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High Cost of Li Drives 4 Claim T rade to Bootleggers, Clai A6k py 5 3) st and charges Protesting that the present 10!';"' 37"0'809' (3) Co _t id by (1ghe s es t ices paid by rific cost of liquor is driving lhe'\\hlth go into the pric dP]. » | § > 2 wine iquor, in-- liquor business into the hands of;l'Ub"C for beer, wine C q' Do « P m i 'ar sts, = bootleggers," L. M. Frost (Prog.|cluding manufacturers' co i + Imini ax,. & inistrati costs anc Con., Victoria), supported by T. A. | minion tax, d(lmlnl.\"allOl'l C CA it 'ofits i c Con-- Murphy (Prog. Con., Toronto. profits of the Ontario Liquor Cor Beaches), had the Public Accounts | trol Board. 4 s c r} AGK "It appears that the Liquor Con-- Committee of the Legislature pass . Hil 61 > ; s c x a profi t a motion yesterday to summon the trol Board is charging a pro f § f f ax ini Governmen chairman of the Ontario Liquor |the tax the Domln'mn JO\l (ay nf %, sav ® se« a p 5 4 (Gal 0 Control Board. Provincial Treasurer ; imposes, and '.h"" 1 a',,goml : A. St. Clair Gordon, before that body | public dissatisfaction," said Mr. foday Frost, who claimed liquor could be Mr. Gordon was ordered. to bring bought cheaper in logflon.to. from "such books, contracts, reports and bootleggzers than from Government e a" ag » in : ] tares. memoranda" as would explain: (1) liquor s f § Profits, fines,. licenses, etc., amount--| "Give us a few telephone num-- ing to $13,000,000. (2) Permits fees bers," chorused House members. Race or Creed Grounds -- ; pelussl sf Jop Charging Waste, He +or etusa 0 obs Seeks Group Survey 5 k & 194 m s 4 § s s As late as 1942 many loyal citizens Appointment of a small commit-- of good character were refused jobs tee to tour Northern Ontario "to see in Toronto and suburban war plants for themselves" the potentialities of owned or controlled by the DePArt* ; _ that part of the Province, was urged ment of Munitions and Supply in th Legislatur yesterday by % , » 8 » $ U 6 simply because of their race or 9. dechlfaluUe _ 4 $3 % creed, John J. Glass (Lib., St. An:-- Charles W. Cox (Lib., Port Arthur), drew) charged in the Legislature who charged that improper handling yesterday. _ Mr. Glass spoke on the of the natural resources of the North Budget debate. had impaired its future. An anti--discriminatien bill intro-- "If necessary I shall bear the ex-- duced in the House recently was pense myself," said Mr. Cox in ex-- killed at first reading on a vote of tending his invitation to the Gov-- the members, Mr. Glass, the spon-- ernment. "I can satisfy any group sor, being the only one to raise his of reasonable men that the great voice in favor of it. area from Sudbury to the Manitoba Mr. Glass said there had been boundary, 1,000 miles long and sev-- brought to his attention in the past eral hundred miles wide, would, if few years hundreds of cases of dis-- properly handled, support an im-- ecrimination in public places, in in-- mense population in perpetuity. But dustry, in munition plants, "and. under the present conaitions it is for a while, even in the armed only a matter of time until it will {forces." The only sin of the victims be depleted of trees, animal life and of this discrimination was that soil, and become as barren as the they belonged to a race or a faith Sahara Desert." which constituted a minority in the Mr,. Cox was critical of past ad-- Province, he declared. ministration of the Lands and For-- The member for St. Andrew told ests Department. He asserted that of various types of race discrimina-- the Lake Sulphite pulp plant about £ tion practiced in Ontario, and de-- 60 miles east of Port Arthur was a clared that discrimination against "good example" of waste in public individuals at bathing beaches, monies. The plant should never have parks and picnic grounds was grow-- been allowed to start in its present ing. The sign, '"Gentiles Only," location, he contended, as it made was the "negation of our democ-- necessary the spending of approxi-- racy," Mr. Glass declared. mately $500,000 in a townsite and '"When I suggest that these signs "tremendous amounts" in public} be removed, I do not ask for special utilities, 7 ' privilege for any one," he continued. * *>s Ars avcmmmmmtmtassnanme * "I am asking for the protection of the elementary civil rights of our persecuted citizens. "Our fighting youth is ready to ( make the greatest sacrifices to pre-- * serve our democratic way of life," cortinued Mr. Glass. "Thousands 'of men belonging to our minority s groups are with them. Of my own {faith, numbering -- only 165,000 in Canada, more than 10,000 are serv-- |ing with the forces. At the crucial moment no one will ask them for |their political, religious or racial ~ passports."