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Canada's war effort as prosecuted to date by the Mackenzie King Ad-- ministration at Ottawa was formally ecndemned in the Ontario Legisla-- ture yesterday for what a 44--10 ma-- jority of the members voted to be its lack of vigor. Climaxing three days of intense discussion of the Ottawa effort, Premier Hepburn created an unpre-- cedented situation in the Provincial House when he accused the Fedcral Prime Minister of "never having done his duty 10 his country--and never will," and personally moved the resolution that brought the Do-- minion Government under the offi-- cial censure of the Queen's Park Assembly. In spite of Mr. Hepburn's warn--| ing that defeat of the resolution, "a | Government motion," would mean | his immediate resignation, ten of| his Liberal followers bolted his de--| termined attitude and policy, there--| by creating the first potentially serious rift in the party since the hectic days of the separate schools tax controversy. Comes Suddenly. Provincial -- Secretary Harry C Nixon; Hon. Paul Leduc, Minister of Mines; Hon. Eric Cross, Minister of Welfare and Municipal Affairs;: Hon. N. O. Hipel, Minister of Labor: Hon. W. L. Houck, Vice--Chairman of Hydro; Hon. A. St. Clair Gordon, Liquor Commissioner; J. A. Smith, Hydro Commissioner; Chief Whip Ian T. Strachan; W. J. Gardhouse, York West; J. Frank Kelly, Mus-- koka--Ontario; _ William _ Guthrie, Lambton West; Allan A. Lamport, St. David;: J. W. Sinclair, Bruce: James Ballantyne, Huron; T. A. Blakelock, Halton; 'T. P. Murray, South Renfrew; John Newlands, Hamilton Centre; C. G. Mercer, Durham; F. B. Brownridge, Stor-- mont, and J. W. Freeborn, Middie-- gex North. | Seconded by Hon. T. B. McQues-- ten _ Minister of Highways, and President of the Ontario Liberal As-- sociation, the resolution--a hasty longhand scrawl across a sheet of butter--yellow paper -- came with startling unexpectedness. A dozen or more Liberals left the Chamber and were not present for the vote. The resolution read: "That this House has heard with interest the reports made by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition of the result of their visit to Ottawa to discuss war meas-- ures with the National Government, and this House hereby endorses the statements made by the two mem-- bers in question and joins with them in regretting that the Federal Government at Ottawa has made so little effort to prosecute Canada's duty in the war in the vigorous manner the people of Canada desire 12 see." Of the Liberals who stuck their trying ground, twenty--five support-- ed the Premier and the possibly far-- reaching significance of his "scrap of paper." They were Hon. Harold J. Kirby, Minister of Health: Hon. P. M. Dewan, Minister of Agriculture: Hon. Mr. McQuesten: Hon. L. J. Simpson, Minister of Education: Attorney--General Gordon Conant: vensure Moved by Hepburn, Climax to Debate, Voted 44-- 10 LIBERALS BOLT Macaulay, South York; G. H. Chal-- lies, Grenville--Dundas; H. E. Welsh, 'East Hastings; L. M. Frost, Vic-- | toria; former Premier Menry, East | York; W. D. Black, Addington; W. | A. Baird, High Park; William Duck-- | worth, Dovercourt; A. H. Acres, Carleton; G. C. Elgis, Woodbine; T. A,. Murphy, Beaches; W. J. Stewart, Parkdale; R. D. Arnott, Hastings West; T. A. Kidd, Kingston; W. B. I Reynolds, Leeds; W. A. Summer-- The ten Liberal dissenters from the Government stand woere former Attorney--General Arthur W,. Roe-- buck; Assistant Liberal Whip M. T. Armstrong, Parry Sound; C. M. Macfie, South Middlesex; Morgan Baker, North York; D. M. Campbell, East Kent; W. A. Dickson, Perth; J. A. Habel, North Cochrane; R. G. Croome, Rainy River; J. P. MacKay, Hamilton East, and C. O. Fairbank, Lambton East. Eighteen Conservatives--all that were in attendance--voted for the condemnation. They were Colonel George A. Drew (Leader); Leopold ! Bit by bit, step by step, as the | discussion waxed warmer and the Liberal Party lines began to crack, 'and as Acting Speaker Roland Pat-- | terson sought vainly to call "Orders | of the Day," the situation electrified | until at times galleryites applauded iand Mr, Hepburn moved restlessly in his seat. Then in that abrupt man-- ner so characteristic of him the lPremicr rose quickly, waved down a back--bencher who was also trying to find his feet, plumped down be-- fore him the yellow--papered resolu-- tion that had appeared mysteriously from nowhere, and brought the seemingly interminable discussion to ville, Riverdale; J. de C. Hoepburn, Prince--Edward--Lennox. There was no mincing of words as Mr. Hepburn squared up to this --one of the most sensational mo-- ments of a long and sensational career in public life. All afternoon the storm had been brewing. Duck-- worth of Dovercourt had attacked Canadian sale of wheat to Russia. Both the Premier and Colonel Drew had attacked editorials