Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by the free press company 300 Carlton John Silton Malone publisher and editor chief Peter Mclintock executive editor Maurice Western editor Winnipeg free press june 1968 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights twice shy to judge by transport minister Paul Hellyer state ment in Vancouver on the Federal government does no intend to be bitten twice by the Lawrence Seaway workers threat to according to the government is behind the Seaway authority in its determination not to go beyond the wage offer contained in the majority report of the conciliation Board which considered the Union the reasoning behind this attitude is two years ago the Seaway workers threatened to the govern ment caved in to their demands and the workers received a 30 per cent increase Over a two year in spite of warnings of what this would and fact did Lead the 30 per cent raise was immediately by other unions As a yardstick for their own demands and the dam was Hellyer on saturday called the settlement one of the most profound factors in inflation since this is a rather belated particularly in Light of the warnings the government received at the but better late than never and the government apparently is not going to let it happen if it the postal who Are already on Ottawa Doorstep clamouring for higher will have another Trump and the pay Parade will be on it is not As if the Seaway authority is unwilling to Grant its employees an the majority report of the conciliation Board recommended a six per cent raise Retro Active to last and a further six per cent compounded next but the Union wants nine per cent in each of the two years covered by the management feels that the 15 cent per year in the past two years plus six per cent per year in the present and coming year is fair and the with the lesson of two years ago in a lesson the Public also has firmly in mind is backing the Seaway it is doing so the knowledge that a strike on the Seaway would Deal a heavy blow to Canadas if the Seaway should shut ports like the Lakehead and Hamilton would be severely about 90 per cent of cargoes moving on the Seaway Are bulk commodities and these cannot be shipped other wheat shipments would be held up and Prairie Farmers would be Coal from the maritime would not reach Hydro plants in Iron Ore from Labrador and Quebec would not Australia conscience Speaks up by cordon Holland reach smelters in cities on the great there would be unemployment that reached far beyond the the government therefore has had to consider what is worse for Canada a shutdown of the Seaway or a wage settlement of the order that the workers Are both would be a wage raise would be As Hellyer a strike also could have serious inflationary nevertheless the line has to be drawn if the government should Bow to the demands of the Seaway it could count on a repetition of what happened in inflation in Canada will be off on a new spiral with harmful effects for More than anything the threatened strike Points up i the need for a new and More efficient Way of settling labor Partiful curly those that involve the Public and threatened strike pm the Seaway involves the Public interest just As surely As a strike on the railways or on any the government May be forced to step in and take emergency measures if the strike but the Day should be past when this kind of Las minute Cliff hanging is a nettle not grasped London Britain has go into a Fine old mess or the subject of not reforming the Structure of its labor Back in when the labor government had tiny and knew i dwindling ducks it is always a mystery to no Hunters How so Many men can go out with a Shotgun or Rifle and have no idea what they Are aiming if it flies or shoot it or shoot at some Deer Hunters every fall mistake horses and even people for Deer sometimes with fatal but How it appears that some Duck Hunters dont know what kind of Duck they Are shooting at to them it just a what Liis has accor Ding to provincial natural resources is Experiment minister Donald that Manitoba to protect mallards in 1967 has fatted and More drastic action May have be taken if the species is to survive in any the 1967 Experiment seemed reasonable Hunters were not permitted to shoot but Craik told the annual convention of the Manitoba wildlife federation last week that he had Learned that Many Hunters cant Tell a Mallard from another so while Hunters were not Al Lowed legally to take mallards Home with them last undoubtedly some did and undoubtedly some dead mallards were left lying in the this is of the work of responsible any More than the accidental killing of a person in mistake for a Deer is the work of a Man who knows How to handle a uses caution and Good sense in the Field and obeys the game but there seem to be enough of the other kind of Duck Hunter that there May have to be a closed season on All waterfowl to protect one this would be a very drastic but unless drastic action is taken to preserve the Duck population better Protection for dwindling More effective preservation of Breeding it before be in there wont be enough waterfowl left to shoot faced an Early general election prime minister Wilson recognized that the conservatives had a fairly popular talking Point in the need for Union he decided that his besi course was to appoint a Roya commission to examine the and to take three years about the but As Wilson could not at that time envisage any possibility of Ever wanting to annoy the labor unions by really Radical he picked members of the commission who were almost certain to put in a Pussy footing George general