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he Osha Sines Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ont. Page 6 Saturday, September 16, 1961 Business Failures Can Bilk Workers Of Wages How many workers have been de- frauded of wages earned during the past couple of years? It may not be many, related to the number working -- but nobody knows for sure. No one, to our knowledge, has made this aspect of em- ployee welfare the subject of detailed and documented study. Periodically public attention is drawn to the fact that workers in a particular firm have been cheated of their rightful pay. The odd case ends up in court. Most are soon forgotten. The guilty party generally is a busi- ness that suddenly failed. In most cases it hasn't gone through formal bankruptcy procedure, which is governed by the fed- eral Bankruptcy Act. In some cases the offender is a slick operator who preys on unskilled and unorganized workers ior a few weeks at a time -- until they catch on that they're being had. With statistics showing a dramatic increase in business failures across Can- ada in the past year, the question of writing better protection for workers into law is one deserving both federal and provincial attention. Surely if there are degrees of fraud, cheating men and women out of their labor must rank as among the meanest. The question was raised in Parlia- ment by CCF MP Bert Herridge. He cited cases of what he called fraudulent bankruptcies in the interior of British Columbia. Fly-by-night bankrupts had pulled out owing individual employees as much as $1,200. The workers couldn't even collect unemployment insurance because the company had not purchased stamps for their insurance books. At that time, Trade Minister George Hees promised to investigate. Justice Minister Davie Fulton announced a year ago that his department was reviewing Possibly he should widen his review. Most workers bankruptcy legislation. to have the right to take out liens for back pay, even when the company isn't in bankruptcy. Too often the right isn't federal employees have a preferred creditor understood. Under legislation, status. But they line up after debts to the government, and after secured creditors. And they're limited to $500 each. This figure may have been realistic when it was written into the act in 1949. Today it falls far short of covering three months' wages, the period it was tended to cover, in- Fruit Land And Returns We hear a great deal about the need to protect irreplaceable Niagara fruit land against the invasion of the sub- dividers. An aspect of the situation which has received far less attention is the economic condition of the man who farms that land. This point is discussed a letter written to the Welland Tribune by John Secord, reeve of Pel- ham township in the fruit belt, Mr. Secord obliquely posed the ques- tion of what was to be done to assist a fruit grower who was unable to find a market for his produce. He pointed to the distressing situation that has deve- loped in this harvesting season of tons of Niagara fruit rotting on trees because of its abundance. Canning factories have become stamp- eded and storage facilities are taxed to the limit. Many fruit farmers are being placed in a position where they'll find it most difficult to raise money to pay taxes, mn A season like this one, when perhaps 1% crops have materialized where one was counted upon, is a period when a grower hopes to establish something of a financial cushion to tide him over the leaner years when the vagaries of weather or crop infection sharply cur tails his economic prospects. So, when the good year does come along and the producer can hardly give the fruit away, he should not be condemned for think- ing about some changes in his land operation. The Tribune comments: "Certainly we all want to see fruit lands. preserved. But we can't reason- ably insist on an owner agreeing to such preservation without some guar- antee. He should not be "frozen" to a particular product, If certain fruits fail, it is his right to try diversification. And if he is put to the wall by repeated crop failures he shouldn't: be censured for listening to the blandishments of the subdivider. "Despite the forebodings of the past few years about the vanishing fruit lands, it takes only one good crop year to show that there remains tremendous poten- tial." Expensive Friendship' What is it really like to be a "friend" of the Soviet Union? Everybody knows the answer that has been given by East German refugees who, in President Ken- nedy"s words, were "voting with their feet." But what of the tens of millions in other satellites without an escape hatch? They live in some of the world's most crowded cities, yet new housing in Eastern Europe is hardly 40% of that in the Soviet Union, itself troubled by hortages. It is estimated another 15 vears will be needed just to complete rehabilitation of war-damaged buildings and transportation. Subsistence levels in food and clothing wre. being met, but faulty distribution vearly wastes thousands of tons of food, ind warehouses are jammed with indus- trial rejects and