FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1956 Douglas assails pipeline sellout REGINA Premier T. C. Douglas has made the battle of the pipe- line and control of other power sources the central theme of his election speeches in the past week. In Shaunavon he told a CCF rally: “The real battle in this election is whether we are going to have public ownership of power and gas or » private ownership.” In Swift Current last week Douglas asserted before a ca- pacity audience in the collegiate auditorium: “A vote for the Liberal and Social Credit par- ties is a vote to do in Saskat- chewan what these two parties are doing in Ottawa, namely, alienate from the people the control of those economic re- sources which are rightfully theirs.” Douglas said Ottawa is asking Canadians to take all the risks on the national gas pipeline while the U.S. promoters retain all the control and the prospects of all the profits. “Tf the people of Canada are going to put up 95 percent of the money to build the pipeline,” he said, “then surely it’s only common sense to put the other five percent and retain owner- ship and control of this resource which is vital to the economic development of Canada.” The CCF government’s in- sistence that the huge resources of Saskatchewan — including distribution of natural gas and the trans-Canada gas pipeline— must be held by the people under public ownership, has won it the full support of the LPP. ; Nelson Clarke, LPP provincial leader and one of its few re- maining candidates in the June 20 elections, last week lauded Premier Douglas’ defense of the Saskatchewan Power Corpora- * tion against attacks from the Liberals and Social Credit. (The LPP has withdrawn from all but a few constituencies to help ensure re-election of the CCF government.) Alaskans want Yukon power Alaskans are in favor of granting Canada access to the sea through the Panhandle which shuts off northern British Columbia and the Yukon from their rightful North Pacific coast — but only at an exorbitant price. The price they demand is U.S. control of hydro rights on the Yukon River, one of this country’s major undeveloped sources of power. An “unofficial poll” taken re- cently among residents of Skag- way, northern Panhandle port through which all traffic over the White Pass and Yukon Rail- way must pass, showed 176 for and 66 against granting Canada access ways or corridors through the southeastern Panhandle. The poll however, was worded to make approval contingent upon Canada granting hydro rights on the Yukon River to U.S. interests — rights whica U.S.. interests so far have schemed unsuccessfully to ob- tain. PT drive to conclude with big city affair — The Pacific Tribune’s financial campaign for $20,000 had passed the $16,500 mark at press time, with money rolling in from press clubs striving to reach their targets before the May 31 deadline. Press workers and friends of the PT will celebrate the con- clusion of another annual drive at a big smorgasbord-dance in Hastings Auditorium this com- ing Friday, June 8 at 6:30 p.m. Some 450 places will be set for the banquet dnd those wishing to attend should come early. There will be dancing from 9-12 p.m. : Among the 25 or more Honor Press Builders seated at the head table will be 11-year-old Georgie Hewison from Camp- bell River, who has collected over $100 for the second year in a row. At press time some 225 sup- porters had become Press Build- ers ($25), 25 had entered the new @lass ef Premier Press Builders ($50) “and another 25 had be- come Honor Press Builders £$100). Top HPBs are Bill Hre- > The Hiroshima Council for Banning Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs has protested to President Eisenhower against the U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini, aftercloud of which is shown above. The hrechuk ($354) and Walter Bjornson ($179). Provincial and Greater Van- couver PT shields will be award- ed to the two leading press clubs. Winner of the PT contest will also be announced and names of consolation award winners will be read. LPP only opposition to Trans-Canada bid OTTAWA The only voice to oppose granting of permission by the Board of Transport Commis- sioners to Trans-Canada Pipe- line Ltd. to build the Alberta to Manitoba section of the gas pipeline was that of J. B. Sals- berg who appeared for the - Labor-Progressive party at the hearing here last week. Japanese welfare ministry has since reported that fruit and vegetables in the central districts of Japan have become radioactive and people have been warned against eating them. Radioactivity found in the fruit and vegetables after heavy radioactive rains than