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_ " MARCH iliy ' .lABOR REPORT lREADY SOON. l i, AIRMAN iAll HOSPITALS SAYS (ll i FULL To K) Likely Ready for House i , Some Time Next Week; l Hearings Concluded {SAYS WELSH The report of the Ontario Gov- l ornmont's committee on collective I lbargaining probably will be pre- ( Advocates Pension Plan sented to the Legislature some time 1 for World d , next week, Committee Chairman I P I 'l7"lfi',' an i Jamesfll.'Cl';1rk said at. tltelconclu- l er . sion 0 tie tearings yeslr'roy. : some 0 Hospitals ', The committee ended its JI-day 'l ' . . . i session yesterday afternoon after _lro/'iiio:,r,ii,1i11/ifataioi1h,c?.pgiyi plun i hearing arguments for and against Amen ow . f n, imlwtdm if "ml the proposed labor bill from dele- 'mainpt yet o 03mm" wa, I" ""9 nations and individuals from every t ained. H. E. Welsh 1Proa. Con. I' . . .,' . East 118mm" , .,, ,1 ' i" section of the. Province. 'rt.., ' a hisceupon the ch- The committee vesterdav heard "blalule that a pension system he four briefs-from the Youth Labor fembmhm Ind ron" ItroviMou mild" Council favoring the bill the Steel I for the workingman and the hospital Company of Sinai; through its ipF'r-SO'INCL Mr. Welsh spoke in coho spokesman, A. L. Lott. of Hamil- - at?/,'l,t,1i,olsl, of} the Iclya/e on the ton, from 12 industrial plants in Finn" lost lllgilt. the Windsor area, including the .A 1osp.ital "ems?" "fulfill. Plat'- Ford Motor Company of Canada, tical husiness administrator, he Mild. Chrysler Corporation and General as well am', a nuly."' training school Motors of Canada and another .adpinistrator. "Thorn has htrctt no from Bert W. Lang, Toronto man- iiln/i1cCTi1t " establish permanent-y agement consultant. ' . r o iosiital s s." r, _ . . . l elated, "It ha, ai".a'\.5 gird "11:00:12. For Works Associations. tention that. a pension system should In his brief on behalf of the Steel be established." iCompany of Canada, Mr. Lott told .Both Government and general hor. 1the oomrpi1tee.tly1 a system of co.i- pitals were "filled to the doors," he lltysliy, bargaining "as now in sa.id. People today u-m-p hospital: effect in the plant, and that he ob- minded. The situation must be far-ed jected to any legislation which call- with courage and determination "hr-.5 ed for .the abolition of the works cause all huge hospital account,] asisociaruPs., which have function- have caused more hardships to thr,', led, so well in the past. . great middle classes than any o!hori ' He informed the committee. thy: branch in Our social setup." I lStelco paid the highest. wages in Later Life Problems. i .the steel industry in'Canada and In mental hospitals 4r2 Ay.: t . that. they had a works council con- imissionsin 1941 ' L' dt? 2,304 ad-: F tsisting of 22 men---11 from the ' has" ii', mo ti 'cv/lf, Old people. "lt: workers and .11, from management. spend some " uncinment should The final decision, in.rlu' event of studv of :'monoy and arrange a q a deadlock, rested uith the com- Jiiriuc,, 'jf/o/lt/Pit t,,he "PM of He spoke of the shortage or tlot'- pany president, . . . speaker) M dieiflife, said the tors and.nurses, with so many in Mr. Lott said in concluding his tients in /',l,ann/r' the 800 old pa. war SCrvlC'C, and said his opinion brief that. based on the results isaid were 'mffd-' hospitals now. .he "as. as regards future health, that achieved, it .w.ou.ld be "a retrograde lot the one?!" ?1"lg from hardening a .iorm of hospitalization was a step to 312011511 by law any form of l Anv R "yes and agra- pi'imary need. "It should be local, employees ast"rocietiyyi." ad ,ic,", Sb". m of health insurance, be close to the poople--something like Presenting the brief on behalf of 11v/.:ci.eti: should be free from bureau- our houses of refuge. instead of _lhe Windsor industries. John B. Crar'y and polit'cal control. fool.. building fine hospitals in wealthy Aylesworth said that, if the com- proof to the abuses by both the sections." mittee agreed labor legislation was public and the profession. sound "A flock of sheep on every golf needed in Ontario, it should be [from an actuarial standpoint and course," a "loosening up" on farm framed with the view to promoting ' must not he a financial hardship. machinery and assistance in harvest- improved labor-management rela- i As an indication of the need of mg from high school boys and adult tions. 1r.'ffyrnetlT, medicine, he said 61 per city dwellers free on Saturday after- The brief outlined 17 points for icent (#001300 examined for the army noons, were among suggestions tor inclusion in any legislation drafted ', T"?.',,'," "A" "loamy and 13 per cent help for harassed farmers put tor.. by the committee. I m E and 80 per cent of this num- ward hy c. it. Bethune (Lib, Went- Union of Choice. (tti; suffered from conditions that worth). Fe; Tint; at hclp many They included: Recognition of the would have been prevented in child. Wentworth County farms would he right of an employee: to join the i It'. . " out; of production this year. he union of his choice; filing of audited Z Luxurious setup" wyyltyi, a situation that should not statements annually with the Min- The present-day system of medi- "lit, m face 9f tood needs. ister of Labor; annual elections by if?" treatment, he said, had "drifted oo much time 5.90111 on talk and secret ballot to be compulsory for linto a luxurious setup in many' not onough on social fec,'utrity plan- each local branch of a collective ways and has by-passed the poor lille, would result P facing another bargaining agency and the outlaw- .man.." Yet the middle-class man éme'ge'm-V when time for postwar ing of strikes in plants where col- earning under 83,000 paid 70 per readjustment came, warned R. D. lective bargaining agreements are in scent of medical expenses. There firnott (Frog. Con., Hastings West). force. was need of consideration for this lWe ll be like Chamberlain when Speaking as an individual, Mr. great class if manpower was to be to went to lVIunich: armed only with Lang, in his brief, suggested that maintained. words, for peace "1 our time,'" he "the organized campaign now being . , said. waged for collective bargaining" is connected with the possibility of elections "in the near future in On- __ tario and probably the Dominion." A brief, which included labor laws in Great Britain, United States and Canada was filed with the commit- V tee by Jacob Finkelman, adviser to the committee and professor of law . at the University of Toronto, to aid the committee in its report. -ilell-l-i-g-it---,-...--.,-__, _