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The Oshawa Times Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario T. L. Wilson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1964 -- PAGE 6 Pilkey Suggests Labor Use Law Of The Jungle The rule of law plays an impor- tant role in the democratic processes of government in countries like Canada. Therefore we find it dis- turbing to note that an Oshawa delegate to the Ontario Federation of Labor convention at North Bay made a suggestion that the labor movement might have to resort to the law of the jungle for the pro- tection of trade unions. The speaker was Alderman Clifford Pilkey, chairman of the Oshawa and Dis- trict Labor Council and a former president of the Oshawa union of the United Automobile Workers union. : The remark was made in a debate on a proposal that the right to issue injunctions in labor disputes be taken from the courts and given to the Ontario Labor Relations Board. . The strongest criticism was directed against ex parte injunctions -- those that are issued for a limited period, with representations heard from only one side in a labor- man- agement dispute. The resolution passed on the subject of injunctions Illegal Tree The cutting down of trees by municipal authorities is often a matter for dispute and misgivings, but a case heard in mazgistrate's eourt in London brings to light that.in many cases indiscriminate tree-cutting may be contrary to the law. This question as to the validity of local authorities cutting down trees was brought out when Pro- fessor Earle Beattie, of the Univer- sity of Western Ontario, was char- ged with interfering with Middle- sex County workmen who were as- signed to cut down a row of trees which were to be removed for a road-widening project. 5 Professor Beattie and other residents of Lambeth failed in their attempt to prevent the felling of a row of trees on their street. He appeared in court on a charge of interfering with the workmen sent to eut down the trees. The magis- ttended that no bylaw demanded that none be issued with- out trial of the cause. 4 According to press reports of his speech; Oshawa's Alderman Pilkey suggested that the labor movement would have to resort to the law of the jungle if the process of law con- tinues to contribute to its destruc- tion. He said the present aplication of the law governing picketing is striking at the heart of democratic practice. We would suggest that Alderman Pilkey was carried away beyond his usual sound judgment and modera- tion of speech when he suggested application of the rule of the jungle. By all means the Federation should follow its traditional practices in endeavoring to have the law changed. That is its right, and is legitimate. But to suggest that the labor movement should take the law into its own hands in matters covered by legislative enactments is, to say the least, going a bit too far. It is extremism of this kind which loses friends for the organ- ized labor movement. Cutting trate dismissed the charge after hearing the Crown evidence. The interesting part of the case was the nature of the defense put up by Prof. Beattie's counsel. He noted that the Middlesex County engineer had admitted in evidence that no survey had been made of the road. Hence, he said, there was no way of establishing that Prof. Beattie did not have a legal right to interfere. His counsel also con- had been passed by the county council to authorize removal of the trees, and that one was necessary under the Ontario Municipal Act. This makes one wonder how many trees, even on the streets of Oshawa, have been cut down in con- trevention of this particular section of the Act, And it would be interest- ing to know what bylaws have ever been passed in Oshawa to authorize the cutting down of trees. Canada Again Aids U.K. Canada has taken on a new role fn the world of international fin- ance. Faced by a drain on its gold and dollar reserves, the Bank of England made use of arrangements which had been made for support from the Bank of Canada against speculative runs on the Bank of England reserves. This is an interesting aspect in international financial arrange- ments, by which countries agree to help each other out of difficulties. How much Canadian money was involved and other details of the financial transaction are being kept secret until the Bank of England considers that the speculative pres- sures on its reserves of gold and dollars are over. But it is a tribute to the financial strength of Canada that this country was able to give this measure of support to the pound sterling at a time when it was needed. The present speculative pressures against the pound sterling were in She Oshawa Simes T. L. WILSON, Publisher R. C. ROOKE, General Manager C. J. 