“BAN ON FREE SPEECH”
PROFESSORS’ PROTEST. SITUATION IN TORONTO. VANCOUVER, February 2. The, unusual situation of 68 university professors publicly protesting against police methods in coping with alleged “Red” demonstrators has developed in Toronto. In that city the chief of police, supported by a former mayor, flatly prohibited all meetings or parades of unemployed, declaring thatuthpy were in reality merely machinations of Bolshevik agitators. The unemployed the prohibition, t and a number of bloody clashes with the police occurred in the public parks and streets.
’ 'AS a result, the Mayor-elect, 'Mr Stewart, has announced that the Police Commission must consider the protest of the professors, who are fully supported by the. several hundred students attending the University of Toronto, and must formulate some policy which, while perhaps banning street parades, will''permit of free speech, which it is stated is guaranteed by the Constitution of Canada.
The professors' declare emphatically that a ban on free speech, instead of curbing .agitators, merely serves to stimulate their activities and win them public sympathy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1931, Page 3
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