Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 18, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday july 18, 1968 postal workers shout., blow horns As picket lines form by the Canadian press picket lines formed outside Canadian Post offices today As letter carriers and other employees started a National strike for better pay and work ing conditions. H u n d r e d s of workers streamed into the Street outside the Post office and main delivery building in downtown Toron to at 5 . Edt. Some bore placards and oth ers circled the Block in cars shouting and blowing horns. The walkout took effect at the same time in Vancouver with picket lines forming outside the main Post office. . Post office officials in Elaine and port Roberts wash., 20 Miles South of Vancouver geared for an Avalanche of Brit ish Columbia mail. Postmaster Ted Holzheimer said in Elaine that his office had been swamped with Busi Ness. One big lumber company had bought Worth of . Stamps wednesday afternoon. Wheat crops Patchy continued Rains has caused damage with Low lying areas in flax Fields suffering most. The special crops of the Valley Region All look promising. The Saskatchewan wheat crop could fall below the 339 million bushels produced in 1967. In the Northeast area stands Range from fan to excellent but in the big wheat growing Triangle from Imperial in the North to Estevan and big Beaver on the South the wheat crop is below Normal by an estimated eight to 10 per cent. This area includes the important Regina Weyburn Plains and stubble sown crops Are now beyond recovery. The Saskatchewan Hay crop is less than 65 per cent of Normal fall Rye is being Cut for feed and some stubble crops Are being used for pasture. Alberta s peace River country has an excellent crop and with some additional rain the yields of All grains will be High. In the Central Region South of de and on to the red Deer area crops Range from fair to Good with More rain needed to bring a Normal crop to Matur Ity. After the peace River the Southern Region has the Best crop in the province but it needs additional rain. It is unusual for that Region to produce the Best crop. Washington americans own property officially assessed for real estate taxes at billion. With exemptions for homesteaders and veterans the net taxable total is billion according to census data. Picket line Toronto were set up in a tent trailer in a parking lot across from the delivery building. Ken Stewart area representative for the Council of postal in Vancouver commented on the fact that Many other Federal offices Are in Post office buildings. F Pur Mam concern is to Stop the he said we have no " other concern with regard to the Federal build Ings. My instructions Are to in no Way interfere with other Federal Sid Jackson District Public re lations officer for the Post office in Halifax said the offices would be manned 24 hours a Day by supervisory personnel to guard mail already on hand. Picket lines formed at 26 Post offices in Nova Scotia at 7.. Edt. It was up to each local How it carried out picketing. In Montreal mail Sor ters Sang As they walked out of the main Post office at 5 ., leaving behind supervisory personnel and sacks of mail. Six teen pickets began quietly filing past the main office but no pick eting was reported at District Post offices. A Union spokesman said the workers have never been better prepared for a strike and intend to stay off the Job until the government meets their demands. He said 99.9 per cent of the More than postal workers in the Montreal area Are in favor of continuing the strike As Long As necessary strike director Michel Lareau said the number of pickets on duty will be limited and the lines will be maintained around the clock. Local police were reported to have agreed not to station Large numbers of men near Post offices to prevent agitation of the strikers. Patrol car officers have been told to make regular checks on Post offices and mailboxes while Post office Security guards and ramp will also be on duty. As a result of the strike 1.300 part time Post office employees and 500 truck Drivers employed y a Montreal firm which handles Only Post Een Laid off the deadline for the third drawing in Montreal s voluntary a moved ahead to mid night wednesday because of the strike May be extended until after mail service resumes. The University of Alberta Stu dents Union in Edmonton announced wednesday thai an unofficial committee had been set up to collect and deliver mail to businesses and residences. M a r i 1 y h Pilkington Union president said the postal workers May Call us scabs but we think citizens have a right to band together to protect their own under the plan depots at five or six locations would accept mail to be sorted at the Stu dents Union building and delivered by students at five cents a Etter. Postal authorities in Ottawa said they would look the other Way and not prosecute opera tors of the plan she said. Norman Nelson strike co or dilator for Edmonton workers said strike breaking i q a but we re not concerned. It can Only be a Token in Calgary messenger serv ices bus lines Telegraph companies lines reported in creased business As the strike deadline neared. Great Northern airlines contracted with six Calgary Oil firms to Fly a Load of mail to great Falls Montr once a Day and return with business mail from the United states. Other firms were expected to take advantage of the service. A Calgary student Derek Parry organized a staff of University and High school students to run a mail the Start of the strike at 6 . Adt in Saint John . Was marked by a general turn out of pickets but Fred Ben Nett one of the strike leaders said the lines would be replaced later by two Man picket teams. Tore phone Frt Rii Wall fined an 18-year-old youth who wrenched a Telephone from the Wall of a i St. James restaurant it outside was fined when he appeared before chief Ila Istrate Gyles in magistrate s court wednesday 1 Blair Russell arabic of 461 brute Avenue St. James pleaded guilty to committing wilful damage and ordered to pay restitution of Crown attorney Hersh Wolch said that Drabic and another youth had been banned from the restaurant by