REDS IN CANADA
ACTIVITIES EXPOSED POLICE OFFICER'S RUSE VANCOUVER, Sept. 23 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 Mounteds, was killed. Twelve men have already been convicted and await sentence. At the trial cf Roderick Gillies one of the alleged leaders, Constable Wilson, testified that he 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 th§ 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 Red plot.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21616, 7 October 1933, Page 11
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