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mE VOL. 1---NO. 70 Pobighed Goes On Cen a Add 10,000 To City's Population Next Year [= The Oshawa Ba il The Oshawa Daily Reformer v.. - OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927 Time ---an IMPRESSIVE EXPANSION OF THE MOTOR INDUSTRY UNDER WAY IN OSHAWA About $2,500,000 of New Buildings at Present Under Construction BOOST POPULATION Expect to Add 10,000 People Next Year and Nearly Double Output By R, C, READE Copyright by Toronge Dally Star, Heprinted by Permission Oshawa, Sept, 24.--Two years ago the General motors factories in Osh- awa shut down, though only for a day, and there were prophecies that if the Robb buuget went through not another motor car could be manufactured in Canada, To-day Oshawa is experiencing the greatest manutacturing boom in Can- ada. A building program is under way that will nearly double this year's production of cars. And this year has been the greatest year in the history of the General Motors of Canada, as well as in that ot its American parent. This Canadian company has sold 45 per cent. of all the cars sold in Can- ada this year, Oshawa may seem a busy town as you drive through it on the highway, but you can form no adequate idea of its industrial progress until you go north into the iactory area. Its auto- mobile industry is moving into commo- dious new quarters and keeping up production at the same time. Everywhere sireets are being torn up @nd houses and buildings being torn down to make room for new factories. Toronto may pride itself on being a great industrial centre, but it can show no such scenes, Tall webs of steel stand out against the skyline; there are great gaping holes to receive com- crete foundations; wagons jolt atowg with bricks; drays rumble with steel beams; the motor bees are swarming into a larger hive. Mr. Sam McLaughlin radiated op- timism as he sat in his Oshawa office and to the accompaniment of the sound of pneumatic riveters, steam shovels and cement mixers, talked genially of his plans for expansion, $2,50000 of New Construction "We have," said he, "about $2,500,000 of new construction under way. That will pretty near double our out- put. We have roughly 5000 on our payroll at present. Next year we will have between seven and eight thous- and. That will add 10,000 to the popu- lation of Oshawa." In these few quiet sentences he summed up an unparalled motor manu- facturing success, a success that makes the busy Oshawa factories unable to stem the flood of orders, although motor cars keep dropping off the end of the assembling line at more than the rate of one per minute. A success that necessitates the erection of huge buildings to cope with future business. What was the cause of all this? Was it the British preference and the export trade? "Our export trade," said Mr. Mec- Laughlin, "is large and growing larger. It extends to 87 different countries. It carries the name of Canada around the world, but one feature of it is that it is unprofitable. It helps to lessen our burdens, but it is not profitable because we have to compete with American divisions. Our production is less than theirs. Our costs are great- er. And our Canadian market is sea- sonal. Sixty per cent. of our entire sales in Canada take place in four months and eighty per cent. in five months. We have to have the export trade to keep our factories going full time. Still our Canadian market is steadily increasing." If this great prosperity was due only in a secondary degree to the export, was it due primarily to the Robb tariff reductions that at first seemed a ca- ' lamity but had proved a blessing in disguise ? Effect of the Tariff Mr. McLaughlin's answer was de- cidedly in the negative. Anyone who thinks they can score an easy triumph over him by twitting him with a com- parison of his former Prophesies of 'disaster and his present balance sheet is much mistaken. You have to know more about the motor business than he, and that is a tall order, to make wy dint in his presentation of the causes of lower prices and increased sales. He remarked: "All that 1 said about he ' government's automobile tariff proposals was perfectly sound and I shall stick to it. If they had gone through in their original form the re- sults would have heen as disastrous ag [ predicted. In the States there have heen steady decreases in automobile wrices without decreased protection. It is conditions of competition and 'ficiency within the business itself that lower prices. There would be cheaper motor cars in Canada if there were more protection. Instantly other American companies would come here to manufacture, "The export trade does much to low- er prices in Canada. Another reason is efficiency." We have to he efficient to overcome the many disadvantages under which we