‘adian trade wnionists and pro- tinued to conduct a large nym- t Pactra ") el fy) [D) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1950 10,000 ON SECRET LISTS il FBI espionage in err Canada expected to raise storm By MARK FRANK OTTAWA Compiling by FBI agents working in Canada of secret lists of some 10,000 Canadians, as announced by a top U.S. official recently, marks a new stage of penetration and interference in Canadian affairs by a foreign police force. Not content with military, political and economic subordination, the U.S., through ‘its secret police, is now listing Canadians on a super blacklist to be used against Can- C b Although Commissioner S. T. e oO a Wood of the RCMP officially de- nied any knowledge of such a evi Pnce in list, it is well known that the gressives. Canadian FBI counterpart co- ‘ & operates at every stage with US. rent baring requests for information on pro gressives or others seeking to By RALPH R. COOK eross the border. OTTAWA ee RNR ised gcatubaer “If people ‘think that they can probe of Japanese activities in achieve anything by that (writ- British Columbia, the FBI has an ing letters to the Supreme Court) ill-concealed contempt for RCMP. ‘hey are quite wrong; it may : even bring about a contrary re- Last year’s outrageous barring “sult,” said Chief Justice Rinfret of clearly non-communist travel- at the opening of Supreme Court lers and subjection of student hearings on the validity of rent tourists to detention and exam- control legislation. ination by U.S. immigration auth- : : orities, ae proof that the 8,000 to This statement brought to light 11,000 so-called “subversives” list- the fact that thousands of des- ed by US. immigration officials perate tenants have been writing must be a hysterical compilation to the court telling of the in- designed to frustrate and attack tolerable hardship which would democratie opinion and action in Tesult from an adverse decision. Canada. It also reveals a lack of impar- : tiality on the part of “the high- The listing of Canadian citizens est court in the land.” as “subversives” by a foreign government agency without the slightest knowledge by persons affected as to whether they are on such a list (as Hitler's Ge- nr sige pheancamattgs bein ity of an order-in-council. an affront: to .Canadian — sover- If this ruling were maintained eignty : throughout the hearings, J. J. Robinette, counsel for the ten- Some significance is attached _ants, would be restricted to legal to reports of RCMP work during arguments and‘! would not be al- 1949 in Commissioner Wood’s an- lowed to present evidence that nual review. He points out on the housing crisis constitutes a The pattern was continued in the decision of the court not to admit “evidence”, This was an endeavor to make the inquiry a mere legal] dispute over the valid- . work of the “special branch”, national emergency. where informers Leopold and Gouzenko operate daily, that “it is not in the public interest here to refer to many of its activities . thé special branch has con- F. P. Varcoe, counsel for the government, spent the first, day of the hearings attempting to prove that rent control legisla- tion is legal. This was a complete reversal of recent statements by the gov- ernment, and he had difficulty in explaining away statements by Tt would be quite a simple Abbott and others to the effect matter for the RCMP to do a _ that the government could not job for the immigration depart- legally continue rent controls. ment, which in turn has been ‘Larry Goodfriend, executive asked for data by the U.S. im- secretary of the Quebec Federa- migration officials. Again there jon of Tenants, in an exclusive is, of course, direct liaison be- interview, said: “This about-face tween the FBI and RCMP on all by the government is undoubted- levels of police work. ly the result of public protest Note is made in Commissioner and the growing strength of the Wood’s report that “screening” Tenants’ Leagues across. the of government employees has country.” been under way, and that the “The four million tenants who heavy total of 140,655 inquiries will be affected by the decision and investigations -have .been are not going to be taken in by: made where no breach of law the government’s use of the was involved. How much of this courts to evade responsibility. On constitutes illegal wiretapping the contrary, they are going to and use of labor spies is not re- continue to demand immediate ported, but it is in all probability government action to solve the quite extensive. So extensive that crisis, both by the enforcement Commissioner Wood demands an- of rent controls and ‘the building other 500 recruits for his work. of low-rental housing,’ he added, ber. of security investigations for government agencies and depart- ments.” ~vusuiug Ban the Bomb petitions as they pour in on th ees SS e Canadian Peace Congress office are chairman Dr. J. G. Endicott and secretary Mary Jennison. Seen mounted on the wall is the anti-war appeal to the parliaments of all countries from the 600,000,000-strong World Peace Congress, which the delegation will take to Ottawa simultaneously with the Canadian. petition. Vancouver Peace Council steps up Ban-Bomb drive From all parts of British Columbia filled-in Ban the Bomb petitions are being returned to Van- couver Peace Assembly, which is seeking 40,000 signatures by February 10. Along with the signed petitions come straight-from-the-heart messages from many citizens. “T am a veteran of the last war,’ writes one signer. “I see it well that this bomb must be banned for the benefit of the Canadian people.”’ : “IT have the pleasure-of en- closing seven filled petitions, signed by 93 percent of the popu- jiation of this place,” writes an- other peace partisan. The Canadian Peace Congress in Toronto expects to present the petitions to the government soon after parliament reconvenes on February 16. All petitions must reach Toronto by that date, and local Peace Council officials urge that all B.C. petition forms be mailed to 1620. Burnaby Street, Vancouver, not later than Feb- ruary 10. bd Meeting Tuesday this week in McGavin’s Auditorium, Vancou- ver Peace Council heard a report on the progress of the Ban the Bomb campaign, and decided to issue a statement condemning the U.S. plan to build a hydrogen bomb. (In Toronto, James G. Endi- cott, chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress, sent the follow- ing wire to President Truman: “Canadian Peace Congress hears with horror and great alarm Un- ited States government’s state- ment re development of hydro- gen bomb, That a civilized gov- ernment should even contemplate such unspeakable mass destruc- tion of helpless human beings is beyond comprehension by -nor- mal minds, Canadian Peace Con- gress representing hundreds of thousands peace-loving people. implore you to exercise your presidential powers to stop im- mediately this ghoulish plan for the annihilation of millions.”) Vancouver Peace Council de- cided to make immediate rep- resentation to Ottawa urging re- cognition of the Peking govern- ment in China and passed a reso- lution stating that “we are un- animously of the opinion that such an act would constitute a major contribution to the cause of world peace as well as serv- ing the interests of the Canadian people in direct. and material ways.”’ Pointing ‘to the widespread un- employment in Canada, the reso- lution stresses that reopening of , the potentially vast trade with the Chinese people would help both business and labor in B.C. 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