A committee of the legisla-
ture is investigating whether

the Ontario  workmen’s
compensation board dropped
safety penalties against big car
makers who were about to
Jaunch a campaign to discredit
the board.

The board had planned to

levy fines of $260,000 against

UAW HEAD
SCORES AUTO

In the most forthright state-
ment issued on the pollution
issue by any international
union leader, Leonard Wood-
cock, head of the 850,000
member United Automobile
Workers, urged the USS.
government to pour the neces-
sary billions of dollars into
mass transit programs to halt
the increase in pollution levels
caused by automobiles.

The UAW president told the
Senate Commerce Committee
meeting in Washington ‘‘the
automobile will choke our
society to death.”’

For the man who heads the
largest auto workers union in
the world, it was a courageous
statement but a_ well-
- considered one.

Highway building has made

for faster means of transporta-

_ tion, but by encouraging an
increasing reliance on cars has

done ‘“‘serious ecological
damage,’’ said the UAW
leader.

_____The automobile is the only

efficient means of transporta-
| tion in many areas. ‘‘Needless
to say, I am not opposed to the
automobile nor to the construc-
tion of highway to facilitate its
use...”

Developing a system of mass
transit will have many bene-
fits, Woodcock said, among
them the creation of many
permanent jobs to operate
“aa systems after they are

ilt.

He listed such benefits as the

i

dents to reach jobs in the sub-
urbs, greater mobility of
youth, senior and handicapped
citizens, conservation of
domestic oil supplies and gen-

ral improvement in the
quality of urban life.

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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER

Ford Motor Co. and $300,000
against General Motors’ for
poor safety records.

The Globe and Mail news-
paper charged the car com-
panies were part of an anti-
WCB lobby and pulled out just
before the penalties were
cancelled in the board’s appeal
procedure. Labor minister
Fern Guindon told the legisla-
ture a further $500,000 penalty

against Ford had been dropped
as well.

Employers are assessed for
the injured workers’ fund ac-
cording to their safety records,
and the compensation tribunal
can order special penalties.

In related developments,
Guindon’s executive assistant
passed out news releases on
behalf of GM denying impro-
priety in the purported
scandal. He said the news re-
leases were dictated to the
minister’s office and copied

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there, but the minister said the
statements were taken from
GM in the compensation board
headquarters. The board is a
largely autonomous operation
run from a separate building.

New Democratic Party
leader Stephen Lewis pushed
for the committee hearings,
saying the circumstances, if
true, mean the safety of
workers and integrity of the la-
bor department had been com-
promised.

WORKER

Although GM _ officials
denied there ever was a lobby,
the Globe quoted extensively
from what it said was a brief
prepared for then labor minis-
ter Dalton Bales in 1970.

In the “‘brief’’, the eight in-
dustries involved claimed the
board was too liberal in its
awards to injured workers and
too concerned about its public
image.

The companies said to be
involved include GM, Ford,

YOUNG HIT HARDEST

Young workers are the
hardest hit in times of high un-
employment. This long-held
opinion is confirmed by a study
published in Notes on Labor
Statistics 1971, the first issue of
a new annual periodical by
Statistics Canada. -

The study also says workers
in the 14-24 year age group

have suffered an even higher
unemployment rate than they
might have because of the
“discouraged workers’’ effect
— a tendency to leave the
labour force when demand was
falling.

The review examined youth
participation in the labor force
during the 1953-70 period.

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Chrysler Corp., American
Motors, Stee] Co. of Canada,
Alcan, International Harvester
and Burlington Steel.

Reporter Gerald McAuliffe

of the newspaper also revealed
how former commissioner
Jack Cauley was pushed out of
the board in 1969 after a hot in-
ternal dispute and since has
been paid $62,000 for not

working. He claims Bales -

promised to keep him on salary
for two years until normal
retirement age at 65 and also

pay him for accumulated sick
leave. Cauley still is waiting

for more than $28,000 for the
sick-leave credits.

Bales denies there was an
agreement to pay salary. None
of the disclosures reflects on
the man who took Cauley’s
place, Douglas Hamilton,
former secretary-treasurer of
the Ontario Federation of

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