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' 'THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTER Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1948 ° OSHAWA WHITBY 157 VOL. 7--NO. Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES 40,000 U.S. MINERS WALK OUT ad Conference To Three-Way Talks CZECH PARADE At Queen' Thursday Morning: In an attempt to bring about peaceful settlement of the wage dispute between General Motors of Canada Limited and Local 222, U.A.W.-C.1.0O., Ontario Labor Minister Charles Daley at a meeting held in Queen's Park yesterday, called for a three-way discussion between the company, union and Probe vie G , .M. Wage Dispute s Park labor department officials to be held #- on Thursday in his office, Union officials said that Mr. Daley stated he would give consid- eration to the taking of a Rand formula strike vote in the plant, supervised by his department, in the event that no settlement is reached at Thursday's meeting. This announcement was made by Malcolm Smith, chairman of the union negotiating committee, after a meeting between the committee and Mr. Daley in Toronto yesterday. Last week both the company and the union had applied to Mr. Daley to hold a Rand formula strike vote, under which all employees, union and non-union, are eligible to vote. After these requests had been made, and a vote of union mem- bers had indicated they were in favor of a strike, Mr. Daley in- vited the union negotiating com- mittee to Toronto to discuss the matter. In a press release made last night covering yesterday's meeting the union said: "The meeting was held as sched- uled in Labor Minister Charles Daley's office with the union ne- gotiating committee, U.A.W. Reg- ional Director George Burt and International Representative Rich- ard Courtney meeting with Mr. Daley and Deputy Minister J.B. Metzler representing the govern- ment. "The entire matter of negotiating between General Motors and the union was discussed and the latest offer of the company of nine cents across the board plus two extra paid holidays and an escalator clause calling for a one cent in- crease after the cost of living index passed the 166 mark and reached 167.3 with a one cent increase for every 13 point rise in the cost of living index thereafter, was talked over. "The committee then requested the minister to make facilities av- ailable for a Rand formula strike vote in the plant. "This the minister refused to do, stating that he would not con- duct a strike vote until a final effort had been made to reach a peaceful settlement. He has there- fore called a conference to be held in- his office, commencing at 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 8. "This conference will be attended by the Minister of Labor, the Dep- uty Minister and Ontario Chief Conciliation Officer Louis Fine, who will act for the government." Union officials said that rep- resenting Local 222 would be the usual negotiating committee of Malcolm Smith as chairman, HF. Benson and Russell McNeill, com- itteemen, Wesley Grant, president of Local 222, U.A.W. Regional Dir- ector Burt and International Rep- resentative Courtney. NEW COURSE AT McGILL Montreal, July 6--(CP) -- Estab- lishment of a four-year course, lead- ing to a new degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts, was announced Monday by the Board of Governors of Mc- Gill University. It will be the first course of this type offered by any Canadian university. Is Appointed To Regional Advisory Board M. J. Fenwick, Oshawa and dis- trict representative of the United Steelworkers of America, has been appointed by Hon. Humphrey | Mitchell, Dominion Minister of 'M. J. FENWICK Labor, as a membek of the Ontario Regional Advisory Board of the De- partment. Replacing D. B. Archer of Toron- CHEERS BENES, IGNORES RED Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 6-- (AP)--Cheers for resigned Presi- dent Eduard Benes rang through Prague today from the throats of 80,000 marchers in the Sokol Con- gress parade. There were cheers also for Yugo- slavia and Premier Marshal Tito, denounced recently by the Comin- form as a heretic from the Marx- Lenin line, "We have no true republic with- out T. G. Masaryk and Benes," the marchers chanted as they tramped through central Prague in the rain. Masaryk was founder and first president of Czechoslovakia. His son, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, plunged to his death soon after the Communists seized the country. Benes resigned recently without signing the new Communist consti- tution, Sokol members shouted "Long live Brother Benes," but there were no cheers for Communist President Gottwald. The marchers: passed | coldly by the reviewing stand in the old town square where Gottwald