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g iN RETROSPECT JjAV Shas & an wiea ' Mitchell F. Hepburn Earned Unpredictable i : Title Of Being By M. McINTYRE HOOD ] Managing 1 It is a tragic coincidence that vo men who were contemporaries {i Ontario political life, and who re successively premiers of the \'rovince, should pass away with- 11 three days of each ot her. litchell F. Hepburn preceded Gor- on D. Conant as Premier of On- rio. Gordon Conant preceded his Yihrmer leader by three days in | rossing the bourne from which jiere is no returning. In political "fe these men were so closely as- >ciated that it seems as if some 'range fate had decreed the order i! their passing. | In trying to assess the public * areer of Mitchell F. Hepburn, one 1's met with a strange mass of con- -adictions. He was a human para- lox. One admired his dynamic linergy, and pitied his often physi- upporters, but his own loyalties > others were of a wavering and ver - changing type. He was a Jdberal of the Liberals, yet by his i ctions he caused a split in the Jdberal party from which it has! ot recovered to this day. ROUSED ENTHUSIASM During our years in the Parlia- fl 1ent Buildings, we had many ll lose associations with Mitchell F. lllepburn. We came under the in- | luence of the spell of "Mitch", as IN e was known to all his friends i nd associates, when they were i ot calling him 'Chief', and we 7atched him pass down into the i blivion which is the fate of those i vho have lost the confidence of 'he electors. In the heyday of his wlitical life, he commanded the pport and enthusiasm of his en- lire party; as he passed from the Lolitical scene, his passing was [fvelcomed by as many as regretted | t i nature, that he worked largely on We had known Mitchell F. Hep- fhurn' for many years before we foined the civil service in Queen's ark in October, 1937, and were ven a personal welcome by the hen Premier of the province, Wa fad known him as a cocky young veteran in St. Thomas before had any thought of political . As we look back on him as was then, he did not seem to e any indication of the high which he was later to occupy n Ontario politics. He had a flair 'or public speaking, a faculty for butting over wise - cracking jokes, aut gave little sign of any particu- ar talent for the serious business of government. ELECTED TO COMMONS That came later. In 1926, at the of 30, he was elected to the of Commons at Ottawa. Although a back - bencher his pungent utterances attracted inter- iast, and he seemed marked for advancement. It came from an- sther direction. In 1930, the Ontario Liberal Party held a convention to select a new leader, and this young Lochinyar came down from Ottawa lo woo the delegates and won, He campaigned for nearly four years prior to the 1934 general election, but retained his seat at Ottawa. In that election, he led the Liberal p to a smashing victory over mier George S. Henry and be- came Premier of the Province. [R FOR SPECTACULAR Mitch Hepburn's flair for the pectact produced actions which imade headlines. He sold the great eet of government automobiles main during the Henry re- me by public auction in the Var- ty Stadium. He abolished Chorley Park as the residence of the Lieu- tenant - Governor of Ontario. On the advice of Hon. Arthur Roebuck, he' cancelled the power contracts made with Quebec power compan- ies. In the 1937 General Motors strike, he refused to recognize the representatives of the UAW from the United States. But he gave good government, and put the fi- nances of the provinces on a sound basis, making it possible for him, provincial treasurer, to present vhat he termed his "sunshine bud- igets", This was not because of any particular financial ability on his own part, but because he was wise enough to bring into his service as controller of finances Chester Wal- ers, official of the federal finance fdepartment, who has been the master mind behind every Ontario budget from that time .down to the present day. FAMOUS OSHAWA MEETING Then came the 1937 general elec- on, in which he was again vic- torious and went back to power vith another overwhelming ma- ority. We can recall the day he ame to Oshawa to address a meet- ing in the Armories in support of Gordon Conant. He came boldly in response to a challenge. On ac- ount of his part in the General [Motors strike, it had been openly statzd that he would not dare to ome to Oshawa. But