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Smallwood Claims Loggers Back Him On Union Views
BY IAN MACDONALD Canadian Press Staff Writer ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP)—Pre- @ier Smallwood said Friday his office is being deluged with tele- grams and phone calls, most of them favoring his Thursday night speech advising loggers to boot the International Woodworkers of America (CLC) out of Newfound- land.
“I have never seen anything like it,’’ the premier said. “It's fantastic. It's like the sky has
“more overwhelming” than the telephone and telegram support he received 10 years ago in a province-wide campaign for Con- federation.
Only a handful of the hundreds of telegrams Friday were against the premier’s call to oust the TWA and form a great new New- foundiand union of loggers.
QUICK RESPONSE
Mr. Smallwood said the re sponse started as soon as he completed a half-hour province- wide radio and television broad- east Thursday night.
In the broadcast, he said the
strike of 1.00 IWA loggers against the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company is “a failure and the IWA itself is a failure.” - He said he and Max Lane, pro- vincial Liberal member for White Bay .North, would help lumber- men form a new union. Mr. Lane is also general secretary of the Newfoundiand Fishermen's Fed- eration ‘Ind.). He urged the log- gers to write or telegraph him on how they feel about. a new union. He offered the resignation of his fellow Liberal, Mr. Lane, to form the union.
Frank Chafe, CLC Newfound-
representative, said the pre- mier’s proposal is “a radical
‘Intemperate’ Statements Are Shock, Jodoin Declares
OTTAWA ‘CP) — Claude Jo- doin, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, said Friday he is shocked at the ‘‘intemperate”’ statements by Premier Small- woed of New‘oundland on the log- gers’ strike in that province,
Mr. Jodoin said Mr. Small- wood’s ‘‘challenge,”’-made Thurs- day in a‘radio and television ad- dress, will be met by the labor movement of Newfoundland ‘in the spirit in which it wags so ar- regantly flung down.”
In a statement, Mr. said:
“Premier Smaliwood has abdi- Cale role as representative of the people of his province and become an anti<iemocratic agent of the Newfoundland paper com-
anies, if news reports of his ra~
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abuse of the power ef the gov- ernment.”
CALCULATED ATTEMPT
The government's action “is a calculated attempt to deliver a large segment of the Newfound- — government electorate into the captivity of a political ma- chine.”
District president, H. Landon Ladd of the IWA said in Grand Falls, site of the struck A.N.D. Company, the ‘“‘vehemence of Premier Smallwood's hysterical and inflamatory speech is a measure of his government's failure to back his own concilia- tion board recommendation to the (A.N.D.) Company.”
The company turned down a) conciliation board recommenda- tion that loggers receive a five cent hourly increase over the next two years and a six-hour reduction in the work week. It would boost’ the basic wage to $1.22 from $1.05. They! went on strike Dec. 31.
bor sad the premier’s Plan can only be described as “a calous and calculating attempt to utilize the present situation for selfish political motives without any real regard for the workers them- selves.”
DEATH KNELL
President William Breen of the Longshoremen’s Protective Union (Ind.) said .Premier Smallwood has sounded the death knell to the IWA in Newfoundland.
He said he supported the pre- mier. “I have never agreed with LSPU represents 1,000 steve- dors.
Albert Martin, general man- ager of Bowater’s Pulp and Pa- per Mill at Corner Brook said ‘I think he ‘Smallwood) is a very courageous man. I will be glad to support’ the premier in his
Progressive Conservative Op- position Leader Malcolm Hollett said ‘‘I hope the premier’s speech brings things to a head. “I'm
President Larry Daley of the Newfoundland Federation of La-
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glad someone on behalf of the government has spoken at last.”
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Words ‘Inflammatory
OTTAWA (CP)-—Arnold Peters (CCF —. Timiskaming) today de- scribed as the statement by Newfoundland Premier Smallwood urging the province’s loggers to drive the In- ternational Woodworkers of America (CLC) out of the prov- ince. 5
He made the comment in the Commons in asking for interven- tion by Labor Minister Starr in the strike by 1,200 IWA pulpwood
the Newfoundland network correct.”
