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LABORBEAT By GORDON MITCHELL Oshawa Times Labor Reporter LOCAL EMPLOYEES of the Bell Telephone company recenity decided they dialed the wrong number when they got the Canadian Telephone Employees Association on the other end of the line. Last night they severed the connection when they official- ly joined the International Union of Electrical Workers as Local 2184. A charter for the local, which covers em- ployees here, in Port Hope, Cobourg and _ Peterborough was presented by Bob Dodge, a union rep. The formation of a new local results from a cam- paign against the CTEA by the IBEW across Ontario and Quebec. So far the fight is only with the association -- Bell Tel will be next into the ring -- according to the union men. Before the IBEW can get to face the company across the bargaining table it will have to sign up, and be certified as bargaining agent, for some 4,500 craftsmen in _both provinces. IBEW organizers are meet- ing with success all the way, which shows that something has gone wrong with the CTEA in the past ten years. BACK IN THE middle '50s the association won many of the benefits that other unions have gained only recently. Telephone employees took home a decent wage packet and everyone was happy -- until things began to slip. Perhaps the trouble began because the roots of the CTEA were too weak to allow it to grow up. It was a company ~ union _ originally which was later patterned after a government-employee type of organization. This postal strike this sum- mer shows what can go wrong with civil servants' associations. The CTEA doesn't operate democratically as other unions see it -- because mem- bers don't get the chance to ratify contracts; can't direct- ly vote top officers out of office; and can't directly choose the four man bargain- ing committee. One of the CTEA's proud boasts didn't go down too well with the membership. Appar- ently in all its years of exis- tence the association has never applied for conciliation or arbitration procedures. One of the results is that linesmen for the Bell are get- ting on the average, $14.50 less per week than a man do- ing comparable work for a Public Utilities .Commission-- and they could even be work- ing on the same pole. AGITATION AGAINST the CTEA sprang up spontaneous- ly with a meeting of Bell employees in Guelph. Osh- Lesage Would a Peay awa men were next to or- ganize a meeting at which employees from as far off as Kingston came to beef. Some of the things they sounded off about were: no regular meetings for the membership; differentiai in wage rates according to zones, a vacaiton schedule which var- jes from month to month; a lack of leadership; and a refusal to recognize the asso- ciation by the Canadian Labor Congress. The CTEA top brass haven't been fighting the IBEW recruiting drive up to now. Although a little pro- motional material is begin- ing to filter down. | Success of the IBEW drive has had some results with the | resignation of some CTEA | field representatives -- with | no members to represent they | are out of a job. { The IBEW would end up representing more than 26,000 | telephone company employ- | ees if the CTEA has thrown in | the towel -- as it appears to | have done. It's too late to | throw a hat into the ring as the fight appears to be over. THE CLASS OF '65 -- for unionists who want to know more about their union-- meets tomorrow at King Street Public School. | The back to school kick is | organized by the local council of the Canadian Union of Public Employees which | sponsors the two-day educa- | tional institute. Some high-powered CUPE | speakers are lined up for the institute. The keynote address "The Importance of Educa- tion in CUPE" will be given by the union's director of education, James Dowell, of Ottawa. Another of the CUPE ex- perts, Dr. Mario Hikal, will take classes on arbitration and legislation, Dr. Hikal is no stranger to the Motor City -- he recently spoke to local CUPE members on the union's pension program. The Ontario regional direc- | tor, William Acton, will teach local union administration while Francis Eady, special assistant to the union's na- tional president, will take classes on parliamentary pro- cedure. One of the CUPE Toronto representatives is Pat O'Keefe who will take his class through the maze of regulations surrounding col- lective bargaining proceed- ings, as well as the duties of a union shop steward. Local members from as far afield as Peterborough will be in town for the institute. Board of Works, City Hall, Board of Education and Osh- awa General Hospital em- ployees are also slated to attend. »yenngrtenrqennermnneattcrnnttennne nnn an Like To Plac French Shoe On English Foot PETERBOROUGH Quebec _ Premier (CP) Canadians, "Let them imag "i them the question with FN8-/t9 divide the nation rather than lish-Canada substituted for Que- ynite it said h Premier "t. 4 Lesage did, I bec," Wednesday. spect of their traditions." He spoke at a jointly with Ontario John Robarts. Comet Swings Around Sun And Back To Outer Space |Ikeya-Seki, lyears bright enough to be seen|ber of the airborne NASA ex-|comet were breaking off came . jin daylight, whipped around|pedition, viewed it plainly. lservative Gordon Chown and |the sun today and headed back/called it "extremely bright." into oblivion. North American mainlandiday, but earlier it could be seen lwatched the celestial spectacle|without binoculars, just south of|bright shimmer of an autumn) ' [across 93,000,000 miles of space.