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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising. RA 3-3492 All Other Calls........ RA 3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Weather Forecast = Sunny and cool today. Low tonight = 55, high tomorrow 68. D 84--No. 228 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1955 PREPARE SANDWICHES Members of UAW Local 222 | GM workers Ladies' Auxiliary prepare sand- picket lines. Trucks wiches for the more than 4,000 needed to man and cars are used to carry the refresh- ments to pickets during each Auxiliary, formed by wives and daughters of Local mem- bers, work in three shifts of - four hours each, starting at 8 am. and finishing at about 11 p.m. ~Times-Gazette Photo Direct contract negotiations be- tween United Auto Workers CIO- company was that their CCL and Genetal Motors of Can-|package offer, rejected by today in Toronto's Royal Hotel, while pickets marched out-| following the officials at Oshawa by George Mo: from Detroit, to country." Loca! 222 presi- | SOME REVISION ge of an. gay Some revision is expected of th X." offer, but he, A gaining team: * Russell McNeill, den pressed py.| Compan, id melee] fi - must prepar on | | something." { Expert negotiators on both sides |g. io cities, will attempt to resolve problems | Ave Datarlo. eities | arising from the first five-year | contract in the history of Cana- meeting 3 the carrent whe vei ed to 'move session, - with strike ating committees from all be guided by Louis G. Sealon, of | Detroit, but John W. Livingston and his assistant, E. S. Patterson, who headed the union group dur- ing last-ditch talks which broke | al down last week, will remain in|" the U.S. with George Burt, UAW Canadian director assuming lead- ership of committees for Oshawa, , St. Catharines, London, Scarboro and Windsor. MAJOR ITEMS As far as is known, all major ftems still 'remain in dispute, since the "gentlemen's agreement" not to publicize bargaining table developments which prevailed be- tween the parties during around- the-clock sessions last week ap-| parently continues today. wage provision, and workers. company the company of PSI and Blue Cross. ler this year, claim that if they settle for les with GM, the trend toward pany pai side GM's five strike-bound plants. | deadline, contained "the most pro-| ity's working Which side requested the meeting | gressive and far-reaching econom- picket . has not been confirmed, but union |ic benefits in Canadian labor-man- | jants claimed "the company has i yesterday | agement history," while George |a responsibility to the community | | | claimed the overture was made Burt claimed that the "watered (as well as to their employees. rris, GM negotiator | down version" of the American | k George Burt, UAW | agreement signed by GM in the d ' pational director, who issued re-| U.S, earlier tifis year "did - not call orders to the Local 222 bar-| meet the needs of workers in this organisation molded into everyday routine in |financial pany's original offer during nego- warm, 3 3 tiations last wek was 14.5 cents, | vears of service with GM recalled | {which was increased to 17.7 as the that the strike deadline neared, with one 44 days. began in March and con- cent added to the guaranteed an- tinued through some of the worst cents to increase wages of skilled] One of the main stumbling blocks in attempts to reach a settlement {may be the union's insistence upon 3 |a health plan fully paid by the|dent yesterday, im which Fred thas | Childs, agreed to pay only half the cost|ed: "On behalf of the 4.000 mem- Chrysler and Ford accepted the full cost of their Health plans ear- e and union leaders against th com- | d health plans for work-| than three months. Talks Resume With GM, UAW The last position taken by the ers.in this country would be halt- 17.7-cent |€d. the! GIVE STATEMENT ada Limited resumed at 2 p.m. ypion before the crippling walkout York | jdled 17,000 hourly-rated employees | day, a union spokesman at Oshawa Sunday midnight where a large percentage of the Before negotiations resumed to- force is walking lines outside GM parent About 9,000 GM workers laid off uring the annual model change- over received unemployment in- |surance benefits paid up until last | Saturday, when they were cut off ita await a ruling from the Unem- loyment Insurance Commission at 5 stopped al" .the present time," said Cliff Pilkey, Local 222 secretary. ""The men { would not have been called back can be A meeting of top union negoti- (to work yet in the normal course GM [of events." plants in Canada was called for - As the first cool .air