he came, wo days before the election. The aud:torium was jammed, and the rowd was largely hostile. Just as he was being introduced by Gor- don Conant, a bleachers' stand which had been placed along the wall collapsed, and some 200 peo- ple were thrown to the ground, but 0 one was hurt, Premier Hep- burn was received. with boos and almost constant interruptions, but he stuck manfully to his guns, de- ivered his speech in which he gave back as much as he got, and scor- ed a personal triumph, That was one of the decisive factors in the successful Liberal campaign in On- rio riding. , But it is not generally known at when he came to Oshawa on hat day, he was accompanied by a formidable bodyguard of Toronto boxers and wrestlers, led by 'Big n" Lionel Conacher, ready to come to his aid should there be lany attempt at physical violence on the part of his antagonists. They ¢ arrayed behind him on the platform ready for action. For- nately, the opposition did not reach that stage. MAN OF IMPULSES "» =Early. exporionass-in-tha- Danis. ment Buildings at Toronto showed hse Aled REidote wav ake i i "MITCH" HEPBURN ON HIS LAST VISIT TO OSHAWA hunches and impulses. Sometimes they paid off. Sometimes they did not, We remember in November, 1937, he was due to give the Armis- tice Day address to the New York Canadian Club. Gordon Conant was due to speak at the National Re- membrance day banquet in Ot- tawa. Almost at the last moment, Mr. Hepburn was taken {ll with one of his frequent bronchial at- tacks and could not go to New York. He called in Mr. Conant, and told the Attorney-General he would have to take the New York assignment, "I cannot do that," said Mr. Conant, "I am due to be at the Ottawa dinner that night." Impulsively and without thinking, he said, '"That's all right, You go to New York and send Hood to represent you in Ottawa." The result was that I went to Ottawa and had the mortifying ex- perience of representing the On- tario government, on Mitch's in- structions, with Hon. Paul Leduc, then Ontario Minister of Mines, in attendance. This was decidedly not correct protocol. IN FOR 20 YEARS" We can remember the evening, just after Mr. Conant became At- torney-General, when a dinner in his honor was held in the Oshawa Armories, Premier Hepburn came to Oshawa for that event. As they were chatting before the dinner, Mr. Hepburn, still flushed with his great election victory of a few days before, said to Mr. Conant, "Gor- don, we are in for 20 years." At that time he believed it. And as we'look back now over the years since that day in 1937, his proph- ecy might even have come true if he had not gone off at a tangent of bitter enmity to Prime Minister MacKenzie King. We soon learned about Mr. Hep- burn's wavering loyalties. He ap- pointed Arthur Roebuck his first Attorney-General and Hydro Com- missioner, but became his implac- able enemy when they split on the Oshawa strike issue. He appointed Stewart Lyon, then editor of the Toronto Globe, as Hydro chairman, with a great blare of trumpets, and just as 'quickly dismissed him a few years 'later when the white- haired journalist no longer served his purpose. HYDRO DIFFICULTIES Mitchell Hepburn was very wor- ried about hydro matters after the general election of 1937, He was facing a privy council case on the cancelled Beauharnois contracts. The top legal opinion on the case was that the province could not hope to win. The results would have been so/disastrous to the On- tarie Hydro that some compromise was necessary. He dismissed Ste- wart Lyon as Hydro chairman, ap- pointed Dr. Thomas Hogg in his place, called in Gordon Conant, and gave the two of them the task of negotiating new contracts with the Quebec power companies. But he did this only after Mr. Conant had put severe pressure on him to get the province out of a bad mess. Mr. Conant and Dr, Hogg negotiat- ed the new contracts, on a basis which saved the province millions of dollars, and Mr. Conant piloted the legislation for their ratification through the Legislature. WARTIME MEMORIES When war broke out in 1939, Mr. Hepburn went all out for the great- est possible war effort, and he had the idea that Mackenzie King was half-hearted about it. Hepburn was always a man of action. Long be- fore the war broke out, as we said in a previous article, Mr. Conant was ready for the guarding of all strategic power plants in the prov- ince, and had them under