the manager who told them that if he found them on the premises again he would Call police. Chief magistrate Gyles asked Drabic Why he had gone into the restaurant. I wanted to make a phone the youth replied. Asked the chief magistrate. The youth said he had become annoyed when asked to leave. Postal strike begins continued Hazard a guess at the possible length of the strike involving postal workers a period of 10 Days has been suggested by Union spokesmen in Mont real. Anything much longer than that would probably necessitate a parliamentary session which cannot be called sooner than july 26, when the election writs Are returned. The government proposed its first wage offer in the wee hours of wednesday morning. It is for a 10-cent-an-hour increase from aug. 1, 1967, and a further five cents from March 1968, in a 14-month contract or. Drury said this represented a package increase of six per cent which has the figure agreed to in recent disputes i n c 1 u d i n g the St Lawrence Seaway strike the postal Council had been asking for an increase of 75 cents an hour on an average wage of the strike action which has been considered inevitable for Days was confirmed wednesday afternoon by Roger Decarie and William Houle co chairmen of the Council of postal unions. They rejected the Federal wage proposal As a big joke and maintained the government had not been negotiating in Good Faith. We will strike tomorrow thursday and fight to the finish we be waited Long or. Houle declared. He. Also said the Federal negotiators were a Bunch of amateurs there in t a pro in the or. Drury said the negotiations bad been hampered from the unemployment insurance commission announces a temporary return payment in person of unemployment insurance benefits during the postal strike 1. People living in the greater Winnipeg area can pick up an application for unemployment insurance Benefit at the area office 7th floor 266 Graham ave., or at the Canada manpower centres. An Applina 1 Tion kit is also available at the trades Hall room 100, 1080 Wall St or Union Centre room by 570 Portage ave. 2. Brandon residents May obtain forms from the area office 153 Lith Street. 3. Residents of Many other areas in Manitoba May obtain application forms from unemployment insurance commission representatives who Are a. Nejedly 630 Park ave., Beausejour p. S. Hobbs 1st ave., Dauphin n. C. Capar 54 main St., flin flon r. J. Anasson 35 7th ave., Gimli g. W. Luckhurst 2nd floor Federal Morden w. H. Warner 10 1st St. S.w., Portage la Prairie mrs. M. Schofield 237 Mclean ave., Selkirk l. J. Floor Federal bldg., Steinbach d. R. Falconer 151 Fischer ave., the Pas. .4. Completed forms May be turned in to the Pic offices or the representatives listed above. 5. Continuing claimants May turn in their report form to the area office of the commission or the Uig representatives for later Benefit warrants were not mailed earlier this week. These May be obtained thursday or Friday at the Pic office or from the representatives. 6. Applications for employer registration social insurance number and unemployment insurance books Blank insurance books and temporary insurance contribution cards May be obtained at the Pic office or from the representatives. People visiting offices or representatives must have their social insurance number cards for positive identification. The Start because of the coun cil s rejection last week of a conciliation Board report which the government was using As its Basic bargaining document. Talks were also handicapped he said by the fact that before they even began the postal Council had announced that Iio Federal offer would defer or prevent the strike. The government had. Not made any wage offer until wednesday because there had been no agreement whatever on conditions of work As outlined in the conciliation Board report or Drury said. The proposed wage increase had to be applied to some framework of working conditions and Only this week had any Progress been made in this respect he added. He said the Federal govern ment must negotiate its Settle ments in a manner that is fair and just to All sectors of the civil service and not just one group of employees. This week s offer had it been would have meant that the postal workers had received an Over All wage in crease of 27.5 per cent since october 1964, he said. Talks aimed at settling differ salaries and working conditions have been in Progress since but no real activity began until the Concilia Tion Board was established in june. Or. Drury maintains that there has been a disinclination on the part of the unions to seriously discuss a Frame work of working conditions., the unions on the other hand feel they have been forced into the strike by government failure to bargain wednesday or. Houle and or. Decarie said the Council was astounded by the pittance offered by the government. They did not accept any suggestion that a fair and honorable settlement above the average wage rate would endanger the Economy or create inflation. I they noted that recent j amendments to serv i ice act gave Post office workers the right to strike and they intend to use it to the or. Drury who expressed the grave regrets at the decision said the right to strike was Given to civil serv ants on the Assumption that it would not be irresponsibly pm although he expressed the Hope that a settlement could be reached he added it was government responsibility to provide a postal service to canadians. Matt by the Pound at Pembina about 300 pounds of Canadian i business mail had been received at the United states Post office at Pembina North Dakota by 10 . Thursday with the Canadian postal strike just six hours old. The Pembina Post office now is handling much the mail of greater Winnipeg business firms. S Pembina is one of several .. Border town offices which Greih use. Nathan Myrick Pembina s postmaster said the Canadian mail is trucked to the Border and left with . Customs brokers who transport it the three Miles South to Pembina after checking it. All of the material received is addressed to Points outside Canada mostly in the United states or. Myrick said. 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