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JAY START GRIEVANCE ACTION Policemen Complain City Holding BackOvertime Pay By MIKE BRYAN of The journal Some 300 Ottawa policemen are "disgruntled' claiming the city witnnotning anxestl-mated $25,000 in overtime pay due them for work at the Central Canada Exhibition 'and football game and for con veying parJenta to the Ontario Hospital in BrockvUle. Ottawa Police Association president. Detective Meryie cameron sua -u something definite doe not come the association would initiate grievance procedure under the term of the Ontario Po lice Act City flaaace commissioner JaaMa Lewther said the sit- atJoa was "a delicate one" and aader eonsideratloai by -ajaara or control. He voaid The association says that under 1967-68 agreement with the Ottawa Police Commission, the fee structure for off-duty constables working at private CUPE Surplus Too Small? MONTREAL (CP) Grace Hartman. secretary -treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Canada's second largest national trade onion, said today the union's operating expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30 to talled S1.68S.000. Mrs. Hartman told the CUPE annual convention that revenue from membership dues for the same period was S1.74J.00O, She said she was concerned that receipts and expenditures were so dose and would like to see larger reserves built up. CUPE collects SLM worth from each member of each local except for two targe provincial locals. OttawaArea Deaths FLOYD COONS.

Win- RECINALD (REX) COLE, 72. Renfrew. SIMEON LAUZON. 49. of 140 Rial Boulevard.

Hun. MRS. MARGARET LOUISE CASTONGUAY. (7. widow of Ernest Napoleon Castongoay, Arnprior.

KAREN LESLIE 'ADAMS. 12. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Adams, 21 SO Lambeth Walk.

MRS. ADA MAY ROM-BOUGH. 77, widow of Byron Rombough. Newington. DUNCAN MACRAE, 377 Hamilton Avenue.

MRS. MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, 53. of Carting Avenue. WILLIAM FREDERICK HEWARD. SS Rang Road.

MRS. JOHN EJtWDf, 71. housewife, 123 Pretoria JOHN ALEXANDER STOKES. 77. RR 1.

Douglas. PAUL PATRY. 3. Boacbette. Ottawa.

Didn't Show Up For Court, Fined Anyway RonaM McDoweO. 20. II Wilton Crescent, who was tried sbsentia when TaDed to appear in County Magistrate's Court Monday, was fined 1100 and had his driver's permit suspended for three months for careless driving. The court was told McDowell lost control of his car on Men- vile Road at 3 a m. Sept.

IS His car crossed a median, bounced off a Hydro pole. knocked down a light standard. and landed on top of a car parked on a bopping centre parking lot. The car then roOed over onto Its roof and slid for a consider able distance before coming to rest. Speed limit at the scene of the accident is 33 mph, was stated.

PROTEST GOES WILD SAN JOSE. Calif. Police eed tear gas and arrested a score or more persona at San Jose State College Monday in quel Hag a not that broke out during an anti-war demonstration. At least three persons were reported injured and windows were smashed In downtown San Jose as the demonstration by an estimated 2,000 students saddenly turned functions, at city community centres and escorting mental patients, raised to parity wun regular pay, For the first time, police said they would not work for the CCEA, the Ottawa Football Club or any other agency for pay less than the regular rate. OWN CONTRACTS Voder the contract.

Detec tive. Cameron said, organiza- tions Wing off-duty Ottawa constables make their own contractsXwith the police association anoVthese contracts are in turn approved by the police commission. He said the CCEA this year refused to. sign a contract claiming It was the dts responsibility to police the exhibition grounds. The police commissions then agreed It would foot the bill for exhibition policing.

Detective Cameron said he understood a small amount of the (25,000 Jud been received by the city, which had so fair terms of the agreement Association solicitor P. Nelllgan was. one week ago. promised the pay owing the policemen but 1 can't under stand why they've withheld for seven months what was In the Detective Cameron Mid. FULL PAY Formerly policemen working at the Central Canada Exhibition on their day off received flat rate of $18 per day.

but under the new agreement they were to be paid the full 326.48 dauy rate of a first- class constable. Policemen at private func tions have the same authority and responsibilities they have while on regular duty, said Police Chief Ab Cavan. A policeman is still a sworn con stable and has the same powers wherever be Is work ing. Detective Cameron said all ranks from inspector down to constable are included among the 300 men who claim their pay is being withheld. The amount owing averages Lodging Allowance In Quebec MONTREAL (CP) Robert Lussier, minister el municipal affairs, said Monday Queoecers who cannot afford to pay rent for reasonable lodgings will future be eligible for a lodging allowance.

