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APRIL 2s _ | §# Sees Federal Election, "I strongly suspect that there * will be a Federal election this year and strange things have been known to happen on the eve of an election," Mr. Hepburn said. He be-- | lieved there was time for an unem-- FOR J |ployment insurance bill to be intro-- 'duced and passed at Ottawa. "One of the things 1 discussed with the governments of Australia | .and New Zealand," the Premier con-- tinued, "was unemployment insur-- I ance,. I found that they passed a \ | measure a year ago, but it has I never been given Royal assent. M t They find that neither the em-- * ployee nor the employer, the muni-- HOPbU"' |' SUfQ Ofi'wa cipality nor the state, wants to con-- t tribute. It would be a terrible thing WI" Enact |flSUI'OflCQ. if we in this province had to pay % the entire shot for our unemploy-- : BO{OI'Q Darmg to Face ment insurance while we still were ' v * contrib;.nir}\'g apflr?ximatelyhso drl)e; ( i cent of the relief costs handle ElQC*Ol'S in NQX* ore through the Federal administra-- wuesuamasaommsmemetetemns tion." ".L Mr. Hepburn said he had decided PASS ENABLING B that the best course here was to allow the Federal Government lo' * o . go ahead with an insurance plan The Dominion Government will while the province had as an al-- pass an unemployment insurance ilernmi\'v an act of its own under bill "before it dares to face the advisement. people of Ontario and the rest of _ | Col. Geor'gc A. Drew .ob.\er\'ed, _ n oco t it that the best way to obtain federal | ' Canada in another election," in the unemployment insurance was for 1 opinion of Premier Hepburn ex-- the Hepburn Government to keep pressed before the Ontario Legisla-- its Xn'n bill "olu:1 of t'hc"picturel;'l' im > famia € "All we want here is the enabling as the. House gave second reading . | [C&®!Hion now before the House!! to a bill enabling the province to fs':he:xa('l.". e want a federal participate in the benefits of any The surest means of defeating :;g:r:l" unemployment . insurance llhat purpose was to lead Ottawa to sure. : believe that Ontario was prepared Leopold Macaulay described the us C h ons I 80\'cr£ment's efforts year alter year ::.)a:",::g,.:," ?whlllai?,f lsug;"?; \;2:,: to implement unom'r')'lo,\m;m', dy lshould be extremely cautious in surance _ as "'OP'}'{'?' A "f" st:)n}- passing the enabling bill and all ::l?e':l. llimlflqll'nx:l.)lin.: l'c?;.s'l:li'oon: ':\-as niner Iozis!alion fo ensure that spe-- the third Labor minister in three ('l&.l' oo ooeriot oo e not set P Ail fears to. promise the same thing, posing difficulties on Ontario in-- :aid NMr. Macaulay dustry and further difficulties on '§ id labor itself. Mr. Hipel said that the govern-- 3 s ment also had in reserve a measure Bc:?l.wr;'ds})%ofl?mk j (cll-'l?l.{ '{;(.)l';omz for provincial unemployment insur-- Sald "uhemn pporied the bill an ance, in case the federal measure said "unemployment insurance is a failed to go through. He showed a lprlt'fper subject for Dominion legis-- typed copy of the tentative measure ation and is almost beyonq the and promised that printed copies prac't'v'cal competence of a provincial would be presented to all members body. | at least six months before the next f Legislature session so they could study it at their leisure. "This is the same old pantomime year after year," commented Mr. Macaulay. "I'll admit we've had ai look at the cover of a bill after three years of promises, but apparently ' we're not even going to see what's Inside it until after the House 'rises. What I object to is this mumb--| ling of the same old Mohammedan formula year after year, which means no more than if the govern-- ment read a chapter out of the, Koran." Mr. Macaulay declared that only a week ago the Federal Labor Mini-- ster had said there would be no in-- surance act at the present session. If Mr. Hipel didn't know that, he should resign as Minister of Labor, said Mr. Macaulay, claiming that| the record of Mr. Rogers' statement was in Hansard. | "Mr. Rogers said that a national unemployment insurance scheme ( would be introduced when the con-- sent of all the provinces was ob-- tained," Mr. Hipel replied. "But he knows he will never get ) the consent of Quebec," countered Mr. Macaulay. The only hindrance to a Federal scheme up to now had been consti-- tutional difficulties, said the Pre-- mier. "We agreed two years ago to waive provincial rights in this field, because it was much better for the Dominion Government to bring down this kind of legisla-- tion," he added.