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Labor Leaders Seek Action :' In Ease Automation Impact ::
By ROBERT RICE
OTTAWA (CP) — Labor Iead- | hint that a new appr |be forthcoming aimed at
rs
have demanded that
the
deral government act to pro-
ct the al progres: As organized Tabor open KO sault , the cabinet beard:
1. A proposal from Quel
“victims of technologi- |
bec's
onfederation of National Trade
nions for
new legislation to
rotect workers hit by the ef-
cts of automation.
ke into account “ ies”
A plea from the railway herhoods that the railways some human- in abandoning unprofita-
je services, providing compen- tion for workers displaced by Drobiems of mutual interest,
ie streamlining process
In return, the labor delega-
OBITUARY
Inserted by _ relatives
tions heard Labor Minister Starr
th will
briny
ing technolegical dislocations
on reasonable control."" DIES UNDER WAY
Starr told the 45-member
its on periisment cntu delegation that a number
of studies are under way on the impact of sutoraation oa indus- try This information will “form the basis of an approach to this broblem whereby we bope
able to bring the ‘attendant. dis- iocationd within ‘reasonable con: trol.”
He asked for the full co-op- eration of labor and manage- ment in coping not only with automation but also with other
“We do not believe in pro- ceeding by way of regimenta- tion or by placing both labor and management in an econo- mic strait jacket.”
‘Three labor groups
the
rends as a tribute to the de-| ara representing some 110.-
eased. SAMUEL DRAKE
000 Quebec trade unionists, the ro oe Railway Brother- vaki for another
After a short illness, Samuel | 110,000 he workers. and the
rake, age 73 years, way on February
-E. Island Hospital.
ne eldest son of Wallace Drake
ni the former Annie fillview.
Ings,
passed | 1,070,000-member Canadian La- 27th in the tor Congress — He was their
each present [nt ie a to d Diefenbaker - the cabinet reyes year.
< brief will be irae to-
Although the es few years day
is health may
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sfied. His
0 be “ido al tags worth oing well,” which he
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consolation or for a rae and never went ei eee ae.
applied
goes to former Mary Tay- survives. An only child came Clay, who will be him by 25 August. With her husband,
are three
predeceased ears, Also surviving gh I orsign Mrs.
azeibrook, Robert, Mil
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re been wan- =. LEGISLATION is death was a. shoc s relatives and many friends | mation the CNTU ighly esteem- his
meet the problem of auto- called for federal legislation to provide for compensation for workers
displaced by technology, for re- training courses and for other action
It also urged a royal commis- sion investigation of the after- effects of
Mr. Starr said the government is already spending millions of dollars to develop vocational training is encouraging youngsters to stay at school to develop new skills
The railway unions urged creation of a new transportation authority to regulate not only
the railways | be also interpro- mill to be operated and even-
vineial trucki DISCUSSES SHIPBUILDING During discussion of the CNTU brief, Transport Minister Balcer forecast full employment in Canadian shipyards this spring when a total of 150 ships valued at about i should be under construction Mr. Balcer, who recently an- nounced 110° ships valued at 08,000,000 were under struction, said 40 more ships valued at more than $16,000,000 are expected to be approved for construction shortly
Hee also said he hopes to in- troduce soon legislation limiting Lawrence River and Great kes coastal shipping to Cana- dian vessels. The approval of the last two Commonwealth countries to reply—sierra Leone and Nigeria—to a Canadian re- quest for withdrawal from the Commonwealth shipping agree- ment was expected in tw weeks.
City Of 75,000 Is Shocked By Deaths Of Six Children
BENTON aINci LaITON, N.Y, (AP)— Shirley McPeek is a calm, slow- en woman who loves chil-
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George, she eagerly awaited the jother,
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—to about $200,000 a year—and Set completed. The company | confined to capital improve- ~ ae to supply the
One local residei newspaper pictures of two gal- vanized cans, the kind often used at "ar uae et to
the hospital in the black,” said, “it might better cost the city’ a little dough to operate it.”
