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-- March is * . % Probe Into Trade Practi Planned Now at Queen's Park; ' + State Curb Urged at Ottawa 4 Sharscommommmentiiiee e ~ _.--.____..;__._. k A c Mr. Finlayson was speaking on the Labor Committee of Leg-- bi! introduced by William Morrison f « % (Conservative, Hamilton East), which islature Likely to Be woud grant municipalities power to & fix charges for dry--cleaning. In in-- Reconstituted -- House trogucing the measure, Mr. Morrison f ® # s recognized the radically new principle Gives Serious Consid-- entailed. but he thought conditions & c .. & C or s action. ut--throa eration to Principle of competition in the cleaning trade had @ _ c forced wages down to the sweat--shop Fixing of Prices--May class Big companies were charging # . $1.25 for work that their subsidiary _ Be Constitutional --or "fighting'--units were doing for | 49 cents. with a couple of ties thrown -- 4 AxXnLIL yaw the Tegat difficuities, but his at-- | o saw the lega culties, but his at-- NEW CONDITIONB, titude was: Pass it and let others _ ADMITS MINISTER : "X\:"wh: S ER Mr. Finlayson agreed heartily with | the principle of the bill while passing ' | no oninion on its legality. When he | An Ontario equivalent of the Stev-- L'u'st had bfienk:%ld aboufi th%rrlnsg?sgre. ns commi possi-- e was "shocked" at the j ction l;u:t cst :r: w:smoeen t ;l it suggested the Legislature should PWCY yOalerUAy: . * unofficial A&NM~ exercise But he realized that it was nouncement that the Legislature's necessary to meet new conditions ® lLa.bor Committee would be reconsti-- with new legislation. and that what 'tutcd to hear complaints that start NS considered tt'.xtreme a (ev& ggars f ago was not extreme now. ern [""'h subcontracting abuses and raDng® conqitions demanded modern rem-- . far beyond. Meanwhile the House edies. lgave serious consideration to a price= Information From Delegation. |fixing bill, and referred it to the _ A delegation had informed him, said Municipal Committee, where its radical the Minister, of conditions in the 'prlncrple will receive thorough airing. cleaning trade, with proprietors let-- | _ Russell Nesbitt, Toronto Conserva-- ting out men because they no long>r | tive, recently told the House that the could afford to pay them wages. As ' | construction industry was in a bad for the constitutional side of the mat-- way, E'O'rfllm' at least, through tender-- ter. the British North America Act f | slashing below cost in order "'to get limited trade and commerce to the \the job." He recommended at that psminion, but gave the Provinces con-- | time that a House committee be @AP-- trol over regulation of hours and | pointed to study this and other mat= shops, "This isn't sale, but service," ters which affect not only the con-- p» said. The Government was aware tractor but the worker. that conditicns were at the point where May Ask for Committee. more parliamentary control and regu-- s '_ Mr. Nesbitt now is ready to move lation of industry was nscessary. Hso | for appointment of the committee, hoped that in the Municipal Commit-- lm;!e 'lin hl;is fort:rhc&nung ;peech, will : tee the met:isure wguld receive the dis-- extend the mat to such realms as cussicon it deserved. | the effect of relief work on the build-- \ing trades and the skilled worker's ' plight under present conditions. It was learned yesterday that the Gov-- ernment is prepared to grant the re-- quest for reconstitution of the long-- dormant Labor Committee, with scope * as large as the present session's length will permit. * « On the same lines, Hon William * Finlayson yesterday told the Legis-- lature that present conditions had in-- creased opportunities for unfair com-- petition. The old friendly relation-- ship between employer and worker was gone, for a third party had inter-- posed itself between them. forcing "chiselling"' of prices and wages lower than the subsistence--point.