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--'m London recently and that he had U : no apology to offer for having made i. % 1 Paying Through Taxation. * Mr, Duckworth, who several times had attempted to secure a place in the argument, said finally that while the Dominion was spending $100,000,000 in relief of all kinds," the government had failed to move . _lon unemployment insurance. He uk A¥iLiLAI warned employers, who opposed Conse.rv alive crnk.nsm turnei{ yes-- ,contributory insurance, that under terday in the Legislature on W.el- the present system they were pay-- \ fare Minister Eric Cross, charging ing dearly in relief taxation. I g # 'that his declaration on unemploy-- He claimed the Hepburn and King Iment indicated a lack of apprecia-- administrations were "humbugging tion of the situation and drew final-- on the unemployment insurance ly from Premier Hepburn the sharp| question," by putting the onus of retort that it was neither fair nor| _ action onto one another. # right for Opposition Leader George "Are you aware of the '{GCt. ask» A. Drew to "scold the Minister of| ed Premier Hepburn, "that the Welfare" on his statement to the| Trades and Labor Council petition-- House. _ ed this government to stand back The issue was raised by William _ and await action f"°'('i' Ottawa? And rort (Cons.. -- Dovercourt) that is what we are doing. ?v:?::"i?\rt';w cou::: of a gudg;: ;e- While admitting that the taxpayer bate address advocating early action _ probably could not h"::"'d :l° t';'"t' on unemployment insurance, the | more, Dr. Duckworth c arge * 'Toronto member declared the Dom-- the prevailing food relief scale was 'inion Government was spending insufficient. A sum of $8.46 for four $100,000,000 on relief. adults for fourteen days, he c;laim- "That is quite incorrect," said the :ni'al t:;sra,;:t enough to raise a welfare minister as he claimed the is 7 is 14 * (igure was not at all representative MA Idf w: h'l':fi 'r:':';_'e }::esa'gi'n;"'h:; f of the share the Dominion paid to k"d,o ';'?\e eundernouris:ed boys Ontario's relief costs. HMe declared selrl'lia 100 WESk, I SaY, 10 CaNLY -- & 3 that if there was any basis at all |Y'!, P® " in the amount, it must include debt _ |84" refunding and other special grants to the western provinces. _ Sees Lack of Appreciation. Colonel Drew immediately charged the minister's statement was "indicative of his lack of appre-- | clation of the situation, as was re-- !tlected in his claim, made recently before the House, that there was no state of national emergency in 'unemployment." "I rose," said Mr. Cross, "to state that the statement made by the member from Dovercourt was not , | correct." "It was correct," said Leopold * Macaulay. "He said all forms of re-- lief." "He was speaking of direct re-- lief," the minister objected. "The statement I made before the House and outside of the House was that so far as transients were concerned, of whom, according to department? records, there were about 3,000 in Ontario, the situation did not reflect * any serious condition." | ; Colonel Drew contended that Mr. Cross did not confine his statement to transients, but had referred to demagogues who had raised the un-- employment figures to the hundreds of thousands. Then, he added, he had declared his opinion there was not a state of emergency in the un-- ; 'employment situation. Before the | incident closed, Mr. Cross said that he had made the same statement in