Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday. July 19, 1968 first Day of strike confusing for Many continued from other departments were allowed to Cross the picket lines without threat of violence. Telephone Calls were up an estimated 10 per cent with extra Manitoba Telephone system staff to handle the increased work Load. Telex is expected to be used much More although How much Cwm to be known until the end of the month when the telex meters Are read. Telegrams Are being sent in greater numbers than Normal although no figures on the increase Are yet Avail Able. Unemployment insurance commission an swered nearly Telephone Calls wednesday and was flooded with Calls again thursday. No commission cheques were mailed this week. Those entitled to benefits Are being asked to collect the Money personally at the Winnipeg area office 266 Graham Avenue. Stamp collectors fear they May be late in getting the new George Brown memorial Canadian stamp scheduled for circulation Early next month. The strike cripples Many stamp salesmen who do a Large volume of business by mail. Manitoba co operator edition of july 25 won t be published. Weekly newspapers in the province Are fiddly affected by the situation. A Manitoba weekly newspaper association spokesman explained his office is virtually crippled As it depends on the of the advertising copy of the mail to handle much province s 60 weeklies. Telephone Bills will be delivered by hand this month. Manitoba Hydro is waiting several More Days before deciding How to dispatch the rest of this month s Bius radio contests normally mail in advertising stunt contests will take a slightly different form in some instances. Listeners will be encouraged to keep the required wrapper or whatever and enter the contest by phoning the radio station. Pembina n.d., Post office is becoming plugged with Manitoba mail largely from greater Winnipeg business firms trying to circumvent the Canadian walk out. Mail is being trucked to Pembina and several other Border Points. Meanwhile thursday morning just hours after the strike began the postmaster at Pembina reported that 300 pounds of mail was already waiting there for Winnipeg businessmen who have taken out addresses there while the strike lasts. Foreign mail arriving at the Winnipeg Post office will arrive by train and simply pile up until the strike is Over. However a Post office spokesman said most foreign countries have been advised of the Canadian postal strike and have placed an embargo on mail coming to the country. Provincial government mail is being shunted Between various out of City Points in the the emergency measures organization. An Emo spokesman said thursday was hectic bit that everything s going along mayor Drapeau s lottery deadline May be postponed until the end of the strike. t yet known How Many Manitoban will have their Chance at the Jackpot postponed. Nuclear Equality nears continued might no longer be counted upon to discourage conventional the other Side is just not Likely to believe it will be used. Air Force Secretary Harold Brown and other military Lead ers appeared at closed hearings of the Senate preparedness sub committee in late april and Early May. A heavily censored transcript of the testimony was made Public by the subcommittee thursday. Gen. John p. Mcconnell air Force chief of staff told the senators the soviet Union probably will draw even with the United states in the number of inter Continental ballistic missiles by the end of this year. A Mcconnell disputed a House of representatives armed serv ices committee report predict ing the soviet Union will have an Over All superiority in nuclear weapons in three years. He said the House study did not have Access to All the Intelli gence information. Mcconnell said i think that in 1971 the soviets will be very nearly on not was speaking about Over All nuclear weaponry not just Brown spelled out Pentagon plans to keep a . Edge in atomic terror by replacing the present missiles with big Ger and better weapons carrying multiple warheads and building an advanced bomber that can Fly faster and farther with More payload. He spoke also of developing an interceptor fighter plane with radar that can look Down and weapons that can shoot downward at. A bomber penetrating at Low Levels. Kremlin leaders face test continued i Novotny faction prodded capture . Boat phenom penh Reuters the French language n e w s paper Ca Bodge said Friday the cambodian Navy had Cap tured a . Boat that penetrated we Miles inside cambodian River Waters. The newspaper said the boat carried 11 . Soldiers and one South Viet namese. The Date of the capture was not precisely known Al though it was probably july 17, Ca Bodge