By JOHN emu

(From The Tribune’/s Ottawa Bureau)

EOCTTAWAA, June 3 —--—A whole range of emotions, pol- litical, racial, religious, sec- ltional, and “clasis” was stirred

j during an ‘ extraordinary de- ibate in the House"‘« of Commons f§Mon«day, prdvoked by the admission iof 100 Polish refugee girls,= by iorder in council, to __ aéb as textile ;hands in the mills of Ludger Di- ionne, Liberal MP, for Beauce.

M. J. Coldwell ' ‘received the un- fianimyous -consent of the House to move the ad- journment in order to discuss a matter of im- mediate urgency. ‘Heap objected to manner in which the Polish . girls

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1 Dionne hi-:n_self should have a if A

ment and ‘Dionne 0711 ‘doingf some- thing practical A -by? ' bringing in the Polish girls, he ‘_nevert151€ji1,’§,Ss"'" crit- icized 'the government ’f_or~:.iits dil- atoryness; He. told: the =.Hou.se.'of

trying to children and’ of*Canadians-. V __ Then _.he -addefd: *-‘,"l'joda.y' I have three let-ters".-OI1. my ides’kf‘;s#ayiin,.g that ‘I ’_in"e‘e_d_ no __longer-bother’, b “ cause the girlsiwho .,are'.i=‘t,o"".h}§ brought ,ivrito_ Cfa—nada~ Pare :dead (from starvfatien)..l. C

Both iMr.iiMitche11 and Hon: C. H-owe said they thought .Lud

secure * asdmgission. -for

other 1 [D.P,' 2 re.la‘ti'ves

hearing before the House made its mind._ Mitchell denied that the‘

fat,Ithe moment his (Dion«ne"’s) Judgment and ourcjudgmenti-may have been shortsighted. I don’t

year op.-two andsee the PO-Sition _of,_th'ese girls in our society” at th,at_time.” V‘ ‘ — '

Mitchell appealed “for good- ness sake -do not throw cold water onlsinev-ery Englishman, Irishma.n 3I1Zd"«’Sc,ot\sma.n who wants to come itihjada, or upon every Jew, ’;;.Ukr.ainian or every Pole or TEfurope.a.n who7vv‘ants to come

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hitting since he -has been act- Eiiister in charge of immigrat- only four days, denied, like 11, that he had yet seen the

had been brought in under contract M”-(':HELL,

Canadian tradition and even Can-

‘-—in the face of

adian law which prohibited th imi-

declared, it is

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- put ohjreco..rd against t_ A

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portation of “indentured laborﬂ’, Under the Alien Labor Act, ,h illegal to prepa; t=ransportatio.n. of labor to Canada under contract. A .‘ ..s

Reports of . high turnover of labor in the .Beauce,<»‘~“’_,ills indi- cated that local lalpg-d},s§‘i'as not content to work Colwell citing Ludger Dionne?”

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:l:*say'i n g to be the people , ‘ money to spend.”

leader wanted to r what conditions men‘ were _g»o'ing to be brought to Can,-]

iada to Work in the logging’ indust-l

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A. ‘L, Smith (Progressive Con-i s=ervative, Calgary West) support-E ed much of Coldwell’s argument; He‘ particularly emphasized thei “very sharp departure” from Can-«: adianr ‘policy. The . government should have announced ,ithe‘c.ha.nge to the House, rather than present it with a ‘Fail: Ac-compli’ performed by special order in council. V ’

T/hejthird oibpositiion J i . 9 mentsiiilmove when Soviial '

leacler,vSolon,_l_o greedV ‘ the Beauce” , nticonstitut»-”

‘ During the

passions ~flew. T _.and _accusatioi.ns like “Thats a lie,” and there were sup- p_ose=d;ly>,_ihumorous _, sa;llies,' The de- b;at-e.Ireac,he_c1,, its nadir 1“vvh.,e,n Hon-

‘orable Humphrey Mitchell took the

floor; amid ceaseless intier~ruptions. The sense’?,. of grim tragedy. al- ready emphasized by ‘C-olidW‘e1l,il_.w.as

striki,ngl—.y brought A }ba_Cki ‘to; the;

House by Antony‘Hlynka {(’S.iC.—--' Vegreville). Supporting the govern-

was the faintest resemblance A ,

tween the ‘Be-auce; contingent a, ‘g ;?l mid-err which the Olishi indentured labor such as tﬁj »a?me.*° Canada‘ oriental railroad labor importé e saw “nothing extraor”cl-

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L’; inthe transaction. Canad- limmigration regulations had 'aprogressive‘ly relaxed, yet "”T’mrants had not come for- ,,.~..3€fEo Canada for the obvious _ that displaced ‘persons had’ _jgney_ Dionne‘ provided the sﬁige money, thereby giving i-i.pjrac*‘l:7ical efﬁect to the govern- ments Liberalized policies.

Angus - Mclnnis, (C,C.F., Van- couver) asked what ‘was the poi.nt of complaining that Dionne should be heard first. The quarrel was not with Dionne, but with the gov- ernmentwhich had authorized the movement by.O‘I‘d€I‘ in council and hadmade a major change im- jmigration policy secretly after promising to inform the‘ House if any changes were made.

early this century, He appejaled fl ‘fan element of Britis'h'ju.stic-e” a ‘- said that the House would not so hostile‘ when ’ - i Dionne’s side of-the Polish girl'___.}= question. -Said Mitchell “viewed in thlei light of conditions as thery-,exis=ti;'

believe it was_but_ let us wait a