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Oshawa Times (1958-), 19 Feb 1965, p. 2

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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridty, February 19, 1965 Increased Hourly Wage Rejected OTTAWA (CP)-.-A bid by the New Democratic Party to write a@ $1.50 hourly minimum wage into the federal labor code was by by a wide margin in Commons Thursday night. The code would establish a thinimum wage of $1.25 hourly in the handful of industries that come under federal jurisdiction. Six Conservatives, including former labor minister Michael Starr, joined with the Liberals in voting down the $1.50 amend- ment proposed by Stanley Knowles (NDP -- Winnipeg North Centre). The standing vote was 84 to 27. Labor Minister MacEachen noted that the $1.25 rate is the most advanced on the North American continent, well ahead of provincial wage minimums and even exceeding that of the United States. Although the U.S. rate was $1.25 it was only pro- visional and not yet in effect on a national basis. He said the government had been confronted by pressure groups opposing even the $1.25 rate but had resisted them. WANT TARGET The idea was to set a target for the provinces, which control wage laws governing the bulk of industry. When they attained it, the federal government could again move ahead in this field. Mr. MacEachen quoted sam- ples of provincial minimum wage laws--$34 a week in Al- berta cities, $36 a week in Sas- katchewan and $1 hourly in the Toronto - Oshawa - Hamilton industrial region. The Alberta and Saskatchewan rates were based on 44-hour work weeks. Federal imposition of a $1.50 rate would cause "adverse em- ployment consequences and ad- verse industry consequences so that, instead of making the pace} of change more rapid, we would be making it more diffi- cult in the future to establish standards." Mr. Knowles argued that $1.25 an hour is below the rec- ognized line separating poverty and subsistence levels. He said $1.50 is a "'reasonable" figure, one advocated by the Cana- dian Labor Congress as an ab- solute minimum for working men. Eldon Woolliams (PC -- Bow River) backed the Knowles amendment and got into a hot exchange with Liberal back- benchers who said he had helped scuttle NDP minimum wage bills during the Conserva- tive regime. SAYS WAGES FROZEN He said the labor code freezes wages by its rigid con- trol of hours of work. This would force workers to resort to moonlighting--taking <a second Another NDP amendment, moved by Tom Barnett (Comox-Alberni), sought to re- vise a clause in the bill that would let firms seek permis- sion of the minister for hours beyond the 40-hour weekly max- ng and eight hours of over- e He proposed that such appli- cations be made jointly by em- Mr. MacEachen said his de- fare of the worker when study- ing such applications, He op- it would put unnecessary re- strictions on this section, The amendment motion was turned down, 79 to 52. QUOTES HOWE Middlesex West), quoted the late C. D, Howe, then Liberal trade minister, as stating re- peatedly in 1950 that eastern feed mills would not be brought under federal an amendment to the Canada |Grain Act then being debated. He argued it is wrong to con- tend that local feed mills come under federal law. Labor Minister MacEachen said Mr. Howe has been ac- cused of many things '"'but he has never been accused of be- ing a constitutional authority." | Expert opinion held that the jamendment of 1950 brought lo- cal feed mills under federal jurisdiction, INCLUDED MILLS | Mr. MacKachen also pointed out that the Conservatives themselves, when in power, had included local feed mills when they passed an act estab- lishing minimum annual vaca- tions. There had been no sug- gestion then that these mills shouldn't be covered. If the local mills were left out of labor code coverage it would leave this entire field beyond legal control in the mat- ter of labor standards. Provin- cial laws wouldn't apply, either. Mr. MacEachen said it would be a good thing for rural wage standards to apply the min- imum wage to feed mills. If the wage section would result in some hardship for mill own- ers it could be deferred for up to 18 months. An amendment was passed to allow exceptions to the code's rule of one day's rest in workers, notably lake sailors, must of necessity work longer than seven days. British MDs Agree To Talk LONDON (Reuters) -- Repre- sentatives of Britain's family doctors today met Health Min- ister Kenneth Robinson to dis- cuss their grievances against partment will consider