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Commons Launctes Debate On Massive Transportation Bill

OTTAWA Minister

(CP)

Pickersgill gave a

pledge—to—the Commons Friday

that

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the government won't al- hurried wholesale abandon- t of railway branch lines. in the irie provinces

“The fears of the West in ‘this regard will removed,” he said as MPs setNed down to a

lonz' debate on a massive trans-

dortation bill introdu last

Monday. Su Mr. Pickersgill told Alvin

® -: . ~ Transport |Hamilton ‘(PC--Qu’Appelle). that |create a new

ithe transport department al- ready” is drawing -up~a~ list-of Prairie branch lines on which abandonment applications ” by the railways won't be accepted. These lines. forming a basic | network through the growing -region,” would be pre- served intact ‘for a numberof ivears’’. to remove the uncer- tainty now worrying communi- ties along them, The 24,000-werd

bill. would

Dief Sees Rai way Bill ~ Boostino Maritime Rates

OTTAWA (CP) government's new Islation is changed, it wil! lead to higher freight, rates in the Maritime - and - western — prov- Inces, Opposition Leader Diefen- Saker said. Friday.

The freight rate structure al- feady was distorted against: the

Unless “the railwav leg-

two regions, and removing most /accept any amendment that-was tions will be withdrawn a

government controls. -on rates would accentuate the distortion, he said in: the Commons: _

He made the coniment in op- - posing a stfgcestion by. Trans- port Minister Pickersgill that the hill be given quick approval ih prineiple so that it could be sent to the transport committee for detailed study.

Alvin Hamilton (PC--Qu’Ap- pelle) said there are many prin- ciples..in the legislation that ate “very frightening.” tions needed clarification and-he

Many Aec- |

the bill information ment WILL MEET MPS

Mr. Pickersgill said officials of his department are ready to meet MPs informally pext, week fo answer all factual questions. \The government was ready to

He also sought ‘detailed from the govern

likely to improve the machinery | outlined in the complex bill. The minister praised Mr. ‘Hamilton for taking a construc- tive attitude in the debate. The nservative MP said Thursday | night when the debate opened jthat the legislation is ‘‘much,

much better’? than a compara-

‘ble bill intraduced and shelved

jn 1964. He added that he hoped jazainst the West and the*Mari- |

‘the study of the bill could be ‘speeded. up. The massive bill contains pro-

posals to end most government |

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super-board to take over all regulation in the transport field” and implement modern railway~ legislation pro-

iposed five years ago by the |MacPherson Royal ‘ Commis- sion.

It provides the railways with

unprecedented freedom to set freight. rates, abandon uneco- nomic branch lines and scrap money-losing Passenger ‘Sserv- jices.. The idea. is ..to._obtain maximum. efficiency in rail

transport and let the pressures |of competition replace the cur- rent maze of federal controls.

‘DOZENS OF BIDS °

| In recent years the railways have filed dozens of bids’ for | branch-line abandonment. in the West. Action on them has peea |

[pisnended pending the new ne

lislati

Mr ickersgill sald — he has | received guarantees from Pres- | ‘ident. Donal Gordon of ~ the

lan Sinclair

|CNR and. Preside thes Spplica-|

jof the CPR that

as the new legislation is pasied. |

Mr.- Hamilton, former~.-Con-> jServative agriculture minister, spoke mest-of-the afternoon-,1n jopening the opposition attack, . He was followed by NDP Leader Douglas who joined the Conservative MP in vowing a ilong. hard fight to correct what lthey called discrimination |

ltime provinces in freight rates. Earlier, in a_ brief. discussion |

procedure, Opposition Diefenbaker voiced. a

on Leader

hoped oppasition MPs would be subsidies paid the—railways, al- | similar stand. He said the leg- |

_provided__with. independent ex-

pert advice. ‘ H. A. Olson (SC—Medicine Hat) expressed concern that

most freight rates would be set om a _ “cost | -plus”” basis _ under

lowing” them to set theirown | ifreight rates in competition with jother_ shippers. create) a: new big government | hoard “to ride herd on all trans- wontation: matters: ©

It also would |freight rates in those regions.

form. higher

current even

its. to

in lead

lislation would

Mr. Douglas~ said an _author- ity should be established -with |

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Sweeping! Divorce Reform

DAVE STOCKANITY (CP)—The” Cana: | not

gave approval proposed sweeping

By WINNIPEG dian Bar Association, hatchet in sight. Friday to reforms in laws.

