Alexander McQuirter, the 22-year-old self-styled “national director” of the Ku Klux Klan, was bounced from a television talk show in northern Ontario and has been evicted from his office in Toronto.
McQuirter confirmed that the KKK received an eviction notice Oct. I ordering it to vacate its office on Upper Yonge St. by Nov. I He said the owners of the building, K and C Construction Co., accused the KKK of misrepresentation when it signed a two-year-lease in September under the name of “National Association for the Advancement of While People and changed that its presence was “causing other tenants mental anguish.” Another Klan spokesman said “A Jew owns this building and I guess he hates us.” McQuirter said the Klan has moved out but would fight the eviction in court.
He was dropped from a segment of a weekly phone-in television show broadcast by CICI-TV after a 36-hour protest campaign initiated by the small Jewish community of Sudbury, Ont. and the District Labor Council. Bill Nadeau, program director of Mid Canada Communications Ltd., said the station executives decided “it would be wise not to show the program” segment.
CORRECTION: The Nov. 6 Bulletin story, Wins and Losses in Congressional Races, stated in the third paragraph that of the 29 Jewish Congressmen, 23 are Democrats, six are Republicans. It should have stated correctly, 28 Jewish Congressmen, 23 Democrats and five Republicans.
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