RCMP caught

in act
of snooping

Communists, trade unionists, members of the NDP and other progres-
sive Canadians have long maintained that the RCMP is a political police
force which enjoys far too much leeway in conducting tts “business.” Now,
the PT has learned that Nigel Morgan, provincia’ leader of the Commu-
nist Party, has written a letter to Lucien Cardin, Justice Minister, demand:
ing action to stop the Mounties’ Gestapo-like intimidation and harassment.
The full text of Morgan’s letter follows.

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During the month of December
last, while I was on a speaking
tour of the southern interior of
British Columbia, addressing
public meetings in regard to my
party’s program for the forth-
coming session of Parliament, I
noticed ( as did a number of
personal friends I visited) that I
was being followed by two sus-
picious-looking men in a Valiant
sedan,

Twice in the last five years,
vials of acid have been hurled
on my car, The tires, radiator,
and fuel tank have been tampered
with numerous times, creating 4
potential hazard on the highways,

Therefore I was anxious to
ascertain the identity of the two
men who were so obviously
following me. On several oc-

easions, while I was in towns
where I could confront them in
the presence of other citizens, I
endeavoured to do so and ask
them to identify themselves,

NIGEL MORGAN

On each occasion _they at-
tempted to hide their faces, and
sped away.

I have checked the license
ownership with the office of the
Superintendent of Motor Ve-
hicles, and now have a certifi-
cate showing the owner of B,C.
License No, 408-701 to be “Gov-
ernment of Canada, Royal Can-
adian Mounted Police, Cran-
brook, British Columbia.”

This car followed me for sev-
eral days, travelling several
hundred miles of highway and side
roads between Creston and
Fernie, B.C, and return,

I have snapshots, and some 28
witnesses to this fact; and that
a similar vehicle (B.C. License
No, 544-151) did likewise in the
Kamloops arec,

Since my meetings are publicly
advertised, open to anyone who
wishes to come, and since com-
plaints registered with the police
concerning damage to my Car,
bullets and other projectiles fired
through my home windows, have
been met with only very cursory
and brief interviews with no fur-
ther results, I can only conclude
that the above action is only in-
timidation and harassment,

If it continues I intend to take
further steps to deal with the
matter, Iaskthat youaccomplish
this by proper directive from
your Department to the particu-
lar branch of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police concerned,

4 _ Yours truly,
« Nigel Morgan,

With this edition, the Pacific
Tribune is cutting back to a
regular eight-page paper, This
unwanted, most distasteful step
has been forced upon us by
losses sustained in our circu-
lation last year,

We ended 1965 with several
‘hundred less subscribers than
we had when we entered it. This
resulted in a sharp operating
deficit which, if duplicated this
year, would endanger the very
life of the paper,

Rather than risk continued
publication, the press commit-
tee and PT management have
relu tantly decided to cut down
on printing costs and take what-
ever steps are necessary to
| strengthen our position, —

Our income from the Annual
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donations and bequests, and

A message
fo our readers

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It should be noted, in pass-
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When we begin to advance in
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Car Registration Card for B.C. License No. 408-701. On
December 29, 1965; Nigel Morgan wrote the Motor Veh-

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Anti-imperialist parley
is successful, says Fidel

By L. C. and F. W. PARK
“It was a success,” declared
Fidel Castro, closing the First
Afro- Asian-Latin American
Solidarity Conference in a two-
hour speech at the Chaplin
Theatre in Havana,

“It was a success in spite of
prophecies by, the imperialists
that it would fail, due to the prob-
lems of the international com-
munist movement,

“But what* the imperialists
least expected to happen has
happened,” he said, “A Three
Continent organization has been
set up; the conference decisions
represent the hopes of the peoples
fighting for liberation; a commit-
tee to aid the movements of
liberation has been established;
the Conference is a success,”

“And what pains them even
more,” said Fidel, “is that Cuba
has been named as temporary
headquarters of the new soli-
darity organization until the next
Three Continent Conference is

held,”

The 5,000-word General Dec-
laration of the Conference em-
phasizes the inalienable right 0}
every nation to total political
independence, and to use any
means of struggle necessary to
win that right, including armed
struggle,

On this point conference speak=
ers and documents were very
clear. The peoples have the right
to oppose imperialist violence
with revolutionary violence in
order to protect national sover-

-eignty and independence.

And when all constitutional
roads to a better life are closed
by repression, then equally the
people have the right to meet
violence with violence,

This was a conference of the
third world, of representatives
of peoples organizations from 82
countries, the third world of un-
derdeveloped and mass poverty;
yet a world that politically and
geographically includes the So-
viet Union and the other social-
ist countries of Asia, those turn-
ing to socialism in Africa, anc
revolutionary Cuba now building
socialism,

>

- special messages,

It was a conference of people
concerned with the need for unity
in action on the points that in-
terest nations in struggle against
imperialism, colonialism and
neo-colonialism.

And in this struggle, as speak-
er after speaker emphasized, it
is U.S. imperialism that plays the
main role and is the common
enemy.

The conference showed, and
this was a point stressed by Fidel
Castro, that independent of their
strength or resources or size,
nations have a voice and an
opinion, have their own indepen-
dent criteria, their own points
of view.

It was a conference that
reached out to the working-class
and progressive movements in
the capitalist world, both in the
General Declaration and in two
one to the
working class and peoples move-
ments of Europe and North
America, another to the people
of the United States,

IMMES ATER,
OF MOTOR Vs
IS AN OFFER

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_ownernhip of the car which had been “‘tailing’’ him. A
few days later the above photostat arrived at Morgan's
house, showing clearly the car belongs to the RCMP.

The message to the people of
the United States greets the
struggle in America against the
Vietnam war, denounces the
crimes of U.S, racists, and hails
the growing convergence of the
movements for peace and for
civil rights.

The message to the working
class and peoples movements of
the capitalist world appeals for
increased solidarity in the com=-
mon struggle against a common
enemy. “The new world for which
we fight today,” says the mes-
sage, “opens great perspectives
to all mankind and we all have a
place of honor in the fight to
achieve it.”

Conference documents include
the General Declaration and re-
ports from political, economic
and cultural commissions, as
well as‘a series of special reso-
lutions on pressing problems

_starting, of course, with Vietnam.

Organizational problems and
their solution kept the conference
in session two days past the
scheduled closing time.

FIDEL CASTRO
February 11, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

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