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trig georgetown hferam wedafctdayeveairig february 18th 1942 hikoac federal mw speaks oocstlrused from pag 1 sboald be set up for the aimed f oreee x would urge that t memoir of oar timed tone wtsll serving in cut- sa should renin us wto j per day end vrtill in active trnm iiiwwei en hi4ittrtwi gj per a yt saving should not be paid now tttt at trie end of use war when tee beys return tome will nil to eons- elite uselr education uany of usees sui marry omanuj all of tnem will find tt ouncujt to get back into ctrulaa ufa none of use osonry would nave to b paid now tala would not detract from me war effort it would be no hardship to continue wartime taxa tion for a ire years alter use ear ttsrre i another feature about una the proposed deynsrol would catab- usts a trrenrnoous reservoir of oon- aomer amend far good at a time wtsen this country will badly naed a eflrugtmer drmand for good to etert it lndurtjlei roust again us prece- ume operations turning over from warunse ocerauona tn tome ccenmunltlra ccntiivrebl harm is bring done to us war rtfon through the hlis wares bring paid especially on piece work tn warume tsduslry- in tills regard 1 have a aasggesllon to mere x want to say at once that these young lad wbo ere baking ft it 19 and some as high as cio a day are rartslng thru- monry on e cornpeutlv labour merart and should hate that wage i would not do anything which mould tend to cut down the production of war material but t do not brunt that in time of war any workman tn oeneo should receive e greater cash wage than uw equivalent of what he would rrrclve were he tn use army in the army single rntn without dependrnta re ceives the equivalent of about 117 a week that is ii jo a day his board clothes medical and dental ftrivlrec a uiarrlrd man with tao children re- eatve the equivalent of 130 a were bacaiuf you must add in races of the amount paid to the single man the t30 per month dependents allow ance to the wife and 12 e month for each of the- children i do not think use during a war such as this any workman in canada vtvould receive in cats morv than the equivalent of what be would receive mrrr he in the urmy of courts it muh be kept in mlna that in the army there are varying rates of pa noncoramltlonfd on ctrl and commlvlonrcl offjeert rrceuc more money in the fuclorlt super intendent would have to bet more rnony uul ni huxtfition lv that in the main the cssh ttiwe to the worser of carada ihoulii be the equivalent of use coah vlgf he aoulu rtcele if he were in the artny x aald a moment ago that i aoulet not deny any man the uaje he earns x would pay him the balance of his wages in a nonnesrotlacle er savings certlhcale which he could not cosh pledge nor give away until the war over ttiereby you would be doing two things benefsclsl to this war effort you atsuld be preventing that man trom calling now for consumer gooda using up materials which should go into the war effort and you would also be building up a postponed con- aumer demand which will come in very handy when the war is over x now come to a subject which x he sitate to discuss because i frankly ad mit that perhaps sometimes i myeelf may have trangrested the hon meaw bar for waterloo south mr ilomuth who is now looking so seriously at me davy us a measure concur in that re gard a deliberate attempt la being made at this time to atlr up political strife in canada to atlr up section and racial strife to pit french canada against qsstllshepcajclng canada x wish to protest against this practice with all the vehemence at my com mand it b selfish it is disloyal it la dednff a lot of harm to canadas war effort i suggest that x on my par should search my heart and that every hon member should search his at this time i should ask myself am i doing anything at which my conser vative frlcndi could take offence am x doing anything which will harm the morale of the canadian people i x am then i am being dlhlovrtl to can ada dtrorc savins anything in this chamber or out of it i should ask myself the question will what i am about to suy help or will it actually harm canada war effort i am not euggotlng thai unfair attacka should not be answered where the occasion demands plalnspcaklng wo should apeak our minds perhaps in the past x have on occasions been too vehe ment