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The Elections In Ontario

EACTION in Ontario is making a de-

termined bid to be the next government of

the province after the provineial elections

which are to be held early in October of this
year.

Premier Hepburn by his going over com-
pletely to the big interests and driving out of
his government the two progressive ministers,
Croll and Roebuck, has brought about demoral-
ization in the Liberal party which the Tories,
led by Rowe, are talang full advantage of.

The mass of the voters who turned out the
Henry-Price government of Tory reaction ex-
pected much from Hepburn, only to be dis-
appointed. He began auspiciously cleaning out
a horde of parasitic heelers which had been
fastened onto the backs of the people by the
eorrupt Henry regime. Be also cancelled
some graft contracts, which the great utility
corporations secured from the Tory govern-
ment.

But millionaire masters of corruption got
to him and brought him over openly to re-
action. He took sides in the Oshawa strike
against the workers and raved about the ClO
as a “foreion” organization, forgetting that
General Motors, against which Canadian
workers were strilang, is a Morgan-du Pont
corporation.

With his hold over the Liberals weakening
he made overtures to the provincial Tory lead-
er for a coalition of reaction to oppose trade
ynion organization and further shackle the
people in the interest of Ineo, the great gold
mining companies, and other big interests. His
wooing was rejected, the Tories feeling that
they can win the election without Hepburn
who if they united with him, would only prove
a nuisance and a liability later on.

And the danger is that they may win, 2
danger which the existence of a broad armer-
Labor party would have headed oft.

Main responsibility for the divided state of
progressives in Ontario rests upon the CCE
leadership which until recently blocked all

EDITORIAL FEATURES

efforts to weld working class parties, trade
nnions and progressire groups into a solid front
against reaction.

Only recently have the trade unions launched
a Labor Representation Association, fear of the
erowth of which may have had something to
do with the decision for an early election.

The election of a Tory government in On-
tario would be disastrous to the common peo-
ple, for aside from its reactionary rule, 1
would give an impetus to reaction all over
the Dominion.

It is to be hoped that in the short time left
before the election the forces of progress will be
able to effect unity to a degree that wall turn
the Tory party and its renegade Liberals baelk
as Bennett was turmed back im 1935.

Vancouvers Rat Farm

RS have Jong been a pest in Vancouver.
We are not referring to the two-lezeed

variety that are sent into labor organizations ©

as spies and proyocateurs, but to the four-legged
ones which, if not so revolting or unprincipled
as the human rats, are also carriers of diseases
of other lands.

Vancouver distinguishes itself by providing
accommodation for the rodents; and right in
the heart of the city at that. The civic authori-
ties also see to it that they are fed and not dis-
turbed too much, which is more than they will
do for single unemployed workers or ex-service-
men.

False Creelc flats swarm with these creatures,
and the city makes no effort to exterminate
them, although they are a menace to the health
of the entire community. The same old story
is trotted out——no0 money-

Workers are accustomed to hear capitalist
stooges put forward the “no money” excuse
when they are asked to do something, but they
quite properly resent worlkang class represen-
tations resorting to the same strategem as is
being done constantly by Alderman Pettipiece
and a few evenings ago by Alderman Hurry in
the meeting called to demand the cleaning up
of the rat-intested area.

Are we to expect that when an epidemic
comes from the miasmatic False Creek flats
the people of Vancouver will be told there is no
money to stamp it out?

Giving expression to defeatism and capitu-
lation before difficulties raised by the watch-
dogs of the coupon clippers is not what working
class representatives are sent into city eouncils
for, but to fight against all such obstacles and
surmount them.

The Trade Union Bill

LL who believe in workers have the legal
rieht to organize into unions of their own
choosing should support the campaign to secure
names to the petition to the provineial govern-

ment to enact into Jaw the proposed Trade -

Union Bill which will be submitted to the les-
islature at its first session.

_ Already two province, Alberta and Nova
Scotia, have such a law, and British Columbia
must have a similar one, for in this proyince
the workers are cursed with closed camps,
company towns, discrimination and intimida-
tion by the bosses if they attempt to organize.

Moreover, there is a determined effort being
made by the big employers to destroy the trade
unions now in existence. And there is no lay
to prevent them.

The campaign for the Trade Union Bill
should haye the enthusiastic and wholehearted
support of the Trades and Labor Councils and
every trade union in the province, as well as
every person who values civil and democratic
rights for the workers.

