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The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 21

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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The OrmwA Journal 7 nl 1 v1; The Nicolai Zoldners' house looked like, a mcnrie set for a war picture as it lay collapsed in a hole Thursday afternoon. "But the- the victim, of a-, bomb, Quebec-Wo MONTREAL (CP) Striking coristnictkinlworkers art ex pected back on their jobs Monday if the terms a three-way agreement signed Thursday is ratified by union mem bers within the next few days. Ronald Carey, president of the Bmldiag Federation of the1 Confederation of National Trade Unions, said CNTU leaders are pleased with the agreement reached after all-night bargaining sessions, and if it is by the workers, "there is no reason: why they shouldn't be back cd their Jobs Monday. NEW ERA The agreement, signed by representatives of the CNTU the Quebec Federation of Labor and five employer associations representing construction com. nanies.

was announced by or Minister Bellemare who said the dawn of a new era has .4 been reached, on' the Quebec labor scene. In any ease, it marks tha end af a twa-month perted at. wrangling and the anion squabbling and accusations en all sides panctaatad by. bombings, tntimidat I and other terms ot Details of the agreement were not Immediately available, bat a CNTU spokesman 'said will be today and that negotiators will recommend acceptance to members. The conflict broke Into th open May 12 when 1,000 construction workers affiliated with the CNTU in the Quebec City area walked off their Jobs to back union demands for higher wages and greater Job secur ity.

They were Joined June by 5.000 workers in the Rimoo- ski, Hull and Eastern Township areas. .1 FRIGHTENED PET ASSISTED FROM PIT BY FIREMAN Jfts. Ugitm ZoMners. whose Cooper Street home collapsed Thursday into an excavation, reaches down to help her pet collie. Rover.

The animal escaped with its life mi IfatnliiB after hina mntM from the nibble. There was no strike hi Mont- .1 nce said. rather it slid, split in two, into a 20-foot excavation, for an apartment building's underground parking lot. The roof, one side wall and most of the end walls were Grants To Stop tmw Th CM A federal bealtn a a official Thnrsday nigbt cuuluined that the fitness cobbc3 io- teads to drwulnur iu in aiin1 aiauts to prov- inciaj jinn laa sports trans. Be stressed.

howeer. that tke money (art of the lu cirs cs aaa ssi aonBal aiauts Uraiu wuuhl- he to finance HM.CaBaam banes on ul basis cfleui in 1371 On Winter Games take place at Sarfcatnon The official had been asked to xnmrnt oa a Malcinrnt hyl Robert Clark. Alberta youth and education aunster. who said Health Minister John fanned him of the of Brants in a letter. Injured Mem Watches Thieves Loot Car WOLFHAGEK.

Westr Ger many (Renters) TUeres stole radio and other- equipment from a wrecked car while the mioml diiwei' tar trapped nnv demeadi the vehicje. The drrr-er had crashed into a tree and tha thieves snatched the equip- before help arrived, po l-h i I -sex Ul II IVIVIIVIM nuHir was to he bartd with it I ml whtr tha OFT which lepieseuls most of tha construc tion workers in the metropolitan area bad reached an agree ment, with contractors early in the spring. The new agreement signed Thnrtttav is scheduled to ran far em vear with another two lor three-year pact to oe wont ed out by uy Carey said. Ha saU it wswld ghra wark-hs ssaro thaa tha par cant Derease achiarad aarkar by 1 iW Minister Beflemara had urged tha anions to accept a one-year pact calling for a a nr mnt raise, hut tha CNTU wanted an immediate two-year offer. It aln anns-ht win increases for wot hers in tha Quebec City area because of was dUuai dy witn Montreal worsen.

The CNTU also system of compuisary Joint anson katiag halls where tuntrartors woatd haws to go to hire workers for Beach Weather Predicted Feopte who hebesw weavnersseo. can preparo for a wanC sunny liantr fas long -range ths the Uplands predicted daytime temper a-tnres in the 80s and nighttime lows the 6tTs for both Saturday and Sunday. "At the saosaent there hat a rain cloud oa the lsMiioB.M said the 'Weekend .1. Friday, July U969 rr- 4f 'jf The Ottawa Journal '1. 21 I ii- i4n Ominous Rumble and Then In It Went remnants of the rooms on injury, and workmen shoring up the walls the.

far side of the house still remain. No of the excavation were able to run to safety one was homr at the time of the collapse after hearing a except for a collie dog which escaped serious um tm oemmi ,) As Grits Ciaught Nappihig By MCHAKD JACKSON A widavtnrake and crafty op position cBght complacent jcovenunetat napnTnjr and shot ww tut 'Tt1 Soar hoari and 21 aiinntf be a its reanlariT scheduled tniie of adjoui naif ist. The Liberals with their partiameptary pants ra when a Bouse count of MP heads that only 14 of 2M were hi the Com- NEED By Parliamentary rule at least 20, a reanired onormn for public business should have been For the Conservatives. New Deaaocrats and' Creditistes who a unilrd opposl- tioBi front gp' the govera- menrs two-sessum efiOrt to nn- ndes. it meant the dressing of aa issue in "mini That was former Conservative Speaker Marcel Lambert's word for kB Vhea the second battle of the rales started the -war opened last winter and a spring trace was observed Mr.

