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The Oshoron Simes Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Tuesday, April 18, 1961 Invited To Manufacture / In Ontario Factories Some months ago the Ontario Depart- ment of Commerce and Development published a little booklet including a list of manufactured goods used exten- sively in this country but which were not made here and had to be imported. It suggested that by filling these "fabri- cation gaps" as it called them, we could help to overcome the need to import products and thus help the jobless situ- ation, Recently another project has been developed by this same government department which appears to be a follow- yp. This new project is an all-out search for new products which may be made by factories already established in On- tario. One method of approach has been to invite as many as 18,000 United States industrial firms to enter into some "manufacturing arrangement" with plants in this province. Reports from Queens Park indicate that the proposition has had a good response from firms in the United States. Many firms in that country have, since World War II, established branch plants in Canada to get around certain difficulties and to benefit from Com- monwealth preferences and the like Many firms still come to this country and this province for this country and this province for this and other reasons, but there are countless others which find it impossible because of the large capital outlay involved. For them an opportunity to use exist- ing factories to make their goods here is being looked on with apparent favor. Besides the advantages of escaping tariffs and gaining Commonwealth pre- ferences for their goods the plan has other attractive features. As a bulletin issued by the Department of Commerce and Development states: "Transportation costs of goods from plant to major consumer market areas has become a large expenditure, affect- ing the final retail price to Canadian buyers. The proximity of Ontario's fabricating plants to the densely-popu- lated shipping areas in Eastern Canada, and the possibility of faster deliveries and better servicing are factors which United States companies consider of prime importance . . . Of further interest to the United States Company is the relative saving in labor and material costs realized by producing their product in Ontario." This, indeed is a novel and com- mendable way to try to stimulate manu- facturing in this country and thus in- crease the job opportunities for Ontario workers. While it may not mean the establishment of as many new plant buildings by outside firms as formerly, it surely will mean greater volume of activity and output and the need for existing plants to extend their facilities. This, in turn, should step up the idea of decentralizing industry from big city locations and increasing the" possibility of industry expanding to smaller cen- tres. We trust this new approach to manu- facturing in Canada will be a challenge that will be pursued with great success. If it is, there is every possibility that it will be extended to include "manufactur- ing arrangements" with many countries. . Fortune In The Dirt Various nostrums have been proposed the ills that beset agriculture in Most of them would compound instead of curing or easing them. learn much in this regard United States, where a bewil- i of aids to agriculture tried without any glowing bit at heavy cost to the tax- ayer. One plan that was hailed when it was introduced by the Eisenhower administration was the soil bank, under which farmers are paid for not growing crops. Here is how it has worked out in one instance, that was investigated by Benator Williams of Delaware: Ina big farm estate settlement in Colorado ir 1957 one of the estate man- agers was allowed to buy a 6,960-acre vanch at $20 an acre, with ten years to ay the $139200 purchase price. But e didn't have that kind of money in and, so he worked out a cash-lease lan as follows: He would cut the ranch "into six sections. He would lease each section to a tenant. He would get each tenant to agree to put the maximum allowable of the leased land into the soilbank. The government rental for soilbank land in that part of the country was $7 an acre. This meant that over a ten-year period the government would be paying $70 per acre to keep out of cultivation land originally purchased at $20 an acre. This soilbank money each tenant would pay over to the land purchaser as rent, having the balance of the lease- hold free to cultivate. The purchaser in turn would meet the installments on his original purchase price out of this soil- bank money. Before launching the deal, the pur- chaser checked with the local govern- ment soilbank committee and got as surance that it would approve. The government payments on the soilbank portions of the land came to about $27,000 a year. Multiplied by the ten years of the contract, this - OTTAWA REPORT Piece Of Advice For Mr. Fleming By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA--Why don't we ever hear that Finance Minister Don- ald Fleming is talking tough to Venezuela? This thought occurs to MPs who take the time to study the details of Canada's import and export trade in 1960. These fig- ures have just been released here by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Venezuela, with the single and disgraceful exception of U.S.A., enjoys the greatest free ride in trade at Canada's expense. The ~ surplus of our purchases from Venezuela, over our sales to Venezuela, rose by more than one million dollars last year, to a total of $159,844,240. Of course the trading surplus which Uncle Sam enjoys at our expense is * about five times that figure, but the less we say about that, the less we should all blush. In contrast the Venezuela and U.S.A. let us glimpse at the figures of our sales to, and pur- chases from, Britain and Japan. WHERE 1S MY 15 PC? Prime Minister John Diefen- baker gave out with a famous dictum after his triumphant first appearance at the Com- monwealth prime ministers' conference in London nearly four years ago. By a strange coincidence, Britain last year increased her purchases from us by almost exactly 15 per cent, compared 'to the previous year. In the same period, we increased our purchases from Britain, not by 15 per cent, but by a paltry and shameful one-twentieth of one per cent. As a result, our fa- vorable trading balance with Britain rose from $200,000,000 to adangerous $325000,000 in round figures. I say dangerous, because Britain is an intelligent and experienced trader, who will not" allow such an imbal- ance to her detriment to con- tinue; she will undoubtedly take steps which will hit our expor- ters, and hit them hard. Our second highest favorable trade balance is with Japan. Last year, that balance in our