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Seek 30 Per Cent Boost '

Running Trades Union , Enters Rail Wage Fight-

OTTAWA (CP) - The brother to the individual worker was avail- hood of Railroad Trainmcii (lnd.), able from the union. The trainmen

in Canada. has entered the fight for of hours and mileage. with varia- higher pay from the railways. tlons according to length of serv- The union announced Thursday ice. l5 has served notice of a demand Another of the running trades for a 30-per-cent wage increase for iinions-the 8,500 membe Brother- l7,000 members--trainmeu. con- hood of Locomotive Fire n and doctors. yardmasters and yudmen Engineers tlnd.)-announc last -employed on Canadian lines of month it will seek a 25-per-cent the CNR and CPR.

wage increase and holiday conces- sions'ln a contract to replace one expiring March 31.

Meanwhile. the railways and 17 non-operating unions representing 150,000 employees are engaged in conciliation procedure at Montreal over union demands for an lll-pen cent wage increase and an eight- cents-an-hour health-welfare pack- age.

A series of supplementary con- cessions, involving higher pay and paid holidays for various types of workers. also is being asked of the two big carriers.

In addition. deputy piesident A.J. Kelly said, similar I are being filed for another 1,000 BRT members on smaller runways and in the CPR dining car uervice.

The current contract expires Mardh Si. and the union has asked that negotiations for a new con- tract open Feb. 10.

largest of the running trades uulonslare paid on complex combinati

us of the parliamentary session so far - shipment of -Canadian arms to the troubled Middle East-

Drew Keeps Arms Issue Simmering

OTTAWA (CPl-The hottest is-'

the south and east coasts of the Arabian peninsula. The Arabian plane shipment was valued at 841.-

Sees Export

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CHARLO'l'l'ETOWN. CANADA, FRIDAY,

FEBRUARY 3, 1956

Big Ovation From Congress

Markets Of Top Interest

TORONTO (CPI - Canada will have to depend on her expo markets for a high proportion o her earnings for the next 30 years and much longer, James S. Dun- can. chairman of the dollar-step ling trade council. predicted Thursday.

He called on Canada to switch part of her buying from the United

Covers Prince Edward island Like the Dew

States to Britain and the sterling area to increase the overseas sup- ply of dollars with which to pay for Canadian goods. bnd to reduce American influence on Canadian development.

Despite a rapid increase in P r" manufacturing and pro- spects of a continuing rise in pop- ulation. indications are that Can- ada will produce surpluses over domestic needs far beyond the next three decades, the Toronto industrialist told the Gordon econ- omic commission.

Britain was Canada's top mar- ket fur wheat. She also purchased large amounts of other Canadian materials. He had been informed by British officials, however, that unless that country's sharp ad- verse trade balance with Canada

Eden Due In

OTTAWA

five-day visit here.

Lines.

Ottawa Today

(CP)Px-ime Minister Eden of Britain will have atoleast two formal discussions with Prime Minister St. Laurent during his 0

Eden is scheduled to arrive here Friday at 6 p, in. EST by RCAF plane from Washington. Foreign Secretary Sclwyn Lloyd is due to reach Ottawa from Chicago 2'): hours later by trans-Canada Air

Eden will have no engagements

OTTAWA (Special) - Following a conference late Thursday between J. Watson McNaught, Liberal M. P. for Prince. and Transport Min- ister Marler and officials. instruc- tions have been given to Canadian

ton and Montreal to start moving refrigerator cars to Prince Edward Island for loading of potatoes. Fig- ures on the number of reefer cars to be moved to the Province and

C.N.R. Instructed To Move Refrigerator Ccirs To P.E.I.