considered safe for human consumption. was found to be five times greater Continued from page I : PIPELINE the struggle for a national poli- cy that put Canada first. At stake in the uproarious debate were: : ® Should the natural gas pipe- line which all agree is as important to Canada as the great transcontinental rail-. ways, be turned over com- pletely to U.S. control — financed from the public treasury — or; ® Should it be built and op- erated as a publicly-owned project — as proposed by hoth the CCF and the LPP together with the entire Canadian labor movement? (The Conservatives cling to private enterprise, but Can- adian-owned. Social Credit goes along with the Liber- als favoring U.S. interests, with Solon Low, Socred na- tional leader, accusing the CCF and Conservatives of following a ‘Communist’ line.) ® Should the House of Com- mons be gagged by the un-. democratic closure method invoked by the government, or should free debate be “permitted on the bill to loan $80 million to Trans- Canada Pipelines Ltd., of Texas and Wall Street? (June 7 is the deadline for the loan to be made, ostens- ibly to get the line® started by July 1.) In the House, Coldwell said of the St. Laurent-Howe gag rules: “Mr. Chairman, over this past week, I have sat here sick at heart at what has been done to the institution of parliament in this country. No opposition, no group of members of parliament, no parliament in the history of parliaments has ever had to be- gin the discussion of an import- ant measure like this. . . I quite believe the only reason we are privileged to discuss this clause today is because of the public outcry.” As for the Liberal govern- ment argument extolling the virtues of U.S. investment in - Canada, Tory leader George Drew had this answer: ; “They are not bringing U.S. , investment in here. This gov- ernment is asking parliament to take the Canadian taxpayers’ money to finance a venture which is to hand over the con- trol of one of our greatest re- sources to a U.S. company.” Outside, the Labor-Progres- sive parade was winning ap- plause from passersby. Two teachers leading a group of school children from the House shouted: “We’re right with you!” _apologized. And the children clapped their hands. The LPP leaflet urged that Liberal members be freed “from party dictatorship (to) let them be guided by, Canadian patriot- ism.” Inside, Liberal members were feeling the heat of public out- cry against them. Some hid from view, refusing to see dele- gations. Others were defiant. D. D. Carrick, for example. He’s Liberal MP for Toronto- Trinity. Seen by an LPP dele- gation, he began with a stream © of abuse, for which he later His stand is this: . *T don’t care what my con- stituents think on this issue. I’ve made up my mind. If those who elected me don’t like it _they can throw me out at the next election.” “Why wait until then?” a delegate asked. The “public outcry” being heard in parliament came from many quarters: ' @ In Toronto a mass meet- ing called by the two labor councils will be held in the King Edward Hotel this Saturday, with spokesmen from all par- ties represented in the House, except Social Credit, speaking from the same platform as lead- ing unionists. ® In Windsor, where the board of control resolved to pro- test, following a delegation from the local LPP headed by Hector MacArthur, the two labor coun- cils and joint PAC called a pro- test meeting attended by 150 people last Sunday. Alistair Stewart for the CCF in parliament, J. W. Monteith for the Tories, and Donald Mac- Donald, Ontario CCF leader, spoke. The Liberal member failed to show up. Stewart said the “lick-spittle” government could find money to help“indigent” U.S. millionaires, but none to ease the burden on Canadian workers, It was loan- ing money to the U.S. corpora- tion at 3% percent while Cana- dians had to pay 5% percent for a NHA loan to build a house. MacDonald directed his fire at Ontario’s Tory party which, he said, was “up to its neck” in Cttawa’s disgraceful deal. ® In Saskatchewan, Premier T. C .Douglas made the issue of public ownership of power scurces, such as the pipeline, the main theme of his election campaign. ® In Toronto, Olde Daven- ‘port United Church will petition the governor-general to dissolve parliament and call a new elec- tion, arguing that “many Cana- dians are opposed” to the gov- ernment’s actions and that the people “have not been given an opportunity, of expressing their approval or otherwise of the loan.” ® In Montreal, LPP candi- date Robert Haddow took a big petition to the streets, collect- ing many signatures. Jane 1, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 12 4