RED LOOTERS AMONGST HARVESTERS.

Shannon News, 9 October 1928, Page 3

RED LOOTERS AMONGST HARVESTERS.

LONDON, Sept. 26,

Extraordinary stores of looting and violence by Communist plotters among the British harvesters in Canada were related in Liverpool to-day when 88 harvesters returned by the" steamer Duchess of Bedford.

It was stated that some men had embarked under an armed guard. They behaved wildly in the evenings on the ship, but the ringleaders -were allowed any liberties, so long as they showed no violence.

Some of them held up people in Winnipeg, where there was looting—£lso worth of goods were taken from one shop, and the men openly boasted of their action, asserting that they were justified, because they had been tricked into going to Canada, where they were left to starve.

The men flatly refused to be interviewed. "Give us your money first or we are silent," said one. A passenger, Mr Raymond Ball, a theological student, who has been in Canada for a year, declares that the harvesters who had been shouting their troubles aloud were men who simply would not work. Communist literature had been freely circulated among the men in Winnipeg.