warned of} dian labor relations, signed in 1950, o™ . this: morhin A ; h 2 4 ® 5 .m, E g to discuss approaching winter last night, Lo- aa ow. Niierly Stacked bY | bargaining strategy. {cal 222 pickets wore heavy jack- Bu. : i It is believed that the com-|ets, and moved faster to keep The company team will again and. workers. with many 1937 strike, which lasted 2| weather of that winter, A message from members of UAW Local 707, who trod winter picket lihes during the Ford strike at Oakville was received by Russell McNeill, Local 222 presi- Local 707 /'president, stat- [bers of Local 707 UAW-CIO, Ford, |Oakville, I send to you our come |plete support in your present strike e General Motors com- | pany. The strike at Ford lasted more ¢ . Local 299 Issues : Strike Statement Russell McNeill, president of Lo- cal 22, UAW-CIO. today issued | the following statement here re-| garding the present strike affect-| ing / plants of General Motors of | + Canada Ltc.: KEY OBJECTIVE "The weak, watered down, and much publicized offer of the com: | # pany, based in outline rather than substance on the American settle- | ment, is so unrealistic and fails $0 miserably to measure up to the practical needs of the Canadian worers that we had no alterna- tive but recourse fo strike action. "One of our paramount objec- tives in 1955 was to remove as much as possible of the wage disparity which has accumulated i over the past five years, The dis- parity became so bad in recent years that our average wage Jevel in GM even fell below those of the feeder plants in the Oshawa area, not to mention the ever- widening wage-gap existing be- tween U.S. and Canadian automo- bile plants. But the company offer completely ignored the situaton, | | | RUSSELL McNEILL for night-shift company pays 1 The cents to 22 cents premium in its American plants, But the best offer put on the table was a two-cent increase which is remiums. wh even substandard by Urges Publication Car Upsets, 2 Injured WHITBY (Staff) detachment, was right on the spot patroll- the Constable Hockins, |ing highway iz, arrived on and pulled the twn injured men from the car. The driver was identifed as 28-year-old Brian Ri- vers, RR1, Woodville. The other occupant was believed to be Or- | ville Rivers but police had not been | able to confirm this. |NOT SEVERELY INJURED | The two men are not believed to | be severely injured. Police believe the car was pro- | ceeding north on highway 12 'when | it failed to make a curve one mile south of . It struck the on fe py . ce ce came 46 'rest on. g. ' After Dr. W.G.Y. Grant, of Brook- lin, treated them at the scene, he {took the injured men to Oshawa | General Hospital, A report on their | injuries was still unavailable at press time. Police 'estimated that the |car was too badly damaged | warrant repairing. Crash Injures Whitby Driver Swerving into the ditch to avoid | hitting a tractor Kenneth Pindar of | Whitby received a severe cut over his right eye and the gravel truck he was driving was badly damag- ed yesterday. The accident hap- pened on the Kingston road, east of Ajax, in Pickering township. Pindar was driving south when a tractor driven by an unidenti- fied youth came along the third concession of Pickering township and started across the road, The truck driver headed for the ditch to avoid an accident. 1949 to Constable Harold Hockins, of Whitby OPP when a car rolled over, injuring | two occupants, near Brooklin to- day scene moments after the accident with the Ontario Labor the UAW-CIO as illegal, strike was called in viol ment. ' "We bargained with "At no time did the un even though the company the strike." GM ASKS BOARD TO RULE UAW STRIKE AS ILLEGAL A petition was filed by General Motors today the board to declare a strike called last Monday by A spokesman for General Motors said that its request to the board was based on the fact that the ing the proposed changes in the agreement. as required by the contract and the Ontario laws, of its contemplated legal action prior to the calling of Relations Board requesting ation of an existing agree- the union for weeks concern- ion terminate the agreement had put the union on notice Strike Is 'Union Asserts A United Auto Workers spokes- the UAW has received competent declared union men in Toronto confidence in the legality of thei Canada Limited, despite. a com tario Labor Relations Board day. requesting that the walkou "Their ican rules to Canadian laws." The union official added tha strike against General Motors of pany petition filed with the On- to- which began last Monday be ruled 'believe that the company has Wr in "of A) Eon