the wel- posed the amendment, saying] | William H A. Thomas (PC-- jurisdiction by seven. The minister said some| Russians were not entitled to|nia later tried to force votes as "POLICE BATTLE RIOTERS outside the Board of Educa- tion flared into disorder yes- terday. A policeman lines up some Negro schoolchildren against a car in downtown section of Brooklyn, N.Y., after their demonstration UN's 19th Session Ends -In Turmoil, Confusion few items and then adjourn, ad- hering to the no-vote procedure. Since he himself was bound by the no-vote procedure, the sion Thursday night after de-|president said, he would declare feat of an Albanian attempt to/that there was a consensus |force a showdown in the peace-jagainst reconsidering the ear- | keeping crisis. jlier agreement. The Soviet Union and the| Budo challenged the _presi- |United States joined in putting|dent's ruling and the vote was ldown the Albanian move, but/held on whether or not to up- the Americans were forced to|hold the chair. bend from their stand that the} Both Albanian and Maureta- --AP Wirephoto UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- The 19th session of the United Nations General Assembly broke up in turmoil and confu- vote. the assembly disposed of a Albania, defeated 97-to-2 with|number of housekeeping prob- 13 abstentions, said it had called jlems, including interim financ- 'were beaten during a clash be- ~ |to a side door the troopers beat Negroes, Newsmen Beaten MARION, Ala. (AP) -- One Negro was shot twice and at least 'eight other persons--in- cluding three newspaper men-- tween Negro demonstrators and police on the first night march of the present voter registration campaign. The march started quietly Thursday night .at the Zion Methodist Church, About 500 demonstrators left the church and headed for the jail to protest the arrest of one of their leaders, James Orange. Police told them to disperse. "We stood there a little while and turned around," said Albert Turner, president of the Perry County Civil League. '"'One of the ministers in the group started praying. Bu that time state troopers had arrived." He said the troopers "started pushing the crowd back toward the church, but our people couldn't get in the door because it was jammed. When_ they tried to go around the church them." USE CLUBS Police and highway patrol of- ficials declined to comment on what followed. But there was clubbing and shoving and some rock and bottle throwing. An| FBI spokesman said some ar-| rests were made. | The man who was shot was identified as Jimmie Lee Jack- son, 26, of Marion. He was shot twice in the stomach and was in critical condition in a Selma hospital. ; Five other Negroes were taken to hospital in Selma. Richard Valeriani, an NBC correspondent, was clubbed on the head and taken to hospital at Marion, Six stitches were needed for a wound at the base of his skull. Two UPI MEN HURT Two United Press Interna- national men also were injured. Pete Fisher, a photographer, said he got 'a pretty good working over' and his camera was smashed. Reggie Smith, a newsfilm cameraman, said he was hit in the ribs and his ca- mera broken. Turner said that Orange was arrested earlier in the day on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Orange and Turner had been leading the American bluff. jing for the rest of the year, but The U.S. said the vote, as a|they were ruled out of order. 15:30 a.m.: 'Canada Pension Plan Faces A Tough Battle OTTAWA (CP) -- The pro- posed Canada Pension Plan ap- pears to be heading for a stiff parliamentary fight after the Conservative opposition 'Thurs- day unyeiled a series of planned amendments that would drastically alter the scheme. : The proposed amendments are simil@¥ to suggestions made by the Ontario government when it appeared before the joint Senate-Commons which studied the pension plan. The commit- tee defeated Conservative mo- tions that most of the Ontario recommendations be adopted in the report to Parliament. A group of four Conservatives speaking on behal. of the party! held a press conference Thurs- day and revealed their plans: To ask that all persons over 70 who receive the $75 monthly WEATHER FORECAST Clear, Very Cold Cloudy Saturday Northern Georgian Bay, Tim- agami, Cochrane, North Bay, Sudbury: Ciear and quite cold tonight. Clouding over Saturday with snow beginning likely by afternoon. Winds light tonight ard Saturday, Algoma, White River: Mainly clear and cold but with grad- ually increasing cloudiness to- night, Saturday overcast with snow. Winds light becoming southerly 