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In a motion before Kitchener city council, Monday night, Alderman Alfred Mustin suggested that when it is found necessary to lay off workers due to curtailment in war production, that Selective Service should make every effort to have laid off men placed in other jobs, and that they receive wages comâ€" parable to the scale paid them at Suggests Some Wages As Earned in War Jobs These highlights show activities in which Premier Drew and his colleagues have been engaged during the months following the election, when the Socialist Opposition was vociferously endeavoring to speed the opening of the session. The groundwork has been well laid for a session of objective serviceâ€"Globe and Mail. It is also made known that plans have been completed for a fourâ€" year postwar highway program which will give 27,840,000 manâ€"days of work. The Legislature is to be asked tb enatt a 48â€"hour week for workers, and ensure at least one week‘s holiday with pay for industrial and commercial employces. At the same time the Factory Act is to be amended to extent provisions for safety, health and weilfare, and reduce the hours of employment for women and young persons. Acâ€" ceptance of the Dominion labor code and its application to all industries has disposed of the need of a separate Provincial code. The Workmen‘s Compensation Act is also to be broadened. Legislation is to be introduced to protect members of the armed services who had taken on financial obligations prior to enlistment, and protection in employment will be assured enlisted civil servants. The disturbing situation regarding shortage of beer is to be met by diverting 5,000,000 gallons of the supply from hotels and clubs to warehouses, and a licensing board with judicial functions will be created. It is also made known that nlans have hean mnvranlatad tas 2 £..2 Certain policies have been revealed by the reâ€"organization of the Departrmpent of Education, the invitation to practical agriculture to study 1?; problems and make known what was needed, and the reâ€" vamping of the rate structure by the Ontario Hydroâ€"Electric Comâ€" mission. Now it is shown that educational reforms are to be farâ€" reaching. Steps are to be taken to raise salaries of teachers and ensure them greater security and prestige, and to broaden the educational opportunities for children, while more attention will be given to the development of character, religious instruction, cadet training, and physical and health programs. Special educational facilities are to be provided for what are known as new Canadians, a group which has not been adequately provided for heretofore. Farmers are to have better marketing facilities, while the plans for improving conditions through county committees proceed. Protection against loss is fo be provided for Hydro due to the limitations of the service charge in hamlets. The program of legislation forecast in the Speech from the Throne promises to make Ontario‘s 21st Legislature historic. It is altogether in the nature of progress and reform, with a scope touching on the welfare of all citizens, obviously designed o implement the general expectation of a better era. Its character is so completely constructive that it should place Canada‘s first Progressive Conservative Government high in the estimation of the public, and ought to dispel fears as to the likelihood of carrying on with so meagre a majority, The legislation indicated will have general approval, and it portends an exceptionally heavy session. And not the least important part of his speech was his intimation tc the German people that, while the terms of unconditional surrender were not subject to alteration, there was no intention to enslave them or blot out the Reich from among the nations of Europe. There is always one passage of superlative eloquence in Mr. Churchill‘s speeches, and it came in his closing appeal "that generous instincts of unity will not depart from us in these times of immense exertion and grievous sacrifice, and that we should not fall apart either abroad or at home." The Polish Ministers in London will not be pleased by his declaraâ€" tion that, in his view, the Russian demand for reassurances about their western frontiers does not exceed the limits of what is reasonable and just, but they may be comforted by his further statement that both his Government and Marshal Stalin are resolved upon the creation of a strong integral independent Poland. The most striking passages of his political review dealt with the Teheran conference, our relations with Russia, and the latter‘s dispute with the Polish Government. It is comforting to have his reassurance that the happy concord reached at Teheran between Russia, the British Commonwealth and the United States stands unshaken; that they are "absolutely united in their action against the common foe," and that they see before them a "wide field of friendly coâ€"operation" after the destruction of Hitlerite tyranny. The Prime Minister‘s survey of the political scene in Europe and its difficult complications was made