|the sun. ing on his: public image as 8) Its | was followed by a streaming] the Bishop Museum Planetar-| would be visible again at sun- 120,000,000-mile tail. joverpowered by the sun, which|brighter than Venus and ap-|view, racing back to the edge it to 800,000 miles. server aboard a National Ae-|bright enough to be seen with| The comet left scientists puz- ronautics and Space Adminis-|the naked eye since one swung|zled by several mysteries, Deli- tration jet plane saw the comet.|too near the sun in 1882 andjcate instruments detected inter- \Dr. \nserts SAIGON (CP) American day finally smashed a Viet Cong attempt to overrun a cen- units reeling back in defeat. In one of the greatest con- centrations of air power in the Viet Nam war, U.S. and Viet- namese fighter bombers flew a total of 140 combat sorties the garrison at Plei Me special forces camp. tral highlands special forcesjat Plei Me reporte d they camp and sent the guerrilla|counted more than 90 Viet Cong bodies around the perimeter of the camp. lieved to total about 300 militia- men and 12 U.S. advisers, suf- fered only a handful of casual- within 36 hours in support ofities. isome U.S. advisers was caught As Viet Cong troops assaultedioutside the camp when the es- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, October 21, 1965 3 The government garrison, be- One company of militia with THE BEST BATTLES Nov. 8 federal election. Progressive Conservative L. R./ | Mr. Green, 36, a lawyer who} jresigned as Metropolitan Winni-| \peg councillor to enter the fight, dered the special haircut in |says 40 to 45 per cent of the es- response to anti-Viet Nam timated 70,000 electors haven't war protests. (AP) |\made up their minds. | Mrs. Konantz, wo took Robert Carter in his south Philadelphia shop. Hill, a father of four children or- James Hill, 40, a veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict, gets a V for Victory haircut for barber the paign on meeting the voters. Undecided Should Decide Choice In Winnipeg South WINNIPEG (CP)--Candidates|ran a distant third---7,867 votes have taken to the streets of|to Mrs. Konantz's 24,467 -- in 7 \Winnipeg South to woo the un-/1963, Mr, Green says he ex- committed vote that all agree|pects a shift from the "old-line will decide the winner in the|parties" that could be substan- tial enough to win him the elec- Liberal Mar garet Konantz, tion (Bud) Sherman and New Dem-|from across ocrat Sidney Green have mar-|that ranges from the average shalled a work force estimated| working class in St Vital to the at 2,500 to help with the door-|wealthy in bell-ringing in the big, affluent| Heights. Mrs. Konantz, however metropilotan constituency. lis working hardest in St. Vital iwhere she lost the election in 11962 and made small gains in 1963. \stituency history is in his favor. |Winnipeg South elected Conser- vatives from 1953 to 1962 a ° val ._ \the six provincial seats have seat from the ee returned Conservatives since |1963, is concentrating her "aM | 1958, including Premier Duff 7 /Roblin and three cabinet minis- "T try to figure out what|ters who are all campaigning they're interested in and talk to/for him. them about that. There are no|----- All candidates expect support the constituency Viet Cong Kept On Ropes Bv Unceasing US. Attacks paaeon oR, Anya, ae Matec aa climes ie ane Soe , bombing and strafinglican jets unleas c rs unc its attack Tu within yards of South Vietna-jnapalm on the barbed wire de- ¥/planes hit several highway and mese government positions, to- = driving the guerrillas ack. night. panies was flown to the camp by helicopter today from Pleiku City, about 25 miles to the north, guerrilla force, mauled by continuous bombing and strafing, was already with- drawing into the jungle-covered| mountains. ESCAPES VIET CONG province, Capt. Robert F. Hop- per, a U.S. army officer es- caped Cong after being held captive for several hours, man announced, when Viet Cong guerrillas hit) a government outpost near the} provincial capital of Quang Tri| city, 140 miles north of Saigon. | ported killed in two helicopter crashes in the Plei Me area 210 miles northeast of Sdigon. that B-52 bombers from Guam made Cong targets in Binh Dinhi A relief force of several com- It was hardly needed. The savagely Farther north, in Quang Tri today from the Viet the spokes- He apparently was captured) Eight Americans were re- A US. spokesman reported three attacks on Viet province 285 miles northeast of Saigon. South claimed 91 Viet Cong killed in two operations, one 35 miles southwest of other in the Mekong Delta 155 miles southwest of Saigon. U.S, navy and air force Vietnamese forces and the U.S. and South Vietnamese ponge'n A gag position in planes literally blasted a path|North Viet Nam. U.S. Special Forces advisersifor them back to the camp, where they arrived with only light losses. SPECIAL WEEKLY MESSAGE TO MEMBERS OF FOOD CLUB 52-- 32 24-- 58 -- 4 32-- 18 181-- 48 367 -- 58 182 -- 28 376-- 52 220-- 78 457 -- 96 221-- 78 486-- 42 222-- 78 685 -- 30 270-- 44 FREE BUFFET IN OCTOBER Every Seturday 2 P.M, to 4 P.M, Every Wednesdey 7 P.M, to 9 P.M. 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