STEWART SMITH Xe been helping themselves to “€ Public treasury.” “Ask Frost where he gets his Millions for his election cam- Ss declared Salsberg, “and 1 tell you why there’s a highway Scandal.” He said the government had evaded a full investigation into ntario Hydro which was now a illion-dolilar corporation. arning that Premier Frost was | anning an early election; Smith “Mounced that the LPP would put Minimum of 50 candidates in the felt — 20 -of them in the °ronto and Yorks constituencies. 5 € put before the convention— re the people of the province—a font platform and the perspec- a of a new farme~-labor govern- ae for Ontario in the defeat of 8 Old-line Tory and Liberal par- - Lesite Morris, LPP national Fganizer, told the convention at driving the Tories out of = oe ~~. = = —_ ot Oh, he can’t really read—he just looks at the pictures!” 00 Over our big selection of Saale Slacks, sports jackets and rts shirts. Take your shoice Hun, for them with THE S FREE CREDIT PLAN. THE: E=HUs “£TO° J. B. SALSBERG, MPP LPP says highways not only scandal in Ontario : See ion. i rj i tracts are The sensational revelation of graft and corruption in Ontario Highway Department con oH the only evidence of the “unscrupulous dishonesty” of the Frost a a hae Stewart Smith, newly- “ected Ontario leader of the Labor-Progressive party charged last weekend. sa In speeches to the fourth LPP provincial convention, Stewart Smith and J. B. Salsberg, MPP, ripped away the “myth of Premier Frost’s integrity” behind which, Smith charged, “friends of the government | duites on December 1. ir the city to begin his new job ing-and chairman J. F. K. English had asked for Marshall’s file. These new aspects of the Mar- shall case were revealed in a step- by-step summary of the case pub- lished in the quarterly Bulletin of the British Columbia Library Association. The article which is regarded as a policy statement of the BCLA executive, calls on pro- fessional librarians to boycott of- fers of jobs at the Victoria Public Library until the ‘board changes its policy. The Bulletin stoutly defends the right of the individual to freedom of political opinion in spite of the fact that he might differ with the McCarthyites. “Although we steadfastly main- Librarians reveal new facts in Marshall case The persecution of John Marshall by Victoria Library Board was under way even before he arrived Information on him had already been passed on to the witch-hunters from the supposedly secret files of the board’s personnel committee. Marshall arrived in Victoria with his wife and family .on November 28 last year to take up his But the day before he arrived, Victoria Library Board had held a closed meet- as bookmobile director. VICTORIA, B.C. tain the right of the individual to vote and to belong to whatever political party he choose and al- though, particularly, we believe that as long as the Canadian goy- ernment recognizes the Labor-Pro- gressive party as-a legal political party no person or organization has any justification for discrimin- ating against members of that party, we must recognize that a great many people do not feel ‘as we do,” the article says. The Bulletin charges that Mar- shall was dismissed simply because he would not denounce the Can- adian Peace Congress and become a stoolpigeon against his former “TORONTO “Ontario and adopting the slogan “the Tories must go,” was now on the agenda of Ontario poli- tics. “Not only do we want to De-Frost Ontario, we have the job of heating up. the political atmosphere and making the LPP a fighting influence for people’s unity.” It would fall to LPP eandidates “to open the eyes of the people to the truth about the Frost govern- ment,” Smith declared in his main report. : _The highways scandal, he con- tinued, would undoubtedly make people think. But, he warned, “we should not fall into the Tory trap of making this the only main issue.’ The government would likely use the swindle revelations as a pretext for the elections and the Liberals under Farquhar Oliver ‘had picked this as the only issue. But the real reason for the call- ing of an election long before it was due (the Tories could stay in office another two years without one) was because they “are read- ing the signs of a new economic crisis, the growth of mass unem- ployment, the drop in farm in- come,” Smith asserted. “The high command of ¢he On- ‘ario Tories in the bank chambers on Bay Street know that a deep- going crisis is developing in the United States. They know that ‘he U.S. is exporting this crisis ‘o Canada to save yom SUR us pay the costs in unem is sie wera living standards and aconomic ruin.” ith painted a glowing picture Pea under policies that “put Canada first.” He called for a bil- lion dollar expansion of the fabu- lously rich Ontario northland which could be opened up to new industrial and agricultural devel- opment—especially a steel indus- try at the Lakehead—that would provide new jobs for tens of thous- ands of people. The Frost government, he said, ‘Jooks upon our Canadian people in the northland as mere back- ‘almost half of the ‘nation’s total work for big U.S. ‘grab-and-run’ corporations.” : “Most of northern Ontario is south of Edmonton,” he pointed out, “yet there is not a city in the north that is even close to the size of Edmonton.” He urged the setting up of a special north- ‘land development department. The Frost government had de- nied the existence of any emerg- ency in the province .which had 250,000 unemployed, he said, re- calling that Premier Frost had turned his back on J. B. Salsberg in the legislature when the LPP member—ihe only real opposition member in the house—had