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Union feadem Issue Rail Strike Statement

OT'I'AVVA. Aug. 28---tCPi -The Canadian Congress of Labor and .i.he Trades and Labor Congress in is joint statement last night. said they "stand 100 per cent be-

hind the 1'! unions involved in the present railway strike." The statenicnt was issued by

Percy R. Bengough. president of the T.L.C.. and Pat. Conroy. sec- retary-treasurer of the C.C.L.. who said they spoke on behalf of "al- most 1.000.000 Canadian workers."

They charged that Donald Gor- 'don. president of Canadian Na- .iiottal Railways, was acting ns chief s-pokesman for the Canadian Pacific Railway. the largest. priv- ately-mvned corporation in Can- ada. and said that in so doing. Mr. Gordon "now lg determined for the sake of his own ambition and in the interest. of the C. P. R. to use the Parliament of Can- urla against Canadian workers and Clinic families.”

OTTAWA. Aug. 28--(CF)-Text of statement issued last night by rail unions following the collapse of negotiations in the general rziilivay strike:

These 17 unions. 15 internation- al and two niitioiial. served no- licp on the railways as far back as June 16, 1949. looking to the establishmcitt of the flve-day. 40- hour week and urine jncreascs of scvcn cents per hour.

Negotiations and various pro- recdings suhseiqllr-nt thereto failed to bring about a settlement. The employees took a strike vote and.

iirsuniit llicrctu. withdrew from lic service legally cnd peace- lull).

Within the past two tiny: and It the instance and request of llic Prime Mlnislcr. the unions Iicrcecl to reopen discussions with lihr rniliilziys.

These have now atvtl without results.

During the discussions and in .'llic interests of reaching a settle- ment and rcstoriiti: railway oper- ntioiis. the tlnions llYi'le, substan- ltial coiicrssioiis. pointing out that I4 months had already gone by ilurinz which the position of the employees continued to date.-:01-. lie.

The unions 7IFl'PrihPiESl modi- fled their demands. They offered In accept. A sex-cit-cants-an-liour wagn inCi'c.'ISn ps of June 1. 19.30. Inslcml of July 6. 1949. and to project the application of the live- day 40-hour week as far ahead sis June 1. 1951. and added to that in three-month transition period rlurinz which straight. time would lie pzixnblc up to 43 hours per work.

A proposed alt.eriiat.ive iivas that ltlierc he A livo-yrar contract with a five-cents-per-hnurt increase :retro:tclive In Jan. l. 1950. w'lh 4; cost-of-living provision effec- tiivc lnl.'llFfll5ll"1.V. tinder which tliere xvnilld be a fone-cont-pcb liour increase r c:i.h one point rise in tho cost of living index.

All of this went much further than had ever been contemplated by thug-nmployees. and gives the railways several months in which 1o continue to enjoy the returns from the hilzlior freight. rates they now linve and front the extremely Iiilzh level of business.

been termin-

Earnings for the first six hioiillis of this your already rc- flcct. :2 llinhiv satisfactory state

Df nffalrs.

From the riiltsei of those pro- rccdings the railways have great- ly exaxzccrntcd the alleged costs of thn r'mplo,vces' request and ttheir impact on the country's eco- Iiomj.

In these morn recent negotia- tions. held at. the request bf the Prime Minister. the railways have llllllo obviously been more in- Iereslcd in jockeying for position than in effort, a fair settlement.

This it more apparent from the fnrt that at iilr' last. meeting. just conrlutlcd. thc,v .iIl'eady bad a public. statement. prepared. set- ting forth their position although negotiations had not been broken off.

We are sure the ninployces will support the position of their l9D- rescntatlves and will carry on fflic fight. for a illst settlement. Tho r;iilwa.vs llt'lVI- not at any .llmc flPlllPfl they .-irc financially ahlc in nit-r-l the request of t.heir Gmpin) cos.

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These physicians rarely find it ncce.ssal'y to use ampheiamine de- rivatives such as Benzedrlne or Dexedrine as a help in reducing weight. Psychotherapy (persuas- lon by present logical facts regard- ing the dangers of overweight) has been of great importance in treat- ment. of both overweight. and underweight persons. They have

ot used drugs to drive water from 3

issues. no drugs to decrease the

appetite. nor thyroid or other gland .

Ixtracts to hurry the body process-

Is that burn or use up the food. lhicept. in emergencies where

weight must, be lost to save life or rcvent. collapse, reduction of the

bd intake is the best. method of

uclng excess weight.

