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5 unusual facts about Tim Buck


Kingston Penitentiary

Tim Buck, leader of the Communist Party, was a prisoner at Kingston Penitentiary convicted under Section 98 of the Criminal Code during the early 1930s.

Tim Buck

He became involved in the labour movement and radical working class politics in Toronto.

Together with Ernst Thälmann of Germany, Maurice Thorez of France, Palmiro Togliatti of Italy, Earl Browder of the United States, and Harry Pollitt of Britain, Buck was one of the top leaders of the Joseph Stalin-era Communist International.

The party supported the government's call for conscription and established Tim Buck Plebiscite Committees which called for a "Yes" vote in the 1942 national plebiscite on conscription.

Trade Union Educational League

Tim Buck, Steps to Power: A Program of Action for the Trade Union Minority of Canada. Toronto: Trade Union Educational League, 1925.


Stanley Brehaut Ryerson

Following the outlawing of the CPC in 1940, General Secretary Tim Buck along with Sam Carr and Charles Sims fled Canada for the safety of New York where they would reside under the protection of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA).


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