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Oshawa Times (1958-), 30 Jul 1965, p. 1

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Weather Report Cloudy, few sunny periods Saturday. Rain or thunder- showers in afternoon. 'Low tonight, 55. High tomorrow, Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow- manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties. VOL. 94 -- NO..177 She Oshawa Cine SBotivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1965 Authorized Ottawa pig for pavment 76. Second Class Mail Post Office Department of Postage in Cash. TWENTY PAGES Poverty Pocket: The CS TORONTO (CP) -- Some 35 per cent of Ontario's civil serv- ants live on wages so low they are entitled to premium subsi- dies under the province's pro- posed medicare plan, Donald G,. MacDonald said today. Mr, MacDonald, leader of the| Ontario New Democratic Party,| said in a statement: "The greatest single pocket of poverty in Ontario today is the one created by the provin- cial government among its own employees." | He said the mass walkouts of federal postal workers came) about because "there is a limit) to the frustrations" under-paid) civil servants can endure, He) said the Ontario government) has created conditions among! provincial. employees which are an 'exact parallel with} § those at the federal level." | # 'Despite all the idle prating,| provincial civil sergants have not been granted genuine col- lective bargaining rights. As a result, a scandalously high pro-, portion of them live on sub-| standard wages -- 17 per cent earning less than $3,000 a year, 35 per cent earning Jess than! $3,600 a year," he said. | He called for a basic annual minimum wage for Ontario, 'Handlers March In Montreal MONTREAL (CP) -- Striking Port of Montreal grain han- diers marched 1,000 strong! through the city Thursday fol- lowing a report from their un-| fon representative that the Na- tional Harbors Board, their em- JUST A GUEST NOW, BUT SOMEDAY... To sail the Seven Seas with a view from the Cap- tain's chair may be more than just a dream for Ken- neth Wood, 10, of Simcoe st. s. The lad, an able-sea- man in the Oshawa Sea Cadets, tried on the skip- per's cap yesterday on a visit to the destroyer-escort St. Laurent in Oshawa Har- bor. It is a cap he may wear some day. And he comes by his interest in the sea honestly. His father, David Wood, is a Lieutenant and instructor in the city's sea cadet movement. The ployer, had broken off talks. The 10-mile march to the fed- =. --_ Gossiment --_ when heavy rain started. Police' sald" une winders were broken along the 'parade route, but no arrests were made, Robert Sauve, secretary-gen- eral of the Quebec-based Con- federation of National Trade Unions, set off the march when he told strikers the federal agency had broken off talks with the CNTU which had been going on under federal media- tor C, E. Poirier. The strikers have been off the job since June 16 when they walked out unofficially in a pro- test over dismissals. On June 29 they voted to make the strike an official one, asking for higher wages. They seek an increase of their basic wage to $2.25 from $1.68. The grain handlers number just over 1,000 and do tasks mainly centred around the grain elevators. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres-|many-sided Viet ident Johnson has won rousing|tion: support for his Viet Nam pol-| icy from the state governors but still faces the misgivings of Oregon's Republican who favors a vigor- ous peace move. Johnson and his senior advis- ers brieféd 49 governors more than two hours Thursday night and Hatfield, mentioned as a possible Repub- lican presidential candidate in 1968, emerge as something of a| fence-sitter. Mark 0. Hatfield, was the only one for sometimes to There were these other Wash- ington developments: in the 'THE COLD WAR'S BOLDEST ESCAPE IN BERLIN Nam _ --The defence department| will create a "super ready. re- serve," it was learned, by bringing selected National peak readiness in training} and .equipment during the) next few months, | --Another review by Jolinson| of the Vietnamese war in two| or three months, and possi bly a decision again to "in-| crease troop strength in Viet! Nam, was expected, Informed|ernor speculation was that the U.S./for a resolution 'endorsing thejroute east-west mail around the) boy sat in the Captain's chair to talk to Commander Denis D. Lee, CD, and examine the equipment on the bridge. The ship is on a Great Lakes training cruise prior to returning to its home-base,: Halifax, for re- fitting. Governors. Back LBJ- On Viet Nam Policies Mail Embargo |Now Removed! e| --The principals in a_ six week-old maritime strik 'Like "Xmas' In Toronto © TORONTO (CP)--It's going to be like Christmas in July |here as postal employees begin today to process the mountains of