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The premier Spoke during the Throne Speech debate, following Opposition Leader Farquhar Oliver, who had assailed the government for not implementing promises to provide greater Old Age Pensions, Mothers Allowances, health mea- sures and adequate food supplies, and for failure to advance housing and rural electrification and to eliminate duplicate services ren- dered by both Province and Do. minion. Both leaders spoke for about an hour, but the premier confined his remarks to labor relations, housing, "It that is done. the Communisid will have little opportunity to ad. vance their evil demands," he said. As head of a government which appreciated' the suggestions put forward from time to time by or- ganized labor, Premier Drew de- clared he felt it to be not amiss if in turn the government made sug- gestions to labor. With the picture of avowed Communist intention of fomenting unrest, of stirring up industrial strife. he said it was "not too much to suggest" that labor "deal with this corrosive force by the simple democratic process of removing Communists from office. Earlier. the premier had 'quoted Buck, speaking in Moscow, as say- ing the Communists in Canada were 'developing demands in ad- vance" rather than awaiting spo- radic outbreaks of industrial unrest, using the political value of strikes to further their causes, and 'tte- veloping strike movements" in Can- ada. The same Buck, he said, now leads the so-calied Labor-Progress sive Party and had pledged it tol the same purposes. l Remove Corrosive Force I Pausing during his remarks about the "overwhelming majority of organized workers have no use whatever for Communism," the premier declared, 'Here we are at last. There. gentlemen, you see at last the admission of support of the vile anti-Christian principles of Lenin and Marx." He pointed his finger at Mr. MacLeod, who h.ad said "Hear, hear," as the premier had quoted Tim Buck as saying the Labor-Progressive group must "rarry forward the spirit of the teachings of Marx, Engles and Lenin." A demand that organized labor in Ontario, "with its proud record of achievement in the cause of labor," purge its ranks of Commun.. isis, was made from the floor of the Legislature hy Premier George Drew, in an address during which he crossed swords with Labor- Progressive Leader A. A. MacLeod, when the latter applauded remarks attributed to Tim Bucy, national Labor-Progressive leader, who the premier said was "working for a Soviet Canada." :Drew Demands Organized Labor Stage Red Purge By KEN' w. MACTAGGART rhe Premier outlined the rehabili- tation training and tutorial instruc- tion for war veterans being carried out by the Province under agree- ment with the Dominion Govern- ment. In 10 rehabilitation centres throughout Ontario 11,000 veterans were now taking training. Many thousands already had completed their courses. receiving training for essential trades. More than 8,000 veterans were taking courses in universities, and thousands more would be enrolled next September. Veterans were taking full advan- tage of educational opportunities offered to them. He expected that veteran enrolment at the Univers sity of Toronto would rise from the present 5,200 to more than 8.0tlo, next fall. bringing the total enrol-) ment at the university to 16,000, as; compared with 7.984 the year before" the war. The Premier paid tribute to the} part Ontario had played in the want With 32 per cent of Canada's popu-l lation, this Province had supplied! 45 per cent of the fighting strength'; of the armed forces. Its share oni the home front had been equally! impressive, the people of Ontario providing approximately 45 per cent) of all the money raised by the Do-; minion during the war years. and; supplying about 48 per cent of all; the wartime industrial production.) The people of Ontario also had sub-i scribed 47 per cent of all the indi.., vidual Victory Loan subscriptions in Canada. The Province, he assured the House. had not sat. hack and disre.. garded the housing problem simply because It was not its direct rpspon~ sibilily. Frequent conferences had been held with Dominion and mu- nicipal authorities. to build houses. Out part is to pass whatever enabling legislation is necessary to facilitatn the (-m'ryinn out of those plans. That We have already done at an earlier session and that we will continue to do in this session hy presenting hills whit-h have already been indicated in the Speech from the Throne." created the building.'organizatinns "Under those powers," the Pre- mier said, "the Dominion Govern- ment is allocating supplies and has The Dominion Government. he explained, alone had the power to deal with the situation because it took full control of the matter as one of its specified powers under the Emergency Transitional Powers Ar-t passed last December. "At present." he said. "it is only thn Dominion Government which can deal effectively tsith this qur-s- tion, Any attempt by any Provin- cial Government to embark on a course of its own would he futile and would, in fact. he the one thing which would certainly impodo the construction of needed houses." Replying to charges that tho On- tario Government had failed to per- form its duties in dealing with the urgent need of housing, Premier Drew told tho House that the power and responsibility in this regard rested with the Dominion, not tho Provincial Government. and a brief recapitulation of edu.. cation, particularly the important part played by provincial instilu- lions in tho rehabilitation program for ex-servicemen. March 3 Never. said Premier Drew, was it'; more important that friendly co-i operation exist between labor andi management. Never was a spirit) of good-will so necessary in facing, postwar problems. With the bald declaration of Buck that it was the intention to cause strikes only for the purpose of creating strife, and with his party forcing the issue by its misleading and false statements, it was not too much to ask that labor take steps to meet the situa- tion. "The remedy lies in their hands," said Premier Drew. "with the sim- Lest there be any doubt as to what "revolution" might mean. he then quoted from the party's reso- lution that it meant "An historic event when one part of the popula- tion imposes its will upon the other) part by bayonets, guns and rifles.") "Let us make no mistake," said the Premier. "Here are Buck's words, 'Once we have mastered the political strike, the general strike is but a step. And the general strike during a political crisis is the gate- way to revolution.'" He recalled that the Communist Party had been formed by three men originally, that Tim Buck had assumed "leadership in 1930, on direct orders from Moscow. and had devoted full time to it ever since. Quoting a book written by Buck, he said the objective was to "lead the workers forward through struggles to power and the vic- torious establishment of our Soviet Canada." At the risk of being told again that it was an "obsession" by "that newspaper which is the most im- portant, vehicle of Communist propaganda," the Premier said that it was necessary to consider the party that Buck led despite the belief of many that it merited little attention. In too many countries, he said, people had awakened too late to the subversive efforts ot their local Communists. Orders From Moscow This might seem strange to per- sons who had seen large newspaper advertisements and heard exorta- tions on the radio assailing On- tario's and Drew's labor attitude, said the Premier. These advertise- ments of the Labor-Progressive Party had caused confusion. he said, yet they would be unimpor- tant except that the authors of the false and misleading statements had acquired prominent positions In labor's ranks. "It cannot be shown that there are better labor laws anywhere else in the world today." declared the Premier, "and nowhere are labor laws administeed with better judg- ment and more sympathetic con- sideration for the rights and needs of labor than they are by our Min.. lster of Labor in Ontario." Tribute was due the magnificent achievements of Canadian workers, said Premier Drew. Even in the postwar period, industrial unrest had been negligible when compared with Britain, the United States, Australia and France. Ontario had not been in default in providing the best legislation to continue sueh a condition, with such factors as holidays with pay, the best workmen's compensation laws in the world and factory inspection as important in providing safety and security. Unrest Negligible W