Oshawa Times (1958-), 2 Oct 1964, p. 1

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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL. 93 -- NO, 232 Price Not Over . OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER : 1964 Che Oshawa Cimes "Authorized os Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa end for payment Weather Report Mainly sunny but cooler Saturday. Winds west 30. Low tonight 65, of Postage in Cash, S 48. High tomorrow EIGHTEEN -PAGES. Minimum Wage Law Key Item OTTAWA (CP) -- A federal! Immediate application of the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour] wage law would raise the pay for workers 17 years of age and/of an estimated 50,000 workers, 'over was proposed to Parlia-|including about 17,000 federal ment Thursday by Labor Min-| government employees, among "Totten ais ibs beg one --_ covered by federal labor] | wage Sec-| jaws. | tion of a 21page bill Mr. Mac-| There is no reliable estimate Eachen introduced in the Com-|of how many would be affected| mons setting wp the much-her-|if the rate was applied to the alded federal labor code. The|entire labor force, but the most bill was given first reading|recent' figures on income tax| without debate. show that 892,858 wage-earners| It would come. into effect Jan.\reported under $2,600 a year--| 1 and cover 556,000 workers in| equal to $1.25 «an hour--in tax industries apes federal juris-|returns filed during 1962. po gga ies ates, _A spokesman for the Cana- jes, banks, radio stations and pen Laker Congresscahich s4- cabtiia pa lny agencies | vocates a $1.50 minimum wage! 'Although these workers make| !*¥ welcomed the move. : up less than nine per cent of} J Morris, executive vice-| the work force, the code is e-| president of the 1,050,000-mem- pected to have far wider influ-| ber congress, called it a step ence. It would put heavy pres: in the right direction. sure on the provinces to raise) He called for a Commons their minimum standards af-| Committee study of the bill with fecting the rest of Canadian in-|labor organizations and other dustry. interested parties. invited to Provincial minimum w ag e|give their views. laws now vary widely, from 50) The wage law contains a cents an hour for men in New-|rider that an industry or firm - foundland to $1 an hour in On-|may obtain temporary exemp-| | tario's main industrial region. |tion if it can prove that imme- Other provisions in the code | diate application of the $1.25 pe yt y aves gr temgged ped part would be "seriously ir week, two weeks/ detrimental." bi vacation with pay after one; Such exemptions, however, | ' year, seven paid statutory holi-| would be for a maximum 18 days and time-and-a-half for|months and none would go hbe- overtime work. lyond July 1, 1966. | Johnson Rapped : Over NATO Plan CAIRO, Ill. (AP) -- Senator )thing that can be done help}; Barry Goldwater rode his whis-|NATO. Thect @ geedtent of Gait tle-stopping train 'nto Iilinois|United States who believes in| | today 'with a fresh assault on|/NATO, who wants to rebuild President Johnson as a "Lyn-|NATO --- gnd neject the presi- don-come-tately,"*-just~discover-|dent wtio didn't even act. as fmg a disarray in U.S. alli-|though he knew NATO existed ances. until Republicans forced him to act differently." &' He suggested the president "has to wait for the latest poll to tell him what to do and what visit|to say and what to think." Fighting hand to rub out the , |'trigger - happy'? label Demo- onats have tried to hang on him, the Republican presiden- tial nominee pounded away on the theme that Democratic presidents have always occu- pe pied the White House in the 20th century when the country was involved in war. Pronouncing Johnson "dead"' wrong" if he believes "peace will prevail if we are nice to the Communists," Goldwater said he and his running mate,| | j b wey j i ae LO OS 3 pp eds Os Lyin WORKMEN REMOVING ELECTRIC POWER LINES man and Gilles Alexander, sireet cable is being remov- were at work on Hilleroft ed. Work started on. the proj- street east of Grierson street. ect July 1 and is expected to The railway company has be completed by Nov. 1. switched to diesel engines and 40 miles of overhead as = Two men with wire cutters Thursday morning removed the main feeder lines for the electric shunting system of the Oshawa Railway Company. The workmen, Bernard Har- Pioneer Village Official Arrested On Theft Charge ' 73M, a'| TORONTO (CP)--An official| Auld, Ontario minister of tour-| T E d rik Nees oe ae la Upper Canada Village atjism and information, said offi-| 0 n t e peace " He added they would|Mortisburg, Ont,, was arrested|cials of the St. Lawrence Parks! NEW YORK (AP)--A federal) 'ever _ intentionally start anihere early today and charged | Commission felt there could be judge, acting one national|®°mic war." |with stealing $1,860 in admis-| irregularities in the systems of --Oshawa Times Photo BRAS FOR COWS LATEST FASHION COPENHAGEN (AP)--A new bovine fashion was laufcined: today at a Danish agricultural show--bras for cows. The = technical udder protector, The gar- ment protects the cows Longshoremen Are Ordered i] term is | But it appeared that most of | ei. ; : against injuries and inflam- jock ; | Slon money handling money at Upper Can- ati Pe arg east oa'| | David Blake Livingston was|ada village due to certain mation. Gr scomeion Aspen ns Barry Desperate ee ae one area | peg new a in the handling strike in Atlantic and Gulf of| : 7+ 6. Gent of the provincial! of clest antes. l Mexico ports. | Claims Humphrey Pvc ter police ot) ten tis was cepoced, to eveals US. officials hene said there) 105 ANGELES (AP) -- sen.