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~ Starr Gives Cabinet | Down-To-Earth Touch OTTAWA (CP) Michael Starr brings to the federal cabinet a down - to - earth ap- proach. As minister of labor, he looks at problems and people with the eye of the ordinary man. He tries to look at labor prob- lems as a laboring man would-- in terms of people rather than abstract entities. "The laboring man has this to sell," he says, holding out his two big hands. "His hands, his health and his know-how." And in the cabinet Mike Starr offers the same things--only | his "know-how" is the product i of years as a sheet-metal sales- man, mayor of his hometown of Oshawa, Ont., a Rotary Club member and a community worker. When he relaxes, he does it the way most Canadians do-- in old trousers and a sport shirt, in his backyard behind the six-room house he helped build. For Mike Starr, never had any real appeal FRUGAL HABITS They tell the story of him pausing at the doorstep of Gov- ernment House in 1957 to butt his half-smoked cigarette and drop it in his pocket. When he came outside again, as Canada's new labor minister, responsible to the people for 12 acts of Parliament and 13 branches of a $45,000,000-a-year department: the man in the middle of labor and manage- ment, he pulled out the butt and lit it. "I was brought up to be frugal," he says. Born Nov. 14, 1910, at Copper cliff, Ont., of parents who came to Canada from the Ukraine, Mike Starr, came up the hard way "The basic principle in our household was good housekeep-| ing and frugal ways of living. | But on meagre pay my father| always managed to pay his] way. His example to us was| to be honest and conscientious." | ALWAYS WORKED He was out of school after) grade IX and at work. At age; 15, he was a printer's devil in| the Oshawa Times at $5 a week. | At another job, he framed pic- tures for 16 cents an hour. | When he had the chance he| went back to school to earn a| commercial diploma from the| Oshawa Collegiate and Voca-| tional Training Institute, taking 13 courses in one year with an second-hand bicycle. bigness LABOR MINISTER In the field of technical change, our industrial operation must | never be allowed to become so| big, so aloof, so. indifferent as| to lose sight of the individual| and his needs." | Behind the man in the neat| grey single-breasted suit is the practical politician, a man who first rode into politics on a| "There's no better way of winning votes than getting out on a bicycle and seeing that complaints about roads are| attended to" he says, recalling how he tampaigned as an alder-| man in Oshawa. | Cycling days are behind the| | | Dynamite Village Near End JAMES ISLAND, B.C. (CP) This model village, for 48 years the base of Western Canada's biggest dynamite - manufactur- ing induustry, will see the plant close down next year. The island, owned by Cana- dian Industries Limited, is only 12 miles from Victoria but it's a world of its own, where resi- dents need not worry about po- licemen, jails, hospitals or taxes. [ The company has announced | it is reducing the number of em- | ployees at its explosives plant by 50 per cent, and at the same time will close down the village where 45 families have been liv- ing. Residents will be leaving be. | hind many things of which they | were proud--the village's green | lawns and comfortable homes, school, playgrounds and scenic surroundings which included fishing and swimming without charge. IDEAL SPOT | Such attractions kept families iiving on the island even after| the breadwinner had gone into retirement "There's only one thing| |wrong, and that's living by the clock," said a passenger on a| small ferry that makes the 1% mile trip between the island and | Vancouver Island. "Everything {that involves going to Victoria means catching a boat at the {right time." | | The CIL plant, which once BE out 75 tons of dynamite | a day, is reducing its payroll be- | {cause of the popularity of other | lexplosives among construction |firms. Conventional nitro-glyc- | {erine explosives now are being| {replaced with ammonium ni- {trate base blasting agents, | |which can be mixed on the job. | ) Despite the nature of its work, | Walking helps keep his husky the plant has an enviable safety | figure How fo 189 pounds. Mr, | record. Its only fatal