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"Because of the high bank on the east side of the river the lands on the Townsend farm will not be affectâ€" ed greatly by the dam but probably will be by building operations while this $1,500,000 project is under way. A considerable amount of the Richâ€" ardson farm will be needed. These may be the only farms affected for some time and the land will not be required until after ghe dam is com:â€" pleted and the lake begins to form. ‘This is unlikely for at least another year and a half yet. Gravel will be reeded in large quantities, and if it is obtainable near the site of the dam, some land owner might reap the bonefit." said Mr. Templin. | Mr. Templin makes clear that theso estimates are neither final nor efficial. The site of the dam itself is likely to be on the farms of Campâ€" ®ell ‘Richardson and F. Townsend, Woest Garafraxa,. three miles upâ€" stream from Fergus. FRMRGUS.â€"Many farms will be éooded if the proposed storage dam m connection with the Grand River eonservation scheme is erected at the Shands site, it is charged by Mugh Templin, Fergus commissioner, who bases his opinion on a map which he prepared last spring. About 1$ 100â€"acre farms as well as parts ef sevoral others will have to be ®ought, he claims. \ Flood Farms ‘‘There are very few men in the ; employ of the hydro commission who* work at such a low wage," retorted | Nir. Smith. "Rates vary considerâ€" ably in the differet zones," he said, poirting out that a postâ€"hole digger, near Toronto, would receive considâ€" erably higher wages than somewhere / else. I Grand Dam Will Shand Site For "Even if wages paid are no lower than 36 cents an hour, my stand is perfectly justified," he asserted. "Such a starvation wage is no incenâ€" tive to work, for in this city, we pay a maximum relief of $16 per week plus fuel. After a man works a year at the wages by your departments, wo‘ll have him on relief," asserted Ald. Meinzinger. Asserting that Hon. Hipel had not denied his 30 centâ€"wage charge, Ald. Meinzinger declared he was "not surâ€" prised at Commissioner Smith‘s re marks. KITCHENER. â€" Chearges _ that wages paid road gamnge by the Onâ€" tario department of highways and Hydro commission were far below the minimum paid laborers by the eity of Kitchener were hurled by Ald. Joseph Meinzinger at Hon. N. O. H+ "So far as I knew, the lowest wage & powerful combination. paid by the hydro commission is “l Hon. Ernest Lapointe, minister of cents an hour," asserted Mr. Smitt.‘justice, made this announcement in "Joe has had a great, deal of )ou-.t.h. House of Commons recently. He tical experience, or otherwise, and as set out that the RC.M.P. plainclothesâ€" a result made no definite statement, men weren‘t exactlq an Ogpu or a But said he "believed he could subâ€" Gestapo, but he was quite firm that @tantiate" his charges. If anything, if the R.C.M.P. caught any one writâ€" the Hydro is paying too high wages," |ln3 abusive letters the writer was ko declared. going to hear about it from the fedâ€" Hon. Mr. Hipel, guest speaker of eral police. the evening, in referring to preS8| ‘The issue was raisoed some days Hon. Mr. Hipel, guest speaker of eral police. the evening, in referring to nnu‘ ‘The issue was raised some days charges by the alderman, pointed ago by J. S. Wodsworth, CC.F. leadâ€" Sui that the department of labor had |or, who quotes The Nation (New :o control over wages paid by the york) to the effect that a man named ighways department. "On several s. Reynolds of Vancouver, had writâ€" eccasions, however, I have approachâ€" ten a letter to Mr. Chamberlain and ed them asking if they could not PAY ‘sometime later the RC.M.P. had "‘patrolmen" better wages," he adâ€"‘ealled on him and warned him against mitted. * such practices. Mr. Reynolds, by the Asserting that Hon. Hipel had not ".y' replied that just so long as he denied his 30 centâ€"wage charge, Ald. ‘could buy stamps he would send the Meinzinger declared he was "not SUâ€" ‘letter, But when the lettors Mr. Roy»> prised at Commissioner Smith‘s re ‘nolds wrote got overseas, they were marke. |sent along to Scotland Yard, and "Even if wages paid are no loWwer|then back to the RC.M.P. s:. minister of labor and J. Albert ith, Hydro commissioner, Friday might. © A fiery exchange ‘of opinions oo{-J P eunk «o mel Ronge . io ty eurred as Ald. Meinzinger took adâ€"; «xnkkn.ng onl de ze vantage of the presence. of the| OTTAWA.