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Na A, _ . i . 3Nesbltt Claims P r o p o s e d ll Change Lacks Suffici- l ent "Teeth" " , i -----. l, u n All-L ATTACKS WOLF , Attorney-General Arthur Roebuck ' , opened the "industrial standards" de- , 5 bate in yesterday's Legislature and was i , countered by a Conservative statement 1 . ' that it labor laws were to be passed': 5 :hey should have more teeth. Wheni l the House adjourned the bill still faced , F l the second reading hurdle. ( l "A simple wooden lathe painted like ,iron." Russell Nesbitt, Conservative! . i spokesman and member for Toronto- i lBracondaie. termed the legislation. i"We expected that the Minister of Inabor in this hill would bring forth l a mountain. I say he has pmduced a tmolehill." and Mr. Nesbitt charged "hat he could see behind this "the; . l political astuteness of the Prime Min- l ister." _ E "Wott" Scored. i, l To galleries occupied almost eta-i tirely by men, the Attorney-General: declared that achievement was un-' attainable it the "wolf," the "pirate." and the "ehise11er" continued to _ dominate the situation. "Thia bill," he said. "proposes to (permit the great majority to meet i and agree. and when they have agreed, to then impose it on the wolf who [ stands aside and ruins it." i The Attorney-General cited 84-hour 'weeks and 87 weekly pay checks as (he submitted that all was not well tsociaily in the Province. Ninety-tour i great strikes and lockouts had occurred in Ontario in the past year. and the l Attorney-General figured the loss in the" " Undercutters. wages " approximately t300,000 and l The Attorney-General pressed the . the loss to industry-employers and a} point that the legislation was aimed employees alike-at 8i,000,000. at the minority who undercut their It was better, he argued, to inter- icompetitors with vicious labor prSC-, vene in labor troubles in the period itices. Most employers would like tol preceding open warfare. Under the (give higher wages. but " any meet- projected act the Department ot Labor ing there was always the skeleton. might call a meeting on petition of '"I'he mummy at the feast was the either side and would fill the chair- ehisel1er. the man who Mood out." manship. For his political philosophy Mr. . There was no compulsion on the Roebuck again repeated. he had little; ' Department. employers or employees. {belief in governmental interference l "but if both sides with a proper and iwith trade matters. ."I wish 1583-1 sufficient majority agree on a schedule latures would realize,' he said, that; ot wages and hours-it the repreaenttr- no Parliament can successfully at- tion on both sides is sufficient to mp tempt to regulate business. And mice the Department that public In tttit respect 'egu1tstton must be opinion will support the agreement- left to those within the industry. then the Minister may recommend to But low wages and long hours did .the Ihreeutive Council that an order not necessarily mean low production be passed making tttat schedule the costs--" body of fairly well satisfied law of the land and imposing that working people mm ge'", l',',, . schedule on those who stand out from manutaeturer than . dd u or the meeting." day in the mane envelope.