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' f March ; | | | | Mr. Finlayson then Stated that dur-- ; | ' |[f | ing the summer the contractors were | Off the ti@s Of Years just because he | | getting 60 cents . _ | becomes associated with a Govern-- | a day for feeding the 7+ | P 'men, and now it was reduced to 50 | ment?" He then referred to the num-- ffigts."Wehavemnom'campsupm beroldimcb&rmu:heldby Premlerl standard of the Health Depart-- Wumd &tilebec. reading off a ment--not like our friend." long list, t 1ed ded Mr. Nixon for Mr. Murray--All lumber camps are | being a&og ie with Liberals, one of P under the regulations of the Health | YNOM NAG, very association for %&rtment. 'They send doctors in. | Wwhich he lamed Premier Henry. l t year they took pictures of men | , Mr. Nixon--Do you want an answer * | eating in one of my camps, and it was | to that? I emphatically disapprove | used as an advertisement for a syrup.. |Of it. That is just the very thing I | And it was done for 50 cents a day,. am protesting against coming into even if costs were higher then. . Ontario. | | _ Now men in his district were doing -- ation with co--operative companies? _ | Government work for $0 cents a day,| Mr. Nixon--I am not yet a memberl {109 :aifii(. n"Oneflman tolddme he had: of a Government. I 'a ve miles up and five miles ; «4 honorable frien j | back; that he walked 88 miles, worked | gxe;?élr,ged over the p:'i?ngp %s'nfitg 88 hours and got $8.80. If a man can|; <statement on the reduction of the keep a ra'mily on 80 cents a day, then | membership of this House, but they why did it take 80 cents to board one can at least take cold comfort there Iman on the trans--Canada Highway?l in the fact that, of necessity, their 1 1 This road in my constituency is prac--| loss must be unquestionably less than $ tically being built by slave labor." !__ it will b»> on this side of the House," | ie t Hon. Mr. Finlayson again rose:| continued Mr. Strickland, who said | ||\ | "There is a great difference between that his own constituency would prob-- | ,subsxst,ence camps and work camps.. ably be affected. But he urged that _ | Last year we paid wages of 30 cents| | the Government keep in mind the | & lan hour. In the spring a number of| area of a constituency, as well as its 3 'mcn had nowhere to,go and wantedl population. / | to continue on. We kept a few, and "If the public is right in the as-- | at the end of the summer there werc' sumption that this Province can be -- | six or seven thousand. None of them _ adequately looked after by some were asked to go. They are doing ex-- _ ninety members, does it not fOllOW| | cellent work and are happy and con-- _ that a similar and more drastic prun-- | _ tented. Now the pay is $10 a month, _ ing should take place throughout our | '[_ and there are 11,000 men in these whole system of municipal govern-- | camps. ment, including cities, counties, towns | "For those who are working on the -- and villages?" he asked. | {g;d:tig sglmet;ectlons Lsanésare boar&- l Warning Is Given. » 4 t ome, the pay a month. rtgag | | We are giving them the $10, the same 'amR:;'gdal;(:l:tgtt&h&n;gougmed%:r; tg;'ial't; | as the men in the camps, and the rest | Government, Mr. Strickland warned | is "I'hf"' V;O",'d be spent on f{'OdT%"d his leaders not to favor the mortgagor | clothes. It is not a payment. ey «+ peop : | all requested it, and this is cheaper. ;?es'{}},',fihin :' :3x};erfici£ ll?gfklt'at %l,i: lhan direct --relief, Cxplained the , Vi'prOintp of newspapers and indi-- / . Minister. viduals is that the mortgagor must | Mydro Is Criticized. be protected. But the Government Mr. Murray: "I would like to rmake, Should not lose track of the fact that later." He then went on to complain . Contractual, and that many mort-- that the people of Ontario were pay-- 8&81008 are in no better position finan-- ing for service and should get service.' . © "}y than mortgagors. "The Hydro is guilty of sins of omis-- bothn many :im' elderly persons of sion as well as sins of transmission. ; | 2001 SA dows, and infants are There is power right at our doors, and ; | $0.9 dependent upon their return they are sending it to Western On-- | | j1OM} m&rtga.ce investments . and, tario. The people in towns such as | n ut.hism tfl.'tuntil the air is °1§f§§. Arnprior are paying $7 per 100--kilo« | PV mortgpoe i any :1?2&5 ava Tich | watt hour, while the power is sent age loans UP, W | hundreds of miles away and sold for ; | is in itself a most serious matter. With | evails _ | few exceptions, it has been my experi-- ; |\ 'The Liberal member then attacked | es qo C mn;' M abre. ind as | 'the $50,000 payment to John Airdl S'ng s tfxerg Is notmovelru-re:éh'ig f"e |Jr. in connection with the power pm'-| theg proposed legislation the 8 12 * | chases from the O'Brien interests.| | wi1 rest content. There mupsteupbe '"The Prime Minister speaks of the| | even--handed justice." | wonderful work of Mr. Aird in bring--| y % $ '\ing the Hydro and Mr. O'Brien to--| |gether. Both parties have experienced \representatives, but the way the Pre-- Imler talks one would think that those |\representatives were like wild cattle on the plains and that Mr. Aird was the brave cowboy who chased them for months, and finally lassoed them. !I do not blame O'Brien, but I do \blame the Government for paying iAlrd." said Mr. Murray. ; | "Bennott--Ferguson Circus." . _ With cheaper power there could bel a thriving lumber industry in his part of the Province, he declared. "We! _ talk of tne Barnum and Bailey cir-- cus. Now we have the Bennett--Fer-- guson cireus. While they were sitting around being entertained, Russia steps| in and sells the business men of Brit-- ain a billion feet of lumber." Mr. Murray then attacked the pat-- ronage evil, and said that in his con-- s stituency clergymen were now being A taken in by it and were coming down to Toronto on political deputations, J. F. Strickland (Conservative, Pet-- erboro') said he was amazed at the | emphasis Mr. Nixon placed on Premier Henry's association with the Toronto f Mortgage Company. "I can see the force of certain arguments, and I can see the desirability of certain things, but why should a man be asked to cut. >