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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT bikinis» 5 Roinksiatdonlusin ais tii dodo shi wl wired ARIAL hs EE EAS PORT PERRY STAR Wednesday Dec 13. 1972 27 re ---------------------- i ADVERTISEMENT ~ TO THE READING AND LISTENING PUBLIC I am Antonio Cesaroni, ordinarily known as Tony Cesaroni. I live on a farm on the out- skirts of Port Perry. I am a principal officer of Northdown Drywall & Construction Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario. My brother, Sam, is also a principal officer of that company. Northdown Drywall & Construction Limited does lathing, plastering and drywall con- struction in major commercial buildings in Ontario. We do not do any lathing, plastering or drywall construction in any house or apartment buildings or in any buildings classed as residential. None of Northdown Drywall & Construction Limited, Sam or me do any business with C. Romanelli Lathing Limited. That company does not compete with us and has never competed with us. To the best of my knowledge their work is confined solely to lathing, plastering and drywall construction in the residential field. We have never had any common interest with C. Romanelli Lathing Limited or done any business with that company. We have never supplied any materials to that company. We have never supplied any personnel to that company. We have no financial interest in that company. Acme Lathing Limited is not a competitor of | Northdown Drywall & Construction Limited and has never been such. Acme Lathing Limited is principally engaged in drywall construction in residential fields. Any com- mercial drywall construction done by Acme Lathing Limited is sufficiently small that we do not consider them our competitors. Nor- thdown Drywall & Construction Limited and I have no ill will, commercial or otherwise, against Acme Lathing Limited or Stan Sosin and we have never had occasion to have such. We have never done any act of violence or other ill will to Stan Sosin or Acme Lathing Limited nor have we ever attempted to do such nor has it ever entered our minds to do such. I started as a labourer in the construction field over twenty years ago with the usual earnings of a labourer. I started in the lathing and plastering business in a small way bn ew years ago. My brother, Sam, started to work with me when he was nineteen years > old. We started as Cesaroni Brothers with a total capital of $2,000.00 and $1,500.00 of borrowed money. We have carried on business together (and since 1971 with others) since that time. Since our start, at one time or another, we have done business with and alone - side of nearly every major contractor in the i Toronto community. We think that we have a good reputation for reliability and honesty with those for whom we have done business.' We invite any person who wishes to quarrel AL with this statement to consult any major i: contractor in the Toronto community. I do not know Dr. Morton Shulman per- i; sonally. I have read and heard his statements a as reported in the three Toronto newspapers and upon the radio. If he stated that the | Honourable Dalton Bales was at my farm ini: October of 1971 or at any other time, hi statement, in my belief, is totally false. To the: best of my recollection and I sincerely believe that the Honourable Dalton Bales has never i: ever been at my farm or at any other place at'; 3 my invitation. I have no recollection of ever 3 having met him or seen him at any time. If Dr. 7 Shulman is imputing that Sam or I ever ha | anything to do with any violence towards any : contractor or the family of any contractor Or 3" to any other person or persons, such im- i: putation is false. If Dr. Shulman is imputing i: that Sam or I have some influence over police /%: officers because we have a powerful friend in: the front row of the Cabinet or anywhere in the i: Cabinet of Ontario, such imputation is false. If ; : : Dr. Shulman is imputing that Sam or I would i knowingly do business with the Mafia such} suggestion is absolutely false. Like most of th members of the Italian community we hate: the Mafia and have much more cause to do so 3 : than people who are not of Italian origin. gi I wish to add that Dr. Matthew Dymond of § he Port Perry was my family doctor. He is my neighbour. He has visited my farm as other . citizens of the Port Perry area have done. Also, I think so highly of him that, as is the ; case with many other persons, I have sup- i ported him politically. I have been told that when Dr. Shulman | | speaks in the Legislature Chambers that he 3 cannot be sued for any falsehoods stated by ! =~ him no matter how much hurt those may: 3 cause to others. I would ask the readers of this | published statement to watch carefully to see i if Dr. Shulman is prepared to say outside of the Chambers of the Ontario Legislature thai which he said inside such Chambers or December 5th last. Further, I think all wil, : agree that Dr. Shulman was speaking under circumstances such that he would know that his remarks would be given very wide publicity by newspapers and radio. rie ra pe Sr hs Cr Sn as Se Yours faithfully, TONY CESARONI |