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Oshawa Times (1958-), 1 Dec 1967, p. 1

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UAW STRIKE DATE LIKELY DELAYED TO NEW YEAR DETROIT (AP) -- The United Auto Workers appeared today to be planning to "delay possible strike against General Motors Corp. until after the Christmas and New Year's holidays. The strategy was outlined at a closed door session of the un- ion's 300 member GM council representing some 380,000 work. ers of the world's largest auto- maker \ source said that Leonard Woodcock, UAW vice-president and director of its GM depart- ment, told the delegates Dec. 14 would be designated as a "tar- get date" for a new three-year contract with GM. Woodcock is reported to have stressed that the target date for settlement is not the same as a strike deadline. _ Observers believe that the un- ion's strategy is aimed at keep- ing workers onthe job until next year so they' will not Inse several million dollars in holi- day pay. Several delegates expressed objections to. the plan. The UAW and General Motors resumed negotiations on a new contract this week for the first time since Oct. 31. General Motors has indicated it is willing to write a contract with the UN that is within the limits of the economic agree- ment won for the union's 160,000 members at Ford Motor Co. and 103,000 at Chrysler Corp. Whether or not the union Makes any special demands on GM could be a key factor in causing a strike. One company source said that if the union goes for any "frost- ing" on the cake at GM, "'it will be in for a big fight." The union told the company Monday that what it called "erosion of the bargaining unit'"" by moving automated jobs out of union jurisdiction will be an important issue. Representation, specifically the company requirement that union committee men work at least an hour a day on their reg- ular jobs, is also expected to cause trouble. The union represents 380,000 workers at GM. A strike at the Detroit univer- sal division of Chrysler was averted Thursday night with a tentative agreement on local is- sues, A strike deadline set for this morning was withdrawn pending expected ratification of the contract. The 26-member UAW execu- tive board emerged from a 5\4- hour meeting Thursday with not a word of comment on what had happened at the gathering at the union's Detroit headquar- ters. There have been reports that the UAW boycott of the AFL- ClO convention at Miami Beach, Fla., next week would be the next step in a running feud between UAW President Walter P. Reuther and federa- tion President George Meany. Reuther is expected to use the GM negotiations as an excuse for not attending the convention, - Reuther has not been to Gen- eral Motors since July 10, when the 1967 bargaining began, but he usually participates in the final bargaining. In Miami Beach, Paul Hall, president of the labor federa- tion's maritime trades depart. ment, said Thursday it would be "regrettable'" if Reuther doesn't show up, and "'shameful" if he pulls his 1,500,000-member union out of the AFL-CIO. Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont« ario and Durham Counties. Weather Report Saturday cloudy and warmer with wet snow starting in morning. Low tonight, 25; high Saturday, 40. She Oshawa Times VOL. 26--NO. 279 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1967 Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Office Department 10¢ Single Copy Se P i SSe Per Week Home Delivered Sy Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash TWENTY-FOUR PAGES FIVE-PER-CENT INCREASE IN PERSONAL INCOME TAX Alcohol, , Tobacco mantener TU BUDGET HIGHLIGH By THE_CANADIAN PRESS Income, liquor and tobacco a $25,000,000 in fiscal year end- ing next March 31 and $183,- 000,000 in next year. Curbs imposed on capital loans to Air Canada. CENTENNIAL MISS GREY CUP ceremonies at Thursday night. She is a student at Ottawa Teachers' Ottawa College. (CP Wirephoto) taxes increzsed. Five-per-cent surcharge im- posed on basic personal in- come tax, effective Jan. 1, but not applied to first $100 of tax. Liquor and tobacco taxes in- creased 10 per cent, effective immediately. Increases put liquor tax up 15 1-3 cents on 25-ounce hot- tle; beer