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13.500 laid Off By Rail Slrilte

(By The Canldflll Prelli

An estimated 13.500 workers have been temporarily laid off as I dir- ect result of the railway strike, a Canadian Press survey shows.

The jobs of 12.500 more 818 threatened if the walkout lasts an- other week..

These are ln addition to the 124.- 000 strikers themselves and the es- timated 25.000 ion-strlklns TN" waymen made idle by their col- leagues' action.

Biggest single group of non-rail- way unemployed are 3.700 coal- mlners in the Crow's Nest Pas-s district of Alberta. Another 3.000 coalmlners are idle in Nova Scotia and 2.250 nickel workers at Sud- bury, Ont.

other jobless groups:

Quebec - 500 employees of Can- adian Arsenals Limited near, Que- ibec City; ,

Ontario .- 300 flour-mlll workers at Port. Colborne. 90 gypsum-DIEM employees at Caledonia. 15 em- ployees of a building-products firm in Hamilton:

- Manitoba - 100 to 150 packintb house workers at Winnipeg. 150 flc-ur-mill employees at St. Boni- face;

Saskatchewan - 25 pIckinilh0l1-Sf-' workers at Regina:

Alberta 310 flour-millers at Medicine Hat. 100 at Ll-thbridge. loo glass-workers at Redcliff: British Columbia - 700 seamen at. Vancouver. 300 pas:-metal min- ers at: Copper Mountain. 400 103' gers on Vancouver Island, 200 truckers in Vancouver and Victoria. too smelter workers at Trail. 3-1” coal-miners on Vancouver Isllnd. 200 ccinstructicn workers at Prince George.

Rail Einiiloyeeif Wages Are llelayell

MONTREAL. Aug. 28 -tCP)- Payment of wages owed ratlway employees for the first half of August will be delayed. Canadian railway companies said in I joint statement.

A railway official said later dc- lays will run "about one or two days."

Railway employees normally are paid at the Enid of the month for the first two week's work. The companies keep two weeks behind in payment in most cases.

The statement said the majority of clerical employees who Dll9DET9 the payroll and pay cheques "have been callod out on strike."

Text of statement:

"With some exceptions. railway employees would ordinarily be paid at the end of August for work per- formed in the first two weeks of August but in the majority of cases the clerical employees who prepare the payroll and pay cheques have been called out on strike and under the -circumstances delay in pay- ment of wages for work performed in the first two weeks of August is unavoidable."

Nlainguy To Head Naval Squadron cruise

PORTSMOUTH. England. Aug

28 -(CP) - Rear Admiral E. R. Malnguy. who will be flag officer commanding the Canadian special service squadron during its autumn cruise in Europe. in5P8Ci0d schools and establishments at this Royal Navy base.

During his stay he is to visit. gunnery and torpedo schools and the submarine depot. lie will leave for Londonderry. Northern treland Sept. 13 and a week later will hoist. his flag in the aircraft larrier Magnificent on taking command of the Canadian squadron.

The Magnificent. with the de- stroyers Micmac and Huron. will also make countesy calls at many

ports. including Gibraltar. Oslo. Copenhagen. Lisbon. Amsterdam and Antwerp.

tlitfalnguy. flag officer mnman:l- 1g the Atlantic coast. arrived here Monday.

BARR-INGTON. N. S. -(Ci-'1 - A 200-year-old muzzle loading can- non barrel nbout. four feet long and made of brass was recently uncovered on a beach near here. The old barrel has been send to the Museum It Ottawa.

jclioson Siioaltiir

Mr. H. C. Bohaker Unit Sup- ervisnr Sun Life Assurance Co. who has been asked to take part in a forum discussion at his com- pany's national convention to be be held in Jasper Park Lodge September l5-18th. Mr. Bohaker will deal with direct mail ex- periences. and business insurance in a medium sized city. as be has unusua-l success in this type of selling.

Early -Enrollment Of lleil cross Branch

The pupils of Watewale have organized

school their Junior Red Cross branch of twenty-seven members. The branch name is ”Broo'tside Brownies" and their teacher is Miss Mary MacLcod.

Schools which have a Junior Red Cross group carry on active health and citizenship programs. They also correspond with foreign countries and. in this way, their Eeozltaphy lessons become more interesting.

Magazines, enrolrnent forms and newsletters are being mailed to all school secretaries this week and those who ciiroli earliest will re- ceive the mosl: benefit from such an organization.

