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While he was "a good friend of labor." it behooved him, in dealing > with this biil, to proceed slowly and cautiously, in order that "nothing foolish" be done and that the pri-- mary purpose of the legislation be carried out without any subsequent aggravating complications. In many instances, said he, employees were just as much the cause of indus-- trial trouble as employers--and the f, situation, generally speaking, had to "eereiraere e rp iT e e ie be weighed carefully. R Croll Urges Bill. HOPbUfl"I Government Warns Mr. Croll emphasized that Prince Edward Island and Ontario were Amendments to Be Ma.do the only provincial jurisdictions in in Committee Hearing _ Canada in which similar legislation # had not been enacted and claimed p [Before Finally Approved! lA4 it was more moderate and wan n cce mmies on e mm simpler than many of the allied statutes. s HAS SECOND READ'NG "Very briefly," he said, "it gives Teccomntenmtorecirtemcems employees the right to form].a un;gn & A join one and it penalizes the Premier Hepburn and his govern-- 2:":,?0;," if he ,hm.gns them or ment permitted David Croll's "free-- fires them because they do so." dom of trade union" legislation te get second reading in the Legisla-- ture last night, but warned that certain clauses of it were not ac-- ceptable to the government as they now stood and that when the bill reached _ committee stage they would demand an exhaustive con-- gsideration of them. "We're not going to do anything foolish," said the Prime Minister, "and I'm prepared to have the HMHouse sit a whole day to discuss this legislation in committee before it is finally approved." Speaking before the Prime Mini-- ster, Hon. Norman O. Hipel, Mini-- ster of Labor, said that offending sections would be struck out and amendmor;ts made in committee to ensure that union activities would be taboo in working hours.. Claiming Ontario had the most * advanced social and labor legisla-- » tion and paid the highest rates, with the exception of New York & City, on the North American conti-- nent, Mr. Hepburn asked were it reasonable to even imagine that a 3 government, with such labor--bene-- fitting policy to its credit, would stop to prevent any man from join-- ing the union of his choice. There * was, he submitted, no legal obstacle to such a goal so long as the union was "a lawful union." \ Two years ago now, said he, he had taken his political life in his hands when he had defied John i Lewis and the C.IL.O. and had taken the steps which barred that organi-- zration from "promoting anarchy" in this province as it was promoting R * anarchy in the United States. , Repeats C.1.0. Opposition. The United States, he submitted, was still suffering from the work of Lewis and his "gang" because cer-- A tain states there hadn't had the courage displayed by the govern-- ment of which he was the head. From newspaper clippings of the 1937 election campaign, Mr. Hep-- burn quoted his own declarations that while he believed in the right of any man to strike, he believed also in the right of any man to * work--work unmolested and un-- afraid of the "lawless Lewis ele-- ment." "And I say right now," he told the Legislature amid desk thump-- ing "that if there was a sit--down strike attempted in Ontario tomor-- * row the full weight and resources of Ahe province would be promptly placed at the disposal of any mu-- nicipality that sought our assist-- .nce."