15 Saturday. ployment also be paid $25 a month from the fund. This would not apply to persons efits, ASK MINIMUM To ask that the plan establish a minimum pension of $25 a month for single persons and couples. employed -- be credited with the amount of pension received. TORONTO (CP) -- Forecasts issued by the weather office at Synopsis: The arctic high pressure centre over northwest- ern Ontario this morning is ex- pected to move to southern On- tario tonight bringing near zero temperatures with it. A new storm is expected to move into northwestern Ontario on Satur- day with snow from this storm spreading into southern Ontario by Saturday evening. Lake Erie, Southern Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Halibur- ton, Killaloe, London, Toronto, Hamilton: Clear and quite cold tonight. Saturday increasing cloudiness. Not much change in temperatures, Some snow likely by evening. Winds light tonight and Saturday. Northern Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, Niagara, Southern Georgian Bay, Windsor: Clear and quite cold tonight. Satur- day increasing cloudiness and not much. change in temper- atures. Some snow likely in the afternoon or evening. Winds Forecast Temperatures Low tonight, high Saturday: Windsor ... St. Thomas London .... Kitchener ... Mount Forest Wingham Hamilton .... St. Catharines Toronto Peterborough .... Trenton .. Kingston ...esecees Killaloe. ..ssseees the voter registration drive. light tonight and Saturday. Nt Earlton ....... procedural one, did not affect its stand that Russia, France, Albania and 10 other countries should have no vote because their peace-keeping debts ex- ceed two years' assessments. Western delegates privately called it.a defeat for Commu- nist China, Albania's close ally, since the result upset what they Favreau's Haste Spoiled Mountie Trap -- Inspector Sau't Ste Marie .. Kapuskasing ..... TIMMINS .esseeeee ~ old age security benefit be paid an additional $25 a month from the pension plan fund and that persons between 65 and 70 who have retired from regular em- eventually receiving CPP ben- $40 a month for married) To ask that persons earning less than the qualifying amount for the plan--$600 a year' for employees and $800 for the 'self- their actual earnings so they can be included in determining Police Hunt Man Who Shot Officer BURLINGTON, Ont. (CP)-- An extensive hunt is under way for a man who shot a provin- cial police constable in the arm during a routine check early today. Constable Wayne Stairs, 24, of the Oakville detachment, stopped a car on the Queen Elizabeth Way near Burlington, just outside Hamilton, because the car's rear licence plate was missing. ' When he tried to question the three men in the car, one of them shot him, As the car sped off, Const. Stairs fired three shots at it and thinks he hit it twice. He told the detachment on his radio that he had been shot and then drove himself to hospital. He was released after treat- ment and is expected to be off duty for a few days. Police said they are looking for a 1955 or 1956 Pontiac or Chevrolet, green with a white top, with no rear licence plate and possibly two bullet-holes in the trunk. However, no. contributions would be collected. To ask that students between 18--the plan's entry age--and 25 should not be required to make contributions. This would be in addition to the 20 per cent of lowest earning years contributors would be allowed to eliminate from their earn- ings base under the proposed plan, Former Conservative health minister J. Waldo Monteith said all the proposals are sim- ar to those advanced by On- tario, although "they are not quite in line." The Ontario brief also sug- gested that the 10 best years of earnings be used.as a comput- ing base for the pension plan. SUGGEST LONGER PERIOD The Conservativese said they will also suggest that the period it takes for the plan to reach maturity, now 10 years, be ex- tended. No specific time was men- tioned in a statement handed out at the press conference but Mr. Monteith said 20 years would "seem reasonable." The Ontario government also sug- gested 20 years. Quebec originally advocated SOVIET OIL The Soviet Union's production of oil now accounts for one-sixth of the world's total production. a 20-year transitional period, but the reduction to 10 was one of the points won by federal nego- tiators in compromising the federal and Quebec plans. With 'Mr. Monteith at the press conference were Gordon Aiken (PC--Parry Sound-Mus- koka), Reg Cantelon (PC--Kin- dersley) and George Chatter- ton (CP Esquimalt - Saanich). All were members of the pen- sions committee, | Mr. Chatterton said the| party's chief complaint with the plan is that it does the least for those who need it most and the proposals would give extra relief in that direction. | "We're increasing the wel- fare element of the bill," said) Mr. Aiken. | Mr. Monteith said he thought! agreement could be worked out with the provinces and the bill would not be delayed beyond its present schedule. Need Mortgage Money? McGILL "vic Broker Day or Night - 728-4285, HEAT WITH OIL DIXON'S OIL 313 ALBERT ST. 24-HOUR SERVICE 723-4663 SERVING OSHAWA OVER 50 YEARS TONIGHT 'TIL 9 P.M. SAT. 