Secretary of the trades Union was himself made a member of this commission to examine the need for reforming him self and the chairman of the commission was a an exl Abor party parliamentary candidate Long years who conceived his Job to be to work for a unanimous report one that Woodcock himself would three years just such a Pussy footing document has duly been produced at a time when something tougher would have been the factual part of the report has had to admit what is the uniquely awful feature of British Industrial Over 95 per cent of the strikes in British Industry Are unofficial strikes a percent age not even remotely equalled in other big Indus trial Means strikes called without any regard being paid to agreed procedures usually they Are strikes called on the Spur of the with legislative checks on National the other night Robert Stanfield indicated that he was in favor of altering constitutional provisions whereby the Federal government has the right to disallow legislation passed by provincial when reminded of the notorious Alberta press Bill and the Quebec padlock two provincial measures declared Ultra Vires by the Federal parliament in this Stanfield backtracked slightly but he did not in any Way depart from his Conten Tion that the Federal govern ments right to disallow Legi Slation was out of Date in his insulting to the there in be better ways to make certain that constitutional provisions Are but Stanfield and those who share his views particularly Faribault have so far failed to indicate exactly what they there to be some method of examining Legisla and weeding out those items that Are unconstitutional or go beyond provincial Juris having legislation declared Ultra Vires can be troublesome and vexing for the provinces for had great trouble sorting things out when its act regarding the orderly payment of debts was overruled but there has to be some Means available to Check improper the present doing so method in but under it Sev eral pieces of nefarious legis lation have been if Stanfield and his party Are convinced that some new method has to be they should suggest some Means of improving on the old it is not Good enough simply to disown the old too much is at today scripture therefore All things whatsoever be would that men should do to do be even so to them for this is the Law and the Matthew a link during the past few years some hardship has been encountered by immigrants who have arrived in this country from the United kingdom and other areas without sufficient information regarding their professional status and the availability of a new formed recently by Ken Oxtoby of Hopes to help rectify this the Mani United kingdom association among other to assist United King Dom immigrants who wish to Settle in Manitoba by pro Viding information about working and social conditions the group also Hopes to sponsor Exchange programs Between Manitoba and the the new organization also plans to bring together immigrants already settled Here and Manitoban interested in increased cultural and Busi Ness contacts with the part of the associations function will be to promote greater cooperation Between local clubs and organizations of British such a if Success could do much to improve the situation of those planning to Settle and those already settled in the by Macrae the handpicked Royal commission set up three years ago by Britain labor government to examine the Structure of labor unions As sex turned in a fatuous practically and by subordinate members of the Union the unpredictability of these unofficial strikes makes them much More damaging to the Economy than measured and constitutional even if often bigger strikes in other countries like the United As the Royal commis Sion says the upshot is that some British managements Lack Confidence that the plans they make and the decisions they reach can be implemented rapidly and effectively in extreme at Are two reasons for Britain horrible record in this the main one is that 60yearold legislation in Britain enacted at a time when Union officials had to be Brave men gives quite a unique Protection against suits under the Law of contract to any Union representative who Breaks any procedural agree ment he As one member of the Royal commission has admitted in an addendum to the it has been made Clear in the course of the investigation by the Royal commission that the predominant View in As opposed to the View taken in other advanced Industrial is that a collective agreement does not set up any obligation on the part of the Trade Union to do anything which in the event turns out to be less convenient than the framers of the agreement the conservative which in this Field is surely would like to Reform the Law in order to change this since the Royal commission wanted a unanimous including woodcocks it Felt it had to turn its whole attention to the second contributory cause which is that the Standard of organization of labor relations in British factories is admittedly very uneven cruel critics from the bad through the terrible to the so the commissions main unanimous recommendation is that All big companies should report All procedure agree ments they have made in their factories to the government in which can then pass them on for analysis to a new Industrial relations com which should have any immediate Powers save those of expressing its own opinion about which agreements it thinks Are Good models and which bad almost every thinking per son including every Cabinet and probably every member of the knows in his heart that this is a fatuous now that a controversy avoiding Royal commission has recommended it