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From The New International, Vol. VII No. 10, November 1941, p. 258.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
We have just learned of the sudden death of Comrade Jack McDonald, one of the leaders of the Canadian Trotskyist movement. The loss of Jack is a severe blow to the international revolutionary socialist movement of which he was one of the founders and active participants for more than 20 years.
McDonald helped to found the Canadian Communist Party, acted as its first secretary and represented it many times at international congresses. He was expelled from the party as a Trotskyist and thereafter was active in the Canadian Communist League.
He began his activity in the labor movement while a youth in Scotland, having entered the Labor Party. Always an active unionist, he was reported still a member of the executive board of his union at the time of his death and a delegate to the Toronto District Trades and Labor Council.
His death is mourned throughout the revolutionary socialist movement.
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