10 The Guardian, Charlottetown, Mon An . 29, 1966.)

Railways Claim Wage Demand Complex And: Very Expensive

MONTREAL (CP)-.The strike + of -18.000-employees-of- Canada’s leading railways which started at noon Friday. is the culmina tion of a dispute over union con tract demands that the railways Say are so complex they can't even put a price on them.

A railway spokesman has esti- mated the wage and related de- ‘mands would total an annul jn- crease of about $2,900 a man or | $249.99] 000, about 24 per cent | of the gross railway revenues of | CNR and CPR.

the cost of other demands which the railway spokesman said are so involved ‘that ‘probably the

The estimate does not includes

unions don't even know what thev-are—worth- ny

The non-operating union em: ployees. who _ previously bar. |

gained as a‘single unit broke | up last fall as they found their | demands too diverse for united | bargaining.

The Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Transport and General Workers. (CLC:', a seven-union | group of ‘associated shop craft eight

non = operating

emerged aut began talks with ployer and a rule providing for | mium-free

the railways The average non-op wage WANTED % CENTS

The CBRT, with 22,000, asked |

for an asionthe: board wage. in-

crease of 90 cents an-hour-with-

an additional 16 cents .an hour | for men working afternoon and ight shifts.

“They also asked for a work) freeze railway employment each | year at a level set by the num-.

ber of hours worked by em,

Ployees the previous year. They asked increased’ vaca-| tions, more accumulative sick- |

individual negotiation on

, ditions, _ They topped -off the demands

for sleeping, dining and ‘parlor car omplovees. who are mem- bers of the CBRT, which = in- cluded a reduction in the num- bers of hours: worked without loss of pay, in addition to the other CBRT benefits.

>The 54,000 - member residual group of unions, largest of the bargaining units, have asked for | wage increases ranging from 25 ‘per cent certs an hour—to 58--per- cent—$1-23an~hour.,-

. They also asked for the ‘wor! guarantee scheme and vacation |

and welfare benefits similar to the

those demanded: by the OBRT. |

DEMANDS DIFFERENT However, the residual group | presented a series of additional demands by individual unions | which . they

life insurance

communications employees: The association shop craft un-

“rm a seperate set of demands! tons, also with 22.000 members, |

agreements separate from fhe

have, asked for a general-wage| master agreement:

increase of 28 per cent with an| RIDES ON .TAIL - | additional 930 per cent for -me-

chanic& and an additional seven cents an hour for-etnployeesson afternoon shifts or 11 cents for employees o night shifts.

| A third group, ‘the Brother \ hood of Railroad Trainmen, an | operating group riding. on the tail of the non-ops comet, is tie only. operating union. whose con”

want negotiated | mally rejected Mr. Freedmman’s unions and a- residual groupsof: leave days, full payment of em- apart. from the main contract. | report, which favored. the union unions | ployee benefits plans by the em- | These range from a $50,000 pre: | | side, but for clear they will any | railroad signal men to a 30 hour some possible implementations | port on the OBRT dispute, rec- is $2.22 an, hour: material change in working con: week for the transportation and | of his recommendations.

of Parry Sound, Ont., made recommendations in his dee on the BRT dispute. All three reports jected bythe unions.

Non. operating’ employees care. 2 those not actually {involved it running the trains. They include

_were, re.

Their ather demands were/|tract was up for renewal 1! Clerics, porters and Wlite ecce similar to the CBRT and resid: year. . com (ttt ~ r ual’ group's demands. ~ — The BRT, also with 10,0 The tast contr

The railway, while not mak: | members, is’asking for @ 19 Pet railways and eee vote ing counter offers, has branded | cent wage increase, reduction ‘1 expires last Dee: 31. the demands, collectively, “a + | working hours or miles»: run, ee a pemmeaiiatic: | which are required to constiti'e