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. These plants came from expensive hand-pollinated seed sown about a year ago and I am very pleased with them.

Lavender flowers have been cut off the one small bush of lavender in this garden. but as it. is difficult to winter in this garden province, it is very precious. so many sprigs have been given to garden visitors that it is a wonder there is any- thing left of it. Fragrance in a garden is it necessity and all fra. izrant flowers and leaves are treas- ured above all others.

Galtonla Candicans. sometimes called the "Slimmer I-lyaclnthis is now ill bloom. It is a strong-grow- inlz Summer-flowering plant with Hyacinth-like spikes of bell-shaped flowers on stems up to four or five feet in height. They are very effec- tive planted in groups in the peren. nlal borders it is necessary to lift them about the time the dahllas are taken in for the winter and they require the same winter care.

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I have begun the cutting out of an old Philadelphus or Mock Orange as it has become very woody and old through the years and the Honeysuckle bushes are benutuut after this treatment: they are cov. ered with crimson berries and the W53 are feeding on them' every day. some of the branches of this Mock Granite are twelve to 11:. teen feet. in height. It is a shrub that is fragrant and lovely and there are many slips from this tree in the garden. -

When visitors walk through the garden gate and see the large glu- den there is to mow. weed and care for. they exclaim! "My man mu" be a great. deal of work to this" and the answer is, "I love working in the garden". so here is a little verse from a writer of long ago . . .

filers is nothing truly valuable ii icb can be purchased without, pains and labour.”

-Addison.

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THERE OLTG-HT TO BE A LAW

0'I"l'AWA. Ont., Aug. as - rot. lowing is the text of the statement issued Saturday night by the rail- W'Yi' lN10UllCinl the collapse of the negotiations to and the rail- wsy strike. .

Conscious as they were of the disastrous affect of the railway strike. not only upon the domestic economy of Canada but upon the grave international situation of the country. the railway manage- ments. in the dlscunlons before

the mediator appointed by the government. Dr. W. A. Mac kin toaii. went to the utmost

lengths prudence would permit in their efforts to avert I strike.

"rho strike having taken place. the employees' representatives and the management: were urged by the Prime Minister to make another effort to reach an agreement in the full realization that a con- tinuance of the an-ike would cause grave hardship to the people of Canada and seriously impede the fulfillment of.Canada'e obligations under the United Nation's charter and the North Atlantic pact.

"Many meetings have since been held and while I solution has been earnestly sought for by the managements, none has been found which in their but judg- ment. can be justified to the Can- adian people by whom the bur- den of satisfying the demIiid.I of the employees must ultimately be home.

The question posed for the Can- adian people is whether the care- fully weighed recommendation of a properly constituted conciliation tribunal is to be completely dis- regarded; every suggestion of compromise to be rejected; and the terms on which the men en- gaged 'in an essentially public in. duscry will return to work to be dictated solely by them.

Should Act Together

"Confronted with these quest- ions. the railway managements believe, as the Prime Minister stat- ed in his statement of August 22nd. that the representatives of all the people should act together in discharging their responsi- bility to meet the situation.

The renewed negotiations be- tween railway managements and the negotiating commi-itee re- presenting the unions which were resumed on Friday an-d Saturday at the specific request of the Prime Minister again ended in a statement this evening.

"The railways made a firm of- fer of settlement as follows:.

Four cents per hour wage in- crease to be effective Sept. l, 1950: '

"A five day 40 -hour week to be- gin Sept. 1. 1951; a two year con- tract to run from Sept. 1. 1950:

"An agreement along lines in- dicated by the negotiating com- mittee as satisfactory. to negotiate amendments in certain rules:

"A clause rmpecting the pay- ment of straight time up to 48 hours a week in the event of a nat.ional- emergency:

"Hotel and water transport workers to be covered in a sepa-

rate contract for one year and to be granted an increase of two cents per hour effective Sept. 1. 1950:

The negotiating committee re- jected this offer on the following points:

increase effective June 1. 1950:

"A five day 40 hour week ef- fective June l. 1951, with a three months transitional period dur- ing which straight time would be payable up to 48 hours a week and insisted upon the inclusion of hotel and water trarispont em- ployees in any agreement.

"As a possible alternative. they proposed a two year contract with the five cent an hour wage in- crease retroactive to January 1. 1950. provided .a coat of living bonus clause was made effective at once granting I one cent an hour wage increase for each one- point rise in the cost of living in- dex.

"This alternative was unaccept- able to the railways."