Vie Her i plained this afternoon, legal advisors are applying Amer- Bl us. Legal, Canadian legal advice on the sub- ject, and that their leaders have a great deal of experience in dealing with the Ontario Labor Relations Act 'We are confident that our posi: tion is correct," he continued. "We have met all the requirements re- guired by law. Our lawyers have other \ t given us tances wl 2 have attempted the sare move as GM today, In every f e, the decision OP em. We expect the decision of the Ontario Labor Relations Board to be handed down in our favor." i By SAM JOHNSON SUMNER, Miss. (AP)--New wit negro boy. Their evidence will circumstantial evidence, said Rob: ert B. Smith III, a special assistan attorney-general prosicution. year-old half-brother, J. W. Milam Sergeant Rae of Pickering po- lice investigated. They are accused Emmett Louis Till, Fresh Witnesses At Sumner Trial nesses with "absolutely newly dis- covered evidence" will be on tap today when the state begins the task of trying to 'prove that two white men murdered a 14-year-old) 8 strengthen the slaying, and whether their tes- the state's case, which is mostly |¢'mony would fill the three-day gap assigned to the(time his body was found in the Smith and district attorney Ger- ald Chatham will call the state's boy's mother, created a stir when first witnesses in the trial of 24-|she entered the courtroom Tues- year-old Roy Bryant and his 36-day with her father and two other of murdering | a Chicago bodyguards she had requested. Hegre boy who allegedly whistled at Mrs. Bryant, Smith said field investigators talked to the witnesses through the early hours of today. At Tuesday |night's press conference, he re- fused to answer a series of ques- tions: How many witnesses, who {they are, whether they witnessed "| between the time Till was taken | t/from his uncle's home and the | Tallahatchie river. Mrs. Mamie Bradley, the slain | .| men. She came without the official Of Atomic Figures WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, | W. Va., (AP)--A prominent nuclear | scientist said Tuesday the stockpile | of atom bombs in the United States | already 'amounts to several tons | of TNT for every inhabitant of our | planet.' | Dr. Ralph E. Lapp said it is so fantastically large there no longer L any point in keeping it secret. e called upon President Eisen- 'hower to disclose its dimensions, | saying this 'could be a potent force | for peace." { Dr, Lapp is director of nuclear science service in Washington and By JACK BEST Canadian Press Staff Writer UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- The UN General Assembly opened Tuesday in an atmosphere of hope and cordiality seldom equalled in its 10-year history. Bolstering the feeling of caytious optimism that prevailed prior to the opening was the ynusually mild tone in which Foreign Minister formerly was a c to the Atomic Energy C He pr d Russia's un- Cordiality Prevails At United Nations successful case for the seating of Red China. J Observers were impressed by the fact that Molotov attacked neither the United States nor Nationalist China. The harshest statement he made was that Naionalist China's delegation '"'does not represent any- one. . The Canadian delegation com- niented hopefully on Molotov's re- straint. "The acrimony of debate spoke here at 'a convention of the { U.S. Tea Association. The world's population is esti- mated at 2,500,000,000 and in other passages of his speech, Dr. Lap referred to a hydrogen or neutros bomb which would produce the same destructive force as 18,000, 000 tons of TNT. He said such a bomb.can be set off at a cost of | less than a cent per ton of TNT. | Dr. Lapp also said he saw noth. ing to prevent the making of a 100 megation bomb and estimated the present B-52 bomber could carry a + "GM's stand on paid holidays is also inadequate and deplorably so when you consider the fabulous profits position of the company. The offer here was seven paid holidays but nearly every other plant in 'Canada pays eight. Our request for two additional paid holidays met with the generous re- | lines sponse of hall a day's pay for! 