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1 November 1945 439 Copy No Secret Spfctai, Sectton
1 NOVEMBER 1945 439 COPY NO SECRET SPFCTAI, SECTTON MONTHT.Y Rin.I.RTTN Ottawa, Ontario November 1, 1945. Contents Monthly Comment 1 L.P.P. & Ford Motor Strike. Windsor, Ontario 2 L.P.P. Fear Trades & Labour Congress 10 Convention at Present [^deletion: 2 lines] Labour Progressive Party in B.C. Provincial Election 17 Jewish Section of L.P.P. Holds National Conference 18 [3«deletion: 1 line) Student Labour Club in McGill University 22 Toronto Labour College Prepares for Opening 26 New L.P.P. Student Club Formed at University of Toronto 27 [^deletion: 1 line] Subversive Activity Among B.C. Shipyard Workers 29 [^deletion: 1 line] [unnumbered] MONTHT Y COMMENT This month marks the beginning of a new series of Monthly Bulletins. The format is one lending itself to easy compilation as a ready and comprehensive reference fylc. This first issue is forwarded in an Ac- copress Binder into which each subsequent issue up to and including December 1946, is to be inserted as received. At that time a complete index covering all issues forwarded over that period will be sent out. Commencing in 1947, each January issue will be forwarded in a binder to be used similar to the one forwarded this month and the total issues in any one calendar year will constitute a new volume. Recipients of this "Bulletin" are again cautioned that this material is of a secret nature and intended for the sole use of those to whom it is directed. It must be kept under lock and key at all times when not in use. -
"THE HAND THAT ROCKS the CRADLE ROCKS the WORLD": WOMEN in VANCOUVER's COMMUNIST Movementy1935-1 945
"THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE ROCKS THE WORLD": WOMEN IN VANCOUVER'S COMMUNIST MOVEMENTy1935-1 945 Brian T. Thorn B.A. (Hons.) Queen's University at Kingston, 1999 THESIS SUBMllTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of History O Brian Thorn 2001 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY March 2001 All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission of the author. National Library Bibliothèque nationale 1+1 ,,,a du Canada Acquisitions and Acquisitions et Bibliographie Services services biblicgraphiques 395 Wellington Street 395. rue Wellington Onawa ON K1A ON4 OtiawaON K1AON4 Canada Canada The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive licence allowing the exclusive permettant à la National Lhrary of Canada to Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, loan, distribute or sell reproduire, prêter, distribuer ou copies of this thesis in microform, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or electronic formats. la forme de microfiche/film, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. The author retains ownership of the L'auteur conserve la propriété du copyright in this thesis. Neither the droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. thesis nor substantial extracts f?om it Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels may be printed or otherwise de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés reproduced without the author's ou autrement reproduits sans son permission. autorisation. ASSTRACT The period behmen 1935 and 1945 was a key one for the Communist Party of Canada [CPC or CP] due to the tumult of the Great Depression and the Second World War. -
Eight Men Speak a Reflection
Alan Filewod Authorship, Left Modernism, and Communist Power in Eight Men Speak A Reflection Theatrical Women and Party Men In Stage Left, her 1981 memoir of the workers’ theatre troupe that she founded in the 1930s, Toby Gordon Ryan provides a circuitous and careful account that avoids, and at times erases, details of the operational relationship of her theatre troupe and the command organs of the underground Communist Party under the leadership of its imprisoned General Secretary, Tim Buck. One of those elisions concerns the play that subsequent commentators have identified as the most significant production of the Workers’ Theatre, Eight Men Speak.1 In one of the more curious episodes in her memoir, Toby Gordon Ryan refers to the play as “a high point” and “a great accomplishment,” but says almost nothing about it (43). Instead she provides an account of the play by her husband, Oscar Ryan, the instigator and one of the authors of the play, and then includes brief remembrances from two of the other authors, Frank Love and Edward Cecil-Smith (43-46). At first glance there is nothing remarkable about this moment of deferral in the logic of the book, because it is a scrapbook of recollections and testimonies in which many people are quoted at length. But in this surrogated account of Eight Men Speak Toby Gordon Ryan replays one of the critical but unnoticed features of the collision of theatrical modernism and the authority of the Communist Party apparatus, in which the voices of radical women were silenced and their artistic work contained by doctrinal and, invariably, masculinist power. -
Women and the Communist Party of Canada, 1932-1941, with Specific Reference to the Activism of Dorothy Livesay and Jim Watts
