MacLeod in

Toronto race

TORONTO

A. A. MacLeod, who represented Bellwoods riding in the Ontario
legislature from 1943-51, has announced that he will contest the Toronto
mayoralty in the December 6 civic elections. He is the fourth candi-

date to enter the field.

In a sharply worded attacks on the other mayoralty candidates

MacLeod declared that ‘“Toronto’s
affairs have been in the hands of a
motley collection of political
mediocrities who have missed no
opportunity to prostrate them-
selves before the altars of re-
action.” He called on the people
“to join in a great crusade to re-
move these road blocks from the
path of civic progress and continue
the fight for a greater Toronto in
a greater Canada.”

MacLeod said that after consid-
ering the record and program of
the other candidates, “in no cir-
cumstances must Toronto’s reform-
minded electors be left without a
mayoralty candidate for whom
they could vote in good consci-
ence.”

He characterized his opponents
in these words:

Mayor Robert Saunders—‘“Prince
of Bigots” whose continuance in of-
fice might well transform Toronto
“from a-community of goodwill
and tolerance into a seething cauld-
ron of religious hate and bigotry.”

Ald. Nathan Philips—In 28 years
on Toronto City Council he has
never availed himself of his “ample
opportunity to prove himself a
fighter for reform.”

Arthur Brown — “A wellknown
apostle of obscurantism . . . who

A. A. MacLEOD

subscribes to the undemocratic
principle that the minority may
determine what the majority shall
hear.”

MacLeod said he would place be-
fore the electors “a program for
driving the job traders and their
minions from the city hall and re-
placing them by a civic govern-
ment which will reflect the con-
science of our beloved Toronto.”

LPP calls for release of
arrested Mexican leaders

TORONTO

“Immediate liberation” of Dion-
isio Encina, general secretary of
the Communist Party of Mexico,
and his colleagues was demanded
in a cable sent to President Luis

Cortinez of Mexico from Tim Buck,
national leader of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party. The message was
forwarded to the president by
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Arrested were Dionisio Encina,
general secretary of the Commun-
ist Party of Mexico, Arturo Orona,
Gregorio Castorena and others.

The LPP also called on all pro-
gressive organizations to join with
them in demanding the release of
those imprisoned.

“These arrests,” said the LPP,
“constitute another example of
the pressure of the U.S. authorities
upon the internal affairs of the
Western Hemisphere countries.”

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Cornwall vote in byelection
protest against Seaway sellout

TORONTO | ronto-Trinity,

The Liberals won four, the Con-
servatives and CCF one each in the
November 8 federal byelections—
which ran much as expected.

Transport Minister Marler and
Claude Richardson, held the two
Montreal seats for the Liberals,
John Hamilton retained York West
for the, Conservatives, William
Bryce won Selkirk from the Lib-
erals for the CCF, and Albert La-
vigne held Stormont for the Lib-
erals by a narrow margin.

The strong anti-government
vote in Stormont, which includes
the city of Cornwall, was seen
as a protest against the Liberal
sellout of control of the St. Law-
rence Seaway to the U.S. Corn-
wall has strongly demanded an
all-Canadian Seaway.

The depressed state of the tex-
tile industry, hit by U.S. dumping,
was also a contributing factor to
the Liberal decline.

Labor-Progressive candidates in

William Kashtan,
916 (incomplete); York West, Leslie
Moris 232; St. Lawrence-St. George,
Frank Brenton 275; St. Antoine-
Westmount, Louise Harvey 224.

’ In a post-election statement, Les-
lie Morris said the West York cam-
paign showed that “strong opin-
ions are at work among the people
that will impel them to democratic
votes and action.” :

These forces are not yet reflect-
ed in the vote, he said, “especially
in a byelection where the greater
public interest of a general elec-
tion is missing.

“The LPP position on Canadian
independence, the Seaway, the
fight against the economic crisis
and the future of our country, was
received with great interest and
other candidates were compelled
to speak about them,” he said in
commenting on the Labor-Progres-
sive party’s campaign. :

“Tt would ‘be shortsighted not to
see these positive points; at the

four ridings fared as follows: To-| same.time we must realize that a

great amount of work has to be

done the year round to place the
LPP program before the people
so that they will all the quicker
come to the point where their
democratic opinions will be ¢X
pressed on the ballot, even in mix
ed working class and well-to-do
ridings like York West.”

William Kashtan, LPP national
labor secretary, said of the Trinity
vote:

“The byelection results settled
nothing. A new national policy
is still needed if unemployment,
shrinking markets and lowe
living standards are to be suc-
cessfully combatted.

“In the circumstances in Trinity,
the near-1,000 voters who support
ed LPP are the harbingers of the
victory the people will achieve 12
the not too distant future.

“The result in Trinity was not 2
vote of confidence in the govern
ment,” he said “The drop in votes
for the Liberal candidate is clear
proof that this is not so.”

‘Don’t import depression’ slogan
of Canadian toy manufacturers

TORONTO

This year Canadian toy makers
are marking their goods Made in
Canada “for the benefit of those
Canadians who do not wish to im-

‘port a depression,” in the words

of a press release issued by Cana-
dian Playthings Manufacturers Inc.

. Canada is set up to satisfy most
of her own toy needs, the release
continues. Nevertheless, Canada,
imports half her toys each year—
$25 million worth.

Foreign playthings are- not re-
quired to indicate where they were
made. The result is that even
those who know the toy industry.
is suffering as seriously from. for-
eign competition as the textile in-
dustry have been unable to assure
themselves that their purchases
are helping to provide jobs for
Canadian workers.

The association cites electric
trains as one of the few toys not
produced in this country, But, it
points out, electric trains are
bought as much for their adult

Massey-Harris workers continue strike

appeal as for their “interest
children.

to

It quotes Miss Dorothy Mac-
Kenzie, staff-member of the Toron-
to’s Institute of Child Study, as
saying that too many parents buy

Canadian mother
fights deportatjon

DETROIT

The case of a Canadian mother
who may never again see her two
sons if she is deported, is to be
taken before Michigan’s newly
elected Congressmen.

Mrs. Wellman, 42, had been ord-
ered deported to Canada Novem-
ber 2. But the government was
forced to stay her deportation for
two weeks to allow her attorneys
to argue her case before a federal
judge.

She is married to Saul Wellman,
who is appealing a Smith Act con-
viction.

i

toys from the adult standpoint—

not from the imaginative, some-

times destructive, view of the
child.

One of the many causes of oveF
excitement in children, according
to Miss MacKenzie, is the type of
toys the parents provide for them.

“Pre-school children are still s0
cially immature and should be Pro
vided with toys which they ¢32
handle in constructive ways,’ the
association quotes Miss MacKen-
zie as saying. “Children should be
supplied with materials, such 45
blocks, paper, scissors, paint, 45
they enjoy making something wit
them.

“Tt is up to the parents and
teachers to understand the child’s
stage of play, by showing him what
he might do, not what he must do,
and what more can be done wit
a certain material. This aid 15
given so that he may become seif-
reliant with his materials 4
learn to enjoy the thrill of creat
ing.” :

Here workers in the Massey-Harris-Ferguson plants in Toronto are shown as they voted 72.9 per-
cent to continue their strike, now in its tenth week. The workers, members of the United Auto Work-

ers, reiected a company proposal which was essentially the same as company offers made and reject
before the strike. The strike is receiving country-wide support.

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