Defending Traitors

FTER a brief period of quiescence the

Pederationist is sniping at the Spanish
people again. It is not enough, apparently,
that Republican Spain should be beset by her
own reactionaries, fighting the battle of the
world’s demoerscies against the armed forces
of international Fascism while these same de-
moeries pursue their hypocritical, cynical
policies. It is not enough for the Mederatiomst,
which must needs add its bit to the lies and dis-
tortions printed in the capitalist press.

“Where Is the Leader of Spain Workers’
Party 2” the Pederationist wants to know. The
Federationist is not overly concerned with the
fate of the Spanish people, for it publishes
little of their struggle, but it is concerned with
the fate of Andres Nin, notorious leader of the
POUM and certain “foreign Socialists.”

Accordingly, it reprints the demands of the
TLP parliamentary members for the release of
the POUM leaders and other Trotskyists.

Who are these individuals, these leaders of
the “Workers’ party,” for whom the [LP and
the Federationist show such touching concern ?

Far from beine supporters of the Spanish
People’s Front government, they have been its
most traitorous enemies. They have sabotaged
every effort toward unity, stolen arms and

spread their propaganda as allies of the Fas-
cist “Fifth Column.” Their leader, Andres
Nin. ousted from the government in Cata-
lonia, was one of the chief instigators of the
abortive putsch inspired by the POUM in Bar-
celona. And the only result of this putsch, as
we pointed out at the time, was to complicate
the already difficult situation in Catalonia, to
hamper attaining of complete unity between
Republicant, Socialists, Communists and An-
archists and to further delay Catalonia’s entry
into the field as a powerful and probably de-
cisive factor in the war. Because of this putsch
what diversion from the hard-pressed northern
provinces Catalonia could have created by at-
tackine the Fascists on the Aragon front was
not undertaken and Bilbao fell.

These “foreign Socialists” were [LP vol-
unteers for the International Brigade whose
arrival in Barcelona coincided with the POUM
putsch. They came to Spain to fight for the
people. Instead, they joined in this Trotskyist
effort to aid the Fascists. Surely they do not
expect to be accorded the enthusiastic welcome
given to the gallant anti-FPascists trom all over
the world whose blood has draimed out on
Spain’s battlefields of liberty.

Nin and others who took part in the putsch
were arrested after by the People’s Front gov-
ernment, whose patience they had mistaken
for weakness. They are now awaiting trial
with others who have betrayed the republic, if
indeed, they have not already been tried. Their
euilt is written before the world im the blood
of the workers of Spain whom they misled and
betrayed. Spain, fighting for liberty and peace,
cannot afford to be more lenient with traitors
than the Soviet Union.

But, if we remember rightly, defending Trot-
skyist traitors, first in the USSR and now in
Spain, is a favorite pastime with the Federa-
Hionist. Over its columns lies the influence of
the Trotskyist traitors to the people’s cause aa
Canada.

Said Prime Minister Chamberlain of Great
Britain recently: “I myself am convinced that
re-establishment of our strength in arms will
in time convince the world of the wisdom of
settling its differences by peaceful discussions.”

You surely can’t accuse the British of being
consistent.

Now that war has been ruled out of the
diplomatic laneuage, weve an idea that that’s
what’s going on in Spain and China.

Just lack of selfrestraint.

Canadian Progressives Must Stand by Alberta -

By LESLIE MORRIS

VENTS in Alberta are

moying rapidly to a
point at which a re-align-
ment of forces will broaden
the basis for a popular front
movement. Up to now, and
since 1921, when the Liberals were
defeated and the UPA elected, the
progressive movement in Alberta
has been characterized by an al-
most absence of effective partici-
pation by the labor movement,

Alberta’s population in the main
js middle class in character. The
absence of a decisive and unifying
jabor movement has permitted the
great middle class revolts against
high interest rates and the role
of finance capital to disintegrate
after a point. This was 50 with
the United Farmers of Alberta.

That great movement of “farm-
er democracy” was frittered away
pecause of the strangehold ob-
tained by tricksters and politicians
of the Brownlee type- When the
DEA government was discredited
the people did not go back to the
Liberals. They saw in Aberhbart
and the special middle-class ap-
peal of Social Credit a “new sSys-
tem.”

