The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-11-13, Page 7Thursday, Nov. 13th, 1941 WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES PAGE SEVW
Notice To The Public!
Having* enlisted with the Canadian Forces for Active
Service for the duration of the war, I will be absent
from my business for an indefinite period.
AUCTIONEER BUSINESS
For the benefit of my clients, L have arranged with
Mr. Wm. Scott, of Monkton, to conduct my business
for me during my absence. Arrangements for sales
can be made at Kemp’s Coal Office, Lustowel,
MONUMENT BUSINESS
The Monument business will be continued by my part
ner, Mr. Wellington Ronald, in the present location. I
will gratefully appreciate the courtesy of the public if
the patronage given to me will be continued to the
gentleman conducting my business until I return, for
which I« sincejely thank you. ►
F. W. KEMP
CANADA AT WAR I
NO. 1 — THE MOTOR INDUSTRY PLAYS ITS
PART
□First, of a series of six articles by C.
Earl Rice formerly of the Spring
field Times, Lac Du Bonnet, iMani-
' toba.
In this series of articles on “Can
ada at War”, I want to deal with
phases of the Avar effort, little known
to the general public. Most, people
have an idea of the work being done
by our Army, Air Force, and Navy,
"but few people have a real conception
of the magnitude of our industrial
endeavour.
Had it 'not-been for the production
of motorized units in Canada during
Ambulances, Reconnaissance Cars and
many other types of motorized equip
ment are rolling off the assembly lines
of the Automotive plants in Canada
at the rate of more than 600 a day.
Besides the building of motorized
equipment, the automotive industry is
operating armament plants, building
motors to be used to lower the bal
loons in the barrages over Britain, and
contributing in may other ways to the
’war effort.
* Vast Plant
The first plant I visited stands on
a 200-acre site, and over 50 acres are
Huge numbers of Canadian-made I geing assembled in England after ar-
military vehicles are being shipped to I rival from Canada. These play a big
Great ‘Britain. Trucks are here shown (part in the war.
the last year and a half, on a scale
unsurpassed anywhere in the British
Empire, General Wavell would not
have accomplished the victories of the
-Army of the Nile in Libia, last year.
Universal carriers, Heavy four-Wheel
Drive Trucks, Eight Trucks, Tractors,
A. H. McTAVISH, B.A.
Teeswater, Ontario
Barciste*, Solicitor, Notary Public
and Conveyancer ,
Office: Gofton House, Wroxeter
every Thursday afternoon 1.30 to
4.50 and by appointment.
Phone — Teeswater 120J.
under roof. It generates its own elec
tricity and 320 tons of coal are burned
daily to produce 65,000 horsepower.
A total of 13,000 men are working
here now, where prior to the war 7,000
.were employed at the peak of pro
duction. Today, almost one hundred
per cent of the output is for war pur
poses.
In the foundry, 100 tons of steel,
and 100 tons of pig iron are produced
daily. The articles produced in the
foundry are sent td the machine .shop,
a hundred yards distant, by means- of
an underground conveyor system.
We now enter the machine shop,
where there are 4,300 different mach
ines, running at full blast, to turn out
2,250 complete motors- a week. Let
us look for a minute at two of these
machines. First, a multiple trimming
machine, trims twelve engine blocks
at both" ends, in one operation, to a
uniformity of within one, one-thou
sandth of an inch. The blocks are'fast
ened to a huge revolving drum, and
the cutting edges trim each block as
it revolves, The seconcj machine is the
multiple boring machine, which bores
the 84 holes in an engine block, in
one operation in six or seven seconds.
When the engines are completed,
they are transferred by a conveyor
system to the plant housing the ve
hicle assembly line. The military units
pass down the assembly line, each part
ready at hand on a moving conveyor
line at the time scheduled. As the
units move, the bodies are fastened
on to the chassis, the fenders, doors,
wheels, etc., ’put in place, until the
unit comes to the last operation where
a gallon of gasoline is poured into the
tank, and the unit drives off the as
sembly line under its own power. This
one factory turns out 450 military
vehicles each 24 hours.
I think that the .two most interest
ing types of military mechanized units
are the Universal Carriers, and the
four whe^l drive Artillery tractors.
