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Oshawa Times (1958-), 16 Jul 1966, p. 18

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18 NEWS IN BRIEF ONLY ONE LEFT PRISONER'S BACK TORONTO (CP)--All but one} MONTREAL (CP) -- A 23- 4of the 125 skilled office workers) year-old St, Vincent de Paul 'who arrived here July 8 from| penitentiary prisoner was back sth- Unitcs Ranguvasy) seceiveulin queen mary VeLerans mos- 'their first Canadian pay'pital Friday in weak condition scheques Friday. The missing| and under heavy police surveil- lance after an escape that {worker, homesick after four «days in Canada, flew back to) brought him only four hours of Freedom, Real Chartrand, THE OSHAWA .TIMES, Soturday, July 16, 1966 see Ree eee em Labor Unrest Spreads Across Most Provinces tinued in Montreal in an effort|!ations Board, to avoid the strike over wages The union asked an $8-a-week | increase. Premier Daniel Jonn-; workers ai sieei Co. of Canada s0n appealed to employees not!| to strike. | By JACK GRAY +. continued a in an ef- - fort t tt te between Canadian Press Staff Writer {fort to seitle a dispute, between & summer of labor turmoil/ers of America (CLC) and the may get worse, eight Canada Packers piants at Thousands of workers--4,500| Charlottetown, Hull, Que., Mon- in Ontai alone--already are|treal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Cal- out on strike, a cross-Canada|gary, Edmonton and Van- July 31, At. Falconbridge near Sudbury the United Mine Work- ers, in a representation contest with the Steelworkers, are talk- ing for 2,400 workers whase con- tract expires-Aug. 21. The bteel- |workers have sent application -| cards to the Ontario Labor Re- claiming they | | have enough members signed lun ta iuefife a vate "Talks also continue for 11,000 eno cA : ~~ yuwiey a Wee) plant in Hamilton, The contract jalso.runs out July 31. The talks, Strikes announced as settled|now going to a conciliation in Quebec Province included a|board, concern unspecified de- survey by The Canadian Press| couver. dispute involving 700 employees|mands, although the Steelwork- 4 London. whose early morning break showed, with the big talks still) The picture from coast to ; CHURCH MAN REMANDED jtouched off a wide-spread man- ' TORONTO (CP) -- John J-\hunt, had undergone a serious Gooding, 42-year-old lay church) stomach operation only hours , official, has been remanded t0/hefore, He was re-captured in * July 21 on a charge of wound-|4 downtown hotel. Sing Rev. Hope Surdivall, 38, of + St. Luke's Anglican church, Mr. DISCUSS TRANSFER ' Surdivall has refused to tell.po-| SUMMERSIDE, P.E.1. (CP): «lice the identity of a man who) Premier Walter Shaw may ask * beat him with a microphone in| Lt.-Gov. W. J. MacDonald, turn {a fight in the church last week. over Prince Edward Island's ' |government to Premier - elect ' TAKES OVER |Alex B. Campbell July 25, the {MONTREAL (CP) -- Maj.-! young Liberal leader said Fri- + Gen. W. A. B. Anderson offi-day, Mr, Campbell said. in an i clally took over his new duties! interview he will meet with Mr. {Friday as head of the army's) shaw in Charlottetown Wednes- + Mobile Command, |day to discuss the date and de- + SUPPORT DEMANDS 'ails of the transfer of power.) 4 _ + MONTREAL (CP) -- The} SENTENC 7 "Brotherhood of Maintenance of WiKKIPEO "Ci rere Mc.| Way Employees (CLC) ended|,ay Berry, 25, one of five men its international convention Fri-|charged in a $383,000 gold bul- 'Gay after expressing support for'| tion theft March : was seh the pay demands of non-operat-|tenced Friday to three years in to come. Two of three groups of unions | 92,700 coast: ATLANTIC PROVINCES of Rolland Paper Co. at plants lin St. Jerome and Mont Rol- land. Three paper unions won ers have said they want wage parity with the U.S. Seven hundred plumbers have representing Canada's A strike that closed Iron Ore non-operating railway employ-|\co of Canada LAd. operations ees decided last week to turn) ()') ahrador City, Nfld., since down conciliation board reports July 5, ended Thursday when and conduct strike votes across) 1 999 strikers returned_to work, the country. along with 700 at Schefferville, Negotiations with