accident| m methodical,' says WI| wo in 1046, after the plant had| Starr. "I enjoy office work-- : ; | it's what I've done for over p4fliad Tage accident-free woring! years. I think I'm exacting but| not hard on my staff. We work | BIG REMINDER as a team here." Across the road from the vil- Perhaps the key to the stay-|lage to the plant is an arch bear-| ing power of his easy-going,|ing the sign: "Good Morning--| 'riendly person is his ability Have You Left Your Matches?" | to relax--even to grab a snooze, gach operation is housed in a| in the evening on his office separate building surrounded by| couch. a barricade. The buildings bel MICHAEL STARR \ Away from work, he likes to|set far apart, the only link be- read a light novel, watch a tween production units being a western on television, and back narrow-gauge railway. | in Oshawa talk to people on, Most of the men and women the street and with 'the boys" |of the village work either on the] in the Rotary Club. | "powder line" or in the office, | average mark of 89 per cent. 50-year-old cabinet minister «I'm not too fussy about par-|Some have remained after re- From his own experience, he knows the value of education-- even more so now that educa-|preferring to walk when now. He drives a car, but leaves it in the garage at home, tion and vocational training are|can in Ottawa. a cornerstone of long-range He was an alderman from| government policies to meet the | 1044 to 1949 when he was unemployment problem. | "For many thousands of Ca-| up pu acclamation, before en-|labor-management relations is| nadians the frontier of the future lies in the realm of] expanded educational opportuni-| ties," he says. His department, one of the smallest in terms of staff but one of the most influential in terms of working conditions and pay, plays a major role in trying to fit Canada for its future needs as an industrial ized country. | NEEDS FOR sKILLS worker--the age of automation. the Parliamentary restaurant.'the community." elected mayor of Oshawa. He won four mayoralty elections, | tering the Commons in a 1952| byelection in Ontario constit- uency, which includes his home- {town and a wide rural area|legislation. around it. | EARLY RISER In Ottawa, his whole life| revolves around his work. A man who likes to start early, he leaves his hotel room |is he(T don't generally see often." [ties ,but I enjoy them when I|tirement, with sons or daughters can meet some of my friends|carrying on the same jobs, Oth- wy Have Fetired uw wake on| andy-man jobs in the village, | SIMPLE CREED lor in their spare time work at| He sums up his creed this|trades they have developed) way: themselves to cater to village| "The critical element in needs. : One is the village's portrait] good faith. You cannot legislate photographer. Another makes good faith if it isn't there. 1f| fishing rods and flies. it is there, you don't need| | CHIEF OF CLAN "I advocate an open-minded | MONTREAL (CP) -- Dame approach in labor-management Flora MacLeod, 83, touched relations. {down briefly here on her way "One thing is certain. The|to Maxville, Ont., for 25th an-| human element in labor can be|niversary celebrations of Glen-| ignored only with peril. Labor garry County's Clan MacLeod not a commodity. Labor|Society. Dame Flora spends | --a $38-a-week bedroom -- and means men and women, bring-| much of her time travelling the walks the two blocks to Parl-|ing up families, educating chil- Commonwealth and the United "This is the age of the skilled |iament Hill for breakfast in|dren, paying taxes, supporting States to knit together her far-| |flung "family." Balcer Has Dual Minister's Role OTTAWA (CP)--Suave Leon Balcer has to keep an eye on land, air and sea--and on Que- bec. In the federal cabinet, he has a dual role as minister of trans- port 'and as a key lieutenant of Prime Minister Diefenbaker in Quebec province. The 43-year-old lawyer from Trois - Rivieres appears to be mastering both tasks. With easy-going flexibility, he is grasping the weighty intrica- cies of a transport portfolio that involves just about everything that moves in Canada. of the Conservative Association at 39. | baker as leader--a choice he opposed at the time. while, he was a candidate him- self for the party leadership but {he withdrew in favor of Donald {Fleming, who later became fi- {nance minister in the Diefen- baker cabinet When Mr. Balcer was ap- pointed solicitor - general after the 1957 Conservative election victory, there was talk that it was a snub for Quebec and the He presided over the party § {rally that chose John Diefen- § For af 15 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursdey, September 7, 1961 A Paint and Save! FURNITURE HOOSE FROM 7 MATG 3 6-Drawer Double-Dresser Why pay more! 