KIDNAP THREAT
ADOPTED CHILDREN PREMIER OF ONTARIO SPLIT WITH LABOUR GROUP By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received August 31, 5.5 p.m.) TORONTO. August 30 The Toronto Globe-Mail states that the home of the Premier of Ontario, Mr. M. F. Hepburn, is being g led by police as the result of threats at a meeting of members of the Committee for Industrial Organisation at Detroit, to kidnap his adopted children. In a radio announcement on June 11, Mr. Hepburn said: "I am no longer supporting the Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, or his Government and I want all the world to kjiow." Then lie launched into praise for Mr. Maurice Duplessis, Quebec's j'oung
Nationalist Premier, in his recent open defiance of the Prime Minister. . The immediate cause of Mr. Hepburn's revolt was the failure of Mr. Mackenzie King to give him support in his endeavour to expel the Lewis Labour forces (Committee for Industrial Organisation) when they invaded the Canadian motor-car plants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22822, 1 September 1937, Page 13
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