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 x borders — the - —————————— 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