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w t . ' . [TIME [OST DUE Bachelor M.L.A. " , I i Gets Threat 5T0 STRIKES CUT . George Doucett, Lanark Coun- I t 1y Conservative, and a bachelor. ,' yesterday admitted in the Legis- i ORTS laturc that its women constitu- l enis were pressing for the right _ to sit on juries and were back- It"; their demands with down- Only One-sixteenth of right threats. I92I Figures, La bor As evidence he read a three- . . LA.' verse night. letter that he had Minister Tells Nh. . '5 received from a constituent in - Carleton Place. The threat was . ONG HOURS contained in three lines of the OPPOSE L last VCrsr. They were: - - "Here lies a man, Doucett by ', name. A "WWW." i," .I" K H} lyk,",,'.',: For his passing had himself to days thuxh'fl " lik'" tliltitt.,' 'ttrt blame I eleven mot?',' "w "I m" WNW" twat land the reason) He couldn't i year. "in rr';ull"tl in the Legtwa- trust women to scrxe on _ ture .s"sit'l1ldl_ it} Him. .\mm.'rn juries" _ tujppL .\ln:\t--r or Lain". in the b-. l gcoul'sp of His trutlar't itddtrrs. In ithat pt't'ltttl time lost in strikes wa', 'oniy £1333 sitys. (um-ninth of tho, timo inst ill I": it'ui o,v--vnth", of tho- Hill" i'I-i .n PUI. ' "In "Tito-t "with." \t-ti Il, Ilunol. "tho lor, of lam): in 'r't_ts. in vork. that is vital to 'lie "al' vtlm'- i'; _ only one chi) murmur: fl tn ~i\tw-:t in 1921. Ti, l~ tAirs [Lrt'it 'n we ion- 'riliat on otfrstrs ol :l.: department and Hi" u'twtiltivil building tip ot goodwill brunt-err it" (il'Piliillll'lll.: employ'rs an" o-ntpwivt-s." i Mi ilipt-I \q'tlti Li, tit-p.i:trztentl was opposed to ex- eviv' "outs. even' in wartime. it testtlto'tl .ii a mm. duction (imp. twin '.\ttthlllitl]shtp. and greater "our and lvu: en ma.' chines. "They titer: long limii~ it. Bing- land alter Dunkck and found it "as so unsatisfactory that tnt'y time now reverted to shorter Lou:-,." said the Labor Minister. Much of the unrest in factories was due to 'nigh DI'P~.\UI". lime. study eitiiienw) men." Mt. "met de. . 'clared. it "as his hell"! that much of this was t'ittllt'd too fur "With the result that workers are hunted out 'soon after they reach the age of . forty and become charges on the Provmee." ' Head on Trouble. V "it i, our proo'tluto to tty and yavord strikes Within the Province .during wartime" he continued "our .m ntmum wages. "Minimum "ages ,thspecturs are now named as con. in", only the lowest Guage. The em- , {ciliatory experts and strive. at all ployees ltate the right to organize ,times, to get employers and employ- and seek higher mm /ro'ii""i'iiiiii. ees to settle down together and talk "mployers. Year liv \ear more of ' iover their thiterent-es. The inspec- the employers of the Province are Itys are also tristr'uvted to notity complying with the a". and last ithe department it they hear of any year only 2..2 per cent of the em- ltroubie brewing. in this way we are players were violators Against 887 lotten able "'0 head oft impending 'eomplaints in 1936 there here. onlv ldttterenees. . . .188 this last year," he said. . _ Classing tho NN orkmen s' Compen- . sation Act as the host of its kind in Workers Protected. 'the world. the Minister tune a I War industries have further resume of the operation of the: act. broadened the uotk of protecting which has been in operation tor the workers under the Factory lit- twenty-tive years. During that time 'spection Act, and a numhor of new over one million tlaim, haw been plants have been buil' lo produce settled. "During tho past pear'here munitions which have not been has been an increase in the number manufactured here pt'vioucly. Of- of industrial accidents. but this is {trials of the department visited due to the increased at-tivity in in- similar tactoiies in the United dustry. But the number is 6,000less States, and Wm a result regulations- than in the peak tear of employ. Fe"! made. not as drastic as those man 1929," he said. lll Great Britain, but considerably ' Quiteanumberofquestiottswerel, more drastic than those ot the ldirected It the Minister regarding' United States. ----------"""---------.-,