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FRIDAY.

DECEMBER 16. 1955

CHARGE Pig IN POKE Unions Reiiect Railway Proposals In Dispute

MONTREAL ICP)--A railways contract dispute involving 150.000 mplnyees sharpened at a short meeting Thursday. with a union spokesman accusing the operators ..( trying to sell a "pig-in-a-poke."

Union Cool

Chief union negotiator Frank Hall quickly rejected a proposal by the major railways that concilia- tion board recommandatio be considered binding by both sides.

"The railways proposed to the H

To Prime

Minister's Suggestion

OTTAWA (CF) - An impartial appraisal of the current railway- union contract dispute was aug- ncsted Thursday by Prime Min- ister St. Laurent. but a top union spokesman was cool to the idea.

lilr. St. Layrent, talking to a la- bor group he e. indicated he thinks this might be the way to handle demands of 150,000 usrlou members for a wage-health-welfare package estimated to cost more than 890.- fi00.000 a year.

But Franky Hall of Montreal. chief union negotiator. was un- enthusiastic.

"For one thing. we don't know what kind of an impartial body the prime minister has in mind." lie said by telephone from Mont-

real.

WOULD AVERT STRIKE .!iir. St. Laurent's statement. de- livered in general terms to a Cana- dian (ongress of Labor delegation. appeared to lend some substallce to quiet reports here that he has been considering a solution to re- curring rail contract disputes with- otizl rcagtlnga to c0l'fLl1i:iSi0I1.

.r. . urent ted plainly Tlii9l"m'Qy that the government wont allow a strike but did not imiirrte explicitly What he might have in mind for the disputants be- nre the dispute reaches the strike lingo.”

l.:ii'licr the CCL had presented in annual legislative brief calling LN national health insurance. iuhcr tax exemptions gm-llmmy vT0Dftl:ni. The brief also lrbilrTtli1::. E M" 0! comp"i"'y

in reply. the prlrIU.i1I'lf'mtc”s'ald'

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Rh” ,0 h” 9XPended'on defence. ftuirrmenis for defence, he said

5” lirizent. '

'twe will take your recommends.

Coming Events

1-0051 Creek Concert. Dec. 22.

D0(;i.ll'I;l::ns concert New London

Comm "1 ' mday Klhy dance Gordon Lodge Stan h i moo; SOMMCDEC. Sm co nc art It t'aril party Newton aohool. sat- "'rin.v. Dec. 17. Kinkora Christmas concert.

Wednesday, DQC. 31

(Rilwllcad Road Glristinaa con- cert, December mm.

Whealiey River Christmas Con- Prl. December and,

:;:iU'P:'ieli' School Concert. Afton . tidal. in-(-emb" ,3.

Ni, ii . - iiiimaniiii”iili'iiilii)ilm;.Pl:mry sue

Iilhllislillab gong"-1' iliool. Monday Dec

ii' p h .":;:;i:l?rgreH3l'c IIl):c0 lwmconcert

i"'”i"""8 Springhill coal lllflll today. Vernon Gillaapia.'

5 - - t ?'..:?.t:":. rrtr

mist Wiltsbira concert us now, iwer hall. aalueilay. Dan. ma. St. Mas-:aret' cu-mug. . -rt-than .1 .1ataat2ii'o.

"Pantry hue and hunt a -uatapsorla-Sears. Friday lath, at

Sprlnpton . 19.

Christmas program and films ll. Herbert United ' Church in- ltzlit 1.3).

lNigthknll:ltltoilH Echool aw or on I , FEM”, , 5th.. I PM

Ca Traver school Con it Q? Traveareae Hull. Wodnczii W. . 11. at 7.31 p.irl.

Come to him.-tn Plnette school. Nil-Inna uoncort Bellaat bell.

y doll. Doc. lard. ll o'clock. 5'-owioi at Mt. Stewart Friday 3! - Romantic Mu- ll with Clooncy and

Lodge members are ad-

'n'.”3'." ""'i'i"li i"-"l'

an a r-

- Deeambdr II. Igtallatlou oi lad thawing

and Wednesday . highest i Ch'town

tion into acount." he said. "But we cannot make commitme t as to what we will iecommend to Parliament at the next session."

