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“M”WNW“”MMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMI VOL. 97, NO. 25. (The following statement was issued by the York County Board of Education Chairman Marvin Hunter of King in which he details the elected trustees' position reâ€" garding teacher negotiations and the threat of a strike. Mr. Hunter's statement was made public at last week’s press conference held in Richmond Hill.) uuuuummmmumunuuuumumuumlmummunmumu The Co-ordinated Welfare Services. made up of all serv- ice groups in the older part of Richmond Hill, have plans already made to pack and deliver approximately 25 has- kets of Christmas goodies December 22. The Richvale Lions will be doing the same kind of work in the southern area of town and the Oak Ridges Lions in the northern area. Donations of cash, food or toys by school classes. indi- viduals or businesses are al- ways welcome. Simply con- tact Grant Marshall or any member of a service club. The Co-ordinated Welfare Services. chaired by Grant Marshall was formed several years ago to ensure that no one is overlooked and that there is no duplication of services. It operates in emer- gencies the year round. Hunter Asks Who Runs Schools T o All Our Readers Christmas Baskets Dec. 22 Lora Casement, 8, daughter of Richmond Hill photographer Stuar Casement lights an Advent candle for Christmas. mfl “The reason, of course, that the inclusion of pupil/ teacher ratio in working conditions to be negotiated is opposed by trustees is that‘ teacher salaries compose} about 60% of school budgetsm An industry, in a time of‘ rising prices has three alternm atives, raising its prices, goâ€"} ing out of business entirely, or reorganizing its operation to use fewer workers. The Ministry of Education for- bids us the first two alterna- tivesâ€"we have had expendi- ture ceilings imposed and we can't close the schools. The teachers now seek to remove our only other alternative. that of organizing our operaâ€" tions with the number of employees to permit us to remain within the expendi- ture ceilings. POWERFUL WEAPON “Individual teacher con- tracts are protected by considerable legislation. This legislation was created to protect individual professionâ€" al teachers because the rights and constraints of the Labor Relations Act did not apply to them. At the time this protective legislation was en- acted, it was not contemplat- ed that teachers would act together as a union. "If trustees make policy with which the taxpayers dis- agree, the voters can change their trustees with no' diffi- culty. On the other hand, when teachers seek to in- clude such things as pupil/ teacher ratio under working conditions, it would appear that they want to take over both policy and management functions â€" while under the protection of iron-bound. life- time individual employment contracts! “The mass resignation tac- tic gives teachers a weapon even more powerful than a strike. An equivalent situa- tion would be if a union were to call a strike but every "The real issue, as I see it. is whether the elected trus- tees or the teachers are to run the schools. The trustees agree that teacher input on policy is valuable and neces- sary. What they refuse to concede is that the teachers have the right to CONTROL policy. 1+A1 “If teachers are to have the right to bargain working conditions and the right to strike. -then the legislative protection of the individual contract should be withdrawn and teachers should come under the Labor Relations Act like any other group of unionized employees. People who give the teachers the greatest support in their claims to bargaining rights over working conditions fail to understand that teachers have this protective legisla- tion at the moment. MONEY MAJOR ISSUE “In other words. what I am saying is, that if teachers are to have the right to bargain “When a strike is over. strikers go back to whatever jobs exist under the new conditions. Teachers‘ on the other hand, fall back on their permanent individual con- tracts of employmentâ€"which really means that they are guaranteed employment! (Re- mstatement of individual contracts has always been a condition of returning to work after mass teacher resignation). WUI‘K filler resignation). “If teachers are to have the right to bargain working conditions and the right to strike, then the legislative protection of the individual contract should be withdrawn and teachers should come under the Labor Relations Act like any other group of unionized employees. People who give the teachers the greatest support in their claims to bargaining rights over working conditions fail to understand that teachers have this protective legisla- tion at the moment. MONEY MAJOR ISSUE “In other words, what I am saying is, that if teachers are to have the right to bargain mass teacner fiemull!