favor rose from $37 million in 1959 to $68 million. That is nice work for our exporters. But of course to assist our farmers and other exporters to sell more to Japan--even to enable them to maintain their sales at the present happy level--we must be prepared to buy more from Japan. Trade Minister Hees would like to see us sell more manu- factured goods to Japan; Agri. culture Minister Alvin Hamil- ton would certainly like to see us sell more wheat to Japan, who would like to be able to earn the Canadian dollars with which to buy more of our wheat. Yet last year, while Japan in- creased her purchases from us by around 30 per cent, we paid lip service only to the principle of expanded world trade by in- creasing our purchases from Japan by a paltry seven per cent. FLEMING BOOSTS COSTS Why is our trade record with Japan so hypocritical? It is, quite simply, because Finance Minister Donald Flem- ing picks on the little Japs to talk tough to. He insists that they should impose "voluntary™ quotas on their sales to Canada. Such restrictions by the ambi- tious and industrious Japanese BY-GONE DAYS the ingenious purchaser, of the original ranch will gross $271,000. As Senator Williams summarizes: At the end of this ten-year period Mr. X . will have $131,800 in cash profit, plus a 6,960-acre ranch, all paid for by the American taxpayers. Canadian Volunteers Without question the best aid that the West can give the people of the underdeveloped countries 3 to help people there to help themselves In a modest but not msignificant way some Canadians are ready to do just that The operation, called Canadian Over. seas Voluntders, is privately financed Duivared By amram Bn Owbawe, Whity, So dim Sroekin, art Perry Abt, vape Mompton, Frenchman's Tontvoeel and por wank, 5 mal Un prevines. of OQ sores deilvary areas T2000 sewers yo of March 30, 1961 17363 and will send your Canadians to Ceylon, India and Sarswak for one year to teach and give technical assistance Ten Utiiversity of Toronto students have already been chosen: tem more will be selected from Laval University im Mon- treal The plan was conceived by a Univer- sity of Toronto graduate, Keith Spicer, who spent some months in Asia on a Canada Council grant studying the effects of Canadian foreign aid. The ten Toronto students have completed an eight-week language course, will work under Asian supervisors and be paid at prevailing wage rates. Cost of the plan is $2,000 per volunteer, most of which will go for travel expense. Fred Stinson, Member of Parliament for York Centre, is in charge of the fund raising and contributions to date bave mciuded $2000 docations from the United Church, the Toronto Star and Imperial Oil Limited Keith Spicer's scheme is not unitke President Kennedy's Peace Corps pian, although nn fact it seems as though our privately-sponscred volunteers mught be in the field before Kennedy's govern- ment-sponsored volunteers are dispatch. ed overseas. Perhaps our program Das the added advantage that 3 will be free of the commum charge that the Amencsos mperailist propegandists or agen 15 YEARS AGO A. L. G. Metcalfe was elect- ed president of General Motors War Veterans' Social Club at the Club's annual meeting. During the month of March the Oshawa Fire Dept, record- ed 8 fire alarms, pumber of runs ir ¥ of the fire department for one month. A contract was awarded to R. B. Wilkins of Oshawa to pro- ceed with the completion of the superstructure and memorial tower of Christ Memorial Church. T. D. Thomas, deputy-reeve of East Whitby, was named chairman of a commitice to pian recreation for the young people of the Westmou Alex G. Storie was re-el president of the Ontarie C ing of the Macdonald, K D. Smith, secretary-t er Oshawa tendered a welcome to some ¥ members of the air and ground crews of the 416th "Oshawa" Squadron RCAF who were passing through the oity er a troop train carrying them from the Repatriation Centre at Lachine, Que. Authorization to call tenders for the erection of the proposed fire hall annex on Simcoe street south was given dy the City Council at its meeting. Bill Exiniciki and Biily Tarier former members of the Oshawa Generals, now with the Toronto Mapie Leafs, were guest speak- ers at the Kinspen's dinner meeting. The Kinsmen Bantam team piayers were special guests. The Oshawa piant of General Motors produced the frst auto- mobile since it was forced fo cipse down on Dec. II due 0 a shortage of parts. Jack L. Broadbent, damimas- ter of the Oshawa Regimental Civic Band, was promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Cass L : are just as "voluntary" as it would be if a Japanese com- mando, armed with a sub-ma- chine gun, took a bottle of sake, Japan's potent rice spirit, into Don Fleming's office, and in- vited our tee-total finance min- ister to take a "voluntary" drink. Of course, the Canadian house- wife likes to buy Japanese goods because they are cheap enough to make her spending dollar stretch further. It would make trade sense for Canada internationally, and it would certainly make economic sense for the Canadian house- wife pressed by ever - rising prices, if Don Fleming would go and talk it up to the Americans, and invite them to impose a few voluntary quotas on their sales to us. But no, he finds it easier to get results with the Japs al- though his case lacks the merit it would have in Washington. Or what about Venezuela? That enormous trade imbalance is caused solely by sales to us of oil, at a time when our own oil industry is under - employed. Why don't we ever hear that Fleming is talking tough to Venezuela? . READERS' VIEWS Thinks Column Wide Of Mark Dear Sir: With regard to the column called "Queen's Park" written by Don O'Hearn and published in your paper on April 14. In this particular column, Mr. O'Hearn once again takes the CCF" party and Mr. Donald Mac- Donald, the provincial leader, to task. Mr. O'Hearn's basic point seems to be that Mr. Mac- Donald and labor leaders in general are intent on making the New Party a "class" party. In my opinion nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Mac- Donald and many prominent Canadian labor leaders have on numerous occasions stated that the New Party to become suc- cessful must embrace not only labor but farmers, small busi- ness people as well as truly liberal - minded people from the professions and elsewhere. While reluctantly admitting that the CCF "has done some good in this country," Mr. O'Hearn then wonders whether "the instability which the third party has brought to our politi- cal structure doesn't outweigh the benefits." What utter nonsense! Our so- called political structure must be very weak indeed if any thing other than the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party brings instability to it. 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