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. ---- / TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA All other ealls ....... RA 38-3492 3-3474 HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WEATHER REPORT Sunny with a few cloudy inter vals today. Thursday partly cloudy, cold. i VOL. 87--NO. 101 Authorized As Second Class Mell Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1958 Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-TWO PAGES FIREMEN THREATEN CPR 'Union May Strike ithin Two Weeks | nas repeatedly repudiated the re- nize any interests other than MONTREAL (CP) -- The fire- men's union has threatened to port. those of the firemen"s union. His established by [suggestions involved delay and strike "within two weeks" ag the Canadian Pacific Railway in a bid to block the CPR's plan to drop firemen from diesel engines on freight and yard operations. If called, the nation-wide strike is expected to be timed to meet placing diesel helpers May 11. The strike threat was sounded after the union's international president, H. E, Gilbert of Cleve-| recommended that firemen are |diesels. But it is |ruling. ha i | The question of whether other the railway's decision to start dis- GIVES UNION VIEW ! In his private conference with | Mr. Crump, the Cleveland union) hen the unions meet here, prob-| The government order after the first more delay." . strike of firemen 16 months ago, | About 2,400 of the CPR's 3,000 firemen would be affected by the {plan. Most would be absorbed in| organization in not needed on freight and yard { i not a binding the railway's |other capacities. railway unions will support al firemen's strike will be answered chief charged the company was ably next week. acting as if the commission rec-| Claude Jodoin, president of the ¢ dation was a * Isory Canadi Labor Congress, said] land, tried fully to win a reprieve from CPR President N. R. Crump. They met for 95 minutes Tuesday. The next move is in the hands of the union's five-man negotiat- ing team which meets today to discuss the whole situation--and possibly set a strike date. The firemen"s union paralyzed the CPR's nation-wide rail sys- tem for nine days in January, 1957, over the same issue. John Graham, the union's gen- eral chairman for the CPR, said 2 general strike of CPR firemen "could happen within two weeks," * any | and forecast support for strike action from all other rail- way unions, But Mr. Crump said he ex- pected the other unions -- non- § operating employes, engineers, conductors and others--to honor § their contracts with the company. ; MAY HOLD KEY The other unions may hold the key to the success of any strike brought against the CPR by the 9,000 - member Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men (CLC). Full authority for a strike or- der was handed the negotiating team by the union's larger griev- ance committee, representing 39 locals across Canada. Members of the grievance group left Mont- real Tuesday night to brief their home locals on the struggle with the railway. They talked over the matter during the last two days. Mr. Gilbert was to {ly today to Chicago and then Oklahoma City, leaving the scrap with the union's Canadian executive Both sides have expressed will- ingness to meet again on the diesel dispute, but the railway wants the Kellock royal commis- sion report to be the basis of any | new negotiations, while the. union } wr |] award." the CLC at its convention in Win- He said Mr. Crump "remained nipeg last week had decided to adamant" that negotiations must support the firemen but left it up be carried out within the scope to other rail unions to decide| of the report. |what form the support will take. | "As long as people are willing] Arrangements for a Montreal to talk we are hopeful a seftle- meeting of the unions--there ar ment will be reached," Mr. Gil-|about 22 of them--have not yet| bert told reporters after his meet- been completed, he said. : | ing. Labor Minister Starr said he Mr. Crump, at a similar press/ could not com on | conference elsewhere, said: ened strike until it is officially | | "Mr. Gilbert refused to recog-'brought to his attention. {pended the rates pending its de-|(he cabinet decision. It made the {cision on an appeal to it by prov-ineed | { gone into effect Jan. ATOM BLAST DISASTE ¢ REPORTED IN SIBERI Cabinet Disallows Freight, OTTAWA (CP) -- The cabinet| has disallowed the increases in ra The