Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday february 10, 1968 the labor scene Canada lose fewer strike Days by Dudley Magnus we lose fewer Man hours through strikes than most other countries fewer than America France Japan and other Industrial the quoted paragraph comes from a fairly. Recent copy of punch in g 1 a n d s renowned humor Magazine. If there is anything seriously wrong with British labor and there is it is not primarily its tendency to resort to strike the editorial article states. I agree and would go further to Point up that in Canada though Man hours or Man Days lost Here Are greater than the total in Britain they Are a lot less than those lost in the United states for strikes in comparable industries. I did a Little work on this and got help from departments where the required information May be found. International labor statistics show that Britain and Canada Are not in the strike Ridden category that some people would indicate when compared with the strike state of the United states. Strikes in Britain incidentally though frequently appearing in the news Are often walkouts for a few Days. But they Are logged regardless of period As strikes for statistical purposes. In 10 major countries the figures Are As follows for the period 1956 to 1965 inclusive for Man Days lost annually on an average per thousand employees in these industries mining manufacturing c o n Striction and transport. U.s., 885 Canada -581 Denmark. 549 Belgium 437 Japan 389 France 301 Britain Netherlands 49 German 45. I Don t have scandinavian figures which would be interest ing but they Don t matter for the purpose of comparing Canada and Britain s totals with americas. Incidentally the German figure is interesting. I was on a German government sponsored tour a of West German labor management centres last fall and i found that country to have what i feel is the most civilized form of labor management relations in the world. And the German unions give far greater Power to executive Levels than do North american unions to decide on whether there shall be a strike. West Germany has the Legal system in Force where there Are on boards of Iron steel acid Coal concerns private or not labor directors who Are Union sponsored men. These men see All the books and Are mostly scholars. This would help in avoiding unnecessary strikes. I was living in West Germany As a journalist in the late 1940s when the British labor government with the Aid of the British trades Union Congress installed this system so the germans May claim credit for making the system Success but the British put it on the statutes so to speak. There is a specially set commission at the moment in Germany investigating., whether the system which includes the labor director in the major industries i have named works satisfactorily As it could soon spread to other major industries say to. The chemical Industry. The West German system known As co determination has Many other facets. If the germans change their system so easy for the British to install in the 1945 Germany that was ready to Start Over again they la have More strikes. The reason Britain has so few strike Man Days lost compared with Canada and the United states i would say after having lived in Britain for Many years and after having been on visits in recent years is the free and democratic system. In Britain they have no restrictive labor legislation and As a result there is no bargain ing Over the table for months and months until everyone hates each other and is ready to fight it out on the picket line. There is hardly Ever a court injunction called for in labor disputes As the courts would not tolerate the idea of bringing wage bargaining disputes into the courts except for a Case of damages being sought or for a criminal offence. Mutual admiration England up it was t so much that Jeanette Roberts 17, became attached to the was firmly attached to her. She was trying on the 25-cent band when it stuck tight on her Finger. The efforts of a garage and a Hospital using Cut Ting tools failed. Finally two hours patient filing by a fire Man from this Somerset com Mun tyls fire service Cut ring fluff. J White Empress to Europe jigs for thet fun of it for the sea going food Loving fun of it All. Come swing across to Europe on a great White Empress. Swim and Sun and Laze six away. Let the Tang of an Ocean Breeze Sharpen your appetite for magnificent White Empress meals. See the latest movies the tops in entertainment. And dance the nights away to the beat of a rocking Good band. 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Tuesday arts and crafts . Wednesday tiny tots . Thursday brownies 6 . Thursday girl guides 7 . Thursday Bingo . Friday Baton 10 . Saturday children s movies 2 . Saturday space age club . Sunday War peril is rising Pope says Vatican City a Pope aul said thursday the danger to world peace is on the Rise along with growing suffering by lie victims of War. He expressed gratification however Over what he said was he increasing popularity of the Dea of negotiations As opposed o Force. He vowed never to tire n his personal Campaign to help promote peace. The Pope addressed 12 new ambassadors to the holy see rom whom he received Creden gals in an unusual audience. Although he did not mention it directly there was no doubt his remarks were aimed primarily at the War in Vietnam. It was the first time he had touched on the subject since the dramatic intensification of fight no that t began with the Viet Ong offensive last week the fact that he did not Deal More specifically with the new urn in the War was interpreted n Vatican circles As a sign of caution. It was believed that at this stage of the conflict the pontiff did not want to say something that might be interpreted As criticism of either Side. Nevertheless some Vatican experts saw in one of the Pope s remarks an oblique exhortation of the United states to concen rate More on helping develop no nations