Dominion Glass lays off workers as CPR strike grows
About 250 Dominion Glass Company workers, mainly women, have been laid off due to the six day CPR strike. If the walkout lasts another week, the plant may close or begin trucking in supplies from the east and United States.
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Dominion Glass Company
Canadian Pacific Railway
W. J. Sellhorn
Sell
East
United States
Dominion Glass
Medicine Hat
CPR
Ogilvie's
McAvity and Sons
Alberta
Medicine Hat Brick and Tile
Smilestones Teacher Quizzed On Neatness Lesson
A classroom moment shows a teacher asking why neatness matters and student Lizzie answering in a cautious tone about accident prevention. The light exchange captures schoolday humor and practical safety talk.
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Lizzie
Medicine Hat UIC Extends Claims for Railway Strike Aid
Open evenings this week to process railway unemployment benefit claims for CPR workers affected by the strike. Over 600 workers visited last week. staff will operate 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Friday with a staged nightly schedule by brotherhood to ensure orderly processing.
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G. C. Thom
Medicine Hat
CPR
Commission
UIC
Mr. Thom
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
International Association of Machinists
Carmen's Union
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of
Brotherhood of Railway Signal
Thom
Medicine Hat Uic
Saskat
Two-Year-Old Dies After Polio Vaccine Injection
Health department officials report the death of Garry Scott aged 22 months in Toronto two days after receiving a Salk poliomyelitis vaccine injection. The event is announced as a pediatric death under investigation by authorities.
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Toronto
Garry Scott
Five Die First Week New Year in Western Canada
Five violent deaths were reported in western Canada during the first weekend of the year. In Manitoba a stolen car crashed into a hydro pole killing Noel Grenier 32 William Benson Stewart 25 and Mrs. Jenny Michmaka 26 near Winnipeg. In British Columbia RCMP Const John Cobley 24 was struck by a car after flagging down a vehicle at Salmon Arm. In Victoria John William Youson 76 died from injuries after being struck by a car.
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Canada
Manitoba
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Noel Grenier
William Benson Stewart
Jenny Michmaka
Winnipeg
Fort Garry
Pembina Highway
Salmon Arm
Plan to end CPR firemen strike and curb actions
The Canadian Labour Congress proposes an immediate end to the CPR firemen strike and a yearlong deferment of further walkouts. The plan, accepted by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen but not yet by CPR, calls for a seven member commission to study diesel firemen use and a wage deal matching the CN R firemen contract. The cabinet signaled no new direct intervention.
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Ottawa
CPR
Canadian Labor Congress
Striking Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
CLC
Gregg
GPR
St. Laurent
Brotherhood
CNR
Local Labor Council Forms Merge to Unite Medicine Hat Unions
The Medicine Hat and District Labor Council, born from a Dec 5 1956 merger of the Canadian Congress of Labor and the Trades and Labor Council, convened with 3000 workers represented. It backs the Do It Now unemployment push and anti gas export efforts, and names Payne and Lomas to the Employment Advisory Board. Regular meetings set for the first Thursday each month with dues starting Jan 1.
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Medicine Hat and District Labor Council
Balfour Armstrong
Canadian Congress of Labor
Trades and Labor Council
H. Lomas
J. Leitert
Medicine Hat
Brothers Payne and
Lomas
Payne
Labor Institute
UN Secretary Proposes Hungarian Study Committee
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold proposed creating a special UN committee with powers to investigate and study the Hungarian situation in New York.
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United Nations, N.Y
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations Committee
Pre election session opens with tense political sparring
The fourth session of Canada's twenty second parliament begins as a pre election phase. Both government and opposition anticipate sharp scrutiny, while parties trumpet virtues in a campaign style. The election is seen as imminent with full political posturing already underway.
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Canada
Reserves Decision In Taber Hearing On Misconduct
District court Judge L. S. Turcotte reserved final decision after three days of inquiry into alleged misconduct and breach of trust by Taber town officials. He will report to the Town Council after January, noting 400 pages of evidence and naming Mayor Carl C. Cook, Harold E. Ellis, Norman A. Long, and Adam Adamowics among those examined.
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Harold E. Ellis
Norman A. Long
Adam Adamowics
Turcotte
Pearce Denies Strike Causes Water Shortage
R A Pearce chair man of the local Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine men says the CPR Empress line strike is not responsible for water shortages. He notes weekly water deliveries to section homes and agents and cites recent deliveries on December 31 1956 between Empress Swift Current and Bassano to Fox Valley as sufficient for up to two weeks. He aims to inform readers of the situation.
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Empress Line
R. A. Pearce
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Empress District
Mre
Pestte
Empress
Fox Valley
Crescent Heights Crestwood Bus Service Cuts Planned
To curtail losses the Crescent Heights Crestwood route trims night and day runs. Starting Wednesday eight daily trips will operate 8 am to 6 pm with a two hour mid day break. December losses averaged 13.32 per day after subsidy and 3,231 passengers rode Dec 17–31.
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Crescent Heights
Crestwood
Hill
Civic Finance Committee
C. A. Newton
Newton
Hungarian Refugees Re Routed From Lethbridge to Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat will receive its Hungarian refugee allotment from Lethbridge after an immigration official stated the plan. A group of 26 Hungarians arrived in Lethbridge early Sunday, completing their escape by bus due to a railway strike. Their journey began in Hungary last November after fleeing the October revolt, with initial arrival in Halifax aboard the liner Columbia before traveling to Edmonton for registration and medicals.
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Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
J. G. Reid
the Hat
Canadian Pacific Railway
Hungary
Halifax
Columbia
Canada
Edmonton
Edmonton Weather Alert Forces Blizzard Conditions
A Pacific storm combining with Arctic air will bring heavy snow and blowing snow, creating blizzard conditions in Edmonton and surrounding areas. Yesterday’s highs and lows show continued cold with subzero temperatures across Alberta and Saskatchewan regions.
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Edmonton
Pacific
Food Centre fined for early closing violation
Lethbridge city police court fined Town and Country Food Centre Ltd $14 split as $5 plus $2 costs each on two counts for remaining open after 6 p m on weekdays. Magistrate E D Fryett imposed the penalties, the minimum under the by law. Regina legislature to open Feb 14 under Premier T C Douglas with 36 CCF 14 Liberal 3 Social Credit in a 53 seat body. Three children perished in a Dog Creek Indian Reserve house fire near Ashern 17 miles west.
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Lethbridge
Town and Country Food Centre Ltd
E. D. Fryett
Regina
Saskatchewan
W. J. Patterson
CCF
Liberal
Social Credit
Ashern
Man
Dog Creek Indian Reserve
Charles Mis
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Medicine Hat-Lethbridge
Read’s
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Medicine Hat City
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Committee For
Diefenbaker
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The
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