firm Inco, he was, in 1951, elected to the executive of Local 598 in Sudbury. He served on the Canadian executive board of Mine, Mill until 1961, when he became editor of the Mine Mill Herald. In 1967, Mine Mill was taken over by the United Steel Workers of America and Stevenson served as editor of the USWA's Information until 1972. From 1972 until 1978 he was the public relations director for USWA Canada. Stevenson left the USWA in 1978 when he accepted a position as the Canadian Secretary for the World Peace Council in Finland, he subsequently served as the WPC's Trade Union Secretary and helped establish the International Union Committee for Peace and Disarmament in 1980. He was also active with the Canadian Peace Congress. Stevenson opposed what he viewed as the Communist Party of Canada's tendency towards revisionism. After concluding that the CPC was no longer a Marxist party, he resigned from it, after more than 60 years of membership. He was a founding editor of the anti-revisionist magazine Northstar Compass in 1991 until 1995. In his final years, he was an executive member of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. Death Stevenson died on August 24, 2004 at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto after a long illness, at the age of 84. His ashes were scattered in his native Manitoba at the site of his first school. He was survived by his wife Lil Greene. Stevenson left $5,000 to Northstar Compass; the publication used it to start the "Ray Stevenson Sustaining Fund", taking donations to keep the publication going. See also Michael Lucas Vic Ratsma References 1919 births 2004 deaths Canadian trade unionists Anti-revisionists Labor-Progressive Party candidates in the 1949 Canadian federal election Ontario candidates for Member of Parliament People from Virden, Manitoba