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NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1952

‘No Steel fa
Few Days

WASHINGTON (AP) The,

| iongest, costliest ‘steel strike in’

; over

|American history is, in effect

east of}
terday by|
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Works | Not Many Visitors
b a quick E t S
ght, said| THE CANADIAN EMBASSY in Moscow is located in a large, xper Ss ay
laze be-| two-storied, almost square building just across the street from
a the! 4 large school for Soviet boys. Before it was the Canadian
det ik] Embassy it was the Danish legation, and previous to this, it was |
linn want = pre-revolutionary Russian residence. R. A. D. Ford is charge
a _Wattaires (See story Page 5.)
IN LOGS eC 3 ae
to have
aa Logging Strike Settled
c caught

vsttone But’ Work Not Started Yet

withi
7 ned. = Few Wrinkles to be lroned Out
m. Before Workers Return to Camps

ned
would be ‘
iffic or re VANCOUVER (CP) — British Columbia’s 44-|
-|day lumber
‘few wrinkles remained to be ironed out.
Coast operators agreed to the
the bridge

fifennen | mediator’s terms for ending the|
tructure, | 944,000,000 strike six hours after

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forced to

  
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
  

 

    
   
  

ghway it-| the International Woodworkers

the road|of America signified their agree-
now 15! ment to terms

but others It. maybe a couple of days, be-
mer has! | tore the

back-to-work move-

nent ment starts

Sought

Union President Stewart
Alusbury .ordered the 32,000
workers to stay on strike until
the official contract is signed.

“Striking members of [WA

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Production resumes some
| time this week

The striking United Steelwork-
| ers Union (CIO) ratified a strike

end agreement
White

at the
President
demanded

reached
House after

Truman personally

| and got a settlement, ending the

strike was settled Monday night but a} substantial

i

+; announced with
:| settlement Friday, but

ogen | will not go back to work Tues- he ae “|
‘ | day,” he said. koe
mation “The strike will continue un- |
til an agreement has been reach-
Ay talian led and officially signed, binding |
two Russian | DOth parties,” he said | ; i
our se-| Union spokesmen said it may | MRS. R. A. D. FORD, Brazil-

hydro-| take two or three days before @) jan-porn wife of the Canadian
tnew contract can be

drawn "P| charge d'affaires at Moscow,

e| and signed met her husband while both
Operators asked that all em- | were attending a UN confer-
ployees be considered on call for | ence in London. Mrs. Ford was
work and all picket lines be re-| |. the staff of the Brazilian

Morgant
ind made
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explosion | Moved ; Foreign Affairs Department.
ale d’ Italia | Of 162 operators involved, six) pphey were married in New
ientist haa} rejected mediator Chief Justice | York in 1947.

hydrogen | Sloan’s proposals while 38 had |

| not been heard from
Randolfo | The Chief Justice’s key pro-
He said | POsal was for a general wage in

Any Germ

nent could | crease of 5% cents an hour}
intil scien- ew the current basic wage | WwW rfar
had been | rate of $1.29% qd e
John Billings, manager Forest
Industrial Relations Ltd., bar- ’
| gaining agent for operators, said cd ut
0 ; operators still felt conditions in |
nference |the industry did not warrant} TORONTO @--John A. Mac-
i London wage increase for the 32,000) aujay of Winnipeg, chairman of
workers, ithe 18th International Red
Prime Minister}. He said the operators also are| Cross Conference, said Monday
Announced in the | bearing in mind the proposed | any attempt by Communist

|right of either party to request |
|@ re-opening of the wage clause
union-management agree-

delegates to bring the subject of
germ warfare before the assem-
bly would be squashed.

Common-
Lers' Confer-
London in jin

ember |ment after six months, if condi-| Meanwhile delegates to the
Pn Will go over pres- | tions : seemed to warrant, it | conference wrangled for two
ial, commer- | -—-- j}hours over a protest by Red

|China that Nationalist Chinese

  
   
 
    
     
   
 

Olicy
; wealth a - T 1 D E s _ i delegates should not be seated
‘id Prime Min- | at the conference,
Commonwealth | Wednesday, July 30, 1952 With the Russian bloe lining
Ae attend, except | (Pacific Standard Time) up in support of Red China,
Than tS, Of South | High 6:53 14.7 feet.| debate on the issue, fairst rais-
ula. Both these | 19:01 182 feet|ed in a stormy meeting Satur-
pe Tepresented | Low 0:48 7.2 feet} day, continued inconclusively.
12:31 8.6 feet | More than a dozen countries

 

took - in se debate.

