LABOR BRIEFS —

OTTAWA — The Canada Department of Labor announced last
week that the “time lost due to work stoppages in the first half
of 1972 totalled 4,792,250 man-days.” In 1971, the time loss of the
corresponding time was 1,181,930 man-days. Although there were
more man-days lost in the first half of 1972 than in the same half
year of 1971, there were more work stoppages in 1971. The unusu-
ally high figures for 1972 arise from the “More than 200,000 Quebec
government employees” who “were involved in one-day strike on
March 28 and again in an 11-day walkout in April.” Other large
stoppages included were in British Columbia involving the con-
struction and lumber industries affecting a total of more than 50,000

employees. —

The government announcement did not include the man-days lost
in Quebec between May 9 and 19 when an estimated 600,000 man-

days were lost.

TORONTO — Negotiations re-
mained at a standstill between
Toronto Western Hospital and
the Canadian Union of Géneral
Employees. The stalemate arises
out of the hospital’s refusal to
reinstate 343 employees who
were fired when they refused to
return to work. Hospital officials
claim that at least one part of

a new contract has been agreed
to—offering the remaining work-
ers a $50 a month increase. Pat-
rick Murphy, president of the
striking CUGE employees has
asked the public to boycott the
hospital and its services until
the strike is settled and all of
the workers who were fired are
rehired.

MALTON — Douglas Aircraft of Canada informed members of
UAW Local 1967 that it planned to lay-off 1,800 by the end of
1973. Douglas spokesmen maintained that the cutbacks are a result
of its failure to win a contract for the U.S. space shuttle program.
This doesn’t make much sense to the workers of the Malton local
who quickly pointed out that they “never had anything to do with

the space shuttle program.”

Many of the Malton workers feel that the lay-offs are particular-
ly directed at Canada. Douglas, a multinational corporation, em-
ploys about 92,000 workers in North America and of this total
11,000 or about 12% are to be laid-off. But the Malton plant em-
ploys about 4,500 and 1,800 are to be laid-off for a total of more

than 40% of the workers here.

UAW Local 1967 officials wired the government of Canada stat-
ing that Canadian workers shouldn’t be “penalized. because of a
cut-back in the United States space program.” As an insurance in

By B. FEDOSOV

MOSCOW — Agreement was
reached during the World
Championships in Prague in the
spring of this year between the
Canadian and Soviet hockey or-
ganizations on the holding of a
series of games between the
national. sides composed of the
leading players of both coun-
tries. The Soviet and Canadian
hockey leaders got together in
Moscow on July 19 to draw up
the terms of this series. The
talks were conducted by the
trainers of the Canadian nation-
al team, H. Sinden and J. Fer-
gusson and V. Bobrov, coach
of the USSR national team, and
A. Starovoitov, executive secre-
tary of the USSR Hockey Fed-
eration.

First of all, the timetable of

the USSR vs. Canada games was

approved. The teams will meet
for the first time in the Forum
in Montreal on Sept. 2. The next
will be staged in Toronto’s
Maple Leaf Gardens on Sept. 4;
the third in Winnipeg, on Sept.
6, and the fourth and last, in
Vancouver on September 8. All
the games in the USSR will be
held in the Sport Palace in the
Luzhniki area of Moscow on
Sept. 22, 24, 26 and 28.

It has been agreed that the
hosts in Canada will field 35 of
their best players, whereas there
will be 28-30 Soviet players
named for the first four games

‘sional leagues. The Soviet play-

ers will soon find it more difti-
cult when they come out on the
Canadian rinks which are a little
smaller than those in our coun-
try. In Canada, for instance, the
dimensions of a hockey rink are
60 x 26 m, whereas in our coun-
try they are 61 x 30 meters.

At the time of negotiations,
the question’ was also raised as
to what to do in case all eight
games are drawn. The Canadians
were the interested party in this
matter. No official agreement
was reached on this point, but
for the sake of joking it was
suggested that a 25th extra per-
iod be held until the first goal.

All the games in Canada will
be handled by four U.S. referees,
and the Moscow games, by four
referees from Czechoslovakia,
Sweden and West Germany.

An exchange of trainers-ob-
servers will taxe place in the
period of practice of the natio ial
teams of Canada and the USSR
prior to the September games A.
Chernyshov and B. Kulagin will
go to Canada, and Gordie Howe
and Jean Beliveau, who recently
retired from play in the profes-
sional National Hockey League,
will come to Moscow.