moved a motion for a federal-provincial conference to consider the unem- ployment problem. \ “We must show the people that the highway graft is not an isolat- ed piece of trickery,’ Smith de- clared. “Is it not true that tavern keepers pay a toll on every gallon of beer that goes into Conservative party funds? . “Dishonsty and graft is warp and woof of this kind of govern- ment made up of and surrounded with men who are not interested in the welfare of the people and the nation, but in making maxi- mum profits for themselves.” The LPP, he said, would “show the link between the highways steal and the stealing of our for- ests. The highways scandal is bad; the selling out of Ontario “to the U.S. billionaires is a thousand times worse.” Smith shattéred the “Frost god- father” myth with a stinging at- tack on the government’s sellout of Ontario’s resources to U.S. in- terests. “A continuation of Frost poli- cies,’ he charged, “will mean that in less than 10 years Ontario will be a completely owned and sub- ordinate hinterland of U.S. mono- polies.” These monopolies already own—in a province that produces production—90 percent of our ac- cessible timber and most of our M. J. COLDWELL Coldwell seeks Bill of Rights ¢ OTTAWA Notice of a resolution to define and protect the'rights of Canadians through amendment of the British North American Act was placed on the House of Commons order paper last week by CCF leader M. J. Coldwell. Noting that Stanley Knowles (CCF, Winnipeg North Centre) had already pointed to amendments to the Criminal Code, passed by the House of Commons and now before the Senate, “which might peril civil liberties,” Coldwell said: “It is therefore urgent that we have a companion measure, a bill of rights, setting out in position terms and liberties of Canadian citizens.” CBC to dramatize Tolpuddle Martyrs The historic struggle of the Martyrs of Tolpuddle to improve working conditions in England. in the 19th century will be dramatiz- ed on CBC this coming Wednesday, May 26, at 8:15 p.m. The broadcast is an adaptation by Margot Lassner and John Cart- er of the play Six Men of Dorset, by Miles Malleson and H. Brooks. Directly before the play there will be a 15-minute talk on Dorset by Arthur Bush, British broadcast- er; and directly following it, Fred Landon will speak about five of the six men of Dorset who later emi- grated to Canada, settling in the i}frank record of his experience associates after the fashion of Whittaker Chamber.. “When once the self-righteous take after you,’ the writer ob- serves .bitterly, “it isn’t what you }are that counts, it’s what they think you may have been. And as far as forgiveness and repentence are concerned, they allow them only to those who can pull a reel or two of microfilm out of the pulp of a Maryland pumpkin.” _The Bulletin calls the board’s dismissal of Marshal without giv- ing any official reason “Yegally cor- rect” but “morally indefensible.” It‘ says that the board’s failure to publically back up its smear charges was due to fear of a libel suit by Marshall. The article sums up as follows; “But the significant facts,of the case are these: (1) a man has been dismissed from his position for no stated reason, but (2) he has been accused, although never directly enough that a direct. denial can help him, of suspect political as- sociations, and (3) because of the dismissal and the accusation -his future professional career has been jeopardized.” The outline -of the sequence of events in the Marshall case which the Bulletin contains throws some interesting sidelights on the case. It shows that Marshall was not at all anxious in the first place to leave the Fraser Valley Union Library in Abbotsford. He twice refused the position in Victoria and only accepted after repeated pleas from Victoria Library. When he finally made formal application he gave a full and from 1938 to 1953. It was only after the Victoria Library Board’s personnel committee had Marsh- all’s employment record in its hand that the witch-hunt began. _ This personnel committee con- sisted of Mrs. Doris Lougheed, who recently admitted she had been re- sponsible for inviting Senator Joe McCarthy to Victoria, and J. K. F. English, at that time board chair- man and senior school inspector for the Victoria District. English has subsequently become assistant deputy minister of the department of education. The point at which the RCMP entered the affair is a closely guarded secret. It is a well-known fact, despite official denials, that those “in the know” can get help from the RCMP in their witch- hunting ventures. : A‘ good example of RCMP ef- forts. in this field can be seen in release of anti-communist state- ments timed to appear around elee- tion day. In fact, the so-called “sanctity” of RCMP files is just another of the fictions about the alleged neutrality of this political police. : It has been suggested that the contact in the Marshall case may have been Alderman Brent ,Mur- doch, a former police: commissioner and army officer. In this connec- tion, the ‘Bulletin points out that Murdoch, then not a member of the board, was present at the sec- ret meeting on January 23 when Marshall was dismissed. ' Murdoch was also the- person who, under a cloak of anonymity, leaked the news of Marshall’s dis- missal to the press even before Marshall himself was. notified. In addition, Murdoch’s “leak” to the press started the smear campaign by giving Marshall’s past associa- mineral resources.” 45 EAST HASTINGS woods laborers, doing the dirty London, Ontario, area. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 21, 1954 — PAGE 7 tions as the reason for his ouster.