â€"The, soâ€"called "crazy M.L.A.‘s for South and North Waterâ€" people" in Canada who write scurriâ€" loo respectively, at the annual meetâ€"*lods, abusive, libelious or threatenâ€" ing and smoked of the Kitchener {Inl letters to the Governorâ€"General Board of Trade. ‘of Canada or to the ministers of the Mr. Smith "started the ball rollâ€" ‘government are going to: be investiâ€" ing" when he took exception to simâ€" gated by the Royal Canadian Mountâ€" ilar statements made in a local news 64 Police. paper, charging both the Hydro and| And, if they insist on writing such Highway departments with ‘abuse Of.letters to Prime Minister ~ Nevillie public trust". Ald. Meinzinger asâ€",Chamberlain, they‘ll be investigated serted wagzes of 30 cents at hour are by Scotland Yard and the Royal Canâ€" being paid. '-an Mounted Police, which is quite "So far as I know. the lowest wage & powerful combination. PAGE TWO Meinzinger Challenges Hydro, Hishways On Low Wages tario Police Association, ‘Clifford R. Magone, solicitor to the Attorneyâ€" General‘s Department, and Provinâ€" cial Commissioner Victor Williams, trongly approved of all Mr. Conant‘s suggestions for policing improveâ€" ment. This redistrribution will take place just as soon as a survey now under way is completed. Every county, every section under the plan will be equitably served by the "Provincials" in future, with density of population, ndency to crime, etc., basically govâ€" erning reâ€"allocation of their posts and present personnel. Suggestions Approved The .conference, which included Police Chiefs Draper®© (Toronto). Hodgson (Kitchener). Louden (Sudâ€" bury), Taylor (Port Arthur), Robinâ€" son (Kingston), Boyd (Thorold), Secretary Alex. Murray of the Onâ€" Both moves. as outlined by the Atâ€" tcrneyâ€"General at a special Queen‘s Park conference with representaâ€" tives of the police chiefs of the proâ€" vince, will be aimed at effecting greater coâ€"operation between the various law enforcement forces of the province. A third move, likewise calculated to combat the everâ€"inâ€" creasing mobility of crime and its perpetrators, will be a redistribution of the present provincial police. Establishment of some oneman central authority charged with the coâ€"ordination of Ontario police effort against crime, and empowered, on %the direction of the Attorneyâ€"General or at the request of the municipal ‘authorities. to investigate police and |policing conditions in any municiâ€" pality. will be proposed at the 1939 session of the legislature, Hon. Gorâ€" don D. Conant intimated recently. Legislation providing for the operaâ€" tion of police commissions in all muâ€" ricipalities save those where the poâ€" lice force may consist of only one or two members,. is also likely to be sponsored by Mr. Conant at the comâ€" ing session. Coâ€"ordination Of Police Forces Is Plan Of Conant Abusive Missives May Be Probed. By R.C. M. P. THE WATBERLOO Ald.. Meinzinger urged Hydro Commissioner Smith exercise the power at his disposal to press for an increased wage whom he (Smith) _ ‘"It means the man working gets less than the Kitchener relief allowâ€" ance! My suggestion is that our government boost these wages a notch or two so they can get along, and then and only then will capital and labor feel the Department of Labor is sincere," he told The Chronicle. _ "If they desire our continued confidence, let our elected repreâ€" sentatives in Waterloo County show their sincerity by throwing in their lot and prove to c.git-l and labor they are playing the game," deâ€" clared the alderman, asserting that at the present time a man is "much better off on relief in Kitchener than working at a 30â€"cent job." payers in order to bring labor and capital closer together in the hope of securing higher wages for the former . faction, while yet nymg their own (government) laborers only 30 cents an hour". 