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U.AW. Official Warns Of Bene volence THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA" Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITRY VOL. 10--No. OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1951 A s PAGE THREE Asks Congregation To StandFor The Oneness Of The Body Of Christ "Remember we must always stand for the oneness of the body of Christ so that we will always be together as members of the church of Christ. 'We should use this as a means of deepening and heightening our membership in the churci, * wec.a.- ed Rev. Hugh F. Davidson, M.A., in his farewell message to the members of Knox Presbyterian Church at the morning service yesterday. Mr. Davidson closed his pastorate of slightly over five years yesterday and next Sunday will assume his duties as minister of First Presby- terian Church, Chatham. Expressing his thanks for all the good wishes extended to his family and himself, Mr. Davidson said it was difficult to put into words all the thoughts which these best wishes engendered. "As I take form- al leave of the congregation I am very conscious of the things that I might hawe done during by minis- try in Oshawa I regret severing our association and also that I did not more thoroughly do the work that had to be done," he commented. At Important Point Regarding the future of the con- gregation, Mr. Davidson said: "I feel that as a congregation you have grown, and stand at an important point in your life. You have under- taken the task of expanding your- selves in the community. I hope that this sign of life will remain and the flame of Christian spirit will remain unquenched. "I would also ask to always be mindful of the oneness of the body of Christ, I hope that Christ will be with you as you address yourselves to the calling of .. new minister. Do not leave this important task to a few. Let this task be the expression of the judgment and minds of all. I would bespeak your prayers that the congregation will be wise in its choice. . "As I have said before the Chris- tian does not say 'goodbyé.' Further- more I do not want to say farewell as I do not like a note of finality. I hope that my ministry will con- tinue to bear fruit and that I will be able to seq you as individuals and visit frequently in your midst." "A Personal Faith" Basing nis sermon on the theme "A Personal Faith" and taling his text from the 31st chapter and 27th to 34th verses .of Jeremiah, Mr. Davidson said that man is not a Christian because he lives in & Christian country or belongs to a Christian group. There was a ten- dency, he continued, to lose our- selves in a herd and display a re- luctance to stand out as individuals and be, counted one by one. It was because Jeremiah saw these weak- nesses in his fellow men that he was 'moved to write the passage from which the text was taken. Too many, Mr. Davidson com- mented, rest ony a faith that is not a reality. Too many spend their time looking for loopholes in Chris- tian principles and when they feel guilty point a finger at someone else. "It is a marvellous way of making ourselves feel good. We all do it," he emphasized. "Attendance at church should be a sign of our own lack rather than of superiority. When God's law is written in a man's heart he is free. God's covenant, "I shall be thy God and ye shall be my people' has never changed through the ages." World Needs Help Commenting that the world today is confronted with troubles which may break into disaster at any time, Mr. Davidson said that people are disheartened and in need of help. The United Nations would not be the salvation of the world unless its members were sure and steady. He urged his listeners not to put their faith in vague things, but to trust in God and to further His work as the individual is the key to the moralivy of the community and the nation. "Set His ways within you so that you will be sound, steady and right, and express God's law as it is writ- ten in your hearts," Mr. Davidson concluded. C.R.A. Annual Meeting Tomorrow Members of the Oshawa and Dis- trict | Community Recreation Asso- ciation are reminded of the Annual meeting of the Association to be held at the Recreation Centre to- morrow evening. February 6, at 8 pm. ' On the agenda will be proposals for an increase in the Association membership fee, for changes in the method of voting and for other a- mendments to the constitution, There will be reports of activities of the Association during 1950, and the election of seven members of the Board of Directors for the years 1951-1954. Any member of the Association is eligible to attend ans vote. London--(CP)--Power cuts don't stop the big Guinness clock in Pic- cadilly from keeping perfect time The firm foresaw what might hap- pen and spent $1200 having the clock