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FOSTERS UNITY Thrust into the transport job in the cabinet shuffle of Octo- ber, 1960, he has the task of shaping an over-all policy for transport in Canada, a policy that will keep the best from the fron horse era in the age of the et. J "Transport and communica- tions are to Canada what oxy- gen is to man," he says. "With- out them, we could not exist as a country." Part of the task confronting the bilingual Mr. Balcer is to point up how the nation has be- come one Canada, a country founded on a French and an English heritage. "Canadians are living now in a country which, though the size of a continent, grows ever smaller in distance because of the speed with which we can | nomination. | For three years he was solici- |tor general, whose main duty is {to deal directly with the com- mutation of death penalties to {life imprisonment in murder | cases. [SURPRISE PROMOTION Then, in a surprise move, Mr, |Diefenbaker brought him from the shadowy duties in the jus- {tice department into the glare of the transport department. Suddenly, Leon Balcer found himself top man in a depart. ment that has 14,000 employees, owns 94 ships and 50 aircraft, administers 100 airports and 335 public harbors, 10 harbor com- missions and eight major ports. His annual budget this year is more than $250,000,000, Under his wing are eight huge crown agencies, including 5 TRANSPORT MINISTER LEON BALCER "I work better under pres- died when he was seven months| sure," he says, chain-smoking od 3rd his Joher=the former | il ti up | Berthe Harnois--raised her fam- filter tip cigarets. "I'm not tooj;o of five singlehandedly. Educated at the Trois-Rivi- eres seminary and Laval Uni- versity, Mr. Balcer was ad- mitted to the Quebec bar in nervous about panics." Any Diefenbaker - Balcer dif- ferences now seem a matter of the past. 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Thus, more and more we|the St. Lawrence Seaway, Ca- become conscious of the pres-|nadian National Railways, ence of one another." | Trans-Canada Air Lines and Ca- - Although Leon Balcer -- pro {nadian Overseas Telecommuni- nounced Bal-say--is one of the|cations Corporation. youngest federal cabinet minis-| "I like my job," says the man ters, he is a veteran politician|Whose first job as a waterboy and a key figure in Conserva.|on the docks of Trols-Rivieres ter and his ideas that gave the tories of 1957 and 1958. Ahead lies a multitude of troubles in transport, but Mr. Balcer appears to be coming to Conservatives their election vie-| 1941, but for the next five years (he was away to war. From 1946 to 1949 he was sec- | retary-treasurer for the town of Trois - Rivieres and for the school board of the Banlieue of Trois-Rivieres. He also served REG. 259.95 ONLY 11.50 MONTHLY! OSHAWA SHOPPING CENTRE tive party circles. { OPPOSED DIEFENBAKER paid 27 cents an hour. "I like good organization--and this department is well-organ- grips with them. Although helas secretary for two provincial deals with diesels and jets, he | committees, one inquiring into| has a soft spot for ships and|the rights of married women sailing men, a fdndness fostered and the other dealing with ju-| 725-3519 b /) Handsome, heavy-set -- he's|ized." as a navy lieutenant during the Second World War. five - foot - 11 and weighs 185| To keep it running smoothly, pounds--Leon Balcer was presi- he is on the job before 9 a.m. done of the Young Conservatives and often is still at his desk ay Canada at 33 and president'll p.m. He was born at Trois-Rivieres Oct. 13, 1917, on the shore of the 8t. Lawrence river. His father venile delinquency. His mother had a penchant for politics and young Leon Balcer grew yp in a political environment. SINR] = Open Daily 9.30 - 6, Friday 'til 9 Closes Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. i HED PIECES |