PAUL:	Labour strife is nothing new 
	to our world of 
	communications.  Strikes at 
	the BCN are contentious 
	affairs, especially with a 
	history like the one you heard 
	about today In The Vault.
	
	And not only my sympathies, 
	but my interests lie with 
	those brothers and sistern out 
	in the street.
	
	So it is with something of a 
	conflicted conscience that I 
	talk to you today from behind 
	the microphone of the 
	oppressor while my true 
	comrades continue the class 
	struggle, walking the soup 
	line in front of the BCN 
	building here in the old town.
	
	But I use this opportunity for 
	good.  I remind you that the 
	story you will be hearing in 
	the media will be the one the 
	bosses want you to hear.  They 
	don’t want you to hear our 
	concerns.  They won’t tell you 
	about their demands.
	
	Demands made on the navvy by 
	the ogres are a cigar-chomping 
	attempt to break the will of 
	the worker, reduce the bottom 
	line of operation while 
	increasing the waistline of 
	the bosses.
	
	The corporate welfare bums ... 
	I mean, they not only want 
	their cake, they not only want 
	to eat it, they want us to pay 
	for it !

	The almighty dollar, the 
	forelock tugging to the 
	balance sheet, the kowtowing 
	to the “strategic adjustment 
	policies” of the 
	communications commissars 
	ensconced in their offices 
	overseeing the workers in the 
	abattoir below.
	
	
	
	And how appropriate that the 
	venerable old BCN pile was 
	once a scene of dismemberment 
	and disembowelment as we now 
	prepare, at the behest of the 
	bottom liners, for the 
	evisceration of this once 
	great station. 
	
(STARTS TO HUM THE OUTRO)

	The Great Eastern crosses the 
	Gulf live to you from the 
	studios of the Broadcasting 
	Corporation of Newfoundland. 
	Our engineer for part of the 
	day was the idealistic Hollis 
	Duffett. The Director of Radio 
	and emergency technician at 
	the BCN is Ish Lundrigan.
	
	If you’d like to write in 
	support of the job action, our 
	address is 342 Duckworth St., 
	St. John’s, Nfld., A1C  1H5.  
	
	Or dispatch an e-mail.  That 
	address is 
	greateastern@stjohns.cbc.ca.  
	

	We’ve also got a fabulous 
	website !  Check it out 
	through CBC Radio’s home page, 
	we’re in the Arts Section.
	
	My name is Paul Moth.  Join me 
	again next Saturday for The 
	Great Eastern, Nfld’s cultural 
	magazine.
	
	Well .... next week, ah, ... 
	Tom Pynchon, my old buddy Tom 
	Pynchon drops by, he’s done 
	well for himself ... and ah, 
	... let’s see, ah, Jane 
	Campion, the ex-wife ... and 
	of course live music returns 
	with Joni Mitchell and Bjork, 
	I think Bjork is back ... hmmm 
	... ah, phew ... 
	
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