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She Oshawa Cones Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1961 --- PAGE 6 Some Ideas To Lessen Construction Troubles Construction--directly and indirectly employing 1.2 million persons -- is one of Canada's most important industries, Unfortunately, it is also one of the in- dustries most subject to labor troubles. Anc often these are due less to labor- management disputes than to inter- union strife. A brief submitted to the Ontario royal commission probing the industry's problems advances new ideas on how to end at least some of the troubles. Speaking for more than 4,600 firms, the Ontario Federation of Con- struction Associations urges that since ordinary provincial labor laws simply do not work in this industry, it needs laws of its own. Reporting case histories, the OFCA brief tells of the carpenters' union call- ing strikes because plasterers install wallboard, and the plasterers' union cal- ling strikes because carpenters install ceiling tile. There is interunion rivalry over what union can attach slings to hoist precast concrete slabs. In another ins- tance some 500 workers constructing a large office building had to carry materials up stairways and ladders for nine months because unions representing operating engineers and elevator cons- tructors would neither agree on which union should run an elevator nor allow men from both unions to run the lift. The OFCA brief proposes that a provincial labor relations act governing construction should have a single ad- ministrator with tenure and security similar to that of a Supreme Court judge. Since a contractor deals with up to 23 separate craft unions, it suggests the administrator should arbitrate juris- dictional disputes, should supervise collective bargaining on an area-wide basis, and that in any area all agree- ments should have a common expiry date. The brief proposes that, to make the laws enforceable, unions and em- ployers should be licensed; that strikes and lockouts should be permitted only in the case of failure to renew a collec- tive agreement, and picketing should be permitted only in support of a legal strike; that the administrator should have authority to set minimum wages and working conditions in any area where employees were not adequately pretected by collective agreements. These proposals merit discussion, par- ticularly by construction workers who are the main losers in the present jungle of confusions. Loss Of Skilled People The number of persons leaving Can- ada as emigrants may be greater than the number entering Canada as immi- grants. The preliminary figures in the Bank of Canada's Statistical Review, for the three-month period between December 1, 1960 and February 28, 1961, would seem to indicate that more than 26,000 persons emigrated from Canada. This would be about twice as many as came in. Possibly the one per cent margin of error that statisticians allow themselves might account for this figure, the Mon- treal Gazette believes. Yet it raises one of Canada's most difficult problems. If, for whatever reason, immigration drops emigration may tend to rise. And this country, which needs people, may have to rely upon the margin of births over deaths. "The loss of population through immigration is, of course, mostly to the United States," the Montreal writer con- tinues "During the 10 years from 1921 to 1931 emigration over the border a- Ancient Nail The discovery by an Oxford Univer- sity archaeologist of an enormous hoard of Roman nails under the ruins of one of Agricola's fortresses in Scotland pricks the imagination, the New. York Herald suggests. There were 785,400 of them, to be exact, ranging up to sixteen inches in length, and made of everything from pure iron to high carbon steel. Although many of the nails were rusted together into hunks of metal, many others were bright and clean as new. They were apparently buried, in the ground in order to escape discovery by the Caledonians when the fortress was abandoned toward the end of the first century AD, and the frontier of Roman Britain receded to the Antonine The Oshawa Times T. L. WILSON, Publisher and Genera! Manager Cc. GWYN KINSEY. Editor Oshowe Times combining The Oshawo Times rrohches 1871) and the Whitby Gozette and ronicle (established 1863), 1s published daily (Sundays ond statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspoper Publishers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureou of Circulation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ciation. The Canadian Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news despotchec in the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the loco! news published therein. Ali rights of special despotches are also reserved. Offices: Thomson Buliding, 425 University Avenue. Toronto. Ontario; 640 Cathcart Street. Montreal, P.Q. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carriers in Oshowa Whitby Alax, Pickering, Bowmanville Brooklin Port Perry Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hampton Frenchman's Bay, Liverpool, Taunton. Tyrone Ounbarton | Enniskillen, Orono, Leskord Brougham Burketon. Claremont, Columbus, Greenwood Kinsale Ruglon Blackstock, Manchester Pontypool and Newcastle not over 45¢ per week. By mail {in Province of Ontario) outside carriers delivery oreos 12.00 per year Other Provinces end Commonwealth Countries 15.00. U.S.A. and Foreign 24.00. Circulation for the issue of October 31, 1961 17,783 mounted to almost.a million Canadians --a total. of 925,000. During the 15 years from 1941 to 1956 it amounted to 335,000--still a large total, though only somewhat over a third of that for 1921-31. In the 10 years from 1946 to 1956 the total was 300,000 of whom 239,000 were native-born Canadians. "It would be interesting to have an analysis of what sort of Canadians are leaving the country. It might well be found that a disturbingly high percent- age of them' are highly trained people, secking the larger opportunities. "The limited scope of research be- ing carried out in Canada is a cause of the loss of many scientists. The tendancy of companies in Canada to engage for- eign professional advice in many fields has restricted opportunities in many other directions, "It would be a sad fact if many of those whom we train in our universities to meet the need for higher skills feel that they ultimately have to leave the country if they are to use their training to best advantage." Scandal Wall. Seven tons of nails could not easily be transported. Undoubtedly an_ interesting find, although an embarrassingly abundant one. A plausible theory is that a Roman quartermaster miscalculated the require- ments of the fortress' carpenters and ordered a gigantic shipment of unusable hardware. The garrison buildings were, after all, already constructed. Or perhaps it was just one of those bureaucratic errors which occur 'in all highly centralized empires, like the re- cent shipment to equatorial Guinea of a bunch of Soviet snowplows. One can imagine the row the appropriate com- mittee of the Roman Senate would have made at military budget time had it got wind of this nail scandal. Other Editors' Views PORTER COMMISSION (Calgary Albertan) It is generally agreed that as a nation we are overly reluctant to make the sacrifices of immediate consumption and to take the risks involved in the provi- sion of sufficient new capital for new business ventures. If the Porter Com- mission can hit upon ways of overcoming this reluctance its report would be a milestone on the path of the nation's economic development. Bible Thought David said, "I am in great distress; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great; but let me not fall into the hand of man." -- I. Chronicles 21:13. Man's inhumanity to man causes him to look elsewhere for judgment. Amidst distress we seek mercy. God is the answer, OTTAWA REPORT Bonn COs KEEP YOUR ASHES OFF THE RUG READER'S VIEWS Only One 'Pro' Aids Symphony Dear Sir: The Oshawa Smyphony Or- chestra would like to pay trib- ute to both the Board of Educa- tion and the Oshawa Missionary College for their assistance in granting them free the use of the music room and auditorium for rehearsal and concert. The opening concert this sea- son was well attended and acclaimed The orchestra numbered 40 for this concert with only one professional assisting, which contradicts the statement in the press earlier, that the orchestra was mostly composed of pro- fessionals. The members feel consider- able credit is due Mr. F, Francis for the present profi- ciency of the orchestra. H. J. GENTRY, secretary. Oshawa CONGRATULATED Dear Sir: You and your paper are to be justly congratulated on your BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO The official opening of the Oshawa Skating Club was held at the Arena when about 150 members and guests were pres- ent. A_ presentation of gifts were made by the honorary president Fred Skinner to Mich- ael Kirby and Vivi Smith of the Toronto Club, also to Beryl Goodman and Mr. Fogle, pros of the local club. The Curling Club was official- ly opened hv President Dr. A. H. Harding for the 1941-42 sea- son. Stewart McTavish of Oshawa was nominated for the OHA executive committee. L. Paddock was named presi- dent of the Oshawa Camera Club for the 1941-42 season. The mayors of Ontario cities assembled in Toronto to confer with chiefs of military service of Canada for the purpose of ac- quainting the heads of munici- palities with details of the na- tional war effort and to estab- lish ,cooneration between the civil and military authorities. Mayor J. C. Anderson, KC, at- tended from Oshawa. Ontario Temple No. 1 Pythian Sisters celebrated their 22nd anniversary with Sister Marie Schwartz presiding. Members of Queen City Temple were invited guests for the occasion. Mary Cowie and Marjorie Ri- ley of Whitby Hich-School were awarded first and second Carter scholarships respectively, and Patricia Wilford of Oshawa Col- leviate won fhe third scholar- ship. For the fourth consecutive year Whitby High School stu- dents were awarded first Carter scholarships. Keith Gahan was elected pres- ident of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club to succeed Howard Kerr. Sixty-five soldiers taking var- fous