guard. He had the provincial police organiz- ed for anti-sabotage work. He had one great worry. Commissioner of Provincial Police was that fine old gentleman, Major-General A. 8. Williams. He was beyond sup- erannuation age, but was carrying on at the request of the govern- ment. The tremendous burden. of put- ting the provincial police and the veteran guards of the power plants on a war basis, however, was be- rn A. Aa ---- -- -~ Rtn ord yona ihe Capacity of the Aging General Williams, and Mr. Conant Victor rend, and ST Loma e Vode me ean d A ANd |all had an RPWISIVE [TeCUBTIZed Wiis, He Weil 0 DI, | HepOUrl Was & Hepburn with his problem. Quick as a flash came Mr, Hepburn's reaction. "We will have to ask Gen- eral* Williams to resign, but who can you put in his place?' Mr. Con- ant considered for only a mo- ment, and replied, 'Bill Stringer." William Stringer had been a former deputy #«ommissioner of provincial police and a tremend- ously 'competent police officer. But because of clashes with the mili- tary martinet, General Williams, Mr. Stringer was moved from that post to a deputy's position in the Fire Marshal's department. So it was agreed that the change should be made. Mr. Conant was given the unpleasant task of asking Gen- eral Williams, for whom he had the greatest respect and affection, to resign. The General refused point-blank ' to resign, and so an' order had to be passed dismissing him, The same day Commissioner Stringer was brought back from the Fire Marshal's office to become the Commissioner of the Provincial Police, which position he still fills with the greatest efficiency. HEPBURN'S RESIGNATION Why Premier Hepburn decided suddenly to resign in October, 1942, will always be something of a my- stery. He had repeatedly said he wanted to. resign, his health being one reason, but his colleagues, sensing his value to the party, per- suaded him to stay at his post. More than once he had asked the Hon. Harry Nixon to take over the premiership, but Mr, Nixon, satis- fied with the post of provincial secretary, had always refused. As the breach widened between the Liberal governments in Ottawa and Toronto, because of Hepburn's continued bitter attacks on Mr. King, his office began to become distasteful to the Ontario premier. About a week before his actual re- signation, he had told his colleagues he wished to resign. There was pressure on him to hold a general election, but Hepburn, as was Mr. Conant, was opposed to throwing the province into the turmoil of a provincial election in the midst of the hardest year of war. That was in the second week of October of 1942. He agreed to stay in office at least until after the end of the year, and on the Friday of that week went home to his farm in Elgin County. He returned on Tuesday morn- ing, called Mr. Conant over to his office, and anounced that he was resigning as premier, and that he was naming Mr, Conant as his successor., All day long Mr. Con- ant remonstrated with him. He was not anxious to take over the premiership in this way. He asked Mr. Hepburn to call the cabinet together, and let the members pick a successor. Hepburn stub- bornly refused. He asked Mr. Hep- burn to consult Harry Nixon, but Hepburn said that Nixon had pre- viously declined to accept the pre- miership, and that it had to be Mr. Conant. The only alternative was that he would dissolve the Legislature and call a general election, to which both he and Mr. Conant were then strongly oppos- ed. Late in the afternoon, rather than expose the people of Ontario to an election, Mr, Conant finally consented to take over the Pre- miership. He came home to Osh- awa that night, and the next af- ternoon returned to Toronto and at six o'clock in the evening, went to the home of Hon. Albert Mat- thews, then Lieutenant-Governor, where Mr. Hepburn formally hand- ed his resignation 'to the Lieuten- |ant-Governor and named Mr. Con- ant his successor. There and then, in the presence of a company of newspaperman and myself, Mr, Conant was sworn in as premier. RETAINED AS TREASURER Looking back over what happen- ed later, I feel that it was a mis- tain Mr. Hepburn as provincial treasurer. But it was done for the purpose of retaining for the pro- vince his undoubted talents in that field of government. It did not work out well, for a very good) reason. Mr. Conant conceived it to be his patriotic duty to try to heal the breach between the