Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press training for War industries an important part of the mobilization of Canada s Man Power is the training of men for War industries. The govern ment has organized a plan which comes into effect at once for the training of some 5.000 men this summer. It has secured the co operation of the provinces of technical schools through out the country. It is Well that this action is being taken. Although it is belated. A shortage of skilled labor for War industries has been foreseen for some time. Why was the train ing not started before this since the production of munitions other War supplies is one of the most important parts of Canadas War Effort it is vitally necessary that those industries should be Well manned that they should not be retarded by Lack of skilled labor. Or. J. R. Macnicol. Of Toronto speaking in parliament of the training of Young men in the trades used in the munitions said in Many of these trades there is an acute x shortage of mechanics at the present time because during the ast two or three years Many mechanics have gone Back to the old the cause for the shortage dates Back earlier than that from the depression years when Many skilled men in Industry were forced to find other Means of livelihood. And the apprenticeship plan that was attempted in recent years has no fulfilled expectations. Or. Mclarty. Minister of labor told parliament on june 24 that arrangements had been made in eight provinces Prince Edward Island not being Industrial for the use of the vocational shops in technical schools during the summer vacation period. Winnipeg saturday june 29, 1940 published Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor president. General manager. Registered at the general Post Osice. London eng., for transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Those shops he said will be used to provide instruction in connected with industries engaged in War contract v. Moulding welding production workers for aircraft Ratanu j picturing where there is a demand motor mechanics working. The minimum age of admission is 16 years at the outset a Large proportion of the trainees will be drawn from the Stu dons in the senior years of the technical schools. Older men will also be admitted to these courses provided they have had some previous experience in the Trade Lor which training is the government has been offered fifty five technical schools for this purpose they will provide training facilities for a minimum of 5.000 men. Where necessary. Or. Mclarty said n second shift will be operated in the schools with eight Houis instruction a Day. These schools Are in addition to those operated under the youth training programme. The teachers of the technical schools will be the instructors but there will be instructors also from different Industrial plants. As for the kind of skilled labor needed the minister said we have already made a Survey of the amount of Laborim mediately required not Only in each Plant but in each portion of each Plant we Are endeavouring in every possible Way to Speed up the training in order to meet the what will be done to continue the vacation season training of for the War industries after the staffs of the technical schools thus engaged return to their regular Wrork plans will have to be made to ensure a continuous Ade quate Supply of skilled labor. Or. Percy Black . For Amherst n.s., also raised the question of providing this train ing i All Industrial centres not merely at the technical schools or provincial centres. Amherst is an Industrial com he said Many of the Young citizens Are anxious that some provision should be made to provide training for them. Cape Breton Island is an Industrial Centre but no pro vision is being made for that area at the training of men for War industries will reduce the number of the unemployed. That is quite important though it is actually a secondary consideration now. What matters most is Canada s maximum Effort in the War which has reached a desperately critical stage. The mobilization of our utmost strength is required since our whole future depends on the result of the conflict. This is the fact to be kept in mind in connection with the training scheme. It is important that the Young men older men taking the training should feel that it is a Good Deal More than a matter of getting jobs that they should be inspired by the fact that they Are going to do some real War work that they will do thcii1 bit to the Best of their ability. Much depends on the spirit of the Industrial workers As Well As on that of the men in the fighting forces. The co operation of the industries themselves in connection with the training scheme is also to be expected. The expansion of the Force must be encouraged by the drawing of the newly trained men into the War industries. This co opera Tion will be forthcoming for the most. Part no doubt the government has full authority to compel co operation if Neces in wages instead of the sought at first by the men. There will be overtime pay for holidays Satur Days sundays for certain work. There will be one extra deck hand Between Quebec port Colborne instead of the three extra men on each boat asked for by the