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re HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette OSHAWA and Chronicle WHITBY VoL 7--NO. 143 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES JNION VOTING ON GM PAY OFFER 2 4 Ten-Cent nt Increase Being Considered In Two-Day Poll At a meeting of the G.M. Division of Local C.1.0., last night, it was decided unanimously to put to a vote the company's offer of a ten cent across the board increase. The union had asked for a 1614 board plus other concessions. The Bargaining Committee has recommended the rejection of the Company's Softer, he Ballotting on this issue will held today and tomorrow at the UAW Hall. In the event that the vote is in favor of rejection, last night's membership meeting recom- mended that the bargaining com- mittee further approach the man- agement for a "substantially im- proved offer." "In the event that a substantially mproved offer is not made, this peeting authorizes the executive to lake necessary steps to conduct a strike vote," the 2,000 members of the union present at the meeting in O.C.V.I. voted. If a walkout is called by the Oshawa division it will mean that some 4,500 persons will be on strike. Tonight the Windsor G. M. = local will hear a similar report from the bargaining committee and union officials are sure that the 650 border city members will follow the same action as their fellow members here. In their original submissions, the Oshawa G. M. division had. asked for a 16 1-2 cent increase across the board; a 40-hour week without loss of take-home pay; a social security plan involving hospitalization and surgical benefits, etc., for workers and their families; an increase in statutory holidays with double time and a half for those working on them and a more equitable equiliza- tion in pay in some categories. 15 Rejection dnjicated e meeting was told by George Burt, regionaL, "di¥éétor of the union, that on June 13, the bargaining committee realized that there was little pessibility of 'coming to an agreement with the company and offered a compromise whereby the union agreed to ask no further gen- eral increases until the cost-of- living index moved from its present figure of 153.3 to 160. From that point on the union asked for an automatic general increase of one cent per hour for every 1.3 point increase in. the index figure. On June 16, Mr. Burt continued, tL.: company sent a letter to Mal- colm Smith, chairman of the shop committee, offering a 10 cent in- crease across the board to be arrived at by granting a nine cent an hour increase to all day workers plus an increase of two statutory holidays a year with pay and a seven cent an hour increase on basic pay for incentive workers plus two extra statutory holidays per year with pay. Mr. Smith reported that since many requests had been received rom members who are veterans that ore of the two extra statutory holidays be Nov. 11, the union had asked for this. In return, he said, the company had laid down that the two extra statutory holidays would be Thanksgiving and Victoria Day. Mr. Burt also pointed out that the company's offer was contingent on the extension of the present agree- ment to June 11 and any agreement, if agreed upon by the union before June 23, would be dated from June 12. He also said that the company's TWO-DAY POLL (Continued on Page 2) 9299 Lady U.AW.- cent increase across the UNREST STIRS IN PALESTINE DURING TRUCE Tel Aviv, Israel, June 18--(AP)-- | Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion | takes a dim view of long range peace | prospects for Palestine and even | Spontaneous Combustion Blamed for Barn Fire t 44 fire letely Believed to have been started by sp neous c doubts hostilities can be staved off | razed a barn, owned by S. R. Alger, on the south side of King Street West, until the four-week truce ends. He expressed this view before the Israeli Provisional State Council Thursday night after talks with | Count Folke Bernadotte, United Na- | tions mediator. The Prime Minister said the Jews are ready to participate in peace talks at Rhodes "as full-right part- ners, but we are not sure if the} Arab leaders and their foreign ad- | visers are also interested in peace. "We hear," he said, "the British | will accomplish evacuation during | the month of June and at that time | we can expect renewed Arab attacks | on Israel from the land, sea and | Sunday at a Province-wide meeting | air. " hb) inister Moshe Shertom.