NORTH OF THE BORDER
ANDRAS, A.
NORTH OF THE BORDER Pat Sullivan Becomes A Canadian A Footnote to the Gouzenko Story By A. Andras OTTAWA, March 16 —Canadian Communists have received a body blow from which they should be *...
...I.V the spring ot 1945, when it became known that 1 was attending the Wn> Id Trade I'ninn Conference, I was asked by i, H. ratsherg to take a verbal report of the Communist Party work in Canada, 1 I pent two h< inn with Harry Polliti, head of the communist Party In En;land, In delivering the report...
...I would like to do what I Ml to arouse the |.....pie of canada an I especially the hoiifat, decent nun who compose the ovei whflmiiig majoiil of the labor movement m ( ana la...
...Sullivan issued a statement on Mai di 15 elaborating his first announcement...
...Since the convention and following our strike for the 8-hour day, things have grout* frem bail to worse...
...At the present all available lories of the CSU in Montreal are being thrown into the work of campa.giiiny for the l.aboi I'l'.gie.tsive Parly K'ommgnist) candidate in the (artier Riding in Montreal...
...to the danger of the situ It...
...Hut in 19U5, Jack Monroe, organiser for the Communist Party in district 2 in the city of Montreal, ahecame active and brought In a few of his friends and within a year be was holding an executive position...
...Of course, we had to support any policy that the National Executive of tin' Communist Party decided to adopt...
...I was told by J. H. Sal-'te >!/ that it wasn't a rase of whether oi rsI I wanted to run us the column, i Party had made the decision...
...1 refer specifically to Meade's trip to Boston anil to Davis' and mcmiinis' trips to New Yorlc, also Davis' trip to Vancouver...
...money from the NMU into this country and laying the groundwmk for the NMU to come into this country in oiler t.i take over the CSC The same thing applies to the r.niiushoreciien and Freight Handlers and the move i- to switch th.m into'Harry Bridge'* hi iranization so that in any future strikes, one organization will control the whole wnc'i-f root industry in the Dominion of canada...
...In all these cases, the seamen weie footing the bill...
...loi I he NMU in the USA...
...Xullivan informed the press that he hi 1 been a Communist Party member fr.im 19.17 until three months ago...
...Through him, 1 was introduced to an•ther chap who showed a desire to help to organise the seamen...
...From then on...
...At least ."»« members of the CSU have hern ordered into the county...
...Jerry McManos...
...The only woik that McManus was doing was float inj...
...Ilowtvii...
...e ^^T the Seamen's Convention, held in Montreal in February, 1940, out of less than 100 delegate- there was a Communist Party fraction of over 30 members...
...In 1039 the Paity placed a Miss Freida I.enden (alias Linton) in our office as secretary...
...From what i have seen of the underground activities of that group I am now convinced that in the interest...
...Also, on the East Coast, Bill Tonner was replaced by Eddie Heid and then he, in turn, was replaced by A. Penhill, who was a former NMU member transferred from the Communist Party in the States...
...Receipts were given under various names and the money was repaid by the CSC to the Communist Party prior to an audit being made of the union's books...
...I am confining this to the one winch is 4winwn to be in full control of the Communists...
...The fact that he was for more than JO years president of the Seamen's Union and more recently secretaiytreasurer of the Trades and Labor C ingress of Canada, makes Sullivan's acli.ni • II the more telling...
...Furguson lost the municipal election...
...She latei became private secretaw to the bead of the National Film Boa id in Ottawa...
...of Canada, and particularly in the interest ot organized labor, their activities shviuld be exposed...
...The tenche in Knulish was Leo Huherman, who 'an-1.1 i la...
...In 1942, 1 , was elected Vice-President of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and, as such, was expected to carry on the woik of the Communist Party within the executive committee...
...i admit having travelled with the Communist Party...
...The same apparatus is in existence in quite s laige number of unions through on i Canails...
...I charged that there was too muchJ'arty interference in the ranks of the organ!-* xalioii and also that I was fed up with people who wen not seamen being brought into the onion...
...In Toronto, Kml llackett, who was more or less forced to resign last September although he was popular with the membership, was rcp'nred by a Communist Party man who held the position until I...
...When trust i* icpoid wi'h treachery, it i* time i'm decent ; i .pie lo beware...
...The Fii'tu-h teacher was Miss Danielle ('maimer w.n...
...He give* as his reason for this move his inability any longer to withstand constant pressure to utilize his post as secretaiytreasurer for party purposes...
...In the National Office of the CSU tho Communist Party has taken full control...
...Names and dates are given, involving persons and unions on both sides of tin border...
...Sullivan has also handed in his resignation from the Trades and Labor ('ingress, which has been accepted...
...He, in Mini, brought shout a meeting between FeigiSon and-inxs.lf...
...At the lakehead Kill Schmaltz was let go in order to make room for Jackson who had shown a willingness to carry out ordeis...
