By MABEL RICHARDS lt 's well over five weeks since 9 oil tankers slammed into one peer outside the Golden Gate ute pean San Francisco, and mi re still some 300,000 . DS of oil unaccounted for, ere to the U.S. Daily Bac press, T.V. and radio 4 city have high praise for a Way Standard Oil, the 4 Pany involved, “cleaned-up”’ : ae although by now the : pated oil has thickened and cs a Waist and mussel iB along public beaches and north of the city. ast events cast their shadows €fore When oj J ’ oil Beene. company Zean up oil Ss recent issue of Can points out by which energy world is clearly The life-giving € oceans and on S free access to ometime isheq CO™Pletely extin pc onsider th; then, the ef this “mach: > z fect on 0 e inch penety of an oil spill This could be an accident by 00 ton tankers 1 groups have Bo. in Many wa ght to the ettenion * Tepresentatives and sult of oi iat8e the possible Pics fe it connot be stressed enough une’ that there is not Oney in the World to Mpensate : Secondly, or oil damage, and efinit?, at to date there is Nologies| no known tech- Bcientis, Method known to i ts to undo the damage to the Y Oil spills and leak ! land and Sea ed J e R Bay oe aa Oil at Prudhoe Politician Sald_an American Ungry board of the oi ‘ cause, of course be inflnpanies make up the Which Uential Of the cartels conom Ominate the U.S and Nixon admin S nifortunate, but true, 0 the al interests do dance m ets Of oi} does © man Policy." aspects of i," Mente of language, the Tivate, tte tustry is called Viva ere is littl i bites bout its impact At Cart of the tions that go to the © the ia Social structure and National Mises of U.S. inter- ) P con : the liberay Stee They strike at M the IN progres aaciny Ue that oe hes a lis fate. © be the architect of tion , : ey force a redefini- Ssum tionetional democratic ‘ S about the nature of Slice . Tights of property, Venues “ 80vernment, the atticinace Social change, the blenien Of the citizenry as of human nature. eee a One is Prepared to “ ison=d jain) o orpor: Way Wels paternalism as "Nee th " ee is ample evi- Ww >, at ls good for. such. .. : ESS Rs Cree ee aera ar Over 10 million tons of oil and crude oil products are spilled into the oceans of the world in the course of a single year. Only the large spills are publi- known). cized; most of the spills are never re- corded, and many that do come to light are never admitted by the com- panies involved. Oil spills are increasing at the rate of 20 percent a year. With the advent of the “super tankers,’’ each capable of carrying millions of gallons of -oil, _ the frequency and gravity of spills increases. The list of spills that follows is only 1 a P industries as oil is not neces- sarily good for all. Dealings with Nazi state and I.G. Farben, the withholding of research data, the choking off of full competition from synthetic fuels, the ruthless crushing of small businesses, the organized opposition to public welfare measures in such areas as education, health, and social security, the gutting of tax programs, the perversion of foreign policy, and interfering in the affairs of other countries are but a few contemporary illustrations of the limits of oil’s perspectives.” The above quotes are from The Politics of Oil, by Robert Engler, a U.S. writer. Thus we see that the bland assumption that what is good for Richfield Oil is good for Canadians; that by the term “security of the United States,” they mean security of the oil cartel. But as the oil cartel manoeuvers and intrigues are from one newspaper from January 1969 to March 1970. . JANUARY 1969 Union Oil Co. spills 3 million gal- known). lons into the Santa Barbara channel. Tanker Ocean Eagle spills 3 mil- lion gallons of oil into the Gulf of Panama. Standard of California spills 60,- 000 gallons of gasoline into Humboldt Bay, Calif. Tanker los Vegas Victory spills thousands of gallons of oil into San These incidents are g each day more nakedly revealed to the people of the U.S. and Canada; as the dangers to our natural world, and to the physical well-being of our people by oil’s dangerous properties become more evident day by day, the swell of protest grows. And it will continue to grow. Oil pollutes. Oil corrupts. Oil dictates. Oil dominates. But oil whether we like it or not, is essential at this stage of our technological development. Oil can be transported without spills or leakage. Oil can be used to turn the wheels of industry without corrupting us all. Oil can be controlled by a peoples’ government. The politics of oil need not dominate the non- Socialist world. What must be understood is that we are in a war to the finish with the hydra-headed monster called the oil cartel, not with oil itself! Oil can, and must, serve © mankind—not rule and ruin us. ‘Profit system not overpopulation cause - Rush of hunger’ “The basic cause of hunger in the world today is not overpopulation but a social system which puts profits before the people’s needs and destroys food’ rather than feed the hungry,” said PT editor Maurice Rush, while addressing Grade XI students at Templeton Secondary School last Friday. Rush was invited to give five lectures on the Communist view on ‘The Population Explosion.” Criticising those who advance the theory that population growth is the most serious problem today, and that hunger in the world is due to there being too many mouths to feed, Rush quoted the head of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, Dr. A.H. Boerma, who said recently: “I state most definitely that the FAO has no statistical grounds for supposing that mankind is unable to feed the- growing population . . . no justification for the neo-Malth- usian dire predictions.” Pointing to mass enem- ployment in Canada and B.C. today, Rush said that more than a quarter of all Canadians live in poverty yet the Federal govern- ment subsidizes farmers on the Prairies not to grow wheat, and fruit is destroyed in the Okanagan Valley. ‘‘There is