As the main the probability is that a labor government will not fee willing to annoy the labor unions by undertaking any deeper seated an Opportunity has been Melbourne thinking australians have no de sire to become informers on their fellow men to simplify the Commonwealth govern ments Job of tracing National service draft mounting Public opinion generated in in the schools of higher education and in news papers throughout Australia forced the government to remove from its legislation this obnoxious bureaucratic machinery method of tighten ing the National service legislation to close draft dodging loopholes and to strengthen official Powers to Trace no registrants through other people and other organizations was one of the major measures of the autumn ses during the six weeks the Bill took through the Federal parliament eleven drastic changes diluted the govern ments original intentions Down to three major ones 1 in a person who fails to comply service with his obligations National will prosecuted in a civil court with the Prospect of a two years jail defaulters Are now committed to the army As though they had been inducted normally and the army deals with 2 airline and shipping companies must ensure that Young men who apply for a passage out of Australia Are Clear of National service Obi 3 employers Are required to give information about employees who Are suspected of being service one of the dropped sections would have forced parents to give information about their and so would their near and solicitors and ministers of until the universities and their student movements vocally these educational institutions would also have been required to disclose enrolment but the government did not lose All the its depart ment of labor and National service which controls the ballot for National service can require any other person to appear before a court and answer an question about liability for National service and has doubled the penalty for not doing Public attitudes towards the dirty Vietnam for which 20yearold australians Are being conscripted into the regular army Are being strongly influenced by Politi Cal overtones and moral Val s o me provisions of Australia National ser vice and treatment of conscientious Are causing questions to be asked in the labor party opposition itself i split of its own Vietnam policy yet it had a Field Day against the govern using All the ammunition of water torture of a Viet Cong woman spy in Vietnam and the army treatment of its own recalcitrant soldiers and conscientious objectors in the 48 hours of bread and water diet and wakening inspections meted out to a 22yearold conscientious Simon town who had been committed to the Holsworthy military corrective establishment near new South had deep repercussions in Federal reinforcing and for government backbench opposition demands changes to the National service with its big majority in the House of government easily survived an opposition no Confidence motion in the Young and new minister for the and demands that he resign or be committed into the limbo of this happened to two other Junior service ministers when Gorton took Over the prime ministers office in february and appointed but the debate delayed the prime ministers departure for tils Southeast Asia and Viet Nam War zone study scheduled to follow his return from visiting president John son and the presidential candidates in the United although a Public inquiry into military correction Centre methods has been the military of which army minister Lynch is has stopped the solitary confinement half hour waking inspections and intends to review the army code of proposing to look at the Canadian and United states system for in the enormous expansion of the australian army in terms of material and equipment in recent sight has been lost of the fact hat its penal suffers under provisions taken from Imperial legislation of the first world War Era which no apply to British troops either at Home or a Case for nuclear weapons i have recently talked to a number of Promin ent and dedicated proponents of almost without exception their punch line is a Choice that is both Blunt and frightening either we get a treaty for non proliferation or have a nuclear but the problem of the atom is not so any treaty on nonproliferation will have neither Universal Appeal nor the pacifying effect that its sponsors a treaty that is supported by a substantial number of nations with including the two most of exert some moral pressure of any country that is weighing the pros and cons of going we cant orce All to sign such a we wont be Able o police it nor will Here be assured and adequate punishment for Many politicians will probably decide there is Lothing particularly moral about having a second rate therefore most countries will end up doing what they think Best for their own for the treaty int Likely to have a deciding influence on any nation with a Erious defence problem such As Japan or there of yesterdays ledge by the United he United kingdom and the soviet Union to take immediate action on behalf of any country that has renounced he acquisition of nuclear and which is threatened with weapons attacked or while the headlines report no this guarantee made great the Fine print was Ess As an sex the guarantors envisage Rescue action via the Security but in Many areas of the such As the Middle the three Powers Are hopelessly and even n where All of them eem to be sympathetic to can anyone really be by air vice marshal Bob Cameron Lieve that they would do something in time to Stop China moving Over the Hump any Day it suits her purpose i am sure