sparked the drive for Communist power last Feb. 22, The Czechs cheered 4.000 Yugo- slav sailors, boys and girls who car- ried a huge portrait of Tito. Cries of "Long live Tito" resounded. A 'Russian group of 280 marched with the only Communist flag in the six-hour parade. They carried a portrait of Prime Minister Stalin and also were applauded. Delegations from the United States, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Finland and Trieste also paraded. The Sokol is a national cultural and physical training organization. Tt is not political but has acquired a reputation for being anti-Com- munist. The scale of today's cheers for Benes gave the Sokol demon- stration a political tinge it never before had. Extra police were on duty with the announced purpose of handling to, Fenwick will represent the Can- adian Congress of Labor on the | board. The appointment was made | on the recommendataion of the] Ontario Federation of Labor | (C.CL.. Ask Medical Aid As Ships Collide Off Greenland . Boston, July 6--(AP)--Medical assistance was asked by the 2076- ton Swedish freighter Ella after she was reported in a collision Monday night with the Norwegian freighter Beljeanne south of Greenland. The liner Nieuw Amsterdam was proceeding to the Ella with a phy- sician as the Ella, escorted by the Beljeanne, headed for St. John's Nfld., at 7'2 knots. The Beljeanne advised that her No. 3 hold was flooded, but that she did not require immediate aid. The United States Coast Guard said radio messages failed to de- scribe injuries apparently suffered aboard the Ella which required medical assistance. COLLEGIATE RESULTS Principal O'Neill's office at the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute stated this morning that it will be about two weeks before the Collegiate 'examination results will be ready for publication. Summer Bi Provides Wide Range Of Useful Activities Close to 100 young people, between the ages of four and sixteen, are happily employing their leisure time at the Summer Bible School which is being held daily at Calvary Bap- tist Church. The School opened June 30 with the Rev. and Mrs. A. W. Whitehead as directors, and will continue until the end of this week, when a demonstration program open to the public will be given on Friday night, beginning at 8 o'clock. 'The beginners are in the charge of Miss Margaret Bowler of the Philadelphia School of the Bible, and Miss Joyce Babcock of the Lon- don Bible Institute, The registrar is Mrs. W. 8impkin and Oshawa work- ers include Mrs. Percy Taylor, Mrs. E. Hurlbert, and Mrs. Otto Shar- rard. Bible instruction for the = junior ole School | boys is being given by Mrs. A. Dugan | for the junior girls by Mrs. A. Ford. | Mr, Whitehead is directing the in-| termediate Bible: instruction for both boys and girls. A special course of music has also been planned. Mrs. Whitehead is conducting a rhythm band for the primary grade and the junior and intermediate grades - enjoy group singing. Besides study the pupils also en- joy periods of handwork conducted by Mrs. E. Johnston and Mrs. L. Trick. The -boys are making boék ends and models and the girls are engaged on felt pennants, The younger ones make models to illus- trate the Bible stories they are learning. : A basket lunch picnic is planned traffic, but anti-Communist Sokol members commented the police | would be handy in case any dem-| onstration was made against the! government. | The games and mass manoeuvres in which some 20,000 persons have taken part, have attracted thou- sands rom other countries. The Sokol organization's leader- ship was purged after the Febru- ary coup in which the Communists seized power in Czechoslovakia. Many of its members are ardently anti-Communist and refused to participate in this congress. Scores of small paper American flags appeared in the parade, waved by individuals and cheered by spectators. One group of young- sters carried the American flags aloft past the platform, despite or- ders from leaders to down such banners at that point. GM Pipe Band In Second Place Highland Games Following their success .at Embro, the General Motors War Veterans Pipe Band took second place in the | pert Class "B" competition at the High- land games in Hamilton during the week-end. There were seven bands in the class, first place being taken by the Canadian Legion Band of Earls- court Post 65, Toronto, which just edged out the Oshawa entry. This second success in the first two competitions the band has en- tered augurs well for the future. Citizens of Oshawa will have a chance to see and hear the band when they perform at the Mec- Laughlin Band Shell in 'Memorial Park on July 15. Pair Survive Lightning Bolt But Barn Burns Carleton Place, July 6--(CP) ~--Alec Munro