decision, announced Tues- day, was the first cabinet rejec- ment on the threat-|tion in 25 years of a ruling by cPR REACTION the board of transport commis- sioners. Cabinet previously had sus- inces and municipalities affected. Thrown out were a 3.6-per-cent freight rate increase, authorized by the board Dec. 27 and to have 15, and a phone rate raise in Ontario and ! |Quebec of about three per cent : |authorized Jan. 10. The freight rate increase, op- | posed by all provinces except On- | |tario and Quebec, would have (ive vice - {meant additional revenue of $15,- Rolph, said the phone-rate deci-|funds is to spread out the effect | {The phone raise appealed by 36! with respect to the {300,000 to annual revenues of the|,ossihle because "careful study right only three of the 59 board | | % [that it cancel a four-per - cent| hat [freight rate increase that went/ What company expenses i iii | | N. R. CRUMP, left, president | and Enginemen, at the outset of | y i ific jl. | a meeting in Montreal. They | of the Citadien Preis Ray met amid rumors the uniod | way, snares hand w * 7 | would call a strike to block | Gilbert of Cleveland, interna- CPR plans to remove firemen tional president of the Brother- | from freight and yard diesels. | hood of Locomotive Firemen (CP Wirephoto) | EgyptAgrees Arctic Inspection To Pay Suez Stockholders CAIRO (AP)--Removal of a major barrier to good Western relations with Egypt--the Suez Canal compensation issue--while President Nasser visiting Russia is viewed by diplomatic observ- ers as highly significant. The Egyptian government signed an agreement Tuesday to pay shareholders of the old Suez Canal Company $82,000,000 com- pensation for Nasser's national {zation of the waterway in 1956. The shareholders also will keep $167,000,000 in company assets outside Egypt, for a total of $249,000,000. The value of all company shares on the Paris Exchange just before nationalization was about $200,000,000 The $49,000,000 extra compen- sates the company for the rev- enue it would have received in the 12 years its concession had to run, + (Reuters news agency quoted French sources as saying that the final figure was "a haggled compromise between an original company demand for twice the amount and an Egyptian counter- offer of about one-third the final figure.') 1 1 Hog Decision Arouses Board .nivama TORONTO (CP) The chair- man of the Ontario Hog Produc- ers' Marketing Board said Tues- day the board will in future lay separate charges for each occa- sion on which it believes a drover has assembled hogs illegally. Eldred Aiken was commenting on the quashing of eight such charges against two Blenheim brothers in a Chatham court Tuesday. Magistrate F. K. Jas person threw out the charges after the defence lawyer pro- tested they were worded too vag- uely to be argued Mr. Aiken said the objection was made "on the grounds that more than one offence was in- cluded in each charge. "In view of this finding it will now be necessary to lay a sepa- rate charge for each occasion on! which it is alleged that assembl- ing of hogs occurred." The Blenheim charges were re garded as a test by the CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5.6574 RQEPITAL RA 32211 case + Plan Still Flickers UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP) from the charges he made in the The issue of international inspec- council last week that peace is tion in the Arctic still held a being endangered by training flicker of life in the United Na- flights in the Arctic of American tions today, but its future here nuclear-armed bombers. in the face of ironbound Russian! After a parade of speakers in resistance was problematical. the 11-member council, including A Security Council debate on Ambassador Charles A. Ritchie of! the issue, apparently heading Canada, supported the U.S. posi- straight for a new Russian veto tion and hinted at further consid- late Tuesday, won a reprieve un- eration of a Swedish compromise til Friday after a surprise--and move, Hammarskjold made his unprecedented -- intervention by unexpected endorsement in the Secretary-General Dag Hammar- council chamber of "the initiative skjold himself. taken by the United States" in There seemed little hope, how- presenting its proposal. ever, that resumption of the de-! The secretary - general, who bate on this aspect of the dis- normally goes in for private dip- armament question will change'lomacy, publicly stated the