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TAD fore ye] 'The Oshawa~and District Labor Council Jast "nignt ~ asked Premier John Ro Delegates of Local 1817: Uniteu sveciwurnmers; a were on strike against Fit- good standard income =~ aii whereas the impartiality, of the legislation which au- RES ee SiTike "siitiatt;: a= ST of-vhichis recegnized under the Onfario Labor Relations Act -- parts to amend legislation which does not allow rental relief to striking workers who live in low-income hous- ing units. ODLC yice-president Thom- tings Limited this summer, have said that the law gives no grounds for a reduction or a moratorium on rents during an industrial dispute. Mr. Edwards, as chairman 'Therefore be it resolved that the ODLC write to Premier Robarts protesting the anxiety which this legis- lation has caused to mem- thorized this measure has been Violated by forcing a tenant involved in strike ac- tion to pay full rent even of the resolutions committee read the motion as follows: "Whereas the Oshawa Housing Authority has pro- vided much needed relief with the construction of as Edwards introduced a motion on the issue which the delegates approved unanimously. The matter has been debated by the council during past months. though his income has been drastically reduced, there- by favoring the employer in a strike situation, and where as this unilateral action causes distress to families faced with the difficulty of a bers of this council, and urg- ing that at the next session of the Legislature the of- fending legislation be remoy- ed, and it be substituted by measures which will provide BOR BODY SEEKS STRIKE RENT RELIEF 2 _maratorinm on rents ta people involved 'ina' strike and Wat a lormura worked out in cénjunction with the Ontario Federationof Labor... for the repayment at the end of a strike, the ceiling of which shall be the minimum amount under the income balanced plan." Copies of the letter will go to Doriald MacDonald, president of the provincial New Democratic Party and to David Archer, OF L presi- dent. Oshawa Times SHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1965 She Queen of the month for having lost the most weight, Mrs. J. S. Poirier, a proud member of the Motor City iia" QUEEN WITH "LEASTEST™ right is Elizabeth Devenish, 12, newly elected Tiny Tot Princess. Three more TOPS Chapters have sprung up ali Streamliners, is crowned by former Queen June Deveau. On the left is Teen Princess Phyliss Ann Goguen, 14. At Labor Body Urges Council City council will be asked by the Oshawa and district Labor Council to have its air pollu- tion inspector enforce the smoke pollution bylaw. CHECK STACKS | At a meeting last night, the labor council decided to request city council to have its inspector check on the smoke coming from the chimneys of all large buildings in the city and if the smoke is found to be contamin- vincial government. "This is aj William Blaszczak, "there should be Ontario-wide|gate and Albert Taylor, Local action to clean the air, and keep | 222 president, both said that the 'it clean."" war against pollution should also |taminating the waters and |streams of the province tion was also stressed by Clif- ford Pilkey, ODLC president. Struck Plant Policy ating the air, that the bylaw governing this be enforced and corrective measures taken. ROTS PAINT' William Rutherford, a dele-|last night answered the Oshawa gate of Local 222 United Auto ang District Labor Council in Workers, said: "The pollution} coming out of smoke stacks is terrible -- down at Houdaille In- dustries the stuff that comes out of the chimneys rots paint off the cars in the parking lot. "T his can be cleaned up by| installing filter equipment," he said. He asked that the ODLC send a letter asking for a clean-| up campaign go to city council. Douglas Lindsay, a delegate of Local 218, Canadian Union of Public Employees, said that the letter ought to go to the pro-/ | Response From Bodies i Two public bodies in Oshawa; J. B. Annand, Public Utilities) Commission manager, wrote set a policy on making pur-|the needs of the PUC and the chases from strike-bound com-|necessity of making long-range|°f 4 maze | plans for equipment. | Mr. Annand said, that in view) panies. Ross Backus, Board of Edu-| cation administrator, wrote say-|of the need for speedy deliver-| cioseqd New Year's Day. ing that the matter has beenjies, it was unlikely that the| But the club is making up place any orders|for it now. At least three Christ- referred to the policy commit-|PUC would tee, composed of trustees Stan-| with companies struck by their ley Lovell, Russell Murphy and/ employees. T. D. Thomas, for study and a| The ODLC delegates moved|who attend the club's nursery| that the letter be filed. report. gifts; jwill be a Declare War On Pollution HOSPITAL STAFF: a Local province wide issue,'"' he said,|1817, United Steelworkers, dele-| The need for government ac-|.be carried on against those con-| ~ Club Closed that the PUC has to buy from|things to do Christmas Day companies when a contract to|that is after they've finished)! \response to requests that they purchase is in force. He