lahour as compared with the American manufacturers, "One feature of the automobile busi- ness in Canada is that Canada for our purposes is a strip of country 4,000 mules long and only 100 miles wide with a population not much greater than that concentrated around New York. A salesman there at the cost of a street car ticket is in touch with an enurmous market, Here distribution costs are high." Despite these difficulties he made the statement: "If we got our materials free of duty automobile prices in Can- ada would at once drop very close to a parity with American prices." Myr. Mclaughlin was asked: "Is the main reason for these great additions to your plant the fact that your export trade will be greatly favored by a re- cent customs arrangement that the percentage of Canadian content in cars will now be taken as the general per- centage over the whole production and will not be required, as before, in every model?" "There is an grrangement of nature," said Mr, McLaughlin, Growth of Canadian Market He did not, however, feel at liberty to discuss negotiations with the cus- toms department, He showed a lengthy list of the countries to which exports were made and it proved that the export trade was by no means an export affair. He talked with enthusi- asm of the growth of the Canadian market and made it clear that these hew buildings were necessitated by Canadian, no less than foreign de- mand, "A lot of people may not believe it," said Mr. McLaughlin, "but what keeps me at this desk is really a feeling of patriotism. I want to kéep on doing something to make Oshawa grow and Canada grow, It is not the salary I draw that keeps me here. It was pos- sible for me to have retired long ago. If we take the experience of the United States as a guide one can't exaggerate the part the automobile industry will play in building up Canada. It is safe to say that the present prosperity of the United States has largely been built up around it." If you want to make Mr. McLaugh- lin indignant all you have to do is to accuse him merely of assembling American cars. The General Motors Company of Canada stood fairly and squarely on its own legs and was not merely being carried along by the tremendous wave of prosperity which its parent was enjoying in the United States. "Everybody," said he, "ought to be as proud of the General Motors of Canada as if every dollar of its capi- tal were owned in Canada. [It is a genuinely Canadian concern. Ninety- eight per cent. of our employes are that F. MURPHY Jubilee Pavilion Standin FLORENCE HU 19230 DOROTHY REID T. OSBORNE Your Favorite a Winner Last Car Leaves Lake aot 12.05 Oshawa's Motor Industry Undergoing Great Expansion A $2,500,000 building program by the General Motors of Canada is at present under way, When completed the com- pany expects it will be able to nearly double its output and mean an addi- tion of 10,000 to the population of Oshawa At the TOP LEFT is Mr. Sam McLaughlin, president who says that a spirit of patriotism holds him in his present position. TOP RIGHT: the new stamping mill in course of construction. LOWER LEFT, thc new fireproof office building. LOWER RIGHT, the high water tower which is to he torn down to make room for the new paint shop --Illustrations and article courtesy Toronto 'Daily Star, Canadian or British, We are great purchasers of Canadian materials, Just the other day we gave one order in Quebec for 3000,000 feet of limber. We get a large amount of our fabric from the Canadian Woollens in Peter- horo. All our paint and top material is made in Toronto, There are six other industries in Oshawa alone which work for us and employ eight or nine hundred men. All told we have 500 Canadian sources of supply." Thinking over this endless chain of economic effect he felt that it was not egotism hut true patriotism to re- cord the industrial splash that Oshawa is making. The great blocks of cement going into these new automobile fac- tories cause economic ripples from coast to coast, Seeing is Believing "Seeing is believing," said Mr. Mc- La in jovially. "Don't take my word for the big things we are doing here. Go out and look at them." He was on the point of leaving for a five-day vacation his first this sum- mer, so could not himself act as a guile, He, however, deputed one of his right-hand men to point out the high spots in these new high records in automobile and automobile factory cobstriiction. He recommended start- ing with a look at the electrical book- keepers as one of the best of proofs of Oshawa's immense industry. These machines record complex facts of cost sheets, invoices and every kind of document by perforations like those on the rolls of player pianos. They can j the cars in a way that would make Malini the magician envious. Mix the cards as you will when they are fed