| Montreal area. Sil tle oe - yd ar tor Hubert H. Humphrey said} Livingston was suspended|to make a thorough study of om reat | jtoday that Senator Barry Gold-|from his job as assistant super-| the situation to see if any ir- } ge gil ~_-- te crush: (visor of sales while provincial] Tegularities existed. MANCHESTER, England the strikers would not be sollooking for ae pegs igen AT investigated a shortage} "As a result of his report in. (Reuters) -- Britain and the speedy in returning to docks| strike tightnins." jof funds at the village, which|dicating irregularities in the page bere! gee pr up in from Maine to Texas. Humphrey, in remarks pre. | depicts ages lls in the St.isale of entrance tickets to the Tae on pe gt Thomas W. (Teddy) Gieason,|pared for students at the Uni- ved aed At | vit x ' sere el Puen eragident ef the oe wae a Gosamied. oiaiane Although nearly $10,000 oe I requested Mr. Spence |e produced "any moment it is| thonell en's Associa-\charged that the Republican|found to be missing, Livingston |'® instruct the Ontario Provin-|wanted," Prime Minister Sir| a i cial Police to undertake an in-|Alec- Douglas-Home said today. | tion (AFL-CIO) said the men|presidential candidate plunged|!s changed only with the theft)Clal glas- realli would the restraining or-|"to the depths of political cyn-|f $1,860. | vestigation. es peo Meh eae der issued Thunsday night byjicism" by accusing the John-| Tivingston's wife and two} «jt was this investigation a campaign speech here, said US, District Judge Frederick|son administration of being soft|children reside in Brockville, | which led to the laying of the|he thought it would be possible| vanPelt Bryan. 'on communism. ' In Toronto, Thursday, James'change against Mr. Livingston.' 'to get. the Russians to agree"| Ree : Jand that he hopes France would WHILE FAVREAU-DIEF ARGUE | was at-| Bank' Relaxes Aboard Yacht (In Washington, it learned that iSoviet Union rebuffed an ap-| proach by the United States} last year to draw up joint plans| to prevent China from develop- jing a nuclear capability.) OTTAWA (CP)--Former wa-| OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime | The prime minister said the terfront baron Hal Banks ap-! Minister Pearson today |draft treaty was based on a parently was relaxing aboard a flatly rejected an opposi- yacht in Mill Basin, Brooklyn tion MP's suggestion for a Thursday while officials in Ot- special independent 'inquiry tawa debated angrily over into Hal Banks' flight to the whose fault it was he wasn't be- United States. TORONTO (CP) -- James |was "further evidence of com- Todd, secretary-treasurer of |plete indifference and lethargy' the Canadian Maritime jand "gross negligence' on the Union, claims "certain peo- |part of the federal government: | 'ple in the government" | Before news of the discovery,| made a deal with Hal Banks the opposition leader had! to get the former boss of |changed in the Commons that | . |walkout reported slow progress i felt from coast to coast, '|week behind the work period, '|however, most of the strikers '|had another paycheque coming|and that the figune could rise ' 7 |thiis week. '\bers were ordered off GM as-| + ; ;|sembly lines in 16 states jast|Strike fund, from which work- '|Fniday when bangainers failed|€TS will start collecting benefits ;|to reach agreement on national|nmext week ranging from $20 sinew 1965 Chevrolets, ' |dillacs came to a halt. resolution made by Ireland at hind bars. the United Nations. "This is one positive move| which can be made in the} Banks, whose ame adorned the parliamentary rec- ord almost daily for weeks, was months ahead," he said. But he| has reported by the Toronto Star to the Seafarers' International Union out of 'Canada, his. copyrighted article saying it took only two hours in New Banks was "'the pampered pet of Liberalism." The govern- ment had charged him with an offence for which normal extra- dition provisions did not apply. said he doubted that "any prac- ' tical staps can be taken on this | Federal Bureau of Investiga-\ nti) after the American elec- tion they should have been able|jjg, i to locate him. What purpose that could have served I dont know because he cant be ex- York to locate the former SIU|/Then it let him escape to the boss. : United States where he would Justice Minister Favreau, b¢ safe who had an angry exchange in| Mr. Favreau had said in the of Commons. with House that he aws unable to Leader Diefenbaker'give a precise answer to Mr. earlier in the day, said the|Diefenbakers queries about nespwaper story would be'Banks whereabouts. checked through official chan-| 'p, ¢. Douglas, leader of the a for any new information New Democrats, did not think| Court rejected his appeal) One offfial said that "every| mae could' be added to Banksithe search for Banks could against conviction for conspir-| proposal is worth studying" but! Star reporter Robert Reguly file have been very intensive. "If|acy in the assault of Henry F said he could not comment until blew the political controversy Mr. Diefenbaker said the dis- there had been any' liaison be- Walsh at Owen Sound, Ont. His the Soviet Union had a chance over Banks even higher withicovery of Banks by a@ reporter'tween Canadian police and the!bail of $25,000 was forfeited. 