courses in mechanics at the OCVI were entertained at a theatre party by the Oshawa Branch Army and Navy veter- ans. At the Agricultural meeting of the Riverdale Kiwanis Club, who sponsored the East York burn of Oshawa was awarded a Ploughing Match, Ralph Hep- scholarship as winner of the Dairy Calf Club. recent editorials, on specifically the references to labor and politics. To read, in any Ontario daily, a sane, reasonable and unbias- ed appraisa} and judgment on these subjects, is, to say the least, refreshing. Yours has been just that. It is heartening also, to find that in one daily newspaper's opinion at least, not all the union members, New Party advocates, and time card punch- ers are either Communists or criminals, or both, and directly or indirectly responsible for all the ills and evils of our times. Take credit, Mr. Editor, in this fact, that although the Osh- awa Times is smaller in circu- Jation than newspapers in the larger cities, it is by far the "greater" in principle and fair- ness, STEVE MELNICHUK Oshawa K'S MOCKERY Dear Sir: Khrushchev's mockery of all things sacred is seen in his statement to Cyprus Sulzberger, Time Magazine reporter during a recent interview. On the Christian belief in life after death, he said: 'As to paradise we have heard a lot about it from our priests. So we decided to find out for our- selves. First we sent our explor- er, Yuri Gagarin. He circled the globe and found nothing in outer space. It's pitch dark there he said: no Garden of Eden, noth- ing like heaven. So we decided to send another. We sent Gher- man Titov and told him to fly for a whole day. After all, Gargarin was there only an hour and a half. So he might have missed paradise. We told him to take a good look. Well, he took off, came back, con- firmed Gagarin's conclusion. He reported nothing there.' I declare, isn't that wonder- ful? Why, didn't Khrushchev give them a road map. Para- dise is in the 3rd heaven, (Cor. 12:2.4) This is way past sun, moon, and stars. So you see, the poor guys were just going round in circles, and they think that proves there's no heaven. Heaven is so big, that all the satellites all the nations put to- gether have sent off--are mere- ly expensive toys. So big that when God is ready to send it on its way -- this earth with all its oceans, the aerial heaven, sun, moon, and stars will have to disappear to make room for a earth big enough to contain it. Its size -- 496,793,088,000,000,000 square cubit feet, its founda- tion walls around 4,784 yards wide (Rev. 21:1-17). Canst thou by searching find out God? (Job 11:7). The fool hath said in his heart there is no God (Psalm 14:1). No man hath seen God at any time (John 1:18). God is a spirit (John 4:24). A spirit hath no flesh and bones Luke 26:36-39). So, if you are a born again Christian -- no matter if we are all killed off without destroying our houses, we shall, when God says the word, receive a new body, and also if we are not killed this body will be changed in a twinkling of an eye (I Thess. 4:13-18). Don't let's be ignorant of these things. FRANK J, DANZEY. Peterborough GALLUP POLL Voter Indecision High Especially In Ontario By The Canadian Institute Of Public Opinion A very high degree of political uncertainty, particularly in On- tario, highlights current voter reaction. Just under three in four voters can name the Party they would favor if a Federal election were called today; the remainder, representing about two million men and women are undecided. In Ontario this seg- ment reaches the highest point reported here by Gallup Poll for many months -- 32 per cent of the electorate. Otherwise, among those who do know their own minds, varia- tions are small, running within the 4 per cent margin of error allowed for by the Gallup Poll sampling techniques. Progressive Conservatives Liberals - 54% 8 National ,March election 1958 ... January 1961 September Today arr ° Nationally, Liberals maintain the slight lead shown in regular political checks over the past year, and reflected in a number of political points of view across the nation. This lead is reflect- ed in every area except the West. Interviewers for the Gallup Poll used the traditional ques- tion to establish these facts on a factual basis. "Tf a Federal election were held today which party's candi- date do you think you would favor?" Today's national report, the last to be published in 1961, is compared with actual election figures in 1958, as well as the Poll's report in January and September of this year. NDP (CCF) Other 9% 3% 11 7 12 8 12 8 34% 44 42 43 Regional figures, available from sample requirements, can be reported for Quebec, Ontario and the West. Maritime : inter- views, while sufficient for the national report, are not numer- ous enough to show Maritime attitudes separately with suffi- cient accuracy. The trend in Ontario appears to be towards the Liberals. is in conflict. Progressive Conservatives Liberals Quebec January 1961 .....ecce0- September Today Ontario January 1961 . September Today The West. January 106 ciissciis September Today Porrrrrrirr rrr ry 37 37 Undecided level, nationally is at 28 per cent. In