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BY SAM LIPSHITZ

The 1 TORONTO
tom Pr ne Machine of Toronto
has an “mier Leslie Frost down,
defeat ie full force to work to
a B. Salsberg, the only
‘ Presentation elected from
4 Dre, Loronto area in the
ing el elections. Smart-
Witcism _Salsberg’s well-placed
Wilene , the Tories are out to
Poneng er Most outspoken op-
Y hook or iby crook.

tt ip’.
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alsberg is Tory target

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“ttory ° 8e given no chance of

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Forest ay neting in the» plush
pking ot Ome of a downtown
"0 was perator recently, $50,-
“Tatiy, lected to iback the Con-
s “8Ndidate, A. Grossman.
hight. ¥ donors were hotel
tay owners, who con-
contribution” as a
fou. the liquor licenses
tion nt by the Tory admin-
Ose present included
big anti-labor manu-
Corporation lawyers.

bli
r ae Telations agency on
fet has been engaged
Work for the Tory
Toronto’s most reac-
erie have assigned
Op py tent j .
time * publicity writers
Salsberg’s -state-
ally screened out of

the

Ate wth end of the riding,

vats ig and anti-Soviet
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“tom am Ced persons,” many of

Try? in ae crime records, are

Q headguany oman's campaign.
& has Rees at Bathurst and

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ne City’s sex-scandal-
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ret Sman‘s main support-
ae Shear, president
Hugy Stitor News Distributors

or the Conser-

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nd “oF tate. The “high com-
78 campaign gathers

Ontario Conservatives desperately want to silence J. B.

Salsberg (above) as their

legislature. :

every noon for discussions of
_strategy in the Hush offices.

Not one of the 17 officers of the
Andrew Tory Association in
man.
Twelve of them live in the ex-
clusive, wealthy districts of the
city, Forest Hill, Rosedale, the
Casa Loma and Baby Point. Nine

St.

the riding is a working

have offices on Bay Street.

Grossman himself lives in a re-
cently-purchased luxurious $50,000

home on Rosemary Road in Forest
Hill, moving up from a modest

home on Hillcrest drive.

There are reports that an elab-
orate Tory machine is being pre-
pared for action on election day,
June 9, trained to use any method

to get votes. 4

First steps were taken during
enumeration when the Tory ma-
chine attempted to usurp the of-
ficial election set-up bby issuing
instructions to every Tory enum-

erator as to how to conduct the

most outspoken opponent

in the

enumeration. Even Ontario’s chief
election officer termed the action
“irregular and improper.”

* * *

One thing however, that these
money-bags from Forest Hill are
not acquainted with, is the con-
stituency of St. Andrew and its
people.

One of the finest speeches ever
made in the Ontario legislature
was Salsberg’s description of the
contituency he represented. He
described it thus: :

“St. Andrew is primarily ia work-
ing-class ‘constituency. The vast
majority, if not all its residents,
are people who earn their liveli-
hood from work, with their hands
or brain. . . . It is primarily an
industrial constituency. As it rises
from the lake, it has railroad shops
and it produces almost everything
from shoe polish to penicillin... .

“Tt is the riding, where ‘the prac-
tical, the mundane and the prosaic
mix and mingle with idealism of

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ed Nations. There you will find’
people from every part of the |
world, who live peacefully side by |
side, and they achieve unity in|
common effort for common objec-|
tives.’*

The last time.a Tory was elected
in St. Andrew was 25 years ago.

* * *

The campaign to re-elect Sals-
berg is undoubtedly ‘the highlight
of the entire election campaign
in Ontario. Hundreds of volunteer
workers devote many days and
nights knocking on doors, visiting
people, raising money, addressing
envelopes and doing all kinds of
other work, ta assure that every
vote will be safeguarded. /

The reports are generally favor-
able. Workingclass men and wo-
men, pensioners, storekeepers in
the Baldwin, Kensington and
Spadina areas, are almost unani-
mous in their support and in their
conviction that Salsberg will be
re-elected. .

Salsberg’s election meetings are
the liveliest in the city. Hundreds
of needletrades workers gather to
hear the man they have known
for many years, since the days he
was leading them in struggles
against sweat-shop conditions, long
hours and low wages. They re-
member. Salsberg as the former
vice-president of the Workers’
Unity League in the 30’s, who
helped to organize dressmakers’
and other garment workers.

The Jewish and Slavic people,
who form a large section of St.
Andrew’s population, are particu-
larly proud of Salsberg as their
spokesman, and of his record in
the legislature. In the Jewish com-
munity, elderly bearded men, deep-
ly religious, speak with great af-
fection of their “Yosl’ (Salsberg’s
Yiddish name), the boy who grew
up in their midst, lived among
them all his life and who has
brought honor to the community
by his integrity and devotion.

Salsberg’s struggle against ra-
cial discrimination has brought
wide acclaim. The Jewish daily
newspaper of Toronto has agreed
that while many talked about
anti-discrimination, it was Sals-

berg, the LPP member, who did

something about it.

“Win with Salsberg in St. An-
drew” is the battle cry of the
hundreds of volunteer workers.
Knowing that the only way the
Tories could possibly win would
be ‘by stealing the election, many
have’ already volunteered to take
the day off work and help in scrut-
ineering on June 9, so that any
attempt to steal votes will be frus-

the highest order, with aims of a
very lofty sort. It is a living Unit-

By giving the U.S. the right to build the Dew line across the Arctic the St. Laurent government has yielded another chunk of Canadian sovereignty.

ONTARIO CONSERVATIVES GAMBLE $50,000 |

Ottawa
yields in
Arctic

The St. Laurent government has
yielded yet another big chunk of
Canadian sovereignty to the Unit-
ed States in turning over to the
U.S. armed forces the building and
manning of a new radar network
across the Canadian Arctic. In
effect, this turns over to U.S. mili-

'tary control a vast area of Cana-

dian territory from Churchill,
Manitoba to the North Pole, from
Ellesmere Island to the Davis
Straits.

The deal, signed in Washington
May 5 and tabled without debate
in the House of Comnions on May
29, gives the U.S. the right to build
the DEW (Distant Early Warning)
line from Alaska across Canada to
Baffinland at an estimated cost ‘of
$300 million.

It will bring many thousands
more U.S. troops into Canada, add-
ing to the estimated 30,000 already
stationed at U.S. military, air, naval
and radar bases in this country.

Canada could take over the
DEW line bases only after “full
consultation with the United

States” and after “reasonable

notice” had been given. U.S.

troops already man many of the

Pinetree line bases nearer the

U.S. border.

The Ottawa action is seen as
parallel with the yielding of sover-
eignty over the St. Lawrence Sea-
way by giving U.S. control of the
International Rapids section.

The DEW line deal is effective
for 10 years and the US. “is auth-
orized to station personnel at the
sites and to operate the DEW sys-
tem in accordance with the prin-
ciples of command in effect from
time to time between the military
authorities of the two countries.”

The treaty was signed without
any debate by the House of Com-
mons and observers here recall a
report in the Sudbury Star last
January that “a concerned. parlia-
ment is getting set to demand that
the government give an account-
ing of the American ‘occupation’
of the Canadian North.” That op-
portunity has never been given.

It is also recalled here that

Norman Smith, associate editor

of the influential Ottawa Journal

and foreign affairs authority,
asked in a_ recent editorial:

“Have we let the Americans take

over so much up in ovr North

that in the event of an emerg-

trated.

ency they'd almost have to move
in on our sovereignty?”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 3, 1955 — PAGE 3