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o e e e e e e e' n e t Aaapa & 2 422 " + I ' '?! «l!";!' '!. o FEGRuARY 23 --LAKE SULPHITE IS 'BLACK EYE I --CHARGES COX RELIEF OFFICER 'Bad Practice' Alleged CHARGEDACT'VE by Lakehead Member in Control of Timber IN CAMPAIGNING "Const'r'uction of <the canal to -- connoct Long Lac to Lake Superior SEES 'I N JUSTICES | 'at a ('Osll of $1,000,000 or more of the people's money is to my way of ici i Chacs! s f thinking unsound and unecononz'ic." OfflCl?'o P Eas+ YOI"k ' arging lh?t bovcrnmcn} ox-- lho said. "It is the first time in the Organlzmg for Liberal ploitation of Northern Ontario for-- north country that the Govern-- M | ' est resources had proved "uneco-- ;monlf has been (':0 gracious as to ecautay Declares nomic, unwarranted and unjustifi-- l:::(;'m:"of",\ho: :ne. ?tr_eam hy miad a peaorres | 8 s--and in ad-- able," Mayor C. W. Cox, Libera! | vance at that."p Perore--A1 SEEK AMENDME M.L.A. for Port Arthur, yesterday | 'The diversion scheme was costly mt Nt F j j and wou!l t 7 ti j told tl}e Ontario Lezlal.alure timber sid. Ex"tedn;'if.'e"i"mprr"o"_cer?]rc:(l:'c':'v ':g Out of Conservative opposition to committee that the history of the 1 aed 1 A lhoug . m & measure which places final Departhient 'of Lands 'and \Foresis e needed from time to time and e t s final word * f orests the transportation of wood by this in the dismissal of an unemploy-- was filled with "glaring injustices" route would deprive the railroad ment relief administrator with ll' to the people of Thunder Bay dis-- of millions of dollars in revenue Minister of Public W R e triet. f |\ | which would be bound to accrue to 5 .K Velfore, came Ptesenlmg a brief to the commit-- | them. In addition, the driving of the direct charge in the Legislature tee, in which he attacked Govern-- | | wood to Lake Superior would prove yesterday, by Leopold Macaulay ment pohcnes in allocating large utterly impractical. that an East York official "is ive. limits to various concerns without Hits Fire Control 1 i fln man mm thought for the welfare of the dis-- "lan'r A S e_n'gagfd i oRonieine 107 DAM IEicl'the Port Arthur member was | Isn't it true that wood has al--' i'.'""a"' secretary of the Federal M articularly critical of the Luke| ready been dnvcn.and the route 1.t?eral Assoa'-.latan in Ontario. | Sulphite Pulp Co. and Pulpwood ]has been found entirely practical?" i Moreover," said Mr. Macaulay,| In both these an instanc Chint » i oo io oo ies ut given advantages to foreign mills | li'tz?.::s":g: :"whole year to get 30,000 gglyitir:'"eriru?liifiggglw ?le en}gaged 7 which were mos i € cords m. 8, a and otherwise." | nadian produc:r.tA';n:a:':s:St'2: licnl:- % "But I understand the Long Lac o o g Pn Mie s hine. neaienenand he! D eFigrants to foreighn mills, he said | diversion was predicated on some would look into the complaint and | Oy way of Hlustration, the Ablltibi Ifm.m of power development, too," the Minister said he would. The| Pulp and Paper Company was being , lh.': Provincial Sgcrelary mtexjjccted. amendment, contained in the Sta--| Iorced to get wood for Canndian Unless the Government is pre-- }'ute Law Amendment Act reads:| consumption from isolated points pared to spend huge"sums on buil_d-: ;'.\'n ltumnlplo'\'mo.nv relief adminis-- n Lake Nipigon at a cost of $150, :.ng revetmen_t walls," Mr. Cox said. | hdtf)! or any assn".an:_to an unem--| N00 more per year than American the canal will never be a substan-- | ployment relief administrator shall | perstors had io pay for wood go-- txa"l power source. l nqt be removed from such office| ng to American mills. Do you mean that erosion will without the approval of the Minis--| The Lake Sulphite Pulp Co. trans-- prevent development of power?" Mc Crost sale.ihere | action. he ch.rged. had given a 'S.'fed CO]Onel"Dre"'. { Mr. Cross Sald. there was .a .need' black eye to the North. Vast tim-- e Absolutely, -- _ was the -- reply. 