Mother Russia and the Socialist Fatherland: Women and the Communist Party of Canada, 1932-1941, with specific reference to the activism of Dorothy Livesay and Jim Watts by Nancy Butler A thesis submitted to the Department of History in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada November 2010 Copyright © Nancy Butler, 2010 ii Abstract This dissertation traces a shift in the Communist Party of Canada, from the 1929 to 1935 period of militant class struggle (generally known as the ‘Third Period’) to the 1935-1939 Popular Front Against Fascism, a period in which Communists argued for unity and cooperation with social democrats. The CPC’s appropriation and redeployment of bourgeois gender norms facilitated this shift by bolstering the CPC’s claims to political authority and legitimacy. ‘Woman’ and the gendered interests associated with women—such as peace and prices—became important in the CPC’s war against capitalism. What women represented symbolically, more than who and what women were themselves, became a key element of CPC politics in the Depression decade. Through a close examination of the cultural work of two prominent middle-class female members, Dorothy Livesay, poet, journalist and sometime organizer, and Eugenia (‘Jean’ or ‘Jim’) Watts, reporter, founder of the Theatre of Action, and patron of the Popular Front magazine New Frontier, this thesis utilizes the insights of queer theory, notably those of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler, not only to reconstruct both the background and consequences of the CPC’s construction of ‘woman’ in the 1930s, but also to explore the significance of the CPC’s strategic deployment of heteronormative ideas and ideals for these two prominent members of the Party. -
Capitalism Unchallenged : a Sketch of Canadian Communism, 1939 - 1949
CAPITALISM UNCHALLENGED : A SKETCH OF CANADIAN COMMUNISM, 1939 - 1949 Donald William Muldoon B.A., Simon Fraser University, 1974 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of History @ DONALD WILLIAM MULDOON 1977 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY February 1977 All rights reserved. This thesis may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission of the author. APPROVAL Name: Donald William Muldoon Degree: Master of Arts Title of Thesis: Capitalism Unchallenged : A Sketch of Canadian Communism, 1939 - 1949. Examining Committee8 ., Chair~ergan: .. * ,,. Mike Fellman I Dr. J. Martin Kitchen senid; Supervisor . - Dr.- --in Fisher - &r. Ivan Avakumovic Professor of History University of British Columbia PARTIAL COPYRIGHT LICENSE I hereby grant to Simon Fraser University the right to lend my thesis or dissertation (the title of which is shown below) to users of the Simon Fraser University Library, and to make partial or single copies only for such users or in response to a request from the library of any other university, or other educational institution, on its own behalf or for one of its users. I further agree that permission for mu1 tiple copying of this thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted by me or the Dean of Graduate Studies. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Title of Thesi s/Di ssertation : Author : (signature) (name) (date) ABSTRACT The decade following the outbreak of war in September 1939 was a remarkable one for the Communist Party of Canada and its successor the Labor Progressive Party. -
Greene, Lily’S Daughters, with Two Pictures Including Tom Mcewen
Lily (Steinman) Greene An inventory to her fonds In the University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Prepared by: Donna Waye February 2004 Biographical History: Lily (Steinman) Greene was born in 1916 in Toronto. In 1932, at the age of 16, she graduated as a stenographer from the Toronto Central High School of Commerce. After graduation, Greene began work in the needle trade. This period marked the beginning of her labour and social justice activism. As a dress-maker, she served on the organizing committee for her section of the Industrial Union of Needle Trades Workers. She also joined the Central Division of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1938 and worked in the head office of the Worker’s Unity League and Worker’s Educational Association during that time. As part of these activities she began an ongoing correspondence with the British Columbian socialist and labour organizer Tom McEwen which continued well into the 1970s. After the war she continued her work as a labour organizer, moving to a full-time position in the head office of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Worker’s Union. In 1967, a merger of steel industry unions took place and together they formed the United Steelworkers. Greene was assigned to the Toronto office of the merged union and worked there until her retirement in 1982 at the age of 65. Greene was also highly active in the movement against the Vietnam War during the 1960s and early 1970s. She was a charter member of the Voice of Women (now known as the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace), acted as the Convenor of the Ontario Voice of Women Knitting Project for Vietnamese Children and served as the Ontario Representative of the Canadian Aid for Vietnamese Civilians organization. -
The Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection 21 Mirror Images: the Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection*
The Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection 21 Mirror Images: The Novosti Press Agency Photograph Collection* JENNIFER ANDERSON RÉSUMÉ La collection de photographies de la Novosti Press Agency, conservée aux Special Collections and Archives de l’Université Carleton, est une ressource rare et fascinante. Les 70 000 photographies et les textes d’accompagnement, qui datent de 1917 à 1991, appartenaient autrefois au Bureau de la Soviet Novosti Press Agency (APN), situé sur la rue Charlotte à Ottawa, mais le personnel de la bibliothèque Carleton a dû récupérer ce matériel rapidement vers la fin de l’année 1991 avec la dissolution de l’Union soviétique et la fermeture du Bureau à Ottawa. Fondé en partie pour encourager les Occidentaux, en particulier les Canadiens, à voir l’URSS d’un meilleur œil, l’APN d’Ottawa distribuait ces photographies et ces communiqués de presse aux médias, aux or ganisations et aux individus à travers le Canada. La collec- tion offre aux historiens un aperçu de la construction de l’image que se donnait l’Union soviétique, les points de vues soviétiques of ficiels sur les relations interna- tionales pendant la Guerre froide et les ef forts pour adoucir les opinions anti-sovié- tiques au Canada. Dans son texte « Mirror Images », Jennifer Anderson soutient que la collection mérite d’être mieux connue des historiens de la Guerre froide au Canada et des historiens qui s’intéressent aux relations internationales et que le grand public pourrait aussi être intéressé par une exposition conçue autour de l’idéologie, de la perception et de la construction de l’identité pendant la Guerre froide. -
Canada's Greek Moment: Transnational Politics, Activists, and Spies During
CANADA’S GREEK MOMENT: TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS, ACTIVISTS, AND SPIES DURING THE LONG SIXTIES CHRISTOPHER GRAFOS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO DECEMBER 2016 © CHRISTOPHER GRAFOS, 2016 ABSTRACT This dissertation examines Greek immigrant homeland politics during the period of Greece’s military dictatorship, 1967 to 1974, in Toronto and Montreal. It carefully considers the internal dynamics of anti-junta activism in Canada’s Greek populations, but it also contemplates the meanings of external perceptions, particularly from the Canadian state and Canadian public discourse. The study acknowledges the dominant paradigm of Greek immigrants as unskilled workers, however, it demonstrates that this archetype is not monolithic. In many ways, it is challenged by a small number of Greeks who possessed skills to write letters to politicians, create petitions, organize public rallies, and politically mobilize others. At the same time, this dissertation carefully considers Canada’s social and political environment and shows how uniquely Canadian politics ran parallel to and informed Greek homeland politics. Transnationalism is used as an analytical tool, which challenges the meaning of local/national borders and the perception that they are sealed containers. The main argument expressed here is that environments shape movements and migrant political culture does not develop in a vacuum. Each chapter deals with specific nuances of anti-junta activism in Toronto and Montreal. Chapter One examines the organized voices of the Greek community’s anti-dictatorship movement. The chapter’s latter section looks at how the Panhellenic Liberation Movement (PAK), led by Andreas Papandreou, consolidated itself as the main mouthpiece against Greece’s authoritarian regime. -
Family Quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the 'Jewish' Question, and Canadian Communism
Family Quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the ‘Jewish’ Question, and Canadian Communism Gerald Tulchinsky WHEN JOE SALSBERG (his full name was Joseph Baruch Salsberg but everyone called him Joe; Yiddish-speaking intimates called him Yossele, the Yiddish dimin- utive for Yosel) left the Canadian Labor-Progressive Party of Canada [LPP] in early 1957, he effectively ended a 30-year career of intense activity in the communist cause, including momentous contributions to the labour movement, to progressive legislation as a member of the Toronto City Council and the Ontario legislature, and to the Jewish radical left in Ontario. But while his departure was an anguished one, it was based essentially on his identity as a Jew and his conviction that in the Soviet Union not only had Jewish culture been suppressed under Josef Stalin but that his successors were also determined to continue that policy. Joe believed that the communist family had rejected him and other Jewish devotees of the great cause — and it broke his heart. Salsberg, a capmaker by trade, was born in Lagov, Poland, in 1902 and had im- migrated with his parents to Canada in 1913. To help support his family, he began a full-time working career when he was a mere thirteen years old. Joe’s parents were devout Orthodox Jews, his father Abraham (known as Avremele in the community) was a follower of the Hasidic tradition who prayed that Joe, his firstborn, would be- come a rabbi, while his mother, Sarah-Gitel, was a veritable dynamo who had founded and carefully managed Toronto’s important Malbush Aromin (clothing the poor) Society. -
