B.C. Fed demands action on Klan

The B.C. Federation of Labor
Friday called on education minister
Brian Smith to ‘‘take appropriate
action” to prevent organizers from
the Ku Klux Klan going on to
School property to distribute ma-
terial and recruit members.

Federation secretary Dave Mac-
Intyre said in a telegram to Smith

.. .British Columbia doesn’t
need the kind of hate which this or-

-Sanization is now attempting to
et through the secondary
Schools in the Lower Mainland.”’

The Federation’s demand was
Voiced following the appearance at
Vancouver Technical School, a
Secondary school in Vancouver’s

_ ast end, of a KKK organizer who
distributed cards to students with

the racist message ‘‘. . .racial pur-”

Ity is Canada’s security. Canadian
_ Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.”

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Specific section of the criminal
Code which outlaws ‘‘wilful in-
Citement of hatred against an
identifiable group.”

However, in order for the
Prosecutor’s office to accept the
Charges, the provincial
attorney-general must give his
approval, and no response has
yet been heard from Socred at-
torney-general Allan Williams.

Crump’s charges against
KKK organizers Wolfgang
Droege and Alexander Mc-
Quirter are based on a CBC tape
of the Klan meeting held at the
Coach House Inn motel in
North Vancouver. The CBC
secretly taped the meeting and
tecorded racist speeches aimed
at Chinese and East Indian im-
Migrants and calling for them to
be “repatriated” to their a

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Vancouver Technical principal
David Renwick told the Tribune
that the Klan organizer had distrib-
uted some 25 to 50 cards before
vice-principal Bill Jacobson went
out with other teachers and de-
manded that he leave the property.

Renwick said the Klan’s organiz-
ing was ‘‘deplorable,”’ particularly
since the majority of the student
population in the school was made
up of non-white students.

He warned that if the Klan re-
turned, he would seek legal action
to block them. ;

The Klan organizing campaign
— spearheaded in this province by
two organizers Wolfgang Droege
and former Canadian Armed
Forces second lieutenant Alex-
ander McQuirter — has also been
taken to the B.C. Institute of Tech-
nology in Burnaby. Both Droege
and McQuirter have stated that
they are attempting particularly to

recruit students to their racist

cause. é
MacIntyre said in his telegram to

Smith that the Federation “‘will not
tolerate them (high school
students) being taken advantage of
by this group of hatemongers,”’ ad-
ding that the labor federation ‘‘has
no use for the Klan and the message
of hate against people that they
spread.

“The schools are a place where
young people and children of all
nationalities, races and religions
can learn and practise living and

_ working together for the benefit of

all people,’’ he said.

“We do not need, nor will we.

tolerate an organization like the
Klan spreading its message of hate
and violence through the schools.”’

The Federation statement was
part of a growing revulsion against
the KKK which has attempted a re-
surgence in Toronto and other
cities and recently sent the two or-
ganizers into Vancouver.

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The group brought its racist
pitch for “‘racial purity’’ to a secret
meeting in the Coach House Inn in
North Vancouver last week where
some 20 people were present, two
of whom reportedly signed up with
the Klan.

A CBC film crew sought to
cover the meeting but was ordered
to leave. They had planted a micro-
phone earlier, however, having dis-
covered the meeting through an-
other source. The room was book-
ed by the Klan under a front name,

~ Patriot Press.

On the group’s appearance in
Vancouver, provincial secretary
Evan Wolfe called a press confer-
ence to announce that the attorney-
general’s department would be
monitoring the Klan’s activities in
the province and would act legally
on any incident of “‘scare tactics or
violence.”’

Wolfe also emphasized that the
government “‘would not condone
the philosophy of the KKK or its
members,”’ a comment which ap-
peared to have been made to cover
the Social Credit government’s
earlier refusal to allow introduction
of an anti-Klan motion submitted
by Vancouver-Centre NDP MLA
Emery Barnes.

Barnes introduced a motion into
the legislature July 21 which stated:
“That this assembly declare its af-
firmation that Canada is a multi-
cultural and multi-racial society
founded on respect for the person
regardless of race, religion, color,
sex, ancestry, place of origin, mar-
ital status or any other class; and
that this assembly record its oppo-
sition to the Ku Klux Klan, an or-
ganization which is subversive to
these Canadian traditions; and that
this assembly call on all levels of
government to ensure that all Ca-
nadians are protected from racial
attacks, harassment and intimida-

tion wherever they occur and to

prosecute the perpetrators of those
attacks with the full force of the
law.”’

The Social Credit majority
would not allow the motion on the
legislature floor for debate.

More than a month ago, on
Sept. 16, delegates to the Vancou-
ver and District Labor Council un-
animously endorsed a motion
which stated the council’s con-
demnation of the KKK and its in-
tention ‘‘to do everything possible
to prevent these racists from organ-
izing in Canada.”’

The motion was in response to
the resurgence of Klan organiza-
tion in Toronto where it opened an
office in June and has attempted
active recruiting in other centres in-
cluding Kitchener and Clifford.

Last month more than 1,000
people marched through down-
town Toronto in a demonstration
organized by the Committee for
Racial Equality which has led a
campaign calling on Ontario at-
torney-general Roy McMurtry to
ban the Klan.

On Oct. 14, the national joint
community relations committee of
the Canadian Jewish Congress and

B’nai Brith, appeared before the ~

Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission
to urge that the Klan, as a “‘hate-
mongering group” be banned
from the media.

The committee stressed that sev-
eral radio stations had seized on the

Klan as a “‘controversial’”” group _

and given them considerable air
time with the result that the group
was given ‘‘a credibility and status
of. acceptability that they could
never have hoped for otherwise.’’

The joint committee stressed
that freedom of speech and discus-
sion ‘‘does not mean giving license
to propagandists to disseminate
hatred between various classes and
citizens and non-citizens.”’

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