The outbreaks at

MONTREAL
Bordeaux

_ Yail.May 3 have spotlighted once

asain the crimes of the Duplessis

- Administration. On May 15, two
: Weeks after the four-hour demon-
_ Stration protesting, among other

things, bad food, two» prisoners
died of aystentery, More than 100
Were attacked by the disease
Which is generally caused by eat-

_ 8 poor or spoiled food.

: imp,

Re Here is
Ae fade
. hy. qd

i The protest forced into the
ight of day: these conditions:

® Close to 1,000 inmates, al-

‘Most two-thirds of all the people

“0 the jail, are not convicts at all,
in msane persons who should be

a mental hospital. Not only
ae incarceration in a jail pre-
Zane atl possibility of recovery
aa hese persons, but their cries
a e life intolerable for prison-
='S in the blocks adjacent to those

i eee
2 Which the mental cases are
ept,

.® The great majority of the’

ed 600 prisoners are youth in
rH teens or early twenties—
fe. of low wages, unemploy-
meee lack of recreational
ae organized vice andi cir-
eral 10n,. of U.S, crime comics tol-
€d by the Duplessis regime.
Bice The Duplessis regime con-
ie S to maintain institutions
& a upon the medieval idea of
Punishment,” sadistically design-
4 to cause ‘as much suffering
x DOssible,
of a As much as three-quarters
‘ e food purchased for use in
ed feo ration never finds its
is Nto the trays of the inmates.
. resold to outsiders to fatten
bockets of prison officials.
Lowey cells are rat-infested,

| Prisoners’ action at Bordeaux jail
spotlight crimes of Duplessis gov't

Protesting against medieval conditions in Bordeaux jail, 600 prisoners set fire to the chapel and a cell block on May 3.

@ Cells in the outer extremi-
ties of each block are never ade-
quately heated in winter.

e A flourishing racket prevails
inside, whereby prisoners with
money can secure anything they
want in the way of food, liquor

or other comforts, while those

without money never get enough
sage, told newspapermen the out-
to eat.

® Corruption is encouraged by
the starvation wage of $1,700 a

year paid to the guards, for a six-
day week with one meal a day.
In the face of these facts, the

governor of the jail, Zenon Le-
sage, told newspapermen the out-
breaks were a prank, ““You know
how it is—you’ve been-to school,”
he declared. Duplessis’ comment
vas ‘Prisons are not luxury ho-

tels.”
Both of thése statements are of
a piece with his declaration that

he “accepted” the fall of the Du-
plessis bridge at Three Rivers ‘‘as
a good Christian.”

The remarks underline the wide

and deepening gulf between the

Duplessis regime and the people
of Quebec on the eve of the pro-
vincial elections.

Quebec paper says Duplessis

trying to turn province into

‘U.S. colony or protectorate’

MONTREAL

U.S. investors pouring money into Quebec “have no desire to build Quebec, but to buy it,’’ column-

i
<u Alb an

Flamand charged in a biting article in the French language paper Le Canada, May 15. “Each

i :
a our territory sgld or rented to Americans is no longer a part of our heritage,” he declared. ‘We
—~'e placed upon it a heavy and costly mortgage—upon our autonomy and freedom.’’

te
.'€@ and Industry Paul Beau-

aoe told the Junior Chamber
ital merce May 8 that U.S. cap-

S making Canada ‘‘the most
rtant economy in the world.”
2 replied Flamand in Le Can-
,.. Uheir whole electoral fund

Sia Alka Seltzer will not help

‘ Ungava.”

a partial translation of
column, which was
“Quebec-American Colo-

‘am and’s

Mr, Paul Beaulieu, Minister of
ee and Industry in the
. 8 cabinet revealed Union
ing, v@le’s true intentions in the

Dy

Ana
rath Ustrial field before the Junior

oahait: 8
ale of Commerce at the

+ He or Hotel last May 8.
thon, Stated fully and with au-

™akis, that American capital is

‘

; oq
ee ate ¢

: ous
e@
mise it does ;
not drum or trumpet,

Pecingse us ‘tthe most important
ton}

ae. in the world.’’ It is as-
fan}. 2S to us that our country

Money its power with another’s

to g.,. Have we been unaware

: x hat in order to succeed

it t,,. Duplessis-ites have helped
hem

“An peeves? ;

an taped of capital remains
On of capital. It is more
than a military one be-

Flamand’s article was a sharp denunciation of a statement made by Duplessis’ Minister of Com-

but seizes the nerve centres of
a national power by controlling
its economy.

