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Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 6 Oct 1955, p. 1

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: TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising. RA 3-3492 All Other Calls. ....... RR 3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Price Not Over Weather Forecast 'Scattered showers with few sunny intervals. Light winds, Lew tohight 58, high tom orrow 75. Authorized es Second-Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa VOL. 84--NO. 233 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, OCTOB ER 6, 1955 5 Cents Per Copy * TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES To Striking UAW Men More than $35,000 in unemploy-| the remainder handled at UIC, Workers in non-production di ment insurance benefits will beloffices in Lindsay, Peterboro, To-| visions are disqualified from Oct. aid at Oshawa today to striking ronto, and outlying districts from 3, according to the Ottawa ruling, workers, it was announced by| which workers commute. including manufacturing depart- Norman Hodgson, manager of the DISQUALIFICATIONS { ments three, four, five, six, seven, 'Jocal UIC office. Disqualifications were imposed| nine, 10, 11, 15, 25, 26 27 31 32 A similar amount will be paid on claims filed by about 1000/33 34 and army truck depart daily to members of CIO-UAW Lo- strikers who worked Sépt. 16, the ments 42 and 43. eal 222 until payments held up for| Friday before the walkout began| Hourly-rated workers engaged in over two weeks pending a decision Sept. 19, and will remain in effect| passenger car production will re- from Ottawa, which arrived yes- "until stoppage of work is ended." | ceive benefits until Oct. ferday are brought to date. Employees who received recalls sidered to be the date peak pro- About 9,000 workers were laid from GM prior to the strike will duction would be reached at GM off from GM Oshawa plants dur- be considered ineligible for unem-| plants here if the strike had not ing the annual model change, and ployment benefits from the date been declared. 5500 unemployment insur- they were required to report for | UIC TO PAY ance claims were filed here, with work. (Continued on Page 2) Men St Wildcat Staging a| George Brooks, president of Lo-/ceed as scheduled at 9.30 am. ~ after-|cal 494, United Rubber, Cork and|This official said the contract is noon, in protest against the en-|Linoleum Workers of America. | not a factor in the present dis- foreement of a company regula- CIO, this morning advised the|pute. Negotiations for the con- tion forbidding smoking at other strikers to return to work. He|tract have been under way since than during rest periods, some 300 said that negotiations for the first{early in the summer, ; production workers at the tire and contract between the firm and the | SMOKING REGULATIONS pillofoam plants of Dunlop (Can-|workers will continue. This was| It is learned that prior to Aug- ada) Limited were still out t his confirmed, by a company official _ WHITBY STRIKE morning. Iwho said the talks were to. pro-/ (Continued on Page 2) oo Sea Whitby WHITBY (Staff) -- wildcat strike, Wednesday "4 4 4 hb! ] 17 con| ' | admitting new members -to the 2) 8 | 4 | been playing a leading roll in nego- 1 | tiations toward membership agree-| 4 | oppose | Communist countries and 12 from |four months. The eléetions will be CHILDREN DIE | Tragic Scene As Father, Stopped Entering House By JOHN MILLS Three children died in their blazing bedroom in a {HF frame cottage on Old Forest Road, Pickering Township. 4 Their frantic father had to be restrained by firemen from i] ¢ entering the seething flames to reach his chidren, Three No other children and the mother escaped. EXTERIOR OF GULLIVER HOME -- FIRE TRAGEDY SCENE Moroccan Rebels Show White Flags | By CARL HARTMAN by rebel Berber tribesmen frem the Riff eounty. 0] L RABAT, M AP)--Whit R ie, Maraees ¢ e But while the militay situation {flags began flying today over small seemed to be getting slightly bet- te in Morocco, evidently the poli {villages along the Spanish-Moroc: | ean frontier to indicate that some|tical situation worsened, both in of the tribesmen in the zone of Morocco and in France. the current Morocco uprising are In Paris a group from Premier teady to call +f quits | Faure's cabinet was ousted 'today, French officers on the spot, how-| threatening the life of the govern {ever, are not optimistic that alliment and the implementation of its |trouble has ended. Fighting still North African policy. | was in progress today at Tizi Ouzli,| In Rabat, a row of colonial- in eastern French Morocco near|ists known as the "French Pres- the frontier of French and Spanish | ence," insisted they had a prom- Morocco. Legionnaires and regular ise from Resident-General Pierre French troops, one group moving! Boyer de LaTour that he would from Boured and another from |not put fully into effect the reform Aknoul, joined forces late Wednes-| program outlined by the govern- day to open a road earlier blocked iment in Paris. 