— WEATHER —

Synopsis

Stable weather continues over
all of B.C. In the interior skies
of the| Will be clear for the next two

days with afternoon tempera-
the | tures in the eighties. In coastal
areas cloud drifting in from the
sea during the night will clear
|in most districts by noon,

    
   

  

ain Further Reduces
eign Buying Program

CP) Britain will; countries by the end

> In her buy-| year.

1952 in an. ef-|. On the credit side of

" trade into bal-| jledger, Mr. Butler forecast larg-

Butler. |er coal exports and increased | *
‘hancel- | imports of steel for industry.

 

 

 

 

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on eh told the Imports for the second half Forecast
he two yin ny lof this year will be reduced] North coast regions — Cloudy
affairs, © debate | about 25 per cent compared with | with frequent sunny periods
r he said/ the second half of 1951. | both afternoons, Little change
if ‘hould, with the Among commodities affected | in temperature. Light winds. Low
he Conia coun- | will be dollar tobacco, probably | tonight and high tomorrow, at
terling Se ae lpaper and pulp, and manufac- | Estevan Point, 50 and: 58; Port

| Hardy, 50 and 62; Sandspit, 52

th
land 64; Pr, Rupert 50 and 64.

into| tured goods other than machin-
currency |ery and defence supplies.

   
 

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| that which
hJ;as defence mobilizer,

| 53-day-long strike

At best, say experts, it will be
|} two or three days before any
production of
}is reached. It takes
| to heat up the banked blast fur-
i which stand-by workers |
have kept alive since the strike
started June 2

The new steel which comes out |

sell for at least $5.20 a ton more

The. government approved
‘price increase of that
| for raw, or carbon steel. Special-
ized, high-alloy steel will get a
boost of $5.65 a ton.

The increase is the same
Charles

 

E,. Wilson,
had said

ithe industry should geto com-

pensate for higher wage costs.

No wage or other terms were
the strike
it was
reliably learned that the agree-

;}ment includes these conditions:

A wage boost of 16 cents an
hour for 650,000 basic steel
workers; a highly-modified form
of union shop which allows
present non-union members to
Stay out and gives new employ-
ees a 15-day escape period dur-
ing their first month of em-
ployment; six paid holidays;
three weeks vacation after 15
years’ service; a two-year con-
tract dating from last June 30.

’ Former City Mayor
; Appointed Assessor

Aiderman Harry Daggett
To Retire From Council

Alderman Harry M. Daggett, o

 

steel |
a long time |

than before the strike started. |
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Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest’’

PRICE FIVE CENTS

Discussions With
Commission Sought By Council

 

one-time mayor

Daggett had planned to retire
from civic politics next spring.

He has been a resident of
Prinee Rupert since 1909 and in
thanking council for the honor
said: “I guess now I won’t re-
tire next spring as I had plan-
ned.”

Alderman Mike Krueger,
chairman of the finance com-
mittee, recommended the ap-
pointment of Alderman Daggett
as assessor. The committee, he
said, in reviewing applicants for
the position,

man suited for the job and de-
cided to ask him if he would
accept it.”

“Mr. Daggett did not apply
for the job, and we had a
tough time convincing him.

“He has had considerable

‘Sloan Cites

“decided that Al-|
derman Daggett was the best)

 

ALD. H. M. DAGGETT
.,- city assessor

 

Reason For
No Agreement

VANCOUVER (P)—Chief Just-
ice Gordon Sloan proposed a
settlement formula which gave
striking woodworkers a general
increase of 5% cents an hour.

The formula was announced

 

experience in construction and
other activities in this city and
we believe he will do a real
job.”

Council unanimously endors-

of some 380 affected plants will | ed the recommendation.