shoddy fabrics and foot- wear, hye Oshawa Sines F. L. WILSON. Publisher and Genera! Manager C. GWYN KINSEY, Editor The Osnuwa [imes combining (he Oshawa Times established 1871) ond the Whitby Gazette and hronicle (established 1863), ws published doaily indays end statutory holidays excepted) Members of Canadian Daily Newspope: Publishers Association The Conadian Press, Audit Bureou of rculation and the Ontario Provincial Dailies Asso- ation. The Canodion Press 13 exclusively entitled the use for republication of all news despatched the paper credited to it or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the local news published herein All rights of special despotches are also eserved Offices onto, Onte omson Bullding, 425 University Avenue, o: 640 Cothcart Street, Montreal, PQ. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dellverea by carriers in Oshawa. Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, Bowmanville. Brooklin Port Perry, Prince Albert, Maple Grove, Hompton Frenchman's Bay verpool, Taunton, Tyrone, Ounbarton Enniskillen, ono, Le d. Brougham, Burketon, Claremont, -olumbus, eenwood. Kinsale, Ruglon Blackstock Manchester Pontypool and Newcastle, not over 45¢ per week. By mail (in Province of Ontario) outside carriers' delivery areas 12.00 per year. Other Provinces ind Commonwealth Countries 1500. USA, and Foreign 24.0 Circulation for the issue of March 30, 1961 17,363 The whole satellite area has fewer telephones than Toronto. Total annual satellite automobile output -- much of it exported -- doesn't match the Cadil- lacs the Americans sell in a year. Hungary, once a rich breadbasket for Europe, has had to become a grain-im- porting nation. All these lands should be reasonably prosperous, for they have rich resources and talented, industrious people. Still, they lag far behind the West, and the Soviet Union, in factory and farm output. The answer 'is simple, notes the St. Thomas Times Journal. To be a com- pulsory friend of Russia is to be milked dry, year after year. The milking began after World War II when Russia carted off nearly $25 billion worth of capital equipment, even unto railroad tracks and telephone cables It bas continued ever since, At first brashly, but now more subtly, the Kremlin has steadily over-charged satellite lands for its exports and under- paid them for its imports. In a four-year span this thinly veiled theft was esti- mated at $2.4 billion--enforced foreign aid for Moscow benefit. Russia controls all satellite strategic resources and through "joint" companies manages whole sectors of their econom- ies Before the' war, when Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and the rest were free to choose, they traded little with Moscow. Today more than half of Soviet trade is with these countries. Furthermore, the Russians compel the satellites to bear the brunt of lavish low- interest trade credits to under-developed lands, and to aid Red-dominated Asian nations which in turn fatten Soviet coffers. Probably no colonial power in history has matched the squeeze the greedy Soviet Union has applied to its unhappy pcaptive neighbors. UNITED KINGDOM I wd & www soon ev PIPE Er IPT Gr IV TW Fe TA CF OFT Wo Re EXP Ir OP 7 OPINION Education Minister Asks Power To Decide Salaries By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London (Eng.) "Correspondent For The Oshawa Times LONDON -- The government of the United Kingdom proposes to take a rather revolutionary step in dealing with the refusal of the school teachers to accept the pay increase which has been offered them. The Burnham committee, the body represent- ing school teachers and local educational authorities, which negotiates on teachers' salaries, had its proposed increase total- ling $133 million cut down to $118 million by Chancellor Sel- wyn Lloyd. The teachers have refused to accept this figure, so the Burnham committee was un- able to make any recommend- ations to the minister of educa: tion on new schedules of pay. Sir David Eccles, minister of education, has therefore an- nounced that he will seek legis- lation at the coming session of parliament to fix salaries for teachers, a power which he has never before had. Under the 42- year old nesotiating machinery set up for teachers, the minis- ter has power only to approve or rejec ta settlement iojntly re- commended by both parties. But he has no power to amend the settlement or change the pro- posed scales. This is the power he will now seek through legis- lation. SAME AS IN SCOTLAND The powers for which the min- ister will seek legislative ap- proval are similar to those which are now enjoyed by the Secretary of State for Scotland. In Scotland he has the right to intervene in negotiations and dictate what the salaries of teachers shall be. When the new legislation is passed, the minis- ter of education will be able to impose the government's $118 million a year maximum salary increase for primary and sec- ondary school teachers. The new salary schedules will be worked out by ministry officials, to come within that limit. The unfortunate part is that the teachers' unions rejected