NO DEALINGS
The CLL statement quoted Pre- mier Smallwood as having said that the Newfoundland govern- ment does not ‘‘want”’ the Inte:- national Woodworkers of Amer- ica, the CLC union representing the striking loggers. It quoted Mr. Smallwood as saying the) government would never work with the FWA, . never talk to them, never answer a Jetier or telegram, never have anything to do with them
“i Is not up to him (Mr Smallwood) to decide,” said the! C1L statement. “The workers) concerned have made their de- cision ‘according | to the laws of the province. ,.
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loggers against the Anglo - New- foundland Development Com-
“inflamatory’| pany.
The strike has led to recent in- stances of violence around Grand Falls, Néld.
Speaker Roland Michener saidf
he questioned the propriety of Mr. Peters’ question since it re- lated to the conduct of a pro- vincial premier. CAN IT INTERVENE
Mr. Starr said the dispute is entirely within the province's jurisdiction and there is no way he can intervene.
Mr.\ Peters’ question led to other barbed, questions from his colleagues
Murdo Martin (CCF—Timmins) asked Justice Minister Fulton whether he had asked for as- surance that RCMP on the scene would be used only to maintain law and order ‘“‘and not as gov- ernment troops in the civil war’ which Premier Smallwood had spoken of.
The premier spoke of the dis- pute as “this civil war” in his speech Thyrsday night.
Mr. Fulton replied that he doesn't require any such assur- ances. The ROMP — serving in Newfoundland as a provincial force under the provincial attor- ney-general—would not be. used in such a capacity
Mr.. Martin asked whether ad ditional RCMP officers ehrteing flown to New ound’and
“I have no word of such a movement,” the minister ‘replied
CHARLOTTETOWN, CANADA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959
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Premier Is Decorated
OTTAWA, — (Special) — The Canadian Efficiency Decoration for long service yesterday was awarded to Hon. Alexander W. Matheson, Premier of Prince Ed- ward Island, and a major with the Royal Canadian Artillery Re- serve unit in Charlottetown.
The list of Canadian Army per- soanel awarded service decora- tions, released by the National Defense Department, includes the Premier’s name.
Another Islander also is includ- ed. He is Captain W.M.S. Veale, Port Hill, P.E.I., whi also was awarded the Efficiency Decora- tion for. long service.
Jr. Queens M.P. Is Re-Elected To Nato Ass’n
OTTAWA, — (Special) — Heath Macquarrie, Conservative MP for Queens, has been re-
elected to the executive commit-
tee of the Canadian NATO Par- liamentary Association. A meet- ing of the association was held here on Thursday.
Mr. Macquarrie will be one of the speakers at the weekend conference of Ontario and Que- bec university students, sponsor- ed by the Conservative Student Federation, being held in Ot- tawa. His topic will be, “‘Phil- osophy and history of the Con- servative party.”
Other speakers will include Finance Minister Fleming, Nor- thern Affairs Minister Hamilton, Transport Minister Hees, Justice Minister Fulton Minister without portfolio MacDonnell and Deputy Speaker Pierre Sevigny.
6 Drowned * In Sinking Of Tugboat
VANCOUVER (CP) — Six\ men died Friday when their 90 - foot tugboat sank in the gale-whipped Strait of Georgia.
Only one man survived the sinking of the 163 - ton United States tug Henry Foss. He clung to an overturned lifeboat for more than four hours in near-
picked up. Rescue boats which sped to the scene on the east coast of Van- couver island picked up six bod- ies from the water.
All the dead were from Port Angeles, Wash. The dead were identified as skipper Warren Waterman, mate Lawrénce Berg, assistant engin- eer Martin Gullstein, deckhand Oswald Sorenson, deckhand Rich- mond T. Lothian and cook Erick Danielson.
last night, 18 probationary nur- ses were accepted into School of Nursing of the Prince Edward Island Hospital.
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From what is termed, source close to the government’”’, Canadian Press yesterday car- ried a story that Prince Edward Island's share of the national hospital insurance’ scheme will be financed through a premium plan, rather than a sales tax which is said to have met with opposition from the merchants of Charlottetown and elsewhere.
Contacted regarding the CP dispatch, Hon. M. L. Bonnell, minister of health said yester- day the story was, “purely spec- ulative”. He had no comment other than to say that he will reveal the method of payment on Monday when he introduces a resolution paving the way for presentation of the hospital in- surance bill.
The minister announced in the Legislature. Thursday he would introduce the resolution and ask-
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brief themselves on the contents of a hospital survey report pre- pared by a Toronto firm of hos- pitail consultants regarding hos- pital services in Prince Edward Island.
