CIVIL SERVANTS ORDERED TO SPY OR LOSE JOBS

RCMP recruits youth as labor spies

This is the first of two special
articles by Ottawa correspondent
MARK FRANK on the “undercoy-
er” work of the Special Branch

of the RCMP. The second ar-

ticle will appear next week

A few weeks ago, the Stitts-
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ation played host to an unusual
visitor. His name: Corporal John
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in the Ottawa Evening Journal
on February 25, outlined the
program of the ‘Youth and

Police’ section of the RCMP.
This section specializes in visiting
every school in Canada twice a
year, showing films, giving talks
on citizenship, the history of the
RCMP and other topics.

The news story said “‘these .

talks. emphagize the privileges
of life in a democratic country.
In this way Corporal Bigg said,
it was hoped that any fear child-
ren might have of state police
would be dispelled and _ they
would come to regard the police-
man as their friend.’

Corporal Bigg’s speech is typ-
ical. of those master-minded im
the deep recesses of the Justice
Building where today a new
“Section 98” is being fashioned

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UNIONISTS
AIDING’ MEET

“Equally serious is the danger it poses for the
whole labor movement, includ/ng the membership

of the United Steel Workers.

“The trade union movement is faced with an
employer-inspired attack against wage standards and

An all-in trade union conference to discuss ac-
tion against union raiders and a program of defending
wages and working conditions in B.C. will be held
in: Pender Auditortum, Friday, April 14,. at 8 p.m.
The conference call, signed by 13 prominent trade
union leaders, is now in the mails.

“‘The raids by the officers of Steel against Mine-
Mill at Trail threatens to weaken union organization
in the former stronghold of company unionism,” the
“Tt threatens to undermine the current
negotiations of the smelter workers for better wages

call begins.

and conditions.

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union rights. Many union workers have been threat-

ened with wage cuts, including the coal miners, civic
workers, and building trades workers. . . .

“To defend our hard-won gains we must have
unity in our ranks.

Division only Helps labor’s

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Bill of Rights aim
of national parley

A conference call for an all-Canadian civil rights organization, addressed “‘to all public-spirited
organizations and citizens,’” was issued this week under the signatures of Margaret H. Spaulding, chair-
man, Civil Rights Union, Toronto; Aileen Coott, secretary, Labor Defense Committee, Timmins; and
Edmund Majer, chairman, Civil Liberties Union, Montreal.

The national conference will take place in Toronto, April 21-22, at the UJPO Center, 83

Christie Street.

“There is an urgent need in Canada for a Bill of Rights,’

Canadian citizens are today be-
ing violated and denied to them
in constantly mmcreasng measure.”
Here are a few glaring examples.
® Attacks on the rights of labor
multiply. In February, 1950, the
organizer of the Asbestos Workers
Union is sentenced to six months
in jail. The president of the Al-
liance of French-speaking Catholic
Teachers of Montreal’ is summari-
ly discharged by the Montreal
school. commission for refusal to
capitulate to official pressure. Ten
of the seamen arrested during the

Great Lakes strike of 1948 are .

still in Kingston penitentiary.

© Attacks on freedom of assembly
and freedom of political opinion
increase. The Montreal United

Jewish People’s Order cultural

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the call says.

“The basic liberties of

ARE YOUTH ‘MARKED FOR A-BOMB’?

Sign the petition

“Canada’s Youth Marked For A-Bomb.” That's the head
which appeared in the Vancouver News-Herald on Apiril 4 over

a statement made by Dr. L. G. Cook, chemistry head of the
Chalk River atomic project, to Ottawa Rotary Club that “you
may be involved in a war in which atomic bombs are used . . .
Your children almost certainly will be.”

Do you believe that Canada’s children are destined to perish
in an atomic war? Is this macabre prospect your vision of your
children’s future? Can you find any one in your union, your
PTA or community association who will agree with Dr. Cook
that Canada should devote more money and men to realize this
ghastly end of wiping out the coming generation?

Of course not. But merely to be appalled by such statements
is not enough. You must act to end this calculated war hysteria
and the war preparations for which it is the psychological weap-
on. And your best action right now is to get busy among your
neighbors with the Ban the Bomb petition you'll find on page 7.

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