and his son, Glen, today know how it feels to be struck by a bolt of lightning. The two men were picked up from their farm a mile east of here where lightning last night had ripped through the Munro barn, setting it on fire. Horses, hogs, cattle and hay were lost in the gutted building. The bolt struck . the two as they stood in the doorway of the barn and hurled them a 100 feet from the burning building, knock H g them u The two later woke up in hos- for Thursday afternoon. pital, suffering from shock, D.P.'s Attend Special Summer Classes | Learning to become Canadians in speech znd outlook are 40 young people from the displaced persons camps of Europe who are attending summer classes at the Hebrew Free School, 9 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto. Lia, Joseph, Vally and Marko Rosenwasser were separated during the war and reunited at a Czechoslovakia camp, Their parents died in concentration camps. Britain, U.S.and France Send Notes Of Protest To Soviet On Blockade London, July 6--(AP) -- Britain, the United States and France pro- tested strongly to Russia today against the Soviet blockade of West- ern Berlin. A French spokesman said the main differences in the notes were these: The American note referred to a letter from President Truman to Prime Minister Stalin the Brit- ish document referred to the Pots- dam Conference. The spokesman declined to dis- cuss other details priory to publica- ton of the texts, but he said the notes did not constitute an ulti- matum. Other sources said the three notes made up one of the strongest protests the Western Al- lies yet have made to the Soviet Union, These sources said all three notes offered to negotiate over-all settlement of Berlin problems if the Russians would lift the blockade of Western = Berlin. One diplomatic source in Paris shid he doubted whether the Russians would raise the blockade for anything less than general four-power discussions on the future of all Germany. The notes were handed to the So- viet Ambassador 'in the three capi- tals. The notes were drafted after 10 da;s of talks and constant commun. ications among Foreign Secretary Bevin; the United States Ambassa- dor, Lewis W. Douglas; the French Ambassador, Rene Massigli; and Sir William Strang, Bevin's German ex- Both ' the American and French ambassadors were said to have re- ported almost hourly to Washing- ton and Paris on steps to be taken if and when Russia rejects the joint protest. : Bevin furnished top-ranking min. isters of Prime Minister Attlee's Cabinet with the latest develop- ments at 10 WDowning Street this morning. Meanwhile, Foreign Office sources said the Western European union powers--DBritain, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg-- are ready to ask security assistance from the United States. Ambassadors of the five countries will open talks on the subject with the State Department in Washing- ton today, the informants said. MRS, NICKLE DIES Kingston, July 6 -- Katherine Louise Nickle died at her home Monday. She was the wife of W. F. Nickle, former Ontario At- torney-General. She was the dau- ghter of the iate Rev. Dr. Daniel M. Gordon, one-time principal of Queen's-University here. SIX HELD IN FIGHT Aylmer, July 6 -- (CP) --Sought by police since Saturday night's all-out brawl on King Street which stopped only on arrival of Provin- cial Police reinforcements, two men Monday gave themselves up to local police, bringing to six the number held over the affray. Washington, July 6 {(CP).--The United States today demanded dir- ectly of the Soviet Government that the Russian blockade. of Berlin be lifted. State Secretary Marshall present- | ed the note of protest to Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. Panyush- kin. The United States acted in con- cert with Britain and France in protesting strongly the Soviet block- ade of the German capital. White House officially gave no in- timation of the line which Marshall took. Other diplomatic informants said there appeared no doubt that he de- manded the immediate lifting of the Berlin blockade, and protested Rus- sia's recent policies in the German capital. They said he argued that the Soviet Union must directly ac- cept responsibility for any lack of supplies among the millions of Ger- mans living in Berlin, Panyushkin said Marshall had not expressed to him directly any views on Berlin. they talked about during the time he was in the secretary's office, Meanwhile, ambassadors of. five Western European powers and Can- ada were called into conference with State Undersecretary Lovett. These | talks, are the first of what may prove to be a historic series of meet- ings on: United States military sup- port for the Western European bloc. L. B. Pearson, Canada's