basic steel/Quye, But another 1,900 were and nickel. companies, with a) stili off the job, 400 closing total of 30,000 employees are in| down the North Shore and Lab- crucial stages, Packing house|rador Railways Co., and 1,500 workers numbering 5,269 are to) members of the United Steel- announce a strike date today in| workers continuing a walkout eight plants of Canada Packers against the Quebec Cartier Min- td, \ing Company. Strikes settled in the past few) Union leaders said the rail- days included one affecting 1,-|road won't operate until the 900 iron ore workers at Schef-|company reconsiders its posi- ferville, Que., and Labrador tion, The men walked off July 4 City, Nfld, started, Near Toronto Thurs-|increase of 35 cents in hourly day 500 employees of Hawker | wages and other benefits. They Siddeley Canada Ltd. went out!/now earn $2.84 to $2.91 an pay raises totalling 40 cents by Aug. 1, 1967, over the hourly wage of $2.05, lasted almost four weeks. tween Hydro-Quebec and a un-)crease over present wages of ion rcpresenting 250 engineers | $3.85. who had been on strike against the publicly-owned utility since|dores and 40 checkers .at the April 14. Details were not given. docks walked out in a wildcat Some 300 flour mill workers at/strike. They are seeking a 40- Ogilvie Flour Mills in Montreal| cent-an-hour returned contract dispute, Quebecair employees was! averted when the airline and In-| new contract was reached after But new_ ones in support of demands for an|ternational Machinists Associa- tion (CLC) reached agreement on a new contract, Terms were not disclosed, been on strike for four weeks in the Hamilton area, with no The walkout/negotiations scheduled with about 50 local contractors. The A settlement was reached be-| pluttibers ask a substantial ine Also at Hamilton, 140 steve- increase _ retroac- to work in another) tive to the start of the shipping | season in May. The stevedores' A threatened strike by 225|basic wage now is $2.50, Tentative agreement on a five months negotiations be- tween 8,000 members of the On- tario Hydro Employees' Union \(CLC) and the Ontario Hydro Commission. Workers must ap- ' ing railway employees and re- electing its executive. HITS AIR CANADA MONTREAL (CP)--The ma- , Chimists' strike that has grounded five major United States airlines is costing Air Canada as many bookings as it is providing, a spokesman for i the airline said Friday. Air | Canada can accommodate few of the stranded passengers seeking air transportation be- cause it is already booked al- most to capacity with the heavy summer trade, The strike was also costing the air- line some bookings because of unavailable connections | strike-bound U.S. airlines, prison. Four are awaiting trial.|in a contract dispute. ' . | The labor situation changed HAIL HITS | almost hourly in the big labor NORTH BATTLEFORD, |provinces of Ontario and Que- Sask. (CP)--A violent hailstorm) bec, making it almost impossi- Thursday night caused heavy | ble to give an accurate figure damage in the Meota district) of the number on strike. 20 miles northeast of here. Hail-| Wildcat walkouts complicated stores larger than golf balls| the picture in Ontario, which dented cars "like someone had|has 614,900 union workers. A la- jtaken a hammer to them" in|bor department official in Tor- the Fort Macleod district of onto Thursday noted that two- | southern Alberta, year contracts with most unions KEENAN INHERITS |meant that each year between LOS ANGELES (AP)-Actor 200,000 and 300,000 would be en- Keenan Wynn, 49, has inherited |228¢4 in contract talks, |most of the estimated $290,000} ECONOMY BOOMS jestate of his father, comedian with) |\the age of 79, Organized labor is bargaining Ed Wynn, who died June 19 at|in a booming economy in which |the. federal government esti- Atlantic Inquiry Sessions TORONTO (CP) -- A royal commission hearing on Atlantic Acceptance Corp. Ltd. Friday adjourned for eight weeks, after . having heard approximately 1,500,000 words. of evidence and accepting nearly 3,000 exhibits. Staff inquiries will continue into the June, 1965, collapse of the financial company. Mr. Justice Samuel Hughes of the Ontario Supreme Court, head of