Fascist and anti-Semitic elements here are rallying around Salluste Lavery, K. C., one of the four mayoralty candidates up for election on April 9.
Lavery has the backing of Adrien Arcand, editor of the notorious anti-Jewish Le Patriote. The planks in his program include “the strictest observance of the Lord’s Day Act and other laws which the Jews brazenly violate.”
His campaign was opened from a platform surrounded by steel-helmeted, uniformed storm troopers wearing arm-bands with red swastikas.
An official censor was named by the Canadian Radio Commission to delete derogatory references in campaign broadcasts.
Among the Jewish candidates in the municipal campaign are the following: For Alderman, Joseph Schubert, Berl Schwartz and Max Seigler, all up for re-election; Leon Crestohl, M. B. Signer, Myer Gameroff, Sydney Sarkin and Dave Coveler.
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