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OPPOSITION IN CANADA
(Rec. 7.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, Feb. 4. The Minister of Finance, Mr J. L. Ilsley, speaking in the House of Commons to-day, declared that opponents of the conscription plebiscite who advocated a boycott of the war loan were saboteurs of the national war effort. Such people would be the first to condemn a labour strike in a war industry, but their action was not less reprehensible. ' A Montreal message states that three French-Canadian organisations issued a statement to-day urging members to vote “ no conscription ” in the forthcoming nlebiscite. These organisations are the Montreal branch of the St. John Baptiste Societe. L’Association Catholique de la Jeunnesse Canadienne Francaise, and La Chambre de Commerce des Jeunes,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24834, 6 February 1942, Page 5
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118CONSCRIPTION ISSUE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24834, 6 February 1942, Page 5
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