Fa SRI ee Review a 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 Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: One Year: 4.00 — Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all other- countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash 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.” 5 ‘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’. — March 16, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4