There is no denying the fact
that the Social Credit movement
embraced the majority of Alber-
tans. Apart from Social Credit
middle-class illusions about a new
system through the government
monopoly of credit, the fact re-
mains that in its political virility
and mass popularity there has
been nothing in Ganada so far to
equal the Social Gredit wave. From
the beginning the government was
hampered and divided by conflict-
jing viewpoints and interests.

This was not surprising. The
government was not representa-
five of a unified class. It repre-
sented the anti-big capital de-
mands of farmers, small business
men and professionals, in which
¢he special and jeading class ni-
terests of the workers found little
expression. Without effective lead-
ership, and jockeying between the
alternatives of determined oppo-
sition to the banks and big capital
and a deep respect for private
porperty, while paying little at-
tention to the real needs of the
people or practical legislation, the
government entered into a crisis
fast winter when the insurgents
threatened to bring down Aber-
hart.

*

OWEVER, the purden of debt

and high interest rates con-
tinued to weigh down the majority
of the people. It came to pass this
spring and summer that this popu-
jar movement for jncreased pur-
chasing power and release from
the vise of the credit banking mon-
opoly pushed through the crippling
jnhibitions and compelled Aber-
hart to act.

This he did, not jndependently
on the basis of Alberta’s needs,
put along the line of strategy de-
seribed by Major Douglas in his
book ‘‘The Alberta Experiment.”

All the formulas advanced by
Douglas were used by Aberhart
and the Social ~ Credit Board
(which is the real government at
the moment) to put forward the
banking legislation and to accom—
pany this with a great mass cam-
paign for “unity on the results.”

The results in this case, of
course, are $25 a month basic
dividend and a lower cost of liv-
ing. These two demands, while
not formulated as the labor move-
ment would want, that is, in the
shape of a demand for higher
wages and shorter hours, and
other measures, nevertheless are
effective as a rallying centre for
wide masses of people.

As the Communist Party has
pointed out, the government would
have been far better advised to
proceed along the lines of using
what powers it has now under the
BNA Act to legislate an eight-
hour day, crop insurance, a mini-
mum wage for all workers.

Instead of this, the government,
in record time and in a very stub-
born fashion passed the eleven
acts, three of which were chosen
by the Federal government to
step on Alberta. The Alberta gov-
ernment has placed itself in a
weak strategic position in that its
Jegislation is not of a type which
can rally great masses of people.
The issue is not now whether or
not the bankers shall be licensed,
but whether or not Alberta has
the power under the BNA Act to
pass progressive legislation.

It would have been far better
had the government proceeded to
do those things it had the legal
power to do and to make its fight
not around the financing of banks
and vague schemes to control Al-
pberta’s credit, but around prac-
tical legislation along the lines the
masses require.

OWEVER, the Communists

must deal with the situation
as it exists. The following are
the peculiarities of the present
situation in the province: (4)
Poverty and debt burdens form
the ground work for great mass
movements.

(2) These mass movements as
yet are bottled up within Social
Credit formula.

(3) The Social Credit govern-
ment is very sensitive to the
masses and easily influenced by
them. It is not an orthodox capi-
talist government, neither is it
a people’s government, but a2
peculiar set-up which gives the
possibility through a great
measure ef democracy and con-
tact with the masses, for the
labor movement and progress-
ives to influence its course.

(4) The crisis brought about
by the federal government in
addition to greatly weakening
the Liberal Party and its chanc-
es of winning 2 majority in Al-
berta, has raised as the central
issue before the people, the right
of Alberta to work out its own
destiny irrespective of the de-
cisions of the Big hots in the
east. This is a class issue, al

though masked by the whole
system of middle-class illusions
and impractical notions.

The Communist Party is taking
a very positive attitude to this
situation. It supports “unity for
the results,” that is, for cash
ponuses to the people and a lower
cost of living, while at the same
fime advancing its independent
proposals as to how this can be
done and sharply criticizing the
illusory, non-practical manner in
which the government places the
question.

To take any other position
would be to stand in the camp
of those great and powerful and
unscrupulous interests who are
uniting for the purpose of dis-
crediting and throwing out the
Aberhart government in order to
bring back an executive commit-
tee of the bondholders.

The Social Gredit leadership is
now engaged in an unprecedented
mass campaign of meetings in
which all the MiA’s and the
premier himself are actively par-
ticipating.