'TIL 6 P.M. ONLY! FANTASTIC BARGAINS DURING FIRESTONE'S 'OIL FORTUNE' ONE CENT SALE! saw as a Chinese attempt to force a Soviet-American colli- sion. the National Health Service, from which they have threat- ened to withdraw. OTTAWA (CP) -- Haste im-|background on the three men-- posed by Justice Minister Fav-|"movement and telephone reau was blamed Thursday for/cajls'--but he was told there in the inquiry that Justice Min- ister Favreau tipped Letendre of the impending interview. He FIRMS'S FUNDS LANCASTER, England (AP)--Oswald Berry, 29, rode | A ministry official said the talks were "exploratory." Dr. James Cameron, chair- man of the British Medical As- sociation's negotiating body, the general services medical com- mittee, told reporters as he ar- rived with colleagues at the min- istry "we are always full of| hope." | Hopes were that the talks would lead to negotiations in the dispute between the Labor government and National Health Service general practi- tioners over their demands for Ployers and the employees af- fected. a major pay increase and im- proved working conditions. Leduc Avalanche Year's Third Killer VANCOUVER (CP)--An ava-/a mountain and smashed two lanche which obliterated a jtrucks and a car and demol- Only Mauritania supported the/ upsetting methods of investiga- Albanians. |tion the RCMP normally would 'URIOUS f 5 rea 7 RN Se oa. tions debate jgations against ministerial both inside and outside the aides. chamber on whether Albania's| RCMP Inspector J. P. Dra-| rights had been trampled. Even|peau told the Dorion inquiry he} some countries who joined in| was in favor of setting a trap to} the majority expressed doubts|obtain the truth in allegations} about the means employed to|by Montreal lawyer Pierre La-| block the Albanian move. {montagne that he was offered The procedure prevented the|a $20,000 bribe last July by Albanians from carrying to a|/Raymond Denis, former execu-| vote a motion that the assem-| tive assistant to then immigra-| bly drop its no-vote truce and | tion minister Tremblay. | 'resume normal procedures. Sev-| | r ' The trap was impossible be-| eral countries said they wouldicause "the minister (Mr. Fav- have supported that motion if it)reau) had said he wanted these |had been brought to a vote. _|people interviewed with| | But Canada's Ambassa-| no time wasted." jdor Paul Tremblay said mem-| Ro<. Drouin, counsel for the bers had shown 8 truly tg| Conservative party, suggested |markable sense of responsibility] in, "higher brass" was not in- by agreeing to ag Mg Pre terested so much in 'having a ae con by this unusual) thorough investigation as in'ob- | . ini stat is fr th ith rah to break oft, the HE inant, frome jassembly did not even agree on : : Inst. Drapeau said he was ithe composition of the commit-} a tee of gi so members that is | Called into the case Aug. 19 and jhave followed in checking alle-| Eventually, Mr. Favreau de- |duced to the case that a trap campsite of Granduc Mine Sjished a two-mile stretch of the Limited in far northwstern|trans-provincial highway. near British Columbia Thursday is}Hope, 100 miles east of Van-| cue, to meet ment on the peace-keeping is- during the adjourn-|told to immediately interview ? Denis and two of Mr. Favreau's The choice was left to|own aides who were alleged by wasn't time because of the min- jister's demand for speed. lcided against prosecuting be- cause such an action could not be "successful." Insp. Drapeau told the inquiry Thursday he suggested to a col- league the day he was intro- should be set in which Mr. La- montagne and Denis would be brought together 'in a "bugged" room to "see what was said be- tween the two." Insp. Drapeau also agreed to the suggestion by Mr. Drouin that whenever possible the best way to 'cover' a telephone call was to make a recording. The RCMP "covered" a tele- phone call between Mr. Lamon- tagne and Denis Aug. 20 by as- signing an officer to listen in'on an