in The Globe and Mail and in "th> chief propa-- ganda sheet of the Mackenzie King Government," the Toronto Star. Both had reiterated their demands for more action at Ottawa, with the Premier charging as an illlustration of "slipshod methods" that "a near-- ri0t" had occurred at the air sta-- tion in the St. Thomas Mental MHospital because men had had to parade in near--zero weather with-- out proper clothing and boots. Rushed to King's Defense. Baker of North York had rushed to the defense of the King Adminis-- tration and had read excerpts from Mr. King's addresses from Hansard, to be interrupted with Mr. Hep-- burn's "Do we have to listen to that twaddle?" Rocbuck of Bellwoods, in suggesting that Colonel Drew was more concerned with further-- ing the political advantage of Fed-- eral Leader Manion, was compelled to withdraw his "impugning of mo-- tives" and was chastised by Mr. Hepburn for "making -- anti--war speeches in the last war at a time when the Opposition Leader was fighting in the trenches." Macaulay of South York had emphatically deprecated "propaganda despatches" from Ottawa which contrived, he said, to give the credit of the war loan's success to Prime Minister King, instead of to the patriotic, out -- to--win -- the -- war bond--buying people to whom it really belonged. Mr, Macaulay had seen a propa-- canda buildun on behalf of the King party for the next clection n sune or July in the "iruth-- distorted" stories, a halt. First he referred briefly to the visit which he and Colonel Drew, JanuaArRy 19 as members of the Organization of Resources Committee, had made to Ottawa in October, at which time, he said, without political considera-- tion, in the fullest co--operation, they had handed "a blank cheque of the Province's resources" to Mr. King, and had told him to do with them what he liked. From then on, how-- ever, he had been deeply disappoint-- ed, he said, in Ottawa's response to Ontario's offer, and in subsequent "lack of adequate proper prosecu-- tion of the war." Thinks King Hates Ontario. He had always been a sharp critic of the King Administration, he ad-- mitted, and he believed that Mr. King had "a positive hatred" for Ontario because the Prime Minister had never been able to get elected here. He had a long list of grievances against the Prime Min-- ister, none of which were personal, but merely outgrowths of Ottawa's "cold, callous attitude" of one Gov-- ernment toward another. . For in-- stance, he said, at a time when Ontario had a surplus of power from new Quebec commitments Mr. King had deliberately refused to permit the Province the authority to export a portion of this surplus across the border. National security, he declared, while the Opposition and the Treas-- ury benchers in particular loudly applauded, was greater than "any political consideration." The issue had to be decided at once. From the tone of various addresses made earlier it was apparent, he said, that some members looked at the war situation differently than he. There was no use Jetting the debate drag on. For that reason he was going, he said, to test the opinion of the House. Stakes Government on Vote. "I don't care if I am defeated-- and you must construe the resolu-- tion I am about to put as a Govern-- "That refusal," he added, "cost Ontario a million dollars. "No," he said, his voice rising, "it isn't any personal matter be-- tween us. As far as King is con-- cerned and my attitude is concern-- ed, his insignificance protects him." ment measure--I shall have done what I consider to be the right thing. Of course, if I am defeated, there is only one course left open to me--to resign. If I am wrong, if in the opinion of this House we (Colonel Drew and the Premier) are not reflecting the overwhelming opinion of the people of Canada at this moment, then I shall bow to the decision. I am ready to take my political future in my hands. I'm not going to take it on the chin as Federal Cabinet Ministers have done and go down without fighting. "Let me say again that I stand firm in my statements that Mac-- kenzie King has not done his duty to his country--never has and never will. I sat with him in the Federal House for eight years and I know him." As the Premier read the text of the resolution slowly, the first seurrying from the secene began. As he handed it to the page, to be handed to the Speaker in turn, John Glass, ex--soldier member for St. Andrew, implored the Speaker not to take a voteo on the ground that all the information requisite to a verdict could not possibly be before the members. When the Premier ignored the request Mr. Glass asked permission to absent himself from the vote and whirled away and out-- side the Chamber. "All in favor say----" the Speaker was saying when Mr. Hepburn, de-- sirous of recording each member's stand, called for a division. "Call in the members," said the Speaker.