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DAI OPINIONS FEATURES THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE 2 OSHAWA WHITBY . THE OSHAWA TIMES ~. . .. - (Established 1871) : THE WHITBY GAZETTE ASD CHRONICLE independent newspaper published except Sunday by The : is Fuvlistuig Company of Osta, Limiied, Arthur R. Alloway, COMPLETE CANADIAN PRESS LEASED WIRE SER he Timas-Casetie 1s a member of the Canadian Dally Newspapers Association, the Ontario Provincial Dailies Association, ~Buresu of Circulations, Authorized as Second Class Matter, Post "Office Department, Ottawa, Canada. - . 'Net Paid Circulation Average Per Issue 7.66 3 MARCH, 1947 SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947 The GM-UAW Contract 'The agreement reached in Detroit between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers has probably done more than clinch labor-management peace in the American auto industry. Together with wage settlements in steel and electrical industries, the new G.M.-U.A.W. con- tract should act as a breath of fresh air whisking away the dark clouds over the American economy. Observers in the United States and Canada had been gloomily predicting that rising prices would force a new crop of strikes in basic industries this year. Economists shuddered when they weighed the impact of a chain of prolonged strikes on the economic structure. Shortages would be aggravated and prices would spurt upward again in the ominous inflation spiral. But the American picture has brightened considerably. Rubber, steel, electrical and auto unions, all C.1O. affiliates, haye signed new contracts providing for wage boosts of | from 11 to 15 cents per hour. The strike threat has melted AWRY. . The G.M. contract Includes an 11V;-cent hourly wage increase, six paid holidays for seniority employees and an improved vacation plan. President Walter Reuther of the U.A.W. estimated the "wage package" to be "a little more than 18 cents an hour" if the holiday pay was added to the straight increase. Pressure on American labor and management for amicable settlement of their differences was greater than over before. The unions cast a wary eye at the labor- curbing legislation on the Congressional docket while management heeded disquieting reports about public dis- content over the healthy glow of corporation profits coupled with continued price boosts. +. In Canada, a similar set of circumstances exists. Pre- ceded by grumbling about price decontrol, wage demands ape certain to find a place on the labor-management agenda. If 'the negotiators can hit upon a. peaceful settlement pat- terned on the U.S. model, Canada can quite conceivably avoid the economic dip or "recession," which has been so The Eve of Departure Burnbury in the Evening Standard (London) Publishers Will Meet Next Week Toronto, April 26.--(CP)-- Pub- lishers and executives of Canada's daily newspapers will gather in To- ronto next week -- "Newspaper Week" -- for annual meetings of The Canadian Press, the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association, Press News Limited, and the Empire Press Union, Directors of Press News, CP's radio affiliate, met today. Canadian Press directors meet Monday and Tues- day, On Wednesday the CP annu- Maple Syrup Price Falls Shelbourne, April 26.--(CP)--Dis- trict farmers reported today that maple syrup prices, notwithstand- ing the removal of ceilings, were yielding to the law of supply and demand and tumbling from $2 to $3 a gallon, They said weather conditions had aided a heavy sap run and resist- ance of housewives to high prices combined to bring prices down. Locally syrup is retailing at $5 a gallon while prices in the country- side were reported as high as $7. In the Flesherton area this initial price of $5 dropped to $4 a gallon. University Term Ends At Ajax H. M, PIPER Correspondent Ajax, April 25--The Ajax Midget | Hockey Club held their banquet in the Sunday School room on Tues- day evening. Thirty-four sat down to the banquet table which was Jjauntily decorated in the hockey colors of redjand green. The boys had on y the silver cup which won. Besides the lads and their dads there were several guests from nearby points, The ladies of the W.A. catered. , Thursday, April 24, marked the closing