5 "It is my contention that this men helped to build up the surplus government should set an example|of which the Hydro Commission and pay a wage whereby its citizens|boasts so readily, too," stated the may provide for themselves, and|alderman. their families, a decent living, in‘ . "I might also say that some time addition to saving a little for a time ago, I gave J. Albert Smith "rainy day", he continued. 4 some definite information regarding __ Ald. Meinzinger asserted inconâ€"|certain government employees in sistency on the part of the governâ€"|this district who were jeopardizing ment to ‘"set up a Labor Departâ€"|\not only their own lives but of those ment at considerable cost to the taxâ€"| of others all along the highway, and payers in order to bring labor and|there was and still is risk, of the right track," Ald. Meinzinger told The Chronicle today, commending Mr. Hipel for his promise to urge for higher wages. â€" 00 "Admission of the figures and scale of wage for unskilled laborers in the employ of the provincial government, prove I am on the _ Mr. Hipel, in referring to the alleâ€" gation, said he would approach the highways department and urge an increase, while Mr. Smith replied "to my knowledge no wage lower than 36 cents is paid by either the commission of highways departâ€" ment." A lively debate between Messrs. Hipel, Smith and Meinzinger feaâ€" tured the annual meeting of the Kitchener Board of Trade, Friday night, when Ald. Meinzinger alleged postâ€"hole diggers received only 30 cents an hour, as against a standard 45â€"cent wage paid by Kitchener. . labour, and J. Albert Smith, M.L.A. and <~Hydro Commissioner, to his charges laid against wages paid hydro and hichway labourers. "Now that I know the horrible truth, I am more critical than ever," stated. Ald. J. Meinzinger, of Kitchâ€" ener, today, commenting on the reâ€" ply of Hon. N._O. Hipel, minister of Ald. Meinzinger Extends Charges On Low Wages (Ontario) CHRONTICLE _ _OSSINING, N.Y.â€"With the echoes| Friedman‘s only remar of deathâ€"house phonograph music in |"goodâ€"by©o" to witnesses. their ears, three young holdup murâ€"‘smiled but said nothing. | derers died in the Sing Sing electric ‘an unidentified picture in chair only a few hours after Goverâ€"| The youths whose lives â€" nor Herbert H. Lehman commuted |are Isidore Zimmerman, the sentences of their two crime comâ€"|Philip Chalef, 27, a dial panions. »alive in the death house of Joseph O‘Loughlin, 24, the eidest of |prison by insulin injection “]'_et ’er Go” Says Electric Chair Victim considerable nse as a result," continued Mr. flemzmger ‘"No action whatever has been taken thus far, and I feel I am doing my dng by bringing this into the open. How about a little action, for is it not our duty as public repreâ€" sentatives to protect the public," he demanded. s 1 payily public being plunged into mancidarahle avnance as a raenl+t" men helped to build up the surplus of which the Hydro Commission boasts so readily, too," stated the alderman. _ "I might also say that some time Asserting that until mention was made of it, the commission had paid higher wages in the Elmira district, near Kitchener, Ald. Meinzinger stated: "This more or less arouses my suspicion as to whether this deâ€" partment is run on an impartial basis or must one have pull?" "It should not be forfotten that these men helped to build up the surplus "I have also been informed that the postâ€"hole diggers are also on some occasions required to climb poles and assist with wiring, which is also contrary to the constitution," he declared. "Many men, who have served three, four and five years with the commission, are still only receiving 36 cents an hour." "It is my information that these postâ€"hole diggers are entitled to the scale of wages prevailing in their municipalities, and yet, while Kitchâ€" ener laborers to a man receive no less than 45 cents, Mr. Smith admits these Hydro men get only 36 cents in some cases," exclaimed Ald. Meinâ€" zinger. 