outlined|toying with their Yuletide gifts. liams. But, jlight will be Santa, who will be Pension Merger Slam By Municipal Unionist MAKE PATIENTS' YULE items valued at $2 or less will be given to the patients Dec 24, the day the hospital ob- serves Christmas. Officials of the Ontario County branch of the associa- tion ask that gift contribu- tions not be wrapped. Donations can be made in Oshawa at the McLaughlin in the city during the past year 4 final appeal for dona tions of small gifts. from Osh- awa and Whitby district resi- dents to brighten Christmas for 1,400 Ontario Hospital yatients, was made today by the Canadian Mental Health © + Association. | Gifts such as pipes, cigar- GET THE BIRD | ettes, shaving gear, nylons, E. G. Storie, chairman of | books, socks, gloves, scarves,. Public Library, the YWCA, the Oshawa General Hospital | jewellery and many other White Cross Centre and Jury board of governors, is ex- : pecied to 'carve the bird" at today's hospital staff Christ- | --Oshawa Times Photo "iit aera. cee: Demand For City Facts 'Fantastic: Williams and doctors, will serve the nurses and staff. The party is an annual feature for hospi- tal workers. The demand for the city's; 'And we haven't been giving | portfolio of facts "has been veg or away to just anyone," he . |tastic', says James Williams,| said after the meeting. "Most of Over Holida |industrial commissioner. jthem are sent out on request to y| "It's a good indicator," he re-|industries or their agents as a jmarked Tuesday at an in-jresult of our advertising." Hundreds of youngsters will| dustrial commission meeting. The commission approved a find themselves fresh out of} Five hundred copies printed|second printing of an additional _|last January were expected to/500 copies at a cost of about last for two years, said Mr. Wil-|$500, The commission staff per- he said the bro-jiodically updates information in Simcoe Hall Boy's Club--hubjchures, which contain consider-|the brochures. of activities for the|able 'fact'? information about; In other business the commis- -- will shut its door|the city are running out. 'sion: "SAY TOUCHE" nes tare arene os' Commission To Stay A party for some 24 children younger set for Christmas Day, and Boxing Day too. The hall will also be and sisters -- gill be held at the} hall this Friday morning. High- soo ana tier bones! Away From Petitions | Canvassing downtown prop-)a letter back and say--touche!" ree-and-easy with his sack ofjerty owners with a view tojchuckled commission member gifts |having them sign a petition for| Keith Ross. | Another party will be held| the construction of new---sidé-;--------+ woe nice -- Dec. 22 for children who attend) walks is-not-within the jurisdic-| the --hall's--schoolfor--crippled/tion--of the industrial commis-| children. |sion, members decided Tues-| And tomorrow at noon there/ day | party for Brownies| If property owners signed the| and Cubs of the crippled chil-| petition they would pay 100 per dren's centre. ; cent of the cost of construction. | As well tomorrow, the Golden|If the city decided to construct) j Age Club of the hall will hold|new: sidewalks, property own-| jits annual Christmas celebra-| ers and the city would split the {club is for people 65 years of jary School Principals for per-|the central business district and |mission to have the Upper Can-| more specifically in those areas) In Dog Case | RETIREMENT AT CHRISTMAS | Oshawa. Dairy Co. Ltd, honored three retiring em- ployees at its annual Christ- mas dinner. Maurice Hart (left) former company presi- dent, who retired last July ; after 50 years service, re- ceived a framed portrait of himself. William Stevens (centre), retiring after 36 years service, was given an easy chair and lawn furni- ture: Alvin Blair (right), re- tiring after 36 years service Was given a camera au electric hedge trimmers. ida | architect --Oshawa Times Photo 'been tied up nearly 24 bours. 'meeting.' itirement system. }in-thick -Whitby brush, cost 50-50 | tion between 7 and 10 p.m. The "The commission shouldn't be age and over, involved in petitions," said| ee ee ----|Maurice Hart, commission | . |chairman. Other members ook Van Tri agreed and it was decided to p notify city council to this effect. . Last month the commission} On Board List jrecommended to council that} | "early consideration be given to ithe reconstruction of sidewalks A request. from the Second-| currently in- need of repair in ada News Agency bookmobile | where building renovations have visit the city's collegiates will|been completed." be dealt with at a meeting to-. The recommendation was re- night of the Oshawa board of|ferred to the public works education. jcommittee which reported back Other items on tonight's agen-|to council. Council adopted include letters from the|the committee's recommenda- regarding the East-|tion that the industrial commis dale Collegiate and Vocational|sion 'be requested to assist in Institute project; a report from}a program of sidewalk recon- Mrs. Doris Gregory regarding} struction by undertaking to can- the request for a home instruc-|yass the abutting property own- tion unit at Donevan