...the executive committee of the Seamen's Union, the same as lots sf other unions, has been In tint I........<< of gralnally taking Into their rankn, either kuowngly or unknowingly, members of the Communist Party...
...During the strike, birth I and some of the other executives were responsible for receiving these funds from Alderman J. B. Salsberg...
...Every month new people are being placed on the payroll without consulting anyone...
...time recovering...
...Later on, Munroe got himself into trouble with the CP in Quebec and was thrown out of the union within a year for a shortage of funds...
...J. A. ("Pat") Sullivan told a press conference on March 14 that he had just handed in his resignation as president of the Canadian Seamen's Union, an organization he himself founded back in 1935...
...My decision to take this step was reached" he said, "when i became convinced that the interests of organized labor are being subverted by the agents ©f Communism to their own ends...
...is to tiaiii i I1 organizers...
...She was one of those charged Under the Koyal Commission, but, however, left the country and was never brought to trial...
...The statement describes how gradually the Communists infiltrated (ha {teamen's Union until they were running it from top to bottom...
...I became quite active again in the Aght for the opening of a refund front...
...Excerpts from Sullivan's statement follow : • • > In* 1Mb, when I first had the idea of Starting the Canadian Seamen's Union (csu), it was with the idea of building an organization run by seamen and foe th* good of the seamen...
...His reasons were succinctly Btated...
...They are pant by the csc...
...In 1910 I was arrested and was interned until March 22, 1942...
...as secretary, directs all political activities within the union...
...I thin k I ha < la corns a < nmtdiun riii...
...The Communist Patty has many secret agents in different places, including the government service...
...It certainly is not in the interest of the union or of seamen to have anything lo do with the attempt to hav.* another Communist succeed rime...
...Iflii.'lOO in American funds was 11 a a.- nutted from the National Miiiitiine 1 mon of America, CIO, in the Canadian Seamen's Union in I'.I tit...
...J. B. Salsberg from Toronto, and Harry Binder who is in charge of all communist Party work in Quebec, were present...
...The executive officers running all over both Canada and the Stater, supposedly to do union work...
...minim -t Party discipline does not allow for individual thought, and Party orders must be obeyed...
...The Seamen's I'niun had always reflecte I the party line...
...MIS does not know whom to trust...
...Howtver, in the spring of I9KI I refused to tak< political directives from her...
...NORTH OF THE BORDER Pat Sullivan Becomes A Canadian A Footnote to the Gouzenko Story By A. Andras OTTAWA, March 16 —Canadian Communists have received a body blow from which they should be * long...
...I am making thin i\ncumrnt public for my own protection as I know that il I just tender my resignation to the Canadian Seamen's Union, an "accident" might occur, because throughout the country, there aie *o many Communists that...
...The /ii ¦ -..-lit executitis in charge of fin nice l...
...1'ioin I'.ilo enwarl...
...Ferguson, who had been working pa it time, immediately it placed him us tho Party could not afford* to allow him to leave Toronto where he has built up a following and can lie useful in future elections, even though it costs the seamen money to keep him there...
...For instance, in Halifax, C. H. Meade, an American seaman, was drafted from the National Maritime Union and is now in complete charge of the East Coast for the seamen and general secretary for the fishermen...
...His wile is the provincial secretary for the Communist Parly...
...as the union opened additional offices it became the policy to make sure that any additional personnel was either a party man or at least sympathetic...
...was the editor nf I i V don . tin C .iniiiuni.it Party pa|......i Quebec Jury Im was the poll lie j I due.;.n of im muiooI, whose jiuiini...
...11 i'i ¦ csr I,..,i f,: led to issue a st ii uu.-in i i the m -mV'l*bh'p since Maub, I'll...
...Re id was then moved to Montreal to take over that port, assisted by Daniels, whose work consists of recruiting members among the young French Canadians...
...In 1937, the Communist Party was thrown into action to raise funds for a strike against the Lake ship owners...
...This pen >l includes a stretch from 1940 to IV ti When he was interned along with other Communists for his anti-war stand (it, was still an "imperialist" war then...
...This took place in lln New Leader Correspondent in Canada Communist Party headquarters on Adelaide Street, Toronto...
...This is no outside revelation, no spy charge which they csn answer with cries of "red-baiting" but a statement from one of their hitherto moat trusted and influential followers...
...I also stated that I was undecided whither or not I was going to inn for rt -election...
...When necessary, American Communists were brought over to strengthen the party hold...
...in, lefnl* I' IS I 10 lute...
...Ai the 'Lade I'mon School, (it) handpicked seamen wire In u.'ht in...
...1 later dneovdicd that he had a different nam** than the one he gave m« and' that h I really WM rr„* Rose—late member if Parliament, who Is now serving s smyem sentence as a spy...
...One of the i hecks, number N. 1271)2, isiue.l on june Is, !!• for the Sinn of $ll),inm...
...These key positi-im B)iade him a leader of great influent...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 12
