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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1948 THE DAILY T!MES-GAZETTE PAGE ELEVEN "Canada's Red Minority ~Wields Vast Influence EDITOR'S NOTE ~-- The Windsor Star today presents the second in a series of articles exposing the dangerous extent to which the revolutionary for. ces of international Commu. nism have gained widespread strategic power in Canada. Written by Don Cameron, an able and experienced reporter who has observed the rise of Communism in North America during the last 25 years, the series--the result of investiga- tions covering weeks of time and thousands of miles of dist. ance--is believed by this news. paper to constitute the most ive t of Com. munists in Canada ever writ- ten, By DON CAMERON Windsor Star Staff Reporter How strong are the Communists small. Canada today. ews About 25,000 are known to have ==--taken the Red cath of allegiance to their ideological fatherland, the So. viet Union, and to have embraced Marxist-Leninist principles of vio- lent world revolution as interpreted by Secretary-General Joseph V. Stalin. Most of them are members of the Labor Progressive Party, which is the current legal name of the illegal Communist Party of Can. ada. Figures Don't Tell Story This scales down to the figure ea ot one Communist out of every 480 » people in the Dominion, which at o Mrst glance seems to be a rather & "msignificant showing. It is even *= less impressive when viewed against the world total of 18,000,000 Com. munists, of whom 6,000,000 are in the US.S.R. It means that only one out of every 720 Communists in the global picture is a Canadian. However, those statistics don't be- gin to answer our question. In every matter dealing with Communists there is always more--much more "= 'than meets the casual eye. Proportionately, Canada has more Communist saboteurs plotting from within to wreck her social and po- litical structure than Russia had in that bloody October of 1917, when the Bolsheviks made them- selves the absolute masters of a sprawling, disorganized hodgepodge -of peasant states destined to give Jest of the world nightmares in years to come. Moreover, Canada has nearly four times as many Communists, pro. portionately, as has the United States with 75,000--and yet that reat democracy, with only one oscow-inspired disruptionist for ""8ach 1,800.0odd presumably orderly "Yercons, is undergoing an aggravat. "ed attack of the Red jitters and is TExpelling its alien revolutionaries "os fast as it can catch them. me Invisible Army Is Strong "It is the invisible and unwritten "roster of the Communist army that «tells the story of its actual strength ssand here we must resort to rough "estimates. ; Dmitri Manuilski, Ukrainian Com. wimunist representative to the United «Nations, and for many years the ~foremost co-ordinator of the ae. "tivities of Communist parties ~throughout the western world, re. ported to the eighteenth congress "of the party of the Soviet Union "Tn 1939 that Canada then had 18,000 members--and that these had "a following of militant workmen to carry on activities under the guid. wance of the party" of from 15 to «20 times as many. Using Manuilski's top figure, that would indicate a present total of half a million Communist support. ers in Canada, or one for every 24 persons. Very likely this is an ex- aggeration. But it could be reduced to 365,000, and Communists and pro-Communists in Canada still would surpass the proportionate numbeg that, in Russia, rules a 'opulation of 200,000,000 people with a hand of iron. Labor Men Follow Blindly We know that 180,000 of the 800,. 000 trade union members affiliated with the Canadian Congress of Labor and the Trade and Labor Council blindly follow the lead of a small minority of Communist of- ficials, although the great majority does not in any way subscribe to the Red program for wrecking the capitalistic free-enterprise system. We know, furthermore, that unions comprising about as mahy workers stand on the borderline, with the balance of power so slight. ly in favor of a moderate leadership that the least pressure of unfavor- able events would tilt it the other way. And now we begin to see where much of the real strength of Com. munism in Canada lies--not in the numbers of Red activists but in the skill with which they can manipu. late 'masses of non.Red workers to vote 'with the party line, org, hurl defiance from the picket line. In Timmins, heart of the Porcu- pine gold mining district of North. ern Ontario, this reporter talked last week with a Communist official of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers. He was one of the half dozen United States Reds who had crossed .the border with Reid Robinson, eastern vice. president of the union, with the purpose of winning 30,000 miners to the Stalinist cause. Boast About Pending Strike The conversation centred on the strike the international union lead. ers propose to call in the spring, which would bring near-ruin to all the towns and cities of the north. land and cause severe suffering to nearly a quarter-million men, wom- en and children, It is a strike, inci- dentally, which would be held against the wishes of probably 95 per cent of the miners themselves, "How can you do it?" the official was asked. "The Porcupine mines aren't much more than 25 percent organized, on the average, and most of the union men would rather compromise on wages and stay on the job than strike for the extra 22 cents an hour they know they can't get. What if they just refuse to stop work?" The agitator grinned engagingly. A personable fellow, and franker than most of his comrades, he said: "When the strike meeting is call. ed, the boys we're sure of will be on hand early and pack the hall We'll have held a rehearsal before. hand, and only the ones we've scheduled to speak will get a hear. ing. There isn't-a chance the vote will go any way except our way. "The picket line will be manned by picked workers. The boys up here have had experience with strikes--bad ones--and it isn't like. ly any of theme will try to go through the lines. If any do--well, we'll just put enough of our men in strategic places so that they won't try twice." Out of all the inhabitants of that ITS FINER...RICHER... 