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Economy

United Nations committee of

economic ‘experts -selected
from 10 countries to study the
“Economic and Social Conse-
quences of Disarmament” have
now tabled their voluminous re-
port.
- Its conclusions are simple; viz,
that “peaceful coexistence” is not
only desirable but readily pos-
sible.

Instead of the world spending
some $120-billion annually for war
purposes and keeping some 70-
million persons engaged in mili-
tary pursuits of one sort or other,
all this tremendous material and
physical resources, released for
peaceful pursuits, could change
the face of things almost over
night.

The UN economic experts are

of peace

agreed on the need of some dras-
tic changes. “Disarmament”, they
say, “might well permit shorter
working hours, longer paid vaca-
tions, bigger pensions for retired
persons, a higher human morality
... ete’. The world, say these
economists, “has more than
enough peaceful needs to use up
all the resources which would be
freed by disarmament.”

The problem will be to get the
big monopoly armament manufac-
turers, the modern “merchants of
death” and their nuclear political
maniacs to see it that way. With
the economics of peaceful coexist-
ence now fully documented by the
UN, that problem also can be
overcome, and the job of winning
disarmament and peace also that
much advanced.

Editorial comment...

hilip Bart, member of the Com-
munist Party of the U.S.
was sentenced last. week -to six
months imprisonment for alleged
“contempt of court”. Bart is the
first Américan Communist to fall
victim of the notorious McCarran
International Security Act, which
calls for all U.S. Communists to
“register” themselves as “agents
of a foreign power”, and under
which-long. prison terms can. be
imposed on American citizens
without trial.
Exercising his constitutional
right to refuse answering some

-forty provocative questions put

by a grand jury, or to serve as
an informer by giving the names
of party members, sources of
party finances, its press, etc, re-
sulted in the grand jury’s “con-
stitution-be-damned” six months
jail term for Bart.

Recently the New York Post
has described the McCarran “‘in-
ternal security” inquisition as
“a booby-trap for American de-
mocracy ... usable against great
numbers of Americans who are
not Communists.”

While the U.S.-Canada mono-
poly oligarchy are doing very well
in the rooking of Canada’s nat-
ural gas resources, the oil mon-
epoly hijackers are not far be-
hind.

The annual report of Trans-
Mountain Oil Pipe Line Company

Pacific Tribune

Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH
Business Mor.—OXANA BIGELOW

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shows company shares, “earn-
ings” and dividends just about
doubled in 1961 over the previous
vear. Net earnings jumped from
a little better than $3!4-million
in 1960: to $614-million. in 1961;
from 45.8-cents a share: to’ 8214-
cents. That gave the oil tycoons
a dividend melon of some ‘$6,-
019,712. to divide among them-
selves. :

Like the “Big Yard” syphon-
ing off our natural gas resources
to California, a good many jobs
for B.C. werkers also go down
Trans-Mountain Pipe Line to U.S.
refineries. But in-our way-of-life
its “dividends before jobs.”

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‘Comment |

Gilde aim of OAS

ae in terms of persecu-

tion, destruction and death,
inflicted upon the brave people
of Algeria by France’s seven
years of “dirty” war to block
Algerian independence, the total
is one that staggers the imagina-
tion.

Even now as “peace”’ talks are
under way between the De Gaulle
government and the provincial
government of an independent
Algeria, the wanton massacre and
cold-blooded murder of Algerian
patriots is a daily occurance.

On the streets of Paris, in Al-
gerian cities, towns and villages,

murdered in ambush. That is the-
daily’ story in the columns of
thousands of newspapers.

A “Secret Army Organization”
(OAS) is the murder weapon of.
French reaction. It consists of die-
hard French colonialists, “col-
ons”; the scourings of the West
German nazi gutter; the rem-
nants of the now “disbanded” —
French Foreign Legion. Declassed |
mercenaries whose profession is
to kill for hire. These are the —
OAS, led by the “Colon” gangs
which brought De Gaulle to
power, and who now command his
toleration, if not his public “ap-
proval”. A fascist OAS which has -

the story is the same. Algerian brought France to the brink of 7

men, women and children shot

civil war in its opposition to Al —

down in cold blood or brutally gerian independence by the mas ~

De Gaulle: “Those darned prank-
‘sters are at it again!”

acre of its heroic people.