| told the council Israel will send | "Jewish experts" to Rhodes to con- | sult with Bernadotte, United Nations officials said the Arabs previously agreed to send four consultants for the prelimin- ary talks. Shertok said Bernadotte had pro- | posed that "the first stage of the | Rhodes talks will be a conference | between Bernadotte and his staff, with the assistance of experts from the Arab and Jewish sides who will be consulted on special questions." (Reports in Cairo said Bernadotte | might ask for an extension of the | four-week truce. Abdel Rahman Az- | zam Pasha, Secretary of the Arab | League commented that the U. N. mediator should sutemit his peace plans to Arabs and Jews before the four-week period expires.) Ben-Gurion indicated that Arab opposition to recognizing the State | of Israel] and to continuing immi- | gration were likely to be the main stumbling blocks to any agreement at Rhodes. Bernadotte's white - colored Red Cross plane arrived here Thursday cnly a few minutes after Tel Aviv air raid sirens wailed a half-hour | alarm as unidentified planes circled | high over the city. Even during the truce, mobiliza- tion for possible renewal of the war continues. The Jews have finished calling up clasess of able-bodied men up to 36 years of age for com- bat ruty. Those over 42 are mobiliz- ed in the home guard. Those be- | tween 36 and 42 are being held for | future military call as neded. A new order this week authorized the mobilization of others for es- sential work and industry--men up | to 55 women up to 50, 'Manager Of Employment Service Wins High Award Outstanding recognition for achievements in the employment service field was conferred upon Leonard Coulson, manager of the Oshawa office of the Employment Service of Canada, at the annual convention of the International As- sociation of Public Employment Services in Windsor. Mr, Coulson was presented with a scroll, a cheque for $100 and had his expenses to the convention paid. The convention, which was.attend- ed by some 800 members from the United States and Canada, an- nually makes an award to one Ca- nadian and one American for out- standing service. The award to Mr. Coulson was in recognition of the relationship / which exists between General Mo- tors of Canada, Ltd. and the loc- al employment officer whereby all the employment needs of the com- pany are handled. This is the first such arrangement made in Canada, it is understood. Also entering in- to the award was the reduction 'of paper work put into operation by the local office in the case of mass . lay-offs which reduces the inter- view time to a minimum. The loc- al ployment Office also, in co- ration with the Oshawa Board LEONARD COULSON of Education, arranged night class- es for veterans from which was urban York Township. Firemen said | evolved the English classes for Pol- (the blaze, originated in the electri- | shortly ish veterans, | | ing dinner; | west of the Avalon Dance Pavilion. A dog, owned by Don Starr, leasee of the barn, was released by Yeo Lavilette who lives on the top floor of a nearby farm house. A quantity of hay and a set of harness were lost in the blaze, --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Imperial War|Commons Cuts Check-Off 'VeteransMeet Clause From Labor Code Here Sunday While Passing Legislation Over 200 members of the Lori Section of the Canadian Legion will | meet at Branch 43, Oshawa, on | of that organization. | Dresidentdien Owen of Chielph-has | i advised the Oshawa Branch that | two bus loads of delegates will be | coming from Western Ontario while Branch 22, Woodbine Heights, To- | ronto, expect to send a delegation | of around 35 members. egates are expected to attend from | branches throughout discuss problems peculiar perial Veterans and for which they have been striving to solve through legislation for some time. Branch 43, which will be host to the delegates, expects close to 250 members to be present at the even- which will be served by the Ladies Auxiliary. It is expected that a large number of Oshawa Legion members will also be on hand when the meeting opens at to Im- | | 2:30 p.m., Sunday, June 20. 4 Children Dead in Fire At Montreal Montreal, June 18--(CP) -- Four children were dead and a fifth was in hospital wilh serious, burns after fire swept through two wooden homes near suburban = Longueuil early today. Firemen stood helplessly by as the flames leaped through the two-stor- ey buildings. They could find no water mains for their hoses. The dead are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Boucher who them- selves -were burned, They are: Claude, 13, Denise, 15, Clair, 13; and Claudette, seven. The fifth child, Hughette, 11, was snatched from the flames by Prov- incial Police Constables J. V. Goy- ette and Michael Bell. Hospital of- ficials reported her condition as "fair." Two other youngsters of the fam- fly were reported safe. The fire was discovered in a small restaurant and home in one of the structures. A pumper was the first fire-fighting vehicle to arrive on the scene, but it proved useless when no water mains could be found. Mr. Boucher apparently succeed- ed in putting an alarm before the fire disrupted telephone service in the area. The operator said she could hear "children screaming in the background." PASS AT 0. Three district boys have passed their examinations at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. Jack Nesbitt, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Nesbitt