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Printing Bureau Contract:larHtAccusation And DenialBv JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Wrltr OTTAWA (CP)- The federal deputy minister of public works Friday accused Senator Sarto Fournier, mayor of Montreal, of irying unsuccessfully to pressure nim into sivins a public worksWELCOME WAGON HOSTESSWill Knock on Your Door with Gifts and Greetings from Friendly* Business Neighbours and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders Arrival of a Newcomer to the City and Birth d a Baby CALI 2503 or 93498contract to a high-bidding Montreal firm.From a vacation apot m Florida, Liberal Senator Fournier said there was not a word of truth in this evidence before the public accounts committee by Maj.-Gen. H. A. Young, the deputy,Gen. Young promptly retorted here that he was under tremendous pressure from the senator-mayor to award the 1956 eontrtci to the Montreal firm whose bid on a moving job was almost twice that of the lowest-and successful—tendererDavid Walker (PC - Toronto Rosedale) also advanced the charge that' Senator Fournier threatened the deputy with being fired unless he helped tht Montreal firm to get the contract. LONG DISTANCE SQUABBLEThe long distance you’re another p r o c e e dings developed within and outside the Commons public accounts committee investigation of the way 116,000,000 was spent to build the government printing bureau at Hull, Que., across the Ottawa River nrom the capital. There have been charges in the committee that the money was overspent.In the committee Friday, Gen. Young said thdt in 1956 Senator Fournier put pressure on him to favor the Montrai firm ol J B. Baillargeon Limited against that of Hurdman Brothers of Ottawa to move equipment from the former printing bureau site in Ot*anN.nilbeR(6-CMtawa to Hull.The Montreal firm had bid $285,000 against $144,553 by the Ottawa concern.Gen. Young did not answer a question as to whether Senator Fournier had threatened to have him fired from his $15,000-a-year job, but he did answer yes to these questions by Mr. Walker:.1. Were you subjected to pres-sure?2. By Senator Fournier?”On the question of whether the senator may have put a pistol to the deputy’s had, Mr.. Walkerasked this:Before that contract was awarded to Hurdman, were you, Gen. Houng, put under the most extreme pressure by Senator Fournier who threatened to have you fired unless you awarded it t» Baillargeon?k\\\
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Saint Johns Daily News
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Sat, Aug 16, 1958
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