More Show In 1 "--'-t For Sclsli.

REGINA (CF)-More snow and enough wind to cause ground drift- ing were predicted for Saskat- .chewan today but the waathennan lsaid there would be no repetition of the severe two-day blizzard which struck Monday.

" skatchewan had good weather to clean up the results of the big blizzard which caused two deaths. Two others died indirectly from the storm and two persons still

were missing. Search continued for farmhand George Buttes, .'u,wbn dlgap.

peared Monday in the Halbrlta area of southern "as1ratehawan. and Lawrence Hanson of Kinder- ley who has not been heard from since Monday.-

RCMP inspector D.J. McCombe Land auditor Gporge Shepphe .1 died as a direct result of the blizzard while a Regina woman collapsed and died while shovelling snow and 8 Tallwly employee died after walking through deep snow in Moose Jaw.

Meanwhile. 14 weary.psasengers from a stalled C ” " " '

unions that they buy a pig-in-a- poke and enter into a prior agree- ment that the findings of the con- ciliation board yet to be appointed beanacepted by them." said Mr.

Any hopes that the talks-re- sumed at the invitation of the rail- ways after an earlier deadlock- would take an optimistic. pre-holi- day trend were dashed at the meet- n

g.

The 17 unions representing em- ployees in numerous non-operating classifications are seeking an 18- Per-cent wage increase and a health-welfare-insurance plan. To- tal cost of the package to the mm. panics has been estimated at 33 cents an hour and at least S90.- 000.000 annually.

Current rates vary widely, but have been unofficially estimated at an average 31.46 an hour,

Mr. Hal and other union spokes- men have urged a speed-up in negotiations which in other years have dragged on for many months.

Labor Minister Gregg acceded to this request by authorizing appoint- ment nf a conciliation board im- medl3lely- hl'- asing the normal appointment of a single concillator.

Mr. Hall. in his statement shortly after the meeting, said:

"The right of the employees. un- der the law. to reject or acept the conciliation board's recom- lIIl'.'l'I(i.8il0ilS must be preserved alid this is considered by the unions to be fundamental g”'I'here is no precedent in the ex-

rience of the unions In such an mportanf case to warrant a change in the pattern of collective v-Tzalnlng and conciliation boilrd nioceedings. . . ."

HIDDEN DANGERS

SHOREHAM. England (CF) - Jamea Perkins was working on his farm near this Sussex town when he plowed up" three live mor- tar shells.

Admiral Byrd I Slightly lniured

WELLINGTON. N. Z. tReuiers) Bear-Admiral Richard Byrd. 68 year-old veteran American ex plorer, suffered minor injuries when the iccbreaker Glacier, lead- ing ship in the American Antarc- tic task force. ran into a voilent storm on its way south. it was learned Thursday.

Capt. Charles W. Thomas. chief of staff to Rear-Admiral George Dfuck. commander of the opera- tion.. has been in radio contact with the Glacier and scotched ru- more that the Glacier was turning back because of Byrd's mishap.

He said she was forging ahead on her mission of leading the way to McMurdo Sound and she was ex tlletled to meet pack ice Thurs- lday. I-1e confirmed that the voy- age had been extremely rough.

FREIGHT HAULS UP OTTAWA ICP) - Freight ship-

I-iil.B91 tons from 12,845,970 in the corresponding period last year. the bureau of statistics reported Wed- nesday. Freight shipments rose 15 per cent during the first eight months of the year to 106.287.1011 tone from 91,842,954 in the Jan- nary-August period last year.

Railways train arrived Thursday

”4trfiv”ltnfil'?lnhF-35Zrtiitli9.?a”lt't”.ti-

day on the 180-mile trip to Prince Albert but became stranded near

tsrrrike-Beunado

ule tiny town of Leaks. hf) miles short of their destination. when a ""lV8y snow plow failed in move m-foot drifts. The

Wednesday. The nine-man crew of the train

Leask.

B Went 14 l'i0Ui'H cess Helene will nvlzoardt :(he steamlcss train and lions Dec, 19 under re 8 en by car into Leask between the CPR a

W” "V1"! in the baggage car. eat- Thur d. th CPR h (l ing food brought three miles from an osffeil-Y of ethe Seaf:i?ei':Nfiti)ti'-.(i'-.