the $133 million increase when it was offered to them. If they had accepted it, the new schedules would have been made legal be- fore Selwyn Lloyd's little bud- get, and would be now in effect. By refusing it, however, they left the way open to the chan- cellor to chop $15 million from the total salary increase. Now they must be kicking them- selves for not accepting the $133 million raise when it was offer- ed to them, The Trades Union Congress has taken up the challenge of the government over the pay in- OTTAWA REPORT crease pause asked for by the chancellor of the exchequer. The annual conference of the TUC left no one in any doubt as to what its stand will be. Mr. Lloyd was given an unmistakable warning that the unions would "take up the challenge, wher- ever they could, where there was resistance to a justified claim for wages increases." Frank Cousins, one of the TUC stalwarts, spoke quite plainly. He said: "If a justified wage adjustment is refused, we shall use every method at our dis" posal to obtain it." Harry Douglas, spokesman for the TUC general council, said: "Is the Chancellor asking the trade union movement to use its great industrial power to settle these problems, not across the table, but by brute force. By dealing with problems by brute force you grow like a dinosaur which is a terrific brute with a brain capacity which is very small. The trade union move- ment is not going to walk along that path if it can avoid it." There were plain warnings to Mr. Lloyd not to goad the trade unions into strike action, which could destroy all of its plans for restoring a sound economy to the country. It is obvious that the unions are all ready for a test of strength with the govern- meiit on the pay increase issue. COMING BY-ELECTIONS The death of Sir James Hen- derson Stewart, MP, has cre- ated a parliamentary vacancy in the East Fife constituency, and a by-election will be necessary. This is a seat which can be re- garded as safe for the Conserva- tives. In the 1959 general elec- tion, Sir James Henderson Stew- art was given a majority of 15,- 164. This vacancy may be utilized to provide an ideal safe seat for C. D. Anderson, QC, who has been solicitor-general for Scot- land for the past 16 months without becoming a member of parliament. It is interesting to note that when Sir James first won the East Fife seat in 1933, his opponent was Mr. Ander- son's father, the late J. L. An- derson. Three other parliamentary by- elections are pending, and are likely to be held this fall. These are in Oswestry, in the Moss Side constituency in Manches- ter, and the Bridgeton division of Glasgow. Frank Taylor, a farmer who supports Britain's Common Market negotiations, has been chosen as the Conservative can- didate in the Moss Side by-elec* tion. The labor candidate is likely to be Richard Briginshaw, secretary of the National Society Varied Opinions On NDP's Future PATRICK NICHOLSON MPs returning to Ottawa are bringing back widely varied grass-roots reactions to the New Democratic Party, which was officially founded to replace the CCF since Parliament was last in session. At one extreme, CCF MPs from Ontario express happy sur- prise at the extent of the popu- larity which they sense for the NDP, and talk of it forming our federal government within a decade. At the other extreme, opinions from provinces where the CCF was an insignificant po- litical force suggest that the NDP will certainly fare no bet- ter. Farmers especially are not at- tracted by it, and from Saskat- chewan comes the expectation that the CCF government there, already losing support, will with- out Tommy Douglas as leader be a sitting duck for Ross Thatcher and his Liberals. REALIGNMENT? Behind all this conversational! froth, there is a novel threat of speculation here. Typically, it was explained by one respected and experienced elder statesman of the Liberal Party as being the obvious outcome of the situation correctly and realistically stated by Prime Minister John Diefen- baker. "The next election will be on the issue 'Free Enterprise ver- . sus Socialism'."" This specula- tion suggests that, after the next election, a Free Enterprise co alition or merger will be formed, to oppose the program of social- ism. This grouping would include the present hard core of Conser- vative and Liberal supporters, plus that increasing group of open-minded but thoughtful Ca- nadians which makes up the bulk of our floating or uncom- mitted vote. The motive of this merger, which would avoid the present split in the Free Enterprise vote would be to protect this under- developed and expanding coun- try from widespread socialist policies which would stagnate our national economy and shackle our progress. ROLE FOR PEARSON This topic has been so deeply thought out that one even hears particular predictions, such as, "Mike Pearson would be back at the East Block (as our For- eign Minister)". I asked MPs of all parties for their comment on this. Murdo Yartin, CCF member for Tim- mins, a g r e e d wholeheartedly and added his own trimmings. "Tommy Douglas will score a startling success in the next election," he