'Our membership is showing the Christmas and New: Year | utmost firmness. tenacity i uy . "Similar generosity holds tvs to win, comparisons, SHOW FIRMNESS "Until General Motors comes around fo realistic negotiations based upon factual recognition of the problems of their Canadian workers, we shall be forced to maintain and sustain our picket , . A megaton is a| million tons. USED TO HEAT GOWERTON, Wales (CP)--The | annual Christmas angling com - tions was moved forward to t- | ember this year in this Glamorgan- | shire steel town. Organizers ex- {plained "'blast furnace men com- LATE NEWS FLASHES Junior Judge Dies Suddenly HAMILTON (CP) -- H. E, Hazelwood, 58, junior judge of Welland county, died today after suffering a heart seizure in court. Eight Die In N.Y. Fire NEW YORK (AP) swept through four frame Coney island amusement park early today and eight persons perished. Fifteen others were injured. . Is Good Weather Predicted For Fight NEW YORK (AP) -- Clear weather with g tang of 'fall chilliness is predicted for tonight's out-door i blast furnace men 'com heavyweight championship fight betweén Rocky U5 | Tle ug sitchen "| Marciano and Arehie Moore, -- Wind-fanned flames rooming houses near the and vituperation of discussion which characterized a similar de- bate at the last opening was not present today on the part of the Soviet Union," said Health Minister Martin, chief Canadian representa- tive, Martin said the tenor of the dis- cussion showed "that there is a disposition - at the present time to maintain the spirit engendered at the Geneva conference Molotov took th floor soon af- ter delegates from 60 nations con- vened for the 10th session of the bly. He chall d National- ist China's right to a seat and pro- posed that Communist China be seated in its place, Molotov said that since the Geneva "summit"' meeting there has been 'a more favorable inter- national eclimate'" with "more Iles from Knob lake, child had been visiting his father. gr \ A The murder or Emmett L_ Till, above, a 14-year-old Negro boy from Chicago, who was visit- ing his uncle at Sumner, Miss., when he was killed, has stirred up racial problem in southern state. The youngster was found shot to death in river near Sum- ner several days after he had been taken from the home of his uncle, Mose Wright, a tenant farmer, in the dead of night. He had been badly beaten before he Two Killed, Crash 15 Inj In Big here Tuesday night, STE. THERESE, Que: (CP)--A bus and a car collided head-on on a straight stretch of highway near killing two men and injuring some 15 other persons. Fernand (Ferdie) Lacroix, 41, long-time newspaper man, and Jean Charb ici |died on impact when | bound car smashed into not overturn. Help was from Ste. Therese and St. Jerome north of here. TREAT AT HOSPITAL gers Susioreq were trea at Hotel Dieu at St. Jerome. It had earlier been re- ported the%bus carried 20 passen- gers. the passengers suffered only slight hurts but one man and one woman were considered in. serious condi- tion. They were identified as Mrs. Alexina Trune of Lesage, Que., with head injuries, and Raoul Levasseur of Shawbridge, Que.. who was ac- companied by his wife on the bus. From Plane SEPT-ILES, Que. (CP) -- An un- watched child opened the emer- gency door of a Hollinver Ungava transport aircraft Tuesday and fell 6,000 feet to the bush below. The child, whose age was given as three or four, was tentatively identified as Harold Meirs. The ac- cident occurred on a flight to Sept- where the Details of the tragedy were mot said the aircraft was It was not immediately known who accompanied the child, favorable promises for a solution of international problems." But denial of the 'legitimate rights of the Chinese People's Re- public" is an obstacle to further improvement, he said. "Such a state of affairs cannot but have an ill effect on the authority of the United Nations." Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. dele- gate, moved that the Chinese ques- tion be shelved "for this session. Lodge won a procedural vote un- der which his motion was con- sidered first, then the assembly adopted the American resolution on China 42 to 12 with six absentions. Canada voted with the U.S. C Cc meetings will be held. The union seeks an hourly wage | tive of Ontario Safety League, increase of eight cents for the 4,490 | buckles white belt on Bill Corne- HAMILTON (CP)--A conciliation | board hearing in the contract dis- pute between Canadian Westing- | house Ltd, and the United Elec- (Ind) trical Workers Union was adjourned Tuesday. Professor C. H. Curtis, board hairman, said the board will de- | ide next week whether further | | It was the sixth straight year that a Soviet move to seat Red |plants here and other China has been defeated at the | Present basic wage was not avail- 's . assembly able, benefits. , a their south- the big | bus on the Laurentian Highway 11. The car was demolished and the Provincial Transport Company bus was thrown into the ditch but did uickly sent 11 miles away, to the scene of the | crash in a lonely district two miles Police reported all 16 bus passen- some