Alderman Daggett, in accept-
ing, said: “It is a big task. So
far ws. know there are no re
cords of buildings in Prince Ru-
pert and they will all have to
be looked intw.

“As I look at it, I think ti will
be at least a year before any-
thing materially can be done.”

Alderman Daggett will resign
his aldermanic post after he
makes a trip to Nanaimo, New
Westminster and West Vancou-
ver to ascertain how these cities
place values on their various
structures.

Alderman Hills, congratulat-
ing Mr. Daggett, said:

“While we might be losing a
good man as am alderman, we
are gaining a man of good know-

| ledge as an assessor. I think that

if we are keeping him here, we
are very fortunate.”

Election of a new alderman
probably will coincide with the
plebiscite on the telephone by-

| law,

 

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impartial.

BULLETINS

Edmonton Airman Wins Medal

LONDON—Squadron-Leader William Water-

a native of Edmonton,
George Medal today for saving vital information
by crash-landing a top-secret British jet fighter
June 29 instead of bailing out.

*
Farouk Going to USA

Italy—Ex-King Farouk of Egypt will
soon go to the United States, it was announced
here when the former monarch stepped ashore
from the yacht which carried him into exile.

~~ =

Winch to Appeal Decision

VANCOUVER (CP) — CCF Leader
Winch said today his party will appeal the refusal
of a judicial recount of the provincial’ election
result in Vancouver-Burrard.

Judge J. A. McGeer ruled Monday that he did
not have the jurisdiction to, order a recount.

. =

Russia Now Hits at Swiss

TORONTO—Russia todey opened an all-out
attack on the International Committee of the Red
Cross. For two hours, Soviet and Soviet-satellite
delegates renewed the charges that Russia has
sly that the international committee,
a body of 25 Swiss citizens, is neither neutral nor

was awarded the

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Harold

after the Chief Justice reported

 

that he Was unable to obtain
an “agreed settlement” of the
39-day-old dispute.

He proposed that the 1951
contract. be continued for an-
other year, but with a number
of changes, including the higher
wage. rate and maintenance of
an li-cent cost-of-living bonus.
It would equal $1.46 an hour for
the workers.

In explaining failure to reach
a settlement, Chief Justice Sloan
said:

“The difficulty of the situa-
tion is founded upon the firmly
held conviction of the operators
that the present market reces-
sion, both in demand and prices
for their products, will continue
to become progressively worse
during the year—a view which
the union resolutely refuses to
accept.”

The union originally asked a
35-cents-an-hour wage increase.
The operators proposed a 10 per
cent wage cut but later accept-
ed a conciliation board recom-
|mendation of no increases this
year.

The Chief Justice said he
agreed with “considerable reluc-
tance” at the request of both
sides to mediate the 39-day-old
strike“ in an endeavor to bring
about a negotiated settlement,
in order to end the economic
suffering mow experienced in
that and other related indus-
tries.”

He said: “Controversial issues
of a non-cost nature such as a
union request for additional
security by way of a compul-
sory dues check-off for all em-
ployees—whether union mem-
bers or not—I have, under the
circumstances, found inacapable
of compromise and solution.”

 

Seven Feared
Lost Aboard
Fishboat

VANCOUVER (@®—RCMP along
the British Columbia coast were
put on the alert today to watch
for a Vancouver fishboat unre-
ported since July 3 when it left
here with seven men aboard.

First intimation the Daisy D
may have run into trouble came
when wives of crew members
began to telephone boat oper-
ators for news of the boat's
position.

Names of crew members was
withheld.

Important Ireland

WINNIPEG @—An Irishman
here, noting all the talk about
the glory that was Greece and
the granduer that was Rome,
says no one seems to mention
the eminence that was Ireland.
W. H. Baker says the Emerald
Isle ranked with Greece and
Rome in shaping European cul-
ture,

 

 

DAILY DELIVERY

Phone 81

  

B.C. Power

Aldermen

in Heated

Debate Over issue

City Council last night decided to give the B.C.
Power Commission and the Northern B.C. Power
company here an opportunity to submit electrical

energy programs stating

what each would under-

take if they received the franchise for Prince Rupert.

Northern B.C. Power Company)

at present holds the franchise
to supply electricity. The fran-

chise expires in 1954.

