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pullaga ~-- FEBRUARY 20 - ing legislation should last long Conam. to Name Labor after. H(_' rel'prn'.(l to the Winnipeg s strike of 1919, "in the face of Or-- BOdy fOl' H e a r in g s ders--in--Council," and the bloodshed During House Recess ?ll.h:i' {1r'm0(l forces which accompa-- nied it. "Remember the barbed wire in Opposition Leader Col. George front of these Parliament Buildings Drew, yesterday in the Legislature, a few years ago," remarked G. H. refused flatly Premier Conant's invi--| _ Challies (Prog. Con,, Grenville--Dun-- tation to name three Opposition da:lll.o one -- was murdered in cold members to the Government's select blood," retorted Mr. Heenan, and committee which will inquire during declared, "This is not going to be the two--week House recess into col--: Sidetracked whether you apf""(iin'l S lective bargaining between _ em-- ('onlnn'tt_ve,m" not." He charged ie ployers and zmplo;ens in Ontario. Opposition's rofusa'l' !n'namt;' mrem- Col. Drew repeated his recom-- bers was becnusq they don t. Wolt mendation that a conference be hela; 10 recognize Unions, and tr1f=(l t composed equally of House mem-- s1dm_rn(~k it. .Thl.\' (,ol._ Drew em-- bers, employers and employees, and I',hf'm('""-v denied and Sa.ld. the Oppo-- his wish that employers and em-- sition was perfe('l'l_\,' \\'l}llng to a.('.t ployees be brought into the picture on such a committee if nr'nomb.el.s,' in any discussions. He insisted there employers _ and omr:loyee.s wele | was no necessity for the Govern-- equally represented. "We are com-- ;, ment's resolution to name a select mitted to the principle of collective committee. But since the Govern-- bargaining and prepared to imple-- ment had brought in the resolution ment it," he said, "We want to br.m{; instead of the promised bill, it was capital and ]f'hm' togetho_r 22 3 | the Government's responsibility. fighling Iram in PCiCC Al 1} waAr. 1 s Faced with this refusal, Premie: Concluding, Col. Drew stated: 'If Conant announced that he would _ this Government won't take the | . give the names of the appointees to responsibility, it °h""UM resign and the committee in a few days and give way to another. enter them formally when the ses-- Col. Drew then moved a one-- sion resumed. The body would sit month delay ir! giving the reso_lu-' under the chairmanship of the! tion third reading, but the motion Speaker. James H. Clark, K.C | was.defeated 35 to 16 on a recorded Col. Drew said he stood shoulder straight paricy vote. & s to shoulder with John Bracken, new | Col. Drew's reintroduction of his Leader of the Progressive Conserva.| -- Thursday protest against enemy | tive Party, and subscribed to the aliens --released from internment | labor program as clearly and un-- carmps being permitted _ to attend | equivocally laid down at the Win-- University of Toronto without any | nipeg convention of the party, sec-- responsibility to the'S'talo to aid in | tions of which he read. and which, the war effort precipiated a sharp | he pointed out, set forth that "col-- clash bc.tween himself and J. J.| tective bargaining is desirable and Glass (Liberal, Toronto St. Andrew). | necessary in the interests of labor, Col. Drew hotly denied Mr. Glass industry and the social welfare of charge that he was presenting | the people." "garbled information." He objected | The platform, he said, "leaves no to these alien students, who could | doubt where we stand on collective| _ Nt be atlested and had taken no | bargaining, its incidence, or the oath of allegiance, wearing }he uni-- method of putting it into effect."| _ form of the C.O.T.C. University Mili-- And legislation would be put into! tary Training Corps. They did not effect along those lines, he said, as belong to any particular group or soon as opportunity offered. creed in Germany, Col. Drew said, Every time labor ijegislation was| but they were German citizens,. brought about, said Col. Drew, it | "No one can accuse me of sym-- was after the three great agencies pathy with Nazi Germany," said Mr. of the people--Government, employ--| Glass, who declared he opposed in-- ers and employees -- were brought | justice and that if there was no together for discussion on it. | proof the young men were loyal He characterized the Govern-- | they would not have been released ment's committee resolution as "a from internment camps. All but device to evade responsibility," and | about five per cent of them, he said, "an attempt to carry its promise forf were of the Jewish race and the legislation into a morgue and em--; Hebrew faith. balm it there under some excuse | that hasn't yet made itself appar-- | ent." | "An Outright Fraud." ! He challenged the Government's . t statement that unions are illegal in Ontario and cited provisions in the | Criminal Code for punishment for | actions against union members. In | want of a reason for the committee's | appointment, he said he could oniy| conclude that the promised collec-- | tive bargaining bill, drawn under + * the advice of J. L. Cohen, K.C., labor lawyer, had not been accept-- able to the members of the Govern-- i ment which was now not prepared to present it. He termed the whole proceeding "an outright fraud." | Labor Minister Peter Heenan | voiced his surprise at the Opposi--' tion's refusal to name members of | j the committee. Despite other Or--| ders--in--Council, he said, the Domin-- | on Government had left collective | bargaining as the field of Provin-- cial Parliaments, since Orders--in-- Council passed as war measures in labor matters would be repealed & after the war and collective bargain-- 4 ons