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POSTAL EMPLOYEES MAKE PRESENTATION

Hubert. Coffin. left. of Char-

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Iottetown presents retiring postmaster J.J. Connolly with a gift on behalf of the Letter Carriers branch of the postal

MONTREAL (CPi Dele- gates representing 100.000 noii- oncrating railway union work- ers voted unanimously Wednes- day 'n favor of a conciliation hoard majority report which recommended a 19.1 cent - an- hour wage increase over a two- year contract.

Agreement was announced 1'4

rhairmen of 15 unions. repre- tenting employees not actually engaged in running tr ain s. opened discussions.

The railways. whose nominee

hear m- . ailing

be" wage in

on the conciliation, sented a minority;‘ tor a ,t2-cenl-anfih

c .' (have yet to make known their stand on the majority repor made public May 27.

be final wage. increases agreed on by the railways and on-ops have not been lower than those. suggested by the majority conciliation board re- ports in the past.

Frank Hall, chairman of the unions' ‘joint negotiating com- mittee. told reporters following the meeting there was “consid- erable discussion" about the failure to obtain parity with the durable goods standard.

(‘AN LIVE WITH TERMS

“\I cause we still remain a few

hours after 110 officers and local '

e were disappointed be-l

service during a ceremony held yesterday at. the Char- lottetown Post office. Mr.

Connolly had 46 years of ser-

cents behind parity." Mr. Han said. "and we also wanted a one-year contract but. the. terms

this one for two years." The durable goods standard is compiled by the bureau of

paid in several major Canadian industries.

The unions' decision was for- warded to the department of labor and the railways‘ position is expected to follow within 11 short time.

Asked if he. expects the. rail- ways to support the conciliation board's majority report. Mr. Hall said this was u then . my any more attention to nority report than we 1 .

In negotiations which started last. November and broke up in January. the unions concen- trated their demands on parity with the durable goods stand- ard.

At the. end of the last con tract. the non-ops average wagc was $2.02 on the basis of fig- ures used by Mr. Justice Craig Monroe and the railways. but $1.98 on the basis of union fig- ures.

The year-end durable goods , figure was $2.16.

A union spokesman said the l gap between the non-ops wages

are. such that we can live Wii‘n‘

statistics from average wages:

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pay-cud

ivice in the postal department when ‘he retired at the end of Ma . 's position is bein

filled by William F. Griffiths. pastmaster at Summerside.

Non-Op Rail Employees Okayl 9-CenIWage Boost; Dragger

land the durable goods standard i was so wide that the union dele—

gates accepted the 19.1 cent-an-

.hour increase — the largest ‘since 1948 —— as a reasonable l compromise.

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RETROACTIVE BOOST , Under the terms of the. ma- ‘jority report. non-ops members would receive. a six-cent hourly boost. retroactive to the first at the year. another three cents on July 1. another four cents an hour Jan. 1. 1965 and the final 6.1 cents on July 1.1965.

The report also proposed a :10

cost to the reilways of the package at $57.000.000. including the cost of extending the in- crease to other railway work-

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The unions estimate this cost at 547.000.000.

Mr. Justice Monroe said in his majority report. supported by union nominee David Lewis, that there was merit in the non-ops desire to share in the "present improved financial po- lsition of the railways." Mr. Cooper said railway finances aren't as healthy as portrayed.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, THURSDAY,

lNew Perth: JBarn' Burns

1 MONTAGUE — An electrical ’ storm in the southern Kings area began last. evening about 9 pm. and continued until past midnight. It was accompanied; by rain in some areas but Mon— I tague remained dry until about , 1 .

Pension Details Revealed

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As a result of the storm at barn o n the farm of Kitchener 5 Smith. New Perth. was struckl and destroyed by fire. There} were two calves in the building.

The barn was to the. rear of the farm home and other build— ; ings. However as the rainfalli became quite heavy the other buildings did not appear to be , in any danger. Members of the] Montague Fire Department were on hand to give any assistance necessary. ' ' . ’m mg‘aflsf‘fifie "1‘; SIS’I‘Hrlq‘Tr'at‘L’ags'x inTttLe (details were announced learned whether there was in- prim: “(31:12:35 maggzsfiaywzg

w“. lsaid the constitutional amend-

l i ment needed before Ottawa can

Co-Ops Meeting iii. t2?§..f."2“;¥§.'§' tobile‘ti‘. lScheduIed Here i

provinces except Quebec.