National Railways officers at Mono-

U.S. Navy Tries New l . Trans-Ocean Balloon

TOKYO (AP)-The U. 5. Navy Thursday night launched its fourth on the "D0,. of the c.,mm,m5iweather balloon in 17 days in al Jearly yesterday afternoon, J. Ang-Inevt-' attempt to 5103i 5990181 TEC- us illacLean, Conservative MP. lordmg instruments across the Paci- ior Queens asked the Minister ifofic ocean on the let SUi98m- The

he had any statement to make on lnaV)' Said the big Sphere W85 Car-lminlster

rying radio transmitting equipment "geared to reveal heretofore un-' known meteorological data six mi- les over the Pacific ocean."

the shortage of refrigerator cars on the island. Mr. Marler said he had not exact figures at the moment but had previously been asked about the car shortage by both Mr. MacNaught and Mr. MacLean.

Instructions have been given to railway officers at key points to take all possible steps immediate-

U. K. labor Party

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Political Enlightenment ls. Eden's Weapon For Reds

Proposes

Three Courses To Follow

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prime Eden told Congress

.Thursday the United States and Britain must fight communism with ”political enlightenment" be- cause guns alone can no longer do the job.

Speaking to' vigorous applause

from a packed Senate and House. as well only galleries in both chambers.

as from standing-room-

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755 and the Egyptian plane at 544,-

from what sources. are expected! 426

Saturday or Sunday except for an Fdday.

Deputy leader

Eden declared: iv

was kept alive in the Commons ly to relieve the car shortages.

"POSITION REDUCED"

Its present demands. Mr. Kelly said. are based on statistics which "clearly indicate our position has been reduced below former rccog nizcd diffe. (as against other workers) based on conditions of service."

No estimate of what the demands would mean in dollars and cents

Gov't Blocks C.C.F. Interest Rate Bill

OTTAWA (CP)-The government moved successfully Thursday to block a CC! member's bill that would have set a maximum annual lintei-est rats of 12 per cent on all Ollll.

. Thursday by Opposition leader Drew in a rapid fire questioning of Prime Minister St. Laurent.

Mr. Drew said during his ques- tioning that published records show an export permit was issued covering an airplane ordered by "Arabia" - first house disclos e of an aircraft shipment to that area.

Mr. St. Laurent refused Mr. Drew's riamand that the govern- ment tablc Trade Minister Howc'a order last July 7 approving an ex- port licence for the sale of 15 Harvard training planes to Egypt by Canada Car and Foundry Co. of Montreal.

The prime minister said such licences dealing with individual transactions of commercial cor- porations are treated as confiden- tial, a legitimate requirement by

five business.

ONE PLANE EACH

Outside the House Mr. Drew said

A C”'""'""'' V9” 0' 131 '0 '3 he referred to bureau of statistics '5 "V9? 9' VV'mm9'" '"0"0P export listings covering the first

- 10 months of 1955. which showed one plane each for Arabia and Egypt and also aircraft parts for these areas.

Bureau officials said the Arabia listing covers exports Saudi Arabia and six small skcikdoma and areas. including Yemen, in

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of the list of private n-icmbcrs' bills.

In making the motion. William henidickson. parliamentary assist- ant to Finance Minister Harris, ssldhgovcrlmont legislation con- cern small loans, . troduccd in the House 3: two. This was foralc,sst"lii Ill:

rono speech opnlug ar amen

He said the l will be studied by a par ry mittcc which will have a chance to make b thorough investigation of interest rates before any action is taken. .

"SEARS!" BUN WILD

Mr. Argue said "loan sharks" now can set whatever interest rates they can get customers to sgrsotooolongastlicydonot come under the Small Loans Act.

(The act governs loans up to H00. setting an interest ceiling of it per cent a year or two per wit a month.)

He said he can see no reason for not limiting interest rates on all loans and credit. considering the relatively low rates charged by banks and credit unions.

Finance. and acceptance com- panics all charged more than 12 per cent annually and rates of is. gum!) 22 per cent 37:70 common.

ey oansd trcmcn us amounts. 3. did "mu "rm. uvlng bump the troubled island was acceptable merit credit. Total of instalment l0 M” ” li ff"-' 3 "'9"? 5”” cm" "M, I". ye" won”, ment of policy and not ahilateral mid hi, umolmoiooo. agreement, the circles said.