The Universal Carrier, formerly call
ed the Bren Gun Carrier, is a low
slung vehicle, propelled by means of
tank-like treads. They are armoured
against small arms, and can travel
over extremely' rough country with
great manoeuvrability and speed. The
four-wheel drive Artillery Tractor,
drives the front wheels as well as the
rear. Should the front wheels become
bogged down, the back wheels will
push th^m out, and if the back wheels
become bogged down, the front wheels
will pull the back wheels out. The
units can climb a grade as steep as
60 per cent. In other words, for every
ten feet they travel forward, they are
able to climb six feet.
Motor Men Turn Out Guns.
Let’s journey now, to another auto
motive plant. Here we find an assemb
ly line similar in principle to'the one
just described. The same type of units
are being produced as described in
the previous plant, but with a smaller
volume of production.
When the government was faced
with the necessity of producing field
guns, and naval guns, it turned to the
automotive industry for help. This
factory undertook to direct operation
• of a new armament plant that had
just been built, and get it into pro
duction. Today, field guns are rolling
off an assembly line, for the first
time in Canadian history, is producing
heavy calibre field guns. All the genius
and efficiency of this automotive fac
tory has gone into the production of
these guns. Another item that this
plant is producing in quantity is mot
ors, to be used in Britain to haul down
the balloons in the barrages over land
and sea. Over 3,000 motors for this
purpose were delivered in the space
of a few months.
We have time for a hurried visit
•to one more factory. This plant is also
producing equipment similar to that in
the other two plants. In addition to
this however, a large newbuildihg is
under construction, covering several
acres, and will be into production in
a few months with 2,700 men produc
ing small arms, for the fighting forces.
This plant has already produced a
total of more than 112,000 motors.,
INFORMATION ABOUT
INSURANCE PLAN
Letters -of enquiry indicate that
Regional Officials of the Unemploy
ment Insurance Commission are en
countering a good deal of misunder
standing among workers and employ
ers in regard to the proper functions
of the workers’ insurance books and
stamps;
In an effort to clear up these dif
ficulties, locally at least, Mr. R. N.
Watt, Manager of the Employment
and Claims Office gave the following
statement to the Advance-Times.
The insurance books and stamps
provide a simple, inexpensive means
of keeping records of contributions
made to the insurance fund by both
employers and workers. They are sup
plied to employers by the Unemploy
ment Insurance Commission and the
stamps may be purchased from Post
Offices by employers holding neces
sary permits.
Every worker, upon entering insur
able employment is assigned an insur
ance book by bis employer. This book
will bear a serial number which will
designate that worker throughout his
working lifetime. The employer will
detach the front cover from the book,
fill in the information required and
forward it to the Unemployment In
surance Commission. The books are
designed to cover a year’s records and
are renewable only one a year. If one
is lost or mislaid it may be replaced,
upon the person responsible taking a
declaration and paying a fee- of $1.00.
It is important that this be done as
soon as the loss is discovered. The
books are not transferable.
The stamps are issued in convenient
denominations to cover the joint daily
or weekly contributions of the employ
er and the worker. The law requires
the employer to affix in his workers’
books, the correct number of stamps,
of the required denominations to
cover their joint contributions every
pay day. He will deduct the workers’
shares , from lheir wages. The books
provide a simple, accurate record,
which inspectors and workers alike
may check easily and quickly.
Should the worker be laid off, or
for any reason quit his job, the em
ployer is required to make his final
entry of stamps and give the book to
the worker without delay. The worker
has the right to examine his book at
intervals that are mutually convenient
to himself and his. employer and he
should check it carefully when quit
ting his job.
If the worker is going to a new
job, he should deposit his book with
his new employer at once and ■ the
latter will continue the record of con
tributions in the same book. An ein
ployer should ndt issue a new book to
a worker who has been in insured
employment elsewhere.
There are severe penalties provided
for in the Act for any wilful or fraud
ulent misuse of an insurance book.
However, the regulations respecting
the use of the books are easily fol
lowed and if this is done the system
will not be burdensome.
TURNBERRY COUNCIL—
The minutes of Council meeting
held in Bluevale, Ontario, November
3rd, 1941.