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Party of Canada From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Communist Party of Canada Active Federal Party Founded May 1921 Leader Miguel Figueroa President Miguel Figueroa Headquarters 300 - 279 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J9 Political ideology Communism International alignment Solidarity Network Colours Red, Yellow Website http://www.communist-party.ca/ The Communist Party of Canada is a communist political party in Canada. It is a minor political party without elected representation at present in either the federal Parliament or in any provincial legislature. Contents [hide] • 1 History o 1.1 Origins o 1.2 Expulsion of factions o 1.3 Great Depression o 1.4 Labour-Progressive Party o 1.5 Collapse of the Soviet bloc and party split o 1.6 Reconstituted party o 1.7 2005 split • 2 General Secretaries of the CPC • 3 Central Executive Committee • 4 Election results o 4.1 By-elections • 5 See also • 6 External links [edit] History [edit] Origins The Communist Party was organized with great secrecy in a barn near the city of Guelph, Ontario, in May 1921. Many of its founding members had belonged to groups such as the Socialist Party of Canada, One Big Union, the Socialist Labor Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and other socialist, Marxist or Labour parties or clubs. The party was founded as the Canadian section of the Comintern, and was thus similar to Communist parties around the world. The party alternated between legality and illegality during the 1920s and 1930s. It was initially illegal, and created the Workers' Party of Canada in 1922 as its public face. -
Comitetul Central Al PCR Relații Externe 1984-1986 Inv 3491
ARHIVELE NAŢIONALE SERVICIUL ARHIVELOR NAŢIONALE ISTORICE CENTRALE BIROUL ARHIVE CONTEMPORANE FOND COMITETUL CENTRAL AL PARIDULUI COMUNIST ROMÂN RELAȚII EXTERNE INVENTAR ANII: 1984 – 1986. 1.924 u. a. 1 Prefață Documentele prezente în inventarul de faţă, Fond CC al PCR – Relaţii Externe (1984– 1986), au fost preluate de Arhivele Naţionale de la Ministerul Apărării Naţionale în perioada 1993–2006. Deşi parte dintre ele au fost prelucrate arhivistic de creator, respectiv CC al PCR, după schimbarea de regim politic, survenită în decembrie 1989, o parte dintre instrumentele de evidenţă au fost pierdute, iar cele regăsite şi-au pierdut utilitatea, dat fiind că între timp arhiva a suferit schimbări majore de ordonare a documentelor. Documentele privesc, pe de o parte, ansamblul raporturilor României cu alte state, fie că este vorba despre relaţiile politice, economice sau culturale, cu statele socialiste ori cu cele necomuniste. Pe de altă parte, documentele au în vedere relaţiile PCR cu partidele comuniste, socialiste ori de orientare ideologică apropiată, sau cu alte partide ori persoane și personalități străine. Criteriul de ordonare este structural-cronologic. Genurile de documente sunt, în principal: stenograme, note, rapoarte, telegrame, informări, documentare. Unele dintre ele sunt și în copie, situație indicată la caracteristici. Prelucrarea arhivistică a fost realizată de arhivarul Floarea Dinu și de arhiviștii Ioana Mihai și Mircea Stănescu. Inventarul conţine 1.924 u.a., care reprezintă 8,55 m.l. (57 cutii), din care: 624 u.a., care reprezintă 3 m.l. (20 cutii) pentru anul 1984; 659 u.a., care reprezintă 3 m.l. (20 cutii) pentru anul 1985; 641 u.a., care reprezintă 2,55 m.l. -
Canada”, the Current Canadian a Potentially Explosive Debate National Anthem
Council action endorsed by students By Frank BRAYTON * What could have been a major President Ron Moores explained The council had given very council at this time was.” Is it A noisy discussion of this motion crisis in the field of student affairs the reasoning behind council's careful consideration to the up to the individual to join UGEQ then began. The discussion was was averted at an open meeting of decision to join UGEQ (Union question of joining and felt unani or do we join as a student body?” earmarked by several students the SUS la st Wednesday when a Generale des Etudiants de Quebec) mously that the benefits to be the reply was that we join as a trying to speak at the same time decision of council to join UGEQ During the course of his speech, derived from membership in UGEQ student body. We are in fact already and violent outbursts from the was upheld by a slim margin of he was interupted several times were very worthwhile. members of UGEQ. floot. The result was that most 6 votes. by hecklers and, conversly, cheers Another question that was pre students could not unerstand what “UGEQ is a dynamic force in As a result, council will not be of support. sented for discussion was that was taking place and order was not this province to-day and it is going forced to resign as they indicated of the cost of joining UGEQ. It restored until the vote was taken. to advance the position of the to the Georgian last week and the The open meeting was called as was revealed at this time that student in Quebec whether we are Several points that were raised university’s 4,000 students will a re su lt of a petition signed by 150 membership fees are $1.00 per part of it or not.” during the discussion period, howe remain members of the Quebec students that was presented to student.