with a broad sweep and enlightenâ€" ing touch. He defended enlistment of Badoglio as a collaborator, but suggested that when Rome was captured a more broadly based govern ment would be created for Italy. In regard to Yugoslavia, he made out an unchallengeable case for abandonment of Gen. Mihailovic after his disposition to make terms with the enemies had been proved, and to concentrate our provision of assistance for the benefit of Marshal Tito, "a new and far more formidable champion" of our cause. He could only hope for a reconciliation between the warring factions of patriots in Greece, but he undertook that her people, like those of the other Balkan countries and Italy, would be left free to choose their own form of government after peace came. Arnother outstanding feature of his speech was his emphasis upon the decisive part being played by air power, which he described as "this prime instrument of war," and he gave a vivid account of the scope and devastating results of the sustained air offensives operated in many directions, which he claims are wearing down remorsely the ‘air power of both Germany and Japan. He aiso served notice on the Germans that what they had experienced was only a foretaste of much deadlier assaults yet to come from the air, and he very properly rejected the appeals of sentimentalists who wanted to fetter and restrict the use of air power. But he also refused to minimize either the quality or the quantity of the military power which the German General Staff still has at its command, and warned that it was preparing novel methods of attack upon Britain. He was, however, able to give sound reasons for his optimism about the military situation in Italy. The latest of the reviews of the war situation which Mr. Churchill gives"periodically to the British House of Commons was mainly a sober statements of facts and a judicial appraisement of past events and future possibilities, in which serene confidence about the ultimate outâ€" come of the struggle was tempered by cautious reservationk as to its termination in 1944. Mr. Churchill wisely devoted a substantial part of his speech to correcting any impression which might exist either in Allied countries or the Dominions that Britain was not pulling her full weight in the war. His figures about Uâ€"boat sinkings, the destruction ef enemy warships and merchant vessels, and the heavy losses of personnel suffered both by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force supplied abundant proof that as far as the war in Europe is concerned they have hitherto made by far the largest contribution of effort and csw w sc s i ._â€"_ _A Public Service Program THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE The Waterico Chronicle, Waterice ‘7‘. = fi.........."#a....e..m"‘: at T Oniarls Street, Waterioo, overy Friday. %.:-fl. of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper A: and of Mr. Churchill‘s Speech $1.00 per year in FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1944 DAVID BEAN & SONS LIMITED Owners and Publishers Canade. Singls capies $ conts. He cited instances of men having ; Ald. Gordon Honsberger reâ€" to travel hundreds of miles of :M ported that his committee on wages new jobs and said that in some inâ€"|and salaries had met last Wednesâ€" stances they were paid 20 to 26)|day but no definite decisions had cents an hour less than they had |been reached. He figured he would been receiving in war industries at| have a report for council next Monâ€" home. day, following a second meeting to Ald. William Kartechner‘s notice be held on Wednesday night of this of motion asks for council to conâ€" week. present PAYABLE IX ADVANCB sider providing dental service in the primary schools. If council views his motion with favor, it will ask that public health officials and the Boartr of Health make a survey "in order to determine what is n_%c’essary to make this service posâ€" sible." We may never know the whole truth until memoirs are written. The Prime. Minister, however, stated that the Government has nothing to. hide with regard to the General‘s return and Party Leaders agreed that no useful purpose could now be served by airing the matâ€" er further in parliament. Faced with the };robab)lity of an early inâ€" vasion of Europe, Canada‘s grim hour, the House is of one mindâ€" to get on with the war. Then he came home. Parliament and the people wanted to know why. Minister of Defence Ralston insisted that the General‘s retireâ€" ment was selfâ€"imposed and due to ill health, and inferredâ€" that no political manoceuvring lay behind the sudden change. Conjecture followed conjecture and there were those who freely stated that interâ€" ference with his plans and constant frustration of his hopes broke his heart rather than his health. It was natural that General Mcâ€" Naughton‘s retirement should hold the interest of the House to the cxclusion of other subjects He took the first Canadian Division everseas, built it into an Army of five Divisions and two tank briâ€" gades in England, was undoubtedâ€" ly the idol of his troops and the hero of