in my views but notwithstand ing all this i say to myself and to every hon member think of canadas war effort before speaking x freely admit that i have already dictated and thrown away two seeches jot this debate and i am not satisfied with my speech today it is not good enough for the times it is a aname that in the midst of use present ufeanddeath struggle we should hove to take time to dlacuae anything but the war effort how ever during the few days that this house has beets in eetslon and throughout the country so much has teen sold about the present govern ment being a singleparty government mounted by the party spirit that x feci x should frankly cypress m views at the outbreak of the war we had in offloe a government that did not have a mandate trom use people to early on a war everyone agreed ttsaa there must be a general election that the otntrlltn people had a right to sleet a government to carry on the war antf that that election should take place as soon as pootltile me canadian war effort had first to be sat tn motion that was dona and at toon at doavhla having regard to uw ff of use war a general elec tion was called ib that ejection there was only one same ntmelr canada war effort both parties wars sincerely and hon attl m favour of an allout war ef fort bath parties were sincere and ttvfst in agmetng that if a lavtmiim war affort was to be made we ausplr mat- to have a united canada we had to um poutlot until the war waa ew rvorratlw party thought that use best way to take politic out bt the war effort we use fnmvshm of a nstvmsl teveramtot enmnrawl of leading men of both pay ttea this steyrwflm had considerable merit tt was a view hobsauy reached by the ootssemlin party and no one has say right to ejueatlon their sin cerity or loyalty in antvtsg at that the liberal party though rtiwtnt use same end took a totally diserast view of the problem we thought use beat way to take polities out of the war effort was to divorce the war effort from the fovernment to let the army heads run use army the air bead run the air force and lb navy head run the navy aa to producuoo of gooda we thought th bast way to take pon tine out of canada war effort was tt call to leading indnrtrhllita from acre pntrts irrespective of political tfmnisnris and say to them- look af ter can ids a war production those two potnta of view both trek- in the same tod but us method a wtdr apart a the pole were placed before the canadian people uous were eloquently argued over the air ors the puhuc platform and tn the preaa when voting day came the canadian people fortunately for canada spoke very decisively there was no room sos caubt thr canadian profile had a right to choose the form of govern ment uvry thought would be the strongest in time of war and rightly or wrongly they chose a slnglrparty govrrnrctrnt the prcxnltr made by the uhrral parly hss been fully carried out i have set to hear of one cnuclsm tn this house or tn the corridors e poutlral interference in mrsrd to any of the armed lorom i have set to hear one criticism en the floor ot this house in mrerd to political intertrr- enc in letting a wax contract it is a wellknown fart that well ostr irure- quarters of all army navy and air force orocera are oururrvatlvrs it is well knosn that a ronldrruul nulirr prrerntaire than that of ukr dour-a- rar men in the dcssirtment ot muni tions and supply err coiuenitluj and they are dolns a arnderlul job tate for esamplr mr ian nlchil- son the umber rontro r he comtv from my hocne loan of uurllnulun lie was urged to contest the itho -l-r- tlon us cotiv native cundldiu- iff 1 today vlceprtldnt ot the consrrvo- tlve association in m riding will anybody sugcrm tliut tie is u itolittal aiolii1ei7 and lie has don- a vi-ji- diilul oo lor canada in umiiiilim with 1u nur ilturt hi- ha- iavid tills countrv mllon- of dollar- in the purcha nt tlnitx r und lumlr kvt-rj- dollars worth ol kcxls bnjht l r r p irii iv bwufhl on comtwlulve tinilir or it u t ih whrii ojinji tltli- tindir jv not iw itjli is putiluimd in a hiianitulke manm r from tin iurv- that cun ust uiijily it ttioukh hundndh ol millions of aol- lors are btint aient monthly at have vil to hiur ol un mrtouo nilncon- duct or any ttolltlcul favourltlsm iluht herv lth all thiv facts 1a mind i lmiiorr the oppomuon to cease making the chance that