It was from one of the two
homes that a “ime nurse filled | F514 co
er for the for-
than mua room on Tuesday. arch former United States Alr Force
6. Daily batches of formula re- quiring granulated sugar were
mized from (his fivegound com ot abattoir,
tainer for the next five di another nurse broke a Tule and made coffee in
asst was sugar the container, She dis-
ind reported the L In the state capital, Albany Health, Commiss man E. Hi tevision of the state sanitary code to ban salt and ther haz-
Srdous substances from hospital
|new vocational training facili-
| |
Vocational Training a ls Defended By Starr
OTTAWA (CP)—Labor Minis- | workers in the skills needed by te: Starr defended the govern- the expansion and moderniza- ment’s vocational training as- tion of industry. sistance program in re- SHORT OF NEED plying to opposition charges that _ Chesley W. Carter (L—Burin- the plan is poorly planned and | Burgeo) said the proposal for badly misdire know a we are go- ing," he said as the Commons ended its three-day debate on a $28,400,000 supplementary ap- teachers. But at the rate of propriation for the federal-pro- | teacher training it would take Vinelal ‘plan, under which Ot.| 10 years to provide that num- tawa pays for 75 per cent of
provided in Ontario within the next year would require 3,500
Turning to the unemployment
ties built by the provinces. insurance item, Mr. Starr said
‘The amount later was ap- it will not be used unless the proved and the labor debate |fund runs out of money before to lend
moved onto an item $25,000,000 to the declining un- employment ipsurance fund. It is part of the $115,647,429 in supplementary spending cur- pad up for item - by - item
ne,
At the end of January the balance in the fund was $135,- 877.305. The flow of payments in January had been 17 per cent less than a year earlier
W. H McMillan (L—Welland) complained that the minister was being evasive about the present condition of the fund. He
Opposition MPs have said that |the vocational training plan |
| puts too much stress on high This is the J.A. Wittrien rink
SAINT JOHN RINK WINS AWARD
to Pete Sinclair's quartet in the Maritime Central Airways trophy. From left to right they
are: J.A. Wittrien, Gray, Walter Frank Maelnnis.
Jimmy and
| school-level training, does not wanted to know how much more gam ssint” Joha, pacer vong eee fhe Canter | Provide es canes to man the | money was going fr of the captured the Morrison and day and finished as runner-up | new cl being built and fund than was going expands courses which are Ta W. Pickersgill (Bon pidly becoming obsolete. vinia-Tvilli ate) said the ~
Mr, Sar ald reorecitatve ernment had ‘ossed nr OTTAWA JOTTINGS
Itinerary Is Announced For Queen Mother's Tour
| under the same system. | SUPPLY MONEY
jioner Dr. Her- leboe recommended
areas where food for infants
Prepared. Dr. Hilleboe said any discip- linary action against the prac
et looked. at tnd managing them, and to sup-
and 1958 that no one woul on unemployment relief. New et was boasting in a party pamph-
Ho that it had increased reliet House Of Commons Layout ev Is Explained By Kings MP
By MRS. MARGARET MACDONALD MP for Kings
of industry, along with federal and provincial gov: | rnment groups, helped to set the policy for ‘the plan, The aim was to reduce future un- employment by training more
queerest boast of al
This week I thought I would, Right in the “niddle section try ‘and explain partially the of the Chamber on the floor | House of Common: directly in front of the Speaker's fe House of Commons is the |chair is a table here clerks of Eaters oteara et ttallack | cael ae tele parliamen- |the House sit. It is at the end Watch and an evening concert |tary democracy. The Chamber |of this table where the mace is ending the Festivals de Musi- where the Members of Parlia- | placed signifying the House
OTTAWA (CP)—Queen Mother Elizabeth will arrive in Mont- real by air June 7 to open her
10-day visit to Canada, it was que du Quebec. ment sit while the House is in |in. sion.
