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March 17 (a R iss my humble opinion, discussion and | co--opcration between employer and employee, and not compulsory laws, t s is necessary to industrial peace. '"The act has worked out as a de-- 66 919 terrent, rather than a stimulus to 'n-- : dustry,'" he went on. "The act, of ¢ course, appliecs only in certain arbi-- J trary zones in Ontario, and the building industry, one of the major R industries in the Provincs, has been B * actually stifled in the zones where ll Al the arct is in ohocrat.ion." "-'Ls WI TER Defects of the act, he said, were enA OE e e nieenrvsrage that it contained no @appropriation ; MUN.ICIP AL ACT * for enforcemnt, and the cnus of en. | e Industrial Standards Act oc eer. ther haea. mestao yioh A series of Municipal Act amend Defended on Basis of _ sumciont authority to enforee iL. musisipet sioviincs l onlaro */* i ts a Improved Conditions 3153352 the, Tesislative machinery at yesterda Wererenermminreninbrrmnng j mMembers. Y by private NTARIO'S Industrial The proposed bills provide for new | elections in case of the death of a Standards Act is candidate between nomination and . "not perfect," but it tay cay o e the resignation of e '89 beyond doubt' "bene" T. & NoOo COUNSEL ning for Mayor; andnzvld::{'geiigg:g; ficial," Welfare--Labor Min-- PAID $400 A MONTH rights of joint tenants. . ister David Croll, the act's _$,__ o administrator, told the The T. & N. O. Railway pays 1 re yvesterday. Arthur Slaght a relaining fee of $400 :;:"g:'s :tu'"'"y: t Y a month, Premier Hepburn revealed | * in the Logislature yesterday. The : The statement was the first hint Premier's s'atement was made in an--| from Mr. Croll of his attitude toward swer to a query about the Toronto| the Roebuck industrial law, which was lawyer's fees for T. & N.O sarvices.| ?hn il':a bh:r. p%r:}l;ioju:i;::g:gn m The qg-:st(i)on was put og the ot'derl e P & paper by Orrosi'on mem ers . C last spring. The Minister briefly, but mm mm mm mm cmmmemenme ns mmmmmmmmmmmemaee mm ~+ whole--heartedly defended the indus-- | trial standards yesterday. His defense BOARD COLLECTS f TAX EXEMP TIONS was made in answer to Russell Nes-- $33,000 BACK P AY' CURB PR P bitt, Toronto Conservative M.P.P., lrgnnermmmnnintemnnrnney, 1 O OSED who read to the Legislature a group Arrears in wages amounting to omm nreononnn manag of tnhiw:g?l?:rof'?:e n;g:ine AttRWCKS _ more than $33,000 were collected by | Last year's attempt to curtail the "Torne Welfare--Labor Minitter 100% ;}3;.:'1:":"1""3}' W'g\; '113{?*}."'1 Lab '?9\}?'"[ tax exemption privileges enjoyed by exception to some of these attacks. ist"lr Dx;n:cczgd roid 't},e,' LegC;.s]:;tux;c- | schools and similar institutions is be-- mto Sabul'day Night flrticks on )'C;'"l"'l""' 1'1:(' 'flmlstfi[': .,3' t I mg revived m A mWied fm .'t he industrial standards, he said, * snewer 'to dOodositien aunmou ie 4 E, worse than biased; they were in 3n-x'.cr to gppofit:on qycxies. re-- | Queen's Park. misleading." He was surprised P. K. Zga"é"h;b Ee reaigle f"f?*h?d d'mffg' Morgan Baker, North York Liberal Senawell, «an enlightened editon" | / SUP ind 6680 nes taut in hen" ""I ob introduced legislation yester-- had not* seen the articlee before. and $00) was paid in fincs. | i they appeared s day which is similar to the act side-- The building industry had improved PARK-O-l\ILTER PLAN , tracked last year. The new buli pro-- 1935 and building industry figures = vides that no private schools will be 1v.:oukl show that thg act had not re-- IS BEFORL HOUSE permitted to hold more than twenty stricted building, Mr, Crol said in www--ormommnmesss acres of land free of taxation. The answer to the most frequently re-- Park--o--meters, the proposed slot-- North York member argues that in-- peated criticism of the industrial machine control of parking smoes.l stitution land is being rented out to standards, would get Provincial a.umonty for mu--| farmers who compete with taxpaying Critics, he admitted, had taken ex-- [ nicipal sanction of their activities| farmers in the same community. Two ception to the high rate of building llmdfl' a Municipal Act amendment| or three large private schools are lo-- wages which had been «stablished. |which got first reading in yesterday's cated in his riding. But what was a high rate for a full Legislature. The bill, which was in-- year's work, Mr. Croll pointed out, troduced by a private member, gives was not so high when the building City Councils power to pass by--laws trades were only getting rforty and on "park--o--meter" establishment. fifty days of work a year. s 'Toronto experience had shown, he said, that the "codes" had not changed, or only slightly increased, the , wage scale on big construction jobs. ; The standards had raised the wages ; on the small jobs--"sweatshop con-- | ditions"--and that had been Attorney= : P on en rnmmnnrin cu uies General Roebuck's purpose. 3 newbmm=am tode " uh indusnnd RELIEF WORKERS standards law--had shown building REDUCED 90 000! imcreases in the past month or so, f 3 K Fie: opposite effect from o e ns e that 'suggested." he said. Croll Charges 96,000 Em-- The Minicter prefty well knifed ans ployed in 1934 |\suggestions of stricter Government _z _2z _ _ control of wages when he dealt with Some 96,000 persons were working \a brief asking the Government to set for the Government on relief work at lower building trade rates of pay. 'midsummer. 1934, just after the June _ _"I don't know that we've reached election, the Ontario Legislature was the point, or will ever reach the point, |informed yesterday. A Government where the Government can step in and statemen} eaid that at the present tell builders how much they should time 4,695 men were on these rolls pay," Mr. Croll said. "At least we're | and all of them were working in the not prepared to do it." i North. ; Voices Criticism, R This total, Hon. David Croll said, f i does not include the relief workers on No en o OOnprofion, declared municipal relief work projects The e prtcinl Aieciblmizent condi-- Minister said the Government was tions in Ontario, particularly in the partly financing these projects in 197 ouilding and construction industrics, f ul ot have a f municipalities, but did n ve should be Ei¥en early consideration." § census of the number of men em-- He voiced criticism of the Industrial ployed Standards Act. | * "Labor should be given an oppor-- | tunity of meeting the Labor Commiit-- | > 4 ' tee of this House and presenting their | * t nforere of ui:or"m H l employers be accord-- . y ed the same privileges because, in