BLACK POWER AND STUDENT UNREST.
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To: CHIEF, WOMUSE
Document date: 11/04/1969
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Black Power and Student Unrest

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'"The Black Power Movement in Canada" and "Unrest in the Academic

¡Community (Canada).' were recently passed to us in response to

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CANADIAN-U. KO-U.SONEY DS ONLY

UNREST- IN THE: ACADEMIC! COMMUNT

(CANADA)

13. JUNE 1969

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vents where these contacts were made including the CUS and UGEQ

nnual conferences, the Ninth World Youth Festival in Bulgaria

uring August 1968, the International Assembly of Revolutionary

rudents in New York during September 1968, and the Hemispheric

onference to End the War in Vietnam in Montreal during December

1968.

As suggested earlier, protests and student demands in

the academic community in the name of student power are not in-

digenous to Canada.

There is a reinforcing relationship between

she protest movements of each specific Western country due mainly

io the international outlook of protest leaders who are prone to

react to similar protest movements in other countries.

Although

there äre numerous contacts between student power leaders and

activists in various countries, and foreign events do have an

effect on events in Canada, there is not, at least as yet, any

substantial evidence of coordinated international control.

This

mant the fan test dot police moment enore to

plan spred more by imitation and publicity than by coordinated

2. INFLUENCE OF FOREIGNERS

LIVING IN CANADA

There has always been a number of academics from foreign

countries who have come to Canada to take up positions in the

academic community. Although there are exceptions, in the past most

of these people have tended to be concerned only with their

academic endeavours and have not openly participated in the

political affairs of this country.

vears there has been a gradual increase in the number of past several

academics -

students, graduate students and professors - who have come to

Canada and become actively involved in the protest movements, in

particular, the Student Power movement.

Many of these people fall

in the New Left category and have come to Canada due to difficulties

with their own governments because of their radical political

activities.

It is quite apparent that much of the unrest on Canadian

campuses to date has been strongly influenced, and in certain

instances initiated, by radical students ano

countries.

professors from other

Many of

the radicals involved in the upheaval at SFU,

Ior example, were lecturers and teaching assistants of British and

American origin who were virtually persona non grata to their

native countries educational institutions and who, as a result,

immigrated to Canada.

Approximately half of the faculty staff of the PSA

Department, which was the focal point from which the demands for

change in the University structure emanated prior to the formation

Apparently, the U.S. Government has been given what officials

consider

"ironclad proof" that Communist China and Cuba have

rinanno natinnally coordinated campus disorders.

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" the SDU at SFU, consists of left-wing activists in this

category.

Martin LONEY, who was one of the student leaders

iuring the SFU incident,

entered Canada as a British citizen in

•ugust 1966. Dr. Thomas Burton BOTTOMORE , a leading Marxist

ind author on Marxism as well as a British citizen, took up

employment at SFU in 1965 as head of the Department of Political

Science, Sociology and Anthropology (PSA).

BOTTOMORE, as head of

the PSA, was responsible for the hiring of Kathleen ABERLE, a

British citizen, and of Thomas Harold BROSE, John William Carl

LEGGETT, Hathan POPKIN and Martin NICOLAUS, all U.S. citizens.

Although the largest concentration of foreign radicals

other activists did take positions in

It SFU was in the f these included Sidney COONTZ, Michael Allan

other deparcments.

Mordecai BRIEMBERG, who took over as

head of the PSA

epartment after burtomoRe tendered his resignation in 190%, has

expressed a desire to remain as Department head in order to keep

his hand in on the hiring.

e an American

Marxist university professor who apparently worked for

the Communist

underground in Italy during the early 1960's, into SFU.

Professor Donald E. EPSTEIN of the Political Science

Department at the University of Waterloo, an American citizen

described as a draft dodger and an SDS member prior to his arrival

in Canada in 1967, as previously indicated, has been active in

organizing and directing students in tactics and methods by which

they could take physical possession of university buildings.