Union. All parties agree also on the establishment of a wartime adjustment Board of three members. That is a Good sign As is also the undertaking of i the Union not to Call a strike during the renewal of agreements arbitration. The loss of the Fraser the destroyer Fraser of the Royal Canadian Navy was announced by the prime minister in parliament to have been sunk off the Mouth of the Swift flowing ii Onde near Bordeaux France. Further than being allowed to understand that the sinking was due to collision naval secrecy does not at this time permit of More exact information being divulged but the sinking came during operations in which the Fraser was engaged the prime minister said in the face of the of the Fraser s complement 115 were rescued but 45 Are reported dead or missing. Their names comprise the first list of Canadian i naval casualties in a War zone in this War. In that it bears a sad distinction which evokes profound sympathy for the bereaved families of the Gallant dead. The mishap is a naval one but that does not prevent its sorrows i being inflicted on Western Prairie Homes. Men who go Down in ships May be expected to be drawn from our ports coasts but strangely 19 of the 45 listed As dead or missing in the Fraser had their Homes Inland on these far far from any sea. This Only goes to show once More How deep How wide is the Call of the sea being listened to by men living even on the seas of our Prairies. It widens deepens the National regret sympathy with which the news of the sinking of . Fraser is heard mourned. The production of War supplies is a vital Factor in the conflict the importance of the task of All those engaged in the industries could scarcely be exaggerated. Their achieve ment will be in accordance with their recognition of this with their spirit of Unity determination to help win the War. Or. C. J. Jamieson All Over Manitoba in every Tov n curlers gather there is sadness today Over the death of or. Charles j. Jamieson Pioneer physician of Winnipeg one of the founders of the Thistle curl ing club who was identified with so Many phases of our Community Lile Tor almost 60 years. One of Liis closest friends was or Payne associate editor of the free press until his death in 1930, hardly a Day used to pass in this office without the old doctor visiting the old editor the pioneers sitting chatting about the past present. Now the doctor has gone to join his old Friend leaving behind him As did Walter Payne a great Gap in the Circle of their Mutual Friend ships. A irm Peg was fortunate in hav ing or. Jamieson among its first physicians. The extent of Good he did was incalculable. His was life in the limelight but its in fluence remains will persist. Farm debts perhaps after hearing or. Jus Tice Richards chairman of the Appeal Board in Manitoba under the Farmers creditors arrange ment act the members of the Senate who have opposed the renewed operation of the act in Manitoba May change their Atti tude. He is reported As saying that the effect of the act in this province was to keep Farmers on the land. That is that there Are Farmers whose debts Are so heavy that they cannot be carried. If there is danger of their losing their farms their other credit is destroyed also with implement Oil companies merchants. And presumably Many of these men Are of a Type that should be encouraged to remain on the land. Judge Richards is in a position to take an impartial View of the situation it is Well that he was asked to appear before the Senate committee. The House of commons has approved the restoration of the act in Manitoba last session again this session. And the precarious position of the wheat Industry now makes the argument stronger than seamen s dispute ended the seamen s dispute which threatened a serious tie up of Lake shipping at the opening of the season has been settled by conciliation. This is another Victory for the method that has been so successful in Canada in disposing of Industrial disputes. A Concilia Tion Board was appointed with or. Justice Mctague Ontario As chairman. The seamen s Union presented its Case so did the vessel owners. Both sides finally agreed to make concessions an agree ment was reached. The Canadian seamen s Union is to be recognized As the sole bar gaining Agency for All the unlicensed personnel. There is to be preferential hiring of Union men is not quite the same As the closed shop which the men had wanted. There is a a month increase pegged cant Bur he wont the great betrayal mile. Eve Curie who has been the director of women s activities in the French ministry of information is the daughter of mme. Marie Curie co discoverer of Radium. Wendell Willkie of All the candidates who presented themselves before the Republican convention in Phila Delphia the one most obviously alive to the implications of War to the United states the most Friendly to the allies the most courageous in saying so was the dark horse Wendell Willkie. To Canada therefore desperately anxious Over the still continuing lethargy of the United states Public Over the external dangers it faces the news of his Nomina Tion comes with a great sense of Relief thanksgiving. The sudden Rise of this figure As a political Star of the first magnitude is