hope the Russian attitude that the sub- that the idea might break the ject belongs on the agenda of a long-standing disarmament dead big-power summit conference and lock in the UN not in the UN. =" Soviet delegate Arkady Sobolev made this clear Tuesday when he told the Security Council that dis- armament "cannot be achieved by a numerical vote" in the world organization, where disarmament decisions were "paper decisions.' Test - Witnesses | TURNS DOWN CALL TORONTO (CP) -- Four immi-! In turning down the call by the Brants testified Tuesday they re United States to agree here to a ccived 82 driving licences with- mutual inspection system in the Out being tested after paying polar regions to allay tension, the driving school officials $65 Russian delegate denounced it as $100 an effort to divert public opinion! The witnesses gave evidence at -- -- -- preliminary hearing of Henry A. Smith, 42, driving school opera- |tor, and two of his instructors, {Mervin Lewis, 34, and Mario Vin- |cenzo_ 31. Received Licences Without Drivers' | to, govérnment. and three, board, which seeks to enforce re- others were arrested after an in- gulations by which all hogs in vestigation into alleged irregular counties covered by the board HES in the issuing of driving li- - . oss ot w1,, cences in Toronto, program go through its assembly yard for sale by auction. "| The witnesses said their appli- Only two of the 13 charges or- Cations were certified by Herbert iginally brought against the Blen- A. Levi, 45, though none ever saw heim men survived a second day Mm. Levi was jailed for six| of court hearings. months definite and 12 months in- ion ; definite last week for taking| ADJOURN CHARGES bribes and issuing licences to| The two remaining charges ac- about 300 people he did not test. cuse Clarence and Gordon Knight in 000,000 a year to the railways. municipalities in Ontario and Quebec, would have added $10,- Bell Telephone Company of Can- ada. TURNS DOWN PLEA However, the cabinet turned down a plea from the provinces into effect Jan. 1, 1957. The cabinet decision followed a speech last Thursday by Prime Minister Diefenbaker generally interpreted as a request to in- dustry and labor to fight infla- tion by holding the line on prices and wages. At the Canadian Labor Con- gress in Winnipeg, Mr. Diefen- baker said: '"We can't fight unemployment if we are priced out of world mar- s. " ' 4 "I will say the same to busi- ness. This is no time for drastic or over-demanding action by any sector of our economy." First reaction to announcement of the decision in a statement BRASS COMMITS BIG ARMY SIN WINDSOR (CP) Maj.- Gen, G. S. Hatton, deputy civil defence co-ordinator for Canada. committed an "un- forgivable' army sin. He went on parade without his hat. He told officers drawn up in ranks of the city's civil de- fence unit Monday night: "lI assure you this is the first time this has ever hap- pened." Gen. Hatlon was in civilian clothes but army protocol re- quires that a hat should be worn. The civil defence of- ficers were in uniform. Gen. Hatton said he had forgotten the hat in his hotel room. Girl Killed During Struggle DESERONTO, Ont, (CP) -- An eight - year - old girl was killed Tuesday night when two boys struggling over possession of a shotgun accidentally discharged it, police said. The full blast of the 12-gauge shotgun caught Gail Mowbray in the lower back as she knelt two feet away before a kitchen sink mirror using her mother's lipstick lube. Mrs. Jaye Mowbray had gone to pick up her husband who was working in nearby Point Anne Police said the girl's brother, Wayne, and Robert Fraser, both 10, took the shotgun from a closet to play with it. They placed a shell in the breach and began pulling the gun from each other. The shooting was ruled an acci- dent of violating both the Provincial Farm Products Marketing Act and the federal Agricultural Pro ducts Marketing Act. Hearing of LATE NEWS FLASHES them was adjourned at Chatham Tuesday to June 2, The courtroom was jammed on both days with more than 75 hog producers, mostly from surround- ing Kent County. The case 'is the! first of its kind in Ontario and is drawing wide interest The Knight brothers refused to ¢omply with the provincial hog marketing regulations set up by the producers co-operative on the grounds they are "dictatorial." The adjournment was reouested by defence counsel B. J. MacKin- non, of Toronto, to provide ade- quate time to