Under a Watchful Eye

During the 1930s the Communist Party of Canada organized and promoted the working-class struggle against conditions resulting from the Depression. And while some have argued that the state's intelligence community paid little attention to the efforts of the communists between the wars, the evidence reveals a major operation on the part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to watch and suppress Communist Party activities. By tracing the involvement of World War I veteran and Communist Party activist, Stewart O'Neil, in four radical movements — the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, the On-to-Ottawa trek, the workers' theatre movement, and the Spanish Civil War— this paper demonstrates the extent of, and the tactics used by the RCMP in its surveillance and suppression of these radical movements. Resumes Durent la decennie 1930, le Parti Communiste a organise et a encourage la lutte ouvriere contre les conditions resultant de la Depression. Selon certains, les services de renseignements de l'Etat auraient prete peu d'attention a ces efforts. Cependant, des faits attestent de la forte implication de la Gendarmerie Royale du Canada dans la surveillance et la repression des activites du Parti Communiste. Ce texte va demontrer l'etendue et les tactiques utilisees par la Gendarmerie Royale du Canada dans ce but, en analysant la participation de Stewart O'Neil, veteran de la Premiere guerre mondiale et militant du Parti Communiste, dans quatre mouvements radicaux: la Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, la Marche des chomeurs sur Ottawa, le Workers' Theatre movement, et la Guerre civile espagnole

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• The State, the Unemployed, and the Communist Party in Calgary, 1930-5

  Open Access•David Bright•Canadian Historical Review•1997

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