this is a party government motivated by party feellntcs the chargr is not true hon members who make such a charge are not being fair lo lhcmscl- w or u the canadian people it is harmful to our war effort to stir up in the public mind distrust of the war government we have honestly tried to take poltucb out of the war effort if seme are still playing politics i say to the opposition denounce them give ua the particulars let us amoke them out and punish them so far as i run concemcci i owe it to the conservative party organization in my riding to say that they have fully co operated with me in the past and x am confident that this will continue in future as long as thr war last personally i renounced party poli tics tho very day war was declared since september 1030 i have not made one single political appointment at uir- time of the national registra tion after consuiung with the defeat ed conservative candidate i suggested for nomination the president of the conservative association and the presi dent of tho liberal association as the two key men in my riding lo take tho national mrutrutlon the men made fiftyfifty appointments in every wurd in tho rldlnn the entire ork wav done on a flttyftlty coopcrfttlvo basis and not one mun aoccpud ono dollar lor his work the national rc- kltrauon in halton county cast tills country nothing except the cost of printing and advertising in this connection let mc make a sukgcstlon in rcgurd to the pk-blscllc- halton county is going to tako the plebiscite vou in the same way it will not cost tills country ono dollar in halton county except for the print ing and advertising aa i have heard over tho radio and read in tho prow the many uladvtscd unfair and bitter attacks which are now being made i have asked my self this question do those men know that they are doing exactly what hitler would want them to do i just toyed with this idea what would i do if i were a paid german agent hired by hitler to try to thwart this countrys war effort in the first place just as toon as a campaign was launched for voluntary erillstmenls i would immediately spon sor conscription i would tell of all use evils and weoknesees ot voluntary en- llstment and i would be til out for ecnecrtptlon why not because x wanted men not because i wanted to help the war effort but because x wanted to harm use war effort and dry upj voluntary enlistment tn the second place when a victory loan rsmpllgn was announoed i would at ones charge use government with reckless and extravagant eipenm turps with throwing away money in taking fjlchlsolte and so on x would charge them with anything that would un dermine public confldenoo in the gor- ejnment in use third place there would bt only ona thing x could do outer than blow up a factory x would try de liberately to undermlno nublio con fluence in the government by bring ing about disunity among the ptwple x would charge the government with rxtastslaoeney by doing this x would hops toalicnatfrtjartiie gwerrimenl an the impulsive and reeueat peonls who are bs as rl atari no matter what to being done unless they are doing it thimrit then x would take us other tack i would alio charge use g with being too ruthless and too wnergeue in us proaenruon or us war x would than it with interfering with busi- nets x would chart it with doing pnwtfi tinttnesi by order id yyi i would cbarg it with falling to trust the ptcoi by doing all ot use things as a paid agent of hitler i would hop to overthrow th govern ment and to dlaturb lb public mind that unity would be lost the prime lonltur mr speaker u carrying a untie load th minister of th rrt war department are work ing to use extreme ttmjt of their rtrvngus where i ask would you find five better men tn canada than hon j u ralitoo jlon o o power hon angus 1irrtrmivi hon c d howe and hon 3 t ttsoraon i sometimes wonder if the rwntrhtn people reslls us load uses men are carrying and th load being carried by our ulnlstrr of ftnano air tklry the ulnuter of agriculture air oer- dtnrrr arsd every other min of us what about this complaint about lack of leadership what man in canada today other than wtrtmrvt king could have organised our war effort as sucresafullr aa it ha been organised what other public man tn canada today hold th confidence of all groups a he does dut ur speaker th result speak far more