the nation; since the start cf the war has been perhaps the most colourful of all Canadians. His predictions were quoted, his leadership lauded and unemotional. Canada cheered his name and took confidence and courage from his words. The riddle of the retirement of Lt. General McNaughton naturally overshadowed all other features in Defence Minister Ralston‘s review of the army situation. It engaged the time and thought of the House for considerable periods and was the cause of a special meeting callâ€" ed between the War Ministers and the Party leaders. Whether all the Provinces accept the Code is yet to, be learned. There were strong representations at the recent Dominionâ€"Provincial Conference on Labour Relations that all industry, not merely war industry, should be brought within the Code‘s jurfsdiction. The Code is intended to be a joint federalâ€" provincial effort to stabilize war production, but it may not go into effect in Quebec at all, as the legisâ€" lature of that province has just enacted a Labour Code of its own. The first half of the week saw the House absorbed on a report on the Army by Defence Minister Ralston and another on the R.C.A.F. by Defence Minister Power. The feature of the latter was the anâ€" nouncement that the airâ€"crew trainâ€" ing plan had been changed in order to keep pace with the improvement in the range and speed of aircraft.‘ The first effect of the change will mean a much longer time between‘ enlistment and the point where the young pilot meets the enemy. The second effect will mean a consider-‘ able cutting down in the number of recruits required for air crew.! but this will not be noticeable for many months. +0 | In general the Code provides for common governing principles and procedure for the settlement of grievances or disputes between worker and employer. In turn, the Code will not tolerate employees using coercion or intimiâ€" dation against fellow workers to compel them to join any particular organization; union officials are prohibited from carrying on orâ€" ganizing activties during working hours; and employees are prohibitâ€" ed from instituting "slow down" in production in an industrial plant in which a dispute is in progress. _ Under the Code employers canâ€" not refuse to employ a worker beâ€" cause he or she belongs to a union. Employers canot seek to dominate or interfere with employees joinâ€" ing any employees organzation nor can they contribute to the financial support of a union, thus precluding the practice of "company financed" unions. The main features of the Code are compulsory collective bargainâ€" ing between labour and employer, and compulsory arbitration in all labour disputes. The code is comâ€" pulsory that employers must recogâ€" nize the right of workers to form unions and select their own collecâ€" tive bargaining representatives. The employers must sit down with them in good faith and seek to find a settlement of disputes. It is also compulsory that strikes or lockâ€" outs are prohibited while the aforeâ€" said negotiations are proceeding. It is compulsory, too, that there be no action by the workers while a conciliation board is being set up and is considering a dispute which could not be settled by workerâ€" employer conference. The Code replaces the Industrial | Disputes Investigation Act andi directly affects 2,500,000 of the Dominion‘s _ 3,500,000 mdustri‘!‘ vorkersâ€"i.e. everyone employed in | war industry. _ | Although the new Labour Code:! i; not yet law in a Parliamentary | sense, it went into effect the moâ€" | ment it was tabled because an Act | can come into effect before it is discussions on the reports of Deâ€" fence Ministers on the Army and Air situation, harlkhted by the General McNaughton controversy, the House of Commons returned to home affairs on the lahlifi by Labour. Minister Humphrey ‘Mitchâ€" ell of the long awaited Labour Code, otherwise Wartime Labour Relations Regulations. passed by the House. When the Labour estimates come before the House the reception it may receive when it comes to a vote will be revealed. After three and oneâ€"half days of THIS WEEK N PARLIAMENT (By Kari Homuth, MP.) THF WATBRBLLOO (Outarto) CHRONMICLE _ | They must have been expem â€" excitement or something ar ;:g;' ‘the tag end of the Throne Speech becauce the galleries circling the M iflouse have been Alled continuâ€" With the services: A new reguâ€" lation from the heads of the armed services allows nursing sisters to ccknowledge a salute by a nod of the head, or should we say a little bow. That will suit most everyâ€" body because it will surely be acâ€" companied by a smile such as suits a nursing sister‘s uniform. . . 