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     It granted $1,000,000 a year for Agricultural Education 
     
     It granted $1,000,000 a year for Technical Education to 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Old Age Pensions 
     
    
   
   
    
     The King Government, in its election advertising, takes 
     
     eredit to itself for having passed legislation instituting 
     
     a plan of old age pensions, said pensions consisting 0f 
     
     what it calls “a liberal allowance of $20.00 per month.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Of that amount the Dominion pays only half. Unless 
     
     the other half is put up by the Province there is no 
     
     pension. Therefore you have no pension rights, but 
     
     must pay for those in Ontario. i i 
     
    
   
   
    
     T0 flmireviate 110W grudgingly the King Government 
     
     gave even that much, it is only necessary to cite the fact 
     
     that, as reported on page 316 of Hansard for, 1929, Mr. 
     
     King expressed himself as of the belief that the pay- 
     
     ment of money to the Provinces by the Dominion for old 
     
     age pensions was a thoroughly vicious principle. , 
     
     The Conservative Party, on the other hand, stands 
     
     pledged to an old age pension scheme, under which the 
     
     Dominion will shoulder the entire load, and give every 
     
    
   
   
    
     deserving person of seventy years of age a pension of 
     
     $20.00 per month. l 
     
    
   
   
    
     Judge for yourself which Party is more advanced in its 
     
     principles of social legislation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     aid workers 
     
    
   
   
    
     A It ‘gave $20,000,000 for Highway Construction. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It was the first to sponsor Old Age Pensions, 
     
     investigation of Unemployment and Sic 
     
    
   
   
    
     It Protected our Dairy and Vegetable Markets. 
     
    
   
   
    
     What-the Liberal Partyilias Done 
     
    
   
   
    
     It now allows U. S. A. to kill our Potato Market. 
     
     »It sidestepped Unemployment Insurance and Sickness In-i 
     
    
   
   
    
     It stopped the "grants for Technical and Agricultural Education, 
     
     for building moderately priced homes, for the COHStYUC-r 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion of Highways. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I It allowed New Zealand to kill our Butter Market. 
     
     It carried out the Old Age Pension Scheme in favour of 
     
     Wealthy Provinces only, ‘depriving the Poorer Provinces 
     
    
   
   
    
     of any benefit. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the first to urge 
     
     kness Insurance. 
     
    
   
   
    
     rm: CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN 
     
    
   
   
    
        WHICH PARTY- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Fair Wages and 
     
     The Eight Hour Day 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1919 a Conservative Government in the name of (‘an- 
     
     ada, signed the Versailles Treaty, thus subscribing to 
     
    
   
   
    
     the clause which was designed to ensure labour an eight 
     
     hour day and fair wages. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On taking steps to make this operative in Canada, the 
     
     then Conservative Government found that the question 
     
     of jurisdiction, as between the Dominion and the Prov- 
     
     inces, was at issue. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     To overcome this, it called the Provinces into consulta- 
     
     tion, but before Federal action could be taken the Lib- 
     
     eral administration came into power. 
     
    
   
   
    
     That was nine years ago. In the succeeding eight 
     
     years, the King Government did nothing to implement 
     
     Canada’s solemn and pledged word . . . not even in the 
     
     case of workmen on Federal Government contracts, 
     
     where there never was . . . never could be . . . any pos- 
     
     sible question of jurisdiction. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This year, after having been forced into taking action 
     
     by the Conservative Party on the floor of the House, it 
     
     at last came through. The result is Canada now has 
     
     “An Act respecting fair wages and hours for labour em- 
     
     ployed on Dominion public works.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     If the King Government was as zealous in promoting 
     
     the principles of organized labour as it claims lobe, why 
     
     did it delay the enacting of this legislation for nine 
     
     years? 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Soldiers’ Pensions 
     
    
   
   
    
     Another betterment, for which the King Government 
     
     seeks to take entire credit to itself, is this year’s revision 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the War Veterans’, Allowance Act. i i 
     
    
   
   
    
     In that revision, the feature of greatest importance 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' to the war veteran is the provision giving him what 
     
    
   
   
    
     is known as “the benefit of the doubt.” Formerly an ap- 
     
     plicant for a pension was required to prove that his dis- 
     
     ability was a result of injuries sustained, or illness con- 
     
     tracted, in the war. If he couldn’t submit such proof he 
     
     didn’t get his pension. 
     
    

    
     It was Mr. Bennett, back in April 1927, who first moved 
     
     an amendment to bring about this very reform. But 
     
     the King Government would have none of it. Two cab- 
     
     inet ministers spoke against it, and when the vote was 
     
     taken," every Liberal member in the House at the time 
     
     voted against it, including the Prime Minster. ; 
     
     But when, in November last, Sir Arthur Currie, from a‘ 
     
     sick bed, issued for this reform an appeal that swept the 
     
     country, the King Government realized it would have to 
     
     accept the very principle it had previously rejected. 
     
     Now it seeks to make a virtue of what is seen to have 
     
    
   
   
    
     . been a political necessity. . 
     
    
   
   
    
     griculture and Labor 
     
    
   
   
    
     It has made Trade Unions Legal 
     
     It established a fund ‘of $25,000,000 for the building of 
     
    
   
   
    
     moderately priced houses for workers. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It established nation-wide Employment Bureaus. 
     
     It was the first to choose a Minister of Lalimn- fmm- ‘ma! 
     
     ranks of trade unions. _ V 
     
     It made available over $1,800,000 for tenet uu-xu-l-i; Lutt 1140-21‘ 
     
     A Unemployment Crisis. 
     
    
   
   
    
     surance Recommendations. 
     
    
   
   
    
     agent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It sent thousands to the U. S. A. in search of Livelihood. 
     
     It let thousands of Canadians go hungry last winter and refus- 
     
     ed to do anything for the temporary relief of unemploy; 
     
    
   
   
    
     CONSERVATIVE