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CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25. 1950

EB INTERVENES IN RAIL STRIKE CRISIS

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Nation-WiJe.CiviI Defence Measures Planned

Report Unions PlanNew

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MONTREAL. Aug. a6-(1"riday)- (GP)-The Gaeetto says today in a newspage story that Frank Hall. shairman of the negotiating com- mittee of 15 International Unions involved in the Canada-wide rail- way strike, has discussed with Montreal strike committees a new offer to Canadiangcarriors.

The paper adds that Mr. Hall will present the Union demands with A. R. Masher, head of the two Cana- dian Brothcrhoods. involved in the wage-hour dispute of 124.000 non- operatlng rail employees, to Prime Minister St. Laurent in Ottawa to- morrow. '

Union and railway officials have been summoned to Ottawa to dis-

cuss the strike with the Prlma Min-

lster.

The Gazette says that. following a meeting here behind closed doors. lhe new proposals were outlined ay a committee member and were is follows: '

1. A general hourly wage increase of five cents anhour for all e ploy- ses, including hotel and press rompany workers. (Original de- .-nands of the Unions were seven cents for the International Unions and to cents for the Canadian Brotherhooda.)

2. The introduction of the 40-hour week, possibly on Sept. 1, 1951. Although t s date was also ment- ioned by the Unions at their final meeting with Mediator Dr. W. A. Mackintosh before negotiations broke off.

3. Union members are also willing to reconsider their demands for a one-cent cost-of-living bonus for every point the index may rise dur- ing the term of the contract. prov- '.ded the companies will meet their demand for a two-year contract in- ttead of the three-year agreement irlered by the railways at the final meeting.

.The story added that committee members said of Mr. st. Laurent's Invitation to rail and union heads:

This is a. good sign. It may mean

Coming Events

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"Abegwelt R. B. P. Kingston August zdtilh. nth Degree.

"Mail vour Films to Garnhum Photo Studio. Charlottetown.

"Dance. Bristol School. Friday. August 25th.

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"Dance. New Ions.1:ast school. Friday. August 25th.

"Lot '65. Friday. August 25th. lawn party and dance in hall. Good music.

"Dance. Grandview Hall. Friday. August 25th. Cliff LlVllt'.y'H Orch- -stra.

"Regular dance in Holy Name Hall, St. Peters. Friday. Aug. 25. Chaisson'.s Orchestra. Door prim.

"United Church Ohickon dup r. wednesda . August 30th. at he Beaver Club Hall, Montague.

"Regular Rink Hall. Friday. Bus leaving Duo lot-rntaal on no mo

"Hampton Hall. Friday, August zsth, lobster sandwiches. Danae McNeill's Orchestra.

"Bingo Party. apringvale school Monday, Au uat oath. 7.30. Ice cream and ot Dogs.

"All Taxes duo cevohoad Road School must be paid. boforo Bao- tember 1st. taco. by order of Trus-

tees. B. J. lift, secretary. "Sandyls Theatre Undo the stars - shows every oadov.

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BIIOCKVILLE CITIZEN ENJOYS LIFE AT 103

'Robv.-rt Reynolds of Brockville. 0nt.. who claims io be Canada's oldest citizen. recently celebrated his 108th birthday. He takes a short walk every day. As a boy he helped build Brockville's first waterworks symm.

Sugar In Short . Supply in Ottawa

OTTAWA, Aug. 24-(CP)-Sugar today appeared to be the first food to go into short supply in Ottawa because of the railway strike.

While housewives could still buy sugar in the stores. National Groc- ers. which supplies 387 Ottawa stores. said its stocks are exhaust- ed

Meanwhile. trucks were becom- ing as hard to find as mobile rail- way cars.

sugar to the city by truck. Oil tank trucks which haven't been rolling for a couple of years ap- peared today on the highways.

Saskatoon Orders Power Rationing

SASKATOON. Aug. 24 -(OP) - sasltatoon today ordered rationing of electric power.

W. A. Prlebel. city electrics. en- gineer. announced that power- house switches would be pulled late today because voluntary power economies had effected a. saving of only 25 per cent. .

The Saskatoon plant. operated by the Saskatchewan Power com- mission. had only seven days' fuel on handawhen the rail strike began

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ay. c It was estimated the fuel could be spun out for 14 days .lf power consumption were cut 50 per cent

waarnmoron. And. 34 -.(APi .ippuiao3t Truman today hinted at bad i th in the sudden call for a countrywide railroad otrlko in the United states next .Monday Ind promised an earl! statement on what the atmrrunant piano to

do.

