Communist Danger Real In Quebec
(Received 1 p.m.) MONTREAL, January 9,
Defending the Quebec anti-Com-munist law, whereby premises used to spread Communist literature were sealed for a year, the Premier, Mr Maurice Duplessis, told the Canadian Club that the danger was now past. It had been so real that the province was threatened with revolution. Replying to criticism that the “padlock law” was not British, he asked: “What about our oaths of loyalty to the King? No loyal British subject, no loyal Canadian can honestly be a Communist.” Replying to a charge that the law attacks free speech, he declared there was a marked difference between free speech and the abuse of right. Nobody was permitted to advocate murder. “Our duty as Christian, loyal, British subjects is to fight Communism. It is the duty of the Dominion Government to fight Communism,” he said. “When the Dominion Government failed, Quebec was justified in taking a bold stand. Never will Communism gain a foothold in Quebec.”
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Northern Advocate, 10 January 1939, Page 10
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