Legislative Assembly

I have at least a half a dozen or more calling at my office each day to see if any progress is being made in securing work for them. Some who have been laid off claim that Liberals who are working for the Highways Department are given prefer- ence and are allowed to continue work. This is a matter of conjecture inasmuch as now everyone claims to be Conservative.

In our meeting held last Friday evening the Committee strongly recommended the following changes: .

(1) That Harry Bonnell be retired and replaced by Forbes Kennedy.

(2) That Mrs. Lavinia Green, Matron at t e Infirmary and an American CitA izen, should be replaced.

(3) That Clifford Sherran be replaced by Hector MacQuarrie.

(4) That Leroy Cudmore replace Wendell Ford who is definitely a Liberal.

(5) That Bernard McCabe be re-instated and take the place of Fulton Pound.

(6) That Mrs. Ella Bowness, Seamstress at the Sanitarium, be replaced by Mrs. Rita Beer.

(7) That Fred McMahon replace Arthur Henry at the Motor Vehicle Office when the latter is super-annuated.

(8) That Frank Doyle replace Peter Pineau in the Highways Department.

(9) That Harrison Ryan and Emmett Doucette be re-instated immediately.

(10) That George Lemuel Publicover be taken on as Traffic Director on Hills- borough Bridge as soon as possible.

Hoping as many of these recommendations as possible will be followed. Thank- ing you in anticipation of your kind co-operation and assuring you of our desire to be of service to you, I remain,

Very truly yours,

(sgd.) A. J. Haslam Chairman of Labour Replacement Committee."

And we have the following letter: “January 'IVventy-fifth 1 9 6 0 PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Honourable Hubert B. McNeil], M. D., Minister of Health Charlottetown, P. 15.1. I.

My Dear Colleague:

I am enclosin herewith a copy of a letter received from Mr. A. J. Haslam, President of the Fift District Progressive Conservative Association and Chairman of their Labour Replacement Committee for the same constituency.

The letter speaks for itself. I am quite conversant with the many rablems involved in changing the employment of the number of those mentioned in t e letter.

I would appreciate your keeping it before you so that when the opportunity does arrive you may be conversant with the changes asked for by our Association.

Yours sincerely,

(Provincial Secretary) " JDS/aec Encl. 1

Mr. Speaker, duri the seventeenth century the word “Tory” was first hurled across the floor of the “ other of Parliaments”. It was at that time an Irish Gaelic word meaning ‘Bog-Trotter’. Those so labelled were a group of outlawed Irish sup- porters of royalty who hid in the bog-land borderin the King’s Highway, from which place they carried on highway robbery, upon travel ers using the highway. After re- lieving their victims of their valuables they vanished into the bog-land followed, in some instances, by those who had been robbed and who were. very soon lost in the slimy ooze of those lands.

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