At -his '- conference. the President irritation over the unheralded decision to sfrlko.

lfo doolinod - however. to owe any olao wltotilot no plans to coin tho railroads. so the unions have repeatedly advocated. no -aid he would have to study the situation

In view of the lemon war. sala- ure or some Government in- torvontlon ap d lnovitablo.

Truman aal tho Unlona' call for a coast-to-coast walkout on fat lines come without warning and loss that an hour after. both am in the dispute had auurod , there would be no-such strike '

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Of Master Plan Are Revealed,

Realistic Training Will Touch Mu orlty Of Canadian omos.

By Douglas flow

OTTAWA. Aug. 24 -(CP) - Fedoral and Provincial represent- atives worked today on steps to implement a master plan for civil defence that will touch the major- ity of Canadian homes.

It will introduce realistic train- ing such as civilian Canada has never known and divide the country into target areas and areas that would aid and succor their victims of disaster.

Its broad details have just been released.

The first Dominion-Provincial civil defence conference means that the move is on. first to train key civilian personnel. to assess the resources available in each com- munity. to set up more planning organisations.

Groundwork First

in time this will be widened into a trained body of civil defence workers who will number in the tens of ifousands and be bucltei by many thousands more who will get basic instruction. 'Largc-scale training, however. worit start for months-not until the groundwork is ready. -

The background for this movement was given at the opening sessions of the confer- ence today by Defence Mln-.st- p er Claxton and senior officials of the Defence and External Affairs Departments. There. they said, are weeks of great crisis which may well show whether Russia will touch off the Third World War. i

Officials sald,' meanwhile, my

the plan drawn up here and broad- ly approved by the Provinces wi'l give every Canadian. man and woman. a chance to play a part in some phase of the organization that will be built up to cope with disasters. whether they be atomic or bacterial attacks or such works or nature as the Manitoba flood.

civil defence is defined officially as !'the method of controlling a disaster through the medium oi exist-lng Government organizations reinforced by volunteers who will be trained for specific tasks." The job of the Federal and Provincial Governments will be to co-ordln- ate and help the municipalities and help foot the bill.

Three Types of Area The master plan dlvidea the

country into three types of area based on thelikelihood of enemy

attack. Those are target. cushion and reception areas.

A target area is one which stands a good chance of being

bombed. It might consist of a single municipality or of several. It might. as in the case of Windsor. Ont. be part of an international target area. in this category. the Gov- ernment places such cltloa as Tor- onto. Hamilton. Montreal. Halifax and other major centres.

Each target area will be sub- dlvlded into sub-divisions. sectors, sub-sectors and warden posts. Each target area will have its controller

The area surrounding it will be known as the cushion area. This will include territory up to 50 miles away. The mailer municipal- iol in this area will be organise-i to give help and succor to the stricken target area. They will pro- ..:.:....?..m.m..

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Truman Promises Early Action In U. S. Rail Strike

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lapsed.

Tho urgency of the situation was underlined by the fact that can- ada already a in the throes of a

noral rail strike which threatens gm

Her food supply and vital indust- oo. . lut leaders of tho soomo train- illln and conductors on U. 3. lines said they would wont i the dev- ornntant some the rat a. Both of the Unions and at least one major rail executive. President A E. Stoddard of tho Union Pacific. hsvo urged the Government to take over the lines.

lbtleral seisuro of the roads has boon carried out five times in the 113:; 33 years. The latest was in

Justice Department eounui said "lg-u.dlr.iar.tm:-oiild the rail- ! .on OXI'

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Premier Hopes To See one car Ferry Operating Today

British Commandos Head For Korea

PLYMOUTH. England. Aug 34 .. (Reuters)-Veteran British Royal. Marine Commandos. reckoned among the toughest fighters in the world, gathered .here today ready to fly to Korea.--in oivvles.

The hand- loked, ba.ttle-horden- ed second orld War veterans will make their 12,000-mile journey to the fighting zone in office or sports clothes because their air- craft may have to refuel in non- British territory where uniforms wouldn't be welcome.

Their numbers, organization and departure date are secret.

They now are being checked medically and fitted for uniforms they'll don in Korea.

Their commander is Lt.-Col. Douglas Burns Drysdale. lanky, sil- year-old permanent officer who led a wartime commando unit in Burma. '

Average age of the Korea-bound marines is as. More than half are single and junior officers are most- ly between 25 and . '

Heavy Death Toll In '0uaIte Area f

. srm.noNa.- India. Aug. 26- (Reuters),-,-Planos flying over a 1.000-aqupre-milo flood varoa. centre of last week's big earth- quake. have sighted human corpses floating with elephant carcasses in the flood waters.

