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Tho Ontario Government urged that the national labor map hc applied to all industry, not just war mriustr.s, and regretted that the Do. mininn Government had limited its 'appiitratlrtn, but Ontario intends to apply the new code to all industry. Premier (Forge Drew )esterday told a Para" delegation from the 'l'ratles and Labor Congress, Ontario Sec- ' 'tion, at Queen's Park. Tho Premier said aim. speaking of the proposed Dominion health legislation: "There i, no opposition from here. because we don't know what it i~ they promise to do. We have neither rejectcd it nor ap- prm ed " Tho deputation presented a brief on desired legislation covering varintrs labor problems. postwar planning. old-age pensions, mothers" allnwancns, an emergtrnq~ training plan and cit-urges in the Ontario Liquor Control Act. Tho brief was submitted hy John Gavin, chairman of the Ontario executive; J. W. . Buckley. John Noble. and othe: prominent labor officials. Valuable Experience. . "We will attempt to give the best possible administration to the code," tho Premier promised. adding that Ontario hoped to gain experience from it that would be valuable later.' He stressed the advantages of sports, in commenting on a sugges- tion that the Government, encourage "all recognized sports and enter- tainments. owing to the spiritual and mental strain during this time of crisis." Sports. he said, taught people' "to meet each other on equal terms." and led to "a better ap- proach to healthy understanding." The Government, he said. intend- ed to make full use of the postwar employment committee. which had met only briefly before the election. and so had created the new depart- ment. of planning and development to co-ordinate all scattered activi. _ ties. . . Hurts War Effort. Tho labor brief expressed its rec- ognition that, "the present Govern- ment was not originally involved in curtailment of beer and is without power to rectify it at its source, ex- cept as to the effect that a forth. right condemnation to the Dominion Government of the consequences that have been produced." It add- erl: "These consequences are de. plorable and totally unnCCessary. and in no wise contribute to the successful prosecution of the war, but the contrary." It suggested that furtherance of temperance and control depended on definite statement that the Ontario Legislature "eannot be overpowered and overriden in its jurisdiction by the Federal Government," and that the liquor laws "must be 1oeal."