fitted with special controls. Coming Events RUMMAGE SALE, KING STREET Church Tuesday 2 o'clock. Group § Willing Workers. y (30a) &-- L Burt Named President Of O. F. L. Toronto, Feb, 6-- (CP) -- George Burt, Canadian director of the United Automobile Workers, was Federation of Labor (C.CL. at Saturday's closing sessions of the federation's annual convention. Mr, Burt defeated Arthur Wil- liams of Oshawa, Ont. assistant director of district 50 of the United Mine Workers, Mr. Williams and Sam Hughes, assistant director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, were elected vice-presi- dents, The retiring president, Joseph MacKenzie, did not seek re-elec- tion. Cleve Kidd, research director of the United Steelworkers of Ameri- ca, was re-elected secretary-treas- urer. The federation passed a resolu- tion condemning the action of the Canada Labor Relations Board in withdrawing trade-union status from the Canadian Seamen's Union because of its Communist leanings. The federation, which has re- corded its opposition to Commu- nism, held that the board had de- certified the C.S.U. on flimsy evi- dence and on a narrow interpreta- tion of Canadian labor legislation. Press Wages Deplored By Fenwick Michael J. Fenwick, secretary of the Oshawa and District Labor Council, deplored the scale of wages paid and the hours worked by news- paper reporters, at the convention of the Ontario Federation of Labor in Toronto on Saturday. Mr. Fenwick was speaking to a resolution before the convention which declared that The Canadian Press was so anxious to "squelch" the union activities of its staff that it was neglecting to provide the Canadian people with vital news. Mr. Fenwick said George McCul- lagh, "one of the biggest of the press lords, has been battling the new r uniori movement ever since it was in diapers." He added that the Toronto Star had only signed a contract with the Guild after its late publisher Joseph E. Atkinson "went up to see St. Peter." Fenwick maintained newspaper reproters were "thé most exploited workers in the province." On dozens of newspapers high school students were hired as reporters "for pea- nuts" and made to work 14 to 16 hours a day, he charged. A resolution, passed unanimously at the federation's annual conven- tion, declared that "in a move to defeat union organization of its employes," OP had cut its staff and wasn't covering United Nations meetings any more. Paily developments in the inter- national situation were of extreme importance to Canadians, the reso- lution said, yet because of CP's anti-union stand, the nation's news- paper readers were compelled to de- pend "entirely" on reports of U.S. news agencies. The resolution 'spicified only the Canadian Press in its condemnation of press oppasition to the American Newspaper Guild, a CIO affiliate; but speakers said the motion should be broadened to include "all the press lords of this country." Newsprint Up 120 Per Cent Since 1939 Since the outbreak of World War II in September, 1939, the cost of newsprint, one of the large factors in newspaper publication costs, has increased by 120 percent. In Sep- tember, 1939, the cost was $46.00 per ton. The last increase of $6.00 per ton, made effective on Novem- ber 1, 1950, brought the present price up to $102.00 per ton. Even a' this latter figure, there is a definite shortage in supply of newsprint, on account of the large proportion of QGanada's production which goes to the United States and other export markets. The following is a record of the price increases per ton in news- print since the beginning of World War II: September, 1939 March, 1943 September, 1943 May, 1946 July, 1946 August, 1946 ... October, 1946 .. April, 1947 January, 1948 August, 1948 d November, 1050 ......ue elected president of the Ontario | Labor Officials Gather Here For Banquet Snown in the above photograph, from left to right, are Brendan Sexton, Educational Director of the Y.A.W.A. (C.1.O.) who was the principal speaker on Saturday night when members of the standing committees of Local 222, along with their wives, were guests at a banquet at the Genosha Hotel. John Brady, Local 222 President, is Burt, Regional Director of the U.A.W.A. and newly elected President of the in the centre and beside him George Ontario Federation of Labour. Challenge ' Church 23rd Anniversary A stirring challenge was present- ed by the pastor, Rev. R. W. Wighton, C.F., in his sermon Sun- day morning to the congregation of | Calvary Baptist Church on the oc- | casion of the 23rd anniversary of the church's founding. The minis- | ter used as his text fhe words of Paul to the Corinthians (I Cor. 16:8, 9) in which the Apostle ex- plains that he "will tarry at Ephesus" and gives as his reason for doing so that "a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries." This attitude