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*@kpenditure, but before definitely | % f f | deciding upon the matter it was '"" | sential that ~they should knov»',t whether the mills sould count upon | * a continuous supply of wood, as con-- & templated in their original agree-- | ment, or must they shut down and| | / serap the plant, with its four mil--| | u:on dollar investment, &;ls sc:og ar;% . § H|m the' (€ s present supply was exhausted. | 44 %told them that the po}icyior. thengv- i Less Said 0 'ernment was to maintain an e-- 99 | | "ivelop on a sound ba;is our f%restry' Better, Comments ; ndustry, and assured them that an : ample supply of raw material would C. F. Swayze | ; be available to their plant on proper | s terms. The effect of the wz:ir ;)n ithe on mmonase cem e mm en ~* | | : financial situation rendere t im-- [ C possible for them to go on with their 4 DEBATE |N LEG'SLATU RE' 'k, plans at that time. Some time in E 'the winter or spring of 1919 the * ~ f H company came to me agialn and said At the close of yesterday's session f, they were now in a position to secure i2 C P Swayze, s 'theymone_v to carry out their ex-- of the Legislature,. C. . Ewl".lls \, pansion plans if they could . rely Labor member for Niagara FAS, | upon the raw material sufficient to departed from formal cut--and--dried I maintain the industry. I repeated comment upon the Speech from the I my assurance to them. I pointed hi resbects 'to | % out, however, that before anything Throne, and paid his respeci };.»;: definite could be decided an area certain members, notably to his erst-- :H S would havo to be delimited and a Wwhilse colléague, M. .M. MacBride; \i"*'-' r o 1 _ t omaAnd general report would hinvs T@bor member 'for. South Brant. | to bo made. In one caustic reference he disg-- | ""Iéa.ter on in the summer they ad-- posed of the latter member. '"Per-- | sed me that they had arranged ag is v¥2 with their bankers for their financial haps the Tess saianef litn HBS onl N requirements, and asked then that ter"' was the terse comment of the E. the assurance already given them be Labor Whip. "He says that he knows | put in writing. Negotiations _ had where he stands. It is well that he reached a stage where it became necessary that it should be made a does, for no one else does. f matter of record in the department. [, § f . [ *' I directed them to put their applica-- ikes Administration I tion in writing (and I --would give The member. for, Niagara Falls | them a written reply. announced himself as the protagon-- ""\I Company Needed Territory. Iist of the claims of thousands in ;' "It will be readily seen Dby ihs the work--a--day world who suffer r':} House and the public that the state-- from the lack of offensive and de-- , ment in The Farmers'® Sun has not fensive organization. He accepted 43 a shadow of foundation; in fact, the the Drury Administration on its re-- ffi negotiations were of an ordinary cord rather than on his label, and business character. One of our larg-- pledged to it the hearty support of t "a est forestry industries found itself | the group with which he happeéens i:; with sufficient wood to carry on tor | to be connected. 3 . only a few years. They asked to be | "I am not working for organized (€> assured that they would be main-- | * Tabor alone, though I sit among its tainsed as a cutting concern on fair | representatives," declared the speak-- f terms. The department merely re-- | er. "I am working as well for those served an area tributary to this | who have to struggle along without plant, from which at a later date, | organization--for the telephone op-- tfl after full information had been ac--| erators, for the serub women in the ($" quired, territory could be set apart offices down town. It is up to us a from which cutting rights would be | to protect those unfortunates who ':;'_" given to this company upon proper | * have not sufficient organization to "';;f terms. | protect themselves, the thousands s "'The article in The Sun reads; | who labor but stand outside the /sts wae*" "*"A most extraordinary circum-- | ranks of organized Labor as we :23 ltanc':'e" was :.lhehway Mr. Justice Rid-- | know it." & s dal described the manner in which | 6. & > /. t ]threo letters had been taken from | Much Still to be Done. s ithe tiles of the Department of TLands, | © '"'The magic of this Government," s Forests and Mines, and later return-} he continued, '"is not in its name at {ed. These letters contained thal all, but in the record of the legis-- v~ & promise of the Hon. Howard Fer--| lation it put into effect last session. 8 o guson to give away 5,000 square | It has accomplished great things, io miles of forest to the Spanish River | and it has ahgad of it a great deal Pulp & Paper Company. SA vret to accomplish."' Among these is "Again I say this is the vilest kind | latter, he felt, was the problem of i. l of slander. There were no letters| the eight--hour day. He had no ~ss removéed from the files of the dE'-l k doubt whatever that the day was tss 'ix partment, and no lettel" contained a coming: when it would apply in all; es l promise to give any territory to any' lines of industrial endeavor. "At : , : company. | the same time." he admitted, "it .. w would be foolish for one Province | u. o l ¥igorous Comment. to adopt it and not another." | ax. --4 "A letter written to Mr. Meade on Other work lay. ahead,.> scarcely | %j';; '\Ootober 30, aiter the election, was less urgent. He referred in par-- | . iput into the distribution drawer and ticular to the evils of a system that | . {evidently was inadvertently carried permitted the enormous annual laway with my private files, When waste of foodstuffs in his own con-- } sn imy Becretary discovered it he im-- stituency. Production was of little e mediately took it to the department avail if the. fruit of the. Niagara | E. l and left it, with his explanation. The + orchards could not efficiently be & + _ |contemptible insinuation that there distrJbuted. was an attempt to suppress some-- L want to tell the public that the s' 'thing is almost beneath notice. I man to blame for the cost of fruit to > \would like to draw the attention of consumers is not the farmer, but the | . 'the public to the postcript in my | {'_ellow in between," said Mr. Swayze. | letter to Mr. Meade in which I| Some of the grapes that brought | s specifically said that I was retaining 4 the growers in Niagara district this ' 6 'z copy of Mr. Smith's letter for the year some $87 per ton sold at points | e official files. in the United States for morse than| "Ordinarily it would be difficult $400 per ton. It is the middleman for one to understand how such who is taking the toll. gross misstatements of fact could be' Fcores Militarism. \ made. In the present instance, how-- 7 | ever, it can readily be accounted for | _ "Cut out the military training in | ; from the comment and conduct of | your schools and replace it with | 'the commissioners conducting this | "'"th}'tic training, and make your | ' so--called inquiry, which undoubtedly hoy shand girls build up their bodies f | were made to inflame the public 4 'c,?] tlat they may be fit for service --._ / mind for political purposes.'"' should thG',need_arise," went on the ' Weoeeitcmmarimrmmmmmentememmnmmmmes -- speaker. '"'Provide bettér technical e s * schools in the cities and better agri-- 4 § *