om Meet Jian Legion in Nel- decided that unless ouncil changed its ‘applying to War- e& for 50 units for veterans urgently Sing, 2 stiff speech ithe selfish attitude ioody in this regard, fer ©KLN, inform- of things that they w. Monday night d, the City Council mpletely, capitulated bined. demands of ‘ets for the erection es. - forgan, Provincial ved in Nelson two yards to speak on campaign. Listen- at 5:45 on Wednes- ard him say: “fhe Vs proposal of last tain 50 homes im- through Wartime 5 an important step +t direction, but it ‘yy enough when 55 me were registered liate need.’ 78 vets need homes + the remainder re- 1 out the question- ared by the Council the personal nature stions listed.) the “news” of 41st by a Canad- tafi writer, to the “Inspector” ILeo- i¢ R.C.M.P., alias lwein, “the man | -into the Com- ‘ty, now leads the y hunt.” With ational” tid-bit of 6 stale odor of the witch-brews be- » fully revealed. Ko} retary in 1921. yas the star witness. st monthly meeting spionage scare moved forward with - ration of press and radio “revela- sont Ganadians everywhere, to use a ‘began to “smell a rat.” nore clear that whatever intent lay the Prime Muinister’s original statement ze in Canada, the manner in which it andied has permitted the issue to be- ‘ocal point of a reactionary inspired hysteria. Doubts which persisted of of the red scare were further supple- n was an R.C.M.P. stool in the labor of Ganeda for a whole decade; stool- OBU and the Regina Trades and La- I, and in the Communist Party, where td to worm his way to the position of While the CPC knew and made Re- atity as a police stool, E ts cognizant of Wounipee trade unionis e was not expelled from the C.P. of C. 1931 “trials?? of the eight Communist \der the infamous Section 98 of the Sede (sired by the arch-tory reaction- > Meighen), E'sselwein, then “Sergeant His “evidence” “Nelson’s mayor and City Council,’ continued Morgan, “and particularly the veterans and labor organizations that originated the demand were to be highly commended. This plan will eliminate much hardship— it deserves expanding.” Mr. Morgan spoke consecu- tively in Nelson, Trail and Cranbrook, stressing the urg- ent need for hemes throughout the country, and especially in British Columbia. On every oc-- ecasion he was met with en- thusiasm from his listeners. In Cranbrook especially, though the meeting was comparatively small, it contained a power house. A newly-formed housing committee went out of that meeting comprised of Al Par- kin, Business Agent for the TWA Local 1-405 as Chairman, two members of the Cranbrook Board of Trade, the editor of the newspaper, and others, all determined to really dig in and do something about the deplor- able housing situation in their town. While in Trail, the largest operation of its kind in the world, Mr. Morgan spent time in the afternoon being conduc- ted on a tour of the plant. He then attended a sizeable meeting of some of the Trail, Rossland, and Nelson party members in connection with the formation of a constituency committee in this area. MYRTLE HAWKEY. It was daily penitentiary. little effort. hunt’? ? ian people. The associa double CIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGES witness, ow we learn = This information an be discarded as cheap newspaper ‘sensationalism. not Be Poe atten by organized labor is the knowl- edge that the dignity, decency, peace, and secur- ity of Canada is being endangered by such pub- f rats turned loose, to gnaw asund- er the bonds of Canadian-Soviet friendship. To gnaw asunder the unity of Canadian labor in its struggle for jobs, homes, and progress. 0 Labor to speak out in strong condemnation of the espionage witch-hunt and its grave implica- tions to the aspirations and hopes of the Canad- lic: gloating o LPP Social The Wictoria LPP Party held @ most successful Walentine dinner and concert recently. The lady comrades prepared the dinner and staged the con- cert afterwards. About 100 people attended and enjoyed the event so much that re- quests have come in for a re- peat performance. Dick Rose, the pianist, was ealled upon to accompany many singers and performers, among the best were the Ukrainian girls dance team. They staged one of their beautiful Ukxain- jan folk dances and afterwards as an orchestra, they played melodies of their homeland. Qne of our East Indian Com- rades, Sarvin Singh, sang a love song of his native India, which charmed the audience. It was translated afterwards by Comrade Darshan Singh and lest nothing in the retelling. Tod Noble entertained the company with his guitar and cowboy rangeland songs, many comrades contributed to the evening’s enjoyment. The dance ~ which followed was enjoyed by all. : Responsible for the success- ful venture were the social committee, composed of Com- rades, Ada Beaumont; Marion Noble; Dodo Clark; Esther Thompson; Betty Thompson, who take this opportunity of thanking all those who con- tributed to the success of the entertainment. BOB NOBLE. y Scare Calls Up fessional Stools » tn mw was of little value or account, but his presence, as in the ease of all such political trials, served to glamorize the RCMP “get their man” tripe, just as a “Sergeant” Janeth a decade earlier, as “expert” ‘ necessary atmosphere in the “trials” of the 1919 Winnipes strike leaders, which sent them to the and stool provided the In the deportation of foreign-born and British workers from Canada for their labor activities .during the “Hungry Thirties,’ Leopold was al- ways on hand as the “expert”? on labor ideals and objectives. rally of the tre addressed by such champions of labor as the late Arthur Evans, for the right of Canadians to wages