Ot- {tawa and Ontario governments. He labored unceasingly towards that was succeeding, but in his efforts in 'that direction, thorn in the ies. take on Mr. Conant's part to re-| He kepl up his attacks on Mac- kenzie King. The climax came one Friday ai- ternoon in the following March, in the Legislature. On that day, with Premier Conant in his seat next to Hepburn, and with all the pro- vincial cabinet in their places, Mit- chell Hepburn delivered his bitter- est tirade against Mr. King and the Ottawa government. The prin- ciple of cabinet responsibility left only one thing for Mr. Conant to do, and that was to remove Mr. Hepburn from the cabinet. Fortnately, the way was made easy for him by the fact that when he resigned as Premier the previous October, Hepburn had also handed to Mr, Conant his resigna- tion as provincial treasurer. That had not been accepted, but it was never withdrawn by Mr, Hepburn, So it was brought from the files, and Mr, Conant wrote a letter to Mr. Hepburn, accepting his resig- nation from that office, and de- spatched it to St. Thomas by spe- cial messenger. kor this, he re- ceived the thanks of his colleagues in the government. CAREER ENDED With that incident, Mr. Hep- was virtually ended, although he was re-elected MLA for Elgin County in the general provincial election which was called by the Hon. Harry Nixon in August of 1943. Incidentally, when Mr. Nixon became Premier in May of 1943, he made no effort to restore Mr. Hepburn to cabinet rank. In the 1944 and 1945 sessions cf the Legislature, with George A. Drew in offic.' as Pre- mier, Mr, Hepburn was chosen house leader of the opposition on the resignation from the leader- ship, after the disastrous election, of Harry Nixon. He was largely re- sponsible for the defeat of the Drew government in the Legisla~ ture in 1945 when he joined the Liberal and CCP forces in a vote which went against the govern- ment. 'Drew at that time had less than a majority in the House. On the defeat of the government on that vote, Drew dissolved the Legisla- ture and called a new general elec- tion, in which his party was return- ed with a clear majority. In that eléction Hepburn was for the first time in his political career, de- feated at the polls, the victor be- ing the Hon. Fletcher S. Thomas, who now is expected to take over the post of Minister of Agriculture on the retirement of the Hon. T. L. Kennedy. Mr. Hepburn's service in the Legislature thus ended as it be- gan, in a ° spectacular manner, since his defeat was one of the most unexpected results of the election. He had been a member of the Legislature for eleven years, Eight of them he spent as Pre- mier of Ontario. Through all these years, he was bedevilled by ill health, but at crucial moments he was always able to recover and carry ais burden of administra- tion and of leadership of the Le- gislature. Innumerable stories can be told about him. He was his own worst enemy, in that he allowed his obsessions against Mackenzie King tp warp his better judgment. So, he became the means whereby his party passed out into the wild- erness many years before it was properly due to do so. Truly he lived up to the name of 'stormy petrel" for even his closest as- sociates could never predict what his policies and decisions werk going to be. MADE GREAT CONTRIBUTION At the same time, he made a decided contribution to the well being 'of the people of Ontario. During his regime, taxes were reduced, many new and improved health measures were enacted. One of the most important was the bill making compulsory the pasteurization of milk, which was adopted by the Legislature after one of the most moving speeches ever made by Mr. Hepburn with- in its walls. It is safe to say now, looking over the years, that had the war not intervened, the Hep- burn government might have con- tinued in power under his leader- ship far beyond the date of its demise in 1943. With it all, Mitch was a likable character. He exuded goodwill and bonhomie. He rejdiced in the fact that all and sundry around the Parliament Buildings, when at the height of his career, knew affectionately as '"The Chief." It was a sad ending to find him cause he could not reconcile a per- sonal feud with the Prime Minis- ter of Canada. SET TAX RATE BELLEVILLE (CP)--City council at its inaugural meeting, Monday set the tax rate for the current year. A tax rate of 70 mills was approved by council, a