extension. DOESN'T AGREE While the investigator agreed with the suggestion that one witness should not be given time to communicate with an- had received the consent of RCMP Commissioner G. B. McClellan to tell Letendre an interview was at hand but not its subject matter. Mr. Favreau told the Com- mons Nov. 23 that he had or- dered immediate questioning of Lord. However, the minister said he had believed Lord was in Quebec when, in fact, he was unreachable by telephone at Old Orchard, Maine. Insp. Drapeau, third RCMP officer to appear as a witness in as many days, said his in- structions of Aug. 19 involved only the three aides. His report on that assignment was made Aug. 28. It suggested the questioning of MP Guv Rou- leau who then was parliamen- tary secretary to Prime Minis- ter Pearson, and of other key persons. When Mr. Lamontagne com- plained to the RCMP Aug. 11, he said he believed Mr. Rouleau was the instigator of the bribe to work in a Rolls Royce, At home he had a Mercedes, an MG sports car and a heated | swimming pool. | He employed a gardener, a cook and a maid. Yet his Salary was only £14 ($52) a week, Twice his employers raised his salary, Berry told them to keep the raise, saying he had a private income from stocks. "Also," he added, 'I'm the heir to an oil fortune." But detectives discovered his sole income was his sal- ary--and the money he stole from the company. In court Thursday he pleaded guilty to eight charges of fraud, falsifica- tion of accounts and embez- zlement. He said he had got away with a total of £68,000 ($204,000). Berry was sentenced seven years in prison. to 190 King St. E. Oshawa 725-6566 66 the money our termDlan loan extra chair99 other, he did not agree with Mr. Drouin that there should have been investigators assigned to! the third major, life-taking slide in the province this winter. A 300 - foot - wide landslide killed seven persons and in- jured five Jan. 13 at the costal lumber community of Ocean Falls, 300 miles north of Van- couver. On Jan. 9, four persons died when 15,000,000 cubic yards of tock and mud broke away from HERE and THERE Pledges to the Civic Audi- torium '"'are coming in 100 per cent', Terence Kelly, ' financ? chairman told The + Times today. Auditorium board of directors learned yesterday that 53 per cent, or $561,723.66, of the total amount of pledges ($1,066,- $22.66) has been collected. Total revenue collected to date is $713,964.07. * Desmond Newman, Whit- by, was re-elected chairman of the Regional Planning As- 'sociation last night. Harold «Muir of Darlington Town- 'ship, was re-elected vice- - Chairman. Mr. Newman, a * member of the Whitby plan- 'ning board, reviewed the - past year's activities includ- "ing the preparation of a pop- . ulation and land use study. "The Comfortable Pew" "by Pierre Berton was the -subject ofa review by Doug couver, Earth tremors |blamed for the slide. | Other lesser slides have cut jhighway links through the |Rogers Pass, through the south- ern Trans-Canada Highway sys- |tem and temporarily disrupted) down was avoided only by the jtrain traffic through mountain) expedient of agreement to have jpasses. Most were caused by) no votes. junseasonal rises in tempera-| pIREWORKS START EARLY ture. | The fireworks began Thurs- |day as soon as Quaison-Sackey \launched his opening statement. |Albanian delegate Halim Budo |marched to the rostrum and started to speak, rejecting the president's appeals and de- mands to sit down. Eventually Budo subsided after the president promised him a chance to speak later. Quaison-Sackey then outlined the device under which the Al- banian move was defeated. He said that the assembly al- ready had agreed, by consen- sus, that it should dispose of a RECORD PLAYER REPAIRS © ALL MAKES e FREE Pick-up ond Delivery Call 723-3867 were| President Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana. From its start last Dec. 1, the 19th session has been preoccu- pied with the complex peace- keeping problem. The show- Mackey for Oshawa's Uni- tarian Fellowship and a source of discussion and de- bate for members over the last two Sundays. The Oshawa Naturalists' Ciub will hold a members' night on Feb. 22 in the audi- torium of the E. A. Lovell School. With returns still to be received from Newcastle, Orono,, Newtonville and Clarke Township, the 1965 Heart Fund in the Bow- maville area has raised $1,336.69. 'Mr. Lamontagne of hav- |ing pressured him by telephone ito drop opposition to bail for jaccused narcotics conspirator |Lucien Rivard. 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