Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of blasting the King's representative in Ontario as he had planned, Premier "Mitch," after the first paroxysms of his triumph, began behaving like the canny farmer he is. at heart. Claiming his Conservative predecessors had left him a budgetary deficit of $3,734,000 which they "falsely represented" as a surplus of $476,000, "Mitch" started balancing Ontario's budget by cutting his own salary as Premier from $12,000 to $10,000, cut his Cabinet Members from $10,000 to $8,000. Further slashing reduced Ontario Government salaries all along the line, cuts in some...
...capitalist Canadian circles this was "the Crime of the Century." The next time Premier Hepburn wanted to sell a few Ontario bonds the big Canadian brokerage houses ganged up and boycotted him. Yet, after a few months of fury, the three of the Quebec power companies whose contracts had been torn up quietly made new contracts with Ontario at lower rates. All this left "Mitch" more popular than ever with most Ontario voters and users of electricity. Last week some of these wealthy Canadian interests which had flayed Premier Hepburn for tearing up the power contracts were now arrayed behind...
...Conservatives ought to honor the torn-up power contracts-but they dare not promise that, since it would up electricity costs to Ontario voters. As Conservatives they ought to balance the budget-but "Mitch" already has. Again as Conservatives they can hardly champion the C. I. O. against Premier Hepburn yet, ludicrously enough, since "Mitch" has made C. I. O. what is supposed to be the main issue of Ontario's campaign, the Conservatives were valiantly trying last week to straddle on this and put themselves forward as Labor's friends. Since "Mitch" is too flamboyant...
...nonsense in this is that Canada's Federal Cabinet alone could take the drastic measures against C. I. O.-such as total exclusion from Canada - which "Mitch" wants to take and talks as if he had taken. In fact Premier Hepburn is not standing and cannot "stand right on top" of C. I. O. unless ultimately he should become Prime Minister of the whole Dominion. Today an estimated 20,000 Ontario toilers have C. I. O. affiliation and are unmolested-but gusty, voracious "Mitch" knows how to sound as if he had eat them alive...
...rate, never before has a campaigning British political leader so heartily abused the White House occupant. According to Premier Hepburn the sum of $500,000 was contributed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political fortunes by John L. Lewis. Ontario farmers grin, figuring that "Mitch" is only having his fun when he makes such charges, but the Premier continues roaring at Washington from public platforms: "Is it any wonder that [Lewis] can corrupt governments with a slush fund of that size...