18 CHASE 5 SANBORN north country the LP.P. has a nu. merical strength of around 600. In the last election for the Timmins City Council the L.P.P. leader, Com. munist Ray Stevenson ran a bad eleventh in a field of 12 candidates. Tiny Group Can Take Over You begin to realize that Red strength is far out of proportion to its numbers when you reflect that a tiny group has the power to im- mobiliz2 the greater part of 30,000 miners and wreck the economy of whole communities whose prosperity depends on them. Something of the sort happened in. 1941 at Kirkland Lake. Com. munist Reid Robinson engineered that strike, also. The miners lost it. The mines lost because of it. Fami- lies went hungry, merchants went broke and many small businesses failed. Now seven years later, the town has rfot yet fully recovered. Two brothers in Kirkland Lake have not spoken to one another since the day, near the end of the strike, when one returned to his job, to keep from losing his home w other remained in the picket line. Communists Only Winners The Communists didn't lose the strike. Their avowded purpose, their only reason for being Communists, is to spread class hatred and sabo. tage in every possible way the eco. nomic structure they are pledged to destroy to make room for Red to. talitarianism. They even made political cap- ital of the outcome in certain labor circles, So devastating was the Kirkland Lake strike that.the gov- ernment, in the hope of preventing others like it, passed labor relations laws requiring, among other things, that employers must recognize unions as bargaining agents when their strength is sufficient to justify it. The Reds have been so insistent about taking the credit for that legislation that a lot of workers believe they were solely responsible for its adoption. That gives them added prestige. And we have only begun to tell the full story of Communist strength in Canada! Tomorrow--Are YOU marching thoughtlessly with the Communist fifth column? Made Sure Sambo was hired on a railtvay gang. At the close of the first shift he was all tired out and sought the boss. "Mister, yo' sho yo' all got me down right on the pay roll?" "Sure," said the boss. "Here's your name--Sambo Simpson, That right 2" "Yes, suh," replied Sambo. "Ah just. thought you might have me down as Samson." FORMER MAYOR DIES Milton, Ont., March 11--(CP) -- James Wilson Blain, 83, former mayor of this Haltgn County town died yesterday at his home after a heart attack Monday. He served as county warden and later as town clerk. Committee Backs Brief Asking Entry for Wives Of Chinese Ottawa, March 11--(CP)--A brief asking that all Chinese be allowed to brihg their wives and children into Canada was supported Wed- nesday by the senate immigration committee following presentation of a brief by a delegation from the committee for the repeal of the Chinese Immigration Act. The brief asked that present re. gulations granting Chinese citizens of Canada the right to bring their wives and children to the dominion be extended to cover all Chinese in Canada. Under present regulations, Chinese who are only residents are not allowed to bring in their famil. ies. On motion of Senator James Murdock of Ontario, the committee went on record as supporting the request, Jrving Himel of Toronto, who presented the brief on behalf of the eight.man delegation, pointed out that as a nation, Canada had pro. tested to the U.S.S.R. government against its refusal to allow Russian. born wives of Canadians to leave that country. "How can we, in all integrity, pro. test against their refusal when we refuse to let Chinese wives join their husbands here," he said. Mr. Himel estimated there were 23,000 married Chinese in Canada, 19,000 of whom had wives and chil. dren in China. Another member of the delega. tion, Dr. A. E. Armstrong of Toron. to, representative of the Canadian Council of Churches, said that the appeal..was based on the grounds "of humanity, justice, morality and christianity." The seven.page brief which the committee presented asked repeal of Order.in.Council P.C. 2115 which "discriminates against the Chinese and is therefore contrary to Cana. da's obligations under the United Nations Assembly." The brief reviewed the Chinese situation in Canada since 1881, when the Canadian Pacific Rail. way used them as construction lab. orers. It told of the repeal in 1947 "after great public protest" of the Chinese Immigration Act "which, with minor exceptions, barred ev. grsone of Chinese origin from Can. ada ... JA :13:! LIQUID vr PASTE STOVE POLISH fora quicker, nicer, blacker shine! in Canada "In place of it, Chinese were brought under Order.in_Council 2115 which, if not as unjust and cruel as the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, nevertheless had much in common with it . . . You must be a Canadian citizen before you can bring your wife and children into the country if you are of the Chinese or Asiatic race. "If this is nbt discrimination against people on account of their race, then the word discrimination has no meaning." The committee asked repeal of P.C. 2115 because, among other rea. sons: 1. "You have advocated that any suggestion of discrimination based on either race or religion should be scrupulously avoided both in the immigration act and its adminis- tration." 2. "The repeal , . . would cement the bonds of friendship and encour. age trade relations between Cana. da and countries like China, India and other Asiatic nations that have SXPrassed strong disapproval of that aw." 3. "P.C. 2115 stands for a policy which is not only unnatural, but is contrary to all religion, humanity and social welfare." GRAND CHAMPION Guelph, Ont.,, March 11--(CP)-- C. G. (Charlie) Hickman, 23.year- old fourth year agriculture student of Ottawa, yesterday became grand champion showman at the Ontario Agricultural Coiiege annual College Royal Exhibition here, 1 Waterworks Plant Is Beaverton Plan Beaverton, March 11 -- Opening guns in a campaign for civic im- provement sponsored by the Beav. erton Licns Club were fired when G. A. Burns, sanitary engineer from the Ontario Department of Health, was peaker at a meeting held in support of the proposed waterworks system for the village. Property cwners will be asked to vote on the waterworks later this spring. If the project carries it is hoped that work will commence during the summer. Mr. Burns told the Lions Club that in his opinion every community the size of Beaverton should have a waterworks system, From the standpoint of health, the speaker stated that there was a much grea- ter incidence of disease in commu. nities that had no waterworks sys- tem. 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