prepare his case and on the basis of additional in-| formation provided at the court's! order Tuesday by H. E. Harris who is prosecuting on behalf of the Ontario Farm Products Mar-| keting Board. QUEBEC appointed to the Quebec prov becomes minister of hydraulic minister of lands and forests. ADEN (Reuter planes and armored cars, toda relieve a garrison where a you LONDON (AP) nouncement said today. Queen Recovering From Cold The Queen's lo remain at Windsor Castle for the rest of the week while she recovers from a heavy cold, a Buckingham Palace an Johnson Appointed To Quebec Cabinet (CP)--Daniel Johnson, Union Nationale member for Bagot, and Jean-Jacques Bert. rand, Union Nationale member for Missisquoi today were Montreal lawyer and incial cabinet. Mr. Johnson resources and Mr. Bertrand UK. Troop Launch Dawn Attack British infantrymen, supported hy y launched a dawn attack to ung Briton and 30 loyal Arab troops have been besieged by rebel tribesmen doctors have advised her ilway freight and. telephone] e rates authorized by the board of!of trading at the Toronto stock sible future tax increases. transport commissioners. | |rally, a visit to the botanical gar Phone Hikes from the prime minister's office/the board should disregard com- was a dip in Bell Telephone and|pany payments into tax equaliza- CPR stocks in the last half hour tion reserve funds against pos- market. Bell shares fell $1.50 to; The principle was the basis of 1841.00 and CPR shares fell 50 both appeals. The announcement | cents to $23.75. | said the reason for the cabinet's 1 | decision was the uncertainty as . . {to when such reserves would be N. R. Crump, president of the needed in future 'and the "'inequ- |strike-threatened CPR, said in|jy" of making present rate pay- {Montreal "I regret very much" |erg pear "the full cost of this dis- ; Ne tant and uncertain contingency." for railways economies of the four-per-cent freight in- "more paramount than ever if we crease, the statement said this are to stay alive." |*was justified on other grounds, The Canadian Brotherhood of| including the length of time it had Firemen and Enginemen (CLC) been in effect before the petitiop Tuesday mentioned possibility of,was made" by the provinces im a strike "within two weeks' over| February: the CPR plan to begin removal of The Bell's annual reserve fund | firemen from its freight and yard|js about $13,450,000; that of the diesel locomotives. CPR--the line used as the "yard: In Montreal also, Bell's execu- stick" company in rate setting president, Edward A.!is about $12,250,000. Aim of the KELSO ROBERTS Ont. Grand Jury implications" |of possible future increases in System May vs io cogoraion meme wx. | Be Rbolished {nancial position San ig bir! aba noone tax set up in e 0 1S e (gram, Further comment was not|1904, the cabinet has rejected out-| TORONTO (CP) Ontario's grand jury system may be abol- ished at the next session of the legislature, says Attorney - Gen- eral Roberts. |ting rates for the public utilities it] However, the cabinet has 1], Je advisory Somnities ou tile controls. It is that in deciding|times referred appeals back to up of leading jurists, is "oracti- should the board, sometimes with direc- cally unanimous" in favoring the be covered by rates to the public, tions as to changes. move, Mr. Roberts said Tuesday ~~ in an interview. | He would bring the recommend- |ation before the cabinet and if {his colleagues agreed, legislation | abolishing the system would be prepared for the next session. The 13-member grand juries are appointed before each court | session of the assizes or General |sion has "serious must 'be made of the over-allirulings appealed to it. The last | situation." {was in the early 1920s and dealt | The cabinet also laid down a|with the Crowsnest Pass grain {new principle for the board in set- rales. Mediation Try In Pilot Strike By THE CANADIAN PRESS [ilton gave assurance they would | The first attempt at mediation not unload freight destined for in the Great Lakes pilots' dispute |U-S: cities, {which has hit foreign shipping on' ACTION HAMPERS the lakes since Arpil 21 was scheduled in Chicago today. | Union leaders and representa- hampered by the action of the §t.