CANADIAN COMMUNISTS
POLICEMAN AS “SECRETARY” [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] TORONTO, November 4. How a Sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police became a member of the Communist Party of Canada and eventually secretary of the Regina Branch, was revealed in the trial of nine Communists, who were charged with being members of an unlawful association. R. E. Leopold, swore that he joined the Communist Party in 1921 under an assumed name and that during seven years, he attended numerous conferences, and handled much correspondence, proving that the party was under the direction of Moscow and was working for the overthrow of the Canadian Government by propaganda of violence. He declared that Tini Buck, one of the accused,' controlled the Party’s political activities, and attended the Third International Conference in Moscow in 1924 receiving three thousand dollars for the Canadian Communist Party.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1931, Page 7
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