that India and i am also sure she recognizes the value of having a few Battlefield nuclear weapons under her own control to discourage chinese adventurism in the first a treaty will not reduce the political and ideological Dis Putes that Are the Basic causes of War in the world on the by dividing nations into haves and it is liable to create new we have seen what the Effort to prevent Frances nuclear Arm Ament did to aggravate the problems of the West throughout the so with five countries Al ready several others yith a Good reason to follow plus a vast accumulation of nuclear weapons that none of their owners is about to throw there will be plenty of fuel around for a nuclear War whether we have a treaty or the alternative that confronts us is not a treaty or the real Choice whether we should try to ignore the splitting of the atom in military or Endeavor to put this new technology to intelligent for Many nuclear weapons Are terrible instruments of death that should never have been and the Best thing that could happen would be for them to go no matter or How just away but do we really want to go Back to the Good old Days of conventional mayhem a Type of warfare that has Given ample evidence it can escalate into a world holocaust perhaps some of us have forgotten that the fire bomb this writer believes that nuclear weapons have opened for the world the Prospect of deterrence rather than ing of Tokyo Cost lives and the assault on Dresden yet after these crush ing the War raged Hiroshima Cost but the military Impact was so great that it brought a dramatic halt to a conventional War that was causing the world untold misery and but whatever our personal feelings on How we should kill and be killed in there Are Many factors that will push nations along the nuclear path whether the and Russia like it or the undoubted advantage of a nuclear de Fence is perhaps the most a close second is economic in the manpower was the main source of military Power and it was relatively the second ruined a Good even world War Many countries in but with manpower greatly increased in it is evident that even a Small conventional War can play havoc with a nation As Rich As the United therefore countries must pay More and More attention to the Cost of their and in doing they will come to understand in the Long the Way to defend yourself for the lowest is to create the widest margin of fighting Power that National resources will and be prepared to apply it i the shortest possible for this nuclear weapons Are a very obvious addition to National Many people May doubt the possibility of putting anything As destructive As a nuclear weapon to intelligent but the idea is not As silly As it for nuclear More than anything appear to be responsible for the and Russia not tearing themselves and the world apart Long before the nuclear stalemate they have achieved unfortunately Doest get the attention it nevertheless what took hundreds of years and Many wars to accomplish in the Case of Britain and Germany Western seems to have been achieved overnight and with out Between the two modern certainly we have to seek the greatest possible sanity and control for and even a toothless International treaty on non proliferation May be a useful part of the but what is much More important is that we explore the possibility of using our new technology for deterring Little As Well As big few people May remember details of the confrontation Between China and Formosa Over the offshore islands of Quemoy and for several weeks this dispute had All the makings of something quite Nasty in but then the it quite Clear that the 7th Fleet would be there to Backstop with tactical nuclear weapons if at that Point Russia had a few serious words with refused to support the adventure in View of the potential and the whole affair cooled even More quickly than it came to the this was an excellent example of bringing nuclear deterrence Down to the Battle it is what i would Call intelligent use of our new but that was a with one important Modifica Tion give China the same tactical nuclear capability that the had when South Vietnam first asked for Mili tary would the have accepted the advisory role no reason Why would they have gone on to Active involvement in the fighting certainly and for precisely the same reason that Russia called off the Power play in Cuba it clearly have been Worth the would this have meant the loss of South Vietnam prob but on the credit Side of the the world would have been spared the bloody spectacle were now witness More any country in the area that was really interested in self re would have gotten the word and quickly entered into a firm Alliance with a nuclear ally of its own chances Are that the whole of Southeast Asia would be much More stable than it is no one can really be against any measure that could conceivably reduce the possibility of and particularly nuclear but to place much Faith in a piece of paper that is Only As Good As the intentions of the nations which sign and at the time they do would be an unfortunate exercise in self president Roosevelt Oft quoted that we have nothing to fear but fear is never truer than when applied to nuclear practically since their we have thought of them Only in terms of nuclear How the Prospect they have really opened for us is deter not therefore what the world needs much More than a status quo sponsored by two great Powers Long time ago and we need to j and each with its own ulterior put this thinking into a Mode is to raise its sights Ern to do a Good i from the abyss of nuclear exercise is to replay the Vietnam scenario since War and of nuclear ;