the commission, will take evidence in Germany early in August before public hearings resume Sept. 12. He said it might be necessary to continue the hearing into early 1967. Neville Levinson, head of a Buffalo plastics manufacturing company, Friday was ques- -~tioned by commission counsel mated Thursday the unem- ployed rate is a bare 3.1 of the total labor force, to get wage parity--or better-- with the United States counter- parts. Disputes can be both labor and management spokesman for the United Steel- workers of America (CLC), said Thursday the union is ask- ing its 120,000 members to Adjourn A. E. Shepherd on his financial links with C, Powell Morgan, president of Atlantic, and on his company's borrowings from Commodore Sales Acceptance Ltd., an Atlantic subsudiary, | Mr. Shepherd noted that on July 6, 1962, Nevil plastics Ltd, had borrowed $300,000 from At- lantic's subsidiary, Adelaide Ac- ceptance Ltd. Of the net pro- meet possible strike-pay costs of $100,000 a week, should ne- gotiations fail. time. In Toronto Thursday Carl ) crease costly {oF lover three years. make an extra contribution to|a strike of hospital workers in Mediators worked against|fected by Goldenberg, Montreal lawyer,'they are employed. Talks con- hour, Negotiations continued in The rail workers, members| Quebec City between Dominion of the International Association| Textiles Ltd. and representa- of Machinists (CLC), walkeditives of the Confederation of out July 6 to back up demands|National Trade Unions who for a reduction of their work|bargain for 5,000 textile work- week to 40 from 48 hours withers on strike against the com- ino loss of pay. pany for the last four months. | At Trenton, N.S., 1,000 steel-/ A company spokesman said the | workers at the Hawker Siddeley |strike shut plants in 'the Que- (Canada) Ltd, voted to accept) bec towns of Drummondville, a new contract to give them an|Magog, Montmorency and Sher- hourly increase of 62% cents! brooke. lover a three-year period, to end; A union spokesman said nego- an illegal walkout in which) tiations between the Oil, Chemi- workers protested delays in}cal and Atomic Workers Union contract talks, |(CLC) and the strike - bound No hope was held for early|Monsanto Canada Ltd, chemi- settlement of a strike of 450 tex-|cal plant in the Montreal sub- tile workers against Cosmos|urb of LaSalle have reached a lImperial Mills Ltd, at Yar-| standstill. Some 165 workers imouth, N.S. The men, members|have been on strike at the of Local 152, United Textile| plant since June 10 demanding Workers of America (CLC),|a 20-cent pay increase on a ba- Unions in some cases are out! struck July 4 to back demands|sic wage of $1.93 an hour. for a 35-cent hourly wage in-| Construction work on the over two years. The|vast Hydro-Quebec power-de- company has offered 22 cents | velopment projects on the Man-|. icouagan and Outardes Rivers : threatened by a strike of QUEBEC |5,000 workers. The contract dis- The executive committee Of nyte is over a demand for a re- the National Federation of| duction in the work week to 50 Services (CNTU) said Thursday| from 60 hours. | Quebec would start today but ONTARIO \did not say how many of its| Large strikes in Ontario, 32,000 members would be af-| where there were more than the partial strike|two dozen companies affected: against the 139- hospitals where | Toronto newspapers--420 print-| ers and pressmen; Ontario Mal- ceeds of $296,000, Mr. Levin- son's bank account was cred- ited with $40,000, BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE leable Iron Co, Ltd., Oshawa-- 235; Shafer - Townsend Ltd., | Hamilton--435; Pedlar People |Ltd., Oshawa--228; Crane Can-| Mr. Shepherd noted that the time of Atlantic collapsed, Mr. Levinson's company owned it "something more than $2,000,- 000."" Mr, Levinson replied that of the amount, $900,000, "if not more,"' represented acrrued in- terest. Sells Florida NEW YORK (CP)--General, «Instrument Corp, has acquired #1,000,000 shares--nine per cent = --~of the common stock of Uni-| versal Controls Inc, from Louis} "A. Chesler, colorful Canadian e-financier. : Moses Shapiro, president of * General Instrument, said 200,- { 000 of the shares