STEWART ASKS ACTION ON PORT. Photo shows Vancouver
South Communist candidate William Stewart walking up city
hall steps with another member of the delegation last Tuesday
to present a brief to city council urging policies to develop
Vancouver's port. See story below. —Photo Searle Friedman.

‘Need new trade policies
for port growth’ —Stewart

4 08 Tuesday, June 5, a
Communist Party . delega-
tion, led by city secretary
William Stewart, present-
ed a brief on Vancouver’s
port facilities to City

Council.

The brief reminded coun-
cil that ‘any port operates
within the framework of the
national policies pursued by
the country of its location.”

Canada, the brief stated,
was following a_ national
trade policy which was re-
strictive and totally out of
touch with modern day real-
ity, and, as a result, the port
of Vancouver was paying the
price.

“A vigorous trade policy,”
on the other hand, would
“lead to expansion of “the

in all economic areas

“Quite aside from what the
sale of our wheat surpluses
(to People’s China) has
meant to the prairie farm-
ers,” the brief continued, ‘it
has pumped more than $17
million into Vancouver, plus
jobs and pay envelopes for
many hundreds of workers.”

It then proceeded to cite
examples of what would
happen to key B.C. exports
should Britain join the Euro-
pean Common Market, and
pointed out that in a chang-
ing world the only safe and
sane course lay in the direc-
tion of barter and long-term
credit arrangements with
any and all countries willing
to mutually trade with Can-
ada.

The brief concluded by
making the following pro-
posals to Council:

® Because the dockage and
wharfage facilities are woe-
fully inadequate, the council
should enter into immediate
negotiations with the federal
government for the establish-
ment of a Greater Vancouver
Harbor Board;

e That the city council

should demand a new deal
for the port of Vancouver
from the government.

e That immediate plans be
undertaken for the construc-
tion of a waterfront access
road for the south shore of
the harbor;

e That, in addition to the
above, a detailed study be
made of the whole range of
port functions as they relate
to New Westminster, the
Fraser river and the Pitt
river;

e That council press Ot-
tawa to enlarge its proposals
for subsidizing Canadian
shipbuilding and undertake
the re-establishment of a
Canadian merchant marine.

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operations of the port and -

Socred urges
emergency’ step

Speaking in Calgary last
Friday Social Credit leader
Robert Thompson called for
national security forces
which would be “organized
into a number of highly mo-
bile flying squads and task
forces trained for a wide
variety of emergencies at
home and abroad.”

These squads, said Thomp-
son, would be directed by a
newly - appointed minister
of national security.

TORIES, LIBERALS PLAN’ SELLOUT

INDUSTRIAL ENERGY - A KEY”
0 CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE

By TIM BUCK

The difference between
the election promises of
the leaders of the parties
of big business and the
actual policies that they
are committed-.to is illus-
trated by their verbal an-
tics on the question of
power development in Can-
ada.

This question confronts us
today and it will be with us
after the election is over—it
will not go
down. The
way that it
is answered
event u ally
will decide
the course of
develop-
ment of the
economy of
our country
and, thereby, the futures of
millions of Canadians.

The Conservative, Liberal
and Social Credit parties all
treat this vital issue in the
same way — they refuse to
come to grips with it. When-
ever the Icaders of these par-
ties are forced to speak about
power development each of
them takes refuge in double-
talk about. development of
the Columbia River basin.

Examination of their com-
plicated statements on this
question reveals that each
one of them is trying to de-
lude voters into believing
that he will conserve this
priceless natural resource for
the Canadian people while
indicating in careful gobble-
degook that he will sell it to
the United States if only he
can get elected. That is the
policy to which each of them
is committed.

NEW POLICY NEEDED

The national interests of
Canada, yes, our survival as
a sovereign state, demand a
clear cut repudiation of the
policy of selling our power
resources to the United
States and the introduction
of a policy of coordinated,
national power development.

The Communist Party has
been advocating this for
many years. For example, in
our Canada Day Message in
1955 we pointed out:

“The availability of abun-
dant power, preferably cheap
power, has become the deci-
sive consideration in decid-
ing where great industries
shall be located ...