and determination, Mr. Wighton said, contained the secret of Paul's success and of any vic- tories the Christian Church had ex- perienced down through the years. Decision was the moving principle of all service, he said, and to hesi- tate or vascillate will mean certain defeat. Rev. Mr. Wighton paid warm tribute to the men and women who, 23 years ago, had shown their great faith in bringing into being the Calvary Baptist Church. They .were a mere handful who had made a great decision for weal or woe that they would stand for "the faith once for all delivered to the saints." As in Paul's case there was urgency in the matter that had to be faced and an important decision had to be made. "They went out and God brought them in," the pastor said. One of the chief hindrances to the work of the Lord, the speaker went on to say, is hesitancy and compromise. "While we are toying with time," he stated, "the door that God has opened for us is be- ing shut." God sent His Son into the world to save men for eternity, but also to save men for eternity, that they may serve Him. Although God is eternal He has not all day to waste on indecision. Speaking particularly to young people, the pastor issued a challenge to them to watch carefully their conduct, friendships and ambitions. "We cannot' enter the door of opportu- nity if shackled with questionable friendships," he said. The open door of salvation should be given first primary attention by those who had not yet found Christ as Saviour. "I am the Door", Jesus said. Then there was the door of service, spoken of in the text. We dare not come in through the door of salvation unless we are prepared to go out through the door of ser- vice. Paul calls it a "great" door. God's works are all great. Has not God opened a "great door and ef- fectual" for this church in Oshawa, Mr. Wighton asked, Paul also call- ed it a great door because he was prepared with a great gospel to enter it. The adjective "effectual" was an unusual description but its use in the text was singularly ap- propriate because Ephesus was a cosmopolitan city, a meeting place of those from many nations, and the gospel proclaimed there might well be taken to every part of the then known world, Similarly in Oshawa in this modern age a great opportunity presented itself. The gospel proved effective there and would prove equally effective in Oshawa if given a chance. There were "many adversaries" but so were there in Ephesus in Paul's day, but this did not dissuade or alarm him, but rather presented a challenge which he gladly accepted, and so today men aré needed who are glantg of faith and who would claim the land for Christ. Miss Jean Burnside, one of the members. now residing in London where she is a student at the London Bible Institute, was guest soloist at the morning service and sang two beautiful numbers. The choir also, under the leadership of Mr, S. Skinner, contributed special music for the occasion, Large con- gregations were present both morn- ing and evening to mark the happy occasion. A record number partook of the Lord's Supper at the close of the morning service. To and William MacDonald, Canadian Brendan Sexton, shown 'on the left in the above photograph, recently replaced Victor Reuther as Educational Director of the U.A.W.A. when the latter took an international labour post in Patis, Next to Mr. Sexton above is Arthur G. Shultz, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 222 in Oshawa Regional Education Director of the U.A.W.A. After the banquet and speaking on Saturday night members and their wives were entertained with a stage shown and dance. Constantly To Improv Mankind has benefitted and will continue to benefit from the never- | ending search for better and quick- | er means of telephone commuica- tion, Gregg G. Roberts, Bell Tele- phone representative, told members of the Rotary Club of Oshawa to- day at a luncheon meeting in the Genosha Hotel. In an address entitled "Telephone Superhighways of Today," Mr. Rob- erts said the telephone industry was constantly striving to improve both local and long distance ser- vices by installing new equipment, new devices and developing new methods of telephone communica- tion. Very Personal Thing "Despite the many new methods devised for speeding-up telephone communications, however," he said, "men and women are still the heart of the telephone business." Tele- phone service is a very personal thing--one person talking to an- other." It takes a lot of people to make this possible, more than ever before. Ten years ago Bell had 10,- 600 employees in the Quebec-On- tario territory. Today there are more than 29,000. The explanation is simple: more improvements mean better service; better service means more calls to handle; more calls to handle mean more jobs to do and more people to fill