It is well known by all politic-
ally conscious people that an eco-
nomically dependent country is
not a free country.

We can cite numerous examples
of disastrous’ consequences that
followed such infiltration. Ger-
man industry insinuated itself
into basic French industry, par-
alyzed French. war production
from 1914 to 1939 while it sup-
plied the enemy. All of Europe
that cannot survive without the
Marshall plan accepts this benevo-
lent (?) help with grave misgiv-
ings. ‘Thus their wisest states-
man are worried about the habits,
morals, attitudes which always
follow the expeditions of capital
like contagious (disease.

That a minister should pretend
that the U.S.A. using their money
would make Quebec master of the
world, is full of ignorance and
naivate; it is Duplessist and
shocking.

In effect these gentlemen feel
called upon to explain in one fa-
shion or another their passion for
the Americans, their seandalous

generosity towards our neighbor’s
capitals. However (even) their
whole electoral fund spent on
Alka Seltzer will not help digest
Ungava.

No serious person will imagine
that any financier would put char-
ity before capitalism. Anyone, Am-
ericans or otherwise will invest
his money with an eye to his
money and power — and nothing
else, Those who stole our Un-
gava from us are no better.

They have no desire to build
Quebec, but to buy it, A province
sold to strangers sees its auton-
omy wealth and liberty go.

If you buy a house .. . or rent
it . . . you are master in your
lodgings, Your salesman or land-
lord has no more right of posses-
sion. Bach bit of our territory,
sold or rented (?) to Ameri-
eans is no longer a part of our
free heritage. We have placed
upon it a heavy and costly mort-
gage —- upon our autonomy and
freedom. i

Without any doubt Mr. Beau-
lieu is going to turn us into an
American colony, at best an Am-
erican protectorate.

As a further precaution he adds

PREMIER DUPLESSIS

the phrase that it is impossible to
find the necessary capital among
Canadians. What falsehoods and
errors,

.« Our Canadian capital is found
in Argentine, in Chile, in France,
in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.

Why not repatriate it? Let us

lure it with political honesty and }

economic justice. I understand
how our Canadian capitalists
could not give Mr. Duplessis’ -elec-
toral fund $20,000,000, and I also
understand why the Americans
are most generous, :

Nevertheless it will not do to
give away our province like so
such base, worthless merchan-
dise, :

We like our Americans, _ but
only as neighbors, not as conquer-
ors. :

The Duplessi-ites may sell] their
politics as they wish. But they
had better not touch our province,
it still belongs to us, a little any-
way, I think, .

Clearance
sought for

croup

United Nations secretary-gen-
eral has been asked by Canadian
Peace Congress chairman Dr. J.
G. Endicott to arrange clearance
through U.S. territory for a dele-
gation of notable Canadian citi-
zens to make a presentation to
the UN Disarmament Commission
at present meeting at UN head-
quarters in New York.

“Canada, one of the 12 mem-
berg of the commission, has an
important and perhaps decisive
role to play in bridging the gap
between the various proposals be-
fore the Commission so that it
might present a plan which has
been agreed to by all sides,’’ said
Dr. Endicott in comment upon
his request.

“Tt is lamentable that a curtain
of silence hag descended between
the labors of the commission and
the Canadian people, who greeted
its establishment with such heart-
felt hopes that it might produce
a solution compatible with peace
and security,

“World public opinion, of which
Canadian opinion is an important
part, initiaté@ the UN discussion
on disarmament. The expression
of public opinion can bring about
a successful outcome.

“T am also writing to Mr. Pear-
son, and to the leaders of the
various parties at Ottawa, asking
a report be made to parliament
on the work of Canada’s repre-

sentative on the committee,”

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