Postal walkouts threaten postal shutdowns across Canada
Ottawa warns that continued walkouts in Toronto Vancouver and Belleville could trigger a government lockout of all post offices in affected areas. The move would halt mail movement nationally as 28 000 postal workers debate the conciliation board report amid stalled negotiations and rising tensions between the Treasury Board and union leaders.
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Guy Demarino
Southam News Services
Ottawa
Toronto
Vancouver
Belleville
Treasury Board
James McGrath
St. John’s East
Conciliation Board
David Orlikow
NDP
Winnipeg North
Andre Ouellet
Quellet
C. M. Drury
Bizarre plot ends in death near Grandin
A banker Robert R. Kitterman his wife Bertha and daughter Roberta were found shot to death bound to trees near an abandoned farm five miles west of Grandin Missouri. The FBI joined the investigation into a bank extortion plot that allegedly involved dynamite. No dynamite or money was recovered.
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Grandin
Lewis Dawes
Robert R. Kitterman
Bertha
Roberta Kitterman
St. Louis
FBI
Kitterman
Bank of Grandin
Dawes
Kittermans
Roberta
Mail movement in Metropolitan Toronto grinds to a trickle
Postal workers strike across Metropolitan Toronto entering a second day delaying most mail. Only intra Metro movement remained between Scarborough and western outskirts as nonessential mail from Canada was held en route. Airmail terminal at Toronto International Airport shut down and workers formed ongoing picket lines.
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Toronto
Scarborough
Ed Roworth
Metro
Canada
Mississauga
Toronto International Airport
Post Office
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Letter Carriers’ Union of Canada
Vancouver
Belleville
Ont
Federal Treasury Board
Unemployment Insurance Commission
UIC
U.S. Signals Readiness to Import Canadian Oil
Washington reports scattered regional shortages as the United States indicates it is prepared to take all oil Canada can supply to the east, reflecting a shift in energy procurement amid supply gaps and policy responses.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Rockies
U.S
Nixon
Rocky Mountains
Edmonton-to-Sarnia
Redwater
Alto
Port Credit
Ont
Government tightens UIC rules to curb benefit abuses
Ottawa moves to bar unemployment benefits for Canadians who quit or refuse a suitable job without good cause. Under new UIC law, benefits are blocked until eight weeks of insurable work, with appeals allowed. Minister Robert Andras projects at least 100 million dollars saved annually. The bill tightens penalties but keeps eight week qualification.
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Guy Demarino
Southam
Ottawa
Unemployment Insurance Commission
UIC
Manpower and Immigration
Robert Andras
Andras
Final round of Vietnam peace talks resumes in Paris
Kissinger travels to Paris to continue private talks with Le Duc Tho and Xuan Thuy for completing the text of a peace agreement. Ziegler says no final result until an agreement is reached. Haig to Saigon after Bangkok stop. In California, jurors in the Juan Corona mass murder trial press on after 44 hours of deliberations with no verdict.
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Ziegler
Kissinger
Nixon
Washington
Paris
United States
Key Biscayne
Fla
Florida
White House
Hanoi
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Ronald Ziegler
Henry Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Xuan Thuy
Indochina
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Bangkok
Thailand
Southeast Asia
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Haig
Fairfield
Calif
Juan Corona
Corona
Traffic Update in Alberta Regions
The AMA reports fog in the Swift Current and Oyen areas at 9 a.m. Except for a few slippery sections in the Brooks and Swift Current regions, all highways in the Medicine Hat area were in good driving condition.
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AMA
Swift Current
Oyen
Medicine Hat
ARDA gets added funds for farm diversification
Edmonton CP report says federal and Alberta governments will spend 13.3 million dollars over three years on prairie farm diversification and rural development programs. Costs shared equally, with possible extension to 1975 and potential extra 5.9 million. Programs include Livestock Water Supply grants up to 500 per farm, eight animal clinics, and rural seminars led by provincial and federal ministers.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Hugh Horner
Don Jamieson
Liberal government survives first throne speech vote in Commons
Ottawa reports the Liberal minority’s survival after the Commons passed the speech from the throne motion in a voice vote. The tally shows Liberals 109, Conservatives 107, New Democrats 31, Social Credit 15, independents 2.
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Ottawa
Commons
New Democrats
New Democratic Party
House
NDP
David Lewis
Social Credit
Senate Commons
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Public Service Staff Relations Board
Council of Postal Unions
Missouri
Police
A. Ae
Gov't
George Lincoln
Office of Emergency Preparedness
J. A. Cogan
Imperial Oil Co
Ontario
Pease
ARDA
Grits
Lewis
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