of Brooklin, and Lance Beath, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morley Beath, Beath Farms, were both suc- | cessful - in the second year tests; while Donald Mountjoy, son of Mrs. Mountjoy and the late H. Mountjoy, R.R. 2, Oshawa, secured second class honors'in the first year. $10,000 FIRE LOSS Toronto, June 18--(CP)--A $10,- 000 fire 'early today damaged a var- nish and lacquier company in sub- cal control panel. Other del- ! Ontario to | _ | Industrial By GEORGE KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, June 18 -- (CP) -- The Fed in" "the Commons rough legislative passage. The Code, which will apply only [to industries, such as the railroads, | which come under federal jurisdic- |tion, now goes to the Senate. In a series. of hotly-contested votes, the chamber did these things: 1. Killed a provision, inserted | when the bill was before the House Relations Committee, which would have made the union dues checkoff mandatory. 2. Narrowed the definition of | "confidential" employees exempted | from the Code's collective bargain- ing provisions. The exemption ap- plies only to employees engaged in work on labor relations. 3. Rejected a C.CF. amendment which would have put professional engineers under the Code. 4. Refused to exclude dietitians from the Code. This was sought by H. W. Winkler (L-Lisgar). 5. Rejected a C.CF. attempt to make the proposed Canada Labor Relations Board responsible for launching prosecutions for viola- tions. This is left up to unions and employers concerned. 6. Rejected a C.C.F. motion to bar lawyers from labor board hearings except where all parties consent. 7. Approved a stipulation protect- ing the pension rights of persons engaging in legal strikes after the Code becomes law. One other piece of legislation was adopted as the drive for proroga- tion next week was intensified. It was a' bill repealing Ontario's old- style Lord's Day. Debate Adjourned The government moved second reading of a bill to amend the Annuities Act but suddenly ad- al Labor Code won approval Thorsdwy "after | | | | | | | Labor Minister Mitchell, explained | that increased purchases of zovern- journed the debate when stormy opposition to its provisions develop- ed on all sides of the house. In the opening proceedings, 8 - Minister ©* Mayhew an- nounced a ban on the export of frozen British Columbla salmon. Prime Minister Mackenzie King promised to make a further state- | ment soon on federal aid to flooded | areas of British Columbia. | Labor Minister Mitchell told | questioners the government did not | intend to seek power to take over shipping companies involved in | {labor trouble on the Great Lakes. | The Commons, meantime, adopted a resofition to sit Saturdays until | prorogation is reached. The flood of opposition to the annuities will be developed after P. E. Cote, parliamentary assistant to ment annuities had necessitated re- vision of the legislation. In addition to confirming the in- terest reduction, the bill also would raise from $1,200 to $1,500 the maximum annuity which an indi- vidual may take in any one year. Criticism of the proposals came from Lewis Menary (PC-Wellington North), - John R. MacNicol (PC- Toronto Davenport), John Diefen- baker (PC-Lake Centre), Angus MacInnis (CCF-Vancouver East), and Harry 'Jackman (PC-Toronto COMMONS (Continued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness today. Overcast tonight and Saturday. Cooler with occasional show- ers on Saturday. Winds south- east 15 this afternoon and east 15 Saturday afternoon, other- wise 'light. Low - tonight and high Saturday 54 and 66. Mt. Carmel, Pa., June 18--(AP)-- The bits of wreckage of a United Airlines DC-6, strewn over an acre of woodland, today posed a difficult problem for investigators probing into the cause of the crash that took the lives of 43 persons, including theatrical producing Earl Carroll. The big airliner, en route from San iego, Calif.- to New York, plow. ed into 60,000-volt power line and exploded into flames Thursday af- termoon near this eastern Pennsyl- | vania anthracite ccmmunity. The bodies--39 passengers, includ- ing two infants, and four crew mem- bers--were burned and torn, many beyond recognition. Among the pas. sengers besides Carroll were Mrs. Jack Oakie, divorced wife of the ac- | tor, and Beryl Wallace, a Carroll star. The crash put power lines in the area out of ccenmission and forced | shutdown of the continental Ger- | mantown and mid-valley collieries. | Emergency service was installed to furnish light for the official inves- tigators and colunteers. as they | searched the wreckage. Full electric service was restored before midnight but 1.200 miners were still idle today because Death Toll Set at 43 In Flaming Air Crash during the shut down of the power plant considerable water had flow- ed into the mines. "It is as bad a mess as I have ever seen," said Joseph Fluett, re- gional chief of the Civil Aeronau- | tics Board. He was joined by