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V e o e e e e e e o o e t rue ooo way to control them is to send them i to jail for good long stretches." "That's right," agreed Colonell Drew. In voicing his denunciation ot' gambling and the gambling rackets| in general, Colonel Drew, in hisf opening words, referred to a reso--| lution from the Presbytery of the| United Church on the subject. | lN EMP[OY "This Legislature -- should takel steps to deal with a situation which | will undermine confidence in the| enforcement of the law unless dealt ' * * & with," said Colonel Drew. "I realize | $ P°||C° A|d Of{ered the great difficulties and problems | * . & *' 4; * which have to be faced. The earliest | to MUfllC'pah tres, remains of human beings are accom-- i panied by some form of gambling Mr- COflOfl* Sfafes devices. But there is a vast differ--| ence between instinctive gamblmgi The charge that armed thugs who -- and organized corruption. I under--| fled from the United States are en-- stand the difficulties of the Attor--| gaged in a gambling underworld _ ney--General with regard to limita--| here controlled by Manny Feder, _ tions. If those limitations are too| was made in the Legislature yester-- great, then let effective amend-- | day by Opposition Leader Ligcuten-- _ ments be introduced making it pos--| ant--Colonel George Drew, who call-- _ sible for the Provincial authorities| ed upon the Government to _ put to take effective steps. i these "miserable beasts" out of busi-- "A man named Manny Feder : ness by immediate action to enforce > ay;jas Pyller, is the underworld lm.d'f the law in the suburbs of Toronto. in this area," continued Colonel| Colonel Drew said that Feder; !rmyrew, '"'This same Feder has done | wlias Fuller, lived in a luxurl0Us (pime He has in his employ armed apartment a stone's--throw from i6 _ tpnugs and convicted gunmen. One Parliament Buildings; that he was of them was sentenced to over | extending "like an octopus" and | iwonty yvears for armed robbery. He | forcing small bookmakers to CcoOM® _ jiyes in 'Toronto, where he is well under hl.s (;mlrol: that thugs tfm- known to the Attorney--General. | loyed by Feder beat up members : * | 2( rival organizations, and that men Mgn l}eaton Up. had recently left hospital after re-- "This underworld has telephone s ceiving treatment for injuries suf. _ lines and a whole organized system fered at the hands of these gun. ; Of control. Only recently men left men. The Opposition Leader called hospital who were beaten up by upon the Government to pass any |these thugs. We have knowledge s amendments to existing statutes | Of this We have reason to be | ' which may be necessary to remove | proud l:mt'no larg:":sczlle xack'cme.r- "any real impediment" to wiping |!"€ flmfn.\m.s.m. I'oF'ontn. Yet m' but the underworld g_z_;mbllng racket. !h.(' adjacent mc."amun(l xhc.c'nt_\ | There was no finality reached on |3re thuss who have been driven | the Opposition Leader's proposal. ?lm nfl lhs United blf'm"'"a"fd ?l.z but a major debate ensued, in which _ | / 03;,';_'_':'-" O""X."C, ."d'\f:- 0\, Fars Premier Hepburn, Attorney--General ! ": :"' ""," t C.'"cl'ld-' "l'f-'ou."f"z ' Conant, Lecpold Macaulay and other | | ;n,u' C g'w, ,m", o o hul ?"\ '"'";i | members of the House look part. ' want to say that this x;am)lu?&.'l Mr. Macaulay said all the necessary ira(.k" ie a maler .0[ deep eqnterh | * * C ks * """" l|to the military authorities. Young powers for suppression of the #@M-- | men in the armed forces jare en-- | bling rackets lay in the hands of Iticed to go into these places and | the Attorney--General, and . he de. | they 'often find themselve. embar--| clared: "Let me be in your PlaCt | raszeq to the point where it affects | (Mr. Conant's) for twelve hours and |jpojp military duties. | i I'll close them up." s "I raise this matter so that we | .Thl.\' was the first vigorous criti-- may have an opportunity of dealing | cism offered by the Opposition dur-- with it without any legal re--| ing the current session of the Legis= _ s;raint," continued Colonel Drew.| lature. "I want the members of the House | Mr. Conant bore the brunt of the to know the extent of the bestiality | attack. He described how he had _ which accompanies this racket. Fol--| repeatedlyv offered the municipalities L 4 i surrounding Toronto the services of _ lO0wing the bombing of one of these the Ontario Provincial Police. but ::amhlmg joints by a rival gang, the municipalities -- invariably > do-- .lh:-w ml.-orahlr'- i.)ca»ls'\\'erv brought clined to avail themselves of the in. from the L-n.nod blams"for pay offer. Once a municipality forms a and so dealt with members ?f the police commission and appoints| 2PPOSNE Sang that 13'""" EOE left thereto the members as specified by ';)" the Nelen of "_'f""h' _"'."." legf law, the Attorney--General has no "'k"';) by clubs with which they right to interfere, he said. \\f:( eaten on the Qr_d(',""' of this "I regard them as being in & overlord of the underworld. semi,. quasi--judicial position,." de--! : Organized Theft of Funds. clared Mr. Conant. A little later the: | "Dpo not think I am not apprecia-- Attorney--Ceneral, in a reference to tive of the thoroughly human in-- light penaltics imposed on gamblers stincts with regard to gambling. and racketeers, said: "Surely I am |But 'there is a large difference be-- not being asked to go to a magis-- tween casual gambling and this trate and ask him to impose heavier organized theft of public funds, for penalties? I do agree that the fin~! | that is what it is, to the extent of ing of keepers is simply a glorified hundreds «of thousands of dollars . or legalized license fee. The only|; ycoarly. That is the sort of thing | we cannot permit. "We stand with our backs to the | % wall today not only against the en-- emy in the field, but in defense of our way of life, and part of the | * fabric of that way of life is that | wrongdoing will be punished by the | f long arm of the law, and if the Iawi * doesn't go far enough, laws that | will must be passed. | e %