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Other Editors' Views BETWEEN TWO STOOLS (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) While the Dominion Government has been concerned with the sub- sidy problem, and finds it still a considerable headache, the Ontario Government is responsible for the price-setting formula for 'milk. And this varies according to the use to 'which the milk is to be put. Milk for butter production has been re- ceiving the highest price, milk for cheese or some other product is given a correspondingly lower price, It would appear that this, as much as any subsidy, has encouraged the over-production of butter in the past. If some. formula could only be worked out between the Domin- fon and provincial governments over price levels, the dairy industry might not be caught between two stools, as it were, which both pro- ducer and stradle with no degree of comfort at the present time, | consumer vi IT You | i RR if WEAN Df S7 ~ os Ve he I ASKED YOU FIRST DATELINE LONDON Welfare State Housed In Palatial Building By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Welfare is here to stay! The new 36,700,000 adminis- trative headquarters of the federal department of national health and welfare towers above Ottawa in height and magnificence. It is the tallest office building in our capital, and is surpassed only by the Peace Tower of the Parliament Building in height, and by the ritziest new motel in magnifi- cence. This obviously is no tempor- ary building. Although the Min- istry which it houses is one of the younger departments, it al- ready ranks as the third biggest spender. And it-knows how to spend! In the age-long belief that char- ity begins at home, the depart- ment has made this, its first own home, the most lavish of- fice building in Ottawa-perhaps in Canada. It cost $7,900 for each of its 850 employees, and provides a generous 200 square feet of floor space for each. Natiinal prestige is all, very well, but this extravagance is on a scale which will rile those Canadian taxpayers with sub- par living standards who, aver- aging four in a family, cannot afford $31,600 for their home and do not have at their dispo- sal 800 square feet of modern air - conditioned accommoda- tion. COME A LONG WAY So welfare is. obviously here to stay, even if it bankrupts us. It has come a long way since it started 97 years ago, when our federal government concerned itself with no more than quar- antine services and the main- tenance of hospitals for sick sailors. On a less critical angle--the new building was named in honor of Brooke Claxton, the first minister of national health and welfare (1944 - 1946) who launched the department formed to administer the new baby bonus. Last week it was declared officially open by the prime minister, in-a colorful and warmly friendly ceremony under the chairmanship ,of the a GALLUP POLL popular minister, Hon, Judy La- Marsh. The band of the Royal Ca- nadian Signals led off with My Fair Lady in honor of brunette Judy; every living ex-minister of health joined the large aud- jence assembled on the. sun- bathed podium; the rapids of the Ottawa sparkled blue and silver against the red - leafed backdrop of the distant Gatin- eau Hills; and everybody was cracking jokes. "There are more openings in Ottawa today than 'a sardine can has," quipped the ubiqui- tous mayor, Charlotte Whitton. his was her fourth such cere- mony of the day, and she as- serted that, of course, she will run again for re-election in December, and in 1966, and as a septuagenarian in 1968. "Only the undertakers will be able to get me out of office',' she threatened. ANADA's TWO QUEENS Prime Minister Pearson had just returned from Charlotte- town, where he had joined in the welcome to Queen Eliza- beth. "You were with the queen yesterday; today you've very much fallen with your female company," Judy said to him, To which he gallantly replied: "Yesterday the Queen of Hearts; today the Queen of Health." Then the foreign minister and former long-serving health Min- ister felt the quick but friendly edge of her tongue. "I must cut short my remarks; I see Paul Martin champing at the bit to get at the microphone," Judy kidded. But she went on to tell how Mike Pearson, when forming his cabinet, asked her to take on the arduous but rewarding job of Health minister. "This is a department which cares about people, so this is a department important to my government," he said. So Judy accepted the job, which she has been executing with public acclaim and in- creasing confidence for 18 months, and which henceforth she can work at in her Javish new 18-storey building, Most Canadians Against Goldwater As President By THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE (World Copyright Reserved) A majority of Canadians (55 per cent) feel it would be a bad thing for Canada