More than 150 newsmen and
about 2,500 tourists from Can-
ada are expected to come to
Moscow for the September
games. More than 100 requests
have already been received from

“al
who at that time were at
zenith of their world fam" am
plied somewhat unexpectedly: |
“O.K., we'll invite a Soviet teal \1
over, but will anyone in ov
country come to see the games ts

This, I repeat, was 15 yeats Bla
ago. Since then, a lot has chane jhe
ed. When’ the special Canadiatile
seven-man delegation flew iol t
Moscow recently for the abov" all
mentioned talks, the guests }
were most tactful in askine
whether the Soviet coach |
would allow spectators to watcl
the USSR team workouts ©]
Canada. ;

The following have been a
ed for the USSR squad fof
September series with the Calle tl
dians:

Goalies: V. Tretyak (Cenluy
Army), V. Shepovalov
grad Army), A. Pashkov Vy
cow Dynamo), A. sidelnike i
(Moscow Krylya Sovet0Y “ f
Wings of Soviets). |

Defence: A. Ragulin, V. Wa
chenko, V. Kuzkin, A. Guse¥s ) i
Tsygankov (all Central am
V. Vasilyev, V. Davydov, * v4
lov (all Moscow Dynamos fe
Paladyev, Y. Lyapkin (both ‘ye
cow Spartak), V. Astaly®
(Gorky Torpedo).

Forwards: V. Vikulov (Cé
Army), A. Maltsev (Moscow
namo), V. Kharlamov /
Army), B. Mikhailov, V
Y. Blinov (all Central A

‘case the lay-offs do come, the union has proposed a shorter work
week (from 40 to 32 hours) and a drastic reduction in overtime to
save the jobs.

representatives of the press of Zimin, V. Shadrin, A. Ya
European countries. V. Starshinov (all Moscow
Observing the keen interest in tak), Y. Mishakov, v.
the forthcoming games between (both Central Ary)
Soviet and Canadian puck- dukhin (ening epede' hi
chasers, one involuntarily recalls Anisin, A. Bodungy ¢ soviels/Noq
the not-too-distant year of 1957 (all Moscow Wings ae y. Born :
when the Soviet hockey leaders The team coaches: 4 oh
proposed to the Canadians that '°Y and B. Kulagin. i] lea t
a USSR team come over on a__ The Soviet players vi ust 34
playing tour. The Canadians, by air for Canada on AUB

overseas. The same number of
28-30 Canadians will come to
Moscow for the return series.
q Nineteen players can be named
to a new pension formula which for each game—I7 field players
provide $507 a month to work- and two goalies. The games will
ers over 60 with 40 years es aces nee rules es Hae
: : by the recent congress of the
or si oe the Stelco agree- 1+ ernational Ice Hockey Federa-
ment in Hamilton, the new Algo- tion (LIHG), which was held in
ma contract also saw the work- Mamaia, Rumania. The amateur
ers win a non-deductible. dental rules actually do not differ much
plan. from those used in the profes-

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> SAULT STE MARIE — Mem- The Steelworkers also agree fo
_ ,sbers of Local 2251 of the United aN
. Steelworkers of America in
Sault Ste. Marie have reached

a new three year agreement
with the. Algoma Steel Corp.
Ltd. The new agreement calls
for an 80¢ an hour increase over
the next three years plus a cost

of living allowance.

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US. labor body defies Meany

BALTIMORE — The Metro-
politan Baltimore Council of
AFL-CIO Unions has called for
the resignation of AFL-CIO pre-
sident George Meany in a sharp
attack on the AFL-CIO Council
refusal-to- endorse Sen. George

McGovern as the means of de-
feating President Nixon.

The Baltimore council meet-
ing yesterday came close to en-
dorsing McGovern, a_ defiant
move that could lead to revoca-
tion of its charter by the AFL-

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C1O high command and the re-
moval of its president, Domi-
nick N. Fornaro.

Fornaro said that he is seek-
ing to avoid a head-on collision
with the AFL-CIO leadership
but that he would lead an area
“Labor for McGovern” move-
ment as an individual. He point-
ed out that the Baltimore AFL-
CIO initiated a bumper sticker
with the legend: “Nixon is
Through in ’72.”

Cannot be passive

He added: ‘How can we ask
people to sit in their hands when
we started this Dump-Nixon
campaign? If the youth, the
Black people~ and labor were
united, Nixon could be defeated.
It’s wrong for us to set ourselves
against the Black people and the
youth.”

He said that the area Labor
for McGovern committee will
be established next Monday and
will include members of the
United Steel Workers, the Unit-

ed Auto Workers and the Inter-.

national Brotherhood of Team-
sters, whose national board has
endorsed Nixon.

The resolution adopted last
week by the local AFL-CIO

Right now U.S. bombs

are killi

hildren

council urged the AFL-CIO Ex- puoTos BY *
ecutive Council members to “‘re- — Flanked by a massive banner proclaiming that “Right ©
consider their action’ in refus- bombs are killing children,” Toronto's peace forces ie ae
ing to endorse McGovern. before the United States Consulate a week ago, demanding

to the U.S. annihilation program in Indochina.

WASHINGTON, July 27 — President Nixon, Secretary of State
William Rogers and Treasury Secretary George Shultz played golf at
Burning Tree Country Club here. AFL-CiO President George Meany
accompanied them.

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