Clever Girls Spread Germs of Red Doctrine in Canada

1920

Bolshevist Missionaries Preach Sedition in Unions While Special Classes in the Construction of Bombs Are Being Held — Agitators Work to Overthrow Government of Dominion.

MONTREAL, Que., Canada, Jan. 1. — Bolshevists from the United States are crossing into Canada, but not, as they may imagine, without the knowledge of the authorities. The Red exodus is being closely watched by officials on both sides the line and new arrivals in Montreal have been carefully cataloged.

The Red army here is freely predicting the overthrow of what it calls the bourgeois regime, encouraged perhaps by the partial success in Winnipeg a few months ago, when for a time it seemed as tho Soviet rule had been introduced into Canada.

Red meetings are held nightly in Montreal in secret, and tons of Bolshevist literature have been imported.

Much money is coming into the Bolshevist coffers. Close cooperation between Canadian and American authorities in securing the evidence against the radicals makes the local leaders anxious to avoid the limelight.

Much of the information used in the United States against Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman and others was secured in Montreal and furnished to the United States authorities, it is declared. Lists of agitators are prepared on each side of the line and exchanged.

So confining themselves to talking, the Reds are trying to undermine the labor unions. Many unions, it is claimed, have Bolshevists in them endeavoring to spread their beliefs. In the biggest railway shops in Montreal a number of Red missionaries are at work, it is said.

The organization boasts of several extremely clever girls, and these are from time to time "planted" in certain factories. They go and secure work, and in time infect a number of their fellow workers with the Red microbe. Then they leave and go to another factory. In certain sections so-called "economic classes" have been opened. These are in reality schools for turning out Red agitators and speakers. There are tales told also of the Russian technical aid body, which specializes, it is said, on the construction of bombs.

The Government has kept a close watch on the activities of the local Reds, but has not adopted a rigorous policy to deal with them.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 5.