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"I'd like to clear that up," said Mr. Roberts. "I was the speaker not a French-Canadian. I was in: trdducing a brilliant young man of your race and spoke his tongue in courtesy. The noise from a small group was not a disapproval of him or his race. He was elected a few minutes later to the office being considered." When Mr. Parent, making his first Legislature address, accusef Premier Drew of having declared, the C.I.O. should never enter On- tario, he crossed swords with Pro- vincial Treasurer Frost who, in the Premier', absence from the House, declared such a statement had never been made. Mr. Parent as- serted it had been said in 193T, Mr. Frost denied this. Mr. Parent promptly ran afoul of Kelso Roberts (P.C., Toronto-St. Patrick) when he said his race (French-Canadian) had taken many "slurs" frbm the' "Tory group" and recalled that at a Progressive Conservative meet-I ing in Toronto a speaker had been' howled down for speaking French. , Mr. Roberts Explains 1 Joseph Salsbei'g took issue with Premier Drew for attacking Com- munists in labor ranks, attributing the Premier's attitude to "typical reaction." Labor had always fought for its just rights, he contended, and its leaders had always been ac- cused of treason or similar objec- tives. He supported his leader, A. A. Macleod, who had earlier proposed a national loan to finance lou. iental housing, and proposed a Pro. vincial program to seek $200,000.UOO to subsidize housing. Jobs rather than labor laws tur- ured most prominently in Mr. Har- vey's address when he urged the Government to adopt a policy of insisting on processing in Canada of Ontario forest resources rather than permitting raw or partly fin- ished forest resources to be ex- ported. He also urged support of national health proposals, stresssing that in rural areas health facilities were extremely inadequate and par- ticularly requesting closer attention to the conditions of aged indigent persons in public homes. 1 At the conclusion of the afternoon session, Premier George Drew in- dicated that debate on the Throne Speech motion would probably end today, according to information he had received. but said that the House would continue to sit. Much legislation awaited consideration. he said, and this would be undertaken it and when the vote was concluded on the debate. Calls for Home Processing Labor took the major spot in subjects reviewed by speakers during the continuation of the Throne Speech debate yesterday in the Legislature. Members of Opposition groups were the only speakers. The Government mqmbers had concluded their dis. cussion of the motion but Jdiiiirh"" ---r--- "* Salsberg (L.P., Toronto-St. An- "Nevertheless," said Mr. Parent, drew's), G. 1. Harvey (CCF, Sault "the booing occured when French Ste. Marie) and Alex A. Parent was spoken." (Ind. Essex N.) continued the de. Mr. Parent then took Labor Min- hate, and J. A. Mabel (L., Cochrane lster Daley to task for having gone N.) moved adjournment, indicating to Paris in the face of a strike at further word from his party before. Windsor of a union to which he be. the vote is taken. ', longed and which had sought for Labor Note ls Dominant As Opposition Members Speak in Legislature There was early in his ed: "The Ge IiNg cricket ir '1'nere was laughter, too, when, early in his address, he complain- ed: "The Government is not play- ing cricket in denying us (the two- man Labor-Protrfessive group) a room, especially when the Govern- ment itself represents a minority. -- v--'-- ulna y'llll' ers but had refused and the print- ers' leaders had been jailed, he said. He roused laughter in the House when he added: "Evidently The Globe's George's are always causing us trouble." ; Reminded by Planning and De. velopment Minister Dana Porter that Tim Buck, National Labor- Progressive Leader, had advocated a national proposal to build $50,000 houses a year, Mr. Salsberg said he agreed with the proposal but still believed Ontario should have its own plan. Recalls Days of Old Globe Calling for greater union secur- ity, Mr. Salsberg criticized the present Ontario labor policy as "unacceptable" and said it was at times "openly anti-labor as in the Ford strike at Windsor." He re- called that those who had opposed the printers' just demand for a nine-hour day 75 years ago had called a demonstration by 10,000 at Queen's Park "riots." Hon. George Brown of the old Globe and mem- bers of the Printers' Association had len asked to meet the print- Mr. Parent then took Labor Min- ister Daley to task for having gone to Parts in the face of a strike at Windsor of a union to which he he. longed and which had sought for t8 months to reach agreement with the Ford Motor Company, which offered no good faith as a negotiat- ing requirement. Then the On- tario Government sent in Provin- cial police, he said, and Attorney- General Blackwell had made an an- tagonistic address over the radio. In the face of this, he said, pickets walked lines for 99 days without once breaking ranks, evidence of their belief in union security which Mr. Daley publicly had said was of "little importance." The Government had explained several times this session that housing and control of materials and labor was still a Federal au- thority under emergency legisla- tion, Mr. Salsberg said, but he urged that Ontario should inaugu- rate its own housing program and "end its sit-down" on housing. partisan Ontario Housing Commis- sion similar to the Hydro Commis- sion and that the Government should float a $200 million loan to build low-rental. not low-cost houses. Citizens, he believed, would be anxious to subscribe to such a loan. He advocated setting up a non- When questioned by Labor Minis. ter Daley about who managed "such a place," Mr. Harvey said the manager "was doing an excel. lent job under terrible, handicapped conditions." His plea, he said, was the general improvement of the conditions, not Just a change in management. 35,000 cords to match the volume exported from the Province tor processing by mills and labor else- where, Mr. Harvey said, in pleading tor greater processing of Ontario resources. He also urged the Gov- ernment to adopt a program of re- forestation. not a replanting of de. pleted land areas, but a program to replace timber removed from good areas. In urging closer attention to, and greater assistance for persons re- quiring health assistance, Mr. Harvey described an aged persons home in his riding as "a stinking, obnoxious mess." Crippled old men and women were crowded into an inadequate building, a firetrap. They crawled three or four flights of stairs three times a day to reach a cold, damp dining-room in a base- ment. Despite its huge production and farflung mill empire, the consump- tion of the Abitibi Corporation of Ontario forest resources failed by in Canada and Ontario. Revolution, need not he on the agenda." Later,' he said: "We have never raised the; question of introducing socialism in! Ontario, but subscribe to a phi- losophy that has a world outlet.) This is not an issue today--not an immediate issue, that is." . The issue today. he declared, is jobs. Calls for Reforestation "I am not tuivocktGir" revolution, but an uninterrupted advance of the majority of the democratic people He entered into an extended de- tense ot the Communists, who, he said, were not a small group. One- sixth of the world was embraced within the Soviet Union, and added: Mr. Salsherg termed the Speech from the Throne "a device to cre- ate an illusion of motion while actually standing still," opposed the speeding up of business at this ses- sion, and suggested a fall session of the House. "I don't need any sympathy," torted Mr. Duckworth. Suggests Fall Session It's not the British way." He also said he "resented" being left off the Legislature's committee on art, where he felt he could be of great help to William Duckworth (P.C.. Toronto - Dovercourt), chairman last year. hawk IS He also left off a on art, of great