of the big « Florida land development con- * cern had been bought for cash ; at $5 a share, ; The remaining 800,000 are be- « ing purchased from Chesler | with $5,000,000 in four-per-cent + promissory notes over a_ five- * year period, Shapiro said Thurs- } day. He said one-half of the +-- $3,000,000 -in--notes--is .converti- "ble into General Instrument common stock at $50 a share, If Chesler, who now lives in "The Bahamas, exercises this option, he would get 50,000 of the 2,675,506 common shares outstanding of General Instru- ,,ment, a Newark, N.J., pro- «ducer of electronic components and equipment, Stock of General Instrument closed Thursday at $52,124, Sess beteeeeicr - Trust Company Forms Board T. K. Creighton, QC, chair- man of the board of directors of Central Ontario Trust and Savings Corporation, is pleased to announce the formation of the West Durham Advisory Board to guide the develop- ment and growth of the com- pany's Bowmanville Office on a regional basis. Members of the Board are: Ross Stevens, Bowmanville; William Reid, Orono; R. Mur- 'ray Patterson, Newcastle; N, Byron Vanstone, Bowmanville; W .Kay Lycett, BA, Orono; _ A. A, Strike, QC, Bowmanville; William Taylor, Bowmanville. At the first meeting of the} Board held July »8 Ross Stevens, was elected Chair- man and William Reid was elected vice-chairman. William - Taylor, manager of the Bow- *manville office, was appointed secretary The West Durham Advisory >Board will meet monthly to "consider mortgage loan appli cations and the acceptance of all facets of new business and will plan and guide the de- velopment of Central Ontario Trust's regional: office in Bow- manville in the manner most favorable to the area. \ Canadian Financier's Firm Two pretty Oshawa _sisters| were found guilty at Oshawa court Friday of stealing a pair of knee-knockers from the T. Eaton store at the Oshawa Shopping Centre. Vivian and Marian Howard, were both fined $50, and costs or 10 days in jail. Vivian Howard pleaded not guilty to the charge and Marian Development down 12% cents. It- was the fourth most actively traded stock on the New York Stock Theft Of Knee-Knockers Lands Sisters In Court lada Ltd., Port Hope--241; Ca- inadian Industries Ltd., Mill- |haven--700. | Most of these are contract | disputes, involving demands for wage increases or better work-| jing conditions, | | Negotiations continued Thurs-| day at Ontario's big steel and/| nickel plants Members of the | | United Steel Workers bargained} Two men appeared N|for 15,012 workers at Interna-| charges of being drunk in a|tional Nickel at Sudbury, 1.750 public place. Wesley Luxton,|at Inco's Port Colborne plant} of RR 4, Bowmanville; and|@nd for 6,000 emplqyees of Al- Campbell Scharff, of 25 Divi-|Z0mA Steel: Corp. Ltd. at Sault) sion st., were both fined after|5te. Marie. | pleading guilty to the charge.|, The Inco contract ran out) Luxton was fined $10, and|July 10 and Algoma's expires! dale st., a $100, fine with costs or 15 days in jail. prove the deal. Toronto city hall's 2,300 cler- ical workers and employees in city-owned homes for the aged decided to strike in mid-August if wage demands are not met. Details were not given. PRAIRIE PROVINCES There were no. existing, threatened or recently - settled strikes in Manitoba. One minor strike, a dispute involving 35 men, was Saskatchewan's only walkout. In Alberta 40 members of the Boilermakers' Union. struck James United Steel Ltd. in Cal- gary in a dispute over fringe benefits. Some 300 Calgary elec- trical workers and the city agreed on a new contract hours before a strike deadline. BRITISH COLUMBIA In British Columbia, 18,300 union members are involved in wage contract disputes and ne- gotiations. Another 28,200 have settled differences. About 3,000 members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smel- ter Workers (Ind.) voted to strike on Monday, July 18, at the Trail plant of Cominco Ltd., unless there is a settlement of their contract dispute. SAVE ! USE! Sunrise Crystalized MILK We will deliver a 60 Quart Carton containing ---- 60 In- | dividual Quart Packages for «| $6.75. To be placed on our delivery list write Sunrise Industries Ltd. 1574 The