If the premium method of pay- ment is followed as in Ontario, it would cost individuals $2.20 per month and families at the rate of $4.00 per month.
The Throne Speech has given assurance that the hospital in- surance will be introduced in the Island this year and will be made available to all citizens re- gardiess of financial circum- stances or condition of their health. While no date is indica- ted, Premier Matheson, some time ago, said P.E.I. would have the plan in operation as early as New Brunswick. The scheme
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Angry,
3 Vansreutcn President
Takes Oath
By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
CARACAS, Venezeual (AP) — With tears in his eyes, Romulo Betancourt took the oath as pres- ident Friday with a pledge of economy, .and democratic rule to repair the havoc of a decade of dictatorship in Venezuela.
The moderate leftist called for the eradication of Latin Ameri- can dictators and announced he will form a coalition cabinet with Communists excluded.
HIT TWICE, BOY DIES
TORONTO (CP) — Police pressed a widening search Fri- day for two car drivers who ran over a seven-year-old boy in sub- urban Thornhill Thursday night ana fled from the scene, Robert Southern, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Southern, was hit as he lay on the road after falling from .a side door of his father’s van-
is scheduled to go into effect in New Brunswick by July 1.
type vehicle.
OTTAWA (CP)—Justice Minis- ter Fulton Friday described over- crowding in federal penitentiaries as an emergency.
He told the Commons that the situation is fw cticularly bed at St. Vincent de Paul near Mont- real and at New Westminster, B.C., where more prisoners could not be admitted.
It was for this reason that his department had taken over a former health department instit- ution at Williams Head, B.C., near Victoria aid a wartime army camp at Valleyfield, Que., as quarters for surplus prison- ers.
Speaking during a debate on Penal reform that grew out of House study of supplementary spending estimates, Mr. Fulton emphasized that use of the Wil- liams Head and Valleyfield quart- ers is only a temporary measure designed to relieve over-crowd- ing.
A three-man government com-
freezing water before being; mittee on penal reform was set
up after a federal-provincial con- ference last October agreed in principle on implementation of the Fauteux committee report that recommended wider federal responsibility for the custody of law offenders.
Mr. Fulton said it is planned that the federal government will assume responsibility for prison- ers sentenced to more than one year, instead of just those sen- tenced to two years or more as now.
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The committee is made up of Allan J. MacLeod, chief of the justice department's criminal law section, Col. J. R. (Big Jim) Stone, former provost marshal of Saat? Canadian Army, and
A. McLaughlin, assistant commissioner of penitentiaries.
Mr. Fulton said that prisoner overcrowding at Kingston penit- entiary will be eased when a new prison is opened later this year at Joyceville, 11 miles from King- ston, Ont.
Conditions were crowded at Dorchester, N.B., and Prince Al-< bert, Sask., penitentiaries but were reasomable at Stony Moun- tain, Man.
Overcrowding In Prisons Is Described Emergency’
Mr. Fulton also announced that the new four-man parole board, set up under legislation adopted last session, will come into oper- ation Sunday. It will take over the duties of the department's remissions service, which will go out of existence.
Members of the parole board, announced earlier, are Magistrate Thomas George Street of Wel- land, Ont., chairman; Edouard Dion, New Carlisle, Que., lawyer; J. Alex Edmison, former public relations and endowment direc- tor of Queens University, and Frank Miller, former assistant director of the remissions serv- ice.
Castro N
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Prime Minister
HAVANA (AP)—Fidel Castro, 32-year-old revolftionary chief was named prime minister of Cuba Friday night. >
It was his first move into political office and it came at a time when there was wide spec- ulation that he is on the way to becoming president.
Up to now the bearded leader has served the provisional gov- ernment as commander-in-chief of armed forces.
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His appointment as prime min- ister to take office Monday fol- lowed the mass resignation of the Cuban cabinet.
Provigional President Manuel Urrutia immediately announced his choice of-Castro for the pre- miership. That job normally means head of government under the president, who is chief of state.
Castro replaces Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona.
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OTTAWA (CP) — Opposition parties reacted angrily Friday to what they described as a gov- ernment attempt to spread their
thin ranks even thinner between sittings of the Commons and House committees.
They were met by a stinging reply from Works Minister Green —he called the Liberals whimp- erers who don't want to work— and by the votes of the big Pro- gressive Conservative majority.