Regardless of many unsatisfac-
tory features, the theme song of
this campaign is one which can
be supported by all progressives,
and that is that the common peo-
ple of Alberta must not be sacri-
ficed to the interests of the Big
Shots.

The Communist Party has pro-
posed to thé Social Credit leader-
ship and to the people of Alberta
that a general election be called
immediately. Premier Aberhart
has publicly replied to this sug-
gestion by saying that an election
is not needed at this moment. His
vision is affected, of course, by
powerful parliamentary consider-
ations.

In order to deepen the mass
movements, to bring it to include
the labor movement and farm
movement, to influence the people
directly in a huge political demon-—
stration against the reactionary
and undemocratic ruling, to €x
tend the popular movement in
Alberta to Manitoba and Saskat-
chewan whose problems are simi-
Jar, and to bring back into the
teeth of the Big Shots the determ-
jnation of the people of this prov-
ince to fo ahead to solve their
social and economic problems—a
general election is necessary.

Indications are that the Social
Credit leaders will call an election
after taking “another shot at the
banks.’ This is very dangerous.
The reactionaries are busy- There
can be no doubt that provocateurs
and mercenaries are active amons
the people.

The RCMP is increasing its
forces and preparing for some
provocation. The Chief Inspec-
tor of the RCMP in charge of
“yadical’ is present at Edmon-
ton for no good purpose. The
leaders of the Social Gredit
Board have admitted to the
Communist. Party representa-
tives that they cannot trust the
local police magistrates and
crown attorneys to stand with
the government and against fi-

nance capital.

While the government has cor-
rectly and laudably passed a mor-
atorium to enable money owing
to the east to stay in the province
to feed the people, it is taking no
measures to prevent provocation
from the side of big capital and
its agents.

*

Bo of these considera-
tions a general election is
necessary. There is one more par-
amount reason. The present legis-
Jature needs representatives of
trade unions, GCF and the Com-
munist party in order to bring out
the underlying class issues in-
volved in the present fight, which
at the moment takes on a constitu-
tionally critical character.

There is every reason to believe
that because ofithe splendid unity
being forged in the localities be-
tween all sections of the progress-
ive movement, in a general elec-
tion at this time the working class
and the non-Social Gredit middle-
class people can win representa-
tion, and the brass-faced repre-
sentatives of the banks and the

big corporations in the legislature
can be thrown out of office.

Hundreds of meetings are being
hela throughout the province at
the present time at which thou-
sands of workers and farmers are
demanding ‘Hands off Alberta.”
Politics is a subject for discussion
by every Alberta person. In no
other province has there ever been
seen since the days of the Little
Rebel such great political activity
among the masses.

If Social Credit has done noth-
ing else it certainly has brought
politics to the front door of every
Alberta home. This is the great
positive feature of the present
situation and one which bodes
well for the rapid development
in this province of a popular
front, and which raises as 4
practical and not far distant
possibility the setting-up in this
province of a people’s front gov-
ernment.

Tt is necessary that the rest of
Ganada take up Alberta’s cause.
In a limited sense, Alberta is Can-
ada’s Spain, and issues that are
now being fought out here (al-

Path of Inglory

Bes® a disgruntled old man
who dia not know how to
fight Spain’s true enemies when
he was in power, former premier
Largo Caballero seems to have
changed into one who knows how
to fight Spain’s true friends now
that he is out of power. The news
from Spain is very disquieting in
this respect. Caballero has taken
to giving interviews to foreign
papers which attack both the mili-
tary and political policy of the
present government, headed by
his successor, Negrin. He may
even tour the chief cities in Loyal-
ist territory to denounce everybody

but his small clique. He has be-
come a positive menace to the uni-
fication of the Spanish Socialist
and Communist parties.

A French newspaper quoted
Cabellero aS having said in an in-
terview: “I cannot approve of the
erroneous military policy or the
discriminatory Ssacial attitude” or
the present government in Spain.
@f couse not. It would be too bad
for Spain if the present sovern=
ment did not improve on Largo
Cabellero’s military policy or his
attitude towards the Trotskyites
and Anarchist mncontrollables.

Yet this dispraise from the man
who almost brought Spain to the

brink of defeat is sheer self-elori-
fication. In power, Cabellero tried
to be a One-man government. He

insisted on being both premier and
minister of war, though he had
neither training nor aptitude for
the latter job. Yet he refused to
give up or to permit experienced
commanders to settle concrete war
stratesy, despite a number of ter-
rible defeats. He viewed everything
with himself as the focal point.

