Show serves in red ranks as spy toronto sergt john leopold the royal canadian mounted told a criminal court jury here re bently how for ten years lie he been an active member of if lie canadian communist party even acting as secretary of tile the regina branch and attending a grand communist conference in moscow to get tle tile low jow down for the canadian government on the alms aims and ambitions of the reds in the dominion when he testified in court against nine alleged communists charged under the new federal law with being members of an illegal association leopold wore his red uniform for the first time in a decade throughout all the preceding ten years his bis wearing apparel has been working mans rough clothing and his haunts the secret councils and conclaves of the alleged emissaries in canada of moscow he told of Mos cows hopes for canadian secession from the british empire of plans formulated tor for a red revolt in canada of secret codes and communications from moscow of an A communist party which worked legally in tile the open and a Z party which worked illegally underground and of a shake up of the canadian communistic arm am at the demand of moscow because it was not sufficiently active in fomenting strikes and unrest among the working population leopolds entrance into the witness box reserved for the last item of the crowns case in the sensational trial and recognized as a canadian tells of mos cowes cows hopes of secession desperate crown effort at conviction for with leopolds public testimony went vent his bis further usefulness as police spy in the red r ranks aks nine pairs of of scowling eyes eye s glared at him from the prisoners dorkas he relentlessly bared anred the secrets of the canadian red organization and revealed the secret names by nelch individuals were designated in party communications the pretentious aspirations odthe of the communist element involving canadian break with the british empire and red ned revolt in the mining and industrial centers of the dominion reveal for the first time the reasons for the an anxiety clety of the dominion government in strengthening canadian dian laws against illegal organizations and seditious utterance when thi the bennett government at the last session of the canadian parliament took onto itself virtually autocratic authority to deal with uprisings or movements aimed at government authority it had before it all ajl the information which sergeant leopold favelo gave to the criminal court but the government government revealed nothing of it to parliament nt at that time sergeant leopold was known in the communist party which lie he served as regina secretary as JW J W Ess Essel waln elwain he said he became one of the most trusted members his sensational testimony relative to Mos cows interest in canadyan Canu Canad clinn secession from the british empire came when lie was discussing the ilie inner councils of the 1925 convention of the communist party of canada at this 1025 convention he said one Mor larity was the delegate from the communistic international headquarters at moscow nor larity he s said aid reported that since the previous luter international national conference in moscow a commission has been set up to discuss the prospect of canadian independence what did they mean by that asked special crown prosecutor norman sommerville secession from tile the british empire leopold replied this moscow commission leopold explained had bad consisted of members of them the executive committee of the communist international leopold introduced and identified a literal trunk loud load of communistic literature and communications which had figured in one way and another in canadian communistic activities and in the relations of the canad canadian ian party with its moscow directing heads one of the interesting revelations was the code system used by the party it was a cipher code h he e said based on a certain page in a recognized publication of the party parry by writing numbers certain letters were indicated Indi caled as for instance the number 57 would mean the fifth letter in the seventh line of the designated page |