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OAGE TWO THE CANADIAN' STATEsMAN, BOWMANVILE, ONTApT _____________________THô1A~JNYR 4 i ~~î~~i ~ ~~ 4 tending Counties Council. INTEDTO'MA ? 4%v Ontario's Weak 1 Special Sessic 4 When a railroad strike paraiyzed iranada, the federal government cailed a pecial session of Parliament ta bring ~bout a settlement. SThe transportation strike which ended 1esterday did flot paralyze Ontario, nor ~ven the city itself, but it did create great -iardship, resuited in tremendous ioss of :evenue and empioyment ta many besides he TTC and the tram and bus operators. WÇThat ioss was not confined ta Toronto, sa 2-this became an Ontario probiem. iL There seems ta be more than enough ~ustification for Premier Leslie Frost ta k_4all a speciai session of the Provincial Leg- _ýpslature. In our opinion, it shouid have been ecalled long before the strike became ser- 4ious. Not, ith the idea of settling the tstrike by capitulation ta the men's de- f'mands, but ta pass new and tougher î . regulations ta correct Ontario's weak 'labor iaws. 4 No one wil1 deny that ail workers :ave the rightta strike. As long as this is *a free country they will, and should, re- * tain that right. J Workers in factories injure no one *bu themselves and their employers when ~they use labor's ultimate weap)on. The men '~or women pay the price for their action in i More About the Local -3 We thought our editorial last week ~offering some f ree advice - ta Durham SCounty Apple Growers on catching up Swith the van af progress in marketing their deliciaus fruit by modemn packaging and adopting a trade mark would meet Swith modest approval. But, ta aur surprise. Sthe first local orchardist who mentioned îw the subject ta us laughed in aur face with Scomplacency and intimated aur sugges- *tions were ail cockeyed. H1e didn't stop ta Sexpiain his pet theory of soiving the apple '~grawers' probiems, but we asked him ta .1 put his ideas in writing and we wouid be Sgiad ta publish them, for maybe, as an arm ï chair critic, we mray be wrong. However, the next day in reading a Sreport af the Ontario Fruit Growers' Con- w v'entian in Toronto, the secretary spoke very much along the lines we suggested. Here's a part of his camments: "Ontario's apple grawers were toid kresterday ta put up or shut up when M. ýi obinson, secretary-treasurer of the Ontario Fruit and Vegetabie Growers' As- Labor Laws Warrant on of Legisiature lost wages, sometimes i lost jobs and lost homes when payments cannot be made. That is their right, just as it is their right to strike. But men and women who serve the public injure ail within a city or within a province when they hait a public service such as transportation, light, power or heat. These workers stili should have the right to strike, but the penalties paid for that right should be stiffer than they are, for no group of workers has the right to make their neighbors suffer. There is a law in the State of Michi- gan which appears to be what the Prov- ince of Ontario needs now. It provides that transportation or other public utility workers may strike if they please. But, if they do, they lose al seniority rights, ahl pension rights. Their employment with the utility is considered at an end. After the strike, workers may be re- hired. But they return as new employees, on two years' probation. After a given period of years they may again start to build up their retiremen t'pensions. A law drafted along such lines is what Premier Frost's government should meet to pass .... .and NOW! Apple Growers' Problems sociation, spoke to the association's annual' meeting in the King Edward Hotel. 1."Mr. Robinson told apple men that if they wanted stability in markets they would have to give up some of their pres- ent freedoms. If the ups and downs in the apple market were ta be eliminated, he said, there would have to be a marketing plan with complete contrai and complete co-operatian of grawers. Such a plan would be much like a union, he added, and couldn't work unless the unco-operative growers could be disciplined.