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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 ( 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 was a popular MPP inside and outside the house and was respected by members of all parties.
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 was the sole communist in the Legislature after the 1951 election in which MacLeod lost his seat.
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 was also involved in a variety of cultural activities, including Yiddish-language programs.
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.
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.
His colleague, J. B. Salsberg, was elected in the neighbouring riding of St. Andrew.
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.
Meanwhile, Salsberg had started another hobbyist magazine, Modern Electronics ; and Mims wrote a monthly column and was a contributing editor.
One seat was won by J. B. Salsberg of the Labour-Progressive Party ( which was the Communist Party of Ontario ).
The Labour-Progressive Party ( which was the Communist Party ) lost its last remaining seat with the defeat of J. B. Salsberg.
Several days following the election the Labour-Progressive Party was officially formed and Salsberg and MacLeod agreed to sit in the legislature as the party's representatives.

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

Salsberg and MacLeod
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.
Two seats were won by the Labour-Progressive Party on its own with the re-election of A. A. MacLeod and J. B. Salsberg.
B. Salsberg and A. A. MacLeod.
The LPP only ran two candidates, Salsberg and MacLeod, in 1948 down from 31 candidates in 1945.
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.

Salsberg and represented
J. B. Salsberg of the Labor-Progressive Party represented the riding from the 1943 election until his defeat in the 1955 election.

Salsberg and riding
B. Salsberg for the downtown Toronto riding of St. Andrew Grossman won, defeating the last Communist in the Ontario legislature.

was and elected
Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.
After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.
Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.
He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.
Francesca and Grazie were habitual committee chairmen and they usually managed to be elected co-chairmen, equal bosses, of whatever PTA or civic project was being launched.
State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.
His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.
-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.
John Di Massimo has been elected president of the 1961 Columbus Day Celebration Committee, it was announced yesterday.
The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.
One of those delightful surprise additions, which so frequently occur in jazz programs, was an excellent stint at the drums by the great Joe Jones, drumming to `` Old Man River '', which seems to have been elected the favorite solo for the boys on the batterie at this year's concerts.
With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.
In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.
Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.
Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.
The newly elected abbot was to put off his shoes at the door of the church, and proceed barefoot to meet the members of the house advancing in a procession.
Secret ballots were introduced, and a bicameral parliament was elected on 9 March 1857, by which time 109, 917 people lived in the province.
Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a supporter of George Brown in 1861.
Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.
He donned the toga virilis four years later, and was elected to the College of Pontiffs in 47 BC.
These scholars also maintain that Jesus was the only human ever elected and that individuals must be " in Christ " ( Eph 1: 3 – 4 ) through faith to be part of the elect.
As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.
In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

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