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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.
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Salsberg later rejoined the Canadian Jewish Congress ( which had previously expelled its Communist members ).
Meanwhile, Salsberg had started another hobbyist magazine, Modern Electronics ; and Mims wrote a monthly column and was a contributing editor.
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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.
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.
Salsberg also returned to Labour Zionism and, in his old age, was a longtime columnist for the Canadian Jewish News until shortly before his death.
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.
Notable contributors to the newspaper have included J. B. Salsberg, who was a featured columnist in the newspaper for several decades until shortly before his death in 1998, and Rabbi Gunther Plaut, who also contributed a weekly column for many years.
B. Salsberg for the downtown Toronto riding of St. Andrew Grossman won, defeating the last Communist in the Ontario legislature.
Two members of the banned Communist Party of Ontario running as " Labour " candidates won seats in the Legislature for the first time in this election: A. A. MacLeod in the Toronto riding of Bellwoods, and J. B. Salsberg in the Toronto riding of St. Andrews.
He once ran for public office losing to Communist J. B. Salsberg of the Labour-Progressive Party after World War II.
Salsberg and been
Leslie Frost, the province's Progressive Conservative Premier from 1949 to 1961, respected Salsberg's abilities as a parliamentarian ; it has even been reported that Frost was willing to offer Salsberg a cabinet position if he defected to the Progressive Conservative Party.
Salsberg and with
Born in Lugov, in what is now Poland, Salsberg emigrated to Canada with his parents in 1913 at age 11, settling in Toronto.
Two seats were won by the Labour-Progressive Party on its own with the re-election of A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Salsberg.
The Labour-Progressive Party ( which was the Communist Party ) lost its last remaining seat with the defeat of J. B. Salsberg.
Salsberg and Soviet
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.
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 and Canadian
) Salsberg ( November 5, 1903-1998 ) was a Canadian politician, longtime Communist and activist in the Jewish community.
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.
Salsberg and Communist
One seat was won by J. B. Salsberg of the Labour-Progressive Party ( which was the Communist Party of Ontario ).
Salsberg and Tim
Subsequently, he tried to play a balancing role between the Tim Buck's Stalinist faction and the party majority headed by Finnish, Ukrainian and Jewish groups of which J. B. Salsberg was a notable figure.
Salsberg and on
Salsberg attempted to personally confront Nikita Khrushchev on the matter during his second visit, but his concerns were dismissed.
Salsberg reported back to the Labor-Progressive Party and an allied organization, the United Jewish Peoples ' Order on his findings.
Salsberg and .
In 1974, Art Salsberg became editor of Popular Electronics.
* 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.
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.
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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.
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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.
Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
He had done time for the theft.
That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.
He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.
Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
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