'to look at the draft. Soviet Officials | Banks disappearance in July Decline Comment) came when a civil warrant was MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Soviet | sworn out at Montreal to jail| officials declined to comment him for 30 days on a contempt|on the announcement today that charge for ignoring a court | and the viet posed ie ; as ave drawn up a dra reaty| duniction in a ship walkout Only halt the spread of nuclear Sept. 15 the Quebec Supreme weapons. be in the United States. That would put him out of reach of Canadian law which sentenced him to five years in. peniten- tiary for conspiring to beat a rival union organizer. The 55-year-old former Cana- dian head of the Seafarers' In- ternational Union disappeared in July and efforts to find him have proven fruitless tradited." the House Opposition Progress Slow On Settlement strike by the United Auto Work- ers union against General Mo-|GM factories which turn out tors entered its second week to-|parts and accessories sold +9 communities. ler. Negotiators seeking to end the CUTS PRODUCTION in efforts to resolve nearly eno ngy Bc omage - = 000 local plant demands, the} aveliable storage space, how- bulk of which apparentiy must} ever, and the company ordered be settled befone striking work-| , ct in production jers return to their jobs. By the end of the week lay- An Associated Press survey|offs of non-striking workens to- indicated that if the dispute con-|tailed nearly 15,000 in New tinues for another week the eco-|Yonk, Indiana, Connecticut, nomic effects will start to be Ohio and Michigan. More were lexpected next week. Since the GM payroll lags a| GIM said the strike is costing sei -nated employees more |than $7,000,000 daily in wages, |to $9,000,000 as more layoffs are More than 250,000 UAW mem-| made. The UAW has a $67,000,000 "non-economic" issues for ajWweekly for a single employee new three-year labor contract.|t0 $25 for @ manried couple to Immediately, production of|$30 for a family. Buicks,| Automobile production for the Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs and Ca-|industny as a whole fell off from last week's 150,924 to 88,762. QUEEN'S VISIT FLO News Sheet Urges Forceful Demonstration tack the doors of the Queen | Phizabeth Hotel. MONTREAL (CP)--A_tenror- ist Front de Libenation Quebec- ois (FLQ) news sheet advises supporters to greet the Queen in Quebec City with a fonceful, if not violent, demonstration, lua Cognee, (The Hatchet) a mimeographed pamphlet' dis- tributed in the thousands, said | throwing them. in its Aug. 29 issue separatist} The failed to prevent the Oct. 10-11) must visit by peaceful protests sojcounter - should aim at "creating a riot|whose main aim is to or putting on a show of force.' |the onowd. Anti - terrorist police. forces | i. ten aes te ee Newspapers Stress Dangers calm in the hysterical otowd in order to dominate and direct it. While passing out missiles to the crowd, the agitator him- self must not participate in isolate and neutnaiize demonstrator agents break up months but can't find the auth- ors or their machines. They have seized several thousand copies of La Cognee in naids. The issue concentrated on|ers of the Queen's visit to Can- agitator tactics, including' dis-\ada are stressed by British tribution of bricks, stones and| newspapers today. eggs to. demonstrators and what) "A Grim Warning" ig: the to do tn case, the: police nef main front-page headline in the ire. | ; ¢ gg oe La Cognee made no|™ass-circulation Daily Express "mt , Yogne > mention of hamming the Queen,/0Ver @ Montreal story quoting The pamphiet said agitators should concentrate the atten-|SPokesman. tion of the crowd on a specific tamget and said this wais done) Rene MacColl quotes Chaput as in the 1962 Montrea] demon-|saying in an interview: stration against CNR president The agitator must remain} pamphlet said agitators | LONDON (CP) -- The dang-| LAYOFFS BEGIN" AT GM TONIGHT 4,500 Oshawa Workers Idled At South Plant DETROIT (AP)--A U.S.