A tial ee aa: _ MRS. ALLENDE APPEAL; ‘ALLOW CHILE REFUGEES ENTER CANADA FREELY’ rally at John Oliver Auditorium. (See story this page). FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1973 Rosemary Brown, representing the provincial government, embraces Mrs. Hortensia Allende at Sundays —Sean Griffin photo By MAURICE RUSH Hardly a day passes that Ottawa or Victoria doesn’t announce some new measure to deal with Canada’s energy crisis. But all of them avoid the real issue: the wholesale export of energy resources to the U.S. and the lack of a national energy policy which would utilize Canada’s resources for Canadians. Canada is one of the few coun- tries in the world which has ade- quate energy resources to meet its needs. The reason we have a grow- ing energy crisis is because the Canadian government has follow- ed a continental policy, allowing the wholesale giveaway of energy resources, often for a song. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. An example of the reason for the ‘growing crisis is to be seen in the graph on this page issued recently by Statistics Canada. It shows the sharp rise in the export of crude oil to the U.S. Note the sharp rise in 1973: in the first three-quarters of this year, exports already exceeded the total for all of 1972, and are almost twice as large as the exports in 1969. The same thing is happening with the export of energy from B.C. A front page story in the PT (Oct. 26, 1973) pointed out that ac- cording to the latest report by B.C. Hydro, export of power to the U.S. jumped 13 times in the last year — from 221 million kilowatt hours in 1972 to 2,865 kilowatt hours in 1973. This is the kind of stuff of which our energy crisis is made. : Last week the Vancouver Sun called editorially for Canada and B.C. to step up its export of power to the U.S. The editorial said, ‘‘It might be possible that an active search here for economies in the use of electrical energy would find -extra supplies that could be diverted through the Northwest power grid (to the U.S.) on an emergency basis.”’ Energy exports to U.S. behind Canada’s crisis Obviously, from the facts given above, we have been exporting far more than we should to the U.S. Undoubtedly, the U.S. is facing a crisis in its management of natural resources. But that’s not Canada’s fault. It's due to their own squandering of resources. An example of the squandering of oil resources in the U.S. is to be seen in the fact that the USS. military is one of the largest users of oil to maintain its huge world- wide military establishment. The Pentagon requires 4,550,000 barrels of oil a week (650,000 barrels each day) to maintain its military’ es- tablishment. The question one may ask is: are Canadians to be expected to suffer shortages and higher prices to en- sure that the Pentagon gets the oil it needs for its policies in the Mid- dle East and to send its B52’s- over Indochina? It's also known that the U.S. See ENERGY, pg. 12 Vol. 34, No. 49 By SEAN GRIFFIN With over 1,000 people thronging the auditorium and some 600 more watching via videotape in an adja- cent room, NDP MLA Rosemary Brown, on behalf of the provincial government, walked swiftly up to the platform to embrace Mrs. Hortensia Allende and to tell the audience that ‘‘as an individual and on behalf of my government, the struggle will not cease until socialism has returned to Chile.”’ It was the measure of solidarity of the hundreds of people who came to hear the wife of murdered Chilean president Salvador Allende, and was affirmed again and again throughout her three-day visit. Earlier, at the airport some 30 members of the Canadians for Democracy in Chile Committee greeted her on her arrival in Van- couver. She was scheduled to leave Tuesday for Los Angeles and San Francisco. Mrs. Allende gave a brief press conference at the airport where she emphasized that Canada is “’in a very good position to help refugees from Chile to find work, dignity and a’ place to live.” Speaking at Sunday’s rally, Rosemary Brown rapped the federal government for its hypocritical position on the .refugees and told the audience that , we recognize the Chilean’s need for a haven to rest and to gather their strength so they can return. “It was with joy and hope that we greeted the election of Allende’s government in Chile,” she said. ‘All of us died a little when it was brutally overthrown.” Three organizations the Canadians for Democracy in Chile, the Vancouver NDP, and the Chilean Solidarity Committee — sponsored the huge meeting and the list of sponsors represented on the platform included the B.C. Federation of Labor, the Van- couver Labor Council, several churches, the Communist Party and others. Steve Penner, chairman of the Chilean Solidarity Committee also called for unconditional asylum for Chilean refugees emphasizing that “we cannot abandon the struggle until every refugee who desires to come to Canada has come.” He evoked a cold response from the audience, however, when he stated that “‘there can be no peaceful road to socialism; only the armed power of the workers : “a comment that concealed an attack on the Popular Unity: government and the path it had chosen. Referring to other comments about the peaceful road to socialism, alderman Harry Rankin noted that there will be many who will use the issue of Chile and the bloody counterrevolution of the junta to question the possibility of a peaceful transition to socialism in any country. ‘‘Nonetheless,’’ Rankin emphasized, ‘‘the inspiring leadership of Salvador Allende will not soon be forgotten by the peo- ple. Many lessons have been learn- ed and many will continue to be learned. “The forces for socialism See SOLIDARITY, pg. 12 in Canadian Exports of Crude Petroleum to the United States Fourth Quarter Third Quarter [: Second Quarter First Quarter The graph above released recently by Statistics Canada shows Canadian crude oil exports to the U.S. Note that the 1973 bar represents only the first three-quarters of 1973 — andalready exports exceed the entire export for 1972.