mail accumulated since they went on strike July 22. | The post office has sent out jan appeal for extra part-time \staff to help with sorting and jdelivery and many regular |postal employees will be work- ling overtime. Priority will be given-to some |80,000 old-age pension, welfare and veterans of affairs depart- |ment cheques. Provincial gov- ernment employees have been delivering a backlog of cheques |by hand. | The inconvenience to the pub- jlic and delay of pension and |welfare cheques was an impor- tant factor with Kingston postal lemployees as sorters there de- cided to return to work, Donald Strathdee, supervisor jof operations at the Toronto post office, said the biggest rush is expected to come today as the public starts to mail let- lters again. He said 10,000,000 pieces of mail are anticipated-- double the normal daily volume. Duriag Christmas 14,000,000 pieces of mail are handled daily. Mr. Strathdee said the em- bargo would remain on second- class and Jess urgent mail, Pro- cessing of magazines will begin next Tuesday, he said. | promised they would continue] OTTAWA (CP)--The post of- to make available all thelfice department today lifted its merchant ships necessary to|mail embargo in all communi- carry. supplies and men to\ties except the Montreal area, Viet Nam; --The White House said John-|mailing of all son has received a flood of telegrams applauding his de- troop|Columbia--hit cision to increase U.S. commitment in Viet Nam. Before the conference, governors except Michigan's Republican George Romney had banned but first. class' in three provinces-- Ontario and British by the week- liong wildcat strike by postal The embargo matter Quebec, all| workers, Hatfield and) G 0 v-|man voted} worked spokes- were to re-| A department said arrangements out Thursday forces, just ordered increased|principles of the position of this|Montreal area, the only major} to 125,000, might go to 200,-|country as enunciated by the|city where workers have not job 000 by the end of this year. 'president.' A Dramatic Slide To Freedom BERLIN (AP)--In one of the|nesday night from the top of|hurt in the dramatic slide to} boldest escapes of the cold war,|the five-storey House of Minis-|freedom. an East German economist, his wife and their nine-year-old son} jtries where East German Pre- ment identified the family as slung themselves in a home-|Mier Willie Stoph has offices.|Heinz Holzapfel, 33, his wife, made cable harness from the|The long, grey structure is| Jutta, 32, and their son Guen- roof of a heavily guarded Com-|about 25 feet from the wall di-/ter. The father is an economist munist government building to/viding East and West Berlin. the safety of West Berlin. | They The family had help from| The government came down over thejpeople awaiting them in West)said from Leipzig. press office barbed wire-topped wall Wed-|Berlin. The woman was slightly|count: 4 WEST BERLINER who witnessed the escape, points toward top of five-story 'House of Ministries"' in East Berlin as stands beside abandoned truck to which a cable was anchored for the "aerial" escape to free- dom of an East Berlin econ- omist, his wife and their nine-year-old son last night. Evidently .aided by some- one on West Berlin who anchored the cable, Heing Holzapfel, 33; his wife Jutta, "I planned the escape for a year and a half... . The West Berlin city govern-|had occasion to visit the min-|rain." istries building on business . , but in the building itself I had)cord about as thick as a tennis no help." Holzapfel took his family into) His preparations were thorough the building Wednesday and at|ye yo painted the Cafonte ° 5 p.m. they went into an attic/nandle with phosphorous so that Holzapfel gave this ac- room, where they stayed until/those waiting in West Berlin about 10 p.m, 32, and their son Guenter, came' down the cable. in slings in one of the most daring escapes of the cold war, Often Ijontg the roof. It was pouring -| Holzapfel 'yet returned to th "We went out of the room had a_ nylon-type lracket string tied to a hammer. would see it when he threw it. So that it would make no noise when it landed, he had padded the hammer head. Those in the West fastened a heavy cable to the hammer and Heinz and Jutta pulled it to them. "We were all very quiet. Guenter was sent over first." om \ WINDSOR LETTER car- rier John Snell knows the mail strike is over in the Windsor area as he pre- pares to go on his route early Friday. But while the pile of mail fs high as a re- sult of the strike, employ- ees in Windsor expect everything to be back to normal before the weekend. (CP) POLICE AWAIT NEW MARCH AMERICUS, Ga. (AP)--Riot- trained state troopers patrolled the streets today, waiting to see if Negroes would mark the end of a 24-hour suspension of civil rights demonstrations with re- newed street marches