Under- secretary for External Affairs, is in Washington and is expected to par- ticipate--directly or indirectly, in the talks. Pearson was in conference with Hume Wrong, Canadian Ambassa- or. Marshall's plan to see Panyushkin coincided with dispatches from London saying Britain and France in parallel notes also are demanding the Soviet blockade be lifted. The three Western powers have BRITAIN, U.S. (Continued on Page 2) Belgium, | (CP)--Mus. Smuts Claims 'Foul Means' Defeated Him Pretoria, July 6--(Reuters)-- Gen. Smuts, former South Afri- can Premier, Monday accused his Nationalist opponents of using "foul means" in the re- cent election which unseated his government. Addressing his first political meeting since the Nationalists gained their vic- tory, he said no honor could fall on any party which won an election by falsehoods. ENTRANCE RESULTS SATURDAY It was announced this morning that it is expected that the results of the High 'School Entrance Ex- aminations will be ready for publi- cation in this Saturday's issue of The Times-Gazette, He did not say what! RAIL STRIKE THREAT FADES, TALKS RESUME | Montreal, July 6--(CP)--A break came Monday in the dispute which | has threatened to tie up Canadian | railways in a general strike July 15. The railways and representatives of 18 International Brotherhoods renewed direct negotiations which | were broken off a few weeks ago when the parties could not agree | on wage increases. Frank H. Hall, chairmaan of the | committee representing 122,000 em- | ployees, said "We are exhausting | all possibilities" to avert the threat- ened strike. He said the. negotiations will be | resumed Wednesday. | When Labor Minister , Mitchell | was informed in Ottawa of the de- | velopments, he said it was a | "healthy sign" and he hoped an | early settlement would be reached. | Meantime, the Canadian Brother- | hood of Railway Employees and | other transport - workers (C.C.L.) decided to meet today to decide | whether it wbuld join the Inter- national unions in the direct nego tiations, The C.B.R.E. represents 28,000 workers. As the International unions re- sumed direct negotiations, a con- | ciliation board, headed by Mr. Jus- tice J. C. A. Cameron of the Ex- chequer Court, withdrew from the picture, at/least temporarily. e Mr. Justice Cameron said the board has "decided to terminate its proceedings in view of the fact the parties have agreed to enter direct negotiations, . . ." what basis the negotiations were resumed. Last winter the International Brotherhoods and the C.BR.E. ask- ed for 35-cents-an-hour wage in- creases. Conciliation boards in ma- jority reports recommended seven- cent increases. Minority reports called for 20-cent incearses. Since then the parties have failed to ar- rive at a mutually satisfactory fig- ure. As the direct negotiations resum- ed, there were rumors that the par- 'ties had agreed on ihcreases rang- ing from seven cents to 17 cents, The rumors were quickly denied by union officials, who dubbed the whole proceedings as "Operation Seven-up." INJURED IN JUMP Morrisburg, July 6 --(CP)--Fifty- two-year-old Tom Moran of near- by Chesterville. barely escaped death Monday when he leaped from a westbound C.N.R. passenger train as it pulled away from the station here. Moran suffered head and face injuries, cuts about the body and a sprained right ankle. . y THE WEATHER Cloudy, clearing this evening Wednesday, clear. Cooler to- day. Not much change in tem- perature Wednesday. Winds northwest 15. Low tonight and + high Wednesday 60 and 81. Summary for Wednesday: Clear. walkout. Over-all production Soft Coal Diggers Refuse To Work Without ( Contract Pittsburgh, July 6 (AP).--A walkout of 40,000 "captive" coal miners began today and in Western Pennsylvania the bulk of commercial miners remained idle in a sympathy in Western Pennsylvania, which eemploys 56,000 miners, was only 20 Reject Terms, Renew Battle In Holy Land By MAX BOYD Cairo, July 6--(AP)--Israel today formally rejected Count Folke Ber- nadotte"s Palestine peace proposals. Neither Arabs nor Jews gave a definite reply to the United Na- tions mediator's bid for an exten- sion of the Holy Land truce. Moshe Shertok, Israeli Foreign Minister, handed Bernadotte a 1,000-word reply to the mediator's proposal to turn Jerusalem over to Arab rule, make Haifa a free port and regulate immigration. The reply said Israeli leaders were deeply wounded by the Jeru- |a Bernadotte planned to leave Tel | Aviv for Cairo tonight to resume None of the parties would say on | salem proposal. The Jews expressed emphatic opposition to any restric- tion on immigration, and urged Bernadotte to reconsider his whole pproach to the problem. conferences with the Arabs and to return to Tel Aviv Wednesday to hear a Jewish