RCMP ‘Special Branch’
recruits teen-age boy
to spy on own family |

By MARK FRANK
OTTAWA

Unlike the child in this story
about Nazidom, 16 -year old—————
did not play at spies. He was one.
He told his brother all about it in
a fit of childish boasting. The
young lad was staggered by it and
couldn’t stomach his brother’s be-
trayal of his own family to the
RCMP. In his sworn statement he
tells the story of his own refusal
to act as a “squealer” and how he
had a fight with his brother who
threatened he would “kill him” if
he ever told anyone about his spy-
ing activity. It is a revealing docu-
ment showing the lengths to which
a tortured young mind can be driv-
en in renouncing the meaning of
life, exulting in war and death. Here
is the tragic statement sworn be-
fore a notary,of the brother of an
RCMP labor spy:

"My brother” aped™ 16 ——
was and may still be a self-con-
fessed informer for the RCMP. He
boasted that he was one to me pri-
vately and asked me to take on the
job when he left for overseas. Now
I believe my brother is in the Mer-
chant Marine. I refused to take
the job he offered and we had a
big fight about it. Before this hap-
‘ pened, sometime in December, 1949,
and in January 1950. I managed to
find original reports written in my

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Ottawa from which the RCMP
operates an expanding labor spy
system. Workers, who pay the
greater part of federal taxes, are
actually paying the cost of being
spied upon.

brother’s handwriting and typed
for use by the RCMP. He told me
his contact was a man named Mil-

“(He) was always talking about
‘what’s the use living’ and ‘we
might as well die now as later’.
He wanted to join the army or the
navy all the time. He didn’t teil
me where he met Miller originally
but I believe it was when he work-

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ment officials go for dinner parties.
He also hung around the YMCA on
Metcalfe Street where a lot of the
RCMP go. He may have been re-
ruited there. :

“(He) told me they approached
him. They showed him files on his
records at school, all his move-
ments, who his friends were. Then
they said you see we know every-

thing and the only thing you can
do to ‘clear your name’ is how Mil-
ler put it, was to squeal or inform
form them. He told me I could
‘clear my name’ too, if I wanted.
They told him he would never get
a job so long. as the ‘red’ label
wais attached to him. By ‘red’ la-
bel he meant the activity my moth-
er was in. She was active in the
fight for housing veterans on their
return from the war: also in work
on the peace movement and in com-
munity affairs like recreation fac-
ilities and nurseries for the child-
ren. I guess these activities were
not approved of by the RCMP.

“My brother) used to tell me and

others around the youth club that
war between the U. S. and the
USSR wais inevitable and that he
might’ as well be in on the ‘winning
side’ meaning the U. S.....

“ He began to be a disruptive in-
fluence around the household and
inside the club He also was
very rude to the children at home.
He loaned money off his friends
and never returned it. He lied.- In
his reports he betrayed me, his own
brother, secretly to the RCMP with-
out my knowledge. I only learned

of it by reading one of his reports.
I don’t know what made him turn
like that except that it must have
been the result of being unemployed

-and unable to go to school because

of financial difficulties at home.

“He told me that when he ‘left
Ottawa another person would take
over. He said the RCMP were now
working to retruit a young civil
servant. He mtst have been mis-
led by the RCMP who offered him
the spying job, probably making
other promises to him. He thought
he was really bettering himself by
turning informer on seven and,
eight-year-olds as well ag his own
brother and family. All I know is
that (he) began to change soon af-
ter his contact with these men
from a healthy fellow to a liar and
cheat in his ordinary day to day

Dawson miners label union
raiders ‘cold war agents:

- DAWSON, Y.T.

Starting out on the proverbial
shoestring, and faced with power-
ful opposition from the big trade
and transport monopolies which
control most of the Yukon Terri-
tory, the cooperative store launched
by the Dawson Miners’ Union, Local

564 of the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
did a trade turnover of $100,000 in
its 1948-49 fiscal year.

Proud of their effort and the ser-
vice they have been able to bring
to residents of the Klondike, the
Dawson miners are studying possi-

bilities of establishing branches of

the cooperative venture in White-
horse and other Yukon centers,

At its March meeting, the Dawson

‘Miners’ Union scored the warmong-

ers and their stooges in the ranks of
labor who are out to split and weak-
en the unions. Calling for labor
unity on all fronts the Dawson
Miners’ Union resolution declares:

_“. .. We condemn these people
who have entered the ranks of
unions for this despicable purpose
as tools of the bosses and bed-
fellow of fascism. We place our-—
selves on record as staunch sup-
porters of every group working
for unity on the labor front and
peace on the international front.”

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This report of a meeting in Ottawa was to have been handed

over to the RCMP by a spy designated as A-/4,

The minutes

of the meeting were found in the stoolpigeon’s pocket.

living with us. I hope he sees this {rendering the Canadian people in-

and changes his mind about things.”

Luring young potential spy re-
ruits into their private apartments,
and teaching them the secrets of
their black trade while regaling
them with refreshments and similar
inducements for the young mind,
is another chapter in this sordid
story of RCMP Special Branch ac-
tivity.

Civil servants in the employ of
the federal government are ap~-

. parently especially encouraged to

act ag informers, dependent as
they are on the government for
their jobs.

I know of one example in which
a police officer’ held the threat of
dismissal over a young man’s head,
if he did not enter the spy racket.
The case was also revealing in that
the police officer in question defend-
ed the violent attacks by DP’s on
the Ukrainian hall in Winnipeg. He
also falsely: asserted that the LPP
“wants to overthrow the Canadian
government by force.”

This person was asked by the
Officer to join a certain organiza-

tioa in order to inform on_ its
members.

A mounting offensive by reac-
tion is taking place against the
working class, its organizations,
the movement of the people for
peace and human freedom. Symp-

tom of that offensive is the step-/}

ped-up rate of espionage in the
ranks of these organizations and
movements.. The spying is meant
to dovetail with all those plans
conducted on different levels for

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The aim of espionage against
the labor and progressive move:
ment is to spread fear and intimi-
date the ranks of the workers,
to soften up their numbers and _
splinter their organized groups, —
for the fullest implementation of
a program of black reaction.

Espionage against the labor move-
ment can be beaten back. For all
Canadians it means:

1 Strengthening of organizations

of the people everywhere.
Building the mass movements for
peace, jobs and democracy.

2 Exposure to the light of day of

the enemies of the people wher~

ever they may lurk.

3 An appeal to'the young men.

_ and women of Canada to reject
those who would poison their minds —
with a false understanding of the
meaning of the words “democracy”
and “will of the people.” . Win the
youth for peace and real democracy:

Unions enter floats
in May Day parade

..May Day parade and rally this
year is expected to be one of the
best ever held in Vancouver, de
spite the official “cold shoulder”
given the annual labor demonstra~_
tion by right-wing leaderg of the

‘two labor councils. a

Among unions and organiza~_
tions which have'already annoul- —
ced they will enter floats in the
parade are United Fishermen and

Allied Workers Union, Civic Em —

ployee; Union, Marine Workers—
nd Boilermakers Union, the Slav~
ic committee and the Labor-PTo\
gressive party. The Pacific Tri-
bune will also have a float, and
many more unions and groups

expected to participate in the |

giant march and rally.

Next meeting of the May Day —

Committee will be held in Pender?
Auditorium, April 19.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 14, 1950 — PAGE 6