REDS IN CANADA
INSIDE ACTIVITIES EXPOSED.
POLICE OFFICER’S RUSE.
, . VANCOUVER, October 7. i For the second time the Royal Northwest Mounted Police have exposed the activities of Communist bodies from the inside.
' The* present occasion is the trial at Saskatoon.* Saskatchewan, of 20 men charged with taking part in a relief, camp riot, in which Inspector Sampson, of the Mountecls, was killed. Twelve men have already been convicted and await sentence. At the trial of Roderick Gillies one of the alleged leaders, Constable Wilson, testified that be lived in a relief camp for three weeks as “Harry Wilson,” posing as an unemployed railway welder. He told of the preparations for the riot. Gillies, who was an agent for Communist literature, told him on the morning of the riot that he would be needed to “carry on the work from .outside.' ’
The evidence "recalls the case of the member of the same force who posed as a. Communist secretary for eight months and eventually secured the conviction of the leaders of a Rod plot.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1933, Page 6
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173REDS IN CANADA Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1933, Page 6
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