an amazing example of the suppleness of the american democracy its ability Sud Denly violently to burst the machine made chains that often hold it in bondage. The final Choice in the convention Lay be tween Willkie the stolid unimaginative uninspired Taft the fizzing sparkling unstable Dewey. Both these opponents of Willkie had built up vast organizations spent Many thousands of dollars months of time paving the Way for their nomination. Willkie on the other hand spent Only about of his own Money the committee that rallied to his support spent All told Only Abou i he arrived in Philadelphia without 3. Floor Man Ager with the help Only of a few enthusiastic amateurs. The Only expert help he got came from governor Stassen of Well Novra Here for the unfortunate incident that marred his trip to Winnipeg on the occasion of the Royal managed his affairs in the convention itself. Willkie is to represent the re publican hatred of the new Deal but reactionary republicans will find they have a candidate whose Broad views will not have much Appeal to them for the record of this still Young Utility company president is enlightened in its approach to the problem of govern ment in business. His mind has a Liberal Bent that makes for wis Dom his Maverick political record up to now suggests that he will be his own Boss. Thus the presidential election will hold Small Comfort for Hitler the nazis. Willkie will be opposed either by president Roose velt or a Roosevelt nominee which Means that whoever is elected in november will pursue the same foreign policy that the United states has followed in the past with an increasing emphasis upon external responsibilities. In the hands of Willkie the feeble foreign policy Plank of the republicans can be interpreted in a manner that would never have been at tempted by either Taft or Dewey. For this Canada will be thankful. L Ondon june week of negotiations a week that All French men All French women will remember As the darkest one of their whole lives has come to an end. At this moment our soldiers have ceased to defend by eve Curie for More sacrifices. But until i was All Over they had been told nothing. For several Days the sol Diers the peasants the workers were not even informed that Paris had fallen into German hands. And at this same minute the do not know yet on what atrocious conditions the armistice has been signed with our enemies. Nobody has dared Tell the soldiers the refugees All those homeless people who wander from place to place their country. France is no More All Over our unfortunate count f nor Vinour of ome of the Public school sub since the candidate must have a Grade 12 standing Why can it not be taken for granted that he will have the necessary knowledge of not some but All Public school subjects but principal Moore evidently feels this is not to be required for in goes on most students on entering Normal school have been away from elementary subjects for several years their ignorance of them in Many cases is rather alarming. The. Normal school programme is a heavy one. The students Are not Only required to become familiar with the subjects of the elementary grades but must have an adequate knowledge of the modern methods of teaching Given that set up or. Moore s suggestion that the Normal school programme is a heavy one is a Xoumph of under statement. In Plain in Normal school English it Means that the Normal school eachers have to undertake to make Good the deficiencies in the education of the students whose standing should guarantee that these deficiencies do not exist. The elementary school does not pretend to teach More than elementary knowledge skills. The vast majority Normal students Are fresh from High school where the whole foundation of their work must be these same elementary knowledge contents skills. If they do not have these imbedded in their minds then the elementary schools have failed the High schools have condoned that failure. It is time a Good Deal past time that the Normal school teachers opened up the whole situation. Principal Moore is not the Only contributor who has remarks to make. Some students have been asked to contribute if the subject were not so serious it be unfair to take advantage of their naivety by quotation. One for instance explains that i never realized just How slowly i read How Little i compre hended what i did read until we began to take classes to improve our i could she adds which must have been some Comfort to her teachers even to herself As the Holder of a Grade 12 certificate. A companion writes Normal school training has enabled me to distinguish the High spots in articles. Previously i read with out particularly noticing the important features of a another blithely observes that i never used to pass in my music examinations in school because i just did t see the use of memorizing All those now these students Aren t just an average of our school system product. They Are in the fight flight. They have been selected to study for teachers. It is time the Normal school teachers spoke up. It is time the Manitoba school journal spoke up. Well they Are both doing it. Birthdays Hon. W. J. Tupper lieutenant governor of Manitoba born Hall lax n.s., june 29, 1862. Bishop