'New U.N. Members, Bright Prospects UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP)--| Health Minister Paul Martin of | n i Resign In Canada said Wednesday prospects | | appear bright for agreement = . gain rgentine Martin was commenting on re- | ports that Secretary of State Dulles BUENOS AIRES (AP)--The way + |hinted at a press conference that now is open for the smashing of} | the United States would oppose a) Peronista rule of Argentina's giant| | package deal and that each mem-| General Confederation of Labor | bership application should be de-! (CGT). | {cided on its merits. The CGT bosses, who ran the| Canadian officials, 6,000,000-member labor organiza- | {tion as the powerful right in of | i § d exiled dictator Juan | ment, realize that the U.S. is [ousted an ! i d to admitting some of the |D. Peron, resigned : Wednesday night, and the provisional govern- ment announced that new elections will be held in every union within who have| {17 applicants included in the pro- fosed deal. Five of the applica-| tions being considered are from | non-Communists. supervised by the labor ministry. LATE NEWS FLASHES Argentina Demands Peron's Expulsion BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -- Argentina today demanded in a note to Paraguay the expulsion of ex- president Juan Peron from that country. \Man' Dies In Truck Smash | GUELPH (CP) -- Keith Avery, 26, of Water down was killed early today when a truck he wag driv- ing went out of control and struck a tree on Highway 6 a mile south of Guelph, police said. : 'Thieves Steal $70,000 In Jewels | WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) -- Jewelry valued at $70,000 was taken this morning from a motel by | thieves who iimmied the lock on a doer, | Labor Chiefs '| PETER -- PET DOG -- REFL ECTS TRAGEDY ~--Photos By John Mills | UAW Appeals Against Part Ot Ruling An appeal against part of the ruling handed down yesterday by the Unemployment Insurance Commission at Ottawa regarding benefits for striking GM workers here was lodged today with the Court of Referees by WAW local 222 financial officers on behalf of more than 100 union members who claim they were laid off by the company for the annual model change after working all or part of Sept. 16, the Friday before the walkout began, : No written layoff notices re received by the men involy- ed, but union spokesmen claim that usual company practice is to pass word through departmental foremen. Benefits for production line workers will be cut off Oct. 17 ae- cording to the Ottawa ruling, but union officials have requested aa extension for employees with little or no: seniority who they claim would not have been recalled by this date under normal -cireum- stances. sing to the union statement, Local Problems | First Says UAW A strike bulletin issued by the union yesterday published an "un-| derstanding" that one of the Osh: | awa local items in dispute was con-| nected with suspensions handed out| || Mayor Dead are Ron, age 7, Erie, age, 5, and Frances, age 2. They were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Ron Gulliver. Saved were. Annabelle, 13, Joe, 11, Ernie, age 3. Joe was responsible for sound- ing the alarm and heroically at- tempted to reach the younger chil: dren after rousing his mother and sister Annabelle and brother Er- nie. | CHILDREN FRE "I had gone to bed about 11.15 p.m." he said. The children had seen fretful and he had tried to keep them guiet as his mother was not well. He felt the house Betting very hot, and he went to the children's bedroom and saw flames. He shogyted to his mother and, took Annabelle and carried Ernie out. he The Gulliver's dog, Pele, pictured at leff, made several frantic attempts to reaca the children in the blazing bedroom. Finally he was lock- ed in a car to restrain him 'By the time. he returned .the room was full of flames. He said t he crawled in beneath the flames iy it, ¢ and reached for one of the The, fire was extinguished in ened and burned bodies were removed atfer coronor Dr. W. W. Tomlinson had short order. The bl The grief-stricken parents and other children were given shelter The mother was in a state of collapse. It was with some difficulty that and comfort by neighbors. Joe was persuaded to leave the scene. He sobbed out his grief en his dad's shoulder in the litchem of the neighbor's home, RESTRAIN FATHER A teeming rain and the bladk- ness of the night shrouded Scene, Fireman J, found the father, trying to enter the blazing bed- room. Glendenning got him out- side and donned a mask and air pack in an attempt to reach the ch m, but it was too Nothing could live im those sear- ing flames which by this time were belching through the, win. dow and partitions. J. R. Church, a neighbor, said it was heartbreaking to be so close and so helpless. David Mead, who lives next door, took the par- ents, who