AMGALIUVIALEEV SEL WR FEN Montreal pipeline route. The better alternative, the resolu- tion states is the extension of the pipeline from Winnipeg to Montreal. Copies of the resolu- tion were sent to the Canadian Labor Congress, Ontario Pre- mier Davis and the Ministry of Transport.

woe oem.

YEAR-OLD STRIKE : ENDS AT GYPSUM FIRM

MONTREAL — Employees at the Montreal plant of Canadian Gypsum Co. Ltd. have voted to accept a new labor contract and end a strike which began March 23, 1973.

More than three-fifths of the 83 workers, affiliated with the Confederation of National Trade Unions, accepted the company’s offer to increase salaries by $1.60 an hour over a 34-month contract.

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control legislation requiring ap- proval by Rental Control Boards prior to further rent increases.

A review of existing rents be conducted.

A crash program of low-cost public housing in sufficient quan- tity and at low enough rents to force the cost of housing down.

Co-operation with Ottawa to subsidize interest rates to re- duce mortgage rates to 6%. Na- tionalization of all unused land.

partners from both countries can get together and become better acquainted with each other.”

The commentary underlines”

the fact that in the way of the development of Soviet-American trade and economic relations also lie obstacles in the form of “the opposition in U.S. Congress, where many lawmakers con- tinue, by force of habit to mix up the prospects of trade devel- opment with attempts of inter- ference in the domestic affairs of the other side”. ; The article quotes Nikolai, Pa- tolichev, USSR Minister of For- eign Trade, who declared at a news conference that the Sena- tors who oppose the extension of credits to the Soviet Union, are

-thinking in terms which have

long since receded into the past. It points out in conclusion that “the new authoritative Council is called upon to play its role in re- moving these and other obstacles piled up by the opponents of de- tente,”

“Perhaps we should have got an extra ten bob ; getting rid of the Tories!