Meeting in general session on the second-to-last_day—of_itsan-— -nual- convention. the CBA mem- : bership went down. the line with a recommendation § from _ its civil justice section that” added” grounds -for divorce include cruelty, desertion, insanity, vol- | untary separation and wilful .re- fusal to consummate a = mar- riage.

All these would ‘be in addition to adultery, sodomy or bestial- {ty or proof of conviction for rape- While adultery is the only ground for divorce in most Ca- Madian provinces, cruelty is an additional ground in Nova Sco- tia, and in some provinces a wife can get a divorce on evi dence of certain forms of

Canada's divorce

perversion.

Desertion would have to be without just cause for three years immediately preceding

‘eommencement of divorce pro- ceedings :

Voluntary: husband and wife

separation —of for three

-\ONUS ON CHILDREN

|Vears immediately preceding jdivorce action would — suffice provided a court was satisfied | that:

1. “‘There is no. reasonable likelihood of a resumption of eshahbitation.” —

2. The issue of a decree will not prove unduly harsh- or op- pressive fo the defendant spouse.’

In . essence, _eruelty would be defined as any conduct that created a danger to life, limb lor health and any conduct judged by a-—‘cour.t to be “grossly insulting and intolera- ble.’

| A condition in all divorce cases would be that no. décree would be issued until a court was Satisfied that arrangements had been made for the care and upbringing ‘of any children un- ider the age of 16.

Though going through the civil justice section's -resolution point by point was time-consuming, debate was moderate as the as- |sociation’s' general membership took its first firm stand‘on di- \vorce reform since 1954. At that

a-itime.— proposals were made to

broaden divorce grounds but

OTTAWA (CP) Canadian farmer. will harvest a record | wheat crop of 799,833,000. busn- els this year, the Dominion Bur-| }eau of Statistics forecasts.

Record. crops in - faskatche-

wan and Alberta will push ¢1e | compared 1965. The Alberta wheat-erop-is4

6th Escapee Revcartured,

| An intense manhunt continued | |for four others in the Cana iaa4 jai.a about 20 miles Northwest tor here where one c: two Cars

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| used in t© prison break was found abandoned late - Fritsy | afternoon.

Among the: four still at large

Lea Kenneth Leishman, 34, wno |

has a record of two bank_hold- jups afid was facing further charges for a brazen gold bul- lion. theft at Winnipeg airport. Also_at iarge were Barry pend Duke, 21

they were nowhere within the scope of the action taken Fri- day.

FE. A. Brotman of Winnipeg, urging that the association take a stand now on concrete pro- posals, and not get bogged down in petty quibbling, said; ‘‘Can- ada—is the most backward coun- try_in- the English--and- French- speaking world in legislation re- lating tdé divorce:””

The major area of argument was the proposal that would make three-year ‘voluntary sep- aration a basis for divorce.

Jules Deschenes of Montreal said that while he wouldn't vote against the resolution, despite his Roman Catholic religious |beliefs, he didn’t think that vol- untary separation should be a springboard to divorce.

“It seems to me we are com- ing dangerously close to divorce by mutual consent.”

Other opposition was ex- pressed by Joseph O'Sullivan of Winnipeg who said _ that more than 100 years Canadian society had respected the safe- guards of Christian marriage— namely, its indissolubility-

“There are many in the coun- try ~who-will-deplore- the taking away of these safeguards.”

ommonwealth Unity Shaken In Division Over Rhodesia

LONDON ‘Reuters)—A fight ever Rhodesian independence threatens the unity of the 23- - ; a 10- diay conference of its leaders which opens here Tuesday

Prime Minister Wilson was expected to face the bitterest attacks vet over his handling of the- crisis since Premier Ian Smith's .-white-minority regime sized independence from Britain Nov. 11.

Two African nations—Zambia, Rhodesia’s northern neighbor, and the West African stafe of Sierra Leone—have warned they may quit the Commonwealth unless Wilson convinces them that he will. end the Rhodesia crisis quickly

Zambia's - President Kaunda ig boycotting ference and” sending Minister. Simon Kapwepwe London instead.