h. D. Martin Prince Albert sask. Born London eng., june 30, 1889. James Reid. Winnipeg born por la Shire Scot. June 30, 1862. Mrs. Lucy Massey Winnipeg born Dunrobin Carleton county ont., june 29, 1863. Notes books Are a finer world within the within a week i have read interesting accounts of agrarian Peoples each a race Liv ing close to the soil from which hey Drew their daily bread Anc he necessities of life a French acadian race in the Quebec country a French race in the Rench Alps of two no always peaceful races in Palestine if which one who knows them veil writes in the Empire re two primitive peasant aces in Palestine live labor As did their ancestors for thou ands of years. The Arab peas Antry have descended from the canaanites other tribes who were there when the israelite entered about 1100 . The Arab graft occurred in the 7th Century . Neither time nor ravages of Var have destroyed these people those strongest instinct is a deep particulate passion for the sol rom which they customs Are what they were when Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Greetings or instance peace be unto ind the reply upon you be Are exchanged this Day in Ommon greetings As in ancient lays. The Bible will describe or Indi ate habits customs of every Day life in the holy land at present. The Vineyard is still overlooked from a Lodge raised on poles covered High enough for the owner to see the whole Field. Is ground be Iween the upper nether Mill tones the Potter s wheel still Nakes jars to hold water or Oil a babe is wrapped in swaddling Lothes the women retain the right to shelter protect the fugitive that Sisera sought from Al in her bread is baked n Flat cakes on an earthenware a made hot by a fire of thorns Side or the oven is an earthen Vare bowl with the bread inside a fire round it the land Marks shown by piles of Loose tones. Ploughing begins in de Ember after rain has softened the Oil baked hard by heat. The Lough is a Long pole with curved to which is fastened an Iron Anchor the Yoke is placed Cross Rise at the other end for two oxen n of or occasionally Camel. The soil is not deep very Inch of it is turned Over p the Hills among big boulders 3d stretches of Rock. The smallest lot will yield Harvest. That did of plough can do Little be Ond scratching the surface in peasants cannot afford fallow he writer has known three sow Ings of different seed in one year Alilee the Plain of Sharon the Ordan Valley the environs of Jerusalem Bethlehem have the most Fertile soil. Villages Are near Springs r two or three months rain alls Are eagerly awaited As the falsely neither lie one to another in year s Harvest depends on them. The psalmist s poetic references will be recalled. When the Nile rises in August there Are heavy Dews in Palestine. A Little Silver Mist goes up from the ground Earth s incense in the sacrament of All rain water is saved in cisterns. There were Many Springs in the Hills which would have run to waste until the British military administration in 1917 immediately started to work on supplying Jerusalem with fresh water making use of Stone Aque ducts of Herod s time. As an armenian priest said the turks held this land for four Hundred years gave us no water to drink the English have been Here six months our cup is in May the Grain is harvested sheaves carried to the Village threshing floor a Large Flat stretch of Rock where they Are spread ans the chaff wheat separated threshing is not by hand flair but by the feet of oxen or Donkey or both together. The fan Lei winnowing is a wooden Fork of five prongs with which the Grain is tossed above in the air the Breeze blows the Light chaff left aside while the pure Grain Falls on the ground. The Best of the chaff is fed to Domestic animals. Fruit Harvest is later in the year is abundant for fruit is a common diet this Day in Palestine. Grape vines run along the warm Earth there Ripen. This writer minds when six pounds of the Best grapes Cost less than a shilling two dozen new Laid eggs two a half Pence. The grapes of Eshcol grow in Bunches from three to four feet in As for vegetables cauliflower will measure a foot across a Watermelon May be held with two arms. Olives Are a Staple food preserved in huge jars or crushed or Oil. The Olive Trees Are beaten with slender Sticks the fruit Falls. The scripture Rule to leave leanings for the poor was strictly text by Arab peasants until All became poor alike owing to Turk so taxation. The peasant suffers today from hands of brigands As from ancient . But these people of the soil m Palestine Are contented cheer Ful Thrifty patient simple As children guile Ful As magpies they Bear you no malice if you find hem out in a fraud but on the contrary Admire your Superior in they ask Little of Content with heavy labor Lor such Small rewards. At last to slip into the beloved soil to Bookman. Today s scripture from Leviticus 19 when be reap the Harvest f your Shalt not wholly eap the Corners of thy Field neither Shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy Harvest. And Hou Shalt not glean thy Vineyard neither Shalt thou gather every rape of thy Vineyard thou Shalt eave them for the poor the Tranger i am. The lord your god. Be shall not steal neither Dej ;