BEHIND THE DRIVE FOR ECONOMIC UNION

The plot to betray Canada to the

By S. SARKIN
hile the control and dom=>
ination of Canada by
American big business goes
On apace, there is simultan-
eously a developing and
strong movement among sec-
tions of Canadian big business
for “economic union’ with
the United States.

.During the last two years
Canadian salesmen of “econ-
Omic union” have been partic-
ularly active, On various oc-
Casions, big business execu-
tives have extolled the vir-
tues of such a union. Amongst
these spokesmen we find the
names of K. E. Scott,: Pres-}
ident of the Ford Motor Co.|
of Canada, F. R. Daniells of;
Dominion Textile of Canada,|
Mr. Randall, President - of
General Steelwares of Can-
ada and H. L. Lank, President
of Dupont of Canada.

Mr, Daniells made his pos-|
ition crystal clear when he!
‘Said: “When Union comes I
will be the first to greet it.””
Scott ang Lank were just as
‘Candid when they declared
that they “stood for free
trade. Bold steps are needed
Which will decide the future
of Canada.”

In a series of articles in the
Vancouver Sun, the well-
known Toronto _correspon-
dent R. Shields drew atten-
tion to two important devel-
opments related to integra-
tien. The first of these was
the formation of a_ special
Committee in 1960. This com-
Mittee is made up of influen-
tial people representing in-
Ustrialists in both Canada
and the U.S.A.

The, second important bit
of information revealed by
Shields is that this committee
Prepared a secret document
of 21 pages about the question
of economic union ‘between
Canada and the United States.
This document is known as.
' V29”. ;
CAMPAIGN DEVELOPS

Following 1960 the cam-
Paign for integration assum-
€d an organized character.
Just how successful the cam-
Paign was is illustrated by

€ special interview given in

‘S. News and World Report. |

In the issue of Sept. 10,
1962, Mr, Williams, president
ef Proctor and Gamble of
Canada, and Mr. D. V. AM-
bridge, president of Abitibi
Ower & Paper Co. Ltd. were
&sked the question about the
Success of the campaign for
integration.

Mr. Williams replied: “Four

and a half years ago, one of!

our U.S. members suggested
e &@ meeting in Toronto that
is we only had economic un-
N Most of the problems we
Meet to discuss would disap-
a There was a shocked
peace on the part of the
~*nadian delegation. This was
JUst unheard of, hadn’t been
“1Scussed virtually at all since
in = To give you the change
As aa and tenor, this year
a prncouver, at a day-and-a-;
Meeting, the last whole
cad ,voespent doing nothing
ect alking about how to dir-
Staffs on the two sides of

Economic union with the U.S. is being widely publicized today. Behind
the campaign to sell the idea to the public are top monopolists in Canada and
the U.S., the old line political parties, and Chambers of Commerce.

In B.C. the Socreds are actively pursuing policies consciously aimed at
selling out our country to the U.S. Readthis articles and see what labor and de

mocratic Canadians can do about it.

the border to prepare the
proper papers to set out the
problems, the pitfalls, the
perils, of what needs to be
overcome to achieve close ec-
onomic union between Can-
ada and the United States.”

SCHEME WORKED OUT

The head of Proctor and
Gamble has indeed evolved
a whole scheme, He has ‘“‘fig-
ured it all out” and has come
to some basic conclusions
about the situation in Canada
and the results of integration, -
particularly as such a step
would serve the interests of
his own and other industries.
Tt is touching to see his con-
cern for the interests of Can-
ada, but there is no doubt
that his real interests are for
the United States. Mr. Willi-
ams is an American. He has
lived in Canada for about 15
years. This man learns fast.
In the course of his being in
this country, he has already
figured out what would be
best for both countries.

Unlike Mr. Williams, Mr.
Ambridge of Abitibi Power
& Paper Co. Ltd. is a born
Canadian. The home grown
boy goes a good deal further
than does the American. In
the same interview Mr. Am-
bridge says:

“My pet scheme at the mo-
ment is that we should at
once initiate some explora-
tory conversations on the sub-
ject of forming, a North Am-
erican “Common Market”, the
members of which would be
Mexico, the United States and
Canada. It would destroy the
tariff barriers between Can-
ada and the United States,
and between Mexico and the
United States. Not only would
it destroy them, but it would
also initiate the free move-
ment of capital, personnel,
and one thing and another
across. the
same provisions made in Eur-
ope by the treaty of Rome
(in 1957, creating the Europ-
ean Common Market).

“Tt would also be a magnet
which might draw Bil tne
South American states even-
tually into a Western Hemis-
sphere Common Market, in-
stead of following Cuba into
exile, for instance. We would
have access to a tremendous
market.

“We might just as well get
organized now to use those
resources effectively, and ef-
ficiently, rather than keep on
with this business of national-
ism, and misuse the resources
that we have.