Tanzania, which broke diplo- matic relations. with Britain over the Rhodesia issue, was net expected to altend’ at all STICKS TO. POLICY

British government said that despite African critt- cism, Wilson would stick to ‘two basic principles:

One, he is not prepared to “transfer the Rhodesia «question

te the United Nations, since he

the con- Foreign

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Kenneth |

to

sources |

jmaintains that sovereignty over |Rhodesia lies only with the Brit- | lish_ Parliament;

Two, of military force to enforce a isettlement and believes his eco- jnomie sanctions campaign is biting deep, and hard- into the Rhodesian economy and, given jtime, will achieve its objective. | But now he ¢oncedes that his | early eStimates of the effect of | campaign. were over-opti- mistic. | At least one-third of the Com- monwealth members are, op- iposed to using. force against the: (Rhodesian regime. These in- clude Britain, Canada, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, Malawl, Malaysia and Singapore

Buf not. all Commonwealth | ‘countries are opposed to hand- ing. over the problem of the United Nations:

Canada will probably support

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he still rules out the use |

\Pearson said Friday if the Rho- ldesian issue is tossed to the UN ithe--world: -organization would first’ want to examine whether economic sanctions can be ef- fective.

The prime minister, on the eve of his departure for what lhe called a “crucial’’ confer- lence. said in the Commons Can- lada has always taken the post- tion that if Cahtper 7 of the UN charter is invoked the military sanctions mentioned in it do not jimply the use of force in the fencer sense.

The ‘chapter also obliges all |UN tmeembers to abide by eco- jnomie sanctions, a move that icould force a showdown with {South Africa, a, UN member lwhich has continued to trade with the~ Smith regime.

Mr... Pearson said he believes’ there are further steps that can’

any intensification of efforts to ad opie ttanhesian " sda jtopple the Smith regime, short e ; lof the use of armed force. ee through the use of sane- 1 0 s : ews rine paiiisiets With. the exception of Malawt, |African Commonwealth mem-

No Paper Monday

The Guardian will not be | published Monday, Labor | Day. The next edition, will be Tuesday, Sept:.

bers favor United Nations inter- yention, or force; or both to bring down the white Rhodesian regime quickly. :

India and Pakistan’ were ex-: pected to give strong support to

for |:

Sih jirat —of > &

der charge ge by reason of insan- ity: Joseph William Dale, 25, facing a rape charge: and

George Wayne Leclerc, 26, of Montreal, pretences.

charged -.With false

TO CYPRUS

Lt.-Col. W. W. Turner, 44, of Victoria ‘atid Ottawa has been promoted io colonel and will _.be.appoinied..commiander — of the Canadian contingent in the U.N. peace-keeping forces on Cyprus in September, succe- eding Col. G.H. Hale who will return to Newfoundland as dis- trict comamnder. Col, Turner now is a staff officer in the personnel branch’ at Canadian Forces Headquarters, Ottawa- (CP Wirephoto from: National

record of 723,000,900 | predicted for 184,00,000. bushels

1000. bushels |. The forecast yield per acre cf

\26.4 bushels for all Canada is} ¥

.| higher ‘than the average for the

| from their—arsenal~of“weapo 1s

P or “Montreal's McGill i's McGill

“twh ie h~ Parliament ordered

Record Wheat Crop Forecast By Bureau

forecast is thas on vields of | Aug. 15. and depends on satis- factory weather during the rest of the harvest ~--son.

The Saskatchewan wheat ‘cp s forec-st at 511,000,000 bushels with 400,000,000 in

against 153,000,009 last: year.

Manitoba will harvest 84,00v,- of wheat, 5,000,000 more than last year.

Is LOWER | slightly below. the previous ‘vgn of 26.8 recorded in 1952: and is

last W<years of 20.2.

Study Of Labor Law.

Announced

OTTAWA (CP) — A special task force to recommend

yetonges in Canada s labor laws,

Univer- sity, was announced Friday by Prime Minister Pearson. Dean Woods, now dean of director of the industrial tions. centre at the university-

study and details will be announced soon in the Commons. j He said the country’s labor laws must--be brought “up to date to-provide—for—more—mean- ingful collective: bargaining. - The national railways strike

halted wit a bill passed Thurs- day showed that job securitv has become almost as import- ant' as wage returns. This. must be reflected in legis'ation. Comme..iing on the —conclu- sions he has drawn from the strike, ‘Mr. Pearson said: “In the long run we may all benefit fro. what has -happened.’

arts and sciences, was formerly | rela- |

The prime minister said the | “ill take several monibs |

Delayed At

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| | | Douglas H. Coffin, fire chief | at Montague, has resigned his~ office to take-up the position _of acting provincial fire Mar- shal as of Thursday. Hon. George Ferguson made the announcement last night. “We are fortunate = a ae =