Members all present. Moved by
Breckenridge and Moffatt that the
minutes of last meeting be adopted
as read. Carried.
The following accounts were paid:
Dept, of Municipal Affairs, Toronto;
W. Bush, Wroxeter; F. Fox, Goder
ich; Dr. Connell, Wingham.
Moved by Wilton and Porter that
the following ^by-law No. 8 be passed
for ratepayers meeting to be held in
Forester’s Hall, Bluevale, on Friday,
November 28th, 1941, at 2 o’clock in
the afternoon. Carried.
The following accounts were paid:
Sundry $377.96; Road Acct. .$281.55'.
Moved by Porter and Breckenridge
that we adjourn to meet at Bluevale
on Monday, December 15th, at 11
o’clock, 1941. Carried.
W. R. Cruikshank, pierk.
R. Grain, Reeve.
STABILIZATION
OF PRICES AND
Your Country asks your loyal support
of this Wartime Measure
TWO NEW CONTROLS have now
become essential in Canada’s wartime
design for living. These are:
(1) Control of Prices
Commencing November 17, 1941, there
may be no increase in the prices of goods
and services generally unless absolutely
necessary and authorized by the Wartime
Prices and Trade Board.
(2) Control of Wages
No employer, with certain limited excep
tions, may increase the basic wage rates
paid to his employees unless authorized
by a Board on which the Government,
employers and employees are repre
sented. But after February 15,1942, every
employer with the same exceptions, will
be obliged, to pay a cost of living bonus
and to adjust this bonus every three
months.
Action Necessary to Stop inflation
This Government action has been taken to
prevent the inflation we knew in the last war,
and its subsequent depression, unemployment
and suffering.
Every housewife knows that prices are
rising, and rising prices, unless controlled,
will make it more costly and difficult to finance
the war. Rising prices, unchecked, will spread
confusion in industry and trade; will hinder
production and proper distribution of sup
plies; will make the cost of living rise more
rapidly than wages and salaries; will lessen
the value of savings; will, result in hardship
for almost everyone, and especially those with
small incomes. And the result of uncontrolled
inflation, after the war, when prices drop, will
again be depression and unemployment.
Prices cannot be controlled without control
of w4ges. Excess profits are, and will con
tinue to be, under rigid control.
Coverage of Wages Stabilization Order
The Order is applicable to the following
employers:
1— Every employer normally subject to the
Industrial Disputes Investigation Act.
2— Every employer engaged in the manufac
ture of munitions of war, or war supplies,
or the construction of defence projects.
3— Every building trades employer with ten
or more employees.
4— Every other private employer with fifty or
more employees. ,
The Order does not apply to employers in
agriculture or fishing, or to hospitals, religi
ous, charitable or educational associations
operated on a non-profit basis.
Wage Provisions
Except on written permission of the National
War Labour Board, no employer may increase
his basic wage rates. This permission can
only be given in cases where the Board has
found the wage rates to be low. Wage rates
which are unduly high will not have to be
decreased, but in such cases the Board may
order the employer to defer the cost of living
bonus.
Cost of Living Bonus
Every employer covered by the. Order must pay
to all his employees except those above the rank
of foreman a wartime cost of living bonus.
Effective November 15, each employer already
paying a bonus under PC 7440 of December
16, 1940, shall add to such bonus an amount
based on the pse in the cost of living index
for October 1941, above the index number
used to determine the current amount of the
bonus. - '
Effective February 15, 1942, each employer
who has not been paying a cost of living
bonus must begin to pay a bonus based on the
rise in the index between October, 1941,
andjanuary, 1942,unless ordered by the Board
to base the bonus on the rise in the cost of
living over a longer period.
The bonus is calculated on the following
basis: For each rise of one point in the cost of
living the amount of the bonus shall be 25
cents per week, except for male workers under
21 years of age and female workers, who, if
employed at basic rates of less than $25.00
per week, shall receive a bonus of 1 percent
of their basic wage rates.
These bonuses will be adjusted regularly
every three months.