into the machine they fall un- ertingly under their rizht classification. any more of these sets of mechan- ical audit brains will be needed to take care of the new flood of invoices and cost sheets that will come from the new buildings. First of all to house these records there will be an immense four-storey office building, concrete and fireproof. It is as long as a city block and already the frame of it is up. The steel web that looks like the skeleton of a colossal coliseum will be a die room, tool room and sheet metal stamping plant. Another maze of steel is not a roof garden, but a new storey on the body store house. It is from this that the car bodies on long cables will swoop down like hawks on the endless chain of the as- sembly line and instantaneously rivet themselves to the chassis. A big water tower is being torn down next to a huge excavation. That is to make room for a finishing room or paint shop. Compared to" this a concrete ing dock that, can ac- fommodate 25 freight cars is a minor constr A plot rough land several hun- dred yards long that is being graded by a steam shovel with a caterpillar trawl is evidence of what this new brick and mortar will mean in human values. t immense plot of land vill be a parking ground for employes' gars. Oshawa is a place where the worker s to work in his own car, one of the 252 models made in this ex- panding motor hive. It did mot require much looking to accept Mr. Mclaughlin's statement of the phenomenal growth of the Gen- eral Motors of Canada. $ 2 NEW SUBWAY LINES IN MONTREAL CITY ' New York Interests Enter Into $200,000,000 Projec:--Ele- vated and Underground | Montreal, Que., Sept, 23.--Initial steps have been taken, it was offici- 'ally announced, by a group of local ! interests 'connected with financial | houses in New York to enter into a $200,000,000 project with the city, | province, Federal Government and railway companies to abolish level crossings in Montreal, construct a grand central terminal station and construct uderground tram facilities. The first intimation of the project was given out today by City Hall officials, The work in view comprises, i was stated, the abolition of all level crossings in and entering the city either by elevating them or putting them underground. The proposition which it is stated is being made to civie, provincial and Federal Gov- ernments beside the railway heads, would provide for collaboration of |all these bodies in the financial arrangements, In addition to the establishment of a union railway terminal the scheme includes elevated electric lines to serve the north end of the city and also a system of subways dovetailing with the surface, eley- ated and rail lines. LEVINE ABANDONS | FLIGHT TO DELHI Vienna, Sept. 23.--Charles A.| Levine, whose attempt to set a new non-stop distance record ended to- | day when the monoplane Columbia | landed here in a pouring rain, hav-' ine covered about 900 miles, tonight told the Associated Press that he would abandon the rest of the flight to Delhi, the point for which he! had originally set out. Levine added that he might at- tempt it again at the end of Octo- ber, when the Indian monsoon sea- son has passed, using London as his starting place. After necessary adjustments to the Columbia Levine and his pilot, Captain Walter Hincheliffe, said they would probably fly to Venice to see the Schmeider Cup race there. PRESENTATION MADE Port Elgin, Sept. 22.--Leslie Mec- Lean of Toronto, student in charge of Port Elgin and Queen Hill Pres- byterian Churches during the sum- mer months, was presented with a gold watch and a purse of money by members of both congregations. The presentation was made fin Port Elgin Presbyterian Church on Tues- day evening. | STRUCK DYNAMITE THANKSGIVING DAY ON NOVEMBER 7 Ottawa, Sept, 23.--Monday, Nov. 7, will be observed as Armistice 'Day and Thanksgiv- ing Day throughout Canada. A proclamation to this effect ap- pears in the current issue of The Canada Gazette, 'WITH HAMMER, IS SERIOUSLY HURT Kirkland Lake, Ont., Sept. Dan Gillis, aged 45, Nova miner, is in hospital here in ious condition following the sion of a stick of dynamite, which he struck with his hammer while breaking ore before a crusher at the Associated Goldfields Mine in Larder Lake. A block of ore jammed in the chute leading into the crush- er and Gillis struck at the mass to release it. He was rushed to Kirkland Lake by special car on the Nipissing Cen- tral Railway. He probably will lose the sight of one eye and a thump has been amputated. He is also in- jured internally. He was on his first job in the North. 23.-- Scotia a ser- explo- STRUCK BY TRAIN ELMIRA MAN KILLED Kitchener, Ont., Sept. 23.