“First, we've got to Tre
our thinking. What is it

adjust
that we in the West are try-
ing to accomplish. It’s very

s: the defense of our
and religion,
aulted at
massive,

obviou
ideas of liberty
which are being ass
the momoent by a

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ruthless, relentless force
known as Communism. They
are very competent, very pur-
poseful, and they will destroy
our liberties and our relig-
ions if we don’t do something
that is different from what
we have been doing before.

“We must impress people
with this danger, and we
must get it into their heads
that nationalism, Kipling -
style nationalism, “the thin
red line” and all that, is not
necessarily the best way to
defend our ideals. As far as
I am concerned, the defense
of religion and liberty is a lot
more important than the de-
fense of some _ arbitrarily
drawn border.”

SPEAK FOR BIG BUSINESS

In reporting this interview,
the U.S. News and World Re-
port stresses that these two
influential industrialists are
speaking not only in their
own names, but also for a de-
cisive and influential number
of leaders in Canada.

Both these presidents, Wil-
liams and Ambridge, consti-
tute the Siamese Twins of
Canadian and American big
business elements who are
working so fervently for inte-
gration. Our fervent patriot
Mr. Ambridge is very ner-
vous about the element 0:
time. How he pleads “to get
moving”!

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
IN HURRY
The two aforementioned

presidents are not alone in
their conspiracy of betrayal.

This is substantiated at the
convention of the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce held
in Sept., 1962 in Vancouver.

The policy committee of
that august body recommend-
ed, and the convention then
approved, the idea about “im-
mediate negotiation about
common trade and the lifting
of tariff payments.” Follow-
ing the convention the newly-
elected president of tha
Chamber announced that an
immediate study would be un-
dertaken about the question
of “economic union between
Canada and the United
States.”

Two weeks later this same
president, Mr. Oland, an-
nounced that a closed confer-
ence would be called at which
representatives of both coun-
tries would be present. This

conference did take place in —

November of 1962 but it is
significant that not a word
has been published either
about the discussions or the
decisions of the meeting.
‘DON’T INSULT
AMERICANS’

The Vancouver Sun of Dec.
31, 1962, carries an article en-
titled ‘‘Don’t Insult Ameri-
cans — You'll Be One Soon.”
The author, Mr. J. Cahill,
goes on to say:

“Many people and several
of the Sun’s columnists seem
to think the possibility of
Canada’s eventual union with
the United States is still mere-
ly a matter for conjecture and

argument. Well let me tell

Magazine Section

U.S.

you, from where I sit close
to the government in Victor-
ia, this thing is already al-
most beyond the stage of
speculation. :
Economic union with the
U.S. has become one of the
strongest policies of the the
B.C. government. . . our At-
torney-General and Minister
for Trade and Commerce Bob
Bonner has been plugging
consistently for an economic
union with the U.S. for more
than two years now. Premier

Bennett agrees enthusiastic

ally with Bonner.”

The campaign for integra-
tion has assumed alarming
proportions. American and
Canadian monoplists are
working overtime in order to
bring about integration. The
Ford Foundation has recently
made available a sum of
$200,000.00 to the Canadian
Institute of Foreign Affairs..
The purpose of the grant: ‘‘to
investigate the relationship
between Canada and the
U.S.A.; the effects of modern
arms, technological develop-
ments and the role of a mid-
dle power in world affairs’”.

When stripped of its wrap-
ping, it is clear that this grant
by the Ford Foundation is
meant to help in the financ-
ing of the campaign for inte-
gration.

It is time to awaken public
opinion about this great con-
spiracy, conducted by the
monopolist oligarchy in the
U.S.A. and Canada. The time
has come when the working
class movement, the trade un-
ions, the New Democratic
Party and all true patriots of
Canada should develop a
mighty campaign to save
Canada from the danger of!
being swallowed up by Amer-
ican monopolists and _ their
Canadian partners.

1,422,800
belong to
Unions

Nearly 38 percent of all un-
ion members in Canada in
1962 worked in the province
of Ontario, and a little more
than 40 percent of them were
employed in manufacturing,
according to an article, ‘“In-
dustrial and Geographic Dis-
tribution ‘of Union Member-
ship in Canada, 1962”, pub-
lished in the latest issue
(March) of the Labor Gazette,
the journal of the department
of labor.

Of the 1,422,800 union
members in Canada, 538,000
were in Ontario, and the num-
ber employed in manufactur-
ing was 580,700.

Quebec came second in the
number of union members,
with 354,100; British Colum-
bia was in third place with
193,000.

Although Quebec has sub-
stantially fewer union mem-
bers than Ontario, it had
within its borders the city
with the largest number of

’ trade unionists of any city in

Canada. There were 196,400
union members in Montreal.

May 10, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5