0xt some protection for administra-- ber reserves, convenient for rail When wou «iffve . the [AMOMAL IO, ;?1". h mumcioel sechone. imome| naut io Lakeneadt mills, he said, wood through that you are contem-- at in municipal elections, some m iibeen turned over io assure the plating you won't .ha\'e enough ® 'aidmmxst'rators had been forced to| future of a promotion that -- was pO\\,-er.' s['j'pp]y to drive a washing' lo.certam things Co""'a!'_\'. to regu--| "poorly conceived and inadequate-- machine. Stlor-]s: Moreover, he claimed, the ty financed," which found the rocks | _ Me cited the case of a fire on the ominion and Provincial Govern-- of Hnantial 'ruin even before con |. linviis of the Pisscon Timber Com-- Bs sn "orcng oc un -- mrovrerine Fuction "of its mill had been com.| |PAPXY At Onion Lake, and avoted c bame snn o i ce nen com'g nantro? \pleted. | _ from departmental records to show | were entitled to have some control io that the company had hired its own ; over the administrators. "Paid in Advance. aeroplane to the Government and Conservative Leader Drew de-- He questioned the wisdom of | Yeceived $45,000 for helping to fight clared: "He suggested that prior locating pulp mills such as the Lake | the fire on its own property. to municipal elections, pressure Sulphite plant on sites remote from "The same company applied for, might be brought to bear upon an settled communities. Not only was A&nd received, a reduction of stump-- administrator and if pressure was it necessary to duplicate branch _ a8¢ dues from $3 per cord to 50 cents brought to bear by a municipal railways and power line construc-- _ Per cord under the excuse of salvag-- body, there is no reason to suppose tion, but all the facilities of exist. _ ing burnt wood," Mr. Cox said. "Ac.-- that pressure might not be brought ing municipalitiees had to be built . cording to the records of the depart-- to bear by the Province. Thore is on the lavishly--planned townsite at ment some 112,739 cords of allegedly no reason tm believe that political a cost far exceeding legitimate _ burnt wood were cut and paid for at purity begins here. There is a ten-- needs. The mill could have been _ the salvage rate, making a saving dency that is going too far toward located at.'Nipigon, Port Arthur or. to the company, and a loss to the bringing matters of this kind under 1 Fort William at a fraction of the Province, of $285,229.67. The wood an elective official of this House." cost. Insult was added to injury, _ Was then sold on an unburned basis, Mr. Cross declared there was no Mr. Cox declared, vhen the Hydro _ and the company received payment fleparture in principle innsmich as Commission cold the company for this on the unburned price." health officers, county engineers power from a development largely The Port Arthur Mayor concluded and road supervisors could not be | paid for by the municipalities, at a _ his recital by inviting a committee, dismissed without the assent of the Mlower cost than mills at the Lake-- _ headed by the Premier and the Ministers of Health or of Highways. : head could obtain. _ Leader of the Opposition, to visit 64 tss Amtoand & | The Long Lac diversion scheme, Port Arthur in the heart of the No one is organizing in East| which, he said, was linked with "a timber industry and make a thor-- Yprk for me," said Mr. Sullivan last' gigantic pulpwood export set--up in-- _ Ough study of the situation. If such night. "I think I was introduced | volving three American paper mills" _ & committee would come, he prom-- to the relief officer in East York, | was ° described as "patently bad _ ised, he would bear the expenses but you can say as definitely as you | practice" which worked harsh in-- _ personally, up to a total cost of like that neither he nor any one| '| justice on Canadian operators. $25,000 it necessary. ;l::ail?,,EaSt York is working on my i