--Wi liam Kenny, of Elmira, Jaged 6 years, was killed on the Canadian National Railway tracks near St. Jacobs at 11 o'clock this morning | when struck by a freight train. The crew of the train blew the whistle several times, but owing to deafness, the unfortunate man did mot hear the blasts and he was tossed into the ditch, death being practically instantaneous. He was rushed to, St Jacobs, but life was extinct whefl the train crew reached there. An inquest was opened at St. Jacobs this afternoon with the jurors viewing the body and the sceme of he accident, and then adjourning until next Wednesday. TURNKEY SUSPENDED BY GOVERNOR OF JAIL Sarnia, Sept. 22.--George W. Gil- bert, turnkey at the county jail here, has been suspended from duty by Governor J. N. Dodd. The suspend- ed officer has asked for an investi- gation. | Sheriff Johnston, fin charge of the institution, was out of the city today, and no information was avail- able at his office. It is said that the key to the door leading from the jail into the exercise yard was found in the keyhole, and this is believed to have precipitated the suspension. JOHN WESLEY'S OAK TRER TOPPLES AT WINCHVILSEA Tondon, Sept. 23 --The famows nak tree at Winchalsen in Susser wnier which John Wes'-v rmesshad 'nthe early dove of Mot' ad" m 1o0- 'era'ly felt that the NAIL AND EMPIRE REPORTS PERSIST Rumored Sale Not Confirmed But Stock Transfer Reported re er-- CAPITAL $500,000 Last Returns to Government Showed Sir John Aird Large Holder Toronto, Sept. 24.--Men nromin- nt in business, financial and poli- cal life are following with inter- st persistent reports that the Mai! nd Empire has heen sold The resence in the city of Montreal nancial men, pulp and paper men n! a British newspaper man gives se to statements that the trans- er to new owners is imminent. Thursday it was learned that the tock transfer took wvlace several eeiks ago, but the numes of tne ew shareholders and directors have ot yet been filed at the Provincia ccretary's Department. The re- urns on file there now show on ne ownership to Dec. 31, 1926 he last returns were filed in that Mce in tlie month of March, 1927. .ceordinzg to the capitalizativr hown y:ere it is $500,000 issued inder a Domin'on charter, with 1. 100 shares of $500 each. J. 8. Douglas, Managing Director f the Mail and Empire, less than vo weeks ago denjed that the paper ad been sold, but during the past :w days hag either refised ito talk 'hout the reported sale or declined n be seen. The head of a securities concerp n Montreal whose name has been ssociated with the purchase, when nterviewed, said it was wrong to dentify him with the reported :hange in ownership of the Mail :*d Jmpire. Th's citizen of Montreal, long with pulp and paper men, on 'uesday dined at Government House vith Hon. W. D. Ross, the Lieuten ni-Go ernor, and representatives { scime of the shareholders. in the 'afl Printing Company, were a¥80 resent, "Sir John Aird Interested According to the latest returns filed at the Provincial Secretary's, 'apartment, Sir John Aird, presi-' Geni of the Canadian Bank of Com- ere, is shown as the largest «Yjareholder. One of the guests at the Government House luncheon was A. R. Graustein, president oi the International Paper Company, which took over the Riordon Pulp & Paper interests some jyime ago Carl Riordon, Montreal. end other members of the Riordon family, are shareholders of the Mail Printing Company, Mr. Riordon being record ed as president, Montreal financials have been in the market to get control of a Tor- onto newspaper for some time, The pames of a bank president and a large sugar refinery man there were connected with the early negotia- tions During the past few weeks. the Evening Telepgram announced that it had been approached by Rritish interests and had refused io soll. Tit: latest reported newspaper deal is, as has been stated, to gel control of the Mail and Empire Every attempt made to gep confir- mation of the deal meets with a de pial of refusal to talk. From one sour-# comes the rumor that ever hen the actual chance in owne:- #hip is made it will nop appear pun- liely IS FOUND MURDERED IN TURKISH BATH New York, Sept. 23.--Frank L. O'Connell, a mative of St. John, N.B., but for the most part of his dife a president of New York, was found today in his bed in the dormitdry of a Turkish bath est- ablishment on 28th Street. There were blood stains on his pillow and a police investigation brought about the arrest of three young men, Nicholas Arietamo, Am- erigo Giovanni and Anthony Lucia, patrons of the baths. O'Connell was a well-known newspaperman. He had worked last night on fight copy in his capacity as copy editor in the sporting de- partment of the World until four o'clock. RAIWAYMEN BEJNCOT PLAX OF MEMBERSHIP FOR WIVES Montreal Sept. 23.