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Frost promises to enforce act

DRESDEN

Public opinion, roused by the continued flagrant acts of race dis- crimination at Dresden, is compelling the Ontario government to en- force its own Fair Accommodation Practices Act.

Premier Leslie Frost, said last week that prosecutions would be launched against those who continue to flout the law after the depart- ment of labor has received formal complaints against them. Premier

Frost is reported to have realized that public opinion was decidedly against Labor Minister Daley’s non-prosecution ruling which he himself had supported.

On November 2, Bromley Arm- he was refused service at McKay’s strong, Negro union official at Massey-Harris UAW Local 439, turned in an official complaint that he was refused service at McKay’s restaurant in Dresden.

Labor Minister Daley would not say when prosecutions would be- gin. He had said earlier that “This thing is settling down beautifully.”

He also continued his tirade against “outside groups going into Dresden to stir up trouble” which he began when he had previously refused to enforce the Ontario law which says that restaurants and

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Daley’s claims that the Dresden situation had cured itself were put to the test last week by the Human Rights Committee of the Toronto and Lakeshore Labor Council (CCL). Two Negroes and a Chinese girl asked for coffee in Morley McKay’s restaurant in Dresden. They were refused.

Testifying before the recent in- quiry, McKay admitted having maintained a color bar for 31 years, continuing it after the law against discrimination had gone into force. He said he discrimin- ated against Negroes because it was good for his business. He would not undertake to serve Negroes in the future. ;

Told of his latest flouting of the law, Daley blamed a “Communist group” for “stirring up trouble.” He said Toronto Labor: Council’s action made him more determined than ever not to prosecute.

Daley also refused to release the report of Judge Wm. Schweng- er who had made the one-man in- quiry into the Dresden situation.

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|Dresden’s whites, Negroes live in friendship

By MELVILLE TAYLOR

Dresden is a pretty town. The surounding countryside is second to none for beauty in all southern Ontario. Walk along Dresden’s streets as I did and you will. see happy, laughing children,. white and Negro, playing together in friendship. Talk to a couple of boys who play on the High School basketball team and you will hear them speak with warm admiration about two Negro lads who are the stars of the team. Go into Mar- tins restaurant and you will see Negroes and, whites, eating and chatting in complete harmony.

On every side you see among the ordinary folk, the neighborly friendliness that is characteristic of our Canadian people.

* * *

Then what has made the- word Dresden a stench in: the nostrils of decent Canadians who despise racia! discrimination? Why is it impossible for a Negro to get ser- vice in a Dresden barber-shop? Why do the two other restaurants bar Negroes?

Speak to a clergyman, a_busi- nessman and several other mem- bers of the town’s “uppercrust” and the answer begins to emerge.

“We gotta’ big Negro population here, ’bout five hundred,” said the businessman. “Give ’em too, much leeway an’ you know how it would be,” he finished vaguely. ‘That fellow who organized the National Unity Association made a bit of money an’ see what happens? -He’s stiring up all this trouble. Next thing they’ll be trying to run the town.”

The clergyman was more: diplo- matic. “This talk of discrimina- tion is terribly exaggerated,” he said ‘with a pained expression. “Now, I’m against discrimination,” he added hurriedly, “but it takes time to educate people. We’re getting results though.

“Why, do you know,” he said leaning forward confidentially,

men of this town married off his daughter, a Negro was invited to the reception!”

Talk to the prosperous-looking white man who runs the former home of Uncle Tom as a profitable curiosity sight. “Can’t figure why the Negroes objected to the town council putting up roadside signs to direct visitors to Uncle Tom’s house,” he volunteered. “They said, you’re willing to spend money on the dead but nothing on the living.

“After all,” the white man stress-

“when one of the dealing business-| -:

important. We gets lots of Ameri- eans here. They’re good spenders and we gotta think of them.”

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As you [isten to these people, the pattern becomes clearer. A small group who are entrenched in the “upper” circles of Dresden’s Town Council, society and busi- ness, are determined to block equal citizenship. rights for Negroes. Blinded by racial bigotry, they in- sist on preserving Dresden as a “spiritual” colony of Dixie.

They have torn up the weakly- worded Fair Accommodation Act which was paraded before the country as an outstanding achieve- ment by Ontario’s Torv govern- ment and flung it back into the face, not only of Premier Leslie

Clique maintains discrimination

Frost — but into the face of every decent Canadian. * es x

Let no one think that laws can- not be enforced effectively in Dresden. Just park your car im- properly and you receive a ticket quite promptly. Litter garbage on

the street and you are heavily fined. But throw the Fair Accom:

modation Act into a garbage cal and the Frost government, with 2.

pious hove, folds its hands and looks the other way.

And in the meantime, little children sing in the school, “with glowing hearts we see thee rise, the True North Strong and Free.” Yet they-must go 20 miles to Chat- ham to get a proper hair-cut!

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