The proposed amendment is t OTTAWA tCPi~A conferenceibefore the Quebec legislature. ,0! financing of cooperatives r. Pearson indicated that It Iwill be held in Charlottetown Quebec deals speedily with the ‘July 22-23. the Co-Operativerroposai. the federal govern~ Union of Canada _said today iment may give it priority In The union will be holding its l the Commons over the flag dc- annual congress at t‘he‘bate. time. i Meanwhile. be tabled In the iHouse a June 4 letter to all lpremiers. The letter includes ’dCtaiis of the third revision or rhe pension plan that he an- lnounced in April.

i The survivors‘ benefits pro-t I iposed bv Mr. Pearson are re l Galley B.oze .

iated directly to what the con-l

1 tributor would have. received in

. .. .' had he lived until he

SOURIS The. SOlll‘iS hire MW" . . t

Department. was summoned igflflffifmkakiage “5'

shortly after a fire broke out: Th'e . d m I I 1 on the waterfront at about 8.30‘ . ' pensmn' “n er P at“! 3 last mg L proposal. would be 25 per cent; The gallev of MV Polar Fish. or the first $416.67 in monthly a steel dragger fishing out. of‘ age all

. l'l‘his works out to a maximumv Souris and owned by Bathurst I pension Of Sm“... a -

Marine. suffered extensive ‘ . ‘ damage estimated at. between I To get th‘s' a" employ“ 99" ‘

$2. . ' . . wayblzrgedgf'ggomtnhlgi Stove l annual earnings between $600

will provide widows with $64.06 a month plus $25 monthly forl y each of any four of her children 1 who are under 18 or who stayl ' school until they are 25.

55th same

1W9“? [0 ‘50 m weekly Jones Bjomssmfigl'ptmzed by male" may: 5mm" .

. indemnityfiinnder the health and , i git . ._ ‘ floater?“N “WI. Ali-$500. t lae . is is wag. a an. buos ops'LSOItin' fe’insurancc New Company 'Vivm‘s would 35!: “

for each participating emgloryéee. F $500 degth bei’itrifit.t d is minoriy repor, 0 on _. or 3 WI ow wr ou epen- Cooper of Halifax estimated the Incorporated dent children. a flat $25

Polar Fish is and $5.000. The employer would

' month plus 371/: per cent of

At SummerSIde whatever her husband would CAPITAL BUREAU have got had he been 65 when OF THE GUARDIAN : he died.

OTTAWA tCPi —- The pro-t posed new federal pension plan

ison must. pay 1.8 per cent 01“ »- -

OTTAWA Letters have been issued by the Sec- retary of State for the incorpor- ation of a new company at Summerside. P.E.I.

Holman's Acceptance Pally, porated by Alan Hathaway Holman. Richard Thomas Hentlhorn. Norman Lewis Hogg. Harry Tinson Holman and Don- aid Ormsby Stewart.

Authorized capital is 400 five

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dian Conference on the Family gave birth Wednesday to a new Canadian research organization ~—-1he Vanier Institute on the Family.

Prat and his wife in

family conference.

TORONTO (CP) - It was a red » letter day for Rotary In- ternational delegates attending their 1964 convention here Wed- nesday when they were in- formed they may be able to ex»' ‘bnd their nervioc organization to Soviet Russia shortly.

ord Thomson. Canadian-born publisher and British peer. prin ripal speaker at the third plen- ary session. announced that Premier Khrushchev and the

SWIM government. have ‘I‘Ebv

The new institute will bear] the name of the governor-gen-l _ recogni- I iican tion of their initiation of the be the Inistitute's convener.

OTTAWA lCP) — The Cana- country before the first organ-

izational steps to set up the in- stitute were complete. Conference President A. D. P. Heeney of Ottawa announced afer a meeting of the national conference executive that the Rt. Rev. Ernest S. Reed. Ang- bishop of Ottawa. would

Bishop Reed is to select a

The 350 delegates to the four- provisional board to organize day mt‘eting were scarcely enthe institute "as soon as pos- {Rule to their homes across that sible." Mr. Heeney said,

Rotary May Open Club In Soviet Union Soon

ponded favorably to consideia- tion of the establishment of a Rotary Club in Moscow." Lord Thomson said he had conceived the idea of establish- ing Rotary behind the Iron Cur- tain after an encouraging visit with Premier Khrushchev last year. In his 40-minute address to the convention. be elaborated on the a of friendship ex- pressed by an earlier speake- Dr.-C a rlos Romulo. former

—' President of the United Nation-

Erhard-Nikita Talks Possible

mu possible and conceivable." d9 - Erhard laid it would ho KE’IOI‘ahIe it the lmpreaalon W'Md around Int German)- “magnum forever to in:

' .. “"4 "mom to: or being am

General Assembly.