suffering in Canada not because . there isn’t enough to eat but because of exonomic policies which create hunger and mass unemployment,” said. Rush pointed out that in the - U.S.A., where there are an estimated 30 million hungry people, the government in 1968 paid big-time farmers and agribusinesses $4 billion to take 35 million acres of good soil out of production. ‘‘In the richest country in the world millions go hungry while food is destroyed and some people grow rich in the process. Is it a rational and humane society which causes this?’’ asked Rush. He said that according to the 1969 report of the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization, food surpluses - not shortages- are the looming problem in the near future. Francisco Bay. Major damage to the beaches of Barbara Channel. Grand Isle, La., from spill. (Source un- FEBRUARY 1969 Tanker Devlin’ Apollan (Standard of New Jersey) spills 4,000 gallons of {ish Channel in 1967 pumped at least crude oil into Port Everglades, Florida. Tanker Devlin Apollan spills 10,- waters of the channel. This is the larg- 000 gallons of crude oil into Tampa est spill to date. : Bay, Florida, producing an oil slick of 40 square miles. Oil slick off Martha’s Vineyard of the majo: i Th . kills hundreds of sea birds. Wee wotpasiaeies het Oil ae undéverpinge tun from Prudhoe Bay to the West coast amount of Jet turbine fuel into Paralto of Alaska presents a major spill d Creek, Oakland. Lanlenc i ebb Oil spill fouls pleasure boats in miles long, 48 inches in diameter, and San Francisco Marina. (Source un- will carry millions of gallons of oil Standard Oil of New Jersey tank- project will be in excess of $900 mil- er, Arrow, spills 3 million gallons of lion dollars and will require seven to oil into Nova Scotia Bay, fouling 26 nine million acres of land for roads miles of shore. Thousands of gallons of gasoline spilled into Eureka Harbor, Calif. MARCH, 1970 Atlantic-Richfield spills thousands quake fault zones. of gallons of crude oil into the Santa Standard Oil platforms explode in the Gulf of Mexico, spilling 600 to 1,000 barrels a day. The Torrey Canyon spill in the Eng- 30 million gallons of crude oil into the An increasing area of major spills has been the various pipeline systems Aloska Pipeline System (TAPS) that will for the future. The TAPS system is 800 heated to 160 degrees. The cost of the and feeder pipes, While the system has 12 pumping stations, there are no cut-off valves anywhere in the 800 miles of pipe. The system is built on two major earth- -U.S. Daily World that the Company anticipates that the increase will take INTHE REGIISHANIURIE By NIGEL MORGAN The Bennett government moved on two fronts this week to extend its anti-labor record. Already at loggerheads with the trade union movement over its forced-labor, compulsory arbitration decree, breaking the Teamster’s strike — it has now declared war on the B.C. Teacher’s Federation. Bill 47, which is bound to provoke a head-on confrontation with the teaching profession of B.C., of course involves much more than teachers rights and pensions. Also contained in the new act, placed before the Legislature Monday, are pro- visions that will have a far-reaching effect on school budgeting and shifting of the tax load to local ratepayers, if passed in its present form. Highlight of the proposed new legislation include: 1) Amendment of the school: finance formula to compel School Boards to go to referendum vote on all operating budgets which exceed the previous year’s spending by 10 percent if more than 100 people or 5. percent of the voters protest the increase. The intermediate step of ‘‘municipal approval” is withdrawn, thereby heightening the chances of rejection of needed school operational expenditures. 2) Regional ‘“‘community” colleges are to be allowed to borrow up to $1,500 per student for a period of 3 years until a referendum can be held. A slick move to get around wide- spread oppoSsition to the shift in college costs from the Pro- vincial government to local ratepayers. 3) Right of B.C.’s 23,000 teachers to be elected members of school boards outside the district where they teach has been withdrawn, and 15 teachers entrusted by their communities to such elected positions today will be declared inelligible. 4) Weakens the professional position and high standards of the Teachers Federation by cancelling out automatic membership rights granted in 1946 when the Federation reached 90 percent organization on a voluntary basis. Reaction of Federation president, Jim Killeen, that ‘‘First it’s the teamsters, then teachers . . . who’s next’’. And that “The B.C.T.F. will neither bow to threat, nor plead for charity’’ indicates the government arrogant, provocative attitude is heading them into serious trouble. No time should be lost by all labor and democratic forces in this province in making their position known to their MLA, the Minister of Education and Premier Bennett. United action by labor in concert with the trade union movement, PTA and all those concerned about educational standards in B.C. can still compel the Socred administration to take a second look. March 7th is the deadline for briefs to the Transport Com- mission hearing on B.C. Tel’s rate hoist application. Mean- while, the Company is apparently so confident of being allowed to have its way, that it has printed and issued its employees (‘‘confidentially’’, of course) a new 5-page rate card. Increases to take effect after ‘“‘approval of the Canadian Transport Commission, which regulates the Company’s rates,’’ will range as high as 15 percent. Meanwhile, B.C. Tel’s Annual Report has exposed the fact approximately $144 million out of our pockets in the next year. ($6 million in the final five months of 1971. The Company reports near-record earnings of over $19 million in 1970 ‘‘in spite of $1.3 million increase in uncollectable revenues’. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1971—PAGE 3 ah \