the West the figures are fairly stable. Quebec NDP (CCF) 65% 2% 47 5 50 Other 8% 16 13 40 44 47 In Quebec it stands at 27 per cent; in Ontario at 32 per cent; in the West at World Copyright Reserved 26 per cent. Question Raised By Survival Test By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA -- When the sirens sounded the "alarm" tor exer- cise Tocsin B, I was walking along a street in the heart of this capital city. A man, ap- parently a recent immigrant, rushed out of a beer parlor with his eyes popping with fear. "'Some-a-one droppa da bomb?" he asked me That typified the first lesson of Tocsin B Many of us have failed to inform ourselves about the presem situation, even to the point that some, like that scared man, did not even know that a mock raid was to be staged The greatest single a chieve- ment of Tocsin B undoubtedly was to jolt us all into recognis- ing the serious nature of the present world situation, to show the need for national and even international togetherness, and to point out the steps which all of us can and should take to pro- tect our families. The greatest failure was per- haps our sirens. Some failed to work; one caught fire and jeo- pardised the building on which it stood; al! seemed too quiet. And anyone conditioned by memories of air raids in Britain or France in the Second World War automatically feels a sense of relief at the steady note which then betokened the "all clear"; the alarm was then given by the rising and falling note which we now use for the "all clear" here. The average Ottawan was shocked int a new realisation. Hon. Howard Green's sincere and relentless fight to achieve nuclear disarmament has sud- denly assumed its full humane urgency; thc failure of interna- tional diplomacy is seen as ap- palling. Above all, one heard the question: why, since scientists boast that science knows no in- ternational borders, have the scientists of the world not be- REPORT FROM U.K. Ministries Face Economy Drive By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- When, in the re- cent cabinet shuffle, Henry Brooks was moved from the post of minister of housing and local government to become chief secretary to the treasury, it was generally conceded that one of his chief duties would be that of effecting i Hare as the minister, plans have been announced to save something like $2,225,000 a year by closing the scientific and technical register, shutting down two gevernment training centres, reducing the intake at industrial rehabilitation units and abolishing the posts of cer- tain labor attaches. Members of Parliament are also among those who will be hit by the government's drive within government departments. He was to be the watchdog over the spending of all depart- ments of gcevernment, to carry out the policy of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of strict econ- omy in the operation of the government. With the various ministries already in the throes of pre- paring their estimates for the next financial year, they are finding Mr. Brooke looking over their shoulders and giving pointed warnings that economy has to be avplied in every pos- sible direction. Some of the measures of economy are already known, and they are not being received with en- thusiasm, particularly among individuals involved. And in the effecting of limitations on spend- ing by governments, it is usual- ly done by bringing individuals under the axe. EXAMPLES CITED Already in some departments, the signposts are out pointing the way to the saving of money. The ministry of works is to be one of the first to be hit by the economy drive. The minister of that department, Lord John Hope, is proposing to retire some 200 technical and profes- sional men at the age of 60 in- stead of 65. The official reason given is that he wants to clear the way for quicker promotion among younger men. That is not the view taken, however, by Richard Nunn, secretary of the Institute of Pro- fessional Civil 'Servants. He says: "There is no doubt this is a pure econemy measure. The official reason is simply cyni- cism." The effect ot the premature retirements wil! be that the 200 civil servants will receive a pen- sion of about a quarter of their salary instead of three-eighths. Mr. Nunn cailed this "harsh and unjust." He added: "We have complained bitter- ly. We fear similar moves in other ministries " There are reasonable grounds for the fears of Mr. Nunn and for y and a wage freeze It has been revealed in the House of Commons that the government had planned to in- crease the salaries paid to the MP's, now $4,075 a year. But since the economic crisis and the. drive to save public money has come along, that idea, too, has been scrapped. e sufficiently. shocked by misuses of their skills, and Staged an international revolu- tion against nuclear bombs? Fall - out shélters remain a controversial question; to build or not to buiid. The authorities have wrongly been criticised for not launching a public shelter Program; but federal, provincial and municipa! governments are Surveying their buildings with a view to utilising these. Mean- while, the quickest protection for the