were stunned with grief |and horror, into his home, CAUSE UNKNOWN Chief = Contable Arnoit Laking and Sergeant Robert Lee made an exhausive investigation but ' the cause of the fire was undetermin. ed. It is assumed that defective may have heen the cause. itchen 'stove is mear the but there was no fire ag ge' | Public hool. The whole neighborhood seems stunned by the sheer stark horror, and thé suddenness with which threé young lives were snuffed out. Little knots of grim faced men stood around with set kips ag fire- men tenderly brought the charred bodies out to the waiting hearse. Funeral arrangements will be made today. No 'decision has been jusde when the inquest be eld" Militia Called In NEW CASTLE, Ind. (AP) -- Six hundred national guard militia men mounted guard on this strife-torn city today after a wild gun battle at the strikebound Perfect Circle Corp. foundry. The gyard was sent in after aul McCormack pro- claimed a state of limited emer- gency in this eastern Indiana city of 18,000. The guardsmen heavily armed and equipped with tanks. * Eight persons were shot and wounded Wednesday as 5,000 union sympathizers converged from throughout Indiana to back up a CIO United Auto Workers strike against the foundry, which has a normal work force of only 260. hooting broke out as the dem- onstrators marched on about 100 non-strikrs inside the plant. The are) OnUS. UAW "War" | Jou'striliers apparently opened fire } Are. | The strike over wages and a {union shop began July 25. Tension land disorder has mounted stead- jily since. The dismissal of 35 pick: | ets Tuesday apparently touched off { Wednesday's mob demonstration. | The former board chairman of | Perfect Circle; a piston-ring manu- | facturing firm, Lothair Teetor, is assistant United States secretary of commerce. In Washington, it was learned that the administra- tion is dropping Teetor, who quit | Perfect Circle to become assistant {secretary im 1953. The CIO has {opposed him because of his public statemerits on labor matters. Teetor, however, says he has no direct -hand in management of Perfect Circle now, and has not talked to company officials since the striks hégan, Soviet To Discuss . x Tourists In Russia LONDON (Reuters) Soviet officials will visit Britain next week to discuss plans for opening up their country to ordinary tourist travel, it was announced Wednes- day. James Maxwell, chairmar of the Association of British Travel Agents, said 'the purpose of our discussions will be to effect an in- 3 Oshawa People Hurt : | | An Oshawa wohman, Mrs. M: | Black, 46, of 421 Masson St, is {in "only: fair" condition 'in" To- ronto East General Hospital as a {result of a seven-yehicle pile-up {in which hee sen and husband were injured and an eight-year-old { Scarboro boy was killed. y to primary hardware workers at|terchange "of holidaymakers be-| Louis Black, 22, driver, has' un- the GM south plant who walked off} the job July 19, claiming '"unbear- able heat." The pamphlet added: 'Big de-! mand here is to lift the suspen-| sions together with an appropriate clause in the new contract to meet! a future situation of this kind." | | "Another items in dispute is sen-| jority," the union release contin- meeting to discuss affairs of the ned. "This is a very important is-| sue and one that must be worked | out. At the present time our senior-| ity clauses do not even meet the| standards of the others in the Big| 3 or any other contract in the] UAW." | ""The 10 minute rest period is still fm disputé and your committee| will not back down on this one."| The question of wages will not| he discussed until 2! tract issues are resol 1) tween this country and Russia.". Canadian Press Discusses Affairs CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) -- Di- rectors of The Canadian Press Wednesday held their sémi-annual national news cooperative, K. R. Thomson, of Thomson Newspapers, Toronto, CP member for Kirkland Lake Northern News, was named a director to fill a vacancy on - the 19-man board, caused by the resignation of his father, Roy Thomson. Six transfers of membership, in-! al con-| volving changes of CP representa-| Large - s ccord-' Lion among newspaper members, |newly-found were reported. | determined injuries and his condi- tion is fair today. Bernard Black, 56, his father, suffered leg and chest injuries but was allowed to go home. : \ Robert 'Munro, Kingston Rd., ! was killed instantly in the "crash iinvolving a TTC bus, a transport | and five ears on Kingston rd., near | Birchmount Rd., in: Scarhoro. last night, Mrs. Black was pinned beneath the-dashboard when her son's car | shot beneath a transport in one' of ithe most involved accidents which {carboro. police havé ever seen. {It was raining. at. the time. The transport driver, John C, Evans, 38, of Coldstream, was - {not hurt. ALJAN NICKEL J: development of nicke deposits, is '~vganised in South Australia. AUSTR

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