eight cents on 24-pint pack of 20; wines one cent on 25-ounce bottle; cut and pipe tobacco 10 cents a pound, Income surcharge worth case; cigarettes two cents on. New taxes to be required next year for medical care in- surance, due to start July 1. Payment period for corpo- ration income tax to start two months sooner than at present, effective immedi- ately, increasing revenue flow by $290,000,000 in 1968-69. Capital spending, subsidies and lending programs to be Aaah TT ' r loans. Civil service growth to be restrained, Budget deficit for current fiscal year, forecast in June at $740,000,000, now forecast at $785,000,000. Current year's expenditures estimated at $9,900,000,000 with revenues of $9,- 115,000,000. Outlook for 1968-69; Expen- ditures $10,300,000,000, reve- nues $10,220,000,000, deficit of $80,000,000. Refundable five-per-cent tax on corporation cash profits, imposed last year, to be re- paid starting in June, 1968. PL OTTAWA (CP) -- It was an- nounced as a mini-budget but it was nothing. but a '"'meany budg- et" to Conservative critic J. Waldo Monteith. "An irritating increase in in- come tax," Colin Cameron -of the NDP said, and protested the decision against major tax re- forms. . Opposition Leader Stanfield described it as "a costly price 'Costly Stanfield Comment afc nn TO nt Price To Pay, Now he was increasing taxes "almost on the eve of Christ- mas." "When is this disregard for the plight of the taxpayer going to stop?" Mr. Cameron, MP for Nanai- mo-Cowichan-The Islands and his party's chief financial ex- pert, told reporters outside the House he was disappointed that Mr. Sharp had apparently royal commission on taxation "down the drain."" The Carter report had decided properly that people should pay taxes according to their finan- cial ability. But the minister had decided to do nothing about it. Mr. Cameron said the minis-| ter's 'nuisance taxes" will not) control inflation. They should have been imposed on insurance Taxes Up OTTAWA (CP) -- Taxes on alcohol and tobacco go up by 10 sonal income taxes will be hit with a five-per-cent surcharge next Jan. 1. Finance Minister Sharp an- nounced the increases in his budget speech Thursday night as part of the government's anti-inflation program. The surcharge affects five of every six Canadians paying in- come tax. The other increases affect everyone who smokes or drinks. More tax increases appear to lie ahead. The minister said tax will be to fi- nance medical care insurance due to come into effect next July 1. The speech also sounded the death knell for the radical tax- system changes proposed in the Carter royal commission report on taxation. Instead, Mr. Sharp said the present tax system ,will be reformed. Presenting his fourth budget in less than two years, the min- ister made it clear that the gov- ernment is more concerned about the danger of inflation than about any economic slow- down that might result from tax increases. He told a press conference after completing his 50-minute budget speech that a recession per cent in Canada today. Per- 4 mons at Ottawa Thursday aight before introducing mini-budget in the House. (CP Wirephoto) FINANCE MINISTER Sharp wears Scottish thistle in lapel as he pauses out- side door to House of Com- rv nanan nnn NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Near Perfect Weather For Grey Cup OTTAWA (CP) -- It will be cloudy but snowless for the Grey Cup football game Saturday, the weatherman said today. Temperature for the 1 p.m. EST kickoff is forecast for 32 degrees, "Mother nature has ,.. co-operated by Premiers Convince fovernment's eater Sa te ates ee ne ms tl That summed -up the major Navy Men All in all, the budget merely) "The fiscal restraints that are e e Positive Step Taken ee! : nounced a _ $520,000,000-a-year Missin for some time been too compla-|tation now is far better than a} | boost in taxation. Most of it will cent about inflation and the| Serious recession later. r i rollect- - ights} ; vative | Si ch is under way for : int that i lled for that ended here Thursday|properly organized, was collect extend French-language rights!" yy, Monteith, Conservative|sive searc federal handling of economic af-|Testraint that now is ca t Searinced provincial represent-|ing