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Acton firm acquitted dismisses Superior charges Herald writer Glove Works Limit of Acton was acquitted last week of charges the company tried stop employe at tempts to form a union laying off 14 employees Charges were laid before the Ontario Labour Relations OLKB in when the company coowner and general manager Frank began hying off em ployces within days of the of an attempt to form a local of the Canadian of United Brewery Flour Ccrcil Soft Drink and Workers In their submission to the board the union for reinstatement of these inner Clove is one of the largest glove factories In Can a da It employees about people mostly women The IB on handed down July was a majority decision than a mom one with vice chairman Arthur and board member C G Bourne feeling the company had justified layoffs on economic grounds while the third board member C A Ballcnl disagreed In their decision the major ity members said the company discontinued production of a new of gloves and hid off the employees hired to produce it When the com idence is examined in Agricultural museum brimming with history Herald special The newly opened Ontario Agricultural Museum in Mil ton has enough bits to keep person buy for two days and there is more lo go before it finished Early farm techniques dlsphys and life style exhibits make up the bill of fare at tins museum which Is operated by the Ontario ministry of mil food highlight Die of agriculture in the province This after three years of construction the museum is opened It consists 12 buildings on an HO acre lot near the Kelso Conservation Area with another doien or so building to be built by 1895 when the 10 year building program ends The main building houses exhibits ranging in sue from old photographs and labels from tin cans to tractors and period rooms TIN CAN of tin can and bottle dating from the 18805 to the 1920s will be feitured for six weeks An agriculture hil of will lie idded as well this will not be off connected with the scum into the main build is like stepping into the All the displays are ar ranged ln roomlike setting when to a natural feeling to the museum bits trace the evolution of power on the farm from man to huge steam powered tors standing more than eight feel till to the combustion engine and beyond This is open all year round the winter in October The museum is not limited to inanimate displays The Clark McClcary House originally built in the 1330 has restored and now house iiir and lions by women In period costume A complete cross rends community will be built it the centre of the site including shingle mill cider mill blacksmith shop John Deere firm dealer ind a women institute well as a church A in the style will open by mid July just one of steads planned Visitors will be able to sec a typical farm from the 1830s 1960s and 1947 along with the version when all Through private donations loans and purchases the mu scum has collected more than artifacts The displays in the theme hill arc arranged to take the visitor through the changes in agricultural technology and rural life a lys Bob museums general Organized tours have been joing through the all spring and now that summer is here museum staff expect more and more dual tourists will he taking of the f One facility which can be of more than entertainment ilue is the research library is open to the public Anyone doing a research pa per on the subject or anyone with an interest in the period will likely find a healthy sup ply of material Summer visitors can be ried around the grounds in wagons to save wear and tear on the feet A picnic will keep body mil soul united i g a long day sightseeing The museum is open all summer until after Thanksgiv from a to its totality there can be no doubt that the lay can be Justified on grounds In view of Mr admit ted union bias they said it is not surprising that when lay occurred they were regarded by employees with suspicion and the complaint was laid However the board felt in this proceeding mem bers were not concerned with employee perceptions but with the motivations of the respondent IGeng The fact that some union members were not effected by the lay also influenced the judges Apart from the fact that Ihc lay were so clearly war ranted on business grounds there Is the fact that none of the union were laid off or In any way made the subject of reprisals the board said The board stressed It has made no finding as to the respondent conduct in the period preceding the lay constitutes a violation of the act Nor has it expressed any opinion as to the effect of such conduct upon employee desires or free wishes Dissenting board member CA filed a ate statement saying in my respectful opinion their dcci is wrong in relation to the board jurisprudence and does provide a remedy for those employees whose rights have clearly violated by the respondent The dent gave evidence thai ii was his original plan to lay off gradually by a weeding out process but when he became aware of the union organizing campaign he laid off en masse the onus falls on the employer prove on the probabilities thai It did not contravene the Act The respondent must prove that the economic reasons it advances are the rea suns for lay In regard the union animus of the respondent the very least the should do is direct the employer recall the laid off in preference any new employees as circumstances require Union lawyer John McNa said that the decision was most certainly disappoint ing but it will In no way effect on application for certified Documents were to file for a certification hearing several weeks ago but at the last moment he decided against filing them until the decision was released on the hearing which ended May Now he will proceed to ask or a certification hearing Although the decision could be appealed to the or reconsideration or the Ontario Court Court it is unlikely that an appeal will be hunched he said Glove employee with 11 exnwience the plant and of leaders of the move she Tilt July II organize unaware of the decision There no way we re going give up she said John McNamec has the papers and statements ready to tie with the judges for a certification hearing and well go ahead Even one of the girls who has quit the plant is ready to come back and no way he can get away with the thmps he done I lost a bit of faith in justice We have to fight to get something that sour right but if we have lo we 11 do it Just we lost this battle doesn mean we ve lost the NO OPINION Union representative Bill no ion on the possibility that the was wrapping Ihc ion knuckles or filing under the wrong com la In the decision the board said that although Mr Geng a union bias was referred lo in the e parti it was not made the subject of a specific complaint or application Accordingly we do not consider it appropriate for purposes of this decision to make any findings or express any opinion in these regards presume guess what the board miRhl have been when they wrote that he said Robed H 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