Sherbrooke daily record, 30 janvier 1935, mercredi 30 janvier 1935

[" §>krhr00kp Sworù Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1935.\"\tCONTOBIITIONS TO UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE COSTS Employer and Worker to Contribute Equally to Premiums, with Government Paying an Extra Fifth\u2014Premier Bennett Confident Compulsory Contribution Features Are within Rights of Dominion Parliament\u2014Scheme Not to Be Effective Until Forty Payments Have Been Made.O' *- BENEFITS TO BE PAID UNDER UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SCHEME.Ottawa, Jan.30.\u2014The benefits ! provided by the unemployment ! relief bill introduced in the j House of Commons yesterday i provide for the following pay- ! nrents after a worker has been j ttawa, January 30.\u2014A measure of economic security for Canadian wage-earners in the future is the aim of the unemployment insurance bill now before the House of Commons.Introduced yesterday by Prime Minister R.B.Bennett, the measure received general commendation from all parties in the House of Commons, mingled with a few doubts as to its constitutional soundness and a few complaints that it made no provision for the people now unemployed.It was given first reading.The bill is a compulsory contributory scheme of insurance against unemployment, the contributions being provided by the employee, the employer and the Dominion Government.It is the first of the major reform measures forecast in the Speech from the Throne.It is the first bill of its kind launched in a Canadian Parliament and is the product of long months of careful study by actuarial and statistical experts of the Dominion Government.Law officers and students of the constitution also had a hand in its preparation before a decision was reached that it was within the constitutional powers of the Parliament of Canada.Mr, Bennett advances his considered opinion that the bill was intra vires, although he admitted that some time ago he had entertained doubts on this point.Recent decisions of the courts, however, had tended to enlarge the sphere of the Dominion Parliament and the decisions in the radio and aeronautics cases before the Privy Council had affirmed that the Dominion had power to legislate on matters involved in the fulfillment of international treaties.By the Treaty of Versailles and subsequent conventions Canada had agreed to make adequate provision for the security of its workers.Criticism of the bill came chiefly from the Labor members of the House, although they were not unanimous.J.S.Woodsworth, C.C.F.leader, and Angus Maclnnis, of Vancouver South, claimed the bill was inadequate in that it would be of no help to the present unemployed.On the other hand, Humphrey .Mitchell, of Hamilton East, believ-j ed the Government had acted wisely j in divorcing the measure entirely | from immediate relief problems, j The surest guarantee of ultimate -uceess was to launch the scheme on ; a sound basis.\t1 The scheme will be administered | through a Commission which will j utilize the present employment ser- j vice offices for local administra-j tion.The employment service will i also be extended.The Commission will co-operate in the relief of unemployment, but relief will still remain the responsibility of the provinces and the municipalities.All persons over the age of sixteen, years who are employed either at wages or on piece work, except eighteen classes of workers which include those engaged in agriculture and domestic service, come tinder the scheme.Each worker will be provided with a book and at the end of each week stamps will he attached to it, one representing the employer\u2019s contribution and one the employee\u2019s.These two are equal and the Dominion Government\u2019s share is less.Thus a made worker aged twenty-one or over will contribute twenty-five cents a week, the employer twenty-five cents a week and the government ten cents.The Dominion pays costs of administration.No benefits will be received by any worker until he has made forty weekly contributions.After that a worker shall be entitled to benefits for seventy-eight, days in.a year plus one day for every week\u2019s contribution made in the preceding five years less one day for every three days benefits that have beeh paid during that period.The scale of benefits ranges from $1 a day or $0 per week for adult men down to twenty-five cents a clay or $1.50 per week for girls of sixteen years.Benefits are also provided for dependents of the workers at the rates of forty-five cents a day or $2.70 per week for adults and fifteen cents a day iOFFERS ALIBI FOR HAUPTMANN ON NIGHT OF UNDBERGH KIDNAPPING Thirty-Eighth Year.BROMPTONVILLE MAYOR Wife of Accused Declares German Carpenter Was with Her at Time Baby Was Stolen and Also on Night When He Is Charged with Having Passed Ransom Bill at Movie Theatre\u2014Letters Between Hauptmann and Fisch Loom Important as Evidence.Rev.Ernest M.Taylor, of Kno.wl-ton, who was tendered a complimentary banquet at Knowlton last evening on the occasion of his eighty-seventh birthday.SAXAPHONE PLAYERS NEED NOT APPLY New York, Jan.30.\u2014The United States army announced today it was seeking thirty-three basoon, oboe and trombone players for army bands in Panama and Hawaii.Only bachelors need apply.rev Jr.Taylor ACCLAIMED ON LORD BISHOP OP QUEBEC HAS RESIGNED POST.Fleming ton, N.J., Jan.30.\u2014 Bruno Richard Hauptmann's wife, the mother of his own small child, offered a tremulous alibi to his murder jury today in an effort to save him from the electric chair for the kidnapping- and murder of Baby Charles A.Lindbergh, Jr.She said Hauptmann was with her on the night of March 1, 1932, when Baby Lindbergh was stolen from his crib at Hopewell, N.J.She further upheld her husband in his contention that he spent the .__________________________ evening at home on the night of 1 November 26, 1933, when he was (Richard Hauptmann took the wit-alleged to have offered one of the ] ness stand once more today in an Lindbergh ransom bills at a New | attempt to mend his defences after Quebec.Jan.30.\u2014 Rt.Rev.Lennox-Williams, Lord Bishop of Quebec, has resigned as head of the Quebec diocese.His Lordship made the announcement today of his resignation at a meeting of the central board of the diocese of Quebec in Church House here.York theatre.FARM LOAN AND OLD AGE PENSION PLANS DEMANDED IN LEGISLATURE Little Definite Progress Made on Two Controversial Measures at Private Members\u2019 Day in Quebec House\u2014 d Age Pensions Project Shelved Pending Ottawa Action\u2014Municipalities to Be Protected from Travelling Indigents Seeking Relief.gress was made.\t1\t.pr The motion of Pierre Bertrand, Conservative.St.Sauveur, calling lor he adoption of the Dominion Government old age pension scheme m the province became so lost in a series of amendments and amendments that it emerged as an innocuous recommendation sub- thaï REVIEW CONNECTIONS OF HAUPTMANN AND DEAD MAN Flemington, N.J., January 30.\u2014 Bruno Richard Hauptmann testified in his own behalf today that letters from the dead Isador Fisch, which he said were mysteriously missing after his arrest, contained queries i ness chair was preliminary about fur and stock dealings between ' the slashing assaults by the State.it was his fifth day in the witnes., chair, but he stiil faced additional1 cross-examination after re-direct questioning by defence coupsel.\u201cWe\u2019re not finished with him j yet,'' said Attorney General David; T.Wilentz.\u201cThere is a lot more I to come after the re-direct examination.\u201d Hauptmann's return to the wit-! to the i unemployed for\tnine days:\t \tDaily\tWeekly Men, 21 years and over \t\t$1.00\t$6.00 Women, 21 years and over \t\t,85\t5.10 M