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NAMED FIRE MARSHAL

for this~ position with his wide experience in fire. and fire prevention,” Mr. _Ferguson said. Mr. etn has been-chief at Montague ‘tor, a number of years and itis said he will be

missed as director of the Mon- _

aritime Train Service

Aoncton

| Freight

“MONCTON (CP) F lfreight train bound for Moncton |from Truro was stopped on the loutskirts of the city Friday aft- lernoon by a group of men who | learlier had prevented a freight

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/Tormentine, —N.B. A CNR spokesman said the |

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‘freight was being held outside

lthe city limits while company | lofficials continued their diseus- sions with union officials. How- ever, he. said the men carried jno placards and there was no | iway of identifying them as | striking railway . employees. Rail traffic elsewhere | throughout the Atlantic region | resumed ‘operations ~F r i day. | morning following federal_legis— lation which ended a national ‘railway strike.

1100 Rail Reject

MONCTON (CP)—Angry rail- way workers rejected the_back- to-work order here Friday night, threatening the CNR’s Atlantie region’ with major disruptions. The vote “by 1,100 shouting trainmen came as the. CNR pirugsiod to restore corxlye on

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“MONCTON, — E. J. Cooke, vice-president of Canadian Na-

tional’s Atlantic: . Region, made the following statement Friday afternoon-

“Canadian National has taken every step in the Atlantic Region to restore rail services in line with the legislation passed ast night at Ottawa.

‘In most places we have had full co-operation from our em- ployees and freight and passeng- | er services have been operated

Earlier, Labor Mi..ister Nich- olson announced th.’ H. Cazl Goldenberg of Montr-.|, a lavor lawyer with long experience in the industrial relations field. has been appointed mediato> to settle outstanding wage and oher issues in the rail disput~.

INSIDE TODAY

N.S. Premier

jalter the strike.

lwith ON operations. lthis we have been unable te

PEI. Express First Moving

jn. the usual way. For instance. | freight “tyard at-Moncton—at--5—a.m._to-

I-was in--our express

day to shake hands with Bud Carrol and Ed Elliott to wish them well-as they took two—ex- press freight trucks to Prince Edward Island. This was one of the first movements of traffic

“However, certain isolated groups are still not abiding by the back to work legislation, and have taken steps to interfere Because of

operate two freight trains be- tween Moncton and Sackville. Passengers on the westbound Ocean Limited from, Halifax

Calls Session

HALIFAX Robert Stanfield announced Fri- | day a special. session of tne! Nova Scotia legislature will be | called for next: Friday to deal with the“‘aggressive campaign”

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Defence.)

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of Bell Telephone Co. of. Canada jto: acquire controlling interest

lin Maritime Telegraph and Telé-

iphone Co. Ltd.

Bell is seeking a 5l-per-cent icontrol of the Maritime firm, | jwhose board of directors al-| ready has advised shareholders |

inot to sell to. the larger coin- travelling public

pany.

were brought into the city by bus, and arrangements are ibeing made, for them to com-

(CP) — Premier | ;plete their trips by alternate | cide reports:

means.

“IT would advise any person planning to travel by trom to | get in touch with our passenger | sales department to get ~~ the | latest information before depart- | ing.

“As far as the future is con- cerned, I can make no fore

‘casts. I can only hope that the

law will be observed, and: that our: services will aH return to normal for the benefit of and the eco} ‘nomy of the Atlantic Regioa.”

Striking railway workers in

any African moves,

Mormfion are. shown blocking

freight: train Friday Yon t CNR's main line, The men,

who stopped two freights, stan halted the Montreal-bound pas- senger train Ocean Limited

STRIKERS BLOCK TRA (N AT MONCTON

from Hatfax. Passengers were taken off ithe train and trans- ported te Moncton by bus.

the |

“\ways employees

oe national rallendty strike. The trainmen, angrily defying their leaders who said they

should return to work, voted overwhelmingly to re-establish picket lines around the key rail- way installations in Moncton— biggest rail centre east of Mon- treal.

The CNR’s main line between '|Montreal and Halifax already j was blocked by unidentified men on Moncton's outskirts: Among trains halted was. the crack Montreal-bound Ocean Limited. The trainmen assémbled in the Moncton” stadium late Fri- day afternoon, shouting “we don’t want Pearson's peanuts’’. Union members said less than a dozen of the voting trainmen agreed to stay on the job.