as prom- ised, The demonstrations were halted after Andrew A. What- ley Jr., a 21 - year - old white marine enlistee, was shot from a passing car. Two Negroes-- Eddie Will Lamar and Charley Lee Hopkins, both from Ameri- cus and in their 20s--have been charged with murder. -- The Sumter County grand jury has been called into extra- ordinary session Monday, pre- sumably to consider the case. Sammy Rushin, a field worker for the Student Non-Violent Co- ordinating Committee, said demonstrations would be re- sumed today, More than 250 whites gath- ered at a_ recreation centre Thursday night to hear a speech by segregationist Lester Mad- IN A HARNESS Holzapfel explained he had made a pulley out of a bicycle} wheel axle, with a shoulder and waist harnéss' slung under- neath, the person hanging on to an attachment to the axle as it rolled down the cable. "Then my wife went next. She} was hurt 'as she landed, but,| thank God, not. seriously. She} was only bruised." On the Western end, the cas} ble was fastened to an aban-| Racial Tension At Fever Pitch taurant rather than serve Ne- groes. Maddox and several local speakers urged that there be no retaliation against Negroes. The crowd also listened to a tape- recorded speech by Represent- ative Howard Callaway (Rep. Ga.), who warned that to strike back would be a tragic mistake. OFFICERS GUILTY At New Orleans, a federal judge Thursday convicted the top police officials of racially troubled Bogalusa, La., of civil contempt for ignoring his orders to protect civil rights demon- Strators. U.S. District Judge Herbert W. Christenberry ordered law- yers for the Congress of Racial Equality and the department of justice to prepare a decree out- lining sanctions against Boga- lusa public safety commissioner Arnold Spiers and Police Chief Claxton Knight. : Criminal contempt charges are still pending against Spiers dox, who sold his Atlanta res-! and Knight. CINCINNATI, Ohio Appeals affirmed Thursday the conviction. of (AP) = |The sixth U.S. Circuit Court cilahars in prison and fined $10,- Hoffa was sentenced to eight 000. King, Campbell and Parks Jimmy Hoffa Loses Appeal, Conviction Worth 8 Years MONTREAL STAYS OU UNTIL OTTAWA 'GIVE 'Nothing New Was Offered, No Meetings MONTREAL (CP) -- William} president of! Employ-! Houle, Montreal he Canadian Postal ees' Association, said today no general meeting of striking pos- tal workers is planned until the! federal government has some- thing new to offer. Montreal is the only major city where the strike, which) began July 22 and spread quickly, is still in effect, Mr. Houle said no new offer| came out of a meeting between) union officers and Postmaster General Tremblay. The meet-| ing ended early today. | Reporters asked Mr. Houle later today if the Montrgal strikers would be asked to fe-| consider continuation. of the) strike in view of Toronto strik-| ers' decision to return to work. | "There is no general meeting) planned for tonight," he said.) "Mr. Tremblay has offered us| nothing new." | Mr. Houle said, however, he} will meet during the day with other Montreal postal union leaders. Also involved in the strike is the Federated Associa- tion of Letter Carriers. Be- tween them the two unions rep- resent some 4,000 postal work- ers in Montreal. After the meeting of Mr. Houle and other strike leaders with Mr. Tremblay, Mr. Houle said a return to work could not be considered "until we get a concrete offer from the govern- ment that is at least close to the $660 annual increase m salary we have demanded." Mr, Tremblay arrived . 'here. Thursday night after strike leaders agreed to meet him. The 2% hour meeting was also attended by Roger Decarie, Montreal president of the Let- ter Carriers Association (CLC), Louis Laberge, president of the Quebec Federation of Labor (CLC), and Maurice Hebert, as- sistant co-ordinator for the QFL and Canadian Labor Congress. Prior to the meeting Mr. Tremblay said: 'I have come to Montreal only to explain the Are Planned' government's position and to try to establish direct communi- cations. I have no new offer to make and 'cannot make any until Judge (J. C.) Anderson makes his report." He would make no comments when the meeting ended. Judge Anderson was named by the government as a one- man commission to study' civil | service salaries for Class D employees. In this class there are 56,000 persons, 22,000 of whom are postal workers. Judge Anderson's appoint- ment came in the wake of a strike of postal workers that began July 22 in Montreal and Vancouver and spread rapidly until more than 70 per cent of the postal workers had left their jobs, including those in Toronto who voted Thursday to return to work. The issues that touched off the strike began' several months ago. Civil service association Jead- ers, including the Postal Worke ers' Brotherhood, began