-wide; But the UAW instructed work- | General Motors of Canada, ens to continue on the job et) Limited, announced today that |about one-thind of the company's day amid signs that its impact|the giant auto-maker's chief|13,500 employees -- almost en- . |Was beginning to be felt in some}competitors--Fond and Chrys-|tirely drawn from the com- |pany's south plant -- willl be lilaid off tonight, The iayoff will) continue progressively through| next week, It was stated there have been no layoffs to date. A full shift was worked Thursday and the night shift worked six hours last night. A company spokesman said the continuance of produc- tion throughout this week might be termed a miracie. When settlement with the union is reached in the United States, the company plans to have most of its Oshawa em- ployees back at work within a week, but it might take an addi- tional week to return to the present level of production. WORK SCHEDULE While it is possible that condi- tions in individual departments may change, the company an- nounced plans for its various de-| partments. | The body assembly plant will work two shifts today. This willl terminate the operation of the department. The chassts and final | | two shifts today and probably one shift on Monday on smail vehicles. In the case of the Cor- shipping departments pected to work most at saat week, The truck body and chassis department willl work Tuesday. The smaill closed down on Thursday of this week but the men in this de- partment were absorbed else- where in the truck plant. Regarding the manufacturing company radiator de- partment will Monday; the stamping plant will be affected tonight with about one-third of the employees be- ing laid off. Some workers in this department will work about half of next week with others continuing until the end of the week, | The wiring harness, cutting jand sewing departments are ex- next week, while the de- battery partment is expected to work throughout next week. The garnish moulding depart. ment is expected to work. about half of next week and the CKD (export) department is expected to work ail next week. ~ UNION STATEMENT The following" statement was issued by Local 222, UAW, this morning. "The General Motors Shop Committee of Local 222, UAW, met with GM officials on the coming layoffs. "The union was advised by Ed Weldon, company spokes-- man, that the company is hope- ful of working both shifts all day Friday and perhaps Mon- day. "The union was also advised certain feeder plants would be operating for a few extra days. "Tt was stated by the com. pany, the Parts and Service Department would operate ag usual, and it was hoped CKD Departments could nay 7 "The i company to cease all overtime while the layoffs are in effect, and -by doing this more people could be retained at work. assembly department will work local vant ine Shane during this layoff, "Finally, Mr. Taylor stated, GM in both local and master negotiations is playing the wait and see what happens in Detroit game, and as a result of this, little or no progress has been made to date, "The GM Canadian Bangain- ing Team took the first step Oct, 1 to clear the way for real bar gaining to begin, by applying for ili services which is |pected to work about half of concil requi by law." Marcel Chaput, separatist) Cw Veteran Express reporter | \% | | "T fear that her safety sim-| F Donald Gordon, The articie said|ply cannot be guaranteed while} the crowd was instructed to at-isymbol, not of a woman," NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Algerians Seizing Properties ALGIERS (Reuters) -- The Algerian government. Has begun seizing properties, lands, shops, 'houses, cars and other goods belonging to Algerians alleged to have "collab- orated'"' with the French during: Algeria's war of isdepen- dence, it was learned today. Police Recover King's Jewelry CUEND, Italy (AP) -- Police reported today they have recovered several hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry lost last year inthe crash of King Saud's private jetliner along the Alpine border between France and Italy. Woman Falls, Kills Tourist (paRIS (Reuters) -- An American woman tourist was killed today when another woman fell to her death from a 225-foot tower of Notre Dame Cathedral and landed on her. Police identified the American as Veronica McConnell, 22, of Philadelphia. Red Sox Fire Johnny Pesky BOSTON (AP) -- Boston Red Sox fired Johnny Pesky as manager today and named third base coach Billy Herman as his successor. The news came in a statement from Mike Higgins, vice-president and general-manager. Thomson Drops All-Cash Bid LONDON (Reuters) -- Canadian-born: publisher Lord Thomson has dropped his all-cash take-over bid for George Outram, publishers of the Glasgow Herald, and made a cash-plus-shares offer instead, it was reported here today. Queen's Safety Assured: Favreau OTTAWA (CP) -- "The safety of the Queen is cam- pletely assured"' for her royal visit to Canada, Justice Min- ister Favreau told the Commonsstoday. He said"'all neces- sary measures have been taken and are being taken." ¥ Berkeley policeman Phil Mowrer is dragged down steps of Sproul Halll by University of California students during demonstration against the uni- versity's restrictions on ¢am- pus political activity. Police attempted to remove students demonstrating in the corri- dors of Sproul Hail, the Uni- POLICEMAN HANDED OUT ® versity's administration build+ ing. It was 17 officers against several hundred students. The officers lost. The melee in the building proved unnecessary, Last night the students voted to leave the building volun- tarily. (AP Wirephoto)

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