CPR Engineer Assaulted Near Station Amid Strike Tensions
A 63-year-old CPR engineer Lee White was knocked to the ground and assaulted near his home while walking to the station as riots and threats rose amid the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen strike. A threatening telephone call to a trainmen meeting warned families could be harmed if picket lines were crossed. Local police found no clues.
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CPR
Harald Gunderson
Medicine Hat
Canadian Pacific Railway
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Lee White
St. LE
Mr. White
Fifth St
Montreal St
White
Swift Current
A. R. Bull
A. F. Fryers
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainment
Moose Hall
Jack May
Lodge 304
B of
Claude Breakell
Nixon greeted by hostile crowds in Caracas during South America tour
In Caracas crowds of about 500 students jeered Vice President Nixon and spat on him and Mrs. Nixon as tear gas forced rioters back. Police failed to restrain the mob, which shouted Go home and Latin America doesn't want United States intervention while Nixon pressed into a car van amid warn of possible communist threats.
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Caracas
Venezuela
U.S
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Nixons
Oscar Garcia
South America
United States
Lima
Peru
City Youth Leprosy Case Surfaces in Alberta
A 12 year old Calgary area youth Joe Wong and two other Alberta residents were sent to Tra cadie leprosy hospital in New Brunswick for treatment. Wong came from Canton three years ago with a lesion unhealed for six months. Health Minister Dr J D Ross said three cases were moved and that modern medicines can control infection and progression.
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Alberta
Tracadie
N.B
Joe Wong
Game Wong
Fifth St. SE
Montreal St
Canada
China
Edmonton
Wong
Canton
J. D. Ross
Food costs lift CPI in 10 cities in March
The Bureau of Statistics said higher food prices drove increases in the consumer price indexes across 10 regional cities in March.
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Ottawa
Bureau of Statistics
Canada to launch record spending program this year
Ottawa plans the largest spending program in history with main estimates of 5.734 billion dollars for 1958-59, plus supplementary estimates to push the total beyond 6 billion. Old age pensions, welfare, defense, civil service salaries and debt interest drive the rise, with deficits and borrowing expected to finance the expansion.
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Ottawa
CNR
Diefenbaker
Defence
Defence Department
Oil pipeline proposal seeks Edmonton to Chicago route
The board of transport commissioners considers Mid-Continent Pipelines Limited application to build a 1500 mile crude oil line from Edmonton to the Chicago area. The 30 inch carrier would cost about 215 million and start at 150000 barrels daily, rising to 300000 by year five with no construction date given.
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Ottawa
The
Board of Transport Commissioners
Edmonton
Chicago
Mid-Continent Pipelines Limited
U.S
United States
Interprovincial Pipe Line Company
Sarnia
Ont
Superior
Wis
Trans Mountain Pipe Line Company Limited
Vancouver
Sumas
B.C
Saskatchewan
North Gate
Sask
North Dakota
Accusations of American Hiring at Canadian Pipeline Camp
In Medicine Hat the Fulton Banister company faced charges of importing American workers for Project 34 tasks along the Alberta Gas Trunk Line. Former employees Rod and Pat Bruce claim over 25 percent of Jenner camp staff are American, with 50 of 80 jobs could be filled by Canadians. Company denies claims and cites labor shortages and required skilled positions.
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Medicine Hat
Jenner
Fulton Banister
Edmonton
Rod
Pat Bruce
Second St. NE
Alberta
Cavendish
Princess
Cessford
Bruce Brothers
Immigration Department
Bruce
Fulton-Banister
U-All
Unemployment Service Commission
Jack Cressey
Gavin Thom
NES
Thom
Brooks
Cressey
United States
Creassey
Back to Work Move in B C
CPR workers return to duty after British Columbia Supreme Court injunction ends picketing at CPR depots. Engine crews restart, yard engines resume normal operation in Vancouver, two eastbound freights resume, and transcontinental passenger trains Canadian and Dominion to depart with regular crews. The injunction, issued by Justice A M Manson, bars further picketing by the firemen.
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Vancouver
British Columbia Supreme Court
CPR
Coquitlam
Kamloops
Canadian
Dominion
Firemen’s Union
A. M. Manson
Negotiators In Further Session In Montreal Fire Strike Talks
In Montreal the firemen's union negotiating committee met with CPR President N R Crump and Brotherhood leaders to tackle a barrier in Ottawa talks. Crump cited Ottawa breakdown over guarantees for firemen shifted from freight and yard diesels while the union pressed to retain 2 400 seniority firemen and 477 less senior men as firemen with guaranteed wages.
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Montreal
Firemen’s Union
CPR
N. R. Crump
John Graham
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Tawa
Clergyman's Sex Education Policy Sparks School Board Row
In Cobalt Ontario Rev H W Wipprecht the pastor and teacher faced a board hearing after involving students aged 12 to 16 in questions about birth, sex and biology. He claimed he placed responsibility on parents and said he did not teach sex directly.
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Cobalt
Ont
H. W. Wipprecht
Cobalt United Church
Ontario
Arnold Todd
Conciliation Sought Over Medicine Hat Teacher Pay
The Medicine Hat school board applied to the Board of Industrial Relations for a conciliation board to negotiate with the teachers wage committee after teachers rejected the board's May 7 offer. J C Seymour of the ATA mediated but the teachers declined the proposal. The teachers seek an unspecified increase.
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Board of Industrial Relations
Medicine Hat
J.C. Seymour
ATA
Herridge Named New CCF Deputy
In Ottawa the CCF caucus selected H. W. Herridge of Kootenay West as deputy CCF House leader to cover for Hazen Argue. Douglas Fisher of Port Arthur becomes caucus chairman and Frank Howard of Skeena deputy chairman. Arnold Peters of Timiskaming is whip and Erhart Regier of Burnaby Coquitlam secretary treasurer. The party also invites leader M. J. Coldwell to sit in caucus. Coldwell, defeated last March 31, previously represented Rosetown Biggar.
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Ottawa
CCF
Commons
H. W. Herridge
Kootenay West
House
Hazen Argue
Douglas Fisher
Port
Arthur
Frank Howard
Skeena
Arnold Peters
Timiskaming
Erhart Regier
Burnaby-Coquitlam
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Colombia
United Association of Journeymen
Canadian Immigration Department
W. G. Coleman
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
W. E. Gamble
Brotherhood
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Mr. Crump
Herridge
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