these jobs." In the, last 10 years there had been a "phenomenal" growth in both local and long distance calls. In 1940, 'the Bell was handling about' 67,000 long distance calls a day. The number now has in- creased to more than 240,000 a day. In the same period, more than 800,- 000° telephones were installed and, yet, many thousands of potential telephone users were still waiting for service. Illustrating the operation of re- lays or electrical switches used in a telephone industry by the use of energized demonstration equip- ment, the speaker described how Telephone Industry Striving e Services * relays "tell" equipment what to do and how they can "forget" or '"re- member" what has taken place dur- ing a previous operation. Relays with these abilities are used throughout the telephone system and are essential for dial and non- dial centres alike and for long dist- ance service. Relays Must "See" In a dial exchange, for instance, the relays must "see" that a call is coming in; next they must say 'Number, please," by sending out the dial tone; they must "listen" to the caller's commands as the dial is turned; they must "select" the correct path;!they must "set up the connection" and "tell" the called party he is wanted, by ringing his telephone bell; they may have to "report" that the line is busy, or, possibly, "transfer" the call to a special operator in case the num- ber has been changed; finally, they must 'disconnect" after the con- versation is over. Mr. Roberts declared that tele- phone service as it is known today would be impossible without the re- lay. Even on a single call to a telephone in the same exchange hundreds of relays operate at lightning speed, while on long distance calls a thousand or more relays may come into play. To perform the same switching by hand would take two hours on the simplest call, and probably a whole day on a long distance connection. By means of an illuminated map he showed how relays played a vital part in routing long distance calls to their destination. Relays are used, too, in combination with oth- er apparatus to carry a number of conversations simultaneously over the same pair of telephone wires. Mr. Roberts will also speak to students at the Central Collegiate on Wednesday morning and to stu- dents at Oshawa Collegiate and Vo- cational Institute on Wednesday af- ternoon. In The Legislature By T. D. THOMAS, MLA. Legislature of Ontario opened last Thursday in the middle of the worst' blizzard this part of the province has. experienced in five yars or more. The Lieutenant- tovernor's guard of honor from ti.» Toronto Scottish Regiment loo. ed very cold as they stood out- side the Parligment Buildings in their kilts, with the wind and snow beating about their bare knees. Whether the storm outside presages a stormy session in the legislative chamber remains to be seen, but tional smooth routine. Want fo buy, sell or trade? -- AWpening day went off with tradi- classified ad and the deal is made, The throns speech, a 2,500 word 1 The third session of the 23rd document, one of the longest in recent years, told us a little more than usual about the government's plans. We are to have. enabling legislation which will permit the government to abolish the means test for «old age pensioners over the age of 70, and provide a pen- sion with a means test for needy persons between the age of 656 and 70 years. All. his, of course, de- pending. on wheiner und when the Ottawa government fulfils its part of the bargain. There 1s no indica- tion of any plan to increase the amount of the pension. With the 'tremendous. increase in the cost of living in recent months, the gove Hose Short Uxbridge Barn Burns Uxbridge, Feb, 5--For the want of one length of hose, a barn was lost in a fire on the farm of Clifford 'Wage, on the east edge of the town, Friday night. The Wxbridge Fire Department's hose, strung out from the nearest town hydrant, was one length too short. The stream of water dropped at the foot o. the barn wall and firemen could do nothing but fight to save the house. ' "If the wind hadn't been just right," Fire Chief Ross Rodman aie, "we would have lost the house 0." Mr. Wagg was returning from To- ronto with his wife, who had been to the hospital, when they saw the fire on their farm. When they reached home it was well under way. Rushing into the flaming building, Wagg managed to save his two cows, one with a calf by her side, his horse and some chickens. When firemen arrived they found Wagg, almost overcome with smoke, cover- ed in soot and ashes, carrying out the last of the chickens. "We could have saved the barn if we had had our new fire engine," Chief Rodman said. "It was to have been delivered quite a while ago but there have been delays. Our present engine is an antique." The Stouffville brigade, with a more modern