Salsberg eulogized Stalin on the house floor when the Soviet leader died in 1953 and this speech was used against him in the 1955 election campaign when he was defeated by Progressive Conservative Allan Grossman.

Salsberg had for several years been concerned with official anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, and had confronted Canadian Communist leader Tim Buck on the subject as early as 1939.

Salsberg reported back to the Labor-Progressive Party and an allied organization, the United Jewish Peoples ' Order on his findings.

Two seats were won by the Labour-Progressive Party on its own with the re-election of A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Salsberg.

* A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Salsberg were LPP members of the Ontario legislature.

Salsberg reported his findings but they were rejected by the party, which initially suspended him from its leading bodies.

The late 1950s were a period of tragedy for Salsberg: in addition to losing his belief in communism ( and his seat in the legislature ), his wife Dora died in 1959.

MacLeod and Salsberg were re-elected in the 1945 provincial election and 1948 Ontario provincial election but lost his seat in the 1951 election-Salsberg remained as the sole LPP MPP for a term until his defeat in the following election.

In 1974, Art Salsberg became editor of Popular Electronics.

As well, the party was riven by a crisis following the return of prominent party member J. B. Salsberg from a trip to the Soviet Union where he found rampant party-sponsored antisemitism.

Ultimately, the crisis resulted in the departure of the United Jewish Peoples ' Order, Salsberg, Robert Laxer and most of the party's Jewish members in 1956.

Using the name Labour-Progressive Party, the group won two seats in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Salsberg served as Members of Provincial Parliament ( MPPs ) from 1943 until 1951 and 1955 respectively.

B. Salsberg.

) Salsberg ( November 5, 1903-1998 ) was a Canadian politician, longtime Communist and activist in the Jewish community.

Born in Lugov, in what is now Poland, Salsberg emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1913 at age 11, settling in Toronto.

In 1932, Salsberg became the Southern Ontario district organizer for the Workers Unity League, a communist-led group which sought to replace Canada's traditional craft unions with industrial unions.

He attained further prominence in this role ; Canadian historian Irving Abella later wrote that Salsberg was known as the " Commissar " of Southern Ontario's trade union movement.

Heckled by adversaries as a puppet of Joseph Stalin, Salsberg joked that "" You're right.

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

Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, Prince of Wales, whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate.

Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various Mediterranean cultures.

Stalin took the matter personally and attempted, unsuccessfully, to assassinate Tito on several occasions.

During the fighting, Spartacus attempted to kill Crassus personally, slaughtering his way toward the general's position, but he succeeded only in killing two of the centurions guarding Crassus.

Louis XI, recognising the danger Margaret posed to him, attempted to buy her off with a French pension and a promise of personally protecting her ; she contemptuously refused, and instead sailed in summer 1480 to London, where she negotiated a resumption of the Anglo-Burgundian alliance, and renewed trade.

Kissinger at first attempted to restore the separation between policy-making and implementation, but eventually found himself personally performing both roles.

Two houses, Norton Priory in Cheshire, and Hexham Abbey in Northumberland, attempted to resist the commissioners by force ; actions which Henry interpreted as treason, resulting in his writing personally to demand the summary brutal punishment of those responsible.

Blix personally made repeated inspection visits to the Iraqi nuclear reactor Osiraq before its attempted destruction by the Iranians, in 1980, and its eventual destruction by the Israeli Air Force in 1981 during Operation Opera.

Prime Minister Okada survived the attempted coup by hiding in a storage shed in his house, but the coup only ended when the Emperor personally ordered an end to the bloodshed.

Afterward, she received messages of condolence from all over the world, many of which she attempted to answer personally.

Williams attempted to contact Koivu to apologize personally, but was only able to leave him a message on his cell phone.

He attempted personally to avoid using the products of slavery ; for example, he wore undyed clothing because slaves were used in the making of dyes.

The Emperor Kōmei personally agreed with such sentiments, and – breaking with centuries of imperial tradition – began to take an active role in matters of state: as opportunities arose, he fulminated against the treaties and attempted to interfere in the shogunal succession.

Bennett attempted to prevent social disorder by evacuating the unemployed to relief camps far away from the cities but this only exacerbated social tensions leading to the " On to Ottawa Trek " of unemployed protesters who intended to ride the rails from Vancouver to Ottawa ( gathering new members along the way ) in order to bring their demands for relief to Bennett personally.

By what his supporters considered wise policy he attempted to pacify the new province, placing Colonel Arthur Phayre in sole charge of it, personally visiting it, and establishing a system of telegraphs and communications.

Worf's mirror universe counterpart personally blamed Garak for losing the Terok Nor station to a Terran ( human ) slave rebellion, although Garak blamed Kira and attempted to manipulate him into trying to get revenge on Kira.

Although Big Bear himself personally attempted to prevent the killings and subsequently expressed regret for the actions of the younger Cree warriors, the events at Frog Lake alarmed the Dominion Government.

Drinan attempted to reconcile his position with official Church doctrine by stating that while he was personally opposed to abortion, considering it " virtual infanticide ," its legality was a separate issue from its morality.

Corcoran quickly impressed many within the Labor Party with his talent for administration and when the Labor Party won government in South Australia in 1965 for the first time in 32 years, new Premier Frank Walsh attempted to groom Corcoran as his successor as a foil to Deputy Leader Don Dunstan, whom Walsh personally disliked.

As Egyptian buffer provinces in the land of the Amurru along the border with the Hittites attempted to change their vassalage, Thutmose III, dealt with the threat personally.

Frost and the Club's agents later attempted to recruit Kitty Pryde for the Massachusetts Academy, and capture ( and personally torture ) several members of the X-Men, including Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, and Phoenix.

Indeed, one of the first foreign operations personally supervised by Panyushkin was Operation Rhine, the attempted assassination of a Ukrainian émigré leader in West Germany.

", and then attempted to personally raise signals demanding reinforcements from the rest of his fleet, only to find that the halyards had been shot away.

When Tommy attempted to rescue her, Zedd personally battled him ( the only time he ever fought a Ranger in hand-to-hand combat ).