“Alcan is Exposed in Labor Spy
Activity Outside Property!” reads
the banner headline in the cur-
rent issue of Union News, B.C.
district organ of International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers. The story contains the
sworn statement of an ex-Alcan
policeman, George Stanley Wal-
ker. of 2116 West 36th Avenue in
Vancouver, who refused to act
as a labor spy.

Walker, a Vancouver police of-
ficer from 1948 to 1952, left that
job to “take employment with
Kitimat Constructors as a securi-
ty officer at the company’s opera-
tion at Kitimat.”

After Alcan took over police
services at Kitimat in the fall of
1953, Walker was employed as a
‘police sergeant. His statement
says:

“On or about the 15th day of
March, 1954, at about 5 o’clock
in the afternoon, I was instruct-
ed by Mr. Alex Unia, the regional
security officer at Kitimat, to
change from my uniform into
plain Clothes and to follow one
Allan McNabb who had arrived
that afternoon in Kitimat to
keep him under observation, to
find out where he went and the
mames of persons to whom he
spoke and to make a report back.

“In accordance with the in-
structions I had received, I
changed into plain clothes and
went to the Motel at Kitimat.
There I spoke to George Piercey,
the manager of the Motel, and
examined the Motel register
where I found that Allan Mc-
Nabb had registered as a Mine-
Mill representative.
Motel is a private business and
it not operated by Alcan.

“T was advised by the said
George Piercey that McNabb had
‘gone out.
McNabb but was unable to do so
until I returned to the Motel at
about 9 ‘\p.m., at which time I
was advised by the said George
Piercey that McNabb was in a
cabin at the Motel. -

“Tt thereupon made arrange-

\ ments with the said George Pier-

‘ cey to obtain the use of a cabin

‘opposite that occupied by Mc-

Nabb so that I might keep Mc-

Nabb’s cabin under observation,
which I did until midnight.

“On the following day I ap-
proached Mr. Unia and asked
him the reason for my so-called

police duties in relation to Mr.

McNabb. I was informed by Mr.
Unia that McNabb was a repre-
sentative of the CIO.

“T enquired from Mr. Unia

JULIUS ROSENBERG

Policeman who
wouldn’t spy
exposes Alcan

The said .

I attempted to locate -

why McNabb should be followed
simply because he was a CIO
representative and was advised
by Mr. Unia that R. S. S. Wilson,
the personnel manager for the
company who had arrived at
Kitimat by the same boat as Mc-
Nabb, had issued instructions to
find out who met McNabb, where

he went and who spoke to him
“during his stay at Kitimat.

, “I advised Mr. Unia that as a
police officer I objected to~ be-
coming involved in union matters
and did not wish to continue to
act on his instructions.

“{ pointed out that I was a
union man myself and stated that
as a police officer I had no ob-
jection to carrying out normal
police duties, but that I felt that
the instructions he had given me
were outside such normal police
duties and that I did not feel I
had the right or the duty to be-
come involved in union matters.

“As a* result of my said con-
versation with Mr. Unia, his in-
structions to me were discontin-
ued and thereafter two other
police officers, Jack Fraser and
J. C, Andrews, were instructed
to keep McNabb under observa-
tion and I verily believe that
they did so during, the whole of
the period of several weeks that
Mr. McNabb was at Kitimat. Dur-
ing the whole period the said Jack
Fraser and J. C. Andrews carried
out their duties in plain clothes

although they had previously”

been uniformed police officers.

“I subsequently continued my
normal duties as a police officer

at Kitimat until on or about the

5th day of May, 1954, when I
was discharged from my employ-
ment.

“The company has given me
no reason for my discharge but.

1 am advised by the Unemploy-

ment Insurance Commission ‘and
I verily believe that the report
filed with the commission by the
company shows that my discharge
was for ‘cause.’

“T have requested from . the
company a statement as to what
cause they claim to be the basis .
for my discharge but have re-
ceived no answer. I verily be-
lieve that the sole reason for my

discharge was my reluctance to
become involved in union affairs
by carrying out the instructions

given to me by Mr. ous as above
set forth.

“That I have had ‘15 years ex-
perience as a police officer and
have had an exemplary record
throughout that period.”

Railway strike
vote prepared |

Top negotiators for the 145,000 workers on the CNR and CPR will be 2
Vancouer June 25 for a mass meeting of B.C. railway workers in connection with ¢

strike vote scheduled to. be held this month.

A strike of non-operative trades this year is expected unless the railroads er
union demands for fringe benefits covering statutory holidays, sick ’pay, Sunday ovel

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, 1954

Continued

FIVE-DAY ;,

“Other labor groups have fought
and won their fight for five con-

secutive work days and there is .

no reason why this should not ap-
ply to retail employees,”

Vancouver International Air-

port is operating at a profit and

should not ‘be sold, delegates de-
cided. The airport made a net
profit of $78,000 in 1953 and is
expected to top $130,000 this
year.