10,000 free copies of a pintâ€"sized edition of one of Canda‘s well known maâ€" gazines. Maclean‘s, has gone overâ€" seas to those who are fighting for us. It 5Lves a condensed but even more adequate Canadian picture in its pages, which number 36, but without colour. This innovation, which got the good wishes of the leaders of our services, will probâ€" ably be greatly appreciated by. those far Ifi-om home. The famous Times magazine has been doing: just this for some time now. . . . Women are keeping the home fires burning. sure, but they‘re also playing a big part in the industrial picture. In December, 1940, one woman in each 186 in Canda was in industry. Last December (1943) the ration had gone to one in 24. If you ever come to Ottawa to see Parliament and all the big stuff in action, make it a point to be in the main corridor of the building just a few minutes before 3 p.m. to watch the Speaker‘s parade. It‘s one of the new wartime restricted manifestations of traditional cereâ€" mony still to be seen. On the dot, slowly up to the corridor come three uniformed attendants, then the big glittering Mace, behind that the dignified Speaker in his robes and a couple of the clerks trailing. _ The â€" little proce;ion wends its way to the Hou® of Commons chamber. You‘ll have to uncover, to watch, or else. __With the accent now on pulverâ€" izing Germany‘s industrial centres by overpowering air raids, it is well to keep in mind that the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ‘is greatly responsible for putting the punch into the big attack. And it was put over in Canada. which is something we should be proud of. You know, the first class had 169 pupils in it, and: today we have about 154 schools alone, twice as many as originally planned. Ten thousand training planes flew an average of two million miles daily, got an expanded forte of 50,000 air crew gradutacs, enough to man 15,000 combat planes, as well as training 80,000 in ground crew trades. We‘ve_trained Canucks, Aussics, New Zealanders, British, Belgians, Czecks, Netherlanders, but more than 60% were oun own‘ lads. The first plan had its finishâ€" ing point at March 31, 1943, and in the agreement Canada was to ray 600 million dollars of the 900} million total cost. But a new agreeâ€" ' ment had to extend the plan to | March, 1945, with Canada paying half the estimated cost of a billion and a half, and the United Kingâ€" com standing the other half. Seen around the Capital: Centre! Oft repeated by authorities, of interest in the fine new Post again an urgent appeal is sent out Office here is the new-fangled|to the highways and byways of Mailâ€"Oâ€"Mat, a machine which saves| Canada that Halifax is terribly you from headaches at the wicket Overcrowded; that dependents, etc., ltrying to figure out how many Of service personnel try to "stay \twos and threes you want. All you Put" where they are. Halifax popuâ€" do is stick the required amount for lation has skyrocketed from 65,000 'stamps in a slit in something which to 135,000. thas all the ear mraks of a gumâ€" *# * * ‘vending machine, turn a gadget and‘ If you want to get dizzy, here away goes your letter mailed and are Some figures of Canada‘s bank ,everything It‘s the first of its kind|account. They show that for the in Canada, although manufacturedfiscal year 1944â€"45 our: nonâ€"war in Stamford, Connecticut. The @ppropriations at over $702 milâ€" |The Post Office Department is tryâ€" lions are up 54 millions over the ing it out on the public here and‘Drcvious year; that war appropriaâ€" ‘it may be some day we‘ll have one tions are down $240 millions from {it every PO. so the pestmaster|the estimated $3,650 millions. Our will be able to go hunting and*railonal income for 1943, however, curling when he wants to. After I| hopped up 17.3 per cent. to $8,800,â€" tried it once I wanted to write ‘000.000. More movements upwards: everyone in the country a letter‘¢Xcise, customs and income tax just so I could mail it in the Mailâ€" ; collected federally in January, 1944, Câ€"Mat. ; was 253 millions, an increase of 63 «0 & o+ ‘millions over the month, a year Anyone who feels inclined to do|before that. An added touch: the a little harmonized grousing on |©@Sh income of the Canadian farmâ€" reasons for rationing and conâ€"|©T Was sure up in 1943â€"to a new ‘ralled distribution will be surely | highâ€"estimated returns from sale interested in the figures I got from|Of farm products bieng $1,397,â€" the Consumer Branch of the Warâ€" |000,000, a total of $282 millions over time Prices and Trade Board in|1942. All provinces shared in the connection with parcels sent to our | Increase. Anyone who feels inclined to do a little harmonized grousing on reasons for rationing and conâ€" ‘ralled distribution will be surely interested in the figures I got from the Consumer Branch of the Warâ€" time Prices and Trade Board in connection with parcels sent to our prisonersâ€"ofâ€"war in enemy counâ€" tries. The Red Cross western packâ€" ing centre has, for instance. already despatched its millionth parcel to Canadian boys in Germany and Japan. Do you ever wonder what goes into one of these parcels? Well, they‘ve already sent out a million pounds of butter, a million pounds of jam, half a million cans of salmon and half a million pounds of sugar. Besides this, thousands of pounds of tea and coffee, biscuits, and other rationed goods. All parcels, they tell me, have included chocolate bars, raiâ€" sins, tinned meats, soap. This all tells Canadian atâ€"homes that there is a reason for some