Agrees To Draft Constitution

NICOSIA. Cyprus Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Cyprus unite - with - Greece movement, has accepted a British invitation to cooperate in drafting a constitution for Cypriot self-gov- eminent, circles close to the Greek Orthodox Church leadership here said Wednesday night.

The circles said the archbishop had declared his acceptance in a reply to the British pl posals given to Governor sir John Hard- ing Thursday and cabled to the British government.

Mskarios was said to have ac- cepted the invitation to co-operate in drafting a constitution. saying he was "desirous of the restora- tion of peace in Cyprus.”

He also said that the British formula for the political future of

industrialists engaged in compctl-'

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External Affairs Minister Pear- son told the Commons Jan. 24 that in 1954 export permits for mil- itary equipment worth S296 were granted for Egypt. non for all other Arab states. Last year, he said, the figure was 3770.825, for Egypt. 370 for Syria and none for all other Arab states.

Mr. Drew rose five times In rapid succession during the House question period to question Mr. St. Laurent. He was just beginning to breach the Arabian order when he was cut short by Speaker Rena Beaudoin's reminder t h at the question period should not be used for debate.

is reduced Britain may have to turn to other countries for her wheat.

HURTS INDEPENDENCE

Mr. Duncan is piesident of the Massey-Harris-Ferguson farm lin- plement company and the council he heads comprises Canadian and U. K. businessmen striving to help Britain overcome her dollar prob- lems and to promote Anglo-Cana- dian trade.

He said he would not suggest that investments from the U. S. be discouraged, but he questioned whether "its preponderance is not somewhat inimicai to the econ-

home of Mr. St. Laurent. TO ADDRESS HOUSE A

radio and television.

dinner at Government House.

omic independence of Canada."

Eisenhower To

WASHINGTON (AP) - Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganln ap- pealed to President Eisenhower Thursday to reconsider his rejec- tion of .s proposed no-year friend- ship treaty. Bulganln said he w - be-willing to make I pacts with Britain. France and olhcrpountrial. , . .,..;,.'.;,..,.

Bulgalnirtold tbs presldodt in I new and friendly latter:

"The conclusion of a treaty of friendship between the U. S. S. R. and the USA would be of great. positive significance . in estab the necessary pmrequisitcc for the solution of the German problem."

Eisenhower had called on Russia to show good intentions by deeds, not more words. Among other things he had urged inilty and free- dom for divided Germany.

WORRIED ABOUT BASES

Though Bulgariin's letter was couched in amicable words. he struck back at Eisenhower's argu- ments that Russia is to blame for world tensions. Specifically. Bul- ganln u' ' T Secretary of State Dullcs' "brink-of-war" remarks as a violation of the "spirit of Geneva."

Bulganin accused the United States of increasing American mil- itary bases abroad J soviet borders-and said: -

"You will agree that this cannot create fully understandable ap- prehension amoug the Soviet

Premier Bulgcinin Appeals To

Offer Of Friendship Treaty '

imilar Soviets .ltcld of morabnnffazillt.-Indlllt

can exchange of aerial reconnais-

Ib lifrmoliize their relations."

yggplagxnyerninl the intentions. of

a reception that evening. Sir Anthony ss scheduled to

Reconsider His

Corp.

Interim Payment There was no immediate reac- tion from the White House and wheat cI'OP state department. But some state department officials said that Bul- ganin took a "negative" position on Eisenhower's challenge in the concrete , l toward suing world ia- pounced-T 'The in

,. but by to sign. ' " 1 "W There was no immediate com- ment from Prime Minister Eden on Bulganin's offer of mfrienilsblp treaty with Britain. A copy of the English translation of the note was being made available to him by the state department.

Bulgaiiin struck again at Eisen- liowcr's "open skies" proposal for

by the board.

sauce between the U.S and Russia. He said that with a "completely unrestricted ama- meiits race" under way such an exchange of reconnaissance "would not only fail to free the peoples from t is fear of a new war. but on the contrary would intensify that fear and mutual

pool.