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Resume Operation Dec. 19

OTTAWA tCPl -- The strike- bound Bay of Fllndy ferry Prin- resume opera- an agreement nd a striking union.

Labor department officials said

national Union to put its strikersl

Russians In

K A B U L. Afghanistan (AP)- Snow and a comparatively cool re. ception greeted Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and eorumunsit

party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev when they arrived here Thursday

tour.

Premier Mohammed Daud and a guard of honor were at the air- port but nowhere w rs there the roaring crowds whfc had acted the Russians visitors in In a and Burma. -

In keeping with the Afghan gov- ernments ap arent infant to play down the vlst. flags and hunting Ivpearad belatedly on public build- ings Thursday and the govern. meut-controlled press for the first time announced the Russians'

at scheduled arrival.

roucv OF NIUTBALITY

Inabriefa hatthealrpon in an if Russia "knows nistan is increasingly (ouow.

Irlaaten

..l?.'.."”””'-...i. ".i':f..:' ::'..i” villus - ' vinli unite.- .'...i..

Those Idmitld warp:-lmz gotltyulxl. llllin. Albania. ,

a . llatria. V rlnl-nil. c.,i...'i'-'3ti.im3...' dan. Cambodia and Lana. i in Vienna. Austrian chnadloe Julius Rash said "today in bl of Austria's great historical dun." Prime Minister lit John Kohl-

that the admittaace of the 10 na- tions had brought world nearer. '

for pick-up service.

an eight-year-old daedlnch wad

Snow, Cool Reception For

on the last drop of their Asian in

Afghanistan

lug a policy of neutrality while necking peace.” He declared con- ditions exisi "for expanding Afghan-Soviet relations." Observers here said the quiet reception was planned because the government did not wish to spark e latent anti-Russian feeling tra- ditional among Afghans. The gov- ernment wants close Rilssian ties. these sources said, but does not want to appear a Soviet satellite. On at least one unit someone had painted: ”Sovit-is go home."

Soldiers and police lined the road as Bulganin and Khrushchev drove with Daud to his guest house. King Mohamme” Zahlr Shah held a din- ner for the visitors Thursday night.

The Kremlin leaders flew to this mountainous kingdom ml the south- ern bordcrs of the Soviet Union from Stalinagad. capital of the So- vlct republic of Tadsnik. Bad weather had forced them to by- pass Kabul Wednesday and land in Ten-nez. Soviet city 400 miles

New U.N.i Members Are Jubilant Over Admission U

icathdir newspaper. YA. said I "hlaon has triumphed ”

awala of Ceylon laid at Colombo III& I my gun: state."

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"This successful termination of Claim

north of the Afghan capital.

primarily due to thc efforts of (icy- ion in the Ranriung tAfro-Asianl conference."

Italian Prime Minister Antonio

aegnl said he is glad "that justice has finally been done to us. even though somewhat late in the day."

In Mac ' lublllniion was the bynote of the Spanish press The

' Japanese Foreign ltliiil.-ier Ma- Ihigemltsu said he had hopes t Russia would support Japan's It the next assembly xe-salon. llld he felt peace treaty nego- wilh Russia should be . to increase the possi-

0! IpIn's entry. In . .Natlonalist Chinese George Yeh said & pimrnrnent regretted Japan's CBIILIIQ "It is absurd that Jil- :z'.I tiailt to he in uni uu lilollid 50!! &andent upon the Ms

W Ida:-tan news mm re-

s have re- d their counlrfl with "great joy and satin-

back to work pending further negotiation in their contract dis- putc.

The ferry. operating between Saint John. N. B. and Digby. N. S.. has been tieif up since Sept.

30 in a work stoppage over the union's demands for higher pay.

Canadian SIU director Harold Banks telegraphed Labor Minister Gregg from Saint John that the union would be willing to return '0 W0l'k and give an undertaking that no further strike would be pulled without 15 days' notice to the company.

COMPANY AGREEMENT

Mr- Gregg transmitted this in CPR headqua leI'F in Montreal. and late Thursday received word of the company's agreement to that aiirangement.

3! telephone. he then arranged with the union and the CPR for the Dec. 19 resumption of service.