papers and reports from the| within their borders. |MP for Perth, was the only two crew members of a navy eae 8 jin price,' cost and wage in- " routine training exercise with|omy rather than produce expan-| ony >» language problems. ag bs : | "A very merry and prosper-|TOUMNE te P "poe i ment. | ie sah sure the first step|ference was the beginning of Alpeen found or even sought tO|oy¢ Christmas to you, too," he|the Canadian aircraft carrier) sion. fcavel times: the nilnlater'| * adi bl s de- 7 i a) i i | jecti Carte .)cure. committee to study the prob- Immediate problems de-| aig referring to the increase|King helicopter were picked up/ent rejection Of the "Carter Te" ie sepacnall income 1AE AU: lems and plan future meetings. 1 exceeds $10 General Motors Recalls 1968 Models ' ; : The helicopter was a unit of|et was nonsense and would in-| The maximum additional levy is Generhl Matnes of Gardeda Lid Oatawk Hae cosuied held during four dBvs Ayo mitted thatthere is something|before we take action." In a more serious vein, Mr./the HS-50 consists of the premiers wrong with our federalism." | Mr, Johnson they don't have enough money) kirt, Th k id if fail ain 6 th i tario, who called the confer-| A ; $s : : bs t i hicner living," skirt. The spokesman sai ailure did occur, the rear- ie said the committee has|bec preserve its unique identity\of French-speaking Canadians|a year ago he had said every-|" The names of the men were + Tiga prop g ssliell braked WuRIs "heigain "operative Hecaiie: of Hp duial Julia May Dixie, 19, Miss Ottawa Rough Rider, was for the people to pay". for the thrown the report of the Carter|companies and other areas rec-|js inevitable if the economy con- Commons reaction Thursday added to the economic problem. essential now may limit some- night after Finance Minister Mr. Stanfield said outside the| What the increase in our produc-| "18 told a t the prov: : . "If we cannot, as individuals TORONTO (CP) -- The Con-)staff, on loan from the Ontario) And almost all of | come from a surcharge on per \Wadcsteus wists attempio 36:| -annot, federation of Tomorrow: confer-| government until things getjinces expressed a willingness to| Conall income tax. | HALIFAX (CP) -- An inten-| Snr public confidence in the and organizations, exercise the i iti \ i is| iti helicopter that crashed at sea | ses, then there is no alter- atives a positive step had been|conference. But in the midst of all this}Commons critic to get the floor p ; «lines _|creases, : taken toward solving Canada's! premier Daniel Johnson Oflagreement came a- reminder|after the finance minister's 250 miles northeast of Bermuda, New taxes were likely to ac-| \ative put a collective fiscal re- : , ' y y servative leader} i ; R would not be the last, represent- process which will eventually|the urgent problems threatening) called across to Mr. Sharp. reese een ae 'ical docinen Us cy oe ie ap.|talked of an ounce of prevention| producing a partial block in the form of a high pressure atives of Canada's 10 provinces|pring this country to revamMP/Canadian solidarity. At least it will be a some-| J § | lheing better than a pound' of aren centred near Gltawa;" forecaster. Dés: Wright ce- "J feel that from the opening) mand immediate action," Mr.! 0 ver cent in federal taxes| after the crash by the destroyer port. | f The committee, formed at a/session to the aire Pesan Robarts told delegates. "Let us = ieee pear anit wine. Gatineau of the Halifax-based| Real Caouette, leader of the|Charge 'will apply only when a +. e 1S- Lo} z f private meeting--the only one have all travelled quite a | Anti-submarine|vite an increase in unemploy-|$600. ' io, Alberta and Nova challenged all! Monteith said the finance minis-|Squadron, which is land based) ment. : : SEE INCOME TAX 157 apee-mmone) cars, a company spokesman said today. He rah oe ee During the' sessions the prov-|Canadians to work for a new/ter had failed to predict correct-/at nearby Shearwater and oper-| "We are asking the Canadian said 72 Corvettes are being recalled to correct a possible ice ofjinces agreed not decided when it will elect a chairman. its crowned Miss Grey Cup in government's earlier errors in om ded in the Carter report,|tinues to suffer from inflation. Sharp's