I4 Russian Women On Antarctic Trip

"'15 vicious). r hl f I noon in or s r e p ,g, truly. damn "N that the HOBART. Tasmlnia (Reuters)

United Nations charter "cannot be sufficiently effective if the two greatest powers in the world-the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. do not

' Furthermore. Bulganin said that the long-standing soviet proposal for a treaty between the North Atlantic alliance powers and the Communist bloc of Warsaw pact powers "is still open." -

stations by radio diirlng thir rec- ent trip to Adeliclandf and had been told of women in the Russian party.

Coming Events

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Car of coal arriving at Vernon station. contact larne Drake.

Cr M hick f drc C - lvsl .1-yeub. CIT”!!! 'Eeb.a

Rummage Saturday Feb. 4th at 3 o'clock eat of Hearts lfssncrial nail. .

Hook Rink sm

AI.l'ii.i:lu. Bingo. Digit Wednesday. Febru-

Htdelcgation in the Capital to &hh I C-Iladl-Russia Glenna

informal luncheon Saturday at the

On Monday. Sir Anthony will confer for about lflz hours with Mr. St. Laurent and the Canadian

ment. The address, starting at 2:30 p. m.. will be broadcast by

Monday noon. Lloyd will speak at the Women's Canadian Club. That evening. there will be a state

On Tuesday. Eden will hold I press conference in the morning and he and Lloyd will confer with Mr. St. Laurent and External Af- fairs Minister Pearson in the af- ternoon. Mr. St. Laurent will give

leave Ottawa for home at 3:3!) p. in. Wednesday by a chartered lplanc of British Overseas Airways

OTTAWA TCP)-An additional payment to prairie farmers of 822.- 300,000 on wheat delivered to the Canadian wheat board it! the crop year ended ast July 31 was an-

" .. ...--u- ----v-Va rim payment, limited to the higher grades, will be the first money paid on the 1954 crop since the'board's initial payments made when the wheat was delivered to elevators. It is the latest date an interim payments has been made

Trade Minister mHt3v:.cannounc- ing the payment ommons. said it will apply to the higher grades of wheat. Excluded are No. 5. 6 and feed grades--31.1 per cent of deliveries to the 1954-55 wheat

Fourteen women are included in the current Russian Antarctic ex- pedition. French scientists report- ed Thursday on their return here aboard the Norwegian polar ship Norsel. The Frenchmen said thy had made contact with most polar

trade eolorfu

”It is not so much military con-

Thesis On Air

cabinet before addressing Parlia

St. Hubert. P. Que. 1- The degree of Master of Laws from McGill University has been conferred on Squadron Leader John T. Murch-

Defence C 1 Headquarters, St. Hubert Que. He is the first air force officer to be so honored. The thesis for which he received the degree opens up an entirely new and Unique legal field and is titled somewhat formidably: "The Contiguous Air Space Zone in Inter- nationa Law". Plans are being made for the publication of the work. which will undoubtedly stand as the international authority on the subject. In the thesis S-L Murchison at- tempts to justify, in the eyes of international law. the aircraft id- entification zones which have been set up in the skies surrounding this continent. All aircraft flying through these zones. as an essent- islr aspect of the Canadian - U.S. de encc system, must identify ' I H. ' I 3,.” . ,

control when called upon to do so. The identification zone over the high seas surrounding Canada is defined geographically and, natur- ally. takes in vast areas of wide

ison. an RCAF legal officer at Air '

Buffer Zones

Around NA By S'side Airman

s-i. JOHN 'r. MUIICHISONA

zone is generally defined as one

fond 1min-is f'lyiiig'time' from thecoasis, which would be many hundreds of

milks conslde ing the flying speeds ofto-day. An analogy is drawn be- tween this latter method of estab- lishing boundaries and the 12-mile

open space. The United States

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For Possession

MONTREAL (CP)-Mrs. Lillian Pursey, wife of the Labor mem- ber of the British Parliament for East Hull, was sentenced Thurs- day to six months in jail when found guilty by a court of Queen's bench jury on a charge of illegal possession of narcotics.