} . x no Lawrence - Ottawa - Kingst - dition, tives of foreign shipping were to}, ak Kingston Bi The advisory committee meet with Chicago Mayor Rich- cross picket lines at Kingston to thought grand juries are too ex- ard J. Daley, who hopes to find guide foreign ships downriver to pensive for municipalities and SOT Way Selling he Papiles Montreal. {waste the time of jurymen. One 0 : e us -anadian ; committee member had i lake pilots on foreign-flag .ves- Reports that the upper river grand on I i the ai sels. Pos wouly sisge a strike iv opporiunity to rehearse its case Chicago Is the first of United gai sO" 1e 1OWER Titer POLS petore taking it to court. States lake ports to call for im- Kingston by corporation Presi-| . . mediate solution. Eight foreign gent ean Guy Chartier. ships are idle in her harbor, "pj5ic hope to get legislation stranded with their cargo still ong, compulsory pilotage on for- board because the International | gio vessels from the federal gov: Brotherhood of Longshoremen re-! gunmen" g From Stolen Car fused to cross picket lines set up| "ry. river pilots want pilotage by the International Masters, restricted to members of the] COBOURG (Special) 'Mates and Pilots Union (AFL- corporation, compulsory pilotage suspects fled from a stolen car C10). z and an increase in pay of about|on the Dale road early today Capt. John Andrews, president|20 per cent, after police fired two warning of Canada's Great Lakes Pilots| Capt. John T. Manley, Chicago [shots in a wild chase. Association, Local 470 of the: in-|port director, said there is a pos-| The car, owned by Gordon ternational union, held little hope sibility foreign ships will be di-|Caine, of D'Arcy street, was for solution as he prepared to fly|verted from the Great Lakes to/stolen at 2.35 a.m. and was tater to Chicago for the meeting. eastern and gulf ports. {sighted by Const. Bob Johnson, of He said: "We wouldn't make| "It's the only thing the ship|the Port Hope Police, who gave any settlement with the (owners) owners can do if the strike is|chase. organization in the States. They prolonged." He estimated about| Police found a quantity of would have to get the Shipping 40 ships destined for Chicago now cigarettes in the car and these Federation of Canada to settle are en route or being loaded at|are believed to have been stolen with us." {foreign ports. from a Cobourg store. |to warrant trial. They also inspect 2 Suspects Flee (viet nuclear experimental station|ent an Foreign shipshave also been certain public buildings and in- . 8 3 stitutions and report on their con- 1948 price structure and bottled) Ronald Batchelor, bargaining Two | Explosion Caused American Alert PRAGUE (Reuters) -- Uncon-|was recorded by the defensive firmed reports circulated in Pra-|radar belt spanning the northers gue today t Eo ht 0 conven of to Aerio csi d a "general alert" in the Kamchatka region of Si-/sounded when its cause and local beria. lity could not be identified imme» According to the rumors, the diately. : explosion was the cause of al In a precautionary move, pa- 'misunderstanding' which led to| trolling U.S. bombers were ord- the recent Soviet protest at the|ered to proceed to prepared posi- United Nations against "provoca-|tions in the Arctic Circle, thus tive" Am rican/air activities over|leading to the Soviet allegation of |the Arctic circle, | "provocative" flights by the U.S, The reports said the explosion!Air Force, the reports said. ; Government Help Urged For Hotels 'Not all the hotels in Oshawa behind to struggle along as best will be able to continue operation|we can. ) |unless the Provincial Government| "The position in Oshawa is ne |does something fast to give us|different from that in other parts {some relief," said Reginald Lan-|of the province. The big metro- caster, president of the Oshawa politan hotels, of course, with Hotel Association today. |their larger rooms and prosper | The association and Local 280, {0US food business are in a differs {Hotel and Restaurant Employes ent position. Li Bartanders i International NO PROFIT : {Union me uesday before a " : v |conciliation board in Toronto. |, The lat fo we find we have i plough back in the {After all-day negotiations the|pciness and provide the added board adjourned until May 13. |comfort and facilities we would | But both sides said today that like for our customers. We want they think they will be able toto improve working conditions reach agreement. Local 280 is the|for our employes, but how can {union which ordered a strike iniwe yield everything they want {85 Toronto hotels. {when we are in such financial Mr. Lancaster continued: "One difficulties? [hotel in