budget speech an- house that the government had|tion next year, but such a limi-| ituti i te Thursday night during a|celerate a slowdown in the econ- : ; rg constitutional, economic an Quebec told reporters the con-|'Thursday that no solutions had 7,500-word speech. late lursda' g tstraint exercised by Parlia-| inui shat | iri " |pilot and co-pilot of the Sea|proved the government's appar-| formed a permanent continuing| ine constitution." |what less spirituous one," he) P ported: at: Uplands: airport, ) ; ; iad | 5th Canadian Escort Squadron. |Creditiste group, said the budg-|Person's basic tax exceeds $100. tance. , . . At least we have ad- not wait until a crisis is upon us) MISJUDGED ECONOMY Continued on Page 8 i John Robarts the constitution|constitution and criticized those|ly what had happened to thejates from the Bonaventure at people to pay more taxes when) chafing between a front-wheel brake line and a fender chose agli 0 |should be amended to help Que-|who refuse to recognize rights)economy for the last year. Only| sea. Meanwhile jand to close the economic gap jbetween Canada's rich and poor secretarial| provinces. Capital Besieged By Fans For Centennial Grey Cup OTTAWA (CP) -- Footballjrun of the streets, banks, de- fans from streaming ini bolster the G finally burst to the Thursday. Five sp Hamilton i » will be a special! Hol ag ne West, as well as with a shovel and wait to clean train. from S| extra cars on regular trains. across Canada are|partment stores and any build- to the city today to|ing with doors large enough to rey Cup spirit that/allow their entry. surface | "What can you do?" asked \the assistant manager of one ecial flights from bank as three horses mingled are due at Uplands| with waiting customers. | "You just have to stand by up after they leave." Fears that 1967 might be the, He was lucky. The horses left year of the quiet Grey evaporated at rowd of a three-block-long downtown mali for a Western Day celebration. Most horses, and spectators we Ottawa Valley area, if they were away for the first time. re from the| but acted as| stood and watched, some office from home|girls on their lunch break took part in the activity, accepting horseback climb the steps at front of Centre Block, Cup|nothing more than minor scuffs Thursday . when alon the polished floor. 8,000 filled the| It was a different story on the 1\mall where city workmen fol- lowed the horses with brooms riders, wagons/and shovels. While.most of the crowd just The horses and riders had the! offers-of a ride on.the horses. in English-speaking provinces. thing was going well. not immediately available. WESTERN FANS on Pariiament Buildings, Thursday,' as part of West- ern Day festivities at Ot tawa in preparation for Sat- urday's Grey Cup game be- tween Saskatchewan Rough- _-. i. Cats. (CP riders and Hamilton _ New Quake w Hits Debar BELGRADE (Reuters) -- A} new earthquake today shook the south Yugoslav town of Debar where at least eight persons homeless by a severe quake Thursday, First reports said there were) day's quake. | The Albanian news agency | isaid at least 10 Albanians were killed in Thursday's quake, which shook the entire country. | cy said. ternational scale. to have hit at least eight or nine degrees. "| In Albania, Tiger |homes were wrecked and 28 schools damaged, the Albanian Wirephoto) inews agency reported, were killed and 7,000 madej= no casualties or damage in to-| | It injured at least 124, the agen- | - Today's tremor was estimated |= in Debar at between five and|- six degrees on the 12-degree in-|= Debar is a small Macedonian |= town near the Albanian border. |= more than 2,000) = braking system; The company also was recalling 50 Cor- vairs to replace front compartment lock parts. Another 26 Corvairs are to be checked to make sure wheel stud heads are not subjects to stress failure. ,.In THE TIMES Today .. Overtime Pay--P. 13 Candidates Speak--P. $ Mel-Ron Win--P. 10 JNU WeRNOl, = Ann Landers--14 Ajax News--5 City News--13 Classified--18, 19, 20 Comics--23 Editorial--4 Financial--22 Obituaries--20 Sports--10, 1] Television--23 Theatres--21 Weather--2 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15, 16 sen

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