The charge was the last of a series that has kept Mrs. Purscy's name before the courts for about two years.

Her lawyers told newspaper men they plan to file an immediate appeal and will seek Mrs. Pur- sey's release until the case is heard.

The 43-year-old former Baroness

Says Foullrcs Fit Despite Collapse

Former Baroness ls Sentenced

Of Narcotics

Huszar of Hungary testified Wed-

nesday that she had legally ob- SW03" STATEMENTS " "com-

pulsory lEb0f'.l'I88 become one of 'c"5m?..'f.'.?.i5?l'"ii Z'.ii.'.'.Zif.l'l"fi2 M Eilffl llilii all-time total of slave laborers in Q”! vm will 1llllKS fiisr Aiiurf more

talned the drugs and pills found in her motel room by the RCMP last August. They had been pres- cribed. she said. by doctors to help her overcome illness she has suf- fered since her arrival in Canada in 1954.

TWICE ACQUTTTED

Last month Mrs. Pursey was liberated on six charges involving conspiracy. forgery and the utter- ing of fake prescriptions for drugs.

lllrs. Purscy's trouble with the law began about two years ago when she was charged with posses- sion of counterfeit United States currency. Her first trial ended in a hung jury and she was acquitted at a second trial. ' She remained in Canada follow-

OTTAWA (CP) -. Gen, chm-19, Foulkes. 53. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. collapsed at a hotel luncheon Thursday but imme dlately returned to work in his of- fice at defence headquarters.

An aide said the room where the luncheon of the Canadian In-

iltltuie of Surveying and Photo.

grammetry was being held was too hot and that the general wu foomentaruy overcome. He was named from the room but de- fillllll 00 be moved in an ambul- ance. its called for a of! to his office.

routine." the aide said.

ing her acquittal and said she was about to leave last august when S40.000 in jewelry was stolen from her at the nursing home where she was staying.

Will Stand Trial In Wounding Case

BRTDGEWATER. N. S. (CF)-

Magistrate P a r k e r T. Hickey Thursday ordered Clayton Walter start car and Wamback of Mount Pleasant. N.S. to stand trial on a charge of

; 0'! fit as a fiddle and worklnglwounding Elliott Corkum during dispute over property rights. .

o ents. made a surprisingly strong

iballots from Labor

2 of the feud-torn Labor party.

LONDON tfieuters) - James tainment as political enlighten- Griffiths Thursday night was elcc- meat which is the need of tho ted deputy leader of Britain's La- day."

bor party by a close margin over STANDING OVATION

left-wing leader Aneurin Bevan. Eden. his grey hair glistening in

Bevan. party "rebel" and past . opponent of the party's moderate aztlggggtoggggilfaingkglindmi

leadership, which Griffiths repres- one of me things they seemed

to like best was his remark, not in his formal text. that the big thing about American-British rela- tions ls their spirit.

t'You cannot analyze what it is due to. hut it is something that only the Free World enjoys." he said. "As long as we treasure and hold.it. our nation and yours fo- gether. there will be peace in the world.”

Eden reported in glowing term! on the three-day conference he completed with President Eisen- hower '-'.'ednesda . '

His midday address to the Sen- ate, followed immediately by I similar speech in the House. led up to a radio-television talk Thurs- day night. He will complete his public appearances this morning with a press conference at the Na-

howing in the vote. He gained 11 oies to Grifi'iths' 141 when postal Parliament members were counted.

Griffiths. 65. like Bevan a for- mer Welsh coal miner. long has been known as the "peacemaker"

Slave labor Charges Heard

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y (AP) The UN published Thursday a Na- iionalist Chinese estimate that 25.- 000.000 persons have been held in slave labor camps in Communist China.