The move was taken after
Alderman George Hills moved a
resolution asking council to

seek a meeting with the B.C.

Power Commission to discuss

the matter.

His resolution, seconded by
Alderman Harry Daggett, said:

“Be it resolved that the City
Clerk immediately communi-
cate with the B.C. Power
Commission to arrange a
meeting with the said Com-
sion and this city council or
a committee of this council
te ascertain what electricai
development they would be
willing to undertake’ to sup-
ply this city with adequate
electrical power.”

Debate on the resolution be-
came heated at times and hit
a climax when veteran’ Alder-
man George Casey presented
another resolution asking that
the Northern B.C. Power Com-

pany be given an equal oppor-

tunity to state their case.
His resolution,
Alderman Mike Krueger, said:

_ “Whereas the decision ren-
dered by the Public Utilities
Commission on the Northern
B.C. Power Company's appli-
cation for an increase in
power and light rates has been
rejected by the Public Utili-
ties Commission;

“And whereas the road is
now clear in the matter of
negotiating a new agreement
with either the Northern B.C.
Power Company or the B.C.
Power Commission pertaining
to future power and light re-
quirements,

“Therefore be it resolved by
this body, the City Council, in
meeting assembled, to invite
the Northern B.C. Power Com-
pany to submit in writing a
brief by August 15, 1952, giv-
ing an outline of what the
company is willing to de in
the matter of increasing the
supply of electric energy
through further hydro devel-
opment in the district stating
power and light. rates.

“And, if the Northern B.C.
Power Company is willing to
restore to the City all water
rights now controlled by them
in Woodward Lake in ‘the
event of a new agreement;

“And be it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution
be forwarded to the Northern
B.C. Power Company.”

Almost every alderman had
something to say regarding the
submission of the two resolu-
tions and several took excep-
tion to Alderman Casey’s request
to let the NBCPC get another
chance.

Alderman Casey said the com-
pany had supplied electrical
power to Prince Rupert for the
past 25 years and regardless of
the fact that their application
last August for a rate increase
had been rejected by the Public
Utilities Commission, “they

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‘should not be counted out in
any new negotiations.”

Alderman Hills said the com-
pany, during the hearing of
their application here for an
increase, had stated that they
did not expect to get their fran-.
chise renewed and, Mr. Hills
said, it was also stated that the
company did not live up to ity
agreement in developing hydro-~
electric power.

Mayor Whalen agreed that
both resolutions were in order
and in a vote on Alderman
Casey’s submission, he cast the
deciding vote.

Voting in favor of the Casey
resolution, besides Mr. Casey,
were Aldermen Krueger, Glassey
and Currie. Against were Alder-
men Hills, Daggett, Gomez and
Prusky.

Two More

Quakes Hit -
Bakersfield

Patients Taken
From Hospital

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. @
Two sharp earthquake jolts hit
Bakersfield early today starting
two fires and sending frighten-
ed residents into streets as win-
dows broke and fell from pre-
viously damaged buildings.

New tremors at 12:05 a.m. PDT
and 1:02 a.m. were felt through-
out Southern California, includ-
ing Los Angeles, but were
strongest in Bakersfield.

A number of patients were
evacuated from County Hospital
here.
One six-room house was badly
damaged when the. gas line
broke.

Sheriff Carl L. Weber said he
believed the shock was as in-
tense but didn’t last as long as
the July 21 earthquake that left
a toll of 13 dead.

Alco Strike
Settlement
Cheers U.S.

PITTSBURG (AP)—Settlement
of the threatened aluminum
strike and speed-up of steel pro-
duction put the United States
economy on a firm footing to-
day for first time in two months.

Walkout of 15,000 steelworkers
at nine plants of the giant
Aluminum Company of America
was averted Monday night by an
llth-hour settlement.

The strike set for today would
have shut off more than 20 per
cent of the country’s ingot alum-
inum production, vitally needed
in the manufacture of planes
and other defence items.

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finally has been spanned.

 

BRIDGE MOISIE—The Moisie River, ‘alent of the oie barriers
encountered in the battle to develop the Labrador-Ungava iron,

(CP PHOTO)