The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 27 Mar 1936, p. 2

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"If the financial records of the Gov-- ernment could be opened," he said, "there would be revealed the most ' astounding picture of financial ex-- | travagance and incompetence ever | seen in the Province." An effort was * being made, _he said. to fool the people ----ought to have been resurfaced and Blakelock knew it had cost the for-- mer Government thousands of dollars to improve one curve on No. 2, and that the cost of resurfacing or widen-- ing would be colossal. After protesting against "carping criticism," Mr. Blakelock proceeded with his speech. T. A. Blakelock, Liberal member for Halton, became entangled in debate with Leopold Macaulay and Hon. George Henry when the Conservatives questioned his references to the Middle Road, Toronto--Hamilton Highway. The Liberal member had been ex-- pressing the opinion that the Middle Road never should have been started, but that No. 2--the Lake Shore Road "Rebellion," he said, "is brewing among the stricken." In its treatment of the unemploy-- ment problem the Hepburn Adminis-- tration, he said, was like the physician whose only remedies were morphine and amputations, and who cither scorned or did not understand more effective methods. He warned the House that, unless unemployment wore in some measure relieved, unrest far exceeding that of the past would de-- Regarding the Government claim that 13,000 men had been put to work in the Northern bush, Mr. Elgic de-- clared that nothing whatever had been done in the shape of a relief-- work program in Southern Ontario. The plan of putting 8,000 hostel in-- mates to work on farms had proved a fiasco, he charged, with probably fewer than 1.000 of the men gaining any permanent advantage. Sees Rebellion Brewing. by talking of economy and a balanced Money was being raised ostensibly for one purpose and then used for another, the Tory member charged, adding that the Government was morally guilty of breaking the law even if not legally culpable. Toronto Tory Sees Rebel-- lion Brewing The Hepburn Administration was accused yesterday of "the greediest | grabbing for revenue of any Govern-- | ment in the history of the Province." | The words were uttered in the Legis--| lature by G. C. Eigie, Toronto Tory, | during the resumed debate on the Budget. "Extravagance, Incompetence." CREED CHARCED TO GOVERNMENT Mr. Macaulay inquired if Mr. WORK IN HOMES TO BE LICENSED Legislation Requires Per-- mits for Individuals SUNDAY SHOOTING URGED BY HUNTER Game and Fish Committee Hears Suggestion Permits which can be cancelled for cause are to be required when manu-- facturing work for wages is carried on inside of a home by the terms of Welfare--Labor Minister David Croll's new law to strike at "home sweat--shop" abuses. The legislation was introduced in the Legislature yesterday as an amendment to the Factory, Shop and Office Building Act. The new clauses set up a system of permits which employers and workers must obtain for any work on personal or house-- hold articles. The bill's explanatory notes said there woluld be provisions for inspection, and for cancellation or the permits for cause., The old law which is being amend-- ed did extend a limited protection to homeworkers in the large cities, im the Minister's opinion. But its re-- strictions, he feels, were insufficient to insure proper working conditions Sunday duck shooting was urged on the Game and Fish Commiitee at Queen's Park yesterday by Mr. Danis, a roprescntative of the Cornwall Fish and Game Protective Associa-- tion. The Eastern Ontario hunting representative said that duck shoot-- ing along the St. Lawrence and Lake St. Francis should only be permitted from sunriss until 1 p.m.,. to give ducks a chance for afternoon feeding, and should be permitted on Sunday in that region. "'To insure proper wages being paid," the permits are to be subject to compliance with the orders of the Minimum Wage Board. § and wages, and it did not guard against manufacturers who sent such work outside of the big cities. C. M. MacFie's bill to ban hunters from any unoccupied land in Middle-- sex County on which they had not secured pern:ission to hunt, was with-- drawn. after Hon. Harry C. Nixon had said that its introduction would warn unsportsmanlike hunters of what the Legislature might do. '"You have got golfers who golf on Sunday," he said, "and fisherm>on who fish on Sunday. If the law is enforced strictly I think you could prohibit fishing on Aunday, under the Lord's Day Alliance Act." Mr. MacFice and G. H. Bethune, Wentworth M.P.P.., spoke for the bill, but hunters present at the meet-- ing successfully protested that it would b> making hunting prohibitive, and shunt the Middlesex hunters ousi to the adjacent counties. Th:y pre-- ferred, they said. some other means of dealing with the small percentage of hunters who admittedly abus>d their privileges. "The bill has served a very useful purpose in bringing to light the abuses which have occurred." Mr. Nixon said. '"Possibly with this warning of what lengths the Legisla-- ture may go we might let the matter stand in abcyance and see how it works out." HIRED MISFITS, TORIES CHARGED Henry's Northern Policy Assailed All the misfits and incompetents from among the political friends of the formor Consorvative Government were dumped into Northern Ontario jobs, where many of them disgraced themselves and their party by drunk-- enness and outrageous conduct, it was charged in the Legislature last night by J. A. Habel, Liberal M.P.P. for Cochrane North. 'The bilingual Northern member| bitterly assailed the Henry and Fer-- guson Administrations in a two--hour speech, during which he concentrated | his fire on what he termed disgrace-- i ful patronage and incapable manage--| ment of Governmer, affairs. | "All the impossible and useless mon whom the Conservative Ministers could not place in thoir own ridings." he declared, "ther shifted into my con-- stituency and other parts of the North. In my riding we had some from the ridings of the late Minister, Mr. Dunics, and Mr. Finlayson, and even a few from the forgotten Mr. Ferguson, and it was a shams to have to doal with such persons." "On the eve of the 1934 Provincial election," went on Mr. Habel, "every person who wanted to work . could ; have a job on the trunk road and on the byways. School children were : even put to work to gain favor for | the Government that was hoping for | re--election, and in one case I learned | that the teacher actually had to close the school on that account. Seed grain was given with the understanding that | if the Government was re--clected, it would be free, but if the Liberals won, : the seed must be paid for. During June of 1934, $15,000 was voted to : the district of Cochrane North, al-- ; though every available man was al--| ready at work at $2 per day. | Ministers and pricsts of various churches, he charged, were frequently insultsd by Government employces 50 g@rurk on their jobs that "it was simply diszusting to think that Min»-- isters wou'ld lot such things be done." Under the former Ministcr of Lands and Forests, he procceeded, political friends of the Government were got-- ting away without paying rightful €uss to the Crown, by jumping from cne pulpwood lot to ancther and strip-- ping them of all saleable timber, free.

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