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U.S. atrocities
in Vietnam

Big city rally boosts —
Vietnam medical aid

Hundreds of people jammed
the Queen Elizabeth Playhouse
in Vancouver last Sunday at an
verflow meeting called by the
Canadian Aid of Vietnam Civilians
to launch their fall and winter
drive for medical aid funds,

After hearing Dr, Alan Inglis,
chairman ofthe Committee, speak
Of the need for medical aid, and
Watching films depicting the
Suffering of the Vietnamese

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people, the audience responded to
an appeal by well-known Vancou-
ver business man Bertrand Gal-
loway by contributing $2,300,

Dr. Inglis, who recently re-
turned from a tour of the Soviet
Union, with a large delegation
of doctors, held talks in Moscow
with representatives of both
North and South Vietnam on the
need for medical aid.

Describing these talks with
Vietnamese officials, Dr, Inglis

said that * medical needs in Viet-
nam today are tremendous among

the thousands of injured, starved
and diseased people,” He saidthe

Vietnam war is one of the most
inhumane wars that had befallen

-man for it involves the total
“population of the country, includ-

ing men, women and children,
See VIETNAM, pg. 12

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1966

Tribune

Was RCMP

10¢

involved in

bugging union parley?

The announcement Wednesday by RCMP Assistant Com -
missioner F. S. Spalding that the RCMP will investigate the RCMP
in ‘‘the case of who bugged the pulp workers union convention
at the Ritz Hotel," is the latest bizarre development in a very

bizarre affair.

The public can have absolutely no confidence that the RCMP
can conduct an objective investigation of itself. Nor of the part
officers of the RCMP ‘Security and Intelligence’’ squad have
played in this case. Nor of the part they are playing in spying
on and interfering in the affairs of labor and democratic organ-

izations.

The public have only to recall
the case of RCMP officers dress-
ed in worker’s clothes appearing
on the picket line at Lenkurt
Electric last May pretending to
be trade unionists, to realize
that the part played by the RCMP
is less than just “law enforce-
ment,”

It’s time the labor movement
and public demanded a full par-
liamentary probe ofthe activities
of the RCMP and the role they
are playing in spying on labor
and democratic organizations,
and interfering in their legiti-
mate activities,

The most recent case at the _

Ritz Hotel involves the bugging
of the convention of the Pulp
and Paper Workers of Canada
— the Canadian-based - break-
away union from the International
Pulp and Sulphite Workers, Ac-
cording to the story told the
press by former RCMP officer
and now private investigator W.B,
(Bud) Graham, this in part is
what happened:

“‘T was brought into this case
two weeks ago by the RCMP,
Cpl, Harold Reid advised me
that there were two factions in
the union. One had formed its
own Canadian union and was caus-
ing some trouble,

“He said he was in. contact
with someone who wanted to know
what was going on at the conven-
tion. He said I would know these
people because of my service
with the S&I (Security and In-
telligence), At this time I be-

lieved I would be doing work for
the RCMP,

“Later I received a call from
O’Neal (Western Regional Or-
ganizer, International Pulp and
Sulphite Union) and he asked me
to bug the hotel for-the conven-
tion. I agreed to try to put in
equipment without using any il-
legal ‘means, We were not able
to get there until Wednesday and
O’Neal gave me the $250 .....”

Graham said O’Neal paid him
the $250 by union cheque in front
of the Hotel Georgia,

According to Federal Depart-
ment of Transport officials, who
seized the electronic equipment,
the use of such equipment is
illegal, City police officials have
washed their hands of the case,

The public will be particularly
concerned that the RCMP should,
as Graham has indicated, inter-
fere in internal union matters.
And why particularly a Canadian
union? Is there something “sub-
versive’’ in the eyes ofthe RCMP
in workers wanting to set up their
own Canadian trade unions?

And if the charge is true that
they helped set up the arrange-
ments for bugging the convention
with illegal equipment, their role
becomes particularly disturbing,

Is the RCMP a police force
that stands above the law? This
is the question many are now
asking. A full parliamentary in-
quiry should not be long delayed,

~ JEFF POWER’S APPEAL

SPEECH THE COURT
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