Vancouver Labor - Progressive
party also took a stand this week
against sale of the airport for $1,-
000,000.

“The city’s experience when
the federal government took over
other Vancouver facilities. has
been a sorry one,” said the LPP
statement. “Since it took over
control of. our harbor facilities
Ottawa has refused pointblank to

‘carry through needed expansion.

Federal authorities even refused
to contribute toward a much-
needed fireboat for protection of
the harbor, or to the building of
a highway along the waterfront
to serve Vancouver’s needs and
De protection in case of
re.”

The LPP is campaigning for a
“Yes” vote on the sewer bylaw
and a “No” vote on the six-day,
shopping week, sale of Larwill
park and the airport. :

Speaking for 8,000 store clerks,
the Save the Wednesday commit-
tee took large ‘advertisements in
the daily papers this week to
urge citizens to kill the six-day
shopping week proposition at the

polls.

Vancouver Labor Council, Civic
Reform Association, Save the
Wednesday committee and the
Labor-Progressive party are all
launching “get out the vote”
drives in order to save. the Wed-
nesday plosing:

Apply science
politics,
urges savant

WINNIPEG

An address made here last
week by Prof. William Rowan of
the University of Alberta to a
meeting of the Royal Society of
Canada has aroused a storm of
controversy. The professor .urg-
ed that the methods of science
must be applied to politics if
humanity is to survive.

Science created the atomic
bomb, he declared, but it was a
political decision to use it. Trygve
Lie had once told the United Na-
tions that “science can blow us
all to smithereens.”

“What he failed to add was that
never in history has science en-
tertained any such ambitions and
that when scientific knowledge is
put to such ends, it has always
been under political coercion.”

* “It,” said Dr. Rowan, “the true

facts of Korea, for instance, which ~

were not difficult to establish at
the'time, had been emblazoned on
the radio and the daily press in
1950, | do not believe that the
tragedy of Korea could have
taken place for public resent-
ment would have run too high.”

Science pursues “attainable
truth,” he said. “Its aims are
mental objectivity and intellectu-

al integrity. It insists on lengthy |

and competent trainin’, ignorance
it cannot tolerate. Except where
it is suppresssed by politics, its

information and knowledge are.

unrestricted and _ international,
humanity’s greatest contribution
to the brotherhood of man.”

:

REMEMBER THE ROSENBERGS!
_ Justice for Morton Sobell

‘MEMORIAL MEETING |

FRIDAY, JUNE 18 -- 8 p.m.
_ PENDER AUDITORIUM 3

Guest Speaker: MRS. HELEN SOBELL
AUSPICES: ROSENBERG MEMORIAL COMMITTEE

E
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 11, 1954 — PAG

‘officers in World War I

time and other conditions, esti:
mated as a 25-cent package.

The decision for a strike ae
takes place against a backgront
of a major fight-back shaping

on the wage front in steel, nicke’s

electrical, auto, rubber and farm
implement industries.

It takes place, too, in an “
mosphere of depression tent
with half a million workers
unemployed. 2

Over 200,000 organized worker?
across Canada are in vary’
stages of strike balloting, nes”
tiation and conciliation.

Continued

NAZIS

clear that he aims to undo evel
thing for which the men ches
landed on the Normandy bea i
10 years ago fought and die

But Adenauer openly proclaim
it to the world in a speci this
man issue of Life magazine
week. Says he:

“The. greatest of all era
tasks confronting us is reu
tion with that part of coat
which lies in the Soviet Zone
an agreement on the territ0y
now being administered byae
land: =<

“We wish ‘to achieve this!
unification by. political me or
When this will have been accom
lished, this area will have sop
completely and newly develo
and Yrepopulated.”

Just the sort of “ell
means” Dr. Adenauer inte?
use to seize those former Ge 43s
territories, now part of Polat é
strikingly illustrated by 2 sot0" oto”
of pictures taken by. Life P a
grapher David Douglas Dunc? is

“Though the Border Guat? . i
extremely limited in its .
ment and ‘armament,’ says P
magazine, “it does not allow A
restrictions to impede the
ism of its manoeuvres. pert’

“The Border Guard’s exP fro
ness,” it continues, “comes * 4
the experience of its office! ‘re
NCOs, almost all of whom welll”

macht.”

The pictures show how, © 4, he
the “exercise” is, complete! a i
“prisoners” are being ™# cas
off. Only the concentration ics
and the gas chambers are
ing. a

ETHEL ROSENBERS #