There were shouts of ‘‘scabs”

A CNR | |believed the men blocking. the

jcrossing

/\Island- Bound

Halted

The sicbaenaans sail was

itracks near the Victoria Street in east-end Moncton were shop workers whose union has ordered them hack te

from leaving Moncton for Cape |work, but this could not be con-

firmed.

The group second freight No. \814 Friday morning as it. was

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leaving the city for the CNR lferry terminal at Cape Tormen-

itine. The train returned to the jMoneton rail yards 15 minutes later.

No other trains entering the New Brunswick rail centre from ithe west met any. inteference. The. westbound. passenger train Ocean_ Limited was scheduled je arrive from Halifax at 5:05 ip.m. ADT.

Workers

ork Order

back to their jobs. early Friday following. enactment by Parlia- ment of the back-to-work legis- lation.

Moncton is ‘the heart of CNR operations extending from — ern Quebee to St. John's.

The | region's biggest ite

The Garcia here eame a9 ithe CNR—in most parts of the region—appeared to be getting back to normal. Freight trains were running on branch lines east and west of here as early as 5.a.m. ADT.

The region's vital ferry serv- ices, which had been on shaky schedules during most of the — strike, were also beet te nor- mal.

Tle Ocean Limited one of the CNR's proudest. passenger trains, pulled out of: Halifax. on

schedule at 12:45 p.m. ADT Fri-— day but’ four hours later. was

forced to stop because of con-

tinued picketing of the railway’s

main Moncton-Halifax line on

the eastern outskirts-of this rail

centre.

Passengers aboard the Mon-

directed at men who had gone

OTTAWA (CP)—Prime: Min- jister Pearson. Friday brushed “that some rail- |waymen are defying Parlia- |ment’s order to return to work jwith the comment that there is | widespread obedience. sat “I prefer to look at it in that 'sense,” the prime minister becia la news conference. | He said union leaders have in- j structed workers to go back to their jobs. “I think, they'll all ibe at work before long.”

Mr. Pearson declined com- }ment ona report that. prest- \dents Donald Gordon of the ICNR and Ian Sinclair of the

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Pearson Brushes Aside Reports Of Defiance

rights, but in this case ft waa necessary in the national inter-

est. proposed

“The government

jand Parliament disposed in the

democratic way of free and vig-

“orous discussion.”

Any changes written into the. bill about wage

t provisions i**made explicit. what was ak

ready implicit.”

Slowdown Organized

CPR had said no one had looked jout for the railways’ interest jduring the debate in Parliament jon the strike bill.

‘)oThe strike bill! imposes mint- jmum wage increases for 1966-67 itotalling 18 per cent;“with medi-. ation aimed af possible further jinereases and negotiation ° on fringe benefits and other malt- iters. | The prime minister said it was a serious matter to inter- fere with union members’

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1,300 Decide To Stay Out In The West

« WANCOUVER (CP) Move

than 700 striking railway work- | ers at Kamloops and Vancouver | jtoday agreed not to return to | work under terms of the fede-al

' governments ee rail- way legislation.

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EDMONTON “CP) Sx hun:

dred Canadian National Rail- |

voted Friday | to continue on strike for another | day despite passage of federal | strike-ending legislation Thurs- |

day. They planned to meet’ again Saturday to consider the | situation,

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>nouncement

OTTAWA (CP) A work-te rule slowdown is being organ ized by the officers of the Ca nadian Brotherhood of Railway \Transport and General Workers the union's national president announced | Friday

WwW. J. Smith said the CBRY was seeking the support of other rail unions involved in Canada’s nationwide railways dispute

The CRRT statement said the slowdown would he 3° means of getting management to the bar- gaining table immediately to conduct ‘meaningful negotia-

tions in good. faith.”

“When our plans have. been organized and completed an an- will be made at which’ time we hope we wil have the support of other rail unions in this program.”

60-70 Remain Out In Nfld.

ST. JOHN’S, | Nfld. (CP) Some 60-70 striking railway ma- chinists in Newfoundland voted Friday night not to return te work despite federal legisla. va ito end the rail strike j

The members of the railway shopcrafts: ‘union voted to ~t29 ‘out at least until Monday night, when they will meet agaih. The teason given by a union spokes- man was the .lack of mention

of trade pay in the legisiatiga,

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