This financial assistance wiO be part of the services offered by the Quebec housing bureau which was sot op under legisla tion passed in June. Speaking at a meeting of the Renaissance Club, he said the bureau also will make available to property owners grants for demolition, clearing away, reconstruction, and re storation of residential proper ty. In addition, interested taxpayers would henceforth have to be notified of any proposed a roan renewal projects so that they could make their views known to the bureau before the bureau took a decision on the project Special office would be set mm to near the complaints or tenants of low-rent properties who believe they are being deprived of their rights. Mr. Lassier said the bureaa would aim to help Qubcers who moved from demolished slum property to new lodgings and were nnable to pay the new higher rent- This would be the type of case eligible for the new allowance.

The provisions of the set would cover all communities in the province end not a selected few. Downtown Design Control Taken by. City City council has given Otta wa's building appearance committee control over the design of all new downtown buildings. Council took toe action Mon day night after the planning department recommended a temporary method to regulate downtown structures until an overall study csn be made of the city's central core. Approval by city council means design or an future buildings erected downtown must first hare approval of the building appearance com mittee.

out to about $80 per man over the past seven months he said. Detective Cameron said it is the city's responsibility to col lect the money from the private agencies, deduct taxes and other benefits, then, pass on the pay to policemen with their regular salaries. Thatcher Asks Pay freeze REGINA (CP) Premier W. Ross Thatcher of Saskatche wan said Monday he has urged the federal government to adopt a wage-and-price freeze for at least one yeaK Mr. Thatcher said be made the proposal at a meeting in Ottawa Thursday and Friday tween Finance Minister and provincial treasur- 9 Thatcher said Mr.

Slurb's reaction was that such -freeze was within the Juris diction of the provinces and that it would not be accepted by the people in peacetime. As an alternative, the Sas katchewan premier said he suggested the federal government should set guidelines in an attempt to hall rising wages and prices. I The government could Just announce a freezexon every thing, the same as ltMid during the war," said Mr. Thatcher. I knew it would be difficult and unpopular but even the socialists in Britain have done it Both wages and prices would have to be controlled, there is no use having one without the other." HEARD? lywaL aaf Baaa UNLIMITED taLSCTKM or- FABRICS FABRICS UNLIMITED WINCMSTOt, ONT.

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RIqHi downtown nMf bus BAY it DUNDAS Touraine Wants Water Price Settled A delegation from Touraine left for Montreal this morning to try to settle the price of water Touraine sells to Gatl- neau Point Mayor Georges St 'Jacques and Alderman Andre Boulet and Jean Paul Hebert visited the Quebec Water Board at 10 ajn. today. Aftef two years of discussion, Touraine has not been able to manage an' agreement on! the price of water it sells to its neighbor to the south. DISCUSSES GOVT CALCUTTA. India (Reuters) West Bengal Governor Dharamwira tonight dismissed the Communist dominated state 'government headed by Ajoy Mukherjee.

IV Tuesday, November 21, 1967 Federal Smoke Irritates Unprecedented cold weather this month caught government coal, suppliers unprepared much to the dismay of residents living near the Cartier Square complex's heating building. Investigation by city hall air pollution officials of complaints about heavy black smoke PREDICTION FOR B.C. LANGLEY, B.C. British Columbia will extend north to the Arctic Ocean by the year 2067, Premier W. A.

C. Bennett said Monday, Speaking on the next 100 years at the annual Douglas Day banquet, marking the 109th anniversary of the founding of this 'Fraser Valley community, Mr. Bennett forecast a population of 50,000,000 in B.C. by the year 2067, with a labor force or more man 17.000.000. belching from the chimney of the Cartier Square heatlne plljnt revealed short supply of expensive low-smoxe coat naa farced the government to burn an inferior, smoke-production variety.

This problem was also en countered at the National Gallery Monday. Delivery of the better coal is expected today, a spokesman for the pollution control department said today. The government is gradually converting from coal to natural gas or oil, be said. "They said the same thing last year," remarked Marion Kerr. 173 'Cooper Street, who called city hall when she noticed the smoke becoming heavy agan about two weeks ago.

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