Administration W
The Order will be administered by five
regional Boards under the direction of a
National War Labour Board. Labour and
employers will be represented on each of
these Boards. Watch for the announcement of
these Boards to which inquiries concerning
the application of the Order should be
directed.
WAVELL AND HIS FAMILY IN EGYPT
rnmmandcr-in-clilef ot daughter. Miss Velocity Wavell. He has since bees WUsh&ls Ae Middle Bast, ta pictured In Egypt transferred to an Important territory further east, .
frith hi* wife. Trf)dv Wovalk RTCSHT. And tnmr
ililli
FOOD SHORTAGE IN
UNHAPPY GREECE
(By a Special Correspondent)
Sympathetic nc-utral witnesses who
left Athens a month ago give a sombre
picture of the Greek capital. The viva-
The Advance-Times
Phone 34,
Issued under the authority of
Hon. N. A. McLARTY,
Minister of Labour
Whole-Hearted Support Required
Your Government knows that this policy, as it affects labour, industry, commerce, and
agriculture, demands a degree of restriction to which Canadians are not accustomed,
and is directly a wartime measure. It will demand self-discipline and self-control. It
will need the whole-hearted support of everyone who has the well-being of his fellow
citizens at heart. But by loyal co-operation, Canadians can have much more assurance
that the fears, sense of insecurity, the suffering and profiteering which inflation always
brings, will neither interfere now in the winning of this war, nor in the recovery and
reconstruction of Canada and the Canadian way of living after the war is over.
cious, elegant city wears now a lugu
brious aspect. One sees Athens in a
present condition of gloom, dilapida
tion and depression.
As soon as the Germans arrived
they enforced the evacuation off all
the wounded soldiers from the Ath
enian hospitals in order to make room
for their own wounded. The streets
of Athens are now full of wounded
Greek soldiers still bandaged and of-
tc ii b c Q'QTiig* b rca
The horrors of the German occupa
tion arc aggravated by the humilia
tion felt by tl)e Greeks in seeing de
feated Italians replacing German
troops, The former show an arrogant
attitude, although they endeavour to
show themselves more humane than
the latter.
Looting by the Germans, either
openly or by means of spurious marks,
was so complete that it left very little
for their successors. Moreover, the
Gestapo remains the supreme master
and its exertions are the same as in
every other German-occupied country.
Some well-educated and cultured
Greeks felt the Germany tyranny so
cruelly that they have committed
suicide.
The food situation becomes daily
worse and worse. Communications
remain in their chaotic condition. The
bridge across the Cornith Canal, des
troyed during the campaign, has now
been replaced by a temporary wooden
bridge, Which, however, is such a
weak structure that only the smallest
locomotives with one or two carriages
may pass across it.
Railway communications beyond the
pass of Themopylae continue to be
disrupted. Thus, when the Internation
al Red Cross decided to send supplies
of concentrated food extracts for the
use of the wounded of all armies in
Greece, they were forced to send them
by air mail, as they were unable to
do so by rail.
The port of Piraeus and the districts
around have been heavily damaged Fy
the explosion in the middle of the
port of a ship loaded with munitions,
ft was caused by a German raid last
April. There was no direct hit on the
ship, but on some barges loaded with
oil, from which the resulting fire
spread to the munitions ship.
When the Gormans occupied Athens
they compelled many Greek shipown
ers living in Greece, although their
ships were trading abroad, to tele
graph their agents in America and
elsewhere to withdraw their ships
from the Allied service. These tele
grams were communicated to the.
Greek agents in New York by the
German Consul General, through
whom they were addressed to them.
The Greek agents, of course, refused
to comply with these evidently
enemy-dictated orders. The Gestapo
thereupon turned its wrath against
the shipowners in Athens and compel
led them to work in Piraeus to clean
up the wreckage, demolish wrecked
buildings, and sweep up the streets.
Such men, old or young, not used to
this work, were all included in this
cruel, typically German order, which
is still being applied by the Italians*
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cution of high-class work, we ask you
to see the largest display t of monu
ments of any retail factory in Ontario.
All finished by sand blast machines*
We import all our granites from the
Old Country quarries direct, in the
rough. You can save all local deal
ers’, agents’ and middleman profits by
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atWest End Bridge—WALKERTOH