if Senator Barry Goldwater won the U.S. Presidential election in Novem- ber. Only six in a hundred consid- er it would be goid for Can- ada.. A lange segment of the Good TOTAL 6 East sevcccccccces 6 Ontario .. cscctccee 6 West siivs soboccecece' 8 Among. those who consider the election of Senator Goldwater to the presidency would be' good for Canada, the top reasons are his leadership qualities, his ex- perience and forceful character, the need for a change and the Senator's personal popularity Among reasons given by the majority -- those who feel the public (nearly four in ten) have .no opinion on Senator Gold- water's worth to Canada as President of the United States. Ontario people show greatest opposition to Mr. Goldwater as President -- 63 per cent. "As you may know, Barry Goldwater is Republican candidate for U.S. President. Do you think it would be a good thing, or not a good thing for Canada if he won the election?" Thing Bad Thing Can't Say % 55% 39%, 46 31 ' 40 election of Senator Goldwater would be bad for Canada -- war and civil rights come to the fore. Most opinions concentrate on two: eo» Favors war. bring Canada into war ". , « Extremist . too erra- tic... , against integration... against civil rights." . would MAC'S MUSINGS Soon the autumn air On our city streets Will be shrouded in Clouds of blue smoke Coming from the leaves Being burned by citizens Who have diligently Raked them for the lawns Of the back gardens, and Who feel the only way To dispose of them Is by making a bonfire, Every time we see a Bonfire of burning leaves We cannot help thinking Of the soil fertility that Is being wasted by this Thoughtless action of those Who are ignorant of the Value of dead leaves in Building up the soil, Or who lack the energy To utilize them wisely. The fallen leaves which Clutter up yard and garden During the fall months - Contain vegetable mold Which build up humus or Organic matter in the soil, And when piled in a heap To rot, and later be dug Into the garden provide Rich food for plants For the coming years. We need to take a lesson From nature in this respect Because the leaves when Left to themselves in the Woods, form not only shelter For roots of trees and Bushes but add richness To the soil and bring New and abundant growth. So even if it does Mean a little more work, Composting the leaves Or even digging them Into the soil in fall Will pay rich dividends. TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct. 14, 1964... Mackenzie King's Liberal Party defeated R. B. Ben- nett's Conservatives in a Canadian federal election 29 years ago today -- in 1935, The Liberals took 171 of the 245 seats in the House of Commons, gaining the then largest majority since Con- federation. The Conserva- tives were reduced from more than 130 seats to fewer than 50, and 12 of the Ben- nett Cabinet ministers were defeated. 1066 --, William of Nor- mandy"became "the Con- queror'" with his victory over King Harold at the Bat- tle of Hastings. 1936--Mrs. Wallace Simp- son filed suit for divorce in england. First World War Fifty years ago today in Belgium King Albert and the Belgian Army withdrew to France from Ostend; the Germans entered Bruges, but Allied armies forced the Germans to. retreat' from Ypres; the First Canadian Contingent arrived at Ply- mouth, .England. Secind- World War Twenty-five years ago to- day, in 1939, the British bat- tleship Royal Oak was tor- pedoed at anchor at Scapa Flow by German subma- *+rines with the loss of 812 lives; a British air training mission 'arrived at 'Ottawa and stated that full control of the scheme would. be in Canadian 'govern m ent hands. MAC'S MEDITATIONS London Transportation System Has Problems By M. McINTYRE HOOD Over in London, it has be- eome quite a common thing, when travelling on the under- ground railway, to see a notice at the sta'ions telling the public that owing to staff shortages, certain trains have had to be cancelled. This is only one of the results which flow from the fact that in the London district, there are yirtuaJy no unem- ripen or' women to fill up e in the ranks of under- ground railway and bus work- ers, In the last two years, the union of the transport workers has been claiming that the shortage of staff is jue to low wage scales and bad working conditions. Yet, in spite of the four substantial increases of pay for these London transport workers, the staff shortage still persists. The bus and tube line workers are enjoying their sub- stantially higher wages, with a fot of overtime pay thrown in, but the theory that this higher remuneration would end the shortage of drivers, conductors and other workers had turned out quite fallacious. 