% "Let's accept it and stop whining," said Mr. Robinson of present marketing conditions, "or do something about it." "H1e said growers cou]d not produce profitably on the present basis, and that turning over praduce to dealers to do with it as they wouid was no help. At the same time, there was no point in blaming deal- ers, since they were in the business to make a living." So, Mr. M. H. Staples, let's have your ideas now, and put us right on this sub;Ject. A Day Long to be Remembered by Some Canadians February ist, 1952, will be a dayî long ta be remembered by over 700,000 Canad- !ans for on that day these citizens, ail over 70 years of age, will receive their first rnonthly old age pension of $40. In addi- tion, nearly 100,000 needy persons, aged between 65 and 69, will aiso receive $40 a month-their first oid age pension. This means that five per cent of Canada's pop- ulation of 14,000,000 will benefit under an expanded social security program. Cost of the new program is expected ta be about $350,000,000 a year. The federai government now will pay the whole cost of the pensions ta those 70 or over and wiil share with the provinces on a 50-50 basis the cost of the allowances to those in the 65-69 age group. Previously, when only those over 70 in need were receiving a pension, the fed- eral treasury paid 75 per cen t of the cost and the provinces the remainder. Persans in both the over-70 and 65-69 age groups must have iived in Canada 20 years ta be eligrible. The breakdown by provinces of those who wiil receive pension: Applîcants from those 70 and over, regardless of means, for the universal fed- eral pension: Newfoundland, 2,614; Prince Edward Island, 3,278; Nova Scotia, 14,341; New Brunswick, 8,530; Quebec, 70.255; On- tario, 146,798; Manitoba, 20,304; Saskatch- ewan, 20,918; Alberta, 18,763; British Col- umbia, 40,283; Yukon and Northwest Ter- ritories, 291-total 346,375. Needy persons over 70, previously re- cipients of provincial-federal pensions and now automatically eligible for the univer- sal federal pension: Newfoundland 11.859; Prince Edward Island, 3,260; Nova Scotia, 21,062; New Brunswick, 16,913; Quebec, 75,626; Ontario, 93,229; Manitoba, 18,044,, Established 18.14 with whjch is încorporated The Bowmanville News. The. Newcastle Iridependent and The Orono News 97 Years' Continuous Service ta the Town of Bowmanville and Durham County AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ~UDITÇUREAU> ~RCUAhI SUBSCRIPTON RATES $3.00 a Year. strictly in cdvance $4.00 a Year in the United States Published ky THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY ,Authornzed as Second Clast Mail Fost office Deportmnent. Otawa. Bowmanville, Ontario GEO. W. MAMES, EDITOR Saskatchewan, 17,928; Alberta, 18,419;- British Columbia, 32,746; Yukon and Northwest Territories, 114-total 309,200. MUST PROTECT CANADIAN LABOR Unless Canadian gavernment policies are careful, tariffs on goods imported from Japan are gaing ta be too low ta protect the interests of Canadian workers. Believers in free trade as an economic theory will nat go ta the extent af arguing that theplan should be carried in practice ta the point af admitting ta Canada the products af workers paid a few cents per hour - as is the case of Japan. Remen¶iber, these Japanese workers have available the same machines and- tools with which ta produce as are at the disposai af the Canadian workers. They have, or can develop, the same skill. The difference between them is that the Jap- anese worker is paid a pittance, whiie his Canadian competitors have a decent stan- dard af living. There are plenty of interests in Can- ada eager ta exploit the cheap labor of Japan. There are importers who would like ta handie Japanese goods. There are congumers who do not care what happens ta Canadian workers, if they can buy goods a littie more cheaply. Unless Canadian workers take a stand about ail this they need scarcely be sur- prised ta experience unemployment. un- less they are willing ta takze such cuts in wages as will permit them ta compete with Japan. IMPROIVING HEALTH 0F A NATION The granting ai Life Insurance Medi- cal Fellowships ta thirteen scientists in Canadian medicai schools ta enabie them ta undertake specific researchi projects draws attention ta the tremendous contri- bution the life insurance companies opera- ting in Canada are making ta the work af improvîng the heaith of the nation. For more than twentv-five years the ie insurance companies have joined through the Canadian Lufe Insurance 0f- ficers Association in makine contributions aggregating nearly $1,000,000 ta such or- ganizations at the Canadian Tubercuiosis Association, the Canadian Dental Hvgiene Council and the National Committee for School Health and ta several medical me- search studios. This much-needed financial help has permitted these public heaith bodies and numerous researchers ta expand their wamk greatiy for the Canadian peopfle as a whole. Had it nat been for this help it is doubtful if these arganizations and womk- ers wouid have accomplished s0 much. The joint contributions ta these arganiza- tions are in addition ta those made by m a ny companies individuaillv for publi c health, hospital and rnedical research pur- poses. The total af these grants makes a real contribution ta the welfare of Canadians.