announced here. She will fly from Dorval Air- | session, is sometimes called the | Several feet farther down Governor-General and Mme. port to Ottawa Monday to be |Green Chamber. This is because |sits the Hansard reporters,—
Vanier, Prime Minister and |the guest of Governor-General |the carpet and the curtains are |one being English and the other
Mrs. Diefenbaker and Quebec | and Mme. Vanier. There will be | green. There are 276 desks on |Frenca, and it is their duty to
officials will be on hand to wel- a state dinner and reception at |the floor of the Chamber,— | record ey) word that is spoken
in the Hou: At the South end siis the Sergeant-at-Arms. His duties are
Government House that night. |made of Canadian oak,—188 on uesday, June 12, she will |each side—with 16’ between the Her vist is to mark the 100th place a wreath on the National | front benches. The walls of the he Black Watch | War Memorial in downtown Ot- |room are built of Tyndall lime- |to lead the Speaker's proces. (Royal Highland Regiment) of | tawa | stone, jsion at the beginning of each | Canna ls. | The next day Her Majesty The Chamber's size is 92’ x |day when the House opens, and , June 8, Her Majesty | will visit Upper Canada Village, 54’ and it is air-conditioned as | also to place the mace on the illineletoet celal Wuueboresieil | itertoration ote lovcneer oes: |Paclienient otter aie long hours |table and to remove it at night aa Upset neni of Quebec | munity, near Morrisburg, Ont., during the heat of the summer. | when the House closes, to keep ening will attend have lunch on a naval frigate At the north end of the Cham. |it safe, He also carries out all a ines dinner ‘of the regiment. | and tour some St. Lawrence |ber in the centre of the room is |the orders given by the Speaker. turday program in- | Seaway installations. the Speaker's chair. This chair
ites presentation of new col.| Thursday is highlighted by alls a replica of the one that was |
come her at a scheduled arrival time of 5 p.m. :
Canadian Salt
ors to the regiment, of which she civic Juncheon given by Mayor in Westminster that was de colonel-in-chle, inner | Charlotte Whitton of Ottaw stroyed in a bombing raid in 5 given by Mayor Jean Drapeau. | ‘The Queen Mother will be in 1941, Reveals Profit ATTEND SERVICES Toronto Saturday, June 16, to| Immediately about the Speak- Sunday, June 10, the Queen |attend the running of ‘the er's chair is the Press gallery | MONTREAL (CP)—The Cana- Mother is to attend services -at Queen's Plate at New Wood- where the nation’s business is diant Salt Company Limited the regimental church, an after- bine. She will leave by air from recorded by the various news- has repeated net” earnings
Toronto to return to Britain. papermen from all across Can- ada
At the North end and South end of the Chamber there are public galleries where visitors from all across Canada come \t sit and listen to the business
noon garden party for officers
Nfld. Gov't Is Planning To Build New Feed Mill
, Nfld.
in 1961 were $1,220,847, or $1.63 a share, compared with $1,514,- 607, or $2.02 a share, in 1960. Calculation of per-share oe ings in 1-60 took into accout three-for-one stock split in 1061,
The company’s annual report said a “gratifying increase” in sales of consumer products oc- curred in 1961
ey above the Press Gal-
would each be ~~ to pro- is the public gallery where
a0 hogs a yt
ST. JOHN (CP) —A
new animal and pountry feed
reed stock would be sup- visliors from all seross’Canade | |The report said “abnormal tually owned by Robin Hood plied” them by the government come to sit and listen to the | €xPenses” in developing the Flour Mills Limited will be on a loan basis. Mr. Smallwood nation’s business. company’s new rock salt mine established by the Newfound- said the program would cost At the South end, there are | at Pugwash, N.S., helped reduce land government in $500,000 initially, which would #/8° two separate galleries,— | earnings. John's area, Premier Small- |‘ °* the first being the diplomatic | “Earnings in 1962 should com
be provided from money re- gallery where visiting Embassy Mr. Smallwood, moving sec- ceived for the sale of the New- personnel sit, and directly above |
ond reading in the legislature | foundiand Savings Bank. rot another public gallery. of a bill allowing for the estab- || East side of the
lishment of the mill, said it was Chamber’ the gallery conclats probable the mill would be te Steel Company Jof one section for the execu: cated near St. John's. i tives of the various Ministers The bill, given approval in SQeNds Heavily who take down notes or quest- mi tion to establish the mill. On Improve ents nln acer 3 in the day, But Mr. Smallwood said the HAMILTON (CP) — Steel fo this is a section plan was for the government to for the Leader of the Opposit- a buy: Period of 13 years. Robin Hood tions and improvements to eres een wereenicees |e would evecare the mill during plants and mining properties in tne Grpeeiten terme
pare favorably with 1961,” the report said. “The severe
weather and substantial snow- fall experienced during January and February of this year have resulted in substantially heavier sales of rock salt than a year
wood said here.
