8 - Sunday, August 27, 1989 - North Shore News

POLLUTION PROBE
Hunter's attack on employees

Dear Editor:

Bob Hunter’s attack on the
unionized employees of Pollution
Probe in his column of July 12 is
short-sighted, and, considering his
cushy job as an intellectual and

scribe, patronizing and cowardly.

The ecology movement does not
have to atiack working people to
survive. This is a lesson
Greenpeace could sorely stand to
learn.

In the United States, its callous
attitude to its employees has led
the organization to pay its
telemarketers poorly, to deprive
them of reasonable benefits, and
to force them to work under nasty

Little protection against monopoly

Dear Editor:

Here we go again. In July of
1988 Shaw Cable dinged us all for
several totally unwanted cable
channels, from which they increas-
ed their revenue by $13.08 per
year, plus government taxes, from
every subscriber.

I complained to the CRTC and
Shaw Cable, but to no avail.

And then there was the in-
genious attempt, more recently, to
bill extra channels unless you said

*“no’’ very loudly. Having suc-
ceeded so easily before with a gull-
ible public, why not again?

So now we have another CBC
news channel 24 hours a day at a
cost of $6.48 plus 11 per cent tax.
Were we asked whether we wanted
TV news 24 hours a day? Of
course not.

There are other increases too,
but we can expect a little protec-
tion from the CRTC against this
cable monopoly. Past experience

Students were not tardy

Dear Editor:

The article in the June 28 North
Shore News about the science fair
winners stated that the three Coll-
ingwood students were not eligible
for the science fair prizes because
they missed the entry date.

This was not the case. My three
Grade 5 students were given special
permission by the science fair or-
ganizers to participate as ‘exhib-
itors’ because entries and prizes are

usually restricted to Grade 6 stu-
dents and up.

The three students, David Stiles,
Ryan Klingmann and Jaime Tiam-
po, were delighted to spend extra
time in preparing and displaying
their projects even though they
knew they would not be eligible for
awards, But maybe next year...!
Susan Milne
Gr. 5 Ciass Teacher
Collingwood Schoo}

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and unpleasant conditions. As a
result, Greenpeace employees are
busy forming a union to fight the
robber baron attitudes of the
eco-managers.

If the ecology movement is go-
ing to hire people, it should pay
them a decent wage.

Uniike Mr. Hunter, the Green
movement in Europe takes a much
more radical and logical position
when it argues that we must stop
oppressing workers and stop rap~
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may justify all kinds of tyranny
under the banner of ecology if we
aren’t careful. After all, the Nazis
were good on environmental
issues.

When I mct him nearly 20 years
ago, Mr. Hunter used to disguise
his liberalism with a patina of rad-
icalism; now he disguises his con-
servatism with a patina of ecology.

Now, as then, he needs to think
a little more carefully and realize
that there are many battles to be
fought at oncz; we need not sacri-
fice working people on the altar of
the environment.

Carter Hill
North Vancouver