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Pays Counsel 1 Dismi $400 Monthly --|Won't Press to Dismiss As counsel to the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway Pro essors or emar s Commission, A. G. Slaght, K.C,, fiip" of Toronto, receives & Te ' Satisfied with assurances from they Hon. Dr. L. J. Simpson told the > ner of $400 a month, according | |yinjster of Education that appro--| House appropriate action would be t° &A return tabled in the Legisia« |prlate action would be taken by uni--| taken by the governing bodies of ' fire iy"""hy , in answer to a | versity officials to curb "subversive" | the University of Toronto amd Trin-- :;'"? on by R. B. Arnott (COM)) |w;erances attributed to two 'To--|ity College. "The House can rest as-- | .';:ln'ls East). f ronto professors, Colonel F. Fraser|sured that the matter will not be| | e slthe i"m o;m punt as was _ | Hunter (Lib., Toronto--St. Patrick) overlooked. i iy } previously paid to Tilley, Johnson, | |vuc;orgqay withdrew from the order| Criticise Roebuck "Order. 'I'hon.lson and Parmenter, Toronto, paper a resolution calling for dis.| Premier Hepburn and Conserya-l for similar services. In 1938, Mr. issal of Prof Frank Under.| tive Leader George Drew demed! Slaght's firm also received these fiseni i CIo eseor, that they had supported the resolu-- ' legal fees from the province: hill and Professor G, M. A. Grube.|tion when it was first introduced $3,038 for work for the succession The resolution, offered in the heat|and criticized statements made by duty office and $5,005 from the of indignation engendered by state--| the former Attorney--General. | Niagara Parks Commission in con-- ': ye ttribut dgt the twoyeduca- '"When my honorable friend talks nection with arbitration proceed. . |MO"!S attiDWifed t "|about coercion," Premier Hepburn ings with the International Rail-- tionists some weeks Ago, WAS| said, "he would do well to remembber way Company. stricken from the records in tht j that when he was Attorney--General «mm dying moments of the session. he issued an order that all magis-- "This resolution was not aimed|trates appear in court in morning 4 merely at two professors," Colonel|clothes. That's a form of dictator-- Hunter said, "but against all influ--| ship." ences in universities which tend to| "I didn't give orders," Mr. Roe--: prevent our youth from full co--| buck replied. "I wrote a private let-- operation in the functioning and|ter to them which they immediately survival of democracy." gave to the press. And I followed A. W. Roebuck (Lib., Toronto--| it with another letter advising them Bellwoods) deplored the "exhibition| it was not an order." \ of intolerance" displayed by the| "I was responsible for that letter," House in permitting introduction of| the Premier reminded him. the resolution. University professors,| "Well, I'm not Attorney--General he maintained, were entitled to com--| now," said Mr. Roebuck, "but I am plete freedom of speech, even when| pleased to note that the custom I governments were criticized. suggested is still being carried out." "You can talk freedom of speech all you want," Colonel Hunter re-- torted. "I'm trying to deal with a world of reality, not the pleasant dreamland you have pictured for yourself. This is a time of world emergency. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin will give you a form of uni-- versity you won't like if they have their way--and you won't be able to voice your opposition." Conservative Leader George A. Drew, who played a leading role in * the recent Bren gun inquiry, failed yesterday in the Legislature to per-- suade the Ontario Government to \ step in and prevent the sale of shares in the John Inglis Company, holder of a license to manufacture the gun. In a prepared statement, which he read to the House, Attorney--Gen-- s eral Gordon Conant said he was not disposed to do anything likely to curtail operations of the company, and that as far as Colonel Drew's charges that the company's pros-- ' pectuses were "misleading" no com-- . likely to curtail their operations or plaint had ever been made to the | expansion or to reflect upon their Securities Commission regarding | apparent efforts to build up an On-- the statements or the affairs of the | tario industry employing Ontario company. | workmen at substantial wages, un-- "From my own examination of | less the facts and circumstances these statements and considerable | reasonably and properly warrant of the evidence taken before the | such action," continued the Attor-- k commissioner, and also the opinion | ney--General. of chief counsel of the Attorney--| It was a matter for the Federal _ General's department, I am forced | Government to determine, he con-- to the conclusion that no criminal | tinued, referring to the actual con-- action arising out of these state-- | tract itself, Evidently, he peinted 'ments is indicated or justified," said | out, there was no corruption in Mr. Conant. "The matter was not | connection with it. The John Inglis referred to me by the commission-- | Company was employing 250 work-- er, as he did not feel that there had | men, with a monthly payroll of been any criminal conduct. $31,000 and an average wage scale "I am not disposed to do anything of $27.50 per week. R '