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We jearirrem mt i niiiregrrecy \-___\» y The meeting adjourned to the Wel-- REFUSE Pl-EA fare Minister's office. "It is essential that this govern--' ment be fair in the matter of apportioning relief funds," said Mr. Cross as he welcomed the deputa-- tion. "There must be no discrimina-- tions against one part of the prov-- | Ince or another. We have determin-- AFTER PARADE ed that the scale of relief we are willing to support is to be the same a:)l over the Province--25 per cent above the Campbell re ort. This is | (Pictures on Page 4.) to be the maximum s?ale for the ' The Provincial Government will | _ Province and we will not recognize make no change in its decision to any scale over this maximum." i | reduce the relief scale to a level 23 Harry -- Millward of -- Scarboro', £ | per cent above that recommended chairman of the strikers' commit-- \ in the Campbell report of 1932, tee, declared that some suburban [Wclfare Minister Eric Cross told a municipalities were at a disadvan-- "dopulalinn of striking rvlicf_\f'fllk- tage as compared with the city in ' ers from the suburban municipali-- that relief recipients were unable to | tiss of Toronto in his office at obtain even the small amount of | Queen's Park yvesterday afternoon. "casual labor" available in the city. Mr. Cross agreed to meet the The situation was "most -- intoler-- delegation _ after Hon. Leopold able," he said, and merchants were Macaulay brought the question of increasingly diffident about accept-- the relief strikers' march to the at-- ing credit from relief recipients in tention of the legislature shortly the three or four days when vouch-- before it recessed late in the after-- ers ran out before new vouchers noon. Government speakers said no were available. application had been made to re-- "I've been holding the Scarboro' * ' ceive a delegation. C men in check," he said. '"We have About 700 men and women joined succeeded in avoiding raising the in the march on Queen's Park from _ gevyi; af the relief office or else-- three points of concentration. where." Three .l.lundrcd paraded from '_'Rcd Should Consider Taxpayer. ® Square" at Rogers Road and Keele Street, another 250 came from the Mr. Cross suggested that even re-- Scarboro'--East York areas, and lief recipients had to consider the about 150 marched with an im-- Plight of the struggling working-- promptu band along the lakeshore man and taxpayer. "Increased re-- | from New Toronto, Long Branch lief appropriations mean more taxes | |and Mimico. It had been expected and that could go on until the ' that 2,000 or more would be in the worker gets discouraged and {inal-- parade. ly lands on relief himself," he said | With several hundred Toronto _ He characterized the situation as a | jobless and sympathizers, liberally _ "vicious circle" if it were allowed | sprinkled with university students, _ to proceed Um'h"('_kfi'd- f # | a meeting was held at the band-- The Welfare Minister questioned E stand in Queen's Park and a dele-- charges of delegates that there was ;gatinn of about twenty despatched any widespread undernourishment to the government offices, among persons on the relief rolls. At the reare entrance to the gov-- Investigations had convinced -- the | ernment buildings the delegation department, he said, that the relief | was told it would not be allowed to scales were adequate as far as 'omer. but representatives of the health and food requirements were lD('parlm('ni of Welfare, Arthur concerned. "Indications are that re-- Bousanquet and E. W. Littleford, tail prices are going down," he add-- < hurried up and informed the group _ed. "Prices already are lower than that E. A. Horton, director of un-- they were a year ago." | employment relief, would receive fenjaj of Relief Justified. | them in his office. h nanat G. Harris, secretary of the On-- |_ In a two--and--a--half--hour nrion| tario Federation of Unemployed, the delegates placed their position was asked by Mr. Cross if he were | before the officials. The workers had "still a member of the executive of refused, it was said, to work on the Communist Party" as he rose to relief projects in the areas qt(ected speak for the deputation. "No, I'm 'dup to the government's decision to not," he replied. "If I was, that cut the grants from 35 per cent to wouldn't have any effect on my | 25 per cent above the Campbell appearance here." ' report. M "I've stated what the government Toward the close of the session, policy is and we're not going to '\mrd was received from Mr. Cross change it," Mr. Cross told Harris. | that he would receive six delegates. Four times the minister repeated in answer to questions from Thomas Montague of York Township the following statement: "If the municipalities have work available for relief recipients they are quite justified in cutting off relief any persons who refuse to answer their call to work, and the government will support the mu-- nicipalities in this action." Pressed to declare a policy in the event that York Township Council | refused to deny relief to strikers, | Mr. Cross said the government's ac-l tion would be made at the "proper | time" when the situation actually | occurred. The -- strikers' delegation, faced with an apparently irrevocable de-- cision of the government to main-- tain its stand, returned to Queen's Park at 6:30 p.m., after nearly four hours' deliberations. A scant hand-- ful of the original paraders awaitedl their report,