than on the use of Force. We repeat he said that today the True pres see of a country its True great Ness is measured on the basis of ibis peaceful struggle against the inhuman conditions the unmerited misery of so Many of our the audience was arranged because the Pope s operation and convalescence late last year prevented him from receiving the new ambassadors individually earlier. Critics level guns at Back Britain London up the latest i Campaign variation on a theme of Back Britain has set off some fierce dissent in quarters rang ing from the communist party to sedate citadels of conservatism. I Lothe and despise the Back Britain Campaign in All its wretched fumed one while his own newspaper the. Daily Mir ror retorted editorially but somebody has to get this country off the seat of its Gants. And the people who Are in backing the How to help Brit Ain and yourself Campaign have at least the guts to i the Mouthful of a name j stands for a mass advertising Effort which has the sponsorship of am orig others lord Thom son Beaverbrook newspapers Ltd. And resort owner sir Billy Butlin. A Champion controversial St from the conservative ranks my Quintin Hogg was beside himself with indignation at the Campaign. Belt up i say Belt raged Hogaj adopting British vernacular to convey the senti ment that the sponsors should desist from further such exhortations to mass patriotism. J the communist morning Star i was Swift to dismiss one of the i full Page newspaper advertise j ments sponsored this week by the new Effort. A rag bag of nostrums Plati i tubes cliches and ancient Chest nuts was the Star s description of the and which set out i ways britons could help their j country Back to economic i health. Meanwhile trouble dogged another Back Britain Effort this one by four employees of a heating Plant at Havant near Portsmouth. The four were official representatives on the factory floor of the amalgamated Engineer ing Union which said thursday its own productivity provisions were upset by the quartet s practice of working without charge to the company an extra 30 minutes daily. As punishment the men were reduced to rank and file status labor organization. But they plan to Appeal to higher Union officials. Medicare decision monday Ottawa staff prime minister Pearson will inform the commons monday of the Cabinet decision regarding Mecl scare. He told the provincial premiers the government s decision when they were Here this week for the Federal provincial constitutional conference. It is understood he will report to the House that the july 1 1968 starting Date for medicare stands unchanged. Ottawa wit go ahead with the implementation of the plan on that Date regardless of the fact that Many provinces have said it should be postponed. Cartage strike averted a strike set for Friday noon at Manitoba cartage and Stor age company limited 345 Higgins Avenue was averted thursday afternoon when a last minute offer from the company was accepted by the Union William Matthew representative for local 253, Canadian brotherhood of railway trans port and general workers said in an interview Friday that the 100 men who had voted 82.5 per cent during the weekend in favor of strik ing were offered .35.cents an hour increase in a two year contract. He said up to the time of the strike vote the company had offered 25 cents an hour in crease. He said the 10 cents extra was put to a meeting thursday night and the workers voted about 95 per cent for acceptance. They had asked 50 cents increase Over two years. The hourly wage rate before the new contract retroactive to Jan. 1, was negotiations for an increase with the assistance of Louis Plaatje provincial conciliation officer had been going on since dec. 9. The new contract which gives the Drivers and. Warehouse men an hour How will give them an hour effective july 1, and an hour Jan. 1, 1969. The new contract includes three weeks vacation after 12 years service instead of after 15 years and four weeks after 20 years. Trouser less West Drayton England up police asked people in m. I d d 1 e s e x and Buckingham Shire to look out for an Indian Man without any trousers wan Dering the streets in the area. A Middle aged would a e Immi Grant escaped from London air port while having a medi Calex lamination. He was picked up by police Here and later flown Back to India. Britain s Road toll tumbles London up a breath taking drop in Road deaths was reported. Thursday for the first month after Britain s drinking Drivers were forced to blow into plastic bags. Breath tests went into effect in october and statistics for the first full month november show that traffic fatalities Plum meted to 639 for a drop of 155 from the same month of 1966. The figures represented an Early Triumph for transport minister Barbara Castle whose prediction of a saving in life of up to 200 for a full year had been received with scepticism and who has been pilloried As an ogre to the drink ing Driver and the Little pub owner. Under the Tough new drinking Law she sponsored police can Force a Driver to take a breath test for alcohol under penalty of loss of his licence Lor refusal. If a follow up blood test shows a count of More than 85 Milli Grams per Millilitre. Of blood the Driver is jailed and loses his licence for a year. There was an initial collapse of business in Many pubs but recent surveys show they have made a comeback. Many land lords now report business vol ume about As usual though with a big switch from hard liquor to Beer. Police generally report a con timing drop in accidents from a year earlier though the novem Ber statistics Are the Only ones available in full. Total and were Down by 13 per cent from a year earlier. Compulsory fluoride in water systems 15 compulsory fluoridation of Community waterworks systems was urged Friday by the president of the Manitoba dental association. Or. Charles Rusen in a letter to members of the Manitoba legislature said government should pass