and employment, Leopold was in the audience, dressed and acting the role of a low- grade bum and provocateur—a role he filled with While the “On-to-Ottawa” mass kkers was being held in Ottawa, he leads the “Russian spy What must decent wages, healthful Tt is time for Canadian tion of Leopold’s name and voca- tion with the espionage issue, is not only an insult to the people of the Soviet Union, insult to Canadian labor. accomplished one thing—It has put a marked- down price tag on a questionable piece of goods- But it has scree but a_ Spy Seare While = am writing this there is a spy scare being: played up in the press and on the radio. By the time this gets into print, the scare may be all over, since I am at present in a place with an atrocious postal service and more than a weekr will transpire between the writing of the column and its appearance in print. So, if it is out of date, you will understand. One thing the present “spy” nonsense proves to me, is that the Mounties and their masters do not learn any new tricks. After the last war the workers in the West here launched the OBUW. It was an effort of the labor movement to prevent the bosses from breaking up the unions and lowering the standard of living that the workers had won during the war. While the OBU was still in the formative stage, a strike occurred at the plant of one of the leading Canadian steel companies. The strike was a reply to the attack on the whole Canadian labor movement launched by the Canadian Manufacturers Association. In all the indus- trial and mining centers in the West, support for the strikers was whole hearted and sympathetic strikes broke out everywhere west of Winnipeg. The press went to work just as they have done in this latest allered “spy” seare. The imagination of all the jerkwater journalists was given free rein. They concocted the same kind of nonsensical drivel that we have been treated to in the past week. According to them the strikes were the work of Bolshevik agents whose plans were supposed to aim at setting up in Canada of a Soviet government. One of the lying fra- ternity, Col. G. G. Porter, actually described the headquarters of the Soviet government in “a shack on the banks of the Red \River.” And what did the Mounties do in Vancouver? Why! to save our threatened country from Bolshevism, they struck out in the manner that has become associated with the men of Scarlet and Gold and the yellow stripe, they immediately arrested everybody in Vancouver who spoke Russian, that is, with the exception of a few stool pigeons, whom they used to make a case against. They, no doubt thought they were killing two birds with one stone, fostering a spirit of antagonism against the Soviet Union (which, by the way, took a long time to over- come), and sowing the seeds of déstruction in the most progressive section of the labor movemens. History Repeats They are going through the same routine today. Like their ©MA bosses, they are no doubt satis- fied that the workers, whose memories are notoriously short will have forgotten just what happened in 1919. Marxist dialectics, which teaches us that we live in a world in which everything is continuously changing, may also have its exception which, as the saying goes, proves the rule—the Mounties in which nothing seems to change. We discover the same old plants in the places where they hope to make a killing; stool pigeons whose job is to provide evidence that will satisfy a judge when some innocent victim is to be made a medium for an attack on the labor movement. Such was the Mounted Policeman, Corporal Zaneth, who was planted in the Calgary local of the Socialist Party of Canada, to make evidence for the jailing of the leaders of the OBU. Such also was the unspeakable Sergeant Teopold, alias Esselwein, who was planted in the Communist Party of Canada to manufacture evidence to send the C.P. leaders te jail. And in Vancouver, didn’t we have our own RJC.M.P. agent, repulsive “Doc” Smith, labor spy and associate of dope peddlers. I came in contact with a few of these rats personally, and because of them would not trust any of the others as far as I could throw them. It would be no trick for the Mounties to plant one of their number like Zaneth, Leopold or “Doc” Smith, in the Soviet Embassy, the LPP or some of the leading trade unions. past to prove that that is how they construct their case against those who are non persona grata to their political bosses. When the loggers were well organized during the OBU days every logging camp had its Mountie stool pigeon. They have admitted it. Both the press and the Mounties in the present case, apparently think that the leaders of the Soviet government must be stupid. But the experience of these leaders with spies has been extensive and comprehensive. Their country has been subjected to the attention of every brand of spy since the revolution of 1917. They, came in the guise of helpers, as engineers to assist in the reconstruction of the country and as workers of the American Relief Administration, almost every one of whose staff was a military spy. The leaders of the Soviet government know the methods of the spies and they know the forms of surveillance to which their repre- sentatives abroad are subjected. Therefore, to credit them with the activities the press has done in the past week is actually placing them in the category of morons. The manner in which they prosecuted the war against fascism gives that estimate the lie and brands “th boys of the press” as either fools or rogues. ; Yes! It is a warning to the trade union movement! FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1945 We have evidence enough of their -