The union members-about so- will return to work under existing wage rates. Meanwhile. contract llezotlatlons are to continue.

The MTV employees have been zeeking the same scale as the

PR late last summer extended to BIU ,men employed in the com- PMW8 West coast steamship serv- ice. This involves an average in- creaae of about 323 a month on the Fundy ferry.

Tug Puts Line On Freidhter

HALIFAX itCPt - The salvage 3:8 Foundation Frances chiigged '5""m' 5 l'0mi'l8 sea toward Hall- fax Thursday night with the crip- pled Brltish freighter Lord Church

in low. The' 048 lot a line aboard the p. m.

6.210-ton coal carrier about 2 AST after steaming 700 miles (mm Halifax-

The ireishier. 'dlsa led in ii atorm last 5 A y wave and wind since d,'wa, partly Hooded. her lifahoata and 'part of her bridle mashed and her steer- ins Rear out of commlitiiinii. 'tgl.ua: aazsr uom Meanwhile. another disabled Veil- ael. the Newfoundland flablng drag. ifer Blue Haze. finally reached port at St. Johnla. Nfld., at use Qnd or a towline behind the sister dragger Blue Foam.

The Lord Church was not expec- ted to reach Halifax before next Wednesday at the earliest. Bad weather could make it still later. Thursday night the Foundation Frances radioed they were making flva knots. about ll miles a day at sustained speed.

...-...m...i.'m... WARMING UP

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merits carried on Canadian rail- ways roae sharply in August to 15,.

The new ferry ”Bluenose" has been accepted from its builders by the transport department and turn-

led over to the government-owned Canadian National Hallways for

NATO To Str

Defences Ac

PARIS (Reuters)-The Atlantic council Thursday adopted a plan to co-ordinate tighter defences of Western Europe and Britain un- der the supreme allied command- er. delegates said.

Ministers of the 15-nation alli- ance, meeting in annual session here. also approved the first step toward a coordinated radar warn- ing system for Europe to guard against any surprise attack from the East

Under the plan approved today European fighter defences will be grouped in four sectors-north, south. central and United King-

Health Meeti

Approved By Provinces

OTTAWA (CP) - 'Ail province:

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ref

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iliner Queen Mary

iservice between Nova Scotia and Maine. The Bluenose. built at Lauzon, Que.. was delayed in de-. livery for over a year by mechani- cal troubles.

Deluyed 30 Hours

NEW YORK 'APl - The lllicl !Queen Mary arrived 30 hours late Thursday because of a storm

lher skipper said stretched all the

engthen Air g ross Europe

idom-delegates said.

i Gen. Alfred Gruenther. NATO isupreme commander in Europe. has been known to want a radar network as effective as the Uni ted States-Canadian system now manned around the clock in the North American continent.

He has described air defence arrangements in Europe as ”frus-l trated by an archaic command: system.”

Gruenther announced Thursday the U. S. has offered to finance two ultra-modern pilot communi- cations networks to speed up air defence warnings in Western Eu- rope.

ng Agenda

time was regarded as encouraging.

way from the Irish coast to Nevl rk

The Greek liner New York. ar- riving 24 hours late, reported en- countering two hurricanes.

Nobody was reported injured (ill either vessel.

Vital Statistics

OTTAWA tCPl-Marriages in- creased but births decreased in November compared with the corresponding month of 1954. the bureau of statistics reported Thursdzly. Death totals were vir- tually unchanged.

Births in November totalled 36.683 compared with 36.942 in November 1954. bringing the 11- month total to 407.103 compared with 399.689.

Deaths totalled 10.674 for the

compared with 113.376.

month compared with 10.871 and in the 11-month period of 118.609

Marriages totalled 12.095 in E t build the Siam S1.3m,9m'mo November compared with 11.433 Assn dam on me Nile and for the 11 months 117,576 In London gklvone compared with 117,849. '

TOT IS BEATEN TQRONTO ,(CP) -- Eolica said

Robye Fignary. I3. wall charger

Covers Island

Prince Edward Like the Dew

Britain Grave

PRICE lo

Takes

View

CAIRO. (CP)-Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser

said Thursday Egypt is read

y to use her armed forces if

Israel attacks the Arabs again.