most Canadians during the greatest number of hours in the week is cffered by the fam- ily basement shelter. Prime Minister John Diefen- baker, sheltering in his base- ment shelter in his Ottawa home, was erroneously reported in some sections of the press to have been killed by an imagi- nary nuclear bomb at Uplands airport. That was an exainple of the confusion which would be caused by false reports in a real nuclear war. REMEMBER LAST WAR? In fact, the planners of exer- cise Tocsin B supposed that a five megatun bomb, equal in de- structive power to 5,000,000 tons of conventional high explosive, killed or injured 175,000 people in Ottawa, or two out of every three residents. Quite early in the Second World War, 500 Nazi aircraft dropped 600 tons of high explo- sive and theusands of small in- cendiary bembs on the automo- bile and aerc-engine plants at Coventry, England, doing un- precedented damage and killing 400 people This terrible raid gave rise t: the horror-verb "conventrated". But later, the British Air Force hit German cities with 1,000-bomber raids, dropping something over 1,000 tons of high explosives and in- cendiary bombs. One of these, according to Winston Churchill, started a fire tornado in Hamburg which raged through the city with "a terrifying how!, and defied all human counter-measures." The nuclear bomb "dropped" on Ottawa was 5,000 times as powerful as the total bombload of a 1,000-bomber raid; but of course its damage was more concentratea, It would have caused complete destruction in a wider ring 10 miles across. But Prime Minister Diefenbaker in his b it fall-out shelt seven miles away, should have had a 70-per-cent chance of liv- ing, and a 50-per-cent chance of remaining unharmed; and of course he wou!d have been safe against fall-out INSIDE YOU Doctor Answers Reader's Queries By BURTON H. FERN, MD DEAR DOCTOR: You still haven't given a direct answer. Is meat tenderizer harmful, yes or no? Mrs. P. H. Dear Mrs. H.: No. It's made from papaya leaves. Even health food enthusiasts are en- thusiastic over papaya fruit. Still, if you enjoy tough chew- ing, don't tenderize! Dear Doctor: Can garlic tab- lets keep me from bloating every time I eat? Mrs. B. B. Dear Mrs. B.: You seem to be swallowing lots of air. The allyl sulfide in garlic irritates the intestine like a tiny dose of caster oil. It shouldn't help your problem. After your doctor checks for serious trouble, he may pre- scribe a detergent medicine that releases trapped bubbles to help you bring up that bloating gas. DANGER IN FROZEN BEEF Dear Doctor: Can you get tapeworm or any other disease from beef that's been frozen hard for months? Mrs. A. L. Dear Mrs. I.: You can't beef about tapeworms! The deep freeze kills them. But freezing merely slows the rowth of ' for or iter the "ier thccre' enough germs can grow in un- refrigerated beef to cause seri- ous food poisoning later on. HEART OPERATION Desr Doctor: Doctors are thinking about operating on the mitral valve in my heart. Will this operation completely cure me? Mrs. B: S. Dear Mrs_S.: Opening the narrowed valve that's blocking blood flow doesn't cure rheu- matic heart disease. Advice about future children depends upon how strongly your hear: can beat. It has to carry quite a load when it pumps for two people COLDS AND FLU Dear Doctor: Is equine influ- enza like encephalitis? Should I have flu shots? I'm always down with a cold or sore throat. Mrs. O. K. Dear Mrs. K.: Influenza is quite different from equine en- cephalitis, which begins when an infected mosquito bites you. Influenza or flu travels from persen to person like a cold. Since flu shots prevent only influenza, you may be down with a cold or sore throat -- but not the flu. his colleagues hie propo i made would save the ministry, of works something like $700,000 a year. In another department, how- ever, that of labor, with John PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM "What causes me to wake up every night about ¢ o'clock with an avid desire to eat?" some- one asks. Maybe it's hunger. "A true index to intelligence is the extent of a person's voca- bulary," asserts an educator. We doubt this. We hear a lot of ignorance expressed in poly- syllabic words. "A whale can travel faster than a horse," says a zoologist. Maybe so, but unless the race- track is unusually. wet, our advice would be that you bet on the. horse. In the "good old days" there weren't many nervous wrecks, as people had to work so hard to make a living they were too tired to lie awake at night and worry. "A human being-and an ape have the same number of muscles, which proves their close relationship," says an evolutionist. It does not! A human being and a_ catfish have the same iumber of eyes, but they aren't even 79th cousins. Learn to be a fast reader and thereby increase your chances of now and then reading some- thing worthwhile. YELLOW PAGES BULLETIN TO FIND WATER THE 'DIVINER' WITH HIS FORKED STICK HAS NEVER BEEN FULLY DISPLACED OR FULLY EXPLAINED BY SCIENCE TO FINDA WELL DIGGER, WELDER OR WASHING MACHINE JUST LOOK UNDER'W'IN THE ---- bID YOU KNOW? 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