4,000 WORKERS SHORT While all branches of indus- try in the southeast of England are suffering from a great short- age of labor, since there is full employment there, the transport systems seem to have been hit harder than most other employ- ers of labor. And this is more noticeable because the public have to depend on public trans- portation to get to and f-om work, For instance, the London transport board requires a staff of 36,000 drivers and conductors to give only a normal service At present, it has a staff of only 32,000, or 4,000 short of require- ments. In some of the garages serving the north and northwest of London, staffs are 25 per cent below their required strength. Hence the public cannot be given a normal service. This BY-GONE DAYS 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1944 OCVI students purchased an aircraft for the Elementary » Flying Training School through purchases, since 1940, of $125,749 worth of war savings stamps and bonds. A plaque emblematic of the plane, was presented to the principal A. E. O'Neill by Fit.-Lt. W..0. Brown, to hang in the school. H. P. Schell was elected as president of the Children's Aid Society for Oshawa and On- tario County. Thomas G. Rogers, district governor 'of the 168th District of Rotary International, paid his Official visit to the Oshawa Ro- tary Club. The Ukrainian National Federation, an Oshawa organi- zation, celebrated its freedom from debt with a mortgage burning ceremony on its prop- erty. The president, John Hray- nyk, presided. Ohief Petty Officer Howard Sager, and Seaman John Man- ning returned to Oshawa on furlough after spending several months overseas on the North- ern convoy routes. Elmer J. Ross assumed his duties as Whitby editor of The Times-Gazette. Penalpha Chapter, Ro yal Arch Masons, was host to the members of the Ontario - Dis- trict, No. 10, on the occasion of the official visit of the Grand First Principal of Ontario, Most Ex. Comp. John F, Burden, More than 700 men and women registered in the night classes at the OCVI. Announcement was made that Sgt. Herbert E. Bathe and Set. Francis W. Roche, both of Osh- awa, had been awarded the Ca- nadian Efficiency Medal while on active service overseas. A Thanksgiving Service, held in the Baptist Church, was con- ducted by Rey. T. H. P, Ander- son, president of the Oshawa Ministerial Association. Rev. J. H. Colclough, of Christ Church, delivered the address, Four members of the Osh- awa Beagle Club, Lloyd Cour- tice, Bill Waddington, "Bun" Osborne and Dr. Wesley Lang- maid, took in the annual fall trials held by the Thames Val- ley Beagle Club at Dorchester, and all had their entries in the prize money. Traffic lights at the intersec- tions of King and Mary streets, King and Ritson road, and Sim- coe and Bond streets were dis- cussed at a meeting of city council. means fewer buses and longer waiting periods for those which do run. The London Transport Board is sparing no effort to recruit new staff. The latest round of wage increases, bringing bus workers up to close to $3,000 a year -- a good wage in England --- has helped a little in easing the shortage. The board seeks to find new workers by advertisi: extensively in its own buses an tube trains, through local news- papers, and even sends staff- finding missions abroad to find recruits. One such mission not long ago brought 200 to 300 Mal- tese people to London to work as bus conductors or station personnel on the underground system. FEW COME FROM NORTH With unemployment in the north of England and in Scot- land well above the national average, one would expect a substantial migration from these areas to fill vacancies in the transport system. But it has not worked out that way. Mis- sions sent to these areas find that Scotsmen and people from Northern England just do not wish to be transplanted to Lon- don to work on buses and under- ground trains, even with the bait of $3,000 a year, or more, dangled before thera, MORE COLORED STAFF The London Transport Board has had much greater success in its recruiting work in the West Indies and Barbadoes. A special agreement with the Bar- badoes government will bring some 400 men a year from there to work on the transport sys- tems. And there is another steady flow from Jamaica. and other parts of the West Indies, with Malta also. contributing a small flow of new bus and tube workers. It has been noticeable, too, on the buses, that consider- QUEEN'S PARK able numbers of newcomers eho Eire are appearing as inductors. The result of this is made ob- vious every day to those who use public transport to travel to and from work in London, More and more colored bus conduc- tors tube station workers" are to\be found in the publie service. They can quite readily secure work permits from the ministry to secure admission to the British Isles, since they are guaranteed jobs at excellent wages on their arrival in Lon- don. These colored people make good bus conductors