said. Escape with Montreal up four men escaped with in Cash and in negotiable cheques after holding up a credit Union thursday in nearby terrebonne., police said three men armed with revolvers and a machine gun forced the credit Union s assistant manager to open the vault and held 18 employees and clients at gunpoint while the fourth waited outside with a getaway car. Continued in dispute lifted the Manitoba teachers society hereby advises All teachers that the in dispute placed on the Winnipeg school division is lifted. This action follows an arbitration Board decision that conditions of employment shall be placed in the collective agreement Between the division and its teachers. Slovak old liners to boldly counter attack the revisionist and anti socialist the Brief ctr dispatch was the first word a meet ing following rumours that czechoslovak party chief Alex Ander Dubcek would meet with the soviet party s Secretary general the near future. President Tito of Yugoslavia was also expected for a visit Here apparently following the Dubcek Brezhnev meeting. The announcement c am e shortly after the czechoslovak party s Central committee went into session to discuss a Deci Sion by the Dubcek leadership to defend to the end the liberalization process. Prague has rejected the so Viet idea of holding a Summit conference on Czechoslovakia but voiced readiness to discuss its new course in bilateral talks. The first foreign Leader to arrive was Waldeck Secretary general of the French communist party a Prague Backer. In disclosing the forthcoming talks with other leaders ctr merely said they would present fraternal a term used for both East and West euro Pean parties. Gorny ideologists Mikhail Suslov and their colleagues with the n e c e s s i t y of making decisions whose effects May be Felt for years at stake already Are not merely the Fate of 14 million czechs and slovaks and the future of Moscow Prague relations but tie entire shape of the world communist movement and perhaps also prospects for achieving a genuine relaxation of tensions in Central Europe which for 20 years has been the main Arena of the cold War. Divisions evident divisions among the major european communist parties Are already evident. Independent Yugoslavia and Romania have firmly backed the czechoslovak As has the italian communist party Western Europe s largest and most successful electorally. More surprisingly and perhaps More significantly the French communist party has moved away from its traditional 100 per cent support of Moscow. Already peeved by various cultural controversies dating from the Sinyavsky Daniel trial of 1966, More than peeved by soviet warmth toward pres ident Charles de Gaulle French communist Leader Wai Deek Rochet flew Here sunday report Teicu alarmed at the Prospect of anti czech actions. He met with or. And other leaders but not with or. Brezhnev and returned to Paris where hours later an official French politburo declaration called for a conference of european communist parties to Dis cuss the czech situation. Soviet Media have yet to report the French action and presumed that it is. Not regarded favourably doubtless because at an All european conference Tough anti czech line could 1 not win the unanimous support mustered at the Warsaw meeting of the inner these events already raise Large question Marks about the world communist Unity conference for which the soviet leaders and particularly or. Suslov Haye been working so Dili gently the past two years and which is scheduled for nov. 25. But if history is any guide the divisions Over Czechoslovakia run not Only Between parties nations but inside parties themselves. Marsha Tito s defection in. 1948 followed by purges of real and presumed to toasts throughout Eastern Europe the hungarian revolt of 1956 led to a political comeback by for Mer soviet premiers georgi1 Malenkos and Vyacheslav Molotov who eight months later came within an Ace of overthrowing or. Khrushchev. The break with China and deterioration of relations with Romania were important factors in his ultimate fall. Brandt and1 Deal seriously with the present Bonn government. Challenge line thus Romania established diplomatic relations with Bonn Early in 1967, Yugoslavia followed suit this. Year and the italian communists began1secret negotiations with the German social democrats and even with representatives of Chancellor Kurt g e o r g Kiesinger. At last february s Budapest Consulta Tive meeting of communist parties the czechs italians and several other parties quietly challenged the Ulbricht line and urged a More flexible policy judg ing from i or. Ulbricht s alarm and frequent trips to Moscow the East German Leader May Well fear that at least