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In the 1943 Ontario provincial election, he was elected from the downtown Toronto riding of St. Andrew as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario ( or MPP for Member of Provincial Parliament ) representing the Labor-Progressive Party as the Communist Party of Ontario was known.

The LPP had been founded as the legal face of the Communist Party which had been banned in 1941.

Salsberg was elected alongside fellow LPPer A. A. MacLeod who represented the neighbouring riding of Bellwoods.