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PAGE TWO | ----E---- SC -- -- SA it i id . em dma EI OT he would have known that after, WATCH OO The Dryden Ghscrver Elsie B. Collison, Publisher Published every Friday at Dryden, Ontario. ubscription rate $1.50 yearly. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Heenan Replies To Critic To The Dryden Observer Dear Editor: Ag there are many residents in your district having know- ledge of the facts and ave theve- fore interested, I am enclosing a copy of a Letter to the Bdilo: of the Northern Observer 1 avould be glad to have published The writer stated in effect that not one inch of road had been constructed at Sioux T.ookout. but all money appropriated had been spent in the Kenora district while I was the local member. Peter Heenan. * *% ¥*® Ottawa, Dec. 30th, 1932 The Editor, Northern Observer, Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Dear Sir: Since my return from North- ern Ontario I have had sent to me copies of your paper of December 9th, in which appears a letter signed "One of the Un- employed," and it is suggested I should answer same. The effect of your correspon ident's remarks is that /I was first' elected by Labour, and h asks if I had carried out th pledges given at that time. I am perfectly agreeable that the Labour men of Ontario and the rest of Canada should he the judges in this matter. They. with the odd exception, have placed themselves on record, and I take great pride and pleasure in reading over the opinion of these men. Perhaps the following list wf achieve- ments will serve the purpose of giving the information your correspondent asks. I was elected in 1919--and at the first session of the Legisla- ture was privileged to prepare amendments to the Workmen's Jompensation Act. These amend- ments were then introduced by the Gowernment of the day as a Government measure and with slight changes were passed and ade the law of this province. The said amendments made the act one of the best, if not the hest Workmen's Compensation Act in existence, and up to the present, as a result of its pro- visions, there has been paid to injured workmen and their de- pendents over one hundred mil. lion dollars, $100,000,000. At the same session of the Legislature, 1920, we secured the passage of the Mother's Allow- ance Act, which has paid out to the widows and fatherless child- ren of this provinee over twenty million dollars, $20,000,000. At the same session we secured the passage of the Minimum Wage Act for women and girls, and if your correspondent had known the conditions under which women and girls had to work in the industrial centres of Ontario, he would know the value of this Act. = I also introduced a motion in 1924 which was carried as amend- ¢d by the Prime Minister, the Honourable H. G. Ferguson, pro- viding for an eight (8) hour day in industrial undertakings, whica by the way had not been acted upon by the present Ontario Government. = I introduced a motion, which was also carried, providing for fair wages and fair working conditions in connection with the leasing of our timber and pulp- wood areas and our water power rights. This also has not been acted upon by the Ontario Gov- ernment. During the time I was mem- ber of the Legislature I also advocated that the pulp and paper companies snould be re- quired to purchase pulp wood offered by the settlers at a fair price. This also has not been acted upon by the Provincial Government. Your correspondent goes on to say in effect that during the time the time the Farmer Gov- ernment was in power and T was local member, not one inch of road was constructed (I pre- sume he. means around Sioux Lookout. EE If your correspondent had been interested in the district the 1919 election, I discussed with representative citizens fron: all parts of the district regard- ing expenditure on roads, and that the opinion prevailing was that the first expenditures should take place in the agricultural areas, so as to enable the farm- ers to get in and out from the railway. In conformity that opinion the farming dis- tricts known as the Dryden and Oxdrift districts and the farm ing districts around Kenora and Quibell were given first consid- eration. But was Sioux Lookout for- gotten? Did the writer know that it was your humble servant along with a few citizens of that town who first proposed a high- way connection with the Cana- dian Pacific railway, and that we had a gang of men employed |. locating and blazing the route. After the change of Gevernment, Honourable James Lyons, the new Minister of Lands and San upon his first visit to the district pulled these men off that road and it was reported that Mr. Lyons said that such a road was a "myth."" Notwiih- standing that, as the representa- tive, IT kept plugging away until it, was decided to go ahead with the project. I feel sure anyone interested in the district will admit that had the Government been more concerned in the building of roads and highways. rather than keeping these mat- ters for use as political footballs, that highway would have been completed years ago. But has said writer forgotten the work done on the road to Richan--the road to Quibell and the road to Redditt? Surely Mr. Editor your correspondent could not have been in the district at the time, or if he was, it is quite evident he had reason or was; ashamed to sign his proper name. "But is there not another reason? | Was it not because he wanted to make the deliberate statement to the effect that 1 would like to see the rails, torn up there, (I presume he means the Sioux Lookout section?) 'What kind of a mind must vour correspondent be possessed of to make such a statement, when he must have known, that is, if he is at all interested in what is going on, that I have put myself on record both in and out of Parliament that 1 false an | | he will admit his remarks were with i | against the abandonment of any' of our railway lines. I have even allowed my position to be! presented on the picture screen: all over the counrty to that ef-' fect, and I have challenged the (rovernment to go to the country on their lack of railway policy and the Duff Report, and have received the endorsation of many of the representatives of the Railway Unions for my actions. Now Sir allow me to give a brief list of enactments on be-! half of the Labour men of Can- ada during the four years I was Minister of Labour, which may. convince your correspondent that | my first consideration is still = for the masses of the people: 1. The passage of the Union' Tabel Act. 2. The fair wages policy ap- plied to development of natural resources. 3. Order In Council prohibit- | ing bringing into Canada labour under contract. 4. Order In Council establishl: .ing an eight-hour day for all government employees through out' Canada. 5. The establishment of a national Civil Serviee Council so as to enable government employ- ees, some say in their own be- half. 6. ~The passage of an Act fo] adjust the wages and conditions of certain postal workers who took part in the Winnipeg strike ; in 1919. 7. The passage of an Act providing pensions for all em- ployees connected with the Cana- dian National Railroad. 8. The passage of an Act to provide for fair wages and an eight-hour, day on Federal pulb- lic contracts and public works. 9. The canvassing of the pro-} vinces with the view of estab- blishing an unemployment insur- ance scheme for Canada, and had the Liberal Government been returned in 1930, I feel certain we would have had such a scheme operating today. 10. Establishment of am Old Age Pension system which at present is taking care of over 65,000 aged Canadians and has paid out to date about $45,000, 000. 11. These together with the fact that from 1926 to 1930 the wages of the Labouring men of Canada increased lon an average of 15%, and through the el administration of the labour laws of Canada the increases were secured without strikes. It would he far too lengthy to enumerate more, but if your correspondent is in the least fair uncalled for and '"unfair"; and 80 it is with a great deal of pride and pleasure I gign Peter Heenan. I am sure of very few things in this world . .. 1 should be tempted to pnt very large gues- tion marks after all that 1 write, all that 1 say, and all that 1 think.--Anatole France. "Did you steal this rug?" "No, yer Honor. A lady gave it to me and told me to beat it." Churches ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH Father Belanger, P.P. Sunday: 10 a.m. Holy Mass. 11 a.m. Catechism. 7 p.m. Rosary and Benedictior ST. LUKE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10 a.m.--Sunday School. *1 am.--Morning Service. 7 p.m.--Evensong and Sermon. Rev. W. M. Clarke, Parish Priest ST. 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