lEA | Payment of the allowances Was § V ruled illegal in 1940, but the Prov-- 'im-c-.grantrd the city's request to | continue until June, 1942, payment | of allowances to former civic em-- TO C|TY VOTERS ployees who had been in receipt of them prior to May 5, 1940. The Pri-- vate Bills Committee vesterday ex-- ABO tended this date to Jan. 2, 1943, but warned they could not be continued UT PENS'ONS after that time . unless Torontao maney by--law voters gave consen!t ¥ in a city--wide plehniscite. Queen $ Parl( Wi" Nof The decision to protest to Queen's * & * Park against is latest ruling was DeC|de on Va | I d Ify reached yesterda) by the ('.n'u" Pen-- li Of Ye°r|y AHOWGHCGS \mf\" (",nmmn'!rr- on motion of Al-- , | derman -- Donald Fleming It was p | Fal 4 Th contended that Hon. Eric Cross, for-- each vear for more than .".(.l).fbhll'"h]- had l"nn"'\."d s A e "\'.'" UX Toronto employees will be left-- to pbadatna \\flll.I(I ',N'lnmnrm._\' vall« the decision of the, clectOrs hext date the allowances already gramod Jan. 1 by a rullng made \.«"_;'"\ prn\'ldod A rr)mnhu!m.\' pensions * e * y est €, scheme was inaugurated in take by +the Legislature Private Bills i 11 civic o Committee care of all civic employees who re-- Thelr action occurred I ' tire in the future, Committee mem-- f .' att @ ccurred in discus= bers'felt that such a pensions plan '.,..n of a Toronto bill which ;_hh"'i would be inaugurated this year. | the Legislature to validate the pay-- § | ment of these pensions. By the mo-- tion, moved h\ Lands and Forests Minister N. O, Hipel, the city may continue to pay the pensions until Jan. 2. 1%943, and thereafter only i & Yn"fi" f'v.'tnl':' "N'M\:' f 'l':u- 'n.o:mn O 4 & S k H. & 1 '% eovers pensioners Oi oth the city and the Toronto Hydro ('OH\H\I\\-"!';, nfar'o ee s 'gher Ce'I'ng Hon. T. --B. McQuesten, Minister of Municipal Affairs, revealed thatl I fe d f E b B f com pian ' have been laid with the ns a o m argo on ee » department about the pensions pay» ments. "People who are getting 30 Supported by the declared oppo--, it is stated, are allied with those of cents an hour are asking why thne} sition of the Agriculture Cnrmnmnni!hf' agriculture committee and he should be called on to support those of the Ontamo Legislature to an» will .\'uppm'-{ Mr. 'M('E\xmg 6 pre& 3 who are getting 60 cents an hout entation The North Wellington from the city. I object," he said, "to proposal of placing an embarg0 UpPON | member made the motion -- before these enormous charges being sad-- the export of Canadian -- beef to committee opposing the embargo dled onto the ratepayers without United States, Ross McEwing,. JLib-- | proposal and suggested, as solution their consent." eral. Wellington North; L. E. to the present beef crisis, that the The committee was advised that O'Neill, head of the live stock |ceiling on retail prices be increased the majority of the pensionets had branch, Department of Agriculture, |to cover the higher cost of produc-- worked twenty years for the cil} and and H. H. Hannam, presiden! of the |ing stable--fed beef. that some had seen thirty--five years Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Under present quota arrange-- of employment before :h.(:\ were re-- left last night for Ottawa to place | ments, farmers find it more profit-- tired, on the foundation of a medi-- their briefs before the Federal Gov-- |able to pay the United States tariff cal certificate that they were in-- ernment on beef and sell in the across--the-- capable of further work. XJX.J While Mr. Hannam will speak on border markets than to sell locally Stewart, -- Con., . Toronto--Parkdale, behalf of the federation, his views, |under the price ceiling. former mayor, stressed that the al}-- j lowances were ordered on the up-- derstanding that the action was * legal and that aA responsibilit y of maintainingk employees rested on the city. Most of them now, are Over 70 | & & As interpreted b3 Mr., Stewar, | with Mr. McQuesten assenting, 4 PrOV'de ArreSf {Or Fallure negative vote on the question would | * & be a ruling that no more pensions |T T f S l D may be ;(.'mu-d by the clt}y except | o rea OC,a lseases under a duly authorized contribu« * tory pension scheme. G . Ek LS!©: Health Minister Harold Kirby in-- ; a great responsibility to see that a Con., L'mm.t.,-\'\'mmnm;g ';.mm\wi 'fnrmod the Ontario Légis-lature last !fierson fnlundldmfec-*e: \v;]th s:ual strongly that the city had mage A! [ 4t isease shou not be allowed to as:rm"r.n'm'.' with the pensioners and | night thm_ an amendment "? «thel'pass from his doctor's hands until were bound by that agreement. Venereal Diseases Act, under discus-- | he had been properly cured City Will Protest sion by committee of the whole| The ammidmm.n also provides that 3 % _ , A House, would permit the arrest of | any one who'nmma\o.s a person has Anxious to avolid the proposed a k been dealt with under the ac! shall city plebiscite, an immediate pro-- a patient who refuses to take neces» | incur a penalty of £200, and in de-- test to Premier Hepburn is to he sary treatment. 'fault of payment go 10 jail for a registered by A sub--committee of Following arrest the patient would | period of not more than six months. the Civic Pensions Committee head-- be placed in an institution and held Persons other than physicians are ' ed by Alderman Nathan Phillips. until cure had been effected. The | prohibited from attending or prE-- Mayor Fred Conboy agreed with bill passed through committee with-iwrihiflg treatment _ or supplying the -- committee last night that A out amendment: 'dl'ugs to persons suffering from p'n"fil\l'l"' should not be h('l'i Oln I'h" Conser\'at]\fi U'dflr Gflflr e A \'M'Iflreal disease for the pUl'DO'ae Of retiring allowance questOn. The Drew said the Healith Minister H'fi{obtamms a cure. situation has amsen hbecause of the former City Hall pohey, .\"Rl""d n 1910,. of granting A $12 weekly ai-- leowance to its male employees, and a $9 weekly allowance 10 female employees, on theit retirement. When the validty of these pay-- ments was ques'ti ned in 1940 there were 392 employees receiving the allowances at A total annual cost to k | the taxpayers of $245,000. &