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é ed By JOSEPH MacSWEEN LONDON (CP) -- Arnold Smith, Commonwealth secre- tary-general, was scheduled to leave for Lagos today to pre- pare for next week's special Commonwealth meeting on Rhodesia. The 50-year-old Canadian head of the new Commonwealth secretariat said Tuesday his communications with various governments indicate the meet- ing is regarded as 'extremely important." The conference in the Niger- fan capital will be the first prime ministers' meeting ar- ranged by Smith's secretariat, which was set up last summer at the last regular meeting of the Commonwealth heads of government. Smith, who makes his head- quarters in London, has been engaged in preliminary prepar- ations and soundings ever since the conference was proposed last month by Nigeria's prime) minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa}) Balewa, at a time of sharp di-| visions over the Rhodesian ques-| tion. | Reports from Salisbury now) indicate that the Rhodesian) rebel regime is feeling the pinch) of sanctions more sharply than at any time since it seized in- depeijence from Britain Nov. ll GANCTIONS ARE KEY The effectiveness of the sanc- tions--including an oil embargo --were regarded as the crux of the matter. Fears. were ex- pressed at a recent meeting of the 36-nation Organization of To Set Up African Unity that Britain was not seriously attempting to de- stroy the Rhodesian unconstitu- tional government. Smith and Nigerian authori- ties expect some 18 of the 22 Commonwealth governments to be represented, a dozen of them by their heads of government. Smith held talks Tuesday with Prime Minister Wilson and Commonwealth Relations Sec- retary Arthur Bottomley, whose permanent secretary, Sir Sa- ville Garner, flew to Lagos Tuesday. Wilson's delay in making an) announcement as to whether he will attend the conference was seen by some observers as aris- ing partly from his involvement in the Viet Nam peace efforts. The word in diplomatic circles has been that Wilson would at- tend but no confirmation was) yet forthcoming. It was thought} he gvanted to learn how many other premiers would attend and also to learn whether they felt Britain's sanctions were| shaking the Rhodesian regime. India's Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistan's President Ayub Khan cannot at-| tend since they are trying to establish peace between their | own two countries at the Rus-| sian conference in Tashkent. But India, at least, is sending) a minister. | The most outspoken critic of} the conference has been Tan-| zania"s President Julius Nyer-| ere, who said it would result} only in empty argument in| which his country would not be} represented. OHSC Role Is Destructive | To Labor Relations: Board TORONTO (CP)--A_provin-| elal arbitration board has} termed the role of the Ontario Hospital Services Commission as destructive in contract nego- tlations between hospitals and) unions and unsettling to an ar-| bitration board. The board, under Prof. Harry | Arthurs of Osgoode Hall law) school, said in an award made ag Tuesday that by control- ig hospital budgets, the com- mission could make a sham of! Disputes between hospitals and unions that are not re- solved by direct bargaining and conciliation must be submitted to arbitration under the Hospi- | tal Labor Disputes Arbitration Act. The board's award says the| commission had advised the| Welland hospital to limit any in- | crease in operating costs to not | more than five per cent. This figure, the board says, deter-| mined the hospital's bargaining | the arbitration precess by Te-/ position in direct negotiations. | fusing to make money available for an award. | On the other hand, it could take a course leading to a wider| The commission had _indi- leated that if an arbitration | {board awarded more than five cent, a supplementary | r gap between unionized and non- budget might be filed by the union hospitals by diverting h funds to hospitals under union contracts at the expense of others. ospital "The role of the commission | is thus destructive of direct bar- The board's comments came| gaining between the parties and in its award in a dispute be-|unsettling in the deliberations | tween Welland County Generaljof this board," the report Hospital and the Building Serv-|Stated. ice Employees International Un- | fon (CLC). It added that unions would be reluctant to accept the plea of & It awarded increases averag-jinability to pay and would ing 12 per cent in a aes | tales their case to arbitration. contract to the 230 hourly-rate employees. The hospital board had offered 11 per cent across} two years. Average earnings when t old contract expired in April, But if the: commission re- fused to assist a hospital in |meeting the costs of an arbi- he|tration award the process of| arbitration would become a} 1965, ranged from $200 to $300/Sham, it added. a month. The new contract,| This would place the com- which includes increased sick/mission in the position of de- leave and nine statutory holi-|termining the level of wages days instead of eight, is retro-| when it approved the hospital's active to last April. | budget. Canada Coldest At Coasts Mildest, Mellow In Middle By THE CANADIAN PRESS |feted the province during the The Canadian West is frost- bite country today and the East Coast has also been taking pounding from the weather. Winter brought these develop-| ments: New Year holiday weekend. Today's outlook across the a| country was much the same as| Tuesday's. | British Columbians were con-; tinuing to dig out in the south,| but under moderating condi- --At least three persons have) tions, No fresh snow was fore- died since New Year's Day! cast, Nanaimo on Vancouver Is- because of the severe cold in/janq already has had about 45] the West; linches and Vancouver more --The Prairies are in a deep|than 27 this season. | freeze; Prairie people again can ex- --Hospitals in Vancouver and| pect the thermometer to seem Victoria faced a serious blood| frozen at well below zero. The shortage Tuesday as six|struggle Tuesday for warmth in) inches more snow. clogged|33- below - zero temperatures! streets and kept donors away;| caused record power and near-| --Howling winds in the wake record natural gas consumption | of a snowstorm that closed airports at Fredericton and Saint John, N.B., made driv- in Edmonton. Red Deer, Alta., was to hit | 40 below before sunrise today. | ing in the Maritimes treach-| But that's warm compared with/ erous Tuesday and drove a|the 67 below Tuesday at Snag, Russian ship against rocks off}56 below at Watson Lake and} eastern Prince Edward Is-|49 below at Whitehorse in the land. Yukon About the only people enjoy- | ing the weather are the folks | who live in Ontario and Quebec | -- the = in some parts of| the West where schools gave an extended Christmas vacation) Sparetime Income | because of snow or severe cold. |p Maniicct"™t, ",,stekine,,ceuiahle I While much of Ontario is un-| sceounts. 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