Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 11, 1965, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press. Thursday. February. 11, 1965 15 pension plan study ready for House Ottawa parliamentary committee set up to study the plan has completed its report but de tails won t be known until it is tabled in the commons prob ably next week. The 36 member committee drawn from the Senate and the commons held 51 sittings most of them during the parliamentary recess. A majority of the submissions to it were critical. The most frequent complaint was that the plan does the least for those who need it most. In most cases criticism was coupled with a suggestion that the government replace the plan with expanded Flat rate benefits under the old age Security pro Gram. But the plan received approval in principle from a num Ber of influential organizations including the Canadian labor Congress the Canadian welfare Council and the Canadian teachers federation. Just a few Days after the prov Ince announced it would enter the plan. It sought be changes s o in a Liberal members of the committee criticized them privately As be ing m o re political than prac tical. Pay extra the Ontario suggestions would result in an extra a month being paid from the Canada pension plan fund to All canadians receiving the old age Security Benefit and the establishment of a minimum monthly pension under the plan itself. The contributions for the plan would be collected from first Dollar of earnings As opposed to exempting the first and the plan would come to maturity in 20 years instead of the proposed 10. While committee members sworn to secrecy would not re from the Ontario government Krupp spreads East by Norman Crossland Bonn special the guard Ian the plans of a number of West German Industrial concerns to step up production plants beyond the Iron curtain fit exactly into Bonn s policy of closer co operation with Eastern Europe As a Means of loosening the soviet grip and preparing i joint chairmanship of a j. Major recommendations would be adopted. The plan already has been dovetailed with the proposed Quebec plan and any serious alterations would mean a new round of negotiations. The Quebec government was insistent that a exemption base be established so that provincial Farmers would be exempt. The province was also anxious that the plan provide a relatively big fund for invest ment purposes. The monthly payment recommended by the Ontario government would take a Hearty bite from the fund. The 10-year maturity period was gained by the Federal government in its negotiations with Quebec which preferred a 20 year period. It was thought unlikely that Ottawa now would be willing to give this up. The committee under the the Way for eventual German reunification. After the talks Between representatives of the Krupps Empire and the polish govern ment comes the news that Hungary and Romania Are also interested in joining forces with German capitalism which is prepared to put up the Money build the factories and Export its technical knowledge in re turn for a huge increase in production. The general manager of Berthold Beitz who explained his plans to the United states government last week Hopes to Start to build the first polish offspring of his firm during this year. Eventually it is honed there will be a number of branches in such towns As Poznan Katowitz Warsaw and Radom and possibly Danzig. Krupps have agreed to build Only in areas beyond the former German territories now under polish administration. Production details will be worked out by a committee composed of Krupps representatives and polish officials and it is expected that the factories will produce require a Large faced with the goods which labor Force. Poland is problem of finding employment for More than a million and a half Young people who were born in the Post War bulge. By co operation with West German concerns they Hope to solve this problem and at the same time open up new markets. The plan is that Krupps would deliver raw materials or partly Poland for eventual re made goods to manufacture and Export to Germany. It is said that the polish government is taking Steps to ensure a smooth passage for the transport through East Germany. Or. Beitz has also met with Success in similar negotiations in Hungary and the hungarian government is interested in starting a joint project at its Large Industrial Complex in Csepel. Many problems Are raised by the Krupps plan and these Are made More difficult since West Germany has no diplomatic Contact with Poland. There Are the questions for instance of the status of German Technics ians and their families who win be going to Poland the guarding of German property customs duties and erects. However the scheme presents the Prospect of improving at last the relations Between West Bonn s attempts to ease the tension through increased Trade during recent years have not been noticeably successful. West Germany has x opened Trade missions in Hungary Romania and Bulgaria and though this policy has resulted in economic Progress it has borne Little political fruit. The. West German govern ment is trying to co ordinate its East european policy with that of other common Market coun particularly prance that a United Effort can be made to Bridge the Gap Between the two parts of Europe. At the Core of this policy say the optimists lies reunification. Bands crowded Cameron l Toronto High Park and senator Muriel Fer Gusson l. New did hot make a clause by clause study of the massive Complex pension plan Bill. This will be done in parliament. Buffeting considering the partisan exchanges in the committee it was thought Likely the plan might take a political buffeting in the commons before it gets final approval. Some conservative committee members who Are highly critical of the plan say they were put in an impossible position by having to approve it in Princi ple before it was studied by a committee. It was Given unanimous approval on second read ing in the commons. While the committee s report is unlikely to recommend any changes that would affect the fundamentals of the plan it is probable some minor Amend ments will be suggested. One of these might concern the drop out num Ber of years in which contributors can have their incomes left out of the Benefit calculations. The maximum drop out period in the Bill is 10 per cent of a 47-year working lifetime. By in creasing this 10 per cent the plan could be improved for those continuing in school after the age of plan s entry for those subject. To sickness unemployment or Early retirement. Government officials have hinted that changes in the drop out years would be acceptable. Bonne gift ship arms to Israel Cairo minis Ter Aly Sabry said wednesday night West Germany has agreed to Stop shipping arms to Israel. He told the National Assembly that in return the United Arab Republic would support reunification of Germany. of support for German Unity was interpreted to mean that the . Would not recognize communist East Germany whose president Wal Ter Ulbricht is to visit Cairo feb. 2 there1 was no immediate re action _ or confirmation from Bonn to Sabry s announcement. Israeli officials Jerusalem said if Sabry s announcement was confirmed the jewish peo ple would know How to react. The Jerusalem Post said the German withdrawal has not come As a Surprise but that will not mitigate the Shock of such a German surrender to Arab threats of calling off diplomatic West German officials had said Ulbricht s visit to Cairo might amount to de Facto recognition of the East German re Gime and that Bonn then would probably break relations with Egypt As it with governments the a t recognize Washington the Federal communications commission i president Nasser countered has notified owners of ship and a threat to break relations coastal radiotelephone stations to convert to transmission single sideband by ,1974. 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