Collegiate) ers with a view to having them Institute and an amendment to|sign a petition for the construc-| a resolution regarding the On-|{ion of new. sidewalks." | tario Municipal Employees' re-| 'Why don't we just send them} : scone d | Labor Program For Canada's Birthday Plans for Canada's 100th Birthday Year of 1967 were be- gun at the December meeting of Who tied up the dog? Np one\the Oshawa and District Labor} knows--yet, but the H@mane Council with the approval of aj Society is getting tips." délegate-formed-centennial-com-; An official of the Society says| mittee. seven leads were phoned into} An executive committee rec- the local branch yesterday in| ommendation called for "A Cen- the case of the cross-bred Ger-jtennial committee be set up by man Shepherd found Dec. 6 tied|the ODLC whose function pvill up to a clump of downed trees|be to explore possibilities of. a labor program during 1967 that And though most of the leads}wouid be appropriale for cele aren't panning out, every little} brating Canada's 100th birthday bit helps, says Al Wavidson, the|The committee to be comprised society's district inspector wholof five delegates and they be| unleased the dog after it, had|elected ai January} Getting Warm While most little girls her ige are playing with dolis two-year-old Laurie Owen of 383 Rossmount ave. is at the the 7 | Workers Have No Rights IGHTER -- To Bargain, Says Lindsay and Lovell Lid. in the Ross- lynn Plaza; in Whitby at ; ; . Jury and Lovell Ltd., Allin's Douglas Lindsay came outjand decides that the pension Drug Store, and the public strongly against the provincial/plans will not be 'stacked'. library; in Port Perry at or a Hecate plan | "The public employee is Lawrence's Drug Store, the ae Pa ee ecens a. poe i |Singled out as a second class Medical Centre; in Ajax at shawa an ecealencad BAT ' ' the Police Department, |4#bor Council [aie te So ; ' ig 4 i jrights to bargain for his pen- Kemp's Pharmacy and the |NO CONSULTATION (in like the. industrial Bene public library and in Brook-| y indsay. a de | "sig Mr. Lindsay, a delegate Of|/ members. We plan a demonstra- lin at the Medical Centre and |7,ocal 218, Canadi Ini : ae aed fe Bias ; |Local 218, Canadian Union of/tion which will make them wipe Richardson's general store. Public Employees, followed upjthis legislation off the books," a letter of protest against the|ne said Z proposed merging of the On-| jtario Municipal Employees Re-|/NO REPLY tirement System with the Can-| Last month the ODLC wrote ada Pension Plan with an at-|to the provincial government tack on the government's re-joutlining its opposition to an striction of gvorkers' rights. amalgamation of any pension "Premier Robarts, without/plans for municipal. or other consulting any of the union|public service employees with spokesmen, comes out with a|the CPP. No reply has been re- |consideration of the union costs| ceived. K-Mart Union pig coi Wins Support lture of up to $1,000 for signs; | Support for a union local injhe said. "We want a plain con- He. jits fight for a first contract|tract, with no frills." 'NOT GF : |with a local store was pledged) He said that cashiers at the --because staff offices are lo-\jast night by the Oshawa and'store are now paid $1 per hour. cated.on Simcoe st., outside city| District Labor Council. |"One girl had to work 54 hours hall, approved the -- of a} move to support mem-jto earn $44," he said, 'ast copying machine for $10 a month) pers of Local 414, Retail, Whole-/ week I went home with $47 for and a purchase nab filing cab-|<31¢ and Department Store|48 hours work. pet ry Cou 'at Te Union, came after the meeting) « thought the law was there cupboard ala toa cost of $40 a the Albert. SeelworkeTs|to protect he workers, It doesn't duced the motion to urchase| all was addressed by Norbert) protect us." the new equipment *ust as Robichaud, a union member. | wr Robichaud said that members of the union voted long as you don't buy from |, He said that the union has General Printers Ltd." Other| gone through Hell" since Sep-| mnanimously Sunday to strike at furniture in the office has been|tember in contract negotletions tha store. "We are having an- purchased from another firm|With the S. S: Kresge Com-| other meeting Wednesday night and it was explained that the|Pany, owners of the K-Mart\/and will take a strike vote new equipment would be bought store on Highway 2. again, on the grounds that the from the sanie firm so that it) 'The union is going to get in| company doesn't want to negoti- would match. |there in spite of their tactics," |ate in good faith." --approved sketch plans for| the Farewell Industrial Park) identification sign which Mr. Williams said he expects will be erected in the park early in the Inew year. The commission! NO DOLLS comrols on a slot-car racing track manoevering her rac- ing machine around hairpin turns. Laurie is ihe city's » ' = FOR LAURIE youngest slot-car enthusiast. The above picture was taken at the slot-car racing track $a a » the basement of her father's "home Her father, Don Owen, was the founder of the slot-car racing club in Oshawa. ~--Oshawa Times Phote e