experts from the | United Airlines, oDuglas Aircraft | Company, manufacturers of the big | plane and the Airline Pilots Asso-| ciation. ! They searched through the wreckage until midnight last night | and returned to the task this morning. | Jack Herlihy, vice-president in charge of operations for United, set up an emergency office in one 'of the collieries, where 80 miners were shaken as Capt. George Warner, Jr., pilot of Westmount, I11., veered away from the anthracite breaker which extended 265 feet into the air. The airliner, flying not more than 30 feet off the ground, was attempt- ing an emergency landing after one of its motors caught fire. It barely missed the breaker, hit the power line and caromed 200 feet into a hillside. The carburgter from one of the engines was found on "big mountain," about 1,200 feet from the wreck. King Street Barn Razed By Flames A large barn on the south side of King Street West near the Ava- lon dance hall went up in flames late yesterday afternoon in a fire believed caused by spontaneous comBustion. The barn, owned by Stewart Alger, Simcoe Street North, was covered by insurance. Al small quantity of hay and a set of harness were also lost. The barn, of frame construction | with metal roof, was rented from | Mr. Alger by Don Starr, 110 Wil- | liam Street. Starr's two horses, | fortunately, were out. to - pasture when the flames broke out. | The fire was first noticed by Leo Laviolette, who lives in the top floor of the farmhouse near- by. He saw flames licking along the side of the barn and opening the door, saw them spreading near a manure pile. Releasing Starr's dog which had been shut in the barn, Laviolette ran to the house to give the alarm. By the time he returned the structure was a mass of flames. A bucket brigade of children | was organized to douse nearby sheds with water to prevent the spread of flames. By the time an Oshawa fire truck under Fire Chief W. R. Elliott arrived, the blaze had spread so rapidly; that it was impossible to save any part of the building. Within 15 minutes of the time Laviolette noticed the flames, the roof went crashing down. Since the fire occurred just at the rush hour and after school, hundreds watched the blazing timber. Cars were parked along both sides of the highway, slowing traffic. Mr. Alger could not estimate the amount of damage but said that the barn will not be rebuilt, Will Not Renew Home Agreement With Oshawa At the session in the Court House at Whitby this morning the Ontario ; County Council passed the follow-! ing motion: ! "That the clerk instruct D. R.| Ruddy, the county solicitor, to pre- | pare and serve on the City of Osh- awa a notice advising that the agrement between the city and the | County of Ontario will not be re- newed after December 31, 1948, so far as it affects the County Home." It was explained to the meeting that the County Clerk had written the City of Oshawa asking that a committee be set up to discus the | situation as affecting the Home. | The clerk reported that no reply to this communication had been re- ceived. It was as a result of this re- port that the above motion, which was moved by Deputy Reeve D. B. McIntyre of Whitby and seconded by Reeve Thomas Harding of Reach Township, was passed. 2 SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS Miss J. I. Canning, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs, Morley L. Canning, | King Street East, and Jack A. Cur-| tin, son of Mrs. Edward R. Curtin, | Elgin. Street East, are listed among | the successful candidates in the | second year examinations of the | | hase course 'of the Faculty of Arts, | University of Toronto. AFTER MELEE Wage Scale Main Issue After Some Clauses Withdrawn At the final meeting between executives of General Motors of Canada Limited and the Bargaining Committee of the G.M. Division, Local 222, U.A.W.-C.L,O., a definite offer of an increase of 10 cents per hour across the board was made » the Ly. The offer was made up as follows: sip 10 all day-worker classifications an 1 4 ARRESTED | increase of nine cents an hour plus two more paid holidays equivalent to one cent an hour; to all group- | bonus Wore an increase of seven |e nts an hour on base rate plus 1 more berg holidays. Since some other submissions of th: union had been withdrawn by the union, the scale of pay was the main point of | discussion. | Text of Offer Text of the offer made by W. A, Wecker, president of General Mo- tors, to the bargaining committee | follows: "During the five Yargaiding ses= sions we have had with your Com=- mittee since June 3rd, there has | been frank and extensive discussion of the wage submission you present- ed. In the past two days we have carefully reviewed all of your pres- entations and the arguments in favor of them which you advanced IN D.P. CAMP Hornepayne, June 18 -- (CP) -- Fourteen Northern: Ontario bush workers were scheduled to appear in | court today on charges arising from | a Wednesday night pulp camp fight