Show alien enemies worry canada returned soldiers protest against foreigners filling positions they need EXPECT FIGHT ON REPEAL war times election act repeat la opposed educational test may be made to disfranchise many of origin toronto despite the approach of normal peace when there will be no more enemies the alien enemy question Is still far from settled in canada controversy surges around two points first Is the alien enemy to be allowed to work and second la he to be allowed to vote conditions during war ahen the war was on the alien en emy worked there were many objections to it but labor waa so scarce that the alien enemy who could work was rarely interfered with and be made big wages now labor Is not so scarce and the alien job Is more precarious it Is not employers who are interfering with him nor is it government authority pressure comes from the returned soldiers when their verbal protests get no results or produce only formal assurances which they know to be insincere they have on occasion raided the factory sometimes with surprising results then the alien enemy Is really out of a job As to the vote the alien enemy lost his privilege during the war now the fight Is as to whether it will be given back to him the war times election act was based on the ground eliat the man who was not eligible to fight it needed eligible to vote a rough and ready rule which served a purpose and it deliberately disfranchised dis all persons of alien enemy origin whether they had canadian citizenship or not fight expected on repeal repeal of this act was expected to immediately follow the close of the war but now the government Is not anxious to a large voting population which Is not likely to support the government that originally als it the parties are lining up for a real old time party scrap on the issue the fight will come in parliament on the introduction of the franchise act promised for an early date one proposal Is that an educational test will be framed which will have the effect of dis franchising large numbers of former canadian citizens of enemy origin even if they get the vote hick many of the alien enemies are going to be out of a job and they would infinitely prefer wartime conditions when they had no vote but had a good job not many german born are affected but there are several hundred thousand natives of the former austrian empire in canada these cause the problem |