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# Mamk \3 f * ADVICE Committee Probe GIVEN HOUSE 0" H d 0 I'in ' I ; By One--Man Party y ea § ; ""You could make a drastic reduc-- Asked hy E"IS tion of hours and labor in ail indus-- tries and services." lan'a (HM.4a*!) \ "You could reduce interest gown Premier's 'No Ignored -- to 3 per cent., and I'd make it un-- Tory Scores Hepburn lawful to charge more than 3 per & a genit." Dismissals ""You could bring down a minimum N ecai mds w for men and i ¢ wage tor. boys at a fair _ ACRES SEES INACTION "You might start in on an inten-- y m fammge | ;g:'e'n m" ising and slum clearance cam-- Previous appeals for a legislative \ _ _"I would urge that a fair wage mittee of inquiry into the Hydro regulation be adopted by the Gov-- contracts were raised by the Queen's ernment for all contracts." Park Opposition yesterday to the > Sam Lawrence, member for Ham-- '"6"5 of a challenge. ilton East, "Leader"--and sole and ndampened by Premier Hepburn's first member--of the C.C.F. Party in pefobd "No" of Monday, Arthur the Ontario Legislature, provided the taw: Conservative member from ot-- Government with this five--planked, Sn proposed a committee of inquiry % advice. Further, he put on record his 8'"]' yesterday, and made the pro-- economic philosophy and his political posal a gage of battle. | position. Challenges Government. ' '"The Government and the Oppo-- "I challenge the Gov sition--that is the main Opposition-- point a m,fi,,,m of t;?ggg;ek:,o"g);% , agree on one thing," said Mr. Law-- into these matters in fullest degree," rence, "the fundamental structure of he said. 'The Opposition so mov °d, in the capitalist system. And that is his words, because of sufficient faith where we disagree--and when I say in the former Commission and the 'we' I mean between myself and the Hydro personnel. entire representation in the House." "The air should be cleared so that For politics--"so long as we are in the people know the facts." the minority in this House we will be In the sequence of his Hydro speech, in the Opposition. 'The movement I Mr. Ellis preceded the challenge with | the member raised the question of represent will sweep down the Prov-- a deprecation of repudiation. The | "engincers' approval" and mentioned | iInce before many years and occupy greatest of injuries, the member | the famed "minute" for the tenth or| :g:s %05"'0" r?'t the Government in Chi;:'seti.h hAad been done to Hydro | eleventh time in session history. | hamber. "when the Attorney--General intimated | Between advice and statement of that some of the contracts might be gsxpmes Rogre!: | principle the Hamilton member cancelled or terminated. I would re-- | _ A H. Acres (Conservative, Carle--| sandwiched a call for alleviation of fuse to be a party to any repudiation | ton) regretted the Government, in | unemployment and depression condi-- of a contract of the Province of On-- |the Throne speech debate, made no tions; a surmiss that Hydro paldI tario, whether we can get out of it on | rCfcrence to the King's Silver Jubilee, | double what it was worth for Do--| & legal technicality or not." | and that the Premier and Cabinet| minion Power and Transmission Mr. Rocbuck interposed th did not accept the invitation to the' | rposed that he had ' Company and a running comment on ; not suggested a repudiation of con-- | State dinner at the residence of Legislative doings that alternately tracts. "I argued." he said, "that a | Licutenant--Governor H. A. Bruce. drew Liberal and Conservative ap-- contract was not in force--not that a ' This was the fourth week of the | plause. binding contract should be repudi-- session and there had been nothing| ated." but a rehashing of campaign speeches, | ThleusjAttomey-General's facts and | Mr. Acres contended. Hehptrcnnse;g conclusions were the target for an |support to any mcasure that wou hour--and--a--half attack by Mr. Ellis. j ibet,wr lcondliltions. $ Marshah | He thought Hon. Duncan Marshall, The member from Ottawa--following jMin?stcr cgf Agriculture, would have A px'eyxously set Conservative style-- | presented new ideas and reform poli-- saw disagreement between Mr. Rocbuck . [ i: PP A ; i cles. Good times are not coming l'nd T. Stewar, Lyon, Chairman of back in this country until agriculture| | thfilflzg;?d%?kn;u:fi%now * he said, in _ 15 CVIved," Mr. Acres declared. l ¢ | reference to 1934 reports of increas-- _ 4t B'"."" Hydro. ' ing power demand and revenue, "who Mr. Acres advocated a flap rate on: f af. Hydro throughout the Province, ex-- is speaking the correct state of a NNE RO C * fairs--the Attorney--General or Stew-- 3?;";'&3:?3--&'3"" ?h?lgef;tn dfi';;'g*lf'l | & yon. evident disa-- possiDie. C ~4 fg:gerl;xi?xrt'." (hey ie 36 fy making up Hydro accounts. There had bcen "no more disgrace_ "If _elect:l'ic pU\?'er was Lhe San}e | ful thing" than when in July "every . DMCC it ©veU city and town yeg rgzlw engineer on the Hydro staff receiving tario. tken when a& man wat SSAlW /E | j y an industry he would not always| more than $5,000 was dismissed, or tees gy se c * retained on a day_w-dav basis." start in a la'l'g'e CIty. Mr. Acres 5;!,1d. I | Roebuck interrupted to observe Mr. Acres suggested the Province| * j Aft, 20004E 3 4 s the task of disposing of muni. | | tha; these engineers were not dismiss-- assume the task of disposing | l * is cipal debentures. This would ens'ure & ed, but their contracts were termi h | ; irls lower rate of interest and remove the | nated and replaced by continuous, in inrations 'of definite engagements large number of classifications 0O y these bonds. Countermarching over old ground, : en rmmermemarine