dig- cussing pay increases with the civil service commission and finally the treasury board, a cabinet committee headed by oe Minister Walter Gor- on. The brotherhood represents not only the postal employees' ; and letter carriers' but also' the Canadian Rail ' i Clerks Ane (CLE e commission re mended pay pitt Y annually for letter carriers, raising them to a. maximum + $4,680, and an increase of $ for most sorters, bringing them to a top of $5,040.. The treasury board agreed to these amounts. However, postal workers in Montreal and Vancouver re- fused to accept the offer and went on strike, which by last Tuesday had spread to 7 centres. Repeated calls by na- tional brotherhood officers to wait for. further negotiations with the government went un- heeded, Metro Vote Spurs Return Of All Mailmen In Ontario TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto) postal employees today led a return to: work in Ontario, end- ing in the province a series of postal walkout that began Thursday, July 22. | The return to work in Tor- onto was made on condition that a report containing favor- able recommendations is made within 14 days by Judge J. C, Anderson of Belleville, ap- Toronto workers voted 1,857|pointed by the federal govern- to 345 Thursday afternoon to go} back to work, and clerks and) mail handlers reported for duty at 5 p.m. They had gone on| strike last Sunday. Letter car-| son ment last week. to investigate the postal pay dispute. On Wednesday Judge Ander- indicated his report will recommend "substantial" pay riers returned early today tojincreases for all post office end a week-long walkout. Also back on the job were staff, In Windsor, the decision to postal. employees in _Oshawa,|return to work was made in a Lindsay, Windsor, Kingston,|joint meeting of the executives Brockville, Pembroke, George-|jof the letter carriers and pos- town, Amherstburg, Sarnia andital employees unions and re- Cobourg. Only Montreal and the Lake) St. John region of Quebec re-| mained strike-bound in Canada.' versed a membership decision Wednesday night which called for continuation of the continue ation of the strike. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS PM Shelves Any Plans For Election OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Minister Pearson indicated Thursday that elections considerations --either a general election or byelections to fill Commons vacancies -- have been shelved at least until the postal dispute is settled. Was he, in fact, considering a fall should I say about that, Dick, Richard O'Hagan. Steelworkers May general election? 'What "he asked turning to aide Give Strike Notice PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The United Steelworkers execu- tive board and wage policy committee meet today to con- sider serving 30-day strike notice on the U.S. basic steel industry. Under an interim contract that averted a strike May 1, either side is free to serve 30 days notice of termina- tion on or after Aug. 1. That would make midnight Aug. 30 the earliest possible date for the first steel strike in the U.S, | since 1959. IIL avgernaan Interna-jeach were sentenced to three} acne doned truck trailer lying in altional Teamsters union Presi-|years in prison. field. dent James. R. Hoffa on a} An appeal to the U.S. Su- Holzapfel said he took the|charge of jury-tampering. jpreme Court seemed certain. risk of the escape because of| The affirmation also included|Teamsters spokesmen have political repression, He said he|the convictions of Thomas Ew-jsaid previously Hoffa, head of constantly 'was buffetted be-|ing Parks, Nashville, Tenn.;|the world's largest union, would tween the propaganda of the|Larry Campbell of Detroit and/fight to the Supreme Court. regime and what he knew and/Ewing King of Nashville. Hoffa is appealing another|= found to be true. | They were convicted in the|federal conviction and five-year|= He said he was a member of/U.S. district court at Chatta-|sentence for defrauding the!* jew East. German Communist/nooga, Tenn., March 4, 1964, on|Teamsters' pension fund, in a|= ...In THE TIMES today... Maiimen Go Back To Face Backlog--P. 11 Civil Servants Dissatistied With Province's Offer--P, 3 Gail Harvey Leads Ladies Golf Tourney--P, 6 Senet iis Ann Landers--11 City News--9 Classified--16, 17, 18 Comics--15 Editorial--4 Financial--19 Obits---19 Sports--6, 7 Theatre--12 Whitby News--5 Women's--10, 11 Weother--2 party and was assigned by the|charges of having attempted to/Chicago case. \2 |party and was assigned by the|rig a jury at Hoffa's earlier) The Nashville trial, known as|# |party to explain its policies to|trial in Nashville, Tenn., on ajthe Test-Fleet case, ended with) = |his fellow workers. jconspiracy charge. ja hung bury. ' biouL { | ]

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