near here. Inspector T. Wilkinson, head of the Ontario Provincial Police de- tachment at Sudbury, said the men were charged with assault, disorder- with creditable ¢larity and vigor. On ly conduct and obstructing police. | our part we believe we expressed Inspector T. Wilkinson, head of} Management's viewpoint as clearly the Ontario Provincial Police de-| as possible, tachment at Sudbury, said the men | "At this time we wish to sum up. were charged with assault, disorder- | ly conduct and obstructing police. Beer-drinking in this Algcma dis- | It seems to us that your entire re quest, although it was submitted in six separate clauses, was an expres trict community on the Canadian | sion of a single problem, namely, National Railways 250 miles north- | | how to protect the employees you west of Sudbury was said to have | represent against the increases in been a factor in.the trouble in the | consumer prices--increases, which, Marathon Pulp and Paper Company | because of the removal of controls, camp 1% miles west of Hornepayne, | have been most burdensome in the Talk here was that Canadian lum- | past year. bermen grumbled because European | "So, let us discuss your submission displaced persons hired as bush |clause by clause beginning with workers had Been assigned quarters | Clause 2: 2. In accordance with previously occupied by the Cana-| clause 52 of our present collective dians. The Canadians moved else- | agreement, we request the Company. where in the camp, discussed the | to negotiate our request for a 40- situation over several rounds of | hour week without loss of present beer and then, shouting angry | earnings. | threats and curses, started for the| This would carry our wage scale camp. | so far beyond prevailing rates, both Someone raced to the pulp camp | in our own area and other manu=- to warn the imenigrants. Another | facturing areas in Canada that un- | ®pped off Provincial Constable Ed | der these circumstances the Come | Schroeder, who found a doctor and pany believes the demand uncalled WAGE ISSUE (Continued on Page 2) 14 ARRESTED (Continued on Page 2) Find oil Slick on Water Where 'Jet Plane Plunged- Trenton, June 18--(Staff)--R.C.| Mrs. L. J. Brock of R.R. 4, Bow= |AF. search planes flying from here | manville, reported that at 6:30 this morning she saw a plane dro are believed to have located the ismoke bombs in the lake about > exact spot where a Vamvire jet mile off shore and then saw boats fighter crashed into Ifake Ontario | heading for the location. about a mile off Bowmanville on | At the Trenton air station of the Wednesday. The search planes 'R.C.AF. it was announced that im= early this morning spotted an oil ;mediately the oil slick had been slick on the water in the area in |sighted, a Royal Canadian Navy which the fast fighter crashed. {diving crew composed of CPO John This is the first time that an oil | Brown, MBE, of Halifax; CPO. slick has Leen seen "since the jet |Bert Drake of Lower Sackville, plane took its fatal plunge, carrying |N.S., and LS Carl Vaninderstine of Sqdn. Ldr. S. Y. Broadbent of St. | Montague, PEI, began loading Thomas to his death. Searchers on |their gear on an R.C.A.F. barge planes and surface craft were un- which will be towed to the scene successful all day yesterday in pin- [by a Fairmile sub-chaser, It is pointing the location of the crash. | hoped that diving operations will R.C.AF. officials believe that the [start this afternoon. oil had begun to seep out of the | CPO Brown, an ace navy diver, wreckage, bits of which were found 'won his decoration for recovering floating in the lake, early this a depth charge from Halifax hare morning. | Por in the fall of 1940. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS WOUNDS ANNOUNCER, KILLS SELF Montreal, June 18 -- (CP) -- Jacques Desbaillets, Montreal radio announcer was shot and wounded in suburban Westmount today and police said his assailant, C. R. McCort, Desbaillets' father-in-law, committed suicide immediately afterwards. Desbaillets' wound was not considered serious, RUSH TO FIGHT NEW FIRE Sudbury, June 18' -- (CP) -- Fire-fighting crews, hose, and pumps were flown today to a new forest fire, 25 miles north of Espanola. Scattered thunderstorms during the night helped firefighters in their battle with a half-dozen old fires in this district but the accompanying lightning sparked a new timber area into flame. 61 JAP MINERS KILLED Tokyo, June 18--(AP)--Sixty-one Japanese miners were killed or missing in a Northern Kyushu coal mine explosion today, the newspaper Asahi reported. Asahi said 65.bodies were recovered. Eight miners survived the gas explosion in the Mitsubishi coal mine at Umimachi, several miles east of Fukuoka. ROB HOSPITAL OF $12,000 Montreal, June 18--(CP)--Two 'armed bandits today stole the $12,000 payroll of the western division of the Montreal General Hospital and made their get-away in a stolen taxicab. The grab was made at the very en= trance to the hospital. v