It also issued charges by the United States and two interna- tional organizations that other Communist countries use slave

labor. and . -0- - third organlution ag - rio- gal and South Africa. ,

The charges were accompanied by denials from Hungary. South Africa and Yugoslavia that they practise the kind of forced labor the UN has under inquiry -- for political coercion or as an import- ant clement in a country's econ- omy.

The charges and denials were contained in a 356-page report compiled by the UN and the In- ternational Labor Organization secretariat for UN's Economic and Social Council.

Ottawa.

"HOMBRE PROSPECT" He told the Senate that uncu-

weepons like tbs.bydrogcri hi

and long-range

against war because both sides have th.

"Is the world then is a low yearsjo shoot itself to destruction at long range?" Eden asked. and he said there was no sure ans- wer. But. he said. all could bu lure of this:

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Nationalist China said

Red China at 25.000000 and said this included 8.000.000 "civilians committed to forced labor."

The United States estimated that in 10 years more than il),000 persons passed through some 40 political prisons and concentration camps in Albania and some 16.000 had died.

it also sent in sworn statements of former prisoners on slave labor in Czechoslovakia, Hungary. Po- land. Romania and the Soviet

Union.

The ch ges against Portugal and South frlca were presented by the Anti-Slavery Society of Britain. It said government files in the Portuguese African colony of Angola showed 879,000 Africans the government had forced to work for private employers.

TORONTO. (CP) -- Tempora- tures issued by the public weather office:

LEAPS FROM COURT HOUSE

0:000 Warriors

Take Part

KADUNA. Nigeria (Reuters) - Six thousand half-nah! warriors

treated Queen Elisabet to a breathless display of rites in the style of ancient Africa.

The British monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh watched spell. bound as the "durbar" (ceremon- ial reception) belan llnld tribal screams. the tliiidding of hide drums. and the occasional thump of bodies flmllf on the ground, The MIATIM ranks M Nigerians lI!'I1"HbO"lfOat white queen” 7 "70" MN glided my bus- nar. 5,,

assembled.

and Nigerian "llfllclltl" Thursday look their places on the pavilion

In for the first durbar since that held by King George V. the grandfather. in India more than 40 years ago. They were flanked by emirs and princes cloaked in velvet and silk.

wildly forward and rained in their horses only ii few feet from the Queen. Some riders plunged into the dust. but quickly lcrlmbled back onto their steeds.

a Ioble their oiled snd ochre-colored bod- mni clad leopard

cloths. Ivrithedoin a the young Queen.

cased with dried Pods tubes of C00. cal earth. . ll'l'I'l ZIIJIII-CD

Tribal Display For Queen.

The Queen and the duke then

Jrinl irlbc warriors charged

Dancers from the Jos plateau. in skin loin- n.".'.'.” ""2

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TROIS-RIVIERES. (CF) D A 16- Dawson 7 year-old Montreal boy, who police V8l'IC0llV9I' - 3-'0 say has hinted mysteriously that VlCl0l'l8 35 he was involved in narcotics tfll Edm0l"0n ------ 37 fic, leaped from a third - story Calgary 40 window of a court house Wednea- Regina - 10 day and suffered a fractured spine. Winnipeg 7, Provincial police say they are Toronto Id, conducting an investigation into Ottawa 51 the strange behavior of the boy. Montreal 22 I

Quebec 16 3!, Frederic 4 37 Saint John - Moncton lo - Halifax I9 - Sydney to o Charlottetown ll 49'- .. M I1 ' I

HALIFAX (CP) - A IIIH snow and rain moved across

L. weather office says the l will improve today. with pveci&n- tion ending. to remain cloudy.

Another disturbance movll nortlieasiward from the Golf

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Some of the tribesmen displayed ribes handed down from Asian races who conquered African ter- ritory elm cevuuriu ago. otim-s wore armor and robes brought down from the days of the Chris- tian Crusades.

The monarch told the Nigerians she respected their traditions and hoped that "in a rapidly-changing world you gill month all that

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tional Press Club. then leave for .

guided amount to a "mutual' deterrent” ”

"In this nuclear age . . . obilvlmg