An hour-long Commons argu- ment centred on motions by six House committees seeking power to hold meetings while the Com- mons sis gm itt mons is sitting.
BEGAN QUIETLY
Lionel Chevrier (L—Montreal Laurier) began it, quietly enough, by asking the government to re- consider. He said it was asking too much so early in the session from the 49 Liberals and eight CCF members. Their main dcty was in the Commons.
But the Opposition got its dander up following the reply of Mr. Green, government House leader, who termed the complaint
QUEBEC (CP) — The Danish freigi Sinien Den adr Europe at 3;15 p.m. EST Friday and became the first ocean-going vessel to reach Quebee harbor
Piloted by Capt. Henrik Bjerre- gaard, the 5,050,-ton vessel made the 3,200-mile voyage in 15 days from the small Danish port of Norresundby, at the northern tip of Jutiand.
The ship is specially equipped for ice-filled waters with an ice- breaker stem, ice-cutter, ice fins to protect the propeller and a reinforced hull. She has radar, direction finder and gyre com- pass.
She received help from the ice- breaker Labrador for several hours Wednesday while plowing through rafted ice in Cabot Strait, between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island, but had been on her own since.
The Helga Dan is owned by J. Lauritzen Lines of Copenhagen.
She sailed in ballast here and will carry general cargo to Lon- don and European ports on the return voyage.
SEVERE CONDITIONS
Marcel Fortier, president of the Industrial and Trade Bureau of Greater Quebec, said the sailing was accomplished during one of
No Clash © Expecte
SEOUL, Korea (AP) — South Koreans formed a united front Friday night against Japan’s de- cision to let some of its Korean residents find new homes in Com- munist North Korea.
Though officials discounted the possibility of an armed clash, there was a break-off in Tokyo negotiations to establish diplo- matic relations. The \talks had heen. going on for 10 months.
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Works Minister ‘Says Poppycock
“a lot of poppycock”’ and said _
the Liberals ‘‘don’t want to work too hard—they never came here to work too hard.”
“We are not whining or asking for sy -pathy,” Oppositiea
CCF VIEWPOINT
Hazen Argue, CCF House leader, said the move was “a design by the government f¢6 make it impossible for members of the Opposition to do the kind
.| of work that is their responsibil-
ity.”
The argument wound up a vote of 156 to 41, on lines, empowering one of the six committees—on external affairs —to meet while the Commons is sitting.
But it isn’t settled yet.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Mount ing concern that State Secretary Dulles may have a recurrence ef cancer spread through the capital Friday night after he underwent an operation for hernia.
The operation was termed a success, but announcement ef any other findings by the doctors was delayed ee
Should their show a new attack. of cancer it could meen | the imminent retirement of les from the No. 1 post in dent Eisenhower's cabinet. les, who will be 71, Feb. @& thought of quitting once before, when he underwent an operation for cancer.
The hernia operation was formed between 8 and 9 a.m EST Friday at the army's Walter Reed Hospital.
During the operation, tissues and fluids were removed for mice roscopic. examination. What this may show as to the presence or absence of cancer is to be die closed today, about, noon EST.
OTTAWA, — The Minister of Public Works, Hon. Howard Green, has announced that a contract for $197,395 has been
awarded to Sydney Drydock and Engineering Limited, Sydney, N.S., for the construction of a 1% cubic yard. clamshell dredge. The company submiteed the low- est bid on the project in res- ponse to the Department's ad- vertising for public tenders. The new dredge is to be a flat- deck, steel barge with a-square forward end and a raked stern. Principal dimensions will be 90 ft. long and 27 ft. wide and 6 feet deep. A proprietary excava- tor crane suitable to a clam- shell and dipper operation will ibe installed en the deck at the
PEI. Dredge Contract Given Sydney Company.
end. Two anchor spuds
a installed in wells abreast of the excavator and a_ walking spud installed in the slct at the stern. Movement of the spuds will be controlled by individual winches’ driven by hyd-aulie motors. Necessary auxil‘avy ma- chinery. equipment and accom- modation for the crew will be in- stalled in a compact sicel deck- house.
This vessel is being construe ted to replace dredge PWD No. 14, and it will carry out dredg- ing operations in the Prince Ed- ward Island district.
Plans and specifications were prepared by the Harbours and Rivers Engineeritig\ Branch, De-
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