reply on the truce extension. In Cairo an Egyptian Cabinet source said there ig little doubt the REJECT TERMS (Continued on Page 2) Russ Tighten Berlin Block In New Move Berlin, July 6--(AP) -- The Rus- sian blockade of Berlin was tighten- | ed today when strick controls were | placed on trucks entering the West. ern sectors of the city, Western-li- censed German newspapers report- ed. Reports of the new Russian move, which United States officials said were "apparently true," came as bad flying weather at Frankfurt. lamed the American air fleet which has been carrying essential supplies to Berlin, along with the RAF. British officials said weather con- ditions in their zonal base were good and that the R.AF. was flying nor- mally tp maintain its end of the alr bridge from Western Germany to Berlin. Later reports from Frankfurt said the weather was improving there and flights were peing resumed. One United States transport plane crash. RUSS TIGHTEN (Continued on Page 2) per cent of normal. The big United States Steel Cor= poration reported all 14 of its Penn= sylvania ~ mines, employing 11,000 men, were idle, causing a daily loss of 55,000 tons of coal. Among other "captive" mines closed were those of the Jones and Laighlin Steel Corporation and the Weirton Steel Company. "Captive" mines are those whose output goes | to a parent firm, like a steel com- | pany. Commercial producers hit hard included the Pittsburgh Coal Com- | pany, which reported 14 of its 17 | deep mines in Pennsylvania closed. | With 3,500 men idle, its daily pro- | duction loss was 24,000 tons. The captive miners stayed away | from work because of lack of a con- | tract. Steel companies refused a new contract because of a union | shop provision. | The majority of the 400,000 bitu- | minous miners had a new contract | from. commercial coal operators | granting a $l-a-day pay increase | and a welfare fund royalty doubled to 20 cents a ton. The walkout actually was an ex= tension of the 10-day miners' vaca= tion which ended Monday, The cap- tive miners held to the United Mine Workers' tradition of "no contract, no work.", Seven Cadets In Training At Airport | | Seven air cadets from the Oshawa | "Chadburn" and Markham Squad- rons yesterday started a two-week course of instruction at the Oshawa Airport which will further their training in their chosen field and at the same time provide them with much valuable information and experience. The school is divided into two parts, namely, a ground school, flying time and practical work on aircraft. The ground school in- struction will be given by Clayton Wrenshall, a former instructor at No. 20 E.F.T.S. here during the war; while the flying instruction will be given by George Hurren and Milt. MacDougall of the Ontario County Flying Club. Each cadet will receive 20 hours instruction in the ground school in each of airmanship, navigation and meteorology. In addition they will be given 17 hours of flying and 30 hours of practical work on air= craft. The members of the "Chadburn" Squadron taking the course are-- Burton Russell, Fred Gimblett, Donald Ross, J. C. Henderson and William Armstrong. From the Mark- ham Squadron are Robert Ward and Robert Shank. stole approximately $4,000. native of Nabanee, Ont., is of her death. is loyal to the government. LATE NEWS BRIEFS * SEEKS DANUBE PARLEY Belgrade, July 6 (Reuters).--Britain, the United States, France and Russia today delivered identical notes to the Yugoslav Government asking it formally to con- vene a Danube Conference in Belgrade July 30. The note asks the Yugoslav government to issue' invitations if it is in agreement with the plan to hold the conference already agreed to by the Four Powers. THIEVES GET $4,000 Niagara Falls, Ont., Jul into the office of the Maid of the Mist Steamship Com- pany in the Gorge on the American side of the Niagara River,' Monday night. They smashed open the safe and 6 (CP).--Thieves broke REMAND IN MURDER CASE Toronto, July 6 (CP).--Leonard B. Smith, charged with the silk stocking strangling of Mrs. Lyla Adams, today was remanded until July 14 for preliminary hear- ing. Police charge the 25-year-old foundry worker beat the woman last June 27 then strangled her, leaving her body in a garage in east-central Toronto. Smith, a said by police to have been seen drinking beer in a tavern with Mrs. Adams the night MARTIAL LAW IN PERU Lima, Peru, July 6 (AP).--Virtual martial law ex- isted m Peru today as the government acted to restore public order following Sunday's revolt by the army gar- rison at Juliaca in the southeast. An official announce- ment Monday night said Brig.-Gen. Frederico Hurtado, Inspector-General of the Army, has ordered the rebel garrison to surrender and told them the rest of the army,