Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, July 19, 1968

Issue date: Friday, July 19, 1968
Pages available: 40
Previous edition: Thursday, July 18, 1968

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Hirday t7ct almost All Post offices shut Down i continued agreed that it s a pretty solid substitute mailing operations sprang up across Canada rang ing from student letter Carrier operations in Edmonton to Spe Cial airline shipments. Negotiations in Vtha dispute Are adjourned until sunday. Spokesmen said that during the break both sides will reassess their positions and consider developments country. The government has offered the workers a 15-cent-an-hour wage increase or six per cent Over a 14-month but Council bar gainers rejected the offer calling it a joke. It has been estimated that a six per cent increase will Cost the coun try an additional a year. Postal workers Are seeking a 75-cent-an-hour increase in All categories increases ranging from 26.1 to 39.1 per cent. The average wage now is let ter carriers at present earn from to a year while postal clerks Range from to As striking workers from 400 Union locals set up picket lines in front of Post offices canadians in All walks of life turned to alternate Means of communications. Telegraph and Telephone companies reported a near frantic Rush As companies and individuals attempted to get messages through. In Toronto Bell Canada Nadian National and. Canadian Pacific telecommunications corded an increase of about 50 per cent Over the amount of traffic handled on a Normal Day. Elsewhere companies in Cit ies and towns near the United new Home recipe reducing plan it i Ihn ple How quickly one May lose pounds of unsightly fat right in your own Home. Make this Home recipe yourself. It s easy no trouble at All and costs Little. Just go to your drug store and ask for four ounces of Naran concentrate. Pour this into a pint bottle and add enough Grapefruit juice to fill the bottle. Take two Tablespoons full a Day As needed and follow the Naran plan. If your first Purchase does not you a simple easy Way to lose Bulky fat and help regain slender More Graceful curves if reducible pounds and inches of excess fat Don t disappear from neck Chin arms Abdomen hips calves and Ankles just return the empty bottle for your Money Back. Follow this East Way endorsed by Many who have tried this plan and help bring Back alluring curves and Grace pc slenderness. Note How quickly bloat much bet ter you feel. More alive Youthful appearing and Active. Advt. Smooth from Latva Tref Canada to f f states Border rented . Postal boxes and arranged for mail pickups and deliveries. In British Columbia Compa Nies offering alternative meth ods of communications were so swamped with business that they had to Call in extra staff. People turned to the Telegraph Telephone air express delivery truck taxi and . Mail serv ices. . Telephone co. Reported a 10 per cent increase in Calls originating in the province while both in and up telecommunications reported landslide in creases in the number of Mes sages and Money wires. Air Canada and Canadian Pacific airlines said there was a big upsurge in the use of air express and air cargo services and both expect it to get worse if the strike lasts. Fresh supplies of . Stamps were rushed to Elaine wash., 20 Miles South of Vancouver where the . Post office was doing a roaring business from canadians wishing to Send let ters abroad. All across Canada companies began marking time on sending Ike supports Nixon f continued demure. He said Dayton Ohio thata since Gen. Eissen Hower s grandson David was marrying or. Nixon s daughter Julie that it would be very embarrassing for him or. Nixon if he did t endorse. Anyway gov. Rockefeller went on the delegates Are inter ested in picking someone who can do a Job for this country and a the former president who spoke with six newsmen at Walter Reed described As a Complete misapprehension re ports that he did not think highly of or. Nixon s abilities and that they were not close friends. I have admired and respected this Man and have liked him since i first met him in he said. The relationship of the former president and his Deputy has been in question since 1960 when Gen. Eisenhower in praising or. Observed that the vice president had joined in All important decisions of the administration when a reporter asked for an example of a Nixon idea Gen. Eisenhower replied if you give me a week i might be Able to think of. One. I Don t the remark haunted or. Nixon throughput the i960 Campaign against John f. Kennedy. Later or. Nixon said the answer had always bothered Gen. That Gen. Eisenhower had was taken Aback by the question. Gen. 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Avoid the Rush do it now free Matching foot Stool or Arm covers your Choice with every order. Carpeting draperies new furniture wee est Chesterfield chair for Early delivery Why not Call now 772-2467 Day or night no obligation Price varies according to Quality of fabric. 