Further lhlen-tent

MONTREAL. Aug. as J The railways on Sunday afternoon stated that in their statement is-

wsys outlined the reasons which and led them regretfully to the conclusion that I stalemate had

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Railway Statements Review Negotiations

"A seven cent per hour wage.

sued Saturday evening. the rail-l

been reached in the negotiations; namely. that their firm and fair efforts had been rejected by the unions' negotiating committees. The railways went to the Satur- day evening meetings hopefully that a new altitude would be shown by the unions and they were prepared to make the facts known to the public if those hopes were not fulfilled. The railways did not break off the discussions 'Ibrubtly and unceremoniously as Mr. Hall alleges. The accuracy of the charge 'thIft the railways were jockeying for position ra- ther than seeking a .settlement' can be judged best by the public in the light of the many conces- ions over and above those con- sidered fair by the conciliation boards which the railways have offered in their efforts to satisfy the unions."

Marrying Mark

I VIOLEITI KIMBALL DUNN

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"I'm quite sure what your opin- ion is of women who pursue men to their offices. But: how else am I to see you? And I truly must. Will you drive me home? Oh. Harmon. just take the car back. I shan'i: be needing it. again until tonight."

Mark almost pull out a protest- ing hand as the man touched his cap and drove off. Elise was moving floaiingly toward his roadster. and there was nothing to do but follow her.

"I just remembered .- a telephone call. Excuse me a second. I'll be with you -"

He was halfway up the -walk be- fore she could answer. He felt. childishly defrauded as he called his house from the superintendent's

office. He had hardly realized how be counted on the hour in the po-.:l with Valerie and Lucy. He was glad when he heard Chtltern's voice. sometimes if Valerie happen-, ed to be passing when the tele-1 phone rang she answered, just in case it might be Mark. - "Please tell Miss Tred-way an:l' Miss Valerie I've been detained. and- to have their swim without me."i he said. "And, Chlltern, I say - tell them Ilm terribly sorry, will you?" 1 "Yes. sir." said Chiltem. "Willi you be coming home for dinner?" "Yes!" said Mark loudly. He felt

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his voice would banish the hint fear that seized him It the ques- tlon..

"I see. alr.j' said Chlltem. "thank you... I .

Mark almost suspected be really did see. He would not have put ill past the man. He felt. as he hgd so often before. how ridiculous were the restrictions of caste. He knew his butler better, and .cai-tslnly liked him more. than he did the majority of his so-called friends. He would have been willing to wager that chiltern felt the same toward him. why couldn't he tell Chiltern he was in something of I jam and ask him what to do about it? He was practically certain the man would have been able to tell him.

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Mark got in beside Elise and started his car. The wind lifted the light brim of her enormous hat. and she caught it closer. she could chauffeur and three closed cars hardly imagine a man with a driving himself to work in a two- year-old roadster, like any labor- er. It was difficult: to look out from under a shadowy brim with lustrous eyes when that brim surged Ind blllowed in playful leaps that kept both her hands at her head.

Finally. as a stronger gust. tilted it coyly over one car. she took the thing off entirely. anchoring it

firmly on her knees and thanking '

heaven for I hair net. She was

struggling with I rage that fnclud- .

ed even Mark. although reason told her he had nothing to do with

it. The last straw was when she .

looked up and found him laughing. Men seldom laughed with, and never at, Elise.

"Sorry. but you should have seen yourself," said Mark. "I mean the way you looked when we started, and the way you looked after I couple of bouts with the breeze."

Elise managed it kind of smile. "It must have been terribly funny." she agreed. she could feel the sun and wind on her face and neck. Having the kind of fine-grained skin that burns even without pro- vocation, she knew what the ex- cursion -would cost her. she only hoped she would be able to get her money's worth.

"I suppose you're wondering why I've carried you off." she said. "I simply had to see ycu. And t'.I practically lmpowible to get you to myself even for a minute. Of course, I simply adore Valerie, as you know. And Miss Treadle is - well, of course shela quite - stimulat- ing - if you know what: I mean."

Mark nodded. He didn't in the least know. "Stimulating" must be. he decided, a kind of trade word for anything you didn't care to put it name to. He was,quii;e sure Elise had something more explicit in mind.

She hurried on without waiting

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"Perhaps it isn't exIct.ly fear." he explained. "Maybe I'm catering I trifle to the tongues of men. to say nothing of women. silly rot, I know. But then we do live in the world. don't. we? And even if one doesn't go in for stereotyped mourning. it does curtsln social Ictivltiea I bit."