“lllllllllllllllll“l“ll“lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllill“illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll\lllllllll“11111ll“lll““illlilllll“llllllllllllllllllllllll“illlllllllllllllllllllll“ill1ll“llll“\llll\llll“ll“lllllll“Llllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1lll1lllllllllll1lllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllilllllllllilllllllllmlllunnlllfllllfllllllllmmlllmmlmmfimmuflmu .Ii minim”!.l‘WHLHlHUH Hm: l"".m"H."" 'mwwmm my nuuulci uuvtuua pLUUlEHI is money and I believe that most teachers, in contrast to the OSSTF leadership, think of this as the major issue. The essential difficulty here is that our spending ceilings have been increased by seven percent and the consumer price index has gone up near- ly 8 percent. I believe the teachers would settle the money issue if they could get this 8 percent, plus the amount which they see as having been built into last year’s schedule â€" which is about 3 percent more. al- though they are of course ,asking for more than this total. ' “There seems to be no way ,of closing this gap and re maining within our ceilings." EXCEPTION Later in the meeting the mayor took exception to a sentence in a petition signed ‘by 45 residents of Rich- mond Hill opposing modular fhomes in this municipality. The sentence read: “Some developers and politicians pretend to act in the inter- |est of the public, while in fact their true motive is profit." On a motion of Councillor ‘Stephenson the petition will the returned to the petition- :ers “for proper terminol- ‘ogy”. “I am certain the major- ity of those signing would ment and would be only too happy to have it changed." stated Regional ‘ should not subscribe to this state-‘ Councillor, sounded a warning to his colleagues. He said that, although the issue could be a year away, council “act to regulate and control garbage at the regional level.” Most of the dump sites were being controlled by one company, but as the region had the power to get involved, it should consider locating dump sites in its Official Plan. If the region didn’t look after itself, it wouldn't get the sites from any other municipalities, the mayor said. The matter was referred to the engineering com- mittee headed by Mayor Anthony Roman of Mark- ham. Here in York Region we could have an old fashioned type community radio station in about a year if the plans of Richmond Hill and Ca1- gary veteran broadcaster Ken Foss of Driscoll Road work out. Foss is a well known mas- ter of ceremonies at local events. Active in Toronto area broadcasting, he has been news, sports and public affairs director at country and western Metro station CFGM here since 1961. He has been in broadcasting for 26 years after starting in Calgary in 1947. He told this newspaper he is in partnership with Deni- son Mines Limited and -Roâ€" man Corporation Limited which are business interests of Stephen Roman of Vic- ty of York. toria Square. Roman was the unsuccessful close-running candidate for the Progres- sive Conservative Party in the last federal election. N0 METRO AUDIENCE Foss says he can’t and won't be aiming at all the Metro market. He pro- poses a station with a prime signal area starting at Steeles Avenue, the northern Metro boundary, and exten- ding north to the Aurora- Newmarket boundary. The signal will be clearly heard in Wood'br-id-ge. Thornhill, Kleinburg, Markham land Stouffville as far north as Georgina Island in Lake Simooe. It is thus exactly de- signed to serve the newly or- ganized Regional Municipali- The Richmond Hill broad- caster says this region’s mar- ket and population isn’t (Continued on Page 3) FOSS Plans Region Radio KEN possible replacement employ- ee were a member of that striking union. A look at the architects' drawing. for the proposed building to house a southern branch of York Region Police in the Civic Centre planned for the corner of Yonge Street and Vaughan Road was given to Richmond Hill Council’s Plan- ning Committee December 12. The building will be construct- ed on the southeast corner of Vaughan Road and an exten- sion of Arnold Crescent and will house the three detach- ments now located in the Towns of Richmond Hill. Markâ€" ham and Vaughan. Estimated cost is $1¥é million. York Region Solicitor Ed- ward Oakes was accompanied by Police Commissioner Stew- art Rumble, Police Chief Bruce Crawford and D. G. Hallford of the firm of Hallford & Wil- son, Architects, Oakville. Mr. Hill Council Clears Way For Police Building In Civic Centre RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1973 "In Essentials Unity: in Non-Essentials Liberty; in all things Charity” “Another obvious problem is money and I believe that most teachers, in contrast to the OSSTF leadership, think of this as the major issue. The essential difficulty here is that our spending ceilings have been increased by seven percent and the consumer price index has gone up near- ly 8 percent. I believe the teachers would settle the money issue if they could get this 8 percent, plus the amount which they see as having been built into last year's schedule