2 s s admitted were getting as low as 36 cents per hour. He further charged that "certain clauses in the constituâ€" tion of the Hydro Commission were not strictly adhered to in regard to The youths whose lives were saved are Isidore Zimmerman, 21, and Philip Chalef, 27, a diabetic, kept alive in the degth house of Sing Sing Friedman‘s only remark was his "goodâ€"by©" to witnesses. Guariglia ‘-mllod but said nothing. He carried an unidentified picture in his hand. the trio and the last to die, walked to the chair with a sneer. He quipped at Executioner Robert Elâ€" liott, ready to .throw the switch: "Let ‘er go, Bob." The first man to die was Arthur Friedman, 22. Two minutes after he was pronounced dead, at 11.06 p.m., E.S.T., Dominic Guariglia, 19, followâ€" ed him to the chair. All threeâ€"and the two who receivâ€" ed clemencyâ€"were convicted of the shooting of Detective Michael J. Foâ€" ley in a Second avenue holdup im New York City on April 10, 1937. i A friend of mine has just dispersed |a choice head of Holstein cattle be '|cause he cannot obtain help to look after them properly. He plans to reâ€" |stock his farm with beef cattle, but first he must find a herdsman and he is talking of going to Scotland to llook for one. This fall I had to coar ‘an elderly man out of retirement te loverhaul a ditching machine because all the worthâ€"while young men were occupied. Understand me, I do not hold that all modern young men are incompetents, but I do claim that for the worthwhile young man the opâ€" portunities for employment were never better. And I do claim that there has been too much sympathy 'mlsplaced on _ this â€" lackadaisical 'younger generation; they have been hitchâ€"hiking long enough. The deâ€" cent ones among them do not need "leadership" (whatever that means). Youth is an age of initiative, and as for the rest of them if we older men would all do our social duty by them and get behind them and give them all a good collective kick in the seat of the pants we would start the greatest "youth ° movement" this country ever saw. Guelph, Ont. Cecil Cox. And yet five dollars a week is all any young biped is worth when he leaves school. At that age the young male should have some idea of what calling he intends to follow and he should welcome the opportunity to gain knowledge in his chosen line of work at even a subsistance wage. We older men realized that in our own time and rolled up our sleeves. And most of us have still got them up supporting cheeky young cubs who haven‘t got the guts to work for what they are worth. Most middleâ€"aged men today can recall the days when they started their careers as wage earners. Five dollars a week was the standard wage. The writer was lucky; he started in at six dollars and walked three miles to work and three miles home again at day‘s end to save carâ€" fare. Offer those inducements (esâ€" pecially the walking) to the modern young jitterburg and see what you get . Most of them sponge more than that off their relatives in a week‘s time. By and large they are poor stuff. How many of them can shave with a straight razor or light a pipe in the wind? Twentyâ€"five _ years ago â€" young Johnnie Canada was a pretty decent arimal; as 1 remember him he could bold his head up as a matter of perâ€" sonmal pride and without any governâ€" ment help. Of course "the conditions" rre supposed to be bad nowadays ind weâ€"elders who are growing grey i1 harness are blamed for these laulky. colts who can‘t find collars to fit them. In my opinion â€" there never was a greater opportunity in the world than the present time. Folâ€" lowing my calling of civil engineer f:om one end of this province to the other I am continually asked by men o‘ responsibility to find them men for certain positions and jobs,. Someâ€" times I am able to find a young man tw fill a job, but I am not always successful and 1 am sure that the number of opportunities for employâ€" ment is greater than the number of worthwhile applicants. MODERN YOUNG JITTERBUGS To the Editor: I see by this mornâ€" ing‘s paper that the limit had been reached in all this maudlin sympathy for modern youth. A Mr. Kirk is begging the government for money to teach our present crop of youngâ€" sters to hold their heads up and walk like men. Tuesday, January 31, 1989 Letters To The Editor