seven-mill increase over last year. Four and one-half mills of the boost was due to a rise in educational cOsts. burn's stormy career in public life | pass' from the political scene be-. the snow and the frost, but in Parks commission greenhouses dt Niagara flowers are blooming with no regard for the weather FLOWER LOVERS AT NIAGARA DISPLAY Flowers from Canadian home | outside. Flower-lovers are throng- owners' garden are gone with | | ing the exhibit which has over 2,000 chrysanthemums of 150 varieties. --Central Press Canadian By JOHN LEBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)--Canadian labor is closing out a year that was vol- canic in spots but generally marked by unspectacular progress. Organized labor took some ob- and large, it moved' ahead. The national wage average pushed to successive peaks month after month, under labor impetus. Union membership swelled to rec- ord figures. The base of union or- ganization was broadening into new fields. The biggest headline-snatching development of 1952 was the payoff in the long-standing feud between A. R, Mosher, 71-year-old president of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees, and James E. McGuire, his rival for the top job in that largest of Canadian trans- port unions. MOSHER RESIGNS A long rough fight resulted in McGuire being thrown out of the CBRE and this was followed by Mosher's resignation as boss but later he was elected honorary president. Mosher went on to get re-elected as president of the Cana- dian Congress of Labor, which he founded in 1940. Late in the year, talk of organic unity among all factions of the approximately 1,100,000 workers in organized Canadian labor gained new strength. This was stirred by suggestions of an AFL-CIO amal- gamation in the United States, which would put pressure on their Canadian associates. But there were no active steps Labor Moved Ahead Steadily, Not Spectacularly In 1952 jectfves, made gains towards, others, was stalled elsewhere. By | towards liaison in Canada, though Mosher's 370,000-member CCL was warm for affiliation with the 525, 000-member Trades and Labor Con- gress. During the year, the TLC moved a few degrees farther away from confederation. The stand of smaller central labor bodies towards amalgama- tion was not made known, On wages, unions generally man- aged to move ahead during the year. BIG WAGE DISPUTE But as the 1952 close neared, the country's biggest wage dispute was still unsettled. That was the strug- gle between the railways and un- ions representing 144,000 non-opera- ting employees, the largest bargain- ing group in Canada. The same group staged the paralyzing rail strike of 1950, but the question of a strike was not raised in the current fight. During the year, the voice of communism faded further in unions, The big central bodies had clared out all but the minor fringe of Reds. Another move in this tough fight was a clean-up of the leftist-ridden Canadian section of the United Textile Workers of America (AFL- TLC). Its top Canadian leadership was expelled and supplanted by anti-Red officers. Unions made inroads into the government-employee field during the year. The TLC signed up about 5,000 workers in the federal gov- ernment's unmeployment insurance commission, breaking new ground. It also issued a charter for a fed- eration of around 20,000 municipal employees across the country. - SHIRLEY Skating Popular Holiday Pastime H. B. DUFF Correspondent SHIRLEY -- The ponds are froz- en enough for skating. The young folks enjoyed their weekly hockey game over the weekend. The weather man has failed to give the children snow. for those new lseighs and skis. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Coates, Mr, and Mrs. Sandy Moore -and daugh- ters spent Christmas day with Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Slute at Colum- him | bus. Mrs. Allan Moore and Neil were in Sonya with relatives for Christ- mas. Mr, and Mrs. Elwood Tripp had Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Tripp as their Christmas guests, Mrs. H. Moore and family were with Mrs. Moore's brother, Fred Lamb, Mrs. Lamb and family, Manchester on Christmas day, Mr. and Mrs. W. Tripp held Christmas and had as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. W. Lambe, Betty and Donna. The weekly euchre was held on Monday evening at the home of SALLY'S SALLIES Copr. 1953, King Features Syndicate, Inc, World