of the university year. Wherever one went for the past few days could be seen the univer- sity students heading toward the bus with club bags and luggage of different kinds in their hands and a happy "school is out" look on their faces. In the village, too, the married students are packing up their families and either moving away or going for holidays. Those of us who are more permanently here are wishing all the students Happy Landings and here's a big hope that the exams have all been passed with honors. There will be an open meeting of the Ajax Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society at the Commun- ity Hall, Monday, April 28, at 8 pm. There will be some reports given at this meeting which are of great interest to the citizens of our community. Mr, and Mrs. D. Claringhold and sons gpent the first part of the week visiting relatives in Toronto. Don't let us forget Communion service at 11 a.m. in the Ajax Com- Y TIMES-CAZETTE EDITORIAL PACE munity Church. The subject for the evening service--"Prophecy in Prayer". The campaign for the Institute for the Blind is continuing for an- other few days and so neighbors we are asked to give courteous at- tention to the representative when he calls at our door. Miss Esther McRae, Reg. N., of 'Toronto, and Miss Paula Bemesch, Reg. N., of Alberta, spent the week- end with Mr, and Mrs. D, R. Mc- Rae, 8 York Street. Mr. and Mrs. Hutton, Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Hutton, Jr., visited the McRae family on York St. recently, Mr. and Mrs. K. Johns of 2 On- tario St. have. left the village on Tuesday, the 22nd., to take up resi- dence elsewhere. Mrs. 8. Sandercock, 10 Ontario 8t., is visiting her mother in Co- bourg. Mr. and Mrs, L. Lewis and Sha- ron, 6 Ontario St., are visiting rela- tives in Brockville for a few days. Miss Mary McRae, York St. at- tended the prom symphony concert at Varsity, featuring Miss Evelyn McGregor in person, Mr. and Mrs. W. Barge, Edwward St., attended the funeral of Mrs. Barge's aunt, Mrs. T. H. Banting of Barrie, on Sunday. Miss Mary Thornton of London, formerly with D.IL., Ajax, called on Mrs. Geo. Schell, Edward Etreet, last week. Mr. Wm, Gemmell, Sudbury, vis- ited his brother, Mr. A, Gemmell, and family, Edward St., recently. Mr. Tory Hickey, Edward St., who is attending school in Hamil- ton, visited with his family here over the week-end. Mrs. Dean Allen, Sioux Lookout, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs, W. Barge, Edward St, last wewek. Miss Orma Robertson, sister of Mrs, W. Barge, Edward St, was married quietly in Toronto on April 8 to Mr. Frank Butier., Our best wishes to them. Master Murray Mullighan of Pine St. just two years old, cele- brated with a party cake 'n all, on | hospital superintendent for DIL, Tuesday afternoon. called on Mrs. Geo. Schell last week. Mr, A. Green, 3 Pdward St, has Mrs. Doris Garland, 1 Bdward taken a position in Schreiber, Ont.|St., has returned from visiting her Miss 8. Sewell, Reg. N., former | sister in Detroit. Z idhhadiddibbb ailing ake bobbat his ibid ve TIME TABLE CHANGES WILL BE EFFECTIVE MAY 1st There will be a number of changes in Flight Schedules commencing on Thursday, May 1st. Please consult your TCA office or Travel Agent for new departure and arrival times. PHONE TORONTO ADELAIDE 5231 ALL FLIGHTS OPERATED ON STANDARD TIME PASSENGER + AIR MAIL « AIR EXPRESS TRANS -CANADA Ao. fone. CANADA'S NATIONAL AIR SERVICE data l tdi ilioh A th fh dA bl S A beheld AAAS ALL alanis sssssssssssassassssas lS AAA AAA AAA A A AA AAA AAS AR A DRAB DAR RAR, al meeting will hear the pr tial address of F. I. Ker of the Ha- milton Spectator. am Com Thursday, with the annual meeting set for that day and Friday. The Empire Press Union annual meeting Wednesday will discuss preliminary arrangements for the seventh Imperial press conference to be held in Canada in 1950. The CD.N.A. board will con- clude Newspaper Week with a meeting Saturday. eo A Bit of Verse FOREST STREAM Deep in the scented woods 'Where dappled shadows lie; And tall pine and cedar Reach upward to the sky. A little streamlet strays, Half-hidden and afraid, Amid green fern and bracken In gloomy forest, shade, Stumbling over pebbles 'The streamlets shivers by, Through glades dark and sombre To seek