Wow that he is no longer top man,
he is descending at a fast pace in-
to the swamp of sheer opposition-
ism.

Cabellero as war minister, re-
sisted for many months the Com-
munist demand for the fortification
of Madrid. The Communists were
“jjarmists.” But when the rebels
were within sight of the capital,
the Caballero government ignom-
iniously fled, and the Communists
practically took charge of the city
in a desperate attempt to Save it.
As war minister, Cabellero cate-
gorically refused to purse the
army of rebels and traitors, even
in the high command. It is now
no secret that Malaga fell owing
to disloyal commanders whose
names were known to everybody.
Even after its fall, Cabellero pro-
tected traitors like Generals Asen-
Sio and Gabrera. Imstead, he cen-
tered his fire on heroes like Gen-
eral Miaja, the savior of Madrid,
whom Cabellero viewed as a rival.

Soon his hatred of the Commu-
nists became a veritable obsession.
The Communists would not permit
his actions to so unchallenged.
Any enemy of Communism, there-
fore, became his ally. This included
the Anarchists, whom Caballero is
now wooing, and even the Trotsky-
ites. But the fall of Malaga was
the breaking point. Beyond this,
fhe poeple of Spain would stand no
more.

We may hear more from this
man who fourht Miaja rather than
Franco. It is our shame that Cabal-
lero should find an ally in Norman
Thomas who has also resorted to
the capitalist press for wider cir-
culation of attacks against the
Spanish soyernment.

though as yet in a peculiar, mid-
dle-class way) are those which
concern the vast majority of Ca-
nadians from the Pacific to the
Atlantic.

It should be the duty of every
reader of this paper to explain the
issues involved in Alberta at this
time and to bring to his or her or-
Ganization an understanding of
what is going on so that it will
protest most vigorously to the
federal government against the
high-handed action of the Big
Shots and their agents in Ottawa.

HE crossroads about which the
Gommunists have spoken so
often here has been reached.
Sharp turns of events can be ex-
pected in this rich and fruitful
province, in which the people are
cursed by poverty and insecurity.
It is a scandal that the official
spokesmen of the CCE take the
attitude: “The people of Alberta
have made their bed; let them lie
in it.” William Irvine and Elmer
Roper are hardly to be distinguish-
ed at this moment from the Lib-
erals and Tories and local Babbitts
who cheered and chortled when
MacKenzie King’s decision was
made known.

The CGF spokesmen are out of
step with their own membership.
CCF’ers everywhere are refusing
to assume this cynical and unfor-
givable attitude of their leaders.
While Irvine and Roper are com-
mitted to the idea of unity, this
committment can serve no longer
as a pose behind which serves to
hide a defeatist, splitting, cynical
attitude to a mass movement
which does not take on pure CCF
forms but which contains all the
ingredients for a popular front in
this province. :

The Communist party is at this
moment doing all it can to build
up the labor movement in order
that the present ferment in the
province can obtain assistance of
the working class. The unions are
much too passive and remain
aloof from these great political
happenings. This might cease.

Tn addition to going ahead more
rapidly organizing the unorgan—
ized workers, the trades councils,
and local unions and the Alberta
Federation of Labor must make
their position Known, must stand
with the government and the peo-
ple on this issue of democracy
versus the Big Shots.

The breakaway from the old-
line parties which has occurred
in Alberta alone among the nine
provinces and which commenced
in 1921, has still to find its correct
historical form. This form is the
people’s front which, in Alberta,
now means an alliance between
the working class parties, trade
unions and the masses of the
Social Credit people for legisla-
tion which will enable the fruits
and resources of this Elderado to
pe accessible to the 740,000 people
who live here.

Democrats in all parts of Can-
ada should stand by Alberta in
this hour of crisis.

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KORO
By
OL’ BILL
Another professor jus—
s
‘Truth’  tifies Marx and Eng-
and els, both of whom had
“Truth? 2 Very low estimate of
. the value of these
graduated flunkeys who use

their sham idealism to keep the
people in ignorance” (Mietzgen)-.

Professor England of the U.B.C.
does not like Lenin’s philosophy or
the system that is based on it
which, he claimed in an address
at a banquet of figure-jugglers
last week, has brought the world
face-to-face “with a picture of
mass assassinations, sabotage,
Moscow trials, and general lack
of confidence.”