predicted. ,"This will force the two older parties into some form of coalition. As a result, the NDP will go down to a crushing defeat in the fol- lowing election. But in the third election, perhaps in 1970, the left wing of the Liberals will have joined us and we will come into our own. "Personalities will have changed by then, but in terms of today's figures, the Pearsons, the Chevriers and the Mcllraiths will be allied with the Conser- vatives, while the Pickersgills will strive to maintain a small rump as an independent Liberal Party." Bert Badanai, Liberal MP from Fort William, does not ex- pect the NDP to attract suffi- cient support to prompt a mer- ger. His fellow MP from the Lakehead, Douglas Fisher, (CCF, Port Arthur), however says that the NDP is already stronger there than the CCF and will press Badanai. In general, his views endorse those of Murdo Martin BYGONE DAYS 40 YEARS AGO Good progress was made in clearing the Pedlar property, Simcoe street south at Metcalf, far a city park. Oshawa captured the Central Ontario League championship by defeating Belleville with Southpaw Harold Dainty, pitch- ing superb ball. George Hyland, one of Osh- awa's oldest residents, received congratulations on the attain- ment of his 89th birthday. The Canada Flax and Seed Co. mill in Cedardale ceased opera- tions because of market inactiv- ity. Oshawa Fair for 1921 was favored with splendid weather and an attendance of over 16,000 William Purves, pioneer clerk of East Whitby since 1880, pass- ed away at his home in Colum- bus, at the age of 72. Rev. E. W. Armstrong was in- ducted into the ministry at Whitby Baptist Church, prepar- atory to leaving for mission work in India. of Operative Printers and As- sistants, He is a strong opponent of joining the Common Market, so there will be a clear cut issue in this election. In 1959, the Con- servative majority was 8,719 so that it is, even in the present state of Labor revival, a com- paratively safe Tory seat. GIFT TO CANADA At the time of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953, ten giant heraldic figures of ani- mals -- The Queen's Beasts -- were designed and made by James Woodford, RA to stand outside Westminster Abbey. Stone copies of them now stand outside the palm house in Kew Gardens. There have been questions re- cently as to what happened to the original plasters of these beasts. For some years they stood in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace. Now it is revealed that they have been presented to Canada, and have been shipped to Ottawa to be set up in government buildings in the Canadian capital. Mr. Woodford, their designer, says that if the plaster originals are kept indoors they should last forever. INSIDE YOU Do Not Cut Out, Simply Cut Down By BURTON H. FERN, MD What's the best way to melt ugly pounds? Crash diets? Me- dicines? Some medicines erase appe- tite by leaving you too queasy to eat. But when the last pill is swallowed you start stuffing yourself. Amphetamine - like pep pills speed you up and slow your appetite. They give you such a lift you forget to overeat. But without your daily dose, memory bounces back and your raging appetite soon makes up for lost time. If you're addicted to bed- time snacks, these pep pills may make you eat more. They often cause insomnia, leaving you extra time to feed your ad- diction. Sleeping pills can ease you into dreamland where there's no fried chicken or strawberry shortcake to nibble. VITAMINS ARE LOST Laxatives rush food through your intestine before rich calor- ies can be absorbed. But you lose essential vitamins and min- erals, too. With medicines that pour salt and water out through the kid- neys, you can lose five pounds in three days! But you gain them all back on the fourth day! Vitamin and mineral supple- ments lighten only your pocket- book. They don't reduce you. Eating sweets can ruin your appetite. But hunger mounts as blood sugar drops. While no medicine or crash diet can change your lifelong eating habits, your doctor may prescribe them to ease you out of that high-calorie trap. You don't have to cut out many foods simply cut down! LIMIT MEALS Only one slice of bread at each meal! Skip the morning slice when you breakfast on cereal. Avoid rich gravies. Eat only 3-sized servings and no seconds! For dessert enjoy fresh fruit, a one-inch cube of cheese or even a thin slice of cake. Id dieting leaves you tense and anxious, stay chubby -- un- less you'd rather be a slim, trim bundle of nerves! 135 SIMCOE ST. NORTH PARAGRAPHICAL WISDOM The reason many a person who quit smoking soon resumed the habit is that he found brag- ging about having quit smoking isn't quite so enjoyable as smok- ing . T PARINERS Gordon W. Riehl. C.A., R.LA. Burt R. Waters, C.A. Hon. J. W. Monteith, F.CA. M.P Gordon W Riehl, CA. R ILA, Robert W. Lightfoot, C.A. Monteith, Monteith, Richl & Co. Chartered Accountants PARTNERS: OSHAWA, ONTARIO o TELEPHONE: Oshawa RA 5.3527 Ajax WH 2-0890 Bowmanville ZEnith 4-575 A. lock Monteith, 8. Comm, WA. George E. Trethewey, C.A. Burt R. Waters, CA. "See! 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