Particularly objectionable to| a day's pay. Their demands ‘0. railways; are the. demands | health and welfare benefits are for individual negotiations on| similar to those of the non-ops | changes in’ working conditions | British Columbia judge wlio | which was studied and reported | headed the joint conciliation on by Mr. Justice Samuel Freed. | board for the association shop man of Manitoba: crafts and the residual group The railways have recommended that the compa nies pay an 18, per,.. cent raise ‘spread over two year's they have made | Mr. Justice J. C A. Cameron actively oppose | of Ottawa, in his conciliation re

not for

ommended a 40 - cent = ar-

_The railways have also said | hour raise over a two-year Pe they \ would not negotiate any riod. Mr: Justice Walter oe

COMPENS ATE. MISTAKE

MANILA (AP)- Five farmers shot to death by Philippine po- lice in June were killed by mis-

take, a senate investigating. com- mittee found Saturday, Police- men escorting the farmers, su- spected of being Communist ters rorists, opened fire when. they tried to run away. The commit- tee recommended the farmers’ relatives be paid $750 compen: sation. rt

” FATHER-DAUGHTER TEAM

Ferb Carnegie a hockey star fn the 1940's has turned to golf with almost as much success. He has teamed with daughter Rochelle, 15, to win these

- trophies in f athe r-daughter competitions. At Peterborough,

Ont., they won the father- daughter section, of the Ontario Golf Association’s parent-child tournament by a stroke, 82-83. Rochelle»is top girl athlete at ‘Toronto's Earl Haig Collegiate. (CP Wirephoto)

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fons and exhibits, Portland’s Sunday Telegram says a survey of architects, art: ~-§ets’ and public officials indi tates the choice of motif may . Sive exposition visitors the idea that Maine lives in the past . “Te'a-erany and stupid in the ~_ middle of the 20th century,” said Prof. Vincent A. Hartgen of the University of Maine art depart- ment, ‘‘to try to promote Maine by dealing with the past Lets preserve what colonial architec ture we have, but its ridiculous to build more. of them in an ef fort to project the state's pro- gressive attitude.” Commissioner . Standish K. “Bachman of the Maine depart , ment of economic Gavaloniienk = took full responsibility for choice ot architectural style, which he eaid was done on advice of a nationally known architect. “The theme of Expo 67 Is ‘Man and His World,’ said Bach-

man. ‘‘Why should Maine try to 4

be something its. not? POSES QUESTION

“After all, what sitcacis peo-’

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Union Man — Is Critical Of Pearson

MONTREAL (CP) Marce} Pepin, president of the Quehec- based Confederation of National

. Trade Unions, said here “that — Prime —“Minister——Pearson was laboring ‘under a’ “danger: ous illusion’? Tuesday® night in his nationwide: radio-TV appeal for ‘moderation and common sense’ in the railway dispute, a 1t would have heen more

just and more effective to take to the national TV networks to announce a national inquiry Prices -and wages. several monthe ago, when the powerless workera watched as the enst of Hwine rose like pe shot Mr Pern aaid im a prepared ttate ment.

on

The government Wrew ser ers! months ago that neentia tions hetween the railways and the unions were at an impasse Not only the gavernment knew \t the whole country did

The-|government Knew. for months the demands of 1e workers and their relationship to the ‘astronomical. increase in the cast of living in-the Jae fex vcears.

Private and puhlie’ adminis oneimagine they ean invari ébi: arrive at the last minite, as cid the prime. minister of Canada, Mr. Pearson, > Tuesday igh: bnd-..- repeat—-the "-¢ciiches putting the responsib onthe workers’ hacks ”

Mr. Pepin said the: cirre; state: of prices and. waze narchy pee is (he wee—nnt ready—ta—in trary price ‘eaAntrole ther least shovid convene - r tiona inquirs wages in which bor and even groups and privale should take part”

The....primne broadcast warned that -an tionary wage increase hobble Canada ia world n keta,

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gave

ehytopts

it on. prices government agricultural

enterprese ninister the infla

wont

vin Stevens said. the building will make Maine “the laughing

back home, | The $165,000 “building will be “surrounded hy futuristic pavil-~

stock_of the — nation — andthe world ee ne And the Bath Daily Times says in an editorial: “We do not know whether to | hurst-out Mughing- or utter loud cries- of “indignation. But what-

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