rinciple, would allow for the ister and other date what, Min. Shipments trom a depot bui Pewtaeion Of a crown serpotee ister and other data which they at Pugwash were started in the fall of 1961, the report said, and are expected to increase in '1962. Company of Canada has spent jon's staff and his personal a t made the mill = a Ti atep leat more than $300, 000,000 onaddi- | visitors. saan, cormpared with $122 Year earlier, Working
capital in increased by $475,
that the last decade, says V. W. On the East side starting at i te plan woul also call for seutty, president the North end is the Senate gal- jemmesemsenssuesesennanasans atone Pond, Manuel, in ‘con, Writing in the company’s an- the Peat pet dene -erbdd a ¢ grain would nual report, Mr. Scully said - | The SURGE d Then comes the Speaker's gal- || to oes
be ‘aslo ood stored. These | would cost about $300,000 and |tecome Robin Hood property
there are outstanding commit- 000 |
ments amounting to $88,000,000 | !¢ty where the Ministers’ wives
and it is likely that further Sisters of Se creeiait
large expenditures will become| gether countries. Next to a is
necessary in the years ahead to |\the Membere’ gallery for
keep pace with market growth wed vidios of the Goveramiest |
and technical development. DOUGLAS BROS. Expenditures on plants and) qh. galleries are so arrang-
mining properties in 19l|oq that you look down on. what & JONES LTD.
uinted to ‘oM-|is called the floor of the House pared with $53,289,640 in 1960. | where the Members sit hated ca
Mr. Scully said the company’s , an P. E. |. Fluid Milk Association
Semi-Annual Meeting
Lake Superior deposits in the Wednesday, March 21 - 2:30 p.m.
‘United States will be greatly re-
duced when Wabush mines in Y.M.C. A, Charlottetown
Labrador comes into produc- CAR OWNERS OF P.E. I.
The company’s share of | i
Ce)
Lah mn rs
Smallwood said negotia- s with Robin Hood are just
on
“know- for building the facilities
ply money needed to operate the business. ian ae te
in con junction ould
| ae be coon by private interests. | cute Ss woreanaas, 0, | would be established in | G99 909 of which $12,009,000 has already been spent. Two Cana- Goa. congenlas, ve. hanrton companies and one Italian com- pany are sharing in the cost of the bringing the mine into pro duction.
Net profit in 1961 — as re ported earlier — was $27,378,341 or $5.41 8 share compared with $21,355,651 and $4.92 in 1960,
$100,000. Pepperell is a
feed the processing plant the government
undertake a program in ‘etch 100 selected Yarmers in Con Bay area
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| Newell Philpott real obstetrician, and
[Lever Brothers Profits Decline Shaw of Toronto, executive vice-
TORONTO (CP) — Lever president of Foundation Com- Brothers Limited had net profit) pany of Canada Limited, were
a Mont- Robert
| in 1961 $1, beled compared named first and second vice | with $2,004,000" i presidents respectively. The new eh coma $58,756,000] alumnae vice” president is Mrs.
compared with $53,385,000. while | R net profit as a percentage of sales was 2.9 per cent com- pared with 3.8 per cent.
Lundy Grout of Montreal. Also named to the executive committee were Ralph M. John- son of Ottawa, honorary secre
A total of $47,069,000 was paid tary, and C. Alex Duff of Mont- for raw materials, advertis-| real, honorary treasurer. ing, supplies and services com. rr
pared with $41,048,000 in the | CHANGE OF SCENERY
previous year, while the amount) REGINA L. Bloore, paid employees and payments director of the Norman Mac- for ther benefits was $8,541,000| kenzie art gallery at the Uni-
compared with $7,700,000. versity of Saskatchewan in Re- gina, een granted a senior | arts fellowship for 1962-63 by the Canada Council to make painting tour of Mediterranean countries.
Microwave Job Award Firm
MONTREAL (CP)—RCA vie} tor Co. Ltd., says it has been awarded a $12,000,000 contract by Canadian National and Cana- dian Pacific Telecommunica- tions for the supply and install tion of a 600-channel microwave system linking major cities be- tween Montreal and Vancouver.
The system was announced jointly by earlier this | week
John D. Houlding, president |
f RCA Victor,
Storey Electric Lt
ie)
oer!
o sai con- | tract, together with existing ones, will provide a total of
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250,000-man-days of work for the company’s Montreal plant
The system is expected to be n ‘i in operation by the end of 1963. TORE
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