EPSTEIN, who has been active in student power activities at

saterloo, has apparently been refused tenure at that University

and there are indications that activist students intend to challenge

the administration in this regard.

Professor Norman STRAX,

2 an American who was employed

as an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of New

Brunswick, precipitated the crisis at that University.

STRAX was

inst umenta) in the formation and activities of the SDS branch at

See APPENDIX 16 for further details on

specific foreigners living in Canada.

*See APPENDIX 16.

3The SDS at UNB is also known as the Canadian Struggle

for a Democratic Society (CSDS).

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APPENDIX 16

PUREIGNEMS LIVING IN CANADA WHO

HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN UNREST IN

THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

Kathleen ABERLE - Associate Professor, SFU

ABERLE, a

1y67 from the United

States to become Asso rated to essoda i June

Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology Department (PSA) at

SFu.

Abchue has admitted being a strong supporter of fidel Casino.

revolutionary government and of the National Liberation front ir

Hanoi.

She is interested in the activities of Black Power advocates

and university radicals.

Hardial Singh BAINS - graduate student, McGill University

See APPENDIX 14

Thomas Burton BOTTOMORE - former head of PSA, SFU

BOTTOMORE, a British subject, who was employed at Sfu

has a

from 1965 until his departure for England in December 196/ In 1967

history of Communist involvement in England prior to 1950.

he was assessed as being influential in young radical circles at

As head of the PSA at SFU he was responsible for hiring and

bringing to Canada a number of radicals from the United States and

Britain.

James Thomas BROPHY - student, University of Windsor

BROPHY, an American

from Elmira, N.Y., is sympathetic

towards "leftist organizations" but is not as far left as he would

like people to think.

He was recently elected President of the

University's Student Administrative Council.

He participated in

certain minor demonstrations during the 1967-68 academic year,

attended a CUS seminar in Winnipeg in May 1968 and since his return

has been more vocal and appears to be more radical in his outlook

towards the established authority.

Thomas Harold BRUSE - Assistant Professor, SFU

BROSE, a U.S. citizen,

entered Canada in July 1965

and is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science, SFU.

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APPENDIX 16

University, LEBUWITZ has made no attempt to hide his extremely pro-

Communist,

anti-U.S.A. feelings.

In December 1967 LEBOWITZ was

elected President of the newly formed SFU Teachers' Union.

leading

left-wing radical, he is known to assist radical students.

Herbert N. LEFCOURT - Professor, University of Waterloo

LEFCOURT, an American citizen, immigrated to Canada in

July 1963.

It is purported that he planned the strategy and form

of confrontation for the student occupation at the University of

Waterloo in October 1968.

John William Carl LEGGETT - Associate Professor, SPU

Currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at SFU,

LOGGETT, a U.S.A. Citizen, entered Canada in September 1950.

Prior to coming to Canada, LEGGETT, then employed by the University

of California (Berkeley), was a leader of the free Speech movement

which conducted a campaign directed against the University adminis-

tration. he was subsequently arrested jor picketing in deliance

of court order.

In 1908 wittell was a member of the vancouver

in 1900 1.500.

Committee to Ald American War Objectors.

Martin James LONEY - Teaching Assistant, SFU

See APPENDIX 10.

Martin NICOLAUS - Teaching Assistant, SFU

A U.S.A. citizen, NICOLAUS is a Teaching Assistant in

Sociology and Anthropology Department of

Movement now Progressive Labour Party - pro-Chinese Communist)

in the United States.

A convinced Marxist and an advocate of

evolution as the only solution for changing the social system,

NICOLAUS has been described as one of the

"extreme left radicals"

responsible for various demonstrations and student unrest at SFU.

David Keith ORTON - Lecturer, SGWU

on 14 November 1957 and was granted Canadian Citizenship on

born in England on 6 January 1934, entered Canada

8 January 1963.

He was described in September 1968 as one of the

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