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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 31 Mar 1944, p. 4

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Mavrch 31 & ' «y +4 Province's Labor Cod * 'No Mean Achieve M | o Mean Achievement ; ini f Blackwell g In Opinion of Blackwe Terming the Ontario labor re--| Jolliffe Cf'ltlcal. lations code "no mean achicvemcnt"l Opposition Leader Jolliffe, who p en Hearle's | summarized many Opposition objec-- . and a measure "which may well be| tions to the bill, declared that Labor | a milestone in Dominion--Provincial' Minister Daley had said nothing , relations," Attorney--General Leslie could be done to alter the Federal ' SE Blackwell told the Legislature last code in the Ontario Legislature, and | night that the code would be the added that it was a question wheth-- | { means of aiding peaceful relation-- er a Federal code could be extended [ 1 ship between labor and industry to industriecs over which the Fed. a during the war period. eral Government has no power to |~ . f The biil was given second reading legislate. The code was not a bill ' 1 can set the labor board_ up in after nearly six hours of debate, the but an Order--in--Council, an ex-- '10.m1m'1'tes after the act is pro-- C.C.F. opposing the motion. No ree ample of Executive legislation. |CA'Mme®" he declared. "It will con-- corded vote was sought. Nine Elected representatives at Ottawa &tam representatives of the con-- speakers, most of them Opposition had never had an opportunity to |&resses and all unions--and I don't members, spoke on the bill. J. B. discuss it, yet it was now suggested !mean company unions. The act will Salsberg (LP., St. Andrew) de-- to extend it to all Ontario industry. |make collective bargaining com-- fended the principle of the bill "It is a matter of the greatest 'Dulsory in all Ontario industry." while admitting it contained many _ ~---- -- \ Mr. Daley said all business now f imperfections. All other Oppositi0On _ jmportance whether it will apply to | Defore the Labor Court, which is to f members who spoke were highly | Ontario industries which it will not |b° abolished, will be completed. To -- critical of the measure. affect unless this House decides,". |Obviate delays all appeals from the Mr. Blackwell said two courses _ sajq My. Jolliffe. He criticized the }new board will be to the national were open to Ontario when peace hi on other grounds, its concilia-- |P°2A"rd4-- ' & returned; either to assist, along |tion clauses and penalties. "It won't| As highlights of the new legisla-- y & with the other Provinces, the Do-- |work," he declared. \tion, he said it prevents unions being ,' minion Government to establish a | Ontario Hydro Commission em-- liable to damage actions, and work-- f national code, or failing that, to °s-- |ployees, heretotore excluded, are. CS from discharge for union ac-- ' tablish the best possible labor code |now to be included under the col-- tivities and would bring about ' for Ontario that could be conceived | |lective bargaining legislation, Labor _ Closer co--operation between labor at that time. 'Minister Charles Daley said. and management now and after the To an attentive House and pack--| : "Hydro is the type of industry that. _ War. * ed galleries the Attorney--General| |should not be exempted under the Condemning the new labor legis-- declared: "We hove settled in|} |new act," the Labor Minister said.. |lation as deficient and an encourage-- Canada collective bargaining in| |An amendment will be made to in' ment to company unions and "not principle. We have settled for the| |clude Hydro when the bill reaches| |a victory for labor but for the anti-- first time in this nation a national| icommittee, 'labor section of the Canadgn Ml:-:nué labor relations measure that has} is facturers' Association," C. H. Millar scope from coast to coast. It is not | gEprains Prim'.nple. R (C.C.F., York West) appealed to the wide enough, but it is no mean| |, Mr-- Daley, introducing the l@abor (@overnment not to "PuSsh it achievement. If we are honest in | |bills for second reading, explain©d ||;prough" when it would "only end our desire to co--operate with the| | their ?""mple to include . all lin disaster for labor." He said he Dominion Government we must| industry not now included in > could not be sincere in his labor af-- compromise." Dominion wartime labor regula-- 1filiations and endorse "a bill to en-- Amendment Dus. Pnons. The new Federal. labor code force bad legislation." _ jalready had been proclaimed law on Mr. Blackwell said he had just| |March 20, so "we can argue but we | RUOtes Adamson. been advised that by special Order--| |cannot change a word of it," he He quoted Rodney Adamson, M.P. in--Council the Dominion Govern--| |said. It could, and no doubt would, |fO" YOrk West, who had said at ment has protected both certifica--| 'be changed, as need arose. The On. |Kitchener Feb. 14 that labor woul(.l. tion and all business before thel |rario act was an enabling act to be "the first to get it in the neck Labor Court pending March 20, and| exteng its provisions to Ontario. It under the new bill, 'and who had added that there would be @n| was unreasonable to suppose that| |CH!tiCized penaities as too heavy«-- amendment to the Ontario act to| (;wo gistinct labor codes coula| |tP"°° months in jail for every day reconcile the Provincial bill with| ouerate in Ontario, one for war in.| |O" &n Meegal strike, Attorney.Gen-- this decision. While it had beenl o e A . ar'n | leral Blackwell countered with the pointed out that under Order 1003] @US!TY and one for others when| |sistement that Mr. Adamson did not matters might be taken away froml often they were carried on under' speak with authority for either the both courts, Ontario had so far been| the same roof. _ | (Federal or Provincial parties. unable to prevail upon the Dominion Replying to Liberal Leader H. C.] Mr. Millard contended that the Government to deal with this as-- N'xO®, Mr. Daley said Ontario) conciliation clause would drive a pect. 'The Province, however, had WOrkers affected are about two--| wedge between employers and em--| gone as far as its jurisdiction would thirds in war industry and one--| |ployees, and said it was not for the| allow. third in civilian occupations, "We| |Government to take the place of One of the earlier labor codes, _ have tried to devise an enabling act| |arbitrator. Also, he claimed, con-- P.C. 2685, Mr. Blackwell said earlier, -- that will co--ordinate the whole| |ciliation services are. poorer than had done more harm than any other thing," he said. | under tl)e old bill. He suggestet_i an labor legislation in that when this _ Asks Fair Trial. | jalternative course in labor legisla-- ' collective . bargaining measure had 3 s h . ... _E uon with Ontqrxp law§ running beenepUt t6 the test "labor was told Asking a trial for the Dominion |parallel to Dominion. His condem--| it df@'t mean there must be col. |CO0G ht# told the House it was the |natory remarks were interrupted ati lective bargaining." It was just a 23rd draft of legislation evolved -- |one point by an altercation over a "pious expe ctation"' of what it was after wide discussion, and deserved point of 'order in which his Leader, felt Siplovees should do to be tested. But, he warned, regu-- |Mr, Jolliffe, and Attorney--General, \ Foyees : lations were not enough without a |Blackwell participated, and whgch] spirit of good faith. He assured |brought an appeal from Mr. Speaker labor that it would have equal repre-- |not to start "splitting hairs" on pro-- sentation on the new labor board, |cedure so late in the session. It 'and pointed out that the heads of !was the session's 28th day. ithe big labor congresses had Ap« "'*~'*~*~_*~'~'*_------_=~'~ _ momu |proved it. L

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