Oshawa lost more than "The union has asked for a 40 {$2,000 last year and another made hour week. We have offered 42. {only $415 net profit. What are we|This drop from a 48-hour week {going to do? We agree that the|will cost one hotel in this city union should have many of the/more than $6000 a year and this things it is asking for, but how will not provide for any wage in- !Session of the Peace in Ontario can we possibly give them when crease or improvement factors." (centres. The jurors consider bills of indictment and decide whether there is sufficient Crown evidence! But added Mr. we are being hit so bard finan- {Things seem to cially?" Es f {smoothly with the 1948 PRICE STRUCTURE and I am sure it can be worked | "Our draught beer is sold on aout ;Lencasters beer on a 1950 level. For years agent of the union, said in To- now we have beer asking for ronto today: "The meeting went some relief either in the form of on from 10 a.m. yesterday until taxes or a beer price increase, 30 pm. I think we shall be but there has been nothing. |aple to reach agreement. The two "The prices of break, milk or | things we have to agree upon any other commodity have in-|yet are a compulsory full union creased, but we have been left| membership for all employes and 8 Eskimos Found Starved To Death CHURCHILL, Man. (CP)--The partment of northern af bodies of eight Eskimos who died |fairs making a routine check of of hunger and another who froze the settlement. to death in below-zero weather| First reports of the tragedy have been found in an isolated were received Tuesday from Eskimo community near the Are-|R. I. Kennedy, northern affairs tic Circle, officer in this town 610 miles The nine victims appparently north of Winnipeg. The Eskimo died after fire destroyed the fed- community at Garry Lake in the eral government supply ware- Northwest Territories, 40 miles house in the area and left them south of the Arctic Circle. without food. Officials are combing the sure The discovery was made last rounding territory for any other |Thursday by an officer of the de-ivictims. VARIOUS PARTIES The Chicago session was to| gz bring together representatives of| | [the Great Lakes Overseas Ship- | ¢ ping Association, representing foreign Great Lakes shipping in| | the United States, and the inter- national union president as well as Capt. Andrews. However, the dispute is between the Shipping Federation of Canada, represent-| ing foreign owners in the Great Lakes, and Canadian pilots. , | The shipping federation wants| lake pilots carried only between Port Weller on Lake Ontario and Sarnia on Lake Huron instead of | throughout the entire voyage in| the lakes. Pilots have refused to escort foreign ships anywhere in| the lakes and the international] union has staged sympathy pick! eting in most U.S. lake ports. | The pilots' action has slowed | foreign shipping in most U.S.| lake ports and stopped it in Chi-| cago and Milwaukee. Temporary | injunctions against picket lines were issued in Toledo, Ohio, Mon- day and Cleveland Tuesday. | Further pressure was brought! |to bear on the movement of for- [eign freight to U.S. centres when stevedores in Toronto and Ham- 4 i t Princess Starts Appearing Publicly | GEORGETOWN, British Guiana (AP)--Princess Margaret | today began a gruelling three-day | round of public appearances in | British Guiana. The program started with a vi- sit to the museum of the Royall Agricultural and Commercial So-| ciety and will end with a garden| Nr -- EO party for between 1,200 and 1,400 "n guests . In between there is a children's DEATH CAB OI TRACTOR-TRAIL This is all that remained of | Burke, 41, transport driver. the cab of a Smith Transport | CPR officials said traffic over on of a housing project and a tractor - trailer Tuesday after' the company's lakeshore line drive to a country fair on a sugar it crashed a two-diesel freight | through Port Hope was re- estate 10 miles east of George- train at a crossing east of | sumed during the night, High- town. | Port Hope, killing George | way No. 2, betieen Port Hope dens, a civic reception, inspec RRP i VRE Pits, ci ER IN CRASH NEAR PORT HOPE and Cobourg, was partially | ous Corners and south into Co- opened Tuesday night, but was | bourg. The district office of closed again today. Through | the department of highways ex- traffic is using the county road | pects the highway will be re- which runs from Dale to Preci- | opened tonight.