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...Regulations, Mrs. Nielsen said, are dangerous and undemocratic, have been used against labor to lock up leaders that employers wanted out of the way, in her view lead straight down the road to Fascism...
When Lapointe in an answering speech said that she kept "very bad company," implied that she was a Communist fellow traveler, Mrs. Nielsen rose on a point of privilege, made a speech that threw the House into a howling dither...
...Gestapo" was too much for the Government benches. The whole west of the Chamber raised the roof with outraged yowls of "Order! Order!" When order finally came Mrs. Nielsen finished neatly by taking words out of Lapointe's mouth. "I will do what I think is right whatever may be the consequences...
When she appeared last year in the pleasant suavity of Ottawa, Mrs. Nielsen was an unpleasant reminder that all is not well on the farms of Canada's great West. She looked exactly like what she was, the wife of a poor farmer, tired, badly dressed, with broken nails and an ill-fitting set of store teeth. As an M.P. she has spruced up considerably, but keeps her tart oratorical ability. Typical was her maiden speech: "I feel very much qualified to speak upon this question of relief because for three years I have lived upon relief...
Through their interest in farming cooperatives, the Nielsens joined the social-democratic Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Party. But though she had become a power in the C. C. C. F., Mrs. Nielsen split from them in 1939, formed her own Unity Party, a coalition against the powerful Liberals...