â€" which is about 3 percent more. al- though they are of course asking for more than this total. working conditions, then they should be like any other un- ionized employees and have the right to strike or have access to compulsory arbitra- tion. If this were done, there would be no need for individ- ual contracts. It is obvious that individual contracts are not consistent with the Labor Relations Act and its pro- visions for mass bargaining with the strike or compulsory arbitration as the ultimate weapon. Mama:smmflegeggflzymimgei§£2ff of The Liberal v MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM} Oakes reported the Region of York is purchasing the three acre site from Sander Develop- ments Ltd., the purchase con- ditional on rezoning the land to allow a police station, a use not permitted under the pres- ent bylaw (Vaughan). The police chief pointed out that it is the intention of the police commission to amalgam- ate the three southern detach- ments into one new police fac- ility, located on the south side of Vaughan Road 1,400 to 1,500 feet west of Yonge Street. “This will be much more econâ€" omical and will put more men on the street. We have given the architect a lot of leeway. the only guidelines set out be- ing that it is not to be an in- stitutional type of building. We do not want it to look like a 0 look like : It is difficul M1\\l“\\llllllllllllllllllml““1““\l“1““lll!“llllllllullllflluflll “I am certain the major- ity of those signing would not subscribe to this state- ment and would be only too happy to have it changed," stated Regional Councillor Mr. Stephenson’s motion led to a disagreement be- tween Mayor William Laz- enby and Regional Council- lor Lois Hancey on the prop- er procedure, the majority of council voting to uphold the mayor’s ruling. MAYOR TAKES EXCEPTION Later in the meeting the mayor took exception to a sentence in a petition signed by 45 residents of Rich- mond Hill opposing modular homes in this municipality. The sentence read: “Some developers and politicians pretend to act in the inter- est of the public, while in fact their true motive is profit." On a motion of Councillor Stephenson the petition will be returned to the petition- ers “for proper terminol- The motion read: “That the planning director be di- rected to examine mobile homes as one type of housâ€" ing accommodation as a component part of the pro- posed new Official Plan for Richmond Hill and any ap- plication on file or received be deferred by the planning committee until such time as council has established policies through the devel- opment of the new Official Plan and any correspond- ence relating to this ques- tion be acknowledged by the above policy if approved by council." At Richmond Hill Council Modular Homes Come Back Into Limelight The subject of modular homes is again a current iSSJe, following Monday afternoon’s meeting of Richmond Hill Town Council. In‘con- sidering the minutes of the November 26 council meeting. Councillor David Stephenson who was not present at the meeting was successful in hav- ing the motion dealing with modular homes referred back for further consideration. Both Regional Council- lor Lois Hancey and Ward 6 Councillor Lou Wain- wright indicated at Mon- day aftcrnoon‘s council meeting that they would prefer appointment to election, but only if the appointee is Ray Gemmill, who gave the late Charles Stewart a close battle for the seat in last year‘s elec- tion. “But he was defea- ted.” statedMayor William Lazenby. It is rumored that some members of council are considering giving the ap- pointment to Tom Murphy, 3 Yonge Street realtor, who served one term as councillor in 1963. Richmond Hill Council will decide whether to hold an election or make an appointment to fill the vacant Ward 8 seat at the council table at a spe- cial m e e t i n 2; tonight (Thursdayh'lf the decision is to appoint, the appoint- ment may be made any time up to the end of Ja- nuary. ' mmmi to estimate the population in 10 years but this building will accommodate 120 officers to start, with facilities for 200 and include facilities we do not now have, even in the New- market headquarters, such as a pistol range and a much larger and more sophisticated train- ing room. The public will be invited to participate in the pistol instruction. We would like to be in the building by July 1975 as the lease on the building occupied by the Vaughan detachment will be up then. We hope this build- ing will not look like any police building you have ever seen." architect pointed out re flows of traffic have ‘nned with three park- [5. Visitors will park 3 front entrance and A total of 7,800 teachers in Ontario, including 667 in York, have handed in their resignations, effective Dec- ember 31. Mr. Honsberger said that sooner or later, the teachers would have to be covered by one over-all' union contract, instead of by individual con- tracts, as at present. He said the teachers were “having their cake and eat- ing