shodz'lig'es;fia‘lj& rationed distribution. ously. It looked to me as if the big majority of ringsiders were from cut of town. Attendants have had to stop people more than usual fromâ€"leaning their elbows on the gallery rail, which appdrently is egainst traditional regulations. It also shows that folks there were not leaning back and snoozing. Parliament has really been steamâ€" ing up for the start of the session and it looks as if it‘s going to be one of accomplishment. The Prime Minister seems to be pleased that it‘s "business before pleasure" beâ€" cause in one statement he urged members to broadcast to the nation that Parliament is really "doing something" instead of belittling its efforts in the eyes of the people. at this is primarily a young A WEEKLY EDTTOR _ 10O00KS AT Ottawa By Jim Greenbiat Writen specialiy The government‘s war and postâ€" war social program got surprising support when the whole Progresâ€" sive Conservative membership of the Commons voted with the adâ€" ministration at the conclusion of the throne speech debate. Another significant division in the Commons ocourred when only seven Frenchâ€" Canadian members voted in favor At the same time Mr. Gardiner notified the House of Commons and the country that the government polic;y is to find outside markets for farm produce rather than atâ€" tempt to enforce a policy of scarcity in production and depend on home consumption to absorb the products of agriculture. Governâ€" ment policy, he said, was against state socialism for agriculture or other industries and in favor of continuing development of world trade so Canada can export its goods and import what Canadians require from other countries to nu'l'i{'tain a high slgndard of living. Farmers‘ great war contribution came to the fore in parliament when Hor. J. G. Gardiner, minister of agriculture, declared that alâ€" though manâ€"power and womanâ€" power on Canadian farms had been reduced by almost 500,000, the dominion produced over 40 per cent. more tonnage of food last year than in the year before the war. At the same time the minister of agriculture explicitly told the Comâ€" mons that legislation will be passed this session to enable a postâ€"war floor to be maintained under prices of staple farm products. Undoubtedly Gen. McNaughton‘s health would have forced his long leave of absence and most likely his resignation as head of the everseas army. McNaughton‘s own rote to Col. Ralston asked for reâ€" tirement because of ill health and medical certificates of high army doctors _ recommended prolonged rest. When the defence minister explained sending of Canadian troops to Italy, Victor Quelch ,(S.C., Acadia, Alta.) immediately commended the action. Col. Ralsâ€" ton told Parliament that many‘ battleâ€"trained officers have retum-‘ ‘ed to England to take important posts with the balance of the Canaâ€" dian army there. Thus the doâ€" riinion troops will be led by men who know from actual fighting what to expect from the enemy and how to direct land forces under modern conditions. At a private conference Premier King and the three defence ministers laid the whole McNaughton situation beâ€" fore the Progressive Conservative, C.C.F. and Social Credit House leaders, without asking secrecy and leaving it to the other party leaders as to what should be said publicly having regard to public interest ond winning of the war. | ' OTTAWA.â€"Hon. J. L. Ralston‘s full explanation as to why a Canaâ€" dian army corps was sent to Sicily and Italy is regarded here as part of the story of retirement of Lieut.â€" Gen. A. G. L, McNaughton as comâ€" Imander of the dominion‘s overseas troops. It was impossible to send the whole Canadian army, the \National Defence minister said. but the Canadian government was deâ€" termined that the main body of dominion land forces would not go into action under officers inexâ€" perienced in latest types of warâ€" fare. It is taken for granted that Gen. McNaughton opposed this policy. Col. Ralston emphasized that it was the decision of the government and at. its request that Canadian forces fought in Sicily and Italy. Ottawa News ZLetter __Come and get it: While Finance Minister Ilsley said the government may consider taking off meat rationing, _ Agriculture â€" Minister Gardiner pointed out stock . surâ€" pluses were due to lack of shipping space at this time, so it appears that as the opportunity presents itself Britain is to get as much of the extra meat as it is possible to send to them. . . And the Prices Board announces a ten per cent. increase of tomato juice will be on the shelves during _ February _ and March, more vitamins. . . A price ceiling, to parallel where possible that in the United States, will be on 49 kinds of imported fruits and vegetables, including â€" asparagus, lettuce, parsley, cukes, celery, apriâ€" cots, cantaloupes, cherries and tanâ€" gerines. Oft repeated by â€" authorities, again an urgent appeal is sent out to the highways and byways of Canada that Halifax is terribly overcrowded; that dependents, etc., of service personnel try to "stay put" where they are. Halifax popuâ€" lation has skyrocketed from 65,000 to 135,000. ;:'n:h‘:"mi:r '#”-r lhz-': coffee. We‘ve used up dur m for the day." If you could see the crowds m out of offices at meal times you‘d wonder how they ever had enough coffee till noon. National Defence for Air, anâ€". nounced in the House that more and more of the younger fellows with battle experience in the RCAF. are brought back to Canada to fill posts. A deâ€" finite plan of ret t for older men, who have done a good job, is smokes you are sending your boys, the Buckshee fund in 1943 nt . ANIMIO civarettes â€" a i..