pumper arrived too late, Feed, hay, and equipment were lost in the barn, but no estimate has been made of the damage. Sales Tax By Province Is Opposed Opposition to a provincial sales tax and a demand for price and rental ceilings highlighted debate in the annual convention of the Ontario Federation of Labor (C.C.L.) which was held over the weekend in Toronto. . Lack of controls has made it possible for industries, particularly food processors to garner high pro- fits, the resolutions committee charged as it recommended imme- diate controls to prevent further increases in the cost of living. Delegates opposed a suggestion made in Canadian government circles that they were prepared to permit provinces to levy a sales tax in addition to the present eight percent tax now imposed by the Dominion. A provincial tax would only add to the already-heavy bur- den of low wage earners, it was contended. ' Deplores Inspection Lack M. 'J. Fenwick, representing the Oshawa and District Labor Coun- cil, denounced the lack of factory inspection in the province's indus- trial plants. He spoke on a reso- lution sponsored by his Council which decried the "junior status" of the Ontario Department of Labor. "The department's work is ham- strung by lack of funds and per- sonnel," he charged. "The De- partment of Agriculture spends ten times as much in promoting the interests of agriculture. More pow- er to the farmers for getting such service, but labor and industry should at least get equal treat- ment." The convention, recommended that the Ontario government open branch offices in all industrial centres to serve industry and labor as is now done in the case of farmers by county agricultural rep- resentatives. Approve Roach Report The delegates approved the ma- jor recommendations made by the Hon, Mr, Justice Roach in his.re- port on the administration of the Workmen's Compensation Act. He proposed a four-day wait for filing a claim instead of seven, inclusion of more groups under the silicosis schedule and payment of 75 percent of the employee's earnings instead of two-thirds as previously. The meeting also passed resolu- tions seekinig the 40-hour working week, payment for legal holidays and overtime pay for work on these holidays, Ask Act Revision Delegates called®for measures to curb intimidation of employees by management. They asked for re- vision of the Ontario Labor Rela- tions Act to permit certification of unions regardless of whether held a majority if there were evi- dence of employer interference with union activity. 'Oshawa unionists took an active part in the convention's proceed- ings, A. G. Shultz, representing Lo- cal 222, UAWA, served on the reso- lutions committee. Arthur Wil- liams, was elected vice-president of the federation to replace George Burt, UAWA director who was elected president. Burt began his union. career in Oshawa. ernment ' still regards $40.00 per month adequate for our senior citi- zens. We are also to have a provincial rent control law, to take effect only if the Dominion government allows national rent control to die this spring. 'The speech strongly urged Ottawa not to abandon its rent control responsibilities at a: time when the housing shortage threat- LEGISLATURE {Continued on page 5) Of Big Business Union Efforts Are Sole Source Of Worker's Gains Industry was trying to give the impression that it was voluntarily improving wages and working conditions for its employees ; by means of improved public relations techniques including extensive advertising, it was seeking to give the impression that it was benevolent and had the welfare of the workers at heart. Such Brendan Sexton, Educational an impression was false said Director of the U.A.W.A. (C.I.O.) and he warned his listeners at a well attended "leadership" banquet at the Genosha Hotel on Saturday night to place no trust in the benevolence of automobile manufacturers particularly. Every benefit or welfare im- provement which had been granted by industry had been wrung out by the efforts of the U.A.W.A. and in no other way. Quoting passages from tne speech $---- of C. E. Wilson, General . Motors President, recently delivered at To- ronto, Mr. Sexton said: "You would think that they were just waiting for contract negotiations to begin sc that they could do something else nice for us. You and I know just how much of an enormous lie that is", Fight Not Ended If industry and particularly Gen- eral Motors was so benevolent why did it not bring some of these im- provements into being right here in Oshawa prior to the beginning of the union in 1937. It had plenty of opportunity In the preceding years yet it did nothing--absolute- ly nothing. Here, as elsewhere, it || took work and acriminious discus- sion on the part of the union to bring about improvements. "General Motors Corporation