it, too.” They should give up their contracts and Gordon Rowe they read it.” “They made a general state- ment,” said Regional Coun- cillor Hancey. “If the shoe fits wear it. This should be dea1t_with as any other peti- tion." lulllllllllllDl“llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll “I certainly hope these people did read it," said Councillor Lou Wainwright. “I see the signatures of a couple of lawyers, a profes- sor and other well-educated and knowledgable people.” Mr. Honsberger termed the government’s proposed legislation to make the teachers’ resig- nations throughout the province invalid, “retro- gressive,” and said that, maybe the schools should be closed down completely by the teachers’ strike until the current dispute between the teachers and the trustees was resolved to every- one’s satisfaction. The Ministry of Education is going to have to decide just who has the responsibility for run- ning the schools â€" the Ministry or the trustees â€"â€" Trustee John Honsberger, chairman of York County Board of Education Salary Negotiating Committee, told a press conference last week in Richmond Hill. Know Any Good Garbage Sites? Most of the dump sites were being controlled by one company, but as the region had the power to get involved, it should consider locating dump sites in its Official Plan. If the region didn’t look after itself, it wouldn’t get the sites from any other municipalities, the mayor said. 'I'he matter was referred to the engineering com- mittee headed by Mayor Anthony Roman of Mark- Last week at a meeting of council, the mayor sounded a warning to his colleagues. He said that, although the issue could be a year away, council should “act to regulate and control garbage at the regional level.” If York Regional Coun- cil isn’t down in the dumps these days, it should be, is the contention of New- market' Mayor, Robert For- han. HOME PAPER OF THE DISTRICT SINCE 1878 use it to gain access to a large reception area. Personnel will park their cars at the south end of the site. where four completely landscaped bays will accommodate 70 cars, and department vehicles will be parked on an elevated area to the east of the building behind a decorative garden. Plans are to use rusty brown clay brick topped with choco- late brown, with four roof lev- els. giving four rooms with high sloped ceilings, the archi- tect said. It will be a twoâ€" storey building, although from Vaughan Road it will have the appearance of a one-storey building, the lower floor being used for locker rooms, recrea- tion areas. heating plant, car wash. motorcycle storage, etc. “It’s a smart and functional building," 5 a i d committee “I doubt if Foss is a well known mas- ter of ceremonies at local events. Active in Toronto area broadcasting, he has been news, sports and public affairs director at country and western Metro station CFGM here since 1961. He has been in broadcasting for 26 years after starting in Calgary in 1947. He told this newspaper he is in partnership with Deni- son Mines Limited and -Roâ€" man Corporation Limited which are business interests Sam Chapman, director of education, who is currently on leave for a year with OISE, said that, so long as the basis of salary payment was one of qualification and not a competitive thing, once a teacher moved out of his area of qualification, he should no longer be paid at the same rate. Here in York Region we could have an old fashioned type community radio station m about a year if the plans of Richmond Hill and Ca1- gary veteran broadcaster Ken Foss of Driscoll Road work out. Mr. Honsberger said that salaries were not the major bone of contention in the dispute. The major issue centred around the teachers’ federation “trying to lock the doors against the ques- tion of any teacher being re- dundant." Two major issues facing boards of education across the province today is a short- age of tax monies and a dropping birth rate. Less children to be educated. SINECURE? It was trying to make it impossible for the board to dismiss the teachers, even if there were no pupils to teach. Mr. Honsberger said the board had got into “this trouble" by keeping teach- ers who had been hired for other jobs be certified as trade unions under the Labor Relations Act. The teachers still wanted to stay on salary until re- tirement age, despite lack of students. The board should be al- lowed to terminate their contracts when redundant, or have them teach some other class. When asked if teachers had a legitimate complaint in the question of job cate- gorization â€" lower payment when removed from regular category â€" Mr. Honsberger said they did. However, the board wasn’t being inflex- ible about it and had offered to provide a reasonable cushion to “help us work out something.” Plan Radio Station Here He said the board would Regional Councillor Lois Hancey reported that some res- idents of the area were con- cerned lest the noise of police sirens would be increased there. “The use of