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APRIL 27 Eviction of Single M Blamed on City by C Eviction . yesterday morning ofO------------------___ 2200 _ 0 _ the 279 single transient unemployed from the Coliseum produced a storm in the Legislature carly this (Thurs-- day) morning as Hon. Eric Cross, Minister of Welfare, charged the city administration with the respon-- sibility for their plight. The men and youths, after seck-- ing all day long for food and lodg-- ing, said last night they would wan-- der through the streets all night in | groups of five, pausing only to rest on the City Hall steps. After the men were ordered to clear out of the coliseum, a delega-- tion approached the city Board of Control, but was told the board had not given the order to close the coliseum. The transients made rep-- | muuninmmmpmme resentations to the department Of | political motives to this side of the welfare at Queen's Park and to the |House, I don't think I need to . federal government by telegraPh:| point out that a withdrawal is in The transients reported Iha{ Otta-- | order." wa authorities said they did not | "; used the term 'political' not in know why they had been evicted. | the sense that there was anything b "surprise to Me." malicious in their motives," the Questioned in debate, launched Minister explained. "After all, any byv the Opposition on the problem SDO?{'h made in this House is a of unemployment in which the| Ppolitical speech to some degree." eviction was branded as a "stupid| "If the Minister does not intend | blunder," Mr. Cross said "it (~amcim withdraw his remark," observed as a surprise to me that the city| Colonel Drew, "we can do nothing | had abruptly terminated the agree.| about it. The chairman has ruled| ment which we had with it." that discussion on this matter ter-- Earlier, he revealed, under the | minate. If he will not withdraw, we agreement for the care of the tran--| can only draw our own conclusions." sients, the city assumed administra-- "I think it is in the best interests tive responsibility and the ax:l"'f'-lnf the House that we should ter-- ment had been extended until lmimmmthe discussion," agreed Chair-- Mav 1. | man Roland Patterson. The eviction order was made after "I move we adjourn," interjected the city authorities had learned that | Leopold Macaulay. f the transients, on the eve of the| "That's nothing but a want of closing of the coliseum hostel on | confidence motion," said Hon. H. C. May 1, planned to demonstrate and| Nixon, Acting House Leader, "If "to wreck the building," Mr. Cross|the honorable member wants to said he had been told. | press it, let him go ahead." The minister's explanation thrcw'l "It's not a question of want of the House into confusion when he| confidence," Mr. Macaulay replied. charged that "a great deal of the| "It's lack of sleep." agitation on the part of members Attorney--General Conant said the opposite is due in the main part to| Provincial Police had informed him political motives." that a group planned to invade the W, J. Stewart (Cons., Parkdale) | buildings, enter the galleries of the was on his feet immediately, de--]} Chamber and create a disturbance. manding a withdrawal, and he was| On the basis of that report, he said, , supported in his demand by Colonell police were ordered to bar them Drew. from the House. | "I demand a withdrawal," the member from Parkdale shouted an-- grily. "If you don't withdraw I'll shove it down your throat.' "This discussion was conducted | on a very high plane," the Con-- servative Leader said, "until the | statement was made by the Min-- ister of Public Welfare, attributing \ Still Probi obing | Cancer 'Cures' { "The Cancer Commission, ap-- pointed last year to investigate socalled "cures," is not yet in a position to make a definite re-- port, Hon. Harold J. Kirby, Min-- ister of Health, yesterday inform-- \| ed the Legislature during discus-- ; zion af his department's esti-- I mates,