legislation making it mandatory for All communities with communal waterworks systems to install fluoridation equipment. He recommended me govern ment pay for installing the equipment while the locality should be responsible for Upkeep and operation or. Rusen said while 60 per cent of Manitoba s population is drinking fluoridated the distribution of fluoridation Bene fits is still extremely uneven and he pointed out Only t.7 per. Cent of the Rural population have fluoridation. In Winnipeg water has been fluoridated for the past 10 years he said and people in the area have about 65 per cent less tooth decay. Fluoridation of communal water supplies is left to local option at present. While a majority in any town Council is sufficient to bring about water fluoridation and the provincial government will provide technical advice this is not said or. Rusen. Indeed this is a lukewarm response to a matter of considerable Magni he also called for communities without communal water works systems to be j Given effective incentives to establish them the use of fluoride pills and drops where the system in t feasible and a program to provide applications of fluorides on a mass scale foe school children. Good publicity Malmesbury e n g 1 a n d up George Pinsent who died last March aged left his wife Edith the income of 000 in his. Recently published will providing she does not live closer than 90 Miles to London. George never did like lon said mrs. Pine pfc he thought it. Was a wicked she intends to continue living in Wiltshire 95 Miles West of the capital. Tart of Cut though Hachijo Island rises out of the Pacific South of Tokyo it u legally part of the japanese capital Youthful countries More than half of the Popula Tion in the United states and the soviet Union is 26 years old or younger. Canada Canadian citizenship is a prize posses Sion. If you Are not a citizen of Canada. Why not apply now for information Call write or court of Canadian citizenship 208-336 Portage Avenue Winnipeg 1, Manitoba Telephone number 943-8531 a s300 typewriter and Cash were stolen thursday night after a break in at Bell sign co., 50 Isabel Street Winnipeg police said entry was gained by smashing a window in a rear door. Stephen Juba mayor lil Besfer february 5th, 1968. The right honorable Lester b. Prime minister House of Ottawa Ontario. Dear or. Prime minister it is a matter of great concern to me As a Canadian to note that while great advances Are being made in the Industrial and commercial development of parts of Ontario and Quebec other parts of Canada including Manitoba lag behind. The knowledge furthermore that economic and population forecasts indicate that the people and the wealth of our country will end of this Century be largely concentrated in Eastern Canada about Montreal and Toronto is most disturbing. J i believe that the survival of our confederation must depend upon the development of All its s and the natural distribution of its people and its wealth throughout v. Its breadth. While i accept As equitable the principle that Lessa t favoured regions of Canada should receive support from More a favoured regions i believe that everything possible ought to be done not merely to redistribute wealth but to exploit the natural resources of the regions in a manner calculated to raise the wealth that now there exists. Manitoba is a province richly endowed with natural resources. But while it is centrally located Iff the heart of the continent its relative remoteness from markets and its rigorous climate have contributed to retard its development to Date. Some thing must be done to overcome these disadvantages and encourage the development of Manitoba s North country. For on 1 that development will follow naturally the growth of the cities towns that serve it and Are served by it. It is my opinion that the port of Churchill should become a More important facility than it now is if greater use of this port can be brought about the attendant development of Road and rail services to it and a that they imply will bring with them benefits to All of Manitoba. It perhaps is not necessary for me to recall that Manitoba s Early development came with the Extension of the transcontinental Railroad and that Winnipeg s Early growth was through its position As a distribution and Market Centre. While this is history its lessons should not be lost. The development of substantial Trade through port Churchill will Mank the beginning of a new Era in the development of Manitoba and Winnipeg. Lit order to Foster the use of port Churchill i propose to your government that port Churchill be made a free there can be no doubt that such action will direct Trade to that port and will attract new Trade to the Prairie provinces that today is uneconomic. It will also make economically feasible the realization of much of our Mineral and Forest wealth that today is untapped. I recognize that the establishment. Of port Churchill As a free port would entail some initial loss of Public revenues through duties and taxes but would say this first the navigation season at the port is limited by climate. Thus there would be no substantial diversion of existing Trade to that Point. Rather it would most Likely be limited to that Trade which would be initiated by the development of Northern Manitoba itself. Secondly the ancillary physical and commercial development which would follow the expansion of Trade in this area would make its own new contribution to the National Revenue. Thirdly it is now National policy to afford financial Relief to designated areas of Canada. What i propose is something better than direct financial Aid the Opportunity to develop resources in a favoured status based on the recognition. That hard geographical and climate conditions require to be balanced. If Trust that my proposal will receive the considered attention of your government and look Forward to the announcement that it finds favour with you. Yours very truly mayor ;