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fo) uu lr HP I 13 THflFTWAY i. i til I 9 ik I i mm Shoulder to shoulder, Canadian demonstrators march down Blaine main street mh Papers get ready after 3 months i (H Mil 0 5 Vol. 1 No. 35 15 Grits win PEI CHARLOTTETOWN The Prince Edward Island Liberal government won the day at the polls Monday with 27 of 32 seats to chalk up not only a re-rlec-tlon victory but backing for a multi-million dollar federal-provincial development program. Loser was the Conservative Party the only other party In the election fight with only five seats.

Altogether, there were 64.693 persons on the Island eligible to vote. The total included 7.000 Islanders in the 18-20 bracket who became eligible to vote for the first time through a bill passed In 1967 lowering the voting age to IB from 21. 3 OP n- tion district advisers will get a S48.374 weekly pay Increase, rising to a top rate of $225.87 a week after Nov. 1, 1971. in three annual raises of $16124 each Nov.

1. They are represented by the Vancouver-New Westminster Newspaper Guild. Local 115. All lower guild classifications will receive a 95 per cent increase per year with a minimum Increase of $10 per week. Examples of increases are seen In a comparison of weekly starting wages set under the old contract and provided by Nov.

1, 1971 In the new contract. The old rate is in brackets. Junior clerk 50' $10150; secretary $127 08; recep-tlonlst-typUt 21' $109 21 receptionist stenographer i $93 14 $12314. first-year reporter 55 $133 55. third-year reporter $140 43' $18045.

senior reporter 'five years' experience $22587. Printers represented by the International Typographical Union, pressmen by the MP Sunny with a few cloudy periods today. Winds light High 55. Sunny Wednesday with Cloudy periods. it I Mike Cray photo Pressmen's Union and stereo-typers will receive $1.29 per hour increase over the three years, rising to a rate of $5.82.

Mailers will get $1 44 an hour bringing them to $5.77 Nov. 1, 1971. Other clauses common to the five union agreements provide night pay differential of 54 per cent 'currently five per cent for the Guild and 33 per cent for all other unions: Insurance coverage increase to $12,000 from A trustee pension fund administered by a board with equal representation from management and unions, five M-eeks vacation after 2" years service and four weeks, after 13 years, effective Nov. 1. 1970, and four weeks after 12 years effective Nov.

1. 1971 Present vacations are three weeks after three years and four weeks after 15 years To deal with company complaints auainst interference with production the unions and man-asement have agreed to a procedure in which designated union officials will work with management to find quick, on-the-spot solutions. If they cannot agree within one hour, an Independent arbi- Continued next page See: PRESS the Mi 1 I It's back to work after three months of shutdown for 1,100 employees of Pacific Press, The Sun and The Province. Picket lines around the four-storey Pacific Press plant on Granville at Sixth were removed Monday as plans for a resumption of publication by Friday went into effect The company's notification of acceptance of the three-year contract was received Monday by mediation commissioners Pen Baskin and Altstair Pollock about four hours after the officials of the five unions reported their members voted acceptance at separate meetings Sunday. The Sun and The Province will increase the price of newspapers when they go on sale.

The Sun will be IS cents daily instead of 10. It will remain at 20 cents on Saturday. The Province will also sell for IS cents formerly 10 cents) on weekdays and 20 cents on Saturday (It was IS cents). Subscriptions will increase to S3 a month for both papers from $2 50. The carrier will get 10 cents of this price boost.

His profit will rise 10 cents from SS cents for The Sun and 65 cents for The Province. Under terms of the contract, key classification reporters, advertising salesmen and circula Cainiadfeiiii A symbolic invasion of 500 young Canadians ended Saturday at the Peace Arch. Demoniitiatois throwing rucks did about $50,000 damage to 100 automobiles being carried on a 'Jreat Northern train which drew alonide Peace Arch Park just alter an outbreak of fighting between American policemen and civilian and the Canadian youths The Peace Arch was spattered with paint and slogans and some monument were overturned. Several persons were injured by police clubs, rocks, bottles Down comes the flag the United States by about in violence and destruction and other missiles hurled in both directions across the border. (See also Page 3.) There were no serious injuries.