Lambert conteded that white the rights of the opposition might he of amount importance in the way Parliament serves the na- tioa, the issue sadly lacked appeal from the very start. it in wdmskrrts.1 costuming of the issue in politically sexy dress may have been weO started with the surprising adjourn- of at LS p.nu Thursday. If die Government hadn't been taught out out of ne House, that is the Conmoas would have sat until Iff What aaade ft all that more abarrassing for tin) Liberals as that the ear down the opposition's win fight, has beea trying to stretch eat the hoars of work. As the opposition, solemnly de nied there bad beea any con- to booby-trap the gov ernment, ft aiaw hare beea by sheer coincideace that not long before the snap uaait was caned, there were only one Con- servanve assi eaa ureosasai the House. Conservative Leader Stanf-ld was there and Creditiste Adrien Lambert, but another Opposition MP was in sight on the Commons side of the lobby cur- It had to be sheer coincidence too.

that when the opposition bad discovered the "noo quor um" on the Door, the lobby sffemed a bit crowded by Conservatives. New Democrats and Creditistes who appeared to be chuckling in anticipation of what was to come. SPRANG TRAP New Democratic. Whip Knowles sprang the trap. calling for the count.

Clerk Assistant Gordon Dub- roy ran a practised eye over the under-populated House and said nothing. The opiiosition, which initial ly had filtered quietly off the floor to hdl the unsuspecting Liberals with a vista of empty benches, infiltrated back to keep up some semblance of appearances, and then as a re count was demanded, vanished again. CRTC Canadian Radio-Television commission has-faced op to the big crunch in cable TV. The upshot is bad news for persons who try to speculate in broadcasting The decisions sliced ap eight ways. Three big To ronto operators were squelched ia bids to spread their systems to the suburbs.

Two of the companies awarded Toronto licences were apptoved for. operation only on condition that they shed their comec'ion with a daily news paper-television station interest For the speculators, the CRTC had two policy statements. First, in an attempt to sort oat the cable TV question, that during its first, year of operation it would hear applications for new CRTC licences only from All the the first, "no quorum call from Stanley Knowies, the Liberal Whip Ber-j mud PPon began a disasterous-ly late round-up of absent Liberals. In they hurried a few of them, to raise the House count to when Speaker Locien Lam- ouieux took over from Deputy Speaker Albeit Beehard who bad been in the chair when Mr. Knowles blew the whistle.

It might have beea It on the second and later count, stormed the Opposition, but Mr. Stan- field and Stanley in sisted there could be no "one more time." and that it was the first bead poll that matter ed. It had, they persisted in chorus, been less than the magic number of 20. It had been 14. actually.

Mr. Speaker agreed that the first count was for keeps, and that was it for Parliament for Thursday. July' 10. the eighth day of "overtime" since the initially scheduled June 2g summer holiday adjournment. ue companies or persons who he'd old transport department ti- FAR-RANGING LINKS Rogers Cable TV Ltd, linked with John Basset, publisher of the Toronto Telegram' and with a big interest in CFTO-TV, the only privately-owned TV station in Toronto, drew com mission attention for its cross- media operations.

E. S. Rogers, bead of the cable operation, has two radio stations in Toronto. Glen-War ren Productions Ltd. has a 50-per-cent holding in Rogers Cable.

And Gtea-iWarren has the same share ownership as Baton Broadcasting the licensee of CFTO-TV. In British Columbia. Surrey Cablevisioa Ltd. and Express Cable Television both li The government was ambush ed on the private members hour a time of chronic but only a few minutes after Mr. Stanfield.

in a major speech on the controversial rules issue, had accused the Liberals of trying to damp "a quiet kind of -closure on the opposition and Earlier, "the opposition public- ly had protested that the CBC along with cnost of the rest of the news media was "ignoring" this, to the Conservatives and New Democrats, "great fundamental issue." The real troub'e has been that the public simply hasn't been all that excited about the issue, and so it hasn't made either TV prime time-or page one in the press, Yesterday's formance, hopes the opposition, will' put "miniskirts' on it in si style to catch the public eye. Meanwhile, if there are any -artistic types the galleries of the Commons today, they will be entering the. government's faces red. i Iches Multi-Media Bids most a year of deliberation, the censed for the Vancouver area. kot their licences on condition that they, shed holdings in their rie rations by Columbia Broad casting System of the United States.

n- In both situations, the CRTC said, there "excessive concentration of ownership. Co-. tnmbia and Mr. Welsh had to asts other bfuadeastimr concerns fat Quebec City. Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and VTctoriaT" The Thursdav 'announcemcnti reiterated that all broadcasting operations in Canada mast he in compliance with new regula tions on foreign ownershin bv septLing.

These stipulate that not mora than 20 per cent of the anting power and not mora than 01 cent of any broadcasting undertaking's equity or debt can be under foreiga control..

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