In a statement to new by the government radio,

spaper men, later broadcast Nasser said he had made

Egypt's position clear in a special message to De; Hammarskjold, UN secretary-general, and to the Secur-

ilfy Council.

Reuters news agency quoted Nas- ser as saying Egypt will send ”the whole of her armed strengtli” illio faction if there is any "iurtlle-r iagression” by Israel against either ithe Syrian or Egyptian frnnliers. night's Israeli attack on four Syr- ian outposts overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Israel said 55 Syrians were killed in the raid. maintain- ing it was in retalinlivin for all-105:5 inn Israeli boats on the SP8. Syl"i'.'l

isaid 49 wen-. killod in

y-SIGNED DEFENCE PACT

Syria and Egypt recently signed a mutliiil defence pact pxomisiilg to support each other in the event of an attack by anolter power. Nasser as saying:

"Egypt has io'i'lwc'i a peaceful

policy till now d("'illfe repeated Isracli attacks.

"Noll that the whole world knows iSI'i'.l(?i always is the ag-

gressor it is clear that our policy of peace is of no use because it is impossible to have peace from one side only.

"Since the other side continues to attack Egypt has informed the United Nations and Security Coun- cil of its attitude toward repealed aggression."

In Paris. the foreign ministers of Britain. France and the United states agreed to try for greater co-ordination of their policies in the troubled Middle East.

HELP BUILD DAM

State Secretary Dulles and Fore- ign Minister Painay also agreed to coordinate their plans to help

permanent under-secretary. sum- moned Israeli ambassador Eliahu Elath to the foreign office and ex- pressed Britain's "grave concern" over the Israeli raid. He said Bri- tain will support Syriais complaint against Israel in the UN Security- Council today.

Later the Israeli embassy said Elath had made clear to Kirk-

patrick ”the retaliatory nature of lSr."i0i.S action on the Syrian bor- M ..

"Thai action." the embassy said. "was t:-Wen in self-defence after prolonged provocation which has

been endangering the lives and

property of'lsraell citizens along

the border."

ASK NEW MEASURES In acusing Israel of aggression

.Ahmed Shukairy. chairman of Syr-

ia's delegation to the UN General Assembly. declined to specify what steps Syria would propose the council take, but said "they will be measures which have not beeh asked before."

The Syrian complaint called the Israeli attack "an act of open ag- grcssion and provocation."

Under the UN charter. the coun- cil may recommend a cessation of aggression. If that fails. it may call on UN members to cut diplos matic, economic and communica- tion ties with the aggressor nation.

bring armed force into play.

Parliamentary sources in Da- mascus said Syria will demand compensation for damage inflicted on civilians in the Galilee afirayi

estimating it at the eilllhllirtil 09

Kirkpatrick. S400 000

now My. , ova,” .”nd, gm. Quebec Welfare Minister Sauve - - . A - tr" aatdw -while-hb-province -has ' mumnrhnw wmi its own form of health assistance,

question of national health imlu" Quebec would still be interested in considering anything better that

might be proposed.

with assault in connection with the beating of a four-yearold boy. They said Joseph Lavlgne was ad-

B e n.so..n Lind . Democratic Ca m pa I g it

If those steps do no good. it may -

mitied to Hospital for Sick Chil-

WASI-IINGTON ICP l - A hefty

ance.

Federal informants said Thurs- day the conference data now are being worked out. All provincial health ministers are expected to attend this new round of talks stemming from the federal-provln- elal fiscal conferencee last October. There was no agreement in Octo- her.

The big question will be financ- ing. Prlme Minister St. Laurent has said the federal government would be justified in participating in 'a plan involving a majority of provinces representing a majority of the Canadian people. But he has not said how far his government is prepared to go.

FEDERAL LIMIT

Those in touch with the situation here believe the federal offer will be to absorb up to 50 Pei” will of the cost within undisclosed lim- its designed to keep the federal share from getting out of Pr0D0l'- tion since health Costs vary from province to province.

At the meeting last October Premier Frost of Ontario sug- gested thai the Federal govern- ment should take up 60 per cent of the cost of a plan that would embrace initially diagnostic. hos- pital and home care services.