rsoquenlly than i can apeak to let a look at the mulls what of caaadaa morale are the canadian paopl tired of this war they are paying heavy taxr they are m tying no pro fits we are tnlrrfwrtng with thrlr pri vate business but notwithstanding all tilth what do we find instead of be ing tired of the war the canadian peo ple today are d a aim great er war affort if uses fwsuts do sot prow bstaaerty imvijivj then x do not know what leaden lg means the load being carried by th fries today in etotetusg oanssavs war effort to not by any means has sole task it 1 fortunate for can ada fortunate for us british com- moowealtb ot nitlons and indeed for aa us democracies of use world that t this time canada should nan as prime unltfrr a personal friend ot us prviast of us united mate mend and foe alike agree that this fortunate olrcumatane during both ntae and war served as a valu ator liaison b a real britain and the united states it it strange but true tlr speaker that no really great mas is universally recognised aa such during his itfrtlm i believe history will recced the fact that in ever pret erit war leader we ha use greatest statesman canada has yet proovioed- i do not for a moment expert my hon frtand of us opposition to corsair in my views but x say irreapectln of the view they hold of the prim ulnlsur that b was chosen by us people of canada lo lead our war ef fort and health pmnltung b will lead canada until victory is won ncrw just a word about contcrtn- tloo and the plebiscite and x am through w had cooarrtpuon for ten mortths ot the last war and us total number of troopa raited during that ten months period eras lets than tsooo if any hon geourman withe to check that up i shall b glad to give him the refrrroc during use past seven month of thl war we have hsd voluntary enlistment at the rate of nearly soj00o a m aa long as voluntary enliatmrnts can be maintained at thl rale cxioicrtptlao would do more harm than good to canada war effort during this per iod when conacrtpuon is unni many peocst are uptio to u and i aatn to aay that they are not all in prenob canada as tons would lead bt to hihsv ur jotncfrtoer cbo river then wtsy us rsimfcntst ur cslkavsb it ths hon ana- man win last farm tofcattw tn patt- esse for a irvnnvnt x am wgfiiutt to nut if the urn ever rirrnia whan voluntary ennttfrants tall ta ausnly our needs aa rwsca otnartltrts and those ot british ateck will support conaetlpuon make tse mistake about that forcing us tawns now before it is tttt wcl do untold harm uy hon friend thaket hi head x am just a slnosr m my view at he it tn his ur johjcbton oow river trit leunlater of juatlo dots not take that stand ur cixavbt this may be a long war voluntary recruiting may betvuri tcadequat th tvverriment nrtrtiri that th ua may com in us fa- tur when conacrtpuon may be neets- sary at us general election of imr both major parlies solemnly pudgad themselves against concrlptlon look ing to need which may arise in use future the government is asking us people by a pltotscite to cancel this ncocooatrtptloo pledge this i a democratic mean of seeking th can cellation of a plrdtw mad to ths atoe tors th pledge waa given to them and only they can release use govern ment from it orvty loyal c who want an aqoul war effort la the fins analyst must tupport the plebt- sclte th duplesslt rabbi in quebec are opposed lo any war effort at all and of court ihry will vot against the plehuclle but the loyal prvasob canadians and usey form a large ma jority win carry the plrtxtcke ta cjuerjec aa to the rest of ttniclt ihrre are tome disgruntled politicians who wish to embarrass thl govern ment there are ions mtoib bust net interest who do not ilk to pay tale ho yearn for lb eereu pro- fits which they enjoyed daring tttt ae war thee neotae to bathed ngw user i jaa 1 today maldag afgtarnarii predict they wm very aeon b i set th great blddvt coantry wia ones again i ana q earry this plerwserat with a fiiai majority th resolution x am about to read which was pasted at a eaaena of csv uuio users member held yrwiitiuy gives oar answer to on pubue aaaa in canada today who thaiks ha a thtrrtn bat i only rearranging hal grodgss wtffiti ths uheral of th hjcts ot cnmnvns fea us nt of cntario tn ftpms asarmblsd daabw at this ubs to raamra ttsatr vvjimy to and thrlr rmfvwvns in use to diip of us