rights reserved. "Just when I got to know the ning the Government, they're making chan names of most of the men | run- ges" Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Simon's, Hay=- don, with a very good attendance. Seven tables of cards were played, and the prizes were awarded to Mrs. Fred Toms, ladies first; Mr, Keith Vancamp, men's first; con- solation prizes went to Mrs. Flor- ence Graham and Seidtz Van-Der- Merr. Lunch was served and a pleasant evening was enjoyed by all, Don't forget the opening of the new hospital in Port Perry on Wed- nesday at 2.30 a.m, January 7. Some of the pupils have sore arms after the last period of needles and oculation at Man- chester last ek, Mrs. Smith and sons, Peace Riv- er, Alberta, have been visiting the Moore and Coates families. Christmas visitors with Mr, and Mrs. L. Fenton and family were Mr. and Mrs, R. Puffer and daugh- ter, Oshawa, Miss Barbara Fenton, Toronto, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tripp, Jean and Joanne, Mr. and Mrs. Melville Lambe and family, Toronto ; Mr. Melville Lansing, Mr, and Mrs. Murray Coates, Barbara and John were with Mrs. Coates' parents, Mr, and Mrs. C. Mountjoy, at Cad- mus. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Coates and Patsy were with Mr, and Mrs. Russell Corner and Myrtle, on Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Duff, Tom and Robert had their family home on Saturday and spent the week- end. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ross Duff, and Graham, Bur- keton; Mr, and Mrs. Donald Banks and D'arcy, Port Credit; Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Randall, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs, L. J Short, Seagrave. Mr. and Mrs Russel Wray held Christmas for their family: Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Mountgomery, Scarboro; Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Cockranne and baby, Whitby; Miss Burness Wray, Oshawa. Game Warden Sees Fish Haul, Seizes 4 Tugs PORT STANLEY = (CP)--Four Port Stanley fishing tugs, carrying an estimated 360 pounds of blue pickerel, entered this Lake Erie harbor Monday under-the watchful gaze of a provincial conservation officer, who knew the fishing sea- son had closed four days ago. Dan Neil of St. Thomas, of the department of lands and forests, | slapped a seizure order on: both | tugs and pickerel, Tug captains said they were just out collecting nets set late last month. Neil said they had already been given an extra two days a- ter the Dec. 31 deadline to gather them in. RE oh Neil added that definite disposi- tion of the case awaits word from' But Slip By HAROLD MORRISON OTTAWA (CP)--The daily battle with living costs became less ardu- ous in 1952 as prices slipped from their peaks, but the era of infla- tion was by no means at an end. Monthly cost - of - living indexes showed slight declines, but price averages for the year actually were higher in 1952 than in 1951 when consumer and bank credit controls and other government steps were taken to brake the ad- vance, Prices eased, but they did not come down as fast as they went up in 1951. And as the year 1952 drew to an end, there were many com- modities and services, such as rents and medical costs, still reach- ing for higher ground. OPINION DIVIDED In the first 10 months of 1952, the old cost-of-living index dropped by less than one-half the total jump it made in 1951. The decline in the new consumer price index was less than one-quarter of the 1951 boost. And federal economists didn't see eye to eye as to what will take place in 1953. Some suggested that prices may continue to weaken. Others tonsidered that heavy de- fence spending in both Canada and the United States will continue to keep prices firm, In 1951, the old prices yardstick, based on 1935-39 prices equalling 100, jumped 16 points from 175.2 in January to an all-time high of 191.5 in December. It dropped less than seven points in the first 10 months of 1952--to 184.8 in October. THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Tuesday, January 6 1958 5' Living Costs Up Some 1952 DROP SLIGHT The new consumer price index, based on 1949 prices equalling 100, showed a nine-point gain during 1951 to a peak of 118.2 from 109.1. It dropped only two points in the 10-month period of- 1952--to 116.1. The bureau of statistics plans to continue publication of the two in- dexes