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es > ze o o ie ie 0 e eeeaiee CC s April 5 -- pr 1g5 _ IS INADEQUATE _ y pispyres Expansion of the Labor Depart-- UNDER FIRE -- mA M fent estimates of $M437,231, which Criticism of the use to which the * fie felt necessaty 'if tite department Ontario Provincial Police force was was to varr,.\ on the oxtensxvel work put in connection with industrial Riletted io it; was admm':\d U ",le disputes in recent years was voiced Le:l.~la1u'le',\o.\t01da.\ by C. H. Mii-- in the Legislature yesterday during lard (C.C.F., York West). Mr. Mil-- consideration of the estimates for Jard (-mvnlparcd the Labor Dc:;')'a'u- the Provincial department. Ment estumales. with Aie §2459.000 Answering the two Labor--Progres-- for agriculture and criticized also sive members and other Opposition the Labor Department report for speakers, -- Attorney--General-- Leslic its brevity--59 pages. I! compared, Blackwell declared that, in so far as ho said, with the report on prisons he had a duty to perform to enforce @And the Niagara Falls parks. the law, he would do so with re-- 'I'm -- serving warning on the straint, with toleration and with re-- House," said Mr. Millard, "that spect to the rights of the individual. we've got to have more money and He proposed to do his duty at the more effort in the Labor Départ-- time, under the cirecumstances which ment." | might exist as he saw it. Mr. Millard did not believe the "I am not here to defend past department could carry on its work Attorneys--General and their concep-- 4 adequately on the allowance stated | tion of what the duty of the On-- in the estimates. tario Provincial Police was," said Mr. Not Spending Enough. Blackwell. "I am not here to answer "'We're not spending -- enough tl}qse questions nor to bea.t" responsi-- money," he said, "to deal with the bility for what was done. industrial workers in this Province Opinion of Workers. > as they should be dealt with." He J. P. Salsberg (LP., St. Andrew) did not see how sufficient staff, in-- said it was the view of an over-- &pectors and conciliation -- officers f "-he]mjng number of Ontario work-- could be employed umder the an--! ers that the Ontario Provincial Po-- nounced budget. lice was an instrument to be used Discussion of the Insurance De-- against them when occasion arose. as partment estimates brought from He was making no reflection on the William Dennison (C.C.F., Toronto-- individual members of the force, but St. David) a suggestion for a mu--' their actions were dictated by poli-- nicipal fire insurance scheme. He! cies of the Government of the day. pointed out that Toronto in 25 It would create a better feeling in years had paid out $2.3 million the Province if the Government in fire insurance and got back could give assurance that the force only $442,000. If Toronto had insti-- would be used for specific and useful tuted such a scheme in 1911, he| purposes and not kept for the pur-- gaid, the interest would have m\'-i pose of repeating what took place ered fire losses and the city would| at Hespeler and Kitchener and other have had $3 million. centres where industrial disputes French--Canadian Protest. occurred. Passing of a $15,000 estimate for A. A. Macleod (LP., Be]lwood.s) the Royal Commission inquiry _ on saxd"therg was a lot of ".ugly his-- agzriculture, which so far has cost! }01'." bEh_md the use of police power $20,000, brought criticism from Aure-- in Ontario. He hoped _the day had lien Belanger (L., Prescott) for the| gone forever w.hen pollce'aut_hority Government's failure to appoint a would be used in the fashion it had French--Canadian to the commission.| been used in the past. Premier Drew replied that appoint--| Jolliffe in Argument. ments had been based on recommen-- CCF. ceader E. B. Jolliffe and j 5s s Ceg: dation -- of agricultural int('l'('sli" the Attorney--General became in-- | 'I\'_I-r.thJ?hflffe said the difficulty themselves, but agreed that he would volved in argument when the for-- [;Vla,lb d?i tzn."erd %ttorneys};General discuss with Agricultural Minister] mer charged that the Attorney-- lits%utl,he,elf o Pttx *% t; Ey saw T. L. Kennedy, who is ill, appoint--, General had declined to give more !ct;liar ';3 ,) s;tw )h ";dr?) e]: atpg- ment of a French--Canadian member. than a generai review of the duties imind th'g.th a 7 ?u 3. t'eptim "No slight was intended," the ?rmd functions of the Provincial 'hetweena')ubliilene';:sssi?v alxsu;n:o:uz Premier said. | orce. 'This the Attorney--General i eneriat mnninara i ' Robert. Laurier (L., Ottawa East)| denied, and recalled what he had !eps%lsér(;n}»satglgnte;ezt., Pi (:tieclargd. joined Mr. Belanger in his critcism., said in this regard when asked by itween vhat iso ,lblliildcmon 'neé Discussion caused A. H. Acres: Mr. Jolliffe, lwhat may be orl)ftical ref)érence (P.C., Carleton) to comment on a) Mr. Blackwell said that when |or class gias § Islr Jolliffg said Minister of Agriculture in the Hep-- th.e time came for the exercise of ' A. A Caséelmax.i (CCF N{pis- | burn Cabinet: '"Senator Duncan| |his authority he hoped the Leader fsjng') defended the r;lérx{i)ers of Marshall was one of the worst four-- 'of the Opposition and every other the Provincial force, declaring that flushers who ever sat in the Legis-- imember_of the Legislature would 75 per cent of the force sent into lature." help by interpreting his duties fair-- |Kirkland Lake on the occasion of Report of the commission is ex-- 'ly instead of agitating "if I have [the ~strike became converted --to pected soon and will be sent to the |to enforce law and order in any 'union ideas. members, the Premier told the |labor dispute. remmenn n enmmmmnenrmmimc House. The commission is a fact-- finding body which will not con--. tinue indefinitely, the Premier said,l