive in onmature Such attitudes among men are fostered and maintained through tor Se Boot pronto! JOHN Crordorn Int yon Vatley Centre - ee Shown above with Juma Jan tHoetl Coattry » Jellecs Assistant Manager degrading images lilke ‘‘The Sunshine Girl’. Of particular offence ts the photograph in your Wednesday, September 12, issue. By far the most vul- nerable target yet, this pic- ture portrays the ‘“‘model”’ as an easy and willing target There will be no publhe sate ty for women as long as social attitudes remain as they are When your right to print what you hke promotes attitudes which are harmful to over half the human pop- ulation, your right becomes a self-indulgence any caring socety cannot afford We ask you lo support our nights to freedom of move ment and freedom from fear ceasing to WINNERS of violence by oortnerty Westtytin Mirth: [vo dorties S\lervertire, Prete hee dt Keer atgoerece dae blite Syealtereteebed aend vO oa Lynn\ arttey Gent ‘‘Everything’s better at the Centre!” Lynn Valley Rd. & Mtn. Highway, N. Vancouver arolyty Mo arthy Vocotyagrarts publish this disturbing feature. Toby Smith North Vancouver --and 23 other signatures, the majority illegible Dear Editor Congratulations on the excellent photograph of Sun shine Girl Carol Ann in your September 12 edition A beautitul model, beautifully posed and “beautitully photographed surely must be one of voutr best ever But why didi you omit a credit line for the photographer who decs such good work? Allan Evers North Vancouver Pre the baa Udine Alyhtyg Wihicete bre MWA 4 if oat tig tay Viilery a 0? allows a few of them to top $50,000 a year. Management, on the other hand, thought it should reduce expenditures. And so it should, seeing that the damned buses cost us seventy million bucks a year in sub- sidies. Even as the strike ended, Kelly was still nattering about the union acting as the public’s transit system watch- dog. Forget it, Kelly. We'll be our own watchdogs, thank you very much. What we need above all is a watchdog to watch you. Joe Morris became a watchdog in a way. He's been practically everything in the labor movement: president of the IWA, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, an International Labor Organization official, and Lord knows what else. So | laughed when the clever Socreds asked him to report on the situation. [ knew what would. be coming, things be- ing what they were. Kelly didn’t like the ap- pointment. Said Joe was too old for such important work. Joe wasn’t up to date, etc. Well, speaking as one who once labored on the labor beat, | can assure Kelly that Joe has forgotten more about labor than Kelly will ever know. What Kelly was con- cerned about, of course, was that Joe would see through all the bull. Which he did. Kelly isn’t the only one who hasn't distinguished himself in this affair. Quite early on, for instance, the dailies were . howling for government 1 vention. But fast, that would have &Q wrong too. The story then would have been the destruc- tion of union bargaining. 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