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Resume Monday, , | Conant Announces i 1 The Ontario Legislature will A ROUND not prorogue until next week, ' Premier Conant informed the | House last night. A drive to , T | finish all business within the . ' next day or two would mean long hours and would cut short A | debatec, the Premier said. Conanf Says Co"echve | '"We will meet tomorrow and Bargaining M e a s u re | adjourn at a convenient hour .P .[ bl L * l t + ' and then resume Monday," said re-- Irouble Legisiation Mr. Conant. "With the co--opera-- s | tion of all members we will be Acrimony -- and . personalities en | able to finish in good time next tered for the first time in the (hs-' week." cussion of the Collective Bargaining i Opposition _ Leader _ George Bill in committee in the Legislature | Drew commended the Premier yvesterday. _ After an afternoon of I for affording an opportunity for debate the members had progressed debate on the matters that re= only part way through the bill. The | main to be dealt with by the House at one stage faced the un--| House. usual situation of an appeal to the' Speaker from a ruling of the com-- mittee chairman, R. Patterson (Lib.,| > Grey North). Leopold -- Macaulay § (Prog. Con., York South) made the | "They take the position that ?h'--'! appeal "with indescribable agony." |-- only satisfactory way of -\'"ltllllfll It was on the Opposition amend-- disputes between employer and ment that there should be a labot employee is to bring their re_p-! tribunal of three representing em-- resentatives together with a chair-- | ployer, employee and the public, in--| . man who should, as far as possible, | stead of the proposed one--judge represent public authority. They | Labor Court. It was ruled out as gather, not as cor_nbatams but as | duplicating a previous maotion lost men pre-parod 1to sn"down and dis-- on second reading. cuss their problems. | L. M. Frost (Prog. Con., Victoria) Col. Drew said a one--judge ]abor, objected to the Labor Court as pro-- court was like'l,v to produce thf? very viding a "battleground" instead of friction the bill hoped to avoid. Ile' "conciliation, arbitration and out-- charged the bill was badly drafted lawing of strikes for reasons of| and could not be interpreted. Sec--| common sense." Premier Conant in~--| tion 164 of the Criminal Code, he | sisted it was a collective bargaining sai_d. provided . for a year's im--| -- bill and had nover been discussed prisonment for breach of a court | as anything else. order where _ no olhor' penaltiesi Fuforcenvent Bases | _ were provlde.d. '"That's prettyl i o s 8 tough," he said. "There are two | To Col, Drew's objection at @D--| prenalties, first, the year's penalty sence of bases for enforcement, the) _ anqg second, the wide--open penalties Premier said no one would disre--| referred to by the Premier." gard an order of a Supreme Court | Premier Conant said that if judge. To which Col. Drew °/ machinery were set up for appeal plied that Mr. Conant, as Attorncy*| from an order of the Labor Court f General, had "st.ur.hous'ly dISl'ef.Xal'(l-j "it would be disastrous to industry | ed" such a decision in the S(";m, and the House should not even | Act, and others might not recogniz?| _ ponsiger jt." Col. Drew replied that' B official dignity. ; | it was an "extraordinary --state-- "Have we returned to the Middl®| ment" and the Premier was "get-- Ages, to the Star Chamber? ""', ting just a little cockier," and do-- manded -- Col. Drew, citing ""--'i ing his utmost to draw a herring Premier's statement lhl::it tlhe Lal?gr. across the trail. Court's ower _ wou e -- wide s enough topsond a man to jail for at "G;lllotine A'lread,\.' ait day or for his life or fine him $1| A etusa{' by the chairman of Mr. or $1,000,000. ! lacaulay's amopdmelwt for a three-- '"The Minister of Labor will tell man cou.r"t ohcned' from hup the us about the industrial court in| remark: "Surely we're not going to the Old Country," said Col. Drew.| have '5"' guillotine already in com-- "It is not a Supreme Court, but the| _ Mittee?" Premier Conant called it . very sort of court we are asking.x 'an abbrewa_led" edition of a pre--| for here. I do not suggest that we | YVious resolution. ' * slavishly follow the practice adopt-- | _ Minister of Labor Peter Heenan, ed in Britain, but I do say that out| Yising to gxplam the bill, said he | of all the wealth of experience they | Wondered if the members of the have had, there must have emerged Opposn'non knew what they were methods that should be studied. | legislating.