Vanier Research Institute Is Set Up By Conference

l "The basic purpose of the in- stitute will be to maintain and develop by positive and contin- uous action the interest in fam- ily life mobilized through the conference."

CONFERENCE ENDS

Wednesday afternoon.

Governor - Genera-l spoke movingiy of his delight at the success of the meeting in a closing address.

I “My wife and 1 are veryi 'happy. Frankly. we haven't. been so happy for a very long‘ time. One of our fondant hop”,i thus been realized." i .' Madame Vanier. who Ital five children. did not speak at tithe conference’s cloning cere- mony. but she was visibly

.moved by her husband's words.

Gen. Vanier said in his fare- well speech he hoped the meet- ing would inspire a deeper and mono intimate cooperation be-

tween the different organiza- tions already existing. for the service of socl . "between

the technicians and those con- cerned for the pro-eminence of the spiritual and the moral vai- ucs or life."

Following. the 30-minute add- ress. the delegates gave. the governor-general and his wife a prolonged standing ovation. A urther tribute was paid by Dean J, Francis beddy of the University of Windsor who said: "may do not need our thanks. but they very much deserve it."

Dr. Romulo. president. of the University of the Philippines. said the work of Rotary is next only to that of the UN "in its undeviating commitment _to ad- vance in international brother-

He 1 a l d the international growth of Rotary II “more in- gent and valid today" than ever in the put. Rotary. he said. to

that ban

«to \ or on sustained itself steadily with n

INSIDE TODAY-

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per cent non cumulative. re.- deemable preferred shares of rho par value of $100 each and 1.000 common shares without. nominal or par value.

Thu} REceives Death Penalty

SAINT JOHN, N.B. tCPi —— Joseph Angus MacDonald, 44. of Saint John. was sentenced Wednesday to death by hanging

shortly after he was convicted of capital murder in the killing of a Saint John businessman Feb. 13 in an armed holdup.

i The family conference endedl .A" accompllca George w“-

liam Yeates, 29. of Halifax was

in the death of Hugh S. Greg- ory. and sentenced to life im-

prisonment.

patent ‘

Limited. has been lncor--

However. there is this bitch. On the. theory that young. child-

lless widows under 45 have a ‘chance to get a job. their ben- lefit will be reduced by 10 per 1 cent for each year they are short ,of 45. Thu who am- l widowed at age 35 or younger ‘ would get nothing. y A widow with dependent chn idren gets the full benefits re- gardless of the widow's age She would receive up to $64.06 in a widow's pension. plus $25 : for each dependent child — but the. maximum pa ment ioi ' orphans in any one family could lnot exceed the. maximum pen- sion of $104.17 under the plan itself. Thus. it would be a littie more. than four children would receive.

All payments are contingent on the husband having contnb- liited for at least two years to the. plan. or at least one-third at the total number of years it was possible for him to con tribute.

' If a widow remai-ries. sue , 1 loses her pension. i But the orphans go on draw-

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Vanier convicted of non-capital murder Inf! the” benefits—that is. as;

long as they don't marry. andi l are under 18 or between 10 and |

lzs and still in school. 1

JUNE 11. 1964.

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on Hoffman. a Metro- Winnipeg transit. em- ployee. points to the new symbolic pedestrian signs which will be erected in Win-

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WEATHER

y and cool. clearing in evening: winds 25. Low-high 47 and 55.

NOT MORE THAN

One-Leaf Flag Proposa May Get Pearson's Okay

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nipeg next week. They will be an experiment. to test public reaction. The new

signs will replace the stand- ard “Walk-Don't Walk" signs

NEW TRAFFIC SIGN TO‘ BE TESTED

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'Debate Delayed llo Monday

By KEN KELLY OTTAWA «CPI—The flag de- lbate in‘ the Commons will open

I Monday, government H o ii s e . Lea er F a v r e a it announced Wednesday.

He did not elaborate on the .simple statement as the House lrose for its usual Wednesday night off, A t It had been expected the. de~ [bate would open today. but Mr. ravreau. justice minister in the cabinet.‘said the Commons will spend today and Friday on other priority measures. Prime Minister Pearson ear- llier told MP5 that two other lmatters and possibly a third imig'ht have to take precedence over the. flag issue.