sirens on police vehicles is very rigidly and strictly limited," replied the police chief. “The site we have chosen is ideal and I am confident it will be a very rare occasion when the police will be sounding a siren in that area." Mrs. Hancey wondered why a rezoning was necessary since all governments and their ag- encies are exempt from zoning regulations. The Regional sol- icitor explained that at the time the Vaughan bylaw was passed in 1960 the Region of York did not exist and was not Chairman David Stephenson. Rice's Flowers CENTRE 8844812 Phone 889-1812 RICHMOND HEIGHTS \i like to get on a “payâ€"by- merit" scale. RESPONSIBLE T0 TAXPAYERS Mr. Honsberger, when asked if he felt he was 105- ing his power because of Queen's Park intervention, replied he would “come out (of this) as a power," or he wouldn’t be on the board anymore. The board was responsible to the taxpayers and if the Ministry wanted to run It, then it could go ahead. On the question of tenure. he said it had started with the- one-room schoolhouse to provide some protection to teachers who might be going great distances to work in some remote area. As the schools grew. however, this was eventually take away. The provincial executive of the Ontario School Teach- ers Federation had given instructions to OSSTF mem- bers in areas that have not yet come to agreement on contracts with their local boards to report for work as usual on Tuesday as they did not want the demonstra- tion to appear as a sanction against the local boards. By MARGARET LADE Despite the massive dem- onstration of elementary and secondary school teachers in Maple Leaf Gardens and the march to Queen's Park Tuesday, it was business as usual in the secondary schools of York. Mr. Chapman said the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation was us- ing its power and money to influence the government. Its organization was think- ing politically and could only do so when it had some money behind it. He said the United States always set the pace in these things, with Canada event- ually catching up. First thing was to organize a un- ion and then build up a war chest. The attacking of pub- lic figures and using money against those who opposed them were other methods of such groups. Mr. Chapman said it came down to a question of man- agement rights, and these had to be preserved. Secondary Schools Undisturbed Elementary Teachers Absent included in the list of govern- ment agencies. Chairman Stephenson moved that a bylaw to rezone the land be prepared for submis- sion to council December 17, with recommendation that it be given three readings and circulated as soon as possible. He received the support of the other three members of the committee. It was noted that this in no way affects the terms of the site plan agreement between the region and the town, since the regional government has agreed in writing to submit final plans to council and/or a committee of architects and has also agreed to provide any easements which may be re- quired for development of the rest of the site at no charge. To a reporter who claimed that teachers weren’t argu- ing about money, Mr. Chap- man said the teachers didn’t even know what was on the negotiating sheet. “They don’t know what clauses are being negotiated." WANT COMPENSATION Mr. Honsberger said. the federation was asking that teachers only have to attend three evening functions a year for the school, and was demanding compensation for anything beyond that. Some speculated this cauld be due to family winter va- cations, Christmas jobs, leg- itimate illness. or it could be that some students had simply taken advantage of the situation to take a day (Continued on Page 3) And a canvas by "The Lib- eral" showed the teachers of York had co-operated with the provincial executive. Richmond Hill, Don Head, Bayview. Woodbridge, Lang- staff, Thornhill, Thornlea and King City Secondary Schools all reported a full complement of teachers, al- though some schools noticed a slightly higher absentee rate among students. “I wonder how many of our 800 teachers know the federation is asking for this?" Mr. Honsberger said. He said the board had been under a "self-imposed restraint trying to protect the image of the teachers and the boar-d;" running in- terference between the teachers and the commun- ity. But it could only go so far. He said the federation had said it wasn’t with ceilings. It felt what it wanted was fair and it was up to the board to find the money. Maybe closing down the schools for a year wouldn’t be the worst thing that could happen. “Maybe we should take the teachers’ resignations," Mr. Honsber- ger said. He said the size of the schools was another problem Even though he had spent time and money going around the schools “trying to put faces on people," he probably didn’t know 5 per- cent of the teachers because of the growth of large reg- ional boards PRICE 15¢ PER COPY We Deliver to Toronto & Surrounding Districts Flowers Wired Anywhere