Ee e C ¥ F March 5 f 'Consorvahve W ant--of--Con-- j 6 * |" Teqree Metion Lost By Liberal Member f 56 to 16 > Afealienes s i * I 1w o DdIVISIONs 1|ndus+na ; .Sfandards Acf | +4 _ Both Vicious and Futile, On two registered votes of 55--16,| Declares Col. Fr a s e l'! the Ontario Legislature last night : Hunter in Legis'afure I rejected the Conservative Opposi-' aonnen nvenineni urnnpeneanees l tion's "repeal of the school tax" amendment, and carried the mnin: » HITS NEW WAGE BILL motion before the House to adopt smengensrmmmmntimue ' the Address in reply to the Speech | from the Throne. ' Repeal of the Industrial Stand-- The Conser\'a'!i\'(' tntr'flendmem, a | ards Act--"one of the most futile straight want of confiden'ce motion, | and vicious ac 5 s sponsored by Goldwyn Elgie, Wood--| | ernment," as t: epa;:se:ritt))); dt h;: G:;= bine and W. D. Black, Frontenac-- | 'advocated in the Legislature last, | Addington, regreited the omission | \night by Colonel FredDFras Hunt--| 'from the Throne speech of any| * er, (Liberal, St. Patrick) er un ~l '\ mention of the Government to re--| "'It j Eie rIck), t ' peal the school tax legislation of | s most unfair to the little | the 1936 session. 3 man, gives undue power to labor \ The Conservatives were quite' ganizesc'l ?:bore!t]:bl:ts t?zltttfl af"d &r-- s | ready to ac(';;pl tiho mu:n mgti'on'og I iexploitation of t%\e m<g>st fr;pg:tani the same ivision -- that defeated , ': their amendm.ent, but Premier Hep--| sfilcct:i:ninnta};re)ex'hg}l]% xg;t:'csess Of"D;'D- burn said "No, we'll have a record--| \clareda Colonel Hunter '.1.}"{'3:', c:;' ed vote, here, too. 'you have codes when you cannot 'Budxct Is Next. {police them and when a neighbor--| -- | Farquhar Oliver, UF.O., South 'ing Province may render all your' ' Grey, voted with the Government precautions futile by paying no at--| ' on each occasion. Dr. A. D. Rob-- ® tention whatever to your rules. erts, Sault Ste. Marie, rcr-alvitt:'ant Sees Failure Shown. | supporter of the afternoon's debate, ¥ * . |also cast his votes with the Admin-- ,rdfhio{: ili':\recggc::;g;:};}:ila'sg;(:. | istration. _ | _ land and other countries Last night's proceedings, followed a lesson to would-beleidse):lloitsl:;l tl': |again by crowded galleries, fermil |this country. It has in Australia led ated two weeks of rather drab de-- !directly. by its confusions and dis-- ;batc. and paved .tho way 19 'h*'_ 'ruption of production, to the spread 'prpwptmion on Tuesday next by of serious and dangerous subversive \Premier Hepburn of his third Bud-- doctrines. It is a half--baked measure \get since assuming direction of the and must be repealed in its entire-- Province's affairs and control of |ity." the Provincial Treasury. "That Bud-- Dealing with the minimum wage get," as the Prime Minister has re-- situation--a matter that looms more | peatedly forecast, "will be an eye--| prominently than ever in this Prov-- 'opener to the Opposition and to the | 'ince, now the Hepburn Adminis-- | public at large." | 'tration is legislating such a wage :Lauds French--Canadians. I ltor men -- Colonel Hunter argued | The votes followed immediately | ithat no wage based upon hourly pay on the heels of a quiet, yet force--| g;';'i'égfsu ;';}_ iSG%:"r:'l}% d.'EV:,E hl: |\ ful appeal by F. B. Brownridge,.| > jr s in England, Sai » | (Liberal, Stormont\, for recognition '"most employment contracts were lof the fine qualitles of the French--| upon iat least a yearly basis. W}}\mt !Canadian people, who. in his county | is io Ahee S W pedielpccmigh i s s in particular, he said. had contri-- e receives $5 for this? our an \buted so much to general progress | firs%hin the next hour? _ _ a and development. As time went on, 'The whole system of firing an hiring must be based upon co--opera-- he said, more and more provision tion between every factor in pro-- for promotion of the French langu-- duction and consumption. In no age should be made "within our social legislation that I am aware educational system." of has the question of the rights of A sharp dig was taken by Mr. the consumer who is responsible for Brownridge at Colonel _ George * the whole economic cycle been ade-- Drew, the Provincial Conserva-- quately considered, except in Japan,. tive organizer, for his alleged dec-- where hirings and firings are now laration during the recent East compulsory." Hastings -- by--election that . the With regard to Hydro legislation," French were "a defeated race." Colonel Hunter said that it seemed Such an attitude was "a grave mis-- to him that heroic measures had to take," contended the Stormont be taken to circumvent "a set of member, and only tended to stir commercial opportunists who would up racial difficulities in a land otherwise have exploited the people where such things should not oc-- of the Province." . cur. j Thanks Government. Dealing more particularly with § local problems, Mr. Brownridge ad-- € vocated the construction of a Pro-- vinclal highway from Cornwall to Ottawa, linking up with the In-- ternational Bridge crossing to New York State at Cornwall. At the present time, he told the House, : Stormont, the largest of the united counties has no direct connection' with the Dominion capital, Such a : road as he proposed would not only | provide that connection, but would | reduce the present travelling dis-- tance by more than twenty miles.| * Mr. Brownridge expressed to the Government the appreciation of the ; people of his district for the pro-- jected sanitorium _ at Cornwall,| which is now in the course of con-- i | struction, and to which the Govern--| . | ment recently contributed 8100.000, ill |I | |_