The violence erupted about an hour after 500 demonstrators, protesting U.S. Involvement in Cambodia, rushed the Blaine border crossing and marched into the town. Border guards made no effort to stop them. American youths argued with the invading Canadians but there was no concerted violence until several youths ripped down an American flag at the Blaine post office. Demonstrators also broke windows in the National Bank of America branch.

After the youths hauled down the flag and started to tear it up, about 12 belmeted policemen carrying riot sticks and about 20 young men from Blaine moved in to herd the demonstrators back across the border. The American police stood guard at the border as the Canadian youths called them "pigs" and chanted "power to the people." Several American youths infiltrated the Canadian mob and fist fights broke out. American police moved In, swinging their clubs. It was at this point that rocks, sticks, bottles and earn began flying through the air, and the two groups quickly separated. Washington state patrolmen stood off several hundred yards and did not move In when the fighting started.

RCMP officers sat in can on the Canadian side and likewise did not move In. The Gnat Northern train entered the picture as the demonstrators weie dispersing, and about 20 of them stood along the tratka and pelted the 100 auto and thrre trucks on the train with roclu. In Ottawa, acting prime minister Mitchell Sharp said In the Moult that he had called for report on the Peace Arch disturbance and that all Canadians deplored the action. "We ought look at thU as we would view the action of Americans who would come into this country and tear down the Canadian flag," he told a questioner outside Parliament In Blaine, police chief Ken Dolan said many of the demonstrators were probably U.S. draft dodgers tn Victoria, Attorney-General Leslie Peterson said he would like to see charges laid against demonstrator? who damage property.

Tuesday, May 12, Reuther leaves big void DETROIT The stormy and confused American labor scene has been thrown Into more turmoil and uncertainty by the death in a plane crash of UAW President Walter Reuther. (See alto Page 4) Reuther. 62, his wife May, 59. and four others died when their chartered Lear Jet missed a runway In light fog and crashed Into northern Michigan woodlands Saturday night The other aboard Included Reuther'i bodyguard, a nephew of Mrs Reuther. the pilot and co-pllot.

Fears are being expressed that one of the flnt adverse effects of Reuthers csth will be noted In the pending negotiations between the auto workers and the auto makers. These negotiations are expected to be the toughest In yean because of the falloff In new car sates, and the decline In company profits. These have been accompanied by major layoffs by the Big Three of General Moton. Ford and Chrysler. Despite this the United Auto Workers have approved a broad program of economic demands aimed at offsetting the Inroads of Inflation The auto Industry condition helps determine the economic farts of life for millions who art Indirectly affected through supplier tulxoMrirts and extends to fields as remote as the areo space Industry and the manufacturers of farm implements.

INSIDE port Finance I hows Television Crossword Women 10 I I 14 IS I 1970 stum SETS SELF ON FIRE SAN DIEGO. me let me die!" screamed George M. Winnc, a 23-year-old student at the University of California, as he stood on the campus grounds at the weekend. Then, shouting "For God's sake end the war!" he poured a bottle of gasoline over himself and struck a match. Shocked onlookers smothered the flames with blankets but at last report Winne was In critical condition In hospital with severe burns to 90 per cent of his body.

Abortion row halts parliament OTTAWA Parliament was disrupted Monday by a shouting, slogan-chanting crowd of 50 women demanding unlimited abortion freedom. The Mouse was adjourned for 30 minutes while security guards cleared the public gallery, where some of the women had chained or wired themselves to the balcony. Speaker Luclen Lamoreux called a cabinet meeting for early today to discuss the disturbance. The women chanted "free abortion on demand" and stymied attempts to silence them by leaping to shout individually as guards moved to hush other women. They continued their demonstration outaide the House after It was closed, with speeches vowing "no more women will die" betaue of being forced to seek an Illegal abortion.

The demonstrators, amassed on a cross Canada Caravan which started in Vancouver, said they were especially angry because no government representative was on hand to receive their petition whea they demonstrated last weekend on Parliament Mill and at the prime minister's residence. 'II We miss p..