This murderous OAS poses’ 4 —
question for peace-loving: peoples:
everywhere. What’ has “the UN
done, or is doing? It may be, as
De Gaulle has-declared‘on preyi- ~
ous occasions, “France’s:own pri ~
vate affair”. But genocide ‘is not be
the “private affair’ of any nation, —
and that is precisely the question
facing the péople of France, Al-

geria — and the UN; the ruthless ~
wiping out of a people struggling |

for independence by -an armed —
OAS of mercenaries and: brigands
to whom genocide ha bétome @
profession.

—

Tom
McEwen

headline in the local press in-

forms us that U.S. ‘Senator
Wayne Morse (Dem.) Oregon, is: all
het up about Canada’s trade rela-
tions with Peoples’ China and
Cuba, and wants something done
about it. According to the doughty
senator, ‘‘Canada Needs Talking
To?”

Questioned in the House of
Commons re this senatorial out-
burst, Dief meekly explained that
the government ‘has’ nothing to
say”, from which it may be conclud-
ed (among other things) that the
Oregon senator was- just doing
‘what comes naturally” . to most
of these spokesmen of Yankee mon-
opoly.

That conjecture is certainly cor-
rect if the February 16-editions of
the San Francisco Chronicle- and

the San Francisco Examiner are
‘any guide.to senatorial: opinion:

controlled newspapers of-the above
date spill over several pages on
the opening of the $300-million
Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s.
natural gas pipeline from Alberta
to California.

‘A Pipe Dream Come True” they

term it and, for the U.S. consumer
and the monopoly distributor, that
is just what it is.

This big 36-inch 1400-mile “pipe
dream’, already named the “Big
Yard”, delivers some 415-million
cubic feet daily to California, with
more to come, as, if and when re-
quired. ‘“‘Addition of more compres-
sion stations (in Alberta) will event-
ually boost the daily flow to more
than: one billion cubic feet’, hence

It-naturally folivows that.anything
Canada may do in the line of trade
or other domestic and foreign pol-
isies not approved by U.S. mon- |
opoly, is therefore open to public
condemnation. Hence the recent
senatorial threat to give us a ‘‘talk-
ing to.”

It should also be added that while
the consumption of Canadian nat-
ural gas in California and the U.S.

Lente

Both editions of these monopoly-

domestic and industrial consumers
in sunny California need have no
fears of gas shortages as long as
there’s a Canada to drain from.

A headline in the S.F. Chronicle
reads ‘“‘we’re burning gas by the
roomful’, and the §S.F. Examiner
chimes in with the chorus of ‘an
abundance ... of fuel and energy
to support the continuing growth
of our great State”. The $.F. Chron-
icle editorial sounds the high con-
tralto note in this resources rhap-
sody with “There are many friend-
ly and profitable (emphasis ours)
connections between Canada and
the United States, but this one of
steel. pipe is different from the
rest... . guaranteeing a 25-year
uninterruptible supply.”

No wonder the senator from Ore-
gon thinks “Canada Needs Talk-
ing To’. The U.S. monopoly press
which helps mould, and in turn
reflects senatorial and other mon-
opoly opinion,. looks upon USS.
grabs of Canada’s natural gas and
other rich resources as an “‘inalien-
able right?” :

Northwest is climbing to ‘“‘astro-
nomical’ proportions (and at rates
considerably below that of the Al-
berta or B.C. consumer), the U.S.
gas trust has larger aims in view.
With compressor pumps planned to
pump in a much higher volume
than at present, the PG&E are also
building huge ‘‘Gas Banks” capable
of “a working storage capacity of
30-billion cubic feet’, and provid-
ing the U.S. gas monopoly with the
“ability to deliver 400-million cubic
feet daily’ to its industrial and
domestic users.

Something else except millions
of cubic feet of Canadian natural
gas from Alberta to California goes
through this “Pipe Dream Come
True”; viz, the jobs of thousands
of Canadian workers and countless
scores of new potential Canadian in-
justries. '

No wonder Senator Morse talks
as though the U.S. owns Canada,
and Dief has “nothing to say”. The
one takes such U.S. monopoly rob-
bery for granted; the other falls
back on the alibi of an ‘‘accomp-
lice’.

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March 16, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4