The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

I "And here's the worst of it," con- tinued Mr. Macaulay. m'. all done I presumably to protect the farmer. , ' This great umbrella is held over the t . dairy Industry. but who is it pro-l . tecting? It is protecting an indus-| ' try which may be sadly conceived. and the poor farmer down at thel . bottom gets very little out of it." ': Mr. Dewan estimated that the: Toronto milk-shed farmer got ap- l proximately one-half of the 13 cents . . charged for quarts. in recent in. creases the increases all went to One Clause Asks Fees the farmer. he said. . . The attack shifted in another fo Local A S ' O C iafion direction when Harold N. Carr (Lib.. From All P rod ue e rs Northumberland) and Conservative Leader Drew scored the section ' which required the collection of as- 'AMlTRARY B O D Y sociation fees from all producers. whether or not they were members . of the association. . With charges that the Ontario "If you are prepared to adopt that! Milk Control Board Was an ly.??. principle in regard to milk. I can' trary" and I "tyrannical authority. see no reason why the principle; Liberals and Conservatives 1'.esttr- should not be extended to other day loosedajoint attack 1n the Legis- things as well," said Colonel Drew. Iature upon the board- A more gen- Acting Premier Nixon ruled that eral assault was indicated when pro- second reading be deterred. When posed .legiSI.ti°n " called for fur- bills were called it was on the thtr.titeu"iy. . 'understanding that only non-con- Criticism broke out .when the 'tentious legislation was to be con- House was directed to give second lsidered reading to an amendment to the . _-_------ ----- Milk Control Act. By the amend- ment municipalities are given au- thority to appoint a consumer rep- resentative by by-law. and the board I is authorized to supply the repre-t sentative all information uhich is "not of a confidential nature." ', . A second clause rules that the board may make an order requiring every producer to pay fees to the different milk producers' associa- tions, if the board is of the opinion that the association "is fairly repre-' sentative of the producers." ! -.---.---- The first attack came from Liberal . Whip Ian Strachan, member for] 'Give Leadership, Nof Toronto-St. George, when he dew hi ' l Pl clared that the board was an arbi- Bleeders ' ' e a trary authority and that its powers ---------' were a fit subject for the investiga- l. , . " . , tion of the Administration of Jus. it is the duty of the (Jmet'nment itice Committee. He declared there! to cut expenses to the hone and. to ,should be right of appeal from the. "give leadersip. not bleederchip, J. l. bot"f.s J'fg1ttit, T S A ', deC. llepburn Icon., Prince Edward- . . ass l.. oronto- t. n-: . ' .'. " ldreWs') followed with the charge that ' Lennoxl. declared luring the budget fit placed an entire industry in the! debate In the Legislature yesterday; ihands of the producers and distrib-I He demanded that the Government utors. He asserted there was an pare down expenses for the dura- injustice in the ruling that cash-and- tio..?, of the war. . . . b carry customers could not buy milk These are perilous 1n"t..l,n Elan-t n $t price lower than the delivery ada and the world, he said, and, price. i '/t,',1,ie, 11taur11i'o"r,.dtn/,' 2,u"/i1a,f1 F rom any ' q . y "Moat Tyrannlcal Authority." , must give the best that is in us.' "Why don't you fix up the Milk Party politics and prejudice should; Control Board so that municipali- be cast out of the window. There, ties wouldn't have to waste time should he no more surpluses dur- appointing representatives to come ing the war. The Government could down here and make speeches to show a much greater war effort by this fifth-wheel board?" demanded paring expenses to the bone and Leopold Macaulay (Con. South thus relieving the load on the lax- York). "I am going to recommend payer and enable him to do his own when the estimates come around war effort. as he sees fit. :that we cut the salaries off these "This huge spending machine :men. They don't do anything. They which has been built up by this 'are not even worth a dollar a year." Government should he put in the "How do you mean, fix up?" asked garage until after' the war. There Hon. P. M. Dewan. Minister of Agri. should be a suspension of all road culture. construction, except that which was "Why I could cut it off right be. vitally necessary." hind the ears." Mr. Macaulay re- He pointed out that after the war torted. "They are an arbitrary there will be many men. discharged body. They make a ruling and am from the army and munition fac- nounce it and before you can get tories, who will be looking for work down to King Street they have and a constructive road-building changed it, and no one can do any- program will greatly help in ab- . thing about it. Talk about your Star . sorbing them into the ranks of the Chamber methods. This is the most employed. tyrannical authority and it has powers of life and death not only over the producers but the consum- ers. Instead of this eyewash. asking the municipalities to appoint repre- sentatives to come down and make a speech. why don't you put a con- sumer representative on the board?