Unity theme of Toronto’s Labor Day parade Unity was in the air as some 6,000 CIO and AFL-affiliatead workers marched in Toronto’s Labor Day parade. The CCL Council float (right) struck ES] | iD) q ~ulf Necks ee eu ju AES: Ha Is geen a ad SS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1955” Continued from page I POLICE once during her’ testimony did she turn full face to the spec- tators. Lefeaux asked Tupper not to reveal her present married mame and address because, he said, “Her position is a painful one.’ Tupper ruled that if circumstances. necessitated dis- closure of her married name, he would ask that it be given and said he would accept it in writing. Miss Douglas, under ques- tioning by commission counsel Victor Dryer, testified that she had first met Mulligan on Sep- tember 6, 1944 — “It happened to be my birthday” — and had kept company with him until the fall of 1949. During that time Mulligan visited her house at 3910 East Georgia about twice a week, sométimes in the daytime, sometimes in the evening. She said he came in a police car. Once, on a Sunday morning in 1945, she went with Mulli- gan in a police car to Abbots- ford and there they met Jack Whelan, former detective who is one of the chief figures in the présent inquiry. On another occasion in 1948, ‘she went with Mulligan to a police convention in Montreal. Miss Douglas, telling of the ‘gifts she received from Mulli- gan, said she got the impres- sion that Mulligan was receiv- ing money above his salary. * She enumerated the gifts, in addition to various sums of money, as two pieces of unset jade, a diamond ring, a zircon ring and a Chinese chest. ‘J was given an amount of money to buy a piece of pro- perty, which I did,” she said, stating that she bought “just a small place” near Langley with the money — $2,200 — in 1949.. The place was put in her own name on the under- standing that it was to be for Mulligan. She sold the place in 1952, after her intimate friendship with Mulligan end- PROBE ed, and he told her to keep the $500 she received from the sale. In direct and cross-examin- ation Miss Douglas said Mulli- gan had told her about his police work and spoken of il- legal activities. “tT only remember names were mentioned. I don’t know just what the names were con- nected with,” she said, adding, “I had the impression gamb- ling was going on. “JT guess there was money being paid out, but I don’t know to whom.” Questioned further, she said that Mulligan “knew about it” because he had been discussing -it with her. She gave Snider and Ban- croft as the names Mulligan had mentioned. Asked whether she knew of any payoffs to Mulligan, she replied, “I heard sums men- tioned — $590.” She linked Snider’s name with this pzy- off, but could not remember whether the sum represented: one or several payments. Under cross-examination she amplified: these statements by saying .that in asthe last 18 months of their relationship she had the impression that Mulligan was spending ranie money’ than he was making and that the extra money came from Bruce Snider. She also had the impression that the $2,200 Mulligan gave her to buy the house at Langley “came from a third party.” Cross - examined by Jay Gould, former Liberal MLA for Burrard, who has replaced T. G. Norris as Mulligan’s coun- sel, Miss Douglas said she had attended two meetings in Ho- tel Vancouver before : giving her testimony. The first was with City Prosecutor McMor- ran, W. W. Lefeaux and a Mr. Bowman. The second was with McMorran, Lefeaux _ and RCMP Inspector M. J. Y. Dube. largest labor centres, gress of Canada and the the’ theme of the coming merger of Canada’s two the Trades and Labor Con- Canadian Congress -of gress. An AFL banner called 1955 “Unity va ‘A detachment of the De Haviland strikers and ha . UAW marchers keynoted the current pattle 1° Labor, into one centre, the Canadian Labor Con- . wages and the guaranteed annual wage. ; Lillooet byelection no SC endorsation By NIGEL MORGAN’ a : ; ee : ing The Socred victory in Lillooet in last Monday's byelection is certainly anytime but a public endorsation of the Bennett government's resources policy. Premier a Al is too astute a politician to seriously take itas such. He knows only too well that issues played a large part in the electorate’s choice. the Socred giveaway to U.S. With all the forces the gov- ernment was able to throw into the byelection, and all the lav- ish promises Bennett and his cabinet members made, the So- cred candidate was only elect- ed by a minority vote. The fact that the CCF vote was cut in half is attributable to the failure of the right-wing leadership of that party to pro- vide any genuine alternative to the Socred give-away policy. It was the inevitable outcome of their virtually abdicating the opposition to the Liberals at the last session of the legis- lature. Growing discontent with the tweedledee, tweedledum game of the Liberals and Socreds is shown in the 16 percent drop in the number of voters going to the polls. Who could be expected to take seriously the Liberal par- ty’s denunciation of forest man- agement licenses when it was the Liberal‘party which intro- duced the policy? So long as Gibson’s party was handing out the gravy the public heard no complaint from. him about forest management licenses, and if Gordon were still on the gravy train, it is doubtful if he would have pre- cipitated the events which have cost him — and the Liberal party — his seat in the House. Lillooet has brought to the fore the crisis of policy and leadership besetting the pro- vincial Liberal organization. The anti-monopoly demagogy of the Laing-Gibson leadership has shocked many of the Lib- eral’s big business backers, while their anti-monopoly dis- guise has done little to restore public confidence provincially in the traditional party of mon- - opoly capital. Lillooet points up the need for a genuine, principled oppo- - sition to the Socred’s give-away serves to underscore the need —e The real question of resource trusts — was obscured by all four contesting parties: ; : at for the Labor-Progressive I up and all progressives t0 Be eDe their efforts to unite ©.” and olies ple against the monoP their political spokesme™ of the province’s resources. Nothing short of united action can halt their betrayal of the people’s _ interests. Lillooet Lillooet byelection result Dan Tobinson, Social Credit. J. Gordon Gibson, Liberal ...............--- esedavaenesi