some soviet leaders As Well As numerous hungarians and bulgarians have also at least entertained the idea of a less negative s t a a toward Borin perhaps even a. Reprise of the Brief Flirta Tion symbolized in the late Chancellor Konrad auers 1955 Moscow visit. Czechoslovakia is Pivotal in this entire dispute b e cause of its geographic As Well As political position. Despite the cries of or. Ulbricht s newspaper Neues deutschland there is really not the slightest Chance that Czechoslovakia would con Sider withdrawing v o 1 u n warily from the Warsaw pact. Non communist and even a n t i communist czechs from the late presi Dent Benes in 1944 Onward have realized that Alliance with Russia is essential to Deeter the sudeten German extremists and still exercise a veto Power Over Bonn policies. However there is a danger not for the Security of the russian state but for or. Ulbricht and those Kremlin figures who have backed him that the new czech Leader ship ultimately make the hard Ulbricht line untenable by creating in effect an East european Douglas Hopes to i win seat imported from England the Best Gin buy this Side of the Atlantic. Product of England super Hawk it is impossible now to speculate on which leaders in which countries take the More Tien t View of Czechoslovakia Al though it has been Clear from the beginning that East Germany s Walter Ulbricht is the super press articles and some speeches in Hungary have seemed to indicate that important hungarian Lead ers May be less militant than Janos Kadar s Signa Ture on collective documents of the inner five would immediately suggest. Observers in Moscow also think it reasonable to sup pose that those soviet Lead ers i n t e re s t e r in czech economic Reform plans and less vulnerable to a new wave of de Salmi nation might be More inclined to favor conciliation rather than Force against the czechoslovak. However As the Warsaw letter of the inner five emphasized Czechoslovakia is strategically situated and its Fate will powerfully influence the broader Strug Gle Over How to resolve the great unfinished business of the second world War a peaceful realistic Equit Able solution of the German problem. Since or. Khrushchev s fall shortly after lie had dispatched son in Law Alexei a Zubei to Bonn to prepare his own visit to West Moscow and its allies have largely endorsed the policies advocated by or. Ulbricht unremitting hostility to Bonn and no talk of Possi ble disengagement o r austrian with the entry of Willy Brandt s social democrats into the Bonn grand coalition government an the Rise of the Neo nazi National democratic party Many in the communist world began to doubt the Wisdom of or. Ulbricht s line. They Felt that the Best Way to Revanche its in West Ger Many was to encourage mrs t Walt be spreading banana peels All Over parliament Hill he chuckled. Provincial nip Leader Wood Row Lloyd accused Premier Ross Thatcher s government of refusing to give information about transactions involving two Gas bearing parcels of land. I the government had also re fused to provide information on operations of the Saskatchewan pulp co., a subsidiary of the provincial government s Timber the pulp company was Stock Wood for use by the privately operated Prince Albert pulp co. Or Lloyd said the continuing Transfer of Public re sources to private corporate owners is added evidence that this government does t believe in the principle of Public owner ship. Nor does it have Confidence in the performance of Public temperatures radioed Beltsville Maryland radio transmitters the size of a paper clip Are taking tempera Tures of chickens As Young As one Day old. The device react ing to warmth or Lack of it sends out Short bursts of Energy heard As Clicks on any am radio. The Clicks Are checked with a Stopwatch. Farm average 10 acres Karachi about 29 per cent of Pakistan s Square Miles Are arable. There Are 11 million farms with More than half of then in West Pakistan where the average size is 10 acres. Communist majority for a new look at the German problem aimed at normalizing rather than exacerbating r e 1 a to o n s be tween East and West. Views known the czech leaders have publicly been prudent and cautious toward Bonn thus far but their private views were known to the other East european s Long before thursday s Exchange of letters advertised the dispute. Were West Germany finally to repudiate unequivocally the 1938 Munich agreement along with Bri Tain France and Italy which also signed it the impulse in Prague would be virtually overpowering to seek the same sort of mutually advantageous Normal relations with West Germany As with neighbouring Neutral Austria. 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