The priority measures include new lending powers .. Farm Credit Corporation now

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spending authority to ‘pay the government's current tibills and a constitutional {amendment to permit. survivor .V benefits to be included in the proposed Canada Pension Plan. ‘ Delay In the Commons flag debate gave additional time for d V I --,a new flag campaign which . . 4.; came to a head Wednesday. The iNew Democratic Party caucus announced that they will try to replace the. three-leaf cluster on g _e government's proposed de- lm... in "Sp. Tm. ".5. is part SIEIIIVIY'III] a single. maple leak of a country—wide experiment "represenli’m "nit-V- to get a standard pedestrian The government's do I t gn‘ control sign. {also Mr. Pearson's personal :c-hoice — ts three red maple

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Dief Says Flag Choice Is Modified Red Ensign

OTTAWA (CPi —~ Opposition Leader Diefcnbaker advocaied Wednesday night Red Ensign as Canada‘s dis tinctive flag but rejected idea of a general election the flag issue.

He said in a radio and icic-

\ision interview, recorded by the CBC at his Ottawa res- idence. that the government's

proposed maple leaf design] bears no relationship with Cain,

ada's past.

“What is being done today is simply trying to throttle Par» liament into favoring that which is the prime minister's own per- sonal choice." he sai

“We have the Red Ensign. Changes could be made. in or- der to bring about the assur-

ance that on the face of Lilia Red Ensign. there should also be the great relationship, the

French contribution. “Let's place something like. that on it but let us not pro-

the 5 UI‘

,diice a flag that bears no re- 1 lationsiiip to our past.”

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; (TALL FOR CONFERENCE The opposition - atcd his 1963 call for a federal- | provincial conference to decide 1 on the question of the constitu~ y ’nn and suggestions for on I lional symbols.

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1 “But to have an election on‘

the basis of a matter like this will divide this country as it ihas not been divided in the ‘ past. . . . It. would divide Can- iada. split it up. We would not :be able in the second hundred i years to look forward with any ! anticipation to the kind of Can lada you and I believe in—one. r Canada —— from the Atlantic to 1 the Pacific. one nation, not two ' nations. each. the English and the French. with their specific rights under the constituion.

l "But put this matter of iris

leader reiter— ‘

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flag before the Canadian people ,

.and I fear the results.”

' A committee of both Houses

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WRECKAGE IN WAKE

This summer cottage. owned by a Calgarlnn. was do by flooding Cameron

program of mutual understand- “! ' ICC.

,Creek at Waterton. Alberta. 5

torrential Many other were

Floods followed weekend rains. homes and buildings

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F ALBETA FLOOD

heavily damaged. Loss has been estimated in excess of #1000000. Conditions warn

improving its the water level dropped Wednesday (CP Wirephotol

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leaves on a white ground with 'deep blue vertical bars at the borders.

SINGLE RED LEAF

The New Democratic propo- sal—-to be. moved as an amend» ment to the government resolu- tion by Reid Scott iNDP —Tol'-

onto Danforiihi~woiild substi» yllldfl a single red leaf for the ‘of Parliament in 1945 and 1946"}“99'. . . aproposed the natmnal flag it is similar to a design

of Canada should be the Canadian Passed fiver by the cabinet in 1 picking the three - leaf design.

Red Ensign with a ma le leafi . p Ihiii informed sources said the

government is prepared to ac- _the mat of arms F said. rxp’t‘ iikif a major-tr, of MP8

‘ ‘t I . ‘ i a-e nown a pre erence f This wouldfdemlf.“ it “5 3.11 before the Commons votes0f . symbol distinctive of Canada as I“ one“ ,he informgnk {id 1 ‘ n . . . . 1 Lawn-allow” _ the government is staking its ,iit‘e on selection of a distinctive Canadian flag but not of the de« IRIIS of the flag desii‘zn

Mr. Pearson was pressed In the Commons to fly both bhe rliree-leaf and one-leaf designs on a Parliament Hill flagpole to give iliPs an idea of how they'll look.

He told Andrew Brewin fNDP ~Toronto GreenWood) that a three-hour test flying today or

in autumn golden colors and the bordered background replacing

U.S. Senate

On Civil Rights

WASHINGTON iCPi —~ With four votes to spare. the Senate called a halt Wednesday to the 75-day civil rights filibuster by

limiting each senator to one Fridav 5 to 8

. . .m- D-m.~wouid how more dof debate pin the. swab“, for. the mmeJeaf db; measure an anv amen men s - ' . offered ' SIM.) Bl” he mm!” It WOUId’

be a little confusing" to both designs.

SPLIT RESOLUTION

Besides giving notice of their proposed design change. the New Democrats urged in statement that the government split the. flag resolution to per. mit separate votes on the Cana- dian flag and the Union Jack.

All 100 senators were present fly for the Ti-to-29 vote invoking closure on civil rights debate for the first time in Senate his- tory. Even Senator Clair Engle IDem. (‘alifl ailing after two brain operations. came by am- bulance and wheelchair to help provide the necessary two- thirds majority. The Senate to