--Wives of memhers of the Canadian Brother- hood of Railroad Employees will not automatically become members of the orramization just yet A resolu- tion asking that the comsituiion of the brotherhood he amended in order that they might was rejected following a long debate »t the bien- nial -onvention of "he brotherhood now in progress here. Members gen- move was too be adopted rreat am innovction to pled over in this aftermco.'s storm. this time. 10 Cents a Week; 2 Cents a Copy. , Second Section--Pages 9-16 | Collegiate Chatter] The announcement made y ! day that the inter school ack aa field meet was to be held om Fri- day, October 7, with the Colleglate fleld day taking place on Friday, September 30, me, with approval everywhere, di LJ -. . The boys have been training r larly for field day for the pork we weeks under the careful coaching of Mr. Patterson, while the girls started under the guidance of Miss Dryden early (his week. One af the best local field days in school Listory is predicted, to say nothing of the inter echool meet. ; . so» wR For the inter school! track and field meet, Oshawa's chances Igo! bright indeed, although Whitby fr Bowmanville are both reported strong. That they will no finfsh it tlle bottom of the pile as they did last year, is a fact firmly es- tablished in everyone's mind on the local roster, ) It was decided ay a meeting 'of the boys' athletic executive held last night,' to add a javelin throw, Junior and senior, to the program of events for the boys at the 00) legiage field day. : LJ . . Elected by the boys' athletic exe- cutive last night, Irwin Deyman, in tourth form, is the business mana- zer for the track team this year and also has the distnction of being the Ltirst business manager elected at Oshawa Collegiate Institute, * LJ] * To assist Deyman, who himself 8 well acquainted with track and fiela work, Lloyd Daniels in fifth, ana Arthur Morison and Harold Arm- sirong, in fourth form, were appoint- ed to act as assistant managers. This is the first of appointments for the various phases of 'the sporting activities. The rughy appointment will follow in 4he near future, LJ * * At present the girls are certainly being well provided for in the after school hours. A tennis tournament, basketball work outs on the gym. and track and field practices at Al- exandra Park should be enough tp keep any occupied who are in search of something by - way of recres- tion, '9'n The first round will be complet- ed next week in the junior and sen- for tennis tournaments which are being conducted by the girls' athle- tic society. and which has drawn an entry list of 16 senior girls and 8 juniors. The games are being play- ed, about one or two a night, on the grass courts at Alexandra Fak ha The rugby workouts are advame- ing nicely, thank you. The boys will almost be in shape for a light game by next Saturday and the week after at least, but no games are on the horizon as yet. Some new ma- terial has been out this week and two full teams are now being provid- ed at every practice. Scrimmage work began on Monday. LJ] * LJ] An attempt has been made ip se- cure a track and field meet with Cobourg Collegiate Institute in the near future. As yet no reply has been received from the Ferry Town but it is felt that an answer will be re- ceived early next week. Such a meet would greatly advance the al- ready growing interest in athletics which is being experienced thyough- cui, the school. *® * i Fifteen cents admission will be the charge to students and 25 cents to ouisiders. for the Collegiate field day which is to be held next Fri- day afternoon. Such a sum would not even pay for the war tax on some of the tickets for athletic eom- tests holding no more interest and excitement than this. . Ld . Ld Wilse McKay, senior champion at the Collegiate field day two years ago, and president of the student's council in the same year, returned 'o familiar scenes last Welnesday when he dbnned his unform and turned out for practce wth the track eam. He is getting into condition for thie fall activities at the U sity of Toronto, where he mow re- turns for his second year in meai- cine. ss » Ld A disillusioned first former only found out this week that "P.T." didn't mean Play Time. Mr. Brown, (in bird form Tem- istry class): "Now then, Miss Corn- wall, put your nose to this bottle of sulphur gas and pass it alopg." The library opened its lending de partment on Monday of this wi and many of thle studenis are al- ready availing themselves of the wonderful smpporfunity * afforded them. In four days ending Thurs- day, 52 books had been taken out and 26 books of reference had been used. ss» That the basketball season will start early 4his year is almost as- sured by Mr. Patterson. If all goes well, he opines that the Foys wil start using the gym his season well before the leaves cone off the tr as, which certainly he 'he » *» og start in the gym work im 3c.¢v 4g seasons.