“If we use our resources
and our opportunities prop-

“ Well, you'd have saved a lot of trouble if you'd said
at the start that this crash on Wall Street involved
your car and one travelling in the opposite direction ! y

Canada will become the loc-
ale of most of the great new
basic industries that will be
built in North America dur-
ing the coming 50 years...
drawn here.by the irresist-
ible magnet of abundant
cheap power and _ industrial
raw materials.”

The alternative to this is,
as we pointed out in the same
statement, to ‘‘become a vast
reserve of natural resources
from which the United
States will draw energy and
industrial raw materials as
she needs them.”

These quotations from Na-
tional Affairs Monthly of
July, 1955, show that the
Communists have been em-
phasizing the vital signific-
ance of power development
for a long time.

But, much more import-
ant, they illustrate the con-
tradiction between what
Canada needs and what all
the parties of monopoly capi-
tal are doing.

If their sell-out of Canada
is not stopped we shall soon
cease, as General McNaugh-
ton warned the government
and the members of the
House. of Commons in May,
1955, to be even ‘‘hewers of
wood and drawers of ore”.
We shall commit national
suicide.

Canada needs a _ national
energy policy administered

by a National Energy Board >

through which the full inter-
ests of the two nations of our
country will be conserved
and developed for the wel-
fare of her peopie. —
ALL-CANADA |

POWER GRID

As part of the coordinated
national development of ab-
undant cheap industrial en-
ergy, the Communist Party
advocates an immediate start
on development of a national
grid.

The purpose of this is to
pool the generated power; to
make that horse-power or its
equivalent which is surplus
in the locality where it is
generated” available for use
anywhere in the country
where industry can use it
effectively.

For example, if the enor-
mous potential of Grand
Falls on the Hamilton River
were developed in northern
Quebec, a national grid
‘would make it possible to
use it to power operations
which now consume power
generated in south or west-
ern Quebec and transfer this
energy to Ontario. Similarly
with Peace River power, Al-
bany River, Cape Breton
Island coal, Prairie natural
gas, oil or coal, etc.

A national grid will over-
come the problem of distance
between the potential power
resources and the industries
that use the power. It is to
the modern distribution of

‘ electrical energy what the

railway and highway systems.
are to the distribution of
freight. This is why the Com-
munist Party’s election plat-.
form calls upon Canadians
to “Build an All-Canada
Power Grid’’—now.
CANADA NEEDS
MORE POWER

The pretense that the
amount of power being de-
veloped now is abundant for

June 15, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—

Canada’s needs and ©
increased as fast as it ©
used’ misrepresents the
situation. a

The fact is that gene
ing plants are being DUN |
burn imported coal sim
because great waterpowel
sources are being ee
harnessed. There is @
nical excuse for this 12
these resources, lik€™
Churchill and Albany rivet
in Ontario, are far
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for the grid. eo

But, the real reaso” &
leaving these great resou
unused is the cynical ot
tation that great UG
States monopolies will
them and utilize them oy
power in connection Me!
local forest or 2am
wealth—in other words )
are being “reserved” for’,
US: ye!

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obstacle to national util?
tion- of our great pol
for the generation of po otf
as part of an over-all nat
policy of expanding i?
in Canada. tefl

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of what General A. G: L. o
Naughton condemned ja!
he condemned the soe
Credit-Tory scheme %
part of our national © flo"
of the Columbia Rivet
to the U.S. a

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its national control © g
waters of the Columb v
any other Canadian rive
any other part of its na ah
heritage. Our duty iS *
velop this heritage while it
hold it in trust for our
ren.

NATIONALIZE
U.S--OWNED POWER

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er resources and use # ig
conjunction with our
try’s raw materials 4 ft
ductive people we mus id
store the ownership of fy
to Canada. This is W°*
Communist Party prot at
to “nationalize the us!
ed and controlled indU

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the political parties © iff)
business but it is be? sift
recognized by ever-Widt os
circles of people as # th
sary step if we are 1 “gi
ourselves “masters
own house.” wi

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coordinated national — ff
opment of industrial ef
will be part of the st io
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