simultaneously for at least janother few months. Then the old index will be discarded. While many a housewife could argue that prices, generally, still 'were high in 1952, the same could be said of prices in other Western countries--the United States and Britain. One of the factors in the 1952 price drop stemmed not from gov- ernment anti-inflation measures, but from a near-catastrophe--the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in south Saskatchewan, GOVERNMENT SUPPORT With meat surpluses mounting and the American market shut, meat prices in Canada began te drop from their 1951 peak. Governs ment price props helped to prevent a runaway meat price decline, but prices still were a lot lower than they were in the previous year. Meat is a big item in'the aver- age kitchen and in cost-of-living in- dexes, Food prices generally pro- {vided the main power to propel the cost-of-living index to its 1951 peak. They also forced living costs to lower ground in 1952. While foods declined, rents, the second most important column in prices yardstick, climbed, follow- ing removal of governmental con- trols. All Work, HONG KONG (AP) Tze Chai is a blast furnace worker in Manchuria and is 25 years old. The Communists propaganda to illustrate the grand estate to which the worker has come in Red China. The figures are all Communist and there is no way of checking them. You may judge for yourself how well Chiang is doing. He makes 452,200 yuan monthly. United States, and his expenses run into the following equivalents: Union dues, 25 cents; food for two persons, $10.75; fuel, $1.20; water, 20 cents; electricity, 28 cents; cigarettes $2.25; newspapers 25 cents; miscellaneous $2.50. The Red propaganda says Chi- ang has 98,400 yuan left over, and the rest is spending money. There are some gimmicks here. The fuel is enough to heat one room slightly and do some cook- ing. Chiang can't buy enough fuel to keep warm. The water probably is a charge for using a community tap. His clothing and shoes have to come from Chiang's "savings ac- count." That isn't as bad as it sounds, because he gets his work clothes free at the factory and he can buy two suits a year at a factory store at a discount. Blast furnace work is hard. He gets one egg and a pound of milk daily at the plant, so the 215,000 yuan allowed a month to feed two persons isn't enough, at least for one who does heavy work. There is no allowance in the table for transportation. Chiang either walks or digs into his 'spending money." He gets free medical attention, 'but his family has to pay half price. So that also has to come from pocket- money or savings. Chiang gets a flat free. Nothing is said of his wife's clothes, so these apparently also haye to be whacked out of his pocket money or savings account. Entertainment? He can go to the plant movie for half price, That is equivalent to $22.40 in the | No Play Rule In Red China -- Chiang | but it runs only propaganda film, Last year Chiang spent & month at the union rest home, paying one- third of the expenses. Unless savings accounts under Communism' have a singualr elas- ticity, Chiang does not drink, dance or play games that cost anything. He does not have guests unless they bring their own food. Chinese arrivals in Hong Kong say the worker is better off than anyone else in China (except Com- | munist brass of course) but that isn't saying much. MANCHESTER Teacher Flies Back to Work MANC TER -- Mr. and Mrs. A. Roach visited in Toronto on Sunday afternoon. Omitted last week were the fol- lowing holiday visitors: Miss Hazel Gregg, Colbourne, with Mr, and Mrs. W, W. Holtby; Mr. and Mrs. D.Heayn and family, Scugog and Miss Arnold; Brooklin, with Mr, and Mrs. S. Arnold. Mrs. Harold Archer spent Christ mas with her daughter, Mrs. Bry- don and family at Brampton, Mr. and Mrs. Phipps,' Honeydale and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mulholland, Greenbank, were New Year's guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E, Mul- holland, The Women's Association will meet on Thursday afternoon, Jan- uary 8 at the ho meof Mrs. G. Croxall, Mrs. Wylie of Port Perry will be the guest speaker. Miss Doreen Johnson and her girl friend, who is a pilot, flew to Kingston on Sunday where Dor- een resumes her teaching duties. Mr, and Mrs. Clark Harrison Toronto, visited Mr, and Mrs. W. P, Crosier on Sunday. 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