This deplorable situation, Aac-
cording to the poll-parroet profes-
sor, follows from the cynical con-
cept of Lenin who says, ‘‘Truth is
bourgeois virtue.” If Lenin had
said “Truth is not a bourgeois vir-
tue,’ Professor England might
have understood him better — if
he wanted to—because Lenin and
the Professor are speaking of two
different kinds of “truth.”

The jingoistic laureate of im-
perialism is the Professor's phil-
osophic mentor apparently, for he
quotes Kipling to prove that the
old-fashioned truths will always
survive and that we must return
to the first principles of right and
wrong learned in primitive times,
Unchangeable, everlasting, un-
challengable, abstract truth. Out
of the same litter as abstract mMor-
ality and abstract justice.

When Lenin says, “Truth is @
bourgeois virtue,” he speaks of the
relative form of ‘‘truth” which fits
into the bourgeois order of soci-
ety, which was not “truth’ in
feudal society and also will be a
conditional “truth” in future sco-
ciety.

It is the “truth” expressed by

the well-fed, warmly-clad ang
booted bourgeois when he an-—
nounces in a 20 below tempera-
ture that it is ‘fine bracing weath=
er.’ This “truth” for him is not
‘tyuth” for the child of an un-
employed worker who has living
on potatoes for a week, is clad in
rags and has his feet sticking out
of his boots—if he has boots, con-
fronted with the same tempera—
ture. :
“Tt is impossible,” says the Pro—
fessor, ‘‘to carry on a Socialist or-
der without integrity’; but he
fails to take note that the Soviet
Union, Leninist to the core, not
founded on bourgeois “truth,” is
the only country in Hurope that
pays its debts and the only one
among the leading powers that
adheres to its committments to
the League of Nations.

Biologists talk of
he Blach.oavism,” animatl
ag. breeders call the

same thing “a throw-back.” This
reversion to type is now showing
in politics and its name is Pas-
cism.

The headsman’s axe and block
and the bonfire were only 2 be
ginning with the Fascists. They
have now reverted a couple of
hundred years and blossomed as
full-fledged pirates. Ships flying
the flags of many peaceful nations
have been sunk without cause ip
the Dardanelles, in the Hastern
Mediterranean, and around the
Spanish coast by the forces of
Mussolini and Hitler and now we
Jearn that the Japanese Fascists
have entered the pirate business,
too. Ships loaded with lumber
eargoes, from Vancouver for Chi-
na, have been captured at sea and
taken into Japanese ports,

The threat of piracy has become
so general that the British govern=
ment plans to open schools in Lon-=-
don, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff,
Southampton, Hull and the Tyne
for training her merchant seamen
in gunnery and the general princi-
ples of trade protection, signal-
ling, anti-submarine work and
anti-gas measures.

-“Guns have been accumulated
for some time. Gun mountings
are being prepared and officers
of the merchant navy are to go
into training immediately,” 4ac-
cording to Gaptain Euan Wallace,
Parliamentary Secretary for Over-
seas Trade.

The worst pirates the British
seamen have to fear, however, are
the pirates in their own govern-

- ment, the allies, friends and sup-

porters of the Italian, German
and Japanese pirates with whom
they are linked in spirit and ip
deed.

*

The world-be dic-
tator of Ontario,
Chief Mitchell Hepburn,
s> made a tour of the

Hepburn northern part of
that province recently. At one
place a pow-wow was held with
the Indians and a lot of pie-crust
promises made to them.

Following the example of many
other political tricksters, like Ger=
ry McGeer, Hepburn had himself
adopted into the tribe and re
christened with an Indian name.
In return for the honor the In-
dians had conferred on him, he
invited the chief to visit Toronto
at the Ontario government's ex
pense (just as he was visiting
northern Ontario); to_be shown
around and see all the sights
(mostly churches in Toronto).

The chief accepted the invita-
tion, stating that he had always
desired to see the big town but
had never yet been able to do so,
This made the dictator inquisitive,
and he asked the chief what he
was desired to see in Toronto;
and maybe Mitchell Hepburn was
pleased when the chief replied
“Tim Buck”!

“Heap Big

JT cirbea ion rietee oneal
oa

Fast reeeermme eos baal eS eer ne
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