a sunny sky; Drenching moss-grown boulders In cataracts of spray; Plunging under ledges its eager way. In its limpid shallows ike silver darts in flight, a ON NEW LOW REGULAR PRICES NYLON HOSIERY These are our regular branded lines of nationally advertised nylon hosiery.: They are all FIRST QUALITY and are taken from our regular stocks of such well-known makes as « « freely forecast. ny minnows sparkle And leap into the light. In and out the woodland . The streamlet purls its way, A benison of beauty Fy, \ Railway Service and Profit The annual report of the Canadian National "Railways , has just been released and the public which owns the rail- ways no doubt regrets to note that the year 1946 showed a ; deficit of about $9,000,000. This deficit is on gross operating revenues of $400,586,025. This figure was lower than that ; of 1945 by $33,000,000. g : The reduction in revenues was one factor in bringing about the loss. The other principal one was wage increases vof $17,821,000 and increases in the prices of fuel and materials of $4,338,800 more. Evidently these adverse con- ditions were a little too much for the government-owned =. rallway to assimilate. Unfortunately, the situation with respect to earnings does not look any brighter for the cur- "rent year. The company has on the whole maintained an excellent ;~#ervice, both in its freight and passenger department, and it 'would seem that increased rates particularly for hauling + freight, will provide the only solution for meeting increased : £osts of operation, matched against normal volume of busi- ness as contrasted with the enormous peak loads which the railway carried during the war years. We have no doubt that the task which confronted the Canadian National Railways. in common with its great com- petitor, the Canadian Pacific Railway, during the war years has taught the management many® valuable lessons and peacetime conditions should give opportunity for making many Improvements in the service to the public. United States roads are trying numerous plans to attract a greater 'volume of business and no doubt some of these are worthy of emulation. Our Canadian railways are generally well up to those across the line but there is no doubt room for im- provement in the modernizing of their service and in selling it to the public. : "Third Generation . The Times<«Gazette is happy to extend its congratula- , tions and good wishes to John M. James of Bowmanville, +.awho, it is announced this week, has purchased a half interest in the Canadian Statesman, from his mother, Mrs. N. S. B. James, and will now become a partner in this important newspaper and job printing business, Mr. John James represents the third generation of the . . James family to enter the newspaper business in Bowman- and his experience already gained in the business, together with his army career from 1940 to 1945, will insure for him a marked degree of success as he follows-in the footsteps of his late father and grandfather and in association with his distinguished uncle, Mr. George W. James, who is well- known as one of the best newspapermen in Canada, To glorify the day. --Madge Nichol. ® 50 Years Ago The Oshawa mill was scheduled to re-open as the Oshawa Roller Mill Co. Partners in the new firm were H. E. Sharp, of Durham, and M. D. Campbell. The Boys Brigade movement was established in Oshawa with four companies already organized, The companies drilled in Simcoe Street Meihotiss and Presbyterian chur- ches, George Plaskett escaped serious injury when his team took fright while crossing the Grand Trunk tracks and ran almost to the lake, Representatives of the Osh- awa baseball, lacrosse and football teams met to consider the forma- tion of an athletic association. Four members of each club were ap- pointed to a committee, which was to continue discussion regarding an overall organization. Prospect: Park's tennis club elect season: J. P. Owens, president; Jones, secretary-treasurer. YOU THINK YOU OWN YOUR OWN HOME! You planned it, you watched it grow, you furnished it, and now your family is happy in it. But is it really yours? How can you be sure the mortgage won't be foreclosed and your family evicted in case you die or are disabled? 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