and tube workers. From my own experi- ence, I can vouch for the fact that they are more courteous and helpful to passengers than are the native-born workers. THE VICIOUS CIRCLE The public reaction to the emasculated bus service be- cause of the shortage of workers is quite violent, in a verbal sense. Views of the passengers are colored by the fact that as soon as wages are increased, with the objective of securing more staff, fares have to be in- creased to meet the extra costs. The old threepenny bus fare for short distances is gone. Four- pence is the new minimum. In my own Case, after the latest substantial wage increase, the cost of my season monthly ticket to and from the city rose by approximately one pound or three dollars. And the buses and tubes are losing passengers be-~ cause the extra cost has driven thousands to use their own motor vehicles, rather than pub- lic transport, to reach the city, So, with regard to the costs of travel, the point of diminishing returns has already been reach- ed, And normal service, in spite of the inducement of higher wages, will not be a reality in London in the foreseeable future. How Many Ontario People In Poverty? By DON O'HEARN TORONTO--Just how many people are living in "'poverty" in Ontario? The Ontario Federation of La- bor got a lot of press ink when spokesman at its convention claimed more than 2,000,000 people in Ontario were living in "poverty" or "deprivation". The federation, one would say, has the habit of so many people today of taking a rough figure and building it into a shocking case, The old story of overwhelming facts with fig- ures, REAL FIGURE? To examine just one side of its story. The federation says any fam- ily with an income of less than $3,000 is in poverty: This is a figure which, in it- self, one can challenge. For while some familiés are in pov- erty at $3,000, others could be relatively comfortable. However, ignoring this, let us look at the statistics. Where it got its figures from we don't know, but the federa- tion presumably would have well more than 1,000,000 people living in "poverty'" -- the bal- ance of its 2,000,000 would be in "deprivation" (An income it sets at less than $4,000). The only figures we have to go on here are from the 1961 census. They show 245,396 heads of families to be making less than $3,000.. And this would mean 883,426 people (using the ac- cepted ratio of 3.6 people to a family). However, in the first place, this figure does not bring out the families in which either the wife or older children or both are working and bringing money into the household. And it ts not at all accurate on those who are $3,000 a year. POINTED. PARAGRAPHS Most of us tend to be aware of the need for the other fellow to change his outlook, What we should worry about. more is what we ought to do about it ourselves. -- Sir Alec Douglas- Home. "earning'"' Finance Minister Gordon has devised a plan to make mort- gage money easier to obtain. What is needed by most people is a plan to make it easier to pay off the mortgages For instance, there are the people who were in hospital at the time the count was taken, those on strike, those whe are permanently unemployable, those with the family head in prison, the old age pensioners and those with the heads of family in mental homes. These and other exceptions would add up to a big percent> age of the total. The. only true figure for the basis of an attack on poverty, which was what the federation was calling for, would be the number of people in the prov- ince who were actually in dis tressed conditions and earning less than $3,000, or whatever amount would take them out of distress, One of the curses of our life today--and of the man--is that figures can be used, or abused, to prove any- thing. Herring Industry In Newfoundland VANCOUVER (CP) -- A vet- eran West Coast fishboat is bound for Newfoundland waters in an experiment aimed at bringing a herring fishery in- dustry into Harbor Breton. The Lavallee, a 126-foot re- fitted purse seiner which first hit the water as a wooden minesweeper, has seen service in British Columbia whaling 'and fishpacking duties, The owners, B.C. Packers Limited, have ordered the La- vallee to the company's modern filleting plant at Harbor Breton, The company hopes to enlarge its Newfoundland operation to process an expected large her- ring harvest. The Lavallee has been 'equipped with the latest naviga- tion and fish finding devices. Machinery includes pumps for rapid unloading of herring from holds fore and aft, During the month-long voy- age to Newfoundland, the La- vallee will be. manned by 'a crew of eight under Capt. Wil- liam (Red) Anderson. PAPER MISSED?. Call 723-3783 to 7 p.m. Circulation Dept. OSHAWA TIMES light sunny flavour RANVIN * SHERRY AND PORT WINE isd JORDAN BRANVIN Sherry