injuries and Hospital officials said most of Child Plunges { immediately available but the pi- |. lot of the twin-engine DC-3, Robert McLean, passing through cloud formations near Knob lake at the time. | UEW-Westinghouse | Talks Adjornment | | patrol system {men. Police at St. Williams said As Junta Ta BUENOS AIRES (AP) -- Gen. Eduardo Lonardi today was named Argentina's provisional president as loyalist and rebel forces signed a peace pact. This was announced in a com- munique from the military junta which took control of loyalist-held areas after the fall of President Juan D. Peron. Leonardi had been rebel com- mander in the Cordoba area of cen- tral Argeniina. The Argentine state radio broad- cast this announcement: "The military junta, by virtue of the authority assumed by the resignation presented by his ex- celiency the president of the na- tion, has reached a complete 'ac- cord with the command of the op- position and - has accepted the points stipulated by its represent. atives. TANKS IN ACTION "On Sept. 22 Maj.-Gen. Don Ed- uardo A. Tonardi (retired) will take charge of the provisional gov- ernment." Peron put Lonardi on the retire- ment list in 1951 when he was re- ported to be plotting -against the government. As the peace negotiations neared a climax today, the junta used tanks to blast out-400 to 500 heav- ily armed die-hard followers of the ousted president. The junta, which was headed by Gen. Jose Domingo Molina, broad- cast a warning that any violence would be met sternly. The capital Peace Agreement Signed - kes Control city had been tense but free of violence since began last Friday. The junta broadcast a before dawn that armed civilians were roaming the "trying to provoke trouble." government said the army hi sion" against them. inn The communique did not f the bands but they were to be diehard supporters of { possibly Jalying for an eMort | return him to power, |PERON A REFUGEE Peron himself was a refugée aboard a 636-ton Paraguayan gun boat--in effect territory of neighboring republic -- at fh Buenos Aires docks. The demanded his arrest and ordered their fleet to intercept the gunboat if it tried to Ifo hone, imo The junta wa g a . ian bands was Bi by Ayo attack on the downtown head- quarters of Peron's si -arm tionalist allianee. § was or wounded. TURKEY POINT, Ont. (CP) -- Six men were reported missing on Lake Erie today after rough weather Tdesday. They were in two separate parties of sports fish- ermen. Three of the men--Jack Daughen 31, Larry Herbert, 39, and Charles Pellow, 33--are from Brantford. The others--Raymond Wilson, 49, David Ross, 60, and James Riach, 45--are from Oxford Centre, near Woodstock. The Brantford men left this port on the north shore of Lake Erie early Tuesday morning and have | been unreported since then. The | Woodstock area men set out from St. Williams, five miles east of | Turkey Point. A plane was sent from Tillson- burg to search for traces of the some large fishing boats have gone out to search, in spite of early reports that the lake was too rough to permit a water search. They said parties will be organ- ised to search the shores of the poiat. After Lake Storm ) Brantford, is a small fishing and tourist village. The three Brantford men were reported missing this morning Mrs. Pellow when her husband not return home. Searchers Daughen's car parked near the beach here, and his outboard mot. orboat was gone from its berth. Pellow had been on vacation for two weeks and was due to start back to work today. The other two men of his party had the day off. Reg Bremner, proprietor of the Turkey Point hotel, said the Brant- ford party's boat was the only one to venture out on the lake from Turkey Point Tuesday. Before they set out, they told residents they wanted "a few hours at the fish.' At St. Williams, cars belonging to the missing men have been found parked near the shore, Resi- dents 'told police the men sef.out in a 16-foot outboard boat. ~~~ Fishermen at both centres said the lake was so rough that the six men would have only a slight chance of surviving, shelter from the waves and Turkey Point, 35 miles south of would have been forced "wind, the fishermen said. Don Mackay, field representa- workers in the three Westinghouse ! lius, a member of student safety { | patra! at Duke of Edinburgh pub- Jo RR The was. first introduc- 3 NEW PATROL | in setting up the ed at Ritson sehool in Oshawa, and Duke of Edinburgh school is the second to be organised; Object is to teach lasting safe ty habits to the pupils. Mr. Maes kay is assisting Oshawa police program, oa aaa take "severe measures of repress » oa------