A Reuters correspondent said the stench of dead humans. cat- tle, fish and wild animals forc- ed his plane to climb higher several times.

The flood followed earth- quakes which blocked and div- erted rain-swollen rivers in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin last week. The floods are.the worst in 50 years. Four new shocks rocked the area yester- day.

Indian transport planes to- day parachutod emergency food supplies to flood victims. Re- ports indicate a high death rate from disease among the 5,- 000.000 mat-oonod persons.

Homeless peasants trying to escape the flood waters were said to be facing another men-4 ace-deadly makes.

Ilsavy communist Pressure llanswatl North or Tsagu

TOKYO, Aug. 25 - (Friday) .. (AP) - Red Koreans reopened fighting north of Taegu with it heavy attack Thursday night and moved a division forward in the southern sector, about 40 road miles from the port city of Pusan.

In a stab on the other side of

Korea from the battlefront. nrit- Ilbl

lsh naval forces made a commando raid on an island near the Red- hold west coast port of Inchon and destroyed a supply dump and radio station. This daring raid was dis-

tolosod rriday by a us. Eighth

Army spokesman.

AP correspondent. Jack Mao- Beth. said 1 l-2 Communist regi- ments -- possibly 4.000 men - hit hard at tho South Korean dth Div- ision in the north sector. At the some time. two Red companies were 1' ulsed in a flank attack on tho .3. 21th (Wolf-hound) Reg-

en . . , The Tlth is defending a straight stretch of road through a moun- tain corridor about 10 miles north of hog-u -with Iouth Koreans in the heights on its flanks. The new attaota Noland fighting which had subaldod on Thursday after the fleas had failed in similar stalls on four previous days.

Macnethb dispatch did not say what woo the affect or outcome of the Rear heavy attack against the south Korean sixth.

The fun. while ropulslng the loft flank attack. also was under heavy mortar and artillery fire on tho right flank.

UITAWA. Anne. 34 --(OP) -The tlo-up has atruck its first

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lelief that one of the ear ferries will likely be running between Borders and Tormen- tlne today was expressed to a Guardian representative at 1.30 this morning by Premier J. Walter Jones. The Premier, who has been ” continuous represent- ations regarding the carferry service since the closedown on August 22. said he now felt "pretty confident" In predict- ing that one of the ferries would resume operations to- day. It would more likely be the 'Prince Edward lsland' than the lAbegwelt', he added. The Premier declined to give the source of his information, but his voice sounded quite

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To Meet-W-ilh Railway. Union Chiefs Ioday

By John Lellono

OTTAWA. AuK- 24 --(GP) - Prima Minister st. Lament today launched a personal attempt to settle the general rail strike.

As members of Parliament sped to Ottawa to deal with emet-gencv strike-ending legislation, he unex- pectedly arranged conferences with Railway and Union Chiefs here for tomorrow-fourth day of the crippling walkout of 124.000 union members.

This sudden shift from the Gov- ernment's policy of non-intervent- ion before Parliament acts appar- ently means the Prime Minister is throwing the weight of his office and personal prestige into an at- tempt to and the strike without recourse to drastic legislative measures.

With both groups of disputants accepting Mr. st. Laurent's invitat- ion, he will talk separately with Union and Railway heads in his East Block office. Transport Min- ister Chevrier. in charge of Canad- lon National Railways. and Labor Minister Gregg will attend.

The first meeting. at 11 A M EDT. will be with Frank Hall,

optimistic.

Controller F

Recommendation that a controll- or be appointed -'iately for the Wood Islands ferry traffic was made at a meeting of the Econ- omic Advisory Board last night. for submission to the Provincial Government t-his morning.

It was recommended that the controller be stationed in Char- lottetown, with proper assistance, and that he be empowered to is- sue priority permits for trucks. carrying perishable goods, and al- so reservations for car accommo- dations.

A request for the appointment of a controller was received by the Board yesterday from Mr. R. E. Mulch, president of Northum- berland Ferries Ltd.

A committee of three members of the Board will be appointed to work with the controller in ad- justing priorities and in facilitat- ing traffic movement generally.

Products Listed

The Board recommended that the following commodities be con- sidered perishable products: Eggs, butter, fresh and cured mea-t, live lobsters. livestock and blueberries. Live hogs are to be included ex- cept when there is an acute shori- age of space.

To rate priority as perishable products all shipments must be full .truckloads. .

On incoming traffic. priorities were recommended on fresh and frozen fish. dry ice. yeast. sugar. bread. biscuits, into and such oth- or articles as may be added.

