he Alberta TPEACE RIVER a lcasto U.S OTTAWA TO LOAN Wavancouver| § $80 MILLION To as There Reserves TE NNESS EE-TRANS- CANADA (15 5-20 trillioncu ft x TO BUILD THIS SECTION | British - Columbia aa L & ° ~ Calgary j eh. 4 ay ‘ ( TRANS-CANADA ‘PIPE LINE S w Wanniiier Se : Brandon | it & she —-—.L ee ee ee lien | Emerson UNITED STATES | \ TENNESSEE TRANSMISSION To GET ALBERTA GA LONG BEFORE E. CANADA OTTAWA, ONTARIO — TO SPEND SIG MILLION 'TO BUILD THIS SECTION FOR U.S. CORPORATION Montreal g NiisS ee Ottawa ~ Niagara Fall UNION GAS*CO rey Re, eG TRANS -CAN =MOST PROFITA BLE! , ® © ie | What price public ownership: tawa will pay $118 million to build the Northern Ontario bridge. Pipelines Ltd., U.S. corporation holding the monopoly franchise, will build the lucrative section from Toronto to Montreal, through which Tennessee gas will flow. But, as CCF national leader M. J. Cold: well pointed out recently, Ottawa has no” money for the Saskatchewan River dam, - Columbia River development or power prov jects in New Brunswick. FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1956 LN Tunnel workers back officers in fight Unofficial encouragement and support for Tunnel and Rock Workers Local 168 - members fighting for B.C. wage rates and democratic union rights against the dicta- torial orders of their own international officers, is being given by members and leaders What price public ownership? estimated that the 2,200-mile crossCanada* gas pipeline will cost about $300 million. The federal government, together with On- tario, will put up almost two thirds of the money required, but sole ownership will remain with a group of Texas millionaires. Trade Minister C. D. Howe will loan. the company about $80 million to build the Prairie section as far as the U. S. border at Emerson, Manitoba. Ontario and Ot of many trade unions throughout the province. On Thursday last week close ; to 1,000 workers from construc- tion camps in the Vancouver area converged on Pender Auditorium and voted solid sup- port to their expelled officers. Disregarding _ordets from ‘the International Laborers’ Union that the meeting was “uncon- 7000 in B.C. sign appeal An appeal urging that all test : explosions of atomic weapons be be stopped has been endorsed by 7,567 people in this province, B.C. Peace Council announces. Addressed to all MPs, the ‘ appeal stated: oe 97 “We call -on all countries to stop testing atomic and hydro- gen bombs. We want Canada to * work for an international agree- ment to end these dangerous : explosions at once.” ~~ hs Majority of the signatures were collected during a one-day canvass in the city. (From Tokyo this week it was reported that a Japanese ship had found the ocean to be radioactive 1300 miles south of . the U.S. hydrogen bomb test site as a result of last Monday’s | ~ explosion.) eee stitutional and illegal” the rock- workers united behind expelled secretary Art Andres and secre- “tary Bill Hunchuk and members of the executive. “We are sticking to the Can- adian Labor Congress,” said Andres, scotching breakaway rumors. “We are definitely not going independent. We intend to retain our name and identity —that belongs to the members. We are within B.C. labor laws and we will fight for B. C. wages on the job.” The local was recently placed under “international jurisdic- tion” on orders from Laborers’ president Joseph Moreschi of Washington, and Stacey Warner was appointed trustee. Warner has*failed to gain admittance to the union office and is taking “legal measures” to gain con- trol. Dispute broke out when Local i168 refused to accept a wage agreement signed in Washington setting $1.20 an hour for work on .the natural gas pipeline. Early this month 50 workers on the natural gas pipeline at Harrison Hot Springs walked off the job in protest against the “wage agreement, thus precipi- tating the crisis. This week they went back to work after win- ning a substantial pay hike.’ A 25-man committee was set up at the mass meeting last week and will give instructions to the executive on further moves to win decent wages and protect their union rights. Continued LPP report from national leader Tim - Buck on the work of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which he had attended as fraternal delegate. A resolution on the decisions of the 20th Congress and on the revelations of distortions and the crimes perpetrated against Soviet citizens during the latter years of Stalin’s leadership, was adopted and issued. following the meeting. (Full text of this : resolution appears on page 6 of this issue.) It was announced that reports and other resolutions would be published in the LPP journal National Affairs. The statement also announced that the sixth national conven- tion of the LPP will be held in Toronto next January. It is ADA Tol BVILO THIS PART iN CANADA Trans-Canada Continued from page I PIPELINE and for a campaign of letters, wires or telephone calls to MPs. “Tf all Canadian forces and groups that desire an all-Cana- dian pipeline could unite their ‘efforts, they could force the government to retreat from its anti-Canadian position. We hope your convention will help bring about such unity...” The 65,000-member Toronto District Trades and Labor Coun- cil despatched an immediate wire from its regular meeting protesting the $80 million bill for Trans-Canada. It charged that U.S. millionaires would get their hands on a $350 million ‘investment for $10 million. Toronto LPP members are planning a distribution, of leaf- lets to all major plants, focussing attention on the need to send ’.messages to Liberal MPs in the area. Tribune Publishing Company, Ltd. Suite 6 - 426 Main Stree, ‘Vancouver 4, B.C. Please enter my subscription to the PACIFIC . TRIBUNE. Clip and Mail Circulation Department Windsor Labor Council sent an emergency resolution last week to Paul Martin, Liberal MPs, urging they use all means ‘at their disposal to prevent the pipeline sellout to te U.S. They elso scored the undemocratic closure methods. be x Following presentation of 4 brief on the pipeline submitted by LPP Windsor spokesman Hector MacArthur, Windsor’s board of control passed a reso- lution also condemning the Ot- tawa move. : Both Toronto labor councils representing together some 130,- 600 organized workers have scheduled an all-day citizen's pipeline conference for June 2. They hope to pack the ballroom of the King Edward Hotel with delegates from unions, civic governments, and community organizations. Name Address ___...- $4 forone year] $2.25 for 6 months Oo ——e May 25, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE !? ’