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#% «qo a--tis sc nc anaccareteeeeiite NNNE TT TTE raeOeneerieieiat e e cce wacs Farm Price Structure -- n Par With Industry | is Urasd in Lecisisl FOR FARM PARLEY | g g The Conservativ The Ontario Government ,\'estcr-c "Conferences Waste Time." | the motion for fld:mliitmeg?r?fi:tl\'do day in the first division of the cur--| -- "This is no time for conferences," | dl'es.'\' in reply to the Speech fron; rent session of the Legislature rolled | Said Mr. Oliver in referring to ine | the Throne, was defeated yesterday up a 55 to 18 vote, recorded on strict | amendment presented last week by ::lo' nle.dL;;g"lsla'ture oo' ie House party lines, to carry the motion for | Colonel Drew. '"This is a time for eralp a "da in io the amenowens the adoption of the Address. | action. 'There should be no dilly-- The ?:mon nt\en.n; to the amendment. 'The ballot Wwas made Un & Libcral-. dallying; instead we should take off : onservative amendment was: sponsored amendment to the amend. || OU® coats, rot! up our siveves and | And the members of 'This Lesls-- ment moved by Conservative Leader , £¢! to work. There is too much time fatuae are of Ute opinion Mhat thel George Drew and his Whip, Col. T./ wasted in conferences. | Government of Ontario should con-- | L. Kennedy. 'The Conservative| _ "I"° officials of the various Fed--| vey a message to His Majesty's Gov-- Amendment asked the Covernment eral and Provincial departments| ernment of the Dominion of Canada, to petition Ottawa to call a Domin--| have been working together all expressing the desire that a confer-- ion--Provincial conference for the| 4!9"C studying problems of intcr-k ence of representatives of the o. purpose of laying a framework for| est to them both and getting re--| nnnmp and all Provincial Govern-- inter--Governmental co--operation in | 84U!4S-- They are doing these things r']']:;lm'\f . the roilowine cormsmesnt the war effort and ailied problems, | much more effectively and muchl sible for the following purposes: The final amendment asked the| MO'€ speedily than they could be | "To adopt such measures as may House to approve steps taken by| Gone bY conferences, and in addi--| be necessary to assure our great-- the Ontario Government to assist| Uon it is not necessary to take Min-- est possible war effort by intergov-- the Dominion's war effort and was| Isters away from their important ernmental co--operation to meet the placed before the House by Hon. | Wat work. emergencies created by the war . .. Farquhar Oliver, Minister of Works, "During the last war prices for to assure adequate prices for our and Hon. Robert Laurier, Minister farm produce went up as the costs | agl'lcullurgl products . . . to protect of Mines, directly after the former| WON UP and the farmers, as a re-- | the established rights of labor and closed the Throne Speech debate in | SUIt. bought many Victory Bonds, to devise plans for the rehabilita-- an address which had, as its keynote, They are not buying them today. tion of the members of our armed the claim that "agriculture must The Dominion Government has not forces and for the re--employment of have a price structure on a parity| A5Sured the farmers that they will civilians who will be thrown out of with labor and industry." 3 ! work by post--war industrial read-- By assent of the two party lead--| get good prices. 'They have set Juafinlems_ ers, the vote on the amendment to| prices on bacon, butter and cheese. 1d NP No amendment to the the amendment was accepted as the| The Federal Minister of Agriculture ?.:1.0!]. men'! es "Th'.s House has basis for adoption of the originalf went West and told the {farmers Ih()('".(-)(.l \\n'l.1 great satisfaction your motion which was moved the sec--| that they couldn't expect any in-- \'m:'rm'cl_a.d.\lc'o' on the actions of ond day of the session by Harold N.} crease in prices during the war, efEOTlS "["20" in aid of the war Carr, Northumberland, and Dr. A.| which is expected to last six years. . \-a,.imf.o an.ada~ and approves the C. Trottier, Essex North. | The farmer cannot stand the strain Honnr:\- '\'lfr.)b' reported _ in _ Yourd Mr. Oliver's amendment was plac--=| for anything like six years and he every :.Oa("e'\g. by means .°f which | ed before the Opposition Leader di--| is taking steps to protect himself shall be -Ox?l('ra:llon is _ being . and | rectly before the House was called | as much as he can. | ;mthorit/i'n(:\'en e(«{i c o mar: Domlmon; to ballot and it brought from Leo--| _ "A comparison of the cheese pro--| _ of this $3 in order that the efforts | pold Macaulay, South York, a heated | duction of February, 1940, and Feb--| tive as po(::;::lce shall be as effec--| protest, that members were given | ruary, 1941, shows that there was| successful ;O,'CTUSI;] bn*:\gmg o oopa d but thirty seconds to consider it be--| | a 53 per cent reduction in the pro--| in \"-11{(.,\ we ar o aome strl'l'ggle fore the division. l duction,. _ This was the farmers'| _-___._M! "This, I suppose, is what he (Mr.| | answer,. No one can question the Oliver) means by co--operation with | farmer's loyalty. He is as loyal as the Dominion authoritiese--co--opera--| -- any other group in the country. * tion by a crack of the whip, or like | If the farmer could produce at the co--operation of a shotgun marriage.| present prices he would, but cannot. In the dving moments the Govern--| There is only one course open lo ment brings in an amendment sim--| him under present conditions, that ply to prevent a vote on the Opposi--| is to deplete his stock and make tion amendment." Lis loss as small as possible." § Pair Members on Service. Mr. Oliver pointed out that there ; In a moment the division bells are r.oux distinct mo.ups.\\hu-h are | started to clatter the call for a vote. making great contributions to the |\ Liberal Whip Ian Strachan, KC,]| *ar effort: The armed [orces."m- | on reporting to the House, then ad_i dustry, labor and the farmers. The |vised that every member on active armed fpx:cos are making the great-- service had been paired. The pair-l est sax-l'xf!(-os but the .olhor three 'ing. it was understood, was made | are s'l:a.ndmg nghl' h('h!l]d them and on the insistence of Colonel Ken--| providing them with sinews of war, | nedy. : "The industrial groups have been | Major, the Hon. Colin Campbell | assured returns on a cost plus basis, f was paired with W. A. Summerville,| labor has been promised . good 'Toromo Riverdale; Lieut. David A.| WASCS and a bonus if the price of \ Croll with G. H. Dunbar, Ottawa living goes up but the farmer," he !Soulh: and Flying Officer Allan continued, "is asked to work, not Lamport with Goldwyn C. Elgie, . On a cost plus basis, but on a cost Woodbine. \ | minus one. And he is doing the best Mr. Oliver, South Grey {farmer | Job of all three when the difficulties who recently was taken into the: | encountered are taken into consid-- | Cabinet, made a stinging rebuke to | ©"@!On. _ s | Ottawa on its farm policy, charging | | We, in Canada, are the main \that the Ontario farmer "hasn't a . | SOurce of food supply for Great j friend in court at Ottawa." and that | B'rllam. along with Australia and Ottawa plainly "doesn't give a New Zf*aland. We don't know what damn." He declared there was vital| Japan is going to do but, judging by need of a strong farm organization | the signs, one can be excused for which could say to the Dominion | !hlnkmg that Japan will soon be & Government that it believed in| in the war, aligned against us. This equality of sacrifice, but didn't be--| will bar the products of Australia lieve the farmers should go down | and New Zealand from the Mother and down under their economic and | Country. Then it will be up to unfair load. | Canada to produce all the agricul-- '\_ tural products which Britain wants."