has not given up its fight against the union. It has merely changed its tactics. By means of institutional advertising; by means of radio ad- dresses and programs supplying good music it seeks merely to change the issue and go over the heads of the older workmen who know it through experience and appeal to the younger generation which had no knowledge of its ruthless methods", the speaker said. Another method of fighting the working men, used by the company, was its battle against any kind of political non-conformity. In this country the C.C.F. Party, which championed the cause of the work- ing man and trade unionism was the particular target of their wrath. Selling Ideas Referring again to the industrial | campaign to mould public opinion | by means of advertising and radio programs, Mr. Sexton said: "They are not trying to sell steel or cars or anything else on these programs. When Henry J, Taylor speaks for General Motors over the radio he is not selling automobiles. He is selling ideas and they are wrong and harmful ideas to our way of thinking." There were several techniques for discrediting labor and one of the most. common was the "black and white" technique. In other words anything which was inimical to the growth and development of busi- ness was immediately labelled "Red" and "Comphunist". Then there was the trick of associating labor with such words as "monopoly" which through the depredations of industry had come to have an un- happy connection. Majority Not Shareholders Figures were quoted to show that industry's shareholders were the people themselves. It was a fact, however, that in the United States 92 per cent. of the people owned no shares whatsoever in any corpora- tion. It was also true, despite fig- ures purporting to show that the standard of living in the United States was so high, that there were 15,000,000 homes which had no bathtubs. Figures were produced to show how much wages had increased in industry over a period of years but they were not giving a true picture in the light of greatly increased living costs. For example Canadian coal miners' wages were said to »| have increased from $39.84 in 1946 to $51.63 today. However when the final figure was reckoned in terms of today's living costs it was found that it was worth only $37. Thus the miner has taken a reduction in wages of over $2 actually. Labor in the Middle Labor was caught between two sides. On one side Communism was decrying unionism and on the other side industry, by means of the most skilful use of propaganda outlets was spreading lies. Industry was. aided .by the newspaper. They were less corrupt in Canada it was true but they still all wére on the side of big business.. " President of Local 222 John Brady presided at the meeéting. T. D. Thomas, M.L.A,, spoke briefly as did- George Burt, U.A.W.A. Region- al Director, and newly elected pre- sident of the Ontario Federation of Labor. Head table guests included Wil- liam MacDonald, Douglas Smart, Gordon Wilson, John Lovelock, Har- old 'Wilson, James Lo%nie, Arthur Shultz, John M. Black, =~ Wilfred Duffield. An entertainment, which featur- ed the singing of Kenneth Mayber- ry, followed the banquet. Was Pastor Here REV. DUNCAN MUNROE Minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, Oshawa, from 1929 to 1933, who died in Vancouver, B.C. last night. Struck By Bus Woman Has Broken Leg Struck by an Oshawa Railway Company bus, as she was Crossing Ontario Street at the King Street Post Office on Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Kathleen Hunt, 70, of 631 How- ard Street, suffered a dislocated left shoulder and fractures of both bones in her right leg, below the . knee. Mrs. Hunt was removed to, the Oshawa General Hospital wheré she was reported as resting comfortably. Benjamin Forshee, 66 King Street West, the operator of the bus re- ported to police that Mrs. Hunt alighted from the bus in front of the post office building and started to walk west on King Street across the Ontario Street intersece tion. When the bus started up, and started to make the turn on to On- tariq Street, it struck Mrs. Hunt and knocked her down, Forshee reported to police that he did not see the woman, Russia Hands Answer To Four-Power Bid Moscow, Feb. 5-- (AP) -- Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky of Russia handed to the diplomatie representatives of Britain, United States and France toddy the Soviet Union's reply to western terms for a Big-Four conference. The western powers have exe pressed willingness to participate in a four-power conference if the meeting will take up all the major points of East-West conflict. Rus- sia demanded that the question of Germany have top priority. ' WINDOW BOX TOMATO Fol pots, boxes or garden. Extremely early. 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