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Hundreds of civic workers picketed city hall Tuesday as Vancouver city council met. Photo shows Mayor Tom
Campbell’s car surrounded by civic workers carrying signs urging negotiations now. Ald. Harry Rankin
introduced an emergency resolution proposing a special council committee to negotiate directly with the
striking unions. Over Rankin’s strong objection the resolution was laid over for consideration for one week.

U.S. tankers threat to B.C.

Cont'd from pg. 1
crude oil on to the sea in a
manner that would seriously
affect the Canadian coastal
environment.”

A fact not hitherto known is
brought out in the report, which
was prepared after seven
months study by Howard Paish
and Associates Ltd., It says that
an existing pipeline can supply
Washington and Oregon’s needs,
including the expanded refinery
at Cherry Point for at least
another 15 years. The study said
the tanker route is actually
unnecessary.

However, the U.S. insists on
going ahead with the Trans-
Alaska pipeline and its massive
oil shipments down the B.C.
coast to Cherry Point. Lying
directly in the path and facing
major ecological destruction is
the B.C. coast.

The U.S. has been completely
unconcerned with B.C. As far as
Atlantic-Richfield and the U.S.
promoters of the scheme are
concerned B.C. is expendable. It
is typical of the arrogant

attitude shown by U.S. mono-:

polies and the U.S. government
to Canada’s needs in the past.

Proposals put forward by
Premier WAC Bennett and
Ottawa so far involve mainly
steps to set up joint committees
to try to cope with a disaster
once it occurs. The premier’s
recent proposals to set up a joint
committee with Washington
would not be aimed at stopping
the bringing of giant oil tankers
into Puget Sound. It would
actually legitimitize them by
agreeing on joint measures to
fight the pollution when it
occurs.

The people of B.C. are unilater-
ally opposed to U.S. monopolies.
and the Nixon government
playing with the lives and
welfare of B.C. They want a com-
plete halt to present plans to
ship the oildown the B.C. coast to
Cherry Point.

They must demand that if the
U.S. insists on going ahead with
refining Alaska oil that it be
compelled to. relocate the
Cherry Point refinery outside

, the Puget Sound area and place

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1972—PAGE 12

it further south in the U.S. where
it would not endanger B.C.

Some people, such as Liberal
leader David Anderson and
some environmentalists, have
been advocating a kind of horse
deal with the U.S. They advo-
cate that the U.S. give up its
tanker route in return for
Canada turning over to the U.S. a
corridor through the Mackenzie
River Valley for a U.S.-built pipe-
line.

Such a horse trade would be
like jumping from the frying pan
into the fire. Granting of a corri-
dor to the U.S. through Canada
would be a major step towards
integration with the U.S. and
would be a major betrayal of '
Canadian interests putting our
very independence and sover-
eignty in danger.

British Columbians want to
save their province but in doing
so they don’t want to give away
their country.

‘The Liberal government in
Ottawa is also trying to work out
a deal with the U.S. to turn over
both a natural gas and oil
pipeline through the Mackenzie
Valley to U.S. corporations.
Recently Energy Minister
Donald Macdonald told Parlia-
ment he hoped two cartels in
Houston, Texas would agree to
merge their resources to build
the gas pipeline. He added that
he hoped the U.S. would also
undertake to build the oil pipe-
line through the Mackenzie
Valley as well.

Such a development would be
a gross betrayal of Canada’s inde-
pendence.

Canada should build its own
natural gas and oil pipeline
through the Mackenzie Valley to
serve all-Canadian needs and
retaining control of the pipeline
through Canadian territory.
Once this is done Canada could
enter into an agreement with
the U.S. for the U.S. to use the
Canadian pipeline under condi-
tions which would ensure that
Canada’s national.interests are
protected.

In the meantime, present
plans to ship oil by super tanker
down the B.C. coast should be
halted. In any case, as the Paish
report disclosed: Presently
existing pipelines can continue
to serve the needs of Northwest
U.S. states without the tankers
for the next 15 years. So why the
rush?

There is a distinct possibility
of defeat of the Bennett govern-
ment and its replacement by a
progressive majority, B.C.
leader of the Communist Party
Nigel Morgan told a weekend
session of the party’s 30-mem-
ber provincial committee in
Vancouver.

He said a considerable shift in
provincial political relation-
ships is taking place.

“The Bennett government has
antagonized a wider section of
voters than ever before. Unques-
tionably they have lost consid-
erable ground — a fact that
became apparent in Social
Credit strongholds like Kam-
loops, during the last civic elec-
tions. It was also underscored in
the recent election tour of the
main provincial centres by the
cabinet.”’

Morgan said it could not be for-
gotten that in the 1969 election,
in one out of every five consti-
tuencies less than 500 votes Sep-
arated the Socred and NDP
candidates; and in seven less
than 250 votes.

While the Socreds got 38 seats
(70 percent of the legislative
representation), they only
polled 47 percent of the popular
vote. In view of this, Morgan
said, and the . widespread
dissatisfaction expressed since
by B.C. teachers, nurses and hos-
pital workers, doctors, school
trustees and municipal admin-
istrators, let alone thousands of
trade unionists, welfare recip-
ients and anti-pollutionists, the
results of the recent Daily
Province opinion poll is probably
not far from the mark.

“This Tory mouthpiece, while
acknowledging the likelihood of
the Conservatives losing both
their MLAs, and the Liberals
dropping one, have predicted a
doubling of NDP representation
to 24, with the Socreds dropping
their present 36 MLAs to 25. Such
an outcome would represent a
very substantial advance for the
working people of this prov-
ince,”’ he stated.

The main aim of the Com-
munist Party will be to “effect a
real change; to ensure there will
be no return of the Liberals or
Tories; replace the Bennett
government by a progressive

majority of NDPers and
munists to end big busines)
and put the peoples inl@ |
first,’ the main res.
adopted by the Provine
mittee declared.

The committee voted af
mously to nominate seve |
eight provincial candida, .
addition to the Provo.
leader, Nigel Morgan, F
already been named 1

Vancouver East.

William Kashtan, lade
Communist Party of Mg)

At the conclusion of the *
warm greetings 4am
wishes from the B.C. ™ «Bl
ship with a colorful book®
natural scenery was di
to party chairman mot
who is recuperating
lengthy illness in Toroml® .

Jobless up in |
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holds the unenviable PX
having the highes

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rose to 8.1 percent from hi]
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1,000 jobs plus a Bf gol
labor force in B.C:
make up the boost.

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leaders had no ans ne
than a cut in the inc?
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comment.

A protest flotilla filled English Bay Sunday in a protes!
tankers on B.C. coast. About 100 fishing
demonstration which was sponsored by the

Council, United Fishermen and Allied Workers Unio

vessels