‘lm“fim":.""m"" f"‘”“"e....s%m.‘. Canadian Legion and Canukâ€" Out in the smaller places everyâ€" one seems to have enough coffee to satisfy, but the other day in a restaurant in Ottawa at 730 p.m. clubs : Canada will spent close to |$200,000,000 less this year than T’last. in‘ addition to a big saving ‘for mutual aid to other United iNauons. the preliminary financial ‘ statement of Finance Minister J. L. |Iisley indicates. War expenditures |are down $240,000,000 but normal outlay, mostly looking. to rehabiliâ€" “tation as peace ncars, is increased {about $40,000,000 over last year when civilian expenditures were ‘rared to the bone. Mutual aid last year _ totalled perhaps _ around. ©$600,000,000 of the $1,000,000,000 loriginally appropriated. This year, |Mr. lisley said, it will be much ‘less. The decrease in war outlay is |largely in cost of equipping and maintaining the armed forces. The saving, the finance minister said. represents the new stage of the war when Canada, along with other ipeaceâ€"loving countries, has at last caught up in manâ€"power, training ) and equipment with Axis powers who were preparing for years and caught the democracies by surprise. As expected, parliamentary busiâ€" ness is being expeditiously dealt with. Two committees looking to postâ€"war prosperityâ€"the commitâ€" tee on reconstruction and that on healthâ€"are already at work. The big legislative program heralded in the throne speech is apparently to be pressed and put into effect beâ€" fore the session ends. cf the amendment of J. S. Roy (Ind., Gaspe, Que.) condemning Canada‘s allâ€"out participation in the war. This is taken to indicate that the nationalist sentiment in Quebec, whipped up by the Bloc Populaire, has not recahed the pitch its promoters expected. Ortawa, Canada Harâ€"Cime runirtrt Eorrowing 1 i ca Te ue opai wage rate or range of wage rates shall be effective for the first »rayroll perfod beginning on or after February 15, 1944. Fmployers who may noe be paying previous authorized cost of living bonus as required by General Orders % the National War Labour Board, issued under dates of August 47 1942, and Novemâ€" jer 3, 1943, pursuant to the provisions of the Warrime Wages Control Order, P.C. 5963, are required to include such amounts of cost of living bonus in the establishment of wage rates of their employees under P.C. 9384 effective for the firw payroll period beginning on or after Fehruary 15. 1944, as stated TO KEEP UP YOUR INSURANCE Our policy in making personal loans is to help Canadian citizens â€" salaryâ€"andâ€"wageâ€"earners, professional men and women, business executives â€" io keep financially fit. 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If you need cash to pay premiums, do not hesitate to talk over your requirements with the manager of our nearest branch. We make loans also to help pay taxes, to provide for education, to pay doctors‘ bills, hospstal charges and other emergency expenses, or to take advantage of business opportunities. NATIONAL WAR TABOUR BOARD Upâ€"toâ€"date Banking for Canadian Industry and Workers Waterloo Branch: J. R. BEATON, Manager Incorporation of Cost of Living Bonus into Wage Rates Ask for our folder on Personal Loans $3.65 per $100â€"repayable in 12 monthly instalments. _** FOUNDED IN i8si~ gu8 Ip4¢% NATIONAL WAR LABOUR BOARD KITCHENER.â€"Carl A. Pollock, chairman of the membership comâ€" mittee, told the Kitchener board of trade that the organization is aimâ€" ing at a membership of 600. He addressed an executive meeting at the Walper House, and he revealed that last year‘s membership toâ€" talled 523. The meeting favored the dinner mecting idea to the former plan of getting together at five o‘clock and attempting to be away at six. Manager C. W. Boyer of the Naâ€" tional Selective Service office at Kitchener states there is still no letâ€"up in the manpower demand, although cancellations of war conâ€" tracts continue to be received by Twin City industries There are 476 vacancies for men to be filled and only 19 males available. The Selective Service manager said the breakdown of the 476 vaâ€" cancies showed 32 for farmhands, 10 semiâ€"skilled laborers for food plants, 22 in lumber and wood proâ€" jects, seven in the printing trades, 14 with leather and electric :lants. two in the textile industry, 14 manâ€" agerial, clerk and salesmen posiâ€" tions, 17 needed by contractors, 33. in metal trades and 62 for miscelâ€" lancous occupations. Would Boost Membership Need 457 Men At Kitchener C_â€"P. MeTAGUE 0s "‘ ©â€".3â€"44.w