Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1958, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 12 Winnipeg free wednesday. July 30, 19531 James a. N leading Canadian author Ali on International and Canadian freight rates and tariffs who is retiring As Deputy vice presi Dent of traffic for Canadian National railways after almost 50 years with the car. Or. Argo has had his present Post since 1954. The construction and building Industry has shut Down this week july 26 to aug. 4 in the Winni Peg area to provide building Craft Union members a week s Holiday. Arrangements for the shut Down of the Industry were made Between the Winnipeg builders Exchange representing member employers and the Winnipeg building Trade unions representing employees. Under the provisions of the vacations with pay act employers contribute four per cent of the employees pay. If members of the builders Exchange towards the vacation pay. Employers who Are Noil members of the Exchange con tribute two per cent of the pay. Contributions Are made through the stamp system. Eracli employer buys government Stamps and puts them in the worker s stamp Book. The Stamps Are negotiable for Cash after june 30 at the Bank. Vest St. Paul a letter of protest has been sent to prime minister Diefenbaker by the municipality of West St. Paul objecting to he proposed construction of an Airfield near the River Crest housing development. The Reeve of West St. Paul a. E. Christensen said tuesday How Ever that if the Federal govern ment wants to by Iii the Field there is nothing the municipality can do about it. He said that the municipality did not mind having the Airfield built but objected to the site chosen for it. The Airfield is to be built on a tract of land West of no. 4 High Way just across from the new development. Or. Christensen said that the municipality suggested to Ottawa that the Airfield be built on land West of Mcphillips Street. Why they want to build where there Are houses i Don t or. Christensen said. We feel that the site they have chosen will be detrimental to the growth of the letters of protest have been sent to the minister of transport. Hon. George Hees but they brought no satisfactory replies. The matter is now before the metropolitan planning commission but it too can do nothing if the government insists on building the strip. Ing cd Stockholm. Sweden scandinavian airlines system has been granted permanent rights by the United states to Fly to los Angeles and to Fly a new route to Anchor age Alaska where passengers May be picked up on the Tokyo Scandinavia flights. Sas is the Only foreign line flying the great Circle Polar route to the West coast with permanent rights. A joint swedish danish norwegian plea to add san Francisco to the Arctic route the airline has been flying since 1954 was How Ever turned Down. Neither is Sas permitted to pick up Tokyo bound passengers at Anchorage. Behave or it s Home for you told a six month jail term was imposed tuesday upon Istvan kiss 23, of 226 Good Street after he pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering and two counts of forging and uttering. Kiss admitted breaking into his employer s premises Winnipeg bed and string manufacturing co., 200 Montcalm Street july 25, and stealing two cheques which he forged and uttered obtaining the Man who has a wife and two children in Hungary was told by magistrate c. C. Sparling you Haven t made a very Good impression since you arrived Here. You la be fortunate if you Are not sent Back to Hungary after serv ing your kiss replied through an inter Preter that he did not want to go Back to Hungary. Sent to prison for issuing worthless Cheque issuing a worthless Cheque resulted in a two month jail term for Herbert John Aspinall 37, of no fixed abode when he appeared in tuesday. he has a previous record for false pretences. Britain too has racial problems London United Stales were refused room britons for years have been highly at the Goring hotel London Al Utica of racial segregation in the United slates Ana South Afri Ca Little realizing that they them selves must face the same pro though an earlier booking had been accepted. It is the illogical Ity of the English Law that it provides no solution for the first problem but an old and adequate one Lor Mem the Little Hock crisis As a re the second suit of the United slates supreme in England All hotels or court desegregation ruling and the apartheid policy in South Africa have been publicized widely in British newspapers. Few realized that racial discrimination Only about Here there Are Colotel among Britain s population and it is Only recently that discrimination cases made the headlines resulting m a Bill before the House of commons to make the practice illegal. When a dance Hall prop dior in Wolverhampton banned coloured men from his premises in the past month an attempt to have his licence revoked in the Magis trate s court failed Labi week Eluee negro worn from the nearly All of them Are known As and the ancient and Well established Law relating to inns says that a hotel Pecpec must if he has room in Liis place take in any traveller who is ready to pay a reasonable sum for accommodation. He can refuse to give shelter to a traveller Only if he has a reasonable excuse. He can for example exclude a drunkard or a criminal. He could shut his door on a person who would use accommodation for some illegal purpose such As gambling. The hoi Al keeper can always seek to justify his rejection on the ground thai a person is undesirable but this does not include the right 1o be fuse on hip grounds race or color or religion. This has been tested notably in 1943, when Leary Constantine the famous web Indian cricketer booked a room at the Imperial Hole in London. When he arrived he was told funnily that there was no room at the Imperial but that he could be put up Al the proprietor s nearby hotel. The bed Ford. Under protest or. Conslavi me left the Imperial but he asked the English courts for a remedy for the wrong done to him. He succeeded and the Impe rial hotel had to pay damages the illogical Ity of the Law arises because none this. Applies to lodging houses dance Hall restaurants or for that matter clubs Here there is a right to exclude anyone for any reason before the owners of these establishments can be made to accept All comes whatever t h e color of their skins the Law most be changed. And thai is Why this week John Baird the labor Mem Ber of parliament for Wolver Hampton North East was Given leave to Mii Duee in. The Houma of commons a Bill to make it illegal to discriminate against people on the grounds of color lace or Reli Gion but specifying Only dance Halls restaurants or lodging houses or bad i Bill has Little Chance of becoming Law this session but parliament May soon be confronted with the same kind of problem that if untied states Congress and supreme court have been wrestling with for so Long. The urgency is not so great but with the influx of coloured visitors from the new african and asian Stales Jand Commonwealth i urns from the West indies seeking work and in silence in the United kingdom failure to Deal with the problem could be explosive copyright. 1958, London observer foreign news service setter Hove a May fair to soften the i m tuba it to Lake your Queen King sire he i la go along with that j w 4j i t 1 for families who make pm disappear fast if the Rice Kris pies at your House Are Here today and gone tomorrow try this. 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