5 Down delivers 797 notre Dame open Friday till 9 . Out Bills while other organizations arranged for payments to be made through local Banks. The morale of picketing postal workers seemed High As Mont real workers Sang in French and Ottawa strikers carried signs Reading you la wonder where the pasties went still insist on six per but in Winnipeg letter Carrier Ken Corrigan echoed the feel Ings of Many strikers who agree with the objectives of the strike but nevertheless Are not Happy about it. There s no Money coming in that s the 48-year-old father of two said in an interview. The wife she does t appreciate tie strike too much either. She says she t worry about it too much but i know she is worried and so am postal workers get no strike pay but receive an incidental allowance for work at strike Headquarters or on the picket lines. Or. Houle said1 the strike is much better organized than the walkout of postal workers in Quebec Ontario and British Lurania in 1965, when most workers returned to their jobs after a week. Everything is going smoothly but Why not we be been getting ready for this strike for six Premier Ross Thatcher of Saskatchewan said in Regina the Federal government cannot accede to demands that will Lead to further inflationary pres he said the present situation where the Public stands to suf Fer the most demonstrated obsolescence of the strike As an instrument in the settling of labor in Quebec City Revenue min ister Raymond Johnston said the strike will not be accepted As an excuse for late payment of provincial taxes by individuals or businesses. Payments could be made through Banks he said. President John Lynk of the Nova Scotia federation of labor in Halifax pledged his group s unqualified support to the striking postal workers in Saint John n.b., a spokes Man for the Saint John local of the Canadian Union of postal employees said non Union carriers in Rural areas outside the City who delivered mail on thursday will Stop mail delivery today in support of the strikers. Hanoi softens line i continued previously broadcast by Hanoi Over radio Hanoi. It endorses the right of self determination of the South vietnamese people in the Settle. Ment of their internal the previous formulation consistently used by North Viet names spokesmen Here has been an insistence that the internal affairs of South Viet Nam be settled by the South vietnamese people themselves in accordance with the program of the National liberation front of South this could have been an oversight in the text but North vietnamese delegation spokes Man be said in another passage you read affirmation that this position is in conformity with the ardent aspirations of the people of South Vietnam expressed by the political program of the National liberation front Vietnam. The passage referred to by or. Be mentions Only the spirit of the Elf program and nowhere repeats previous insistence on a settlement based on the Elf itself. In View of Hanoi s relations with the . Which has now brought two of its representatives to Paris the downgrading represented by the foreign ministry i memorandum and the official North Viet namese comments on it could not have been left to Chance observers agreed. Pm says session unlikely pm gets message across continued last week he delivered a Little Public lecture eco nomic facts of the wage de mands of unions representing government employees. At the time both the Seaway and postal workers where threatening strikes. His message in Case was that increases c Onie out of the Consumers pocket via taxes. He was critical of the approach of unions representing Public employees squeezing foe Lemon As much As we in the National Unity Case the debate on Quebec s role had largely been one of Exchange Between the Federal government and the National Union govern ment of Quebec. Twas also of course a Public debate which had held at Tention of the for years. Nonetheless or Trudeau went to the people with his solution rather than leave it a matter of negotiation Between govern ments i in the second Case the tech Nique was the same even though the Issue and the prob of the labor not of the same fundamental nature. Still it was a political ques Tion. Whether intentional or not it appeared that Trudeau was seeking Public support for the government s position in the wage disputes. The government wanted non inflationary increases and got them in the Case of the Seaway workers. There s no indication that or Trude Aii s comments played a role in the Seaway although they probably had a Periphery effect. Certainly it reinforced the hard line Posi Tion of the government negotiators. The political technique of mobilizing Public opinion is Ian fit new. The record merely shows that or. Trudeau is using the method in a precise Way to achieve political objectives. Germans Aid Israel Bonn Reuters and West Germany signed a Ark agreement thursday which the israeli embassy said would finance Road building in the Negev desert and the develop ment of v a port 20 Miles from Tel ayin. St strength of steel. Glass called chem or has Benk developed. It has the strength of All but a the highest strength Alloy steel " continued but he said that while the Public had the right to expect mail service the Public must also recognize the strikers right to use the Law. You can t blame them for using a Law which is available to the prime minister said. As yet he has not alerted members of parliament to the Hulce Lahood of an emergency i session and has not recently it with opposition leaders. Three weeks ago he told conservative Leader Robert Stanfield a session might be necessary but he has not communicated with him since. 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