sugnt iji w t usckrrutt jttng prima ifjatstar otnsda and wnrreas the pramsar of totchell p tsserxirn for snm ha diraetsd his ebortt barrasxlng and inatsiung ths irvnirf ot oanada and whereas lbtrhad p tucccaw us premier of ontario is now an urt ouring to cuscradh and to insdafbsia the prearnt govtrnraent ot canada bf tndlscrtmlnats and mconiidsrd ert- uciam ot th measures tsjaen far th tttkuy prosecution of us wan and whereas b 1 p uttllg m to defeat a mlninr of us crown who i would b barnful to us giumimieth 1 and lo us rtni psopl at ttstt cnucal time nov therefor us uheral rnwrjihg ot th house ot oiimitviin tram tha provtrsce ot ontario daar to raeort their loyalty to and their cmrfwav in the lurnt lion w u ifnhratl king aa prim tcmlttrr ot runt aw and a leader ot use liberal party it is with regret that ths aald lak ers members of use house ot continued co page t tata minister ef riaancw of tttw drssnlnuvn of ceutaela otrwra for puhllc tubacribtlon 600000000 second victory loan datael and baarina intarwh trom 1st morels 1mi and of ta for cosi or conv for cavi or convermion twafvtvtaf t bonos due ttt m1rch um pvbie at maturity at 101 ctltblt tl 101 in m tfttt ittj irrttntt prribtt lit mirth tod jfmot ijsncmtljuuorls w j100 vsoo j1xo0 vsoo0 vfs000 issue price im ywdlng3j7tomjtnitfj savtv vu bonds due lit match iwi payable at maturity at 100 toaaiiott to tttsturtrv uttmt njitm id mtrca tad statmbtr dctwqbeuejuowb vjx0 who looo issue price h ritual 2x tt mtturtty tttrw maturitiat as fallowrwi for conversion only two md on uh vor vh bonds due tit september 1144 payable at maturity at 100 nmcatiblt to nuturrry latamt rajsbit 1st march and swrjaaaf oewrnlrutlofn 1000 100000 issue price 1m rwdlaf 1j0 to nutuftfy principal ones latarwit pajroalt la lavwal menry el ceuaatta th principal at any ogwaurjr sf tit boatlc of connrln ones th inter aamsfinnnnlly wttkoat cltarg at any branch a ceinrvrtei ef any chartsrael banv boncls may be twalttared at to principal or as to principal and intwtwat as prow dtd la the ouleial pretpacttu through amy aaoncy ef the book ef canatta cash subscriptions cash oubacrlptlona will bo received only tor the 3 and lor the 2 i bonds and may be gold in full at tho timo of application at tho iasuo prico in each case without accrued internet- cctror bondo with coupons will bo avallablo for prompt delivory cash subscriptionn may also bo mado payablo by inolalmonts plus accrued interest as follows 10 on application 15 on isth april 1942 is on isth may 1843j 20 on 15th juno 1942 20on 15th july 1942 2082 o on tho z bondn or 2062 on tho 2 t bonds on 15th august 1942 tho last payment on 15th august 1942 covoro tho final payment of principal plus 82 of 1 o in tho caso of tho 3 bonds and 62 of 1 in tho caso of tho 2 1 bonds roprosontinrj accrued interoat from 1st march 1942 to tho due dates of tho respoctlvo instalments conversion subscriptions holders of dominion of canada 1 jjo bonds duo isth may 1942 and dominion ol canada 2 bonds duo lot juno 1942 may for the period during which tho subscription lists are open tondar tholr bonds with final coupon attached in liou of cash on subscriptions for a liko or greater par value of bonds of one or more maturities of this loan at the issue price in each case without accrued interest the surrondor valuo of the 1 bonds will be 10089 of their par value and of the 2 bonds will bo 10080 of tholr par value inclusive of accrued interest in each case the resulting adjustment to be paid in cash the musistev of rtstaitce ga the right to accept ex to allot the whole or assjr past ef tttt amennt of this loan avsatcrthecl few cosh fog estates eg both ef the ownruime matoii ties u total stabaxrrlptieas ate bt excess ef t00000000 tsteeash pr of this lean wpl be nsaj by the fjeweavinamt to tsswai cost wvst pwispcsbwasa attsb btajr be mnslo through astw vtctewr loan aviugitmev the natletial wtmw rtmmm gisislaa jsw tiny mis llmf itewilt lis f ef assy ctuteretl banlt or tuty aatketisedl sawlbgs banli tmst or iioim ctoriiaamw froat them may be ebtrilnsrl ealscatsob fozats aael ceplu el the official ptotpechis cetirntnliig complete rletalts ef the leak th ustg win epeb est 1mb rebraary ims ami will close estesabeat i lib march ims with wuhoat suuce at the cuseretlob ef tlut llnltttr of nstassew depaxtrnent of rinanoe ottawa 14th februaxy 1043 v