Queensway Toronto 18, : Howard pleaded guilty. Exchange, with 87,000 shares MINOR CHARGES traded, For allowing a dog to run Universal Controls, which\at large William Zedic, of makes racetrack pari - mutuel| Greenwood rd., was fined $10, systems, rose 3744 cents to $5.25| and costs or two days in jail. on. volume of 117,100 shares on| the American Stock Exchange. MOVING OUT Having liquor in his posses- sion cost Robert Charles Stun- . |den, of Oshawa, a $10. fine with Chesler, 53, recently has/ costs or 10 days in jail. made a series of moves to liq- i uidate his holdings in U.S. con-| Driving while impaired cost cerns. He was quoted some | Fraser MacDonald, of Clover: time ago as saying he was sell-|- zh ing "to devote full time to other} business interests,"' but did not | Alcan May Build a these--were, Last month, however, it was| i announced Chesler was form-| Guyana Smelter ing a new company in The Ba-| : hamas to develop and sell real), SORONTO (CP) -- Alcan estate, The company is called |A!uminium Ltd. said Friday it Roberts Realty of The Baha-|'® prepared to consider building mas, Ltd, : a smelter in Guyana, South Chealer: o 'sixfooitws heavy. | america, where it obtains most wulihi. is the 100 of wavs" of its raw materials for making ee e son of an SMM: | aluminum. grant Lithuanian shopkeeper. He grew up in Peterborough, | Ont., quit university to go to} work on Toronto's Bay Street and showed talent: for picking the right stocks after he be- jeame a customer's man, } ater grew rich in underwriting |!@S been developed there. dozens of new Canadian mining} Aluminum: Co. of Canada-Al- projects, chiefly those of Ven-|can is its parent company-- tures Ltd. jtakes most of Guyana's Soon after invading U.S, fi.) - ; nancial circles in 1996, Chesler | Kitimat, B.C., and Arvida, Que. |s potted Universal Products|, Guyana has plenty of raw ma- when it was a corporate shell |terials fore making aluminum, with a treasury of $10,000,000. j but ho power to refine them, a Chesler took control by putting Situation it intends to change. up $1,000,000 plus $2,500,000, 'We. expected to have se- from U.S, millionaire friends, lected a power plant location by With Universal's cash, Ches- late this year or the middle of ler bought American Totalisa-|"@X'. Then we'll have power to tor of Baltimore, which owns|Tefine our own and leases a high percentage of S@@ Mr. Burnham. the racetrack "tote" system) He said Guyana intends to that automatically figure and have all ore produced in this post bets, odds and winnings. |Country refined there and he ment after Forbes Burnham of said no alumina or bauxite would be taken out of the coun- |Universal. Controls, had ac-|next week hoping to convince quired other firms and zoomed |them it would be a good idea to a market value near $25,-jfor Alcan to build a Guyanaian 000,000 jrefinery Chesler also built another; A spokesman for Alcan said huge firm, General Develop-|Friday that building a smelter ment, on a corporate shell, De-;Wwould be a long-range under- troit's Chemical Research Co.,/taking and if it did material- which he bought cheaply. jize Kitimat and Arvida would sa -----------eereem= tHe supplied by alternative! BEAVERS CROSS SEA sources of alumina and baux REGINA (CP) -- Saskatche-/'*€ wan sent the French city of) Mulhouse two beavers and two/for the zoo but it was too early prairie dogs during Worldiin the season to capture wolf! Friendship fortnight. Mulhouse] pups, so they'll be sent along| also wanted two timber wolves! later. : The company made the state-| Prime Minister Guyana |8 He try in raw form when. power |} alu- |. mina and bauxite, refining it at|' aluminum," |§ By 1959, the company, renamed /has scheduled talks with Alcan| | GROWTH FUND costs or 10 days and Scharff] |was fined $50. and costs or 30 }days in. jail. $100. or 15 DAYS |. For impaired driving Elmer |McWhinney, of RR 3, Oshawa, | was fined $100. and costs or 15 4 | days in jail, | M KE | A Two Oshawa youths |appeared on charges of minor! consuming, They were Jack William Shaw, 20, and Ear}} | Charen, 18. Both were fined) $50. and costs or seven days | in jail. 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