The Board gave consideration to a survey by the Federation of Agriculture. in which cuncern was indicated with regard to the ex- isting supply of livestock feed.

1: was reported that the S. S. Welllngton Kent. now In Mont- real. will be leaving for Char- lottetown next week and there will be ample cargo space. It we! suggested that the Board advile the Government to lake what- ever action is necessary to net twenty csrloads of livestock feeds. if available. as quickly as 90!-

e.

The survey indicated that there were only thirty-six bags sugar in the hands of wholesalers ln Charlottetown, but that there was a fairly good supply diatri- butod among retail merchants throughout the Province. other commodltieg conlldered in good supply were canned milk. cereals, bread. soap. coal. jute bags. oil and gasoline. ,

An executive committee was appointed. comprising President storey and Messrs. James Burden and Andrew Likely. to carry on as a continuing committee dur- in: the strike crisis. The govern- ment has offered to assist this committee with its departmental officials.

Youthful Masher Gets Into Troublo

DALLAS. Aug. 24. e (AP) -. A masher who had been phoning Dallas housewives for dates in-re- cent weeks was in police custody today.

The police persuaded a woman to arrange a date with the caller. who described himself as about sLv feet tall and equipped with an automobile.

Detective w.c. rannln watched the maahor arrive and say to the

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" Free Press Passes

WINNIPEG, Aug. 24 - (OP) - William J. Hcaly. 83, former Mam- loba provincial librarian and a for- mer chiet associate editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, died early to- GBY It his home in ,san Francisco, it was learned here. -

Mn Heaiv. born in Bellevllle,

Ont.. and a graduate of the Univ- ersity of Toronto, represented the roronto Telegram and other Tor- onto newspapers in the Ottawa Press Gallery, of which he was secretary from i891 to 1806. He later went into partnership with A. T. Wllgress to purchase the Brockville Times. From Brockville. where he married Emily Maude Mccullougl-i, he went to the Buf- falo. Express in 1898 and a year is- ter to the Winnipeg Free Press.

For 19 years he was associate editor of the Free Press. for which he wrote a "Mr. Pepys in Winnipeg” column. and in 1020 became prov- incial librarian, He went to San Francisco to live with a daughter on his retirement 13 years ago. Mr. I-lealy wrote a life of sir John Thompson. Canada”: fourth Prime Minister, is history of Mani-

toba and other works dealing with Canadian history and genealogy.

An lrrigational system. believed to be the first in use in the Pro- vince. has been put into operation at the Robert Cotton Memorial Nursery, Southport. under the direction of Mr. Robert Snazclle.

The system has been used sev- eral times already. stated Mr. Snazelle yesterday and is capable of watering over half an acre at once. The pipes and sprinklers can be transported easily and a field can be irrigated in a short time.

The system at the Nursery is used on the three fields of shrubs. frees, seedlings and other forestry growths. The water is obtained from a large pond beside one of the fields and is pumped by means of a one and a half horse power gas engine.

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Waiting Vehicles

At Wood Islands Pier

Wltlt ninety ears and ten trucks still waiting at Wood Ia- lands pier after the final 7 o'clock trip to Caribou. N. 5.. last evening. It will be impossible to handle any new traffic in trucks and cars arriving at the pier today. Only new traffic which can be accommodated to-

ay will be bus passengers.

Most of the passengers in the waiting vehicles last night bed- ded down where they were, to await. this morning's resumption of service. However. they did not require to do so. as certification tags were handed out. insuring them their reservation in today's lineup.

From early morning yesterday the cars and trucks kept piling '81- forming a line nearly one mile in length. '

The great majority of were from the mainland. and many children were among the passengers. "Red Cross personnel from Charlottetown were on hand, and did a good job in attending to emergency requirements.

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The situation reached its peak early yesterday when passenger cars which had been waiting several hours had to relinquish their places in line to allow trucks with perish- able pioducts aboard. Upon pg. quest of the ferry authority was granted to cancel priorities for trucks carrying such shipments as hogs, turnips, pots- tocs and race horses.

The R.C.M.P. were on hand yesterday afternoon.

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Mr. F..l. Storey, president of the '

recently appointed lloonomlo Ad- visory Board. accompanied by Mr. B. Graham Rogers. director of transportation. and George Fraser. provincial public relations officer. were on hand yesterday and re- ported back at a Board meeting held last evening. The R..C.M.P. were also on hand to maintain order. -

Yesterday's tleu-p would have been A

much more serious but for the ox-

cellant cooperation of the crews of '