wie pit Wig he iron nee tu CU n extn J " 4 ( ay AA! Tay AUT in fie __IN THIS ISSUE Twelve-year old girls jailed for life in Kenya | page 3 Left parties gain in Italian local elections page 3 Ue acs UL otin)] oe VOL. 15, No. 23 _ EERO 28 PRICE 10 CENTS VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JUNE 8, 1956 Prize winning contest short story on page 10 © oe C. D. HOWE Howe called ambassador from Texas TORONTO “The ambassador from Texas” — the way Trade Minister C. D. Howe was described in Toronto Lab- . or Council last week — offered the House of Com- mons this explanation for - the St. Laurent govern- ment’s haste to pass its pipeline Bill 298 into law by June 7: “Now why are we pressing on; why are we pressing this? Well, I do not know; perhaps I get over-enthusiastic about a project.2.. .. But it was far more than Howe’s “over-enthu- siasm” that caused the government to invoke closure rules that had not been used for 24 years and precipitate a near-riot in the House by what its opponents called the most ‘brazen example of legis- lative railroading in the country’s history. Continued on back page See U. S. PRESSURE te —— The Windsor Star ran this cartoon showing the Texas ‘flag over the Parliament Buildings. Pipeline now election By MARK FRANK TORONTO The fight for Canadian control and public ownership of Canada’s 2,200-mile nat- ural gas pipeline is not over, M. J. Coldwell, CCF national leader, told the Canadian Tribune in a telephone interview on Tuesday this week. On the eve of the final debates on Bill 298, since steamrollered through the House of Commons by the big Liberal majority, I spoke to Coldwell by long-distance in his Parliament Hill office. He was tired, but his voice was briskly defiant, expressing con- viction that the historic battle was not ended. Asked whether he believed the essence of the pipeline fight would come forward as a fed- eral election issue, Coldwell re- plied with a prompt ‘T do.” The battle would be fought out on two major fronts now, he said. ® The iniquitous deal itself. He referred to his speech in the House the previous evening when he had scored than even the pipeline deal itself. All of parliament’s safeguards have been disre- garded.” In the House of Commons, Coldwell had pointed out that the people of Canada were be- ing betrayed and delivered “gag- ged and muzzled into the hands of this powerful group of U.S. magnates.” He warned that this kind of handing over of our resources if continued, would mean that “the day will come when we shall have lost our economic independence and will be de- . pendent upon the USA. An at- tempt will be made ultimately to make this country part of the growing alienation of Canadian resources to the US. : “The pipeline deal,’ he said, “was just a further step tending towards com- plete control of our econ- omy by the U.S. and to an eventual loss of our political sovereignty.” ~ ® The issue of democracy. “The manner in which this bill was shoved through the House will be put before the people. As a democrat I’m rather more alarmed by the dictatorial methods used B.C. labor hits Combines probe “There is no difference between the United Fishermen and Allied Workers negotiating for the price of fish by the pound than there is with woodsmen and lumber operators negotiat- ing for the cutting of logs by the board foot or cord,” Cana- dian Labor Congress vice-president Gordon Cushing told T. B, MacDonald, director of uBio RASA ROE IEEE Investigation and Research of the Combines Investigation Act, when he visited the CLC office in Toronto in connection with the current investigation of the UFAWU here, B.C. Trade Union Congress and B.C. Federation of Labor have jointly asked federal Labor Minister Milton Gregg for “prompt action to intercede on behalf of the UFAWU to alle- viate the alarm with which we view the subversion of this (Combines) Act, to a point where it will become known as nothing but an anti-labor act.” 4 The B.C. labor bodies. told Gregg that “it is the contention of labor in B.C., that as minis- ter ofglabor, it is your duty to protect any union from such unjust investigation.” that one.” While conceding that the bill would be rammed _= through (“we’re under the gag complete- ly now”) Coldwell stressed in his interview, that the CCF would “continue to expose the government’s tactics up and Continued on back page See PIPELINE * Here are some of the demonstrators who took part in the Labor-Progressive party’s “pipeline cavalcade” to Ottawa on May 28, picketing the House of Commons while opposition parties fought strenuously to defeat the St. Laurent government’s (See story on page 2) huge gas pipeline giveaway. issue, says Coldwell EFFIE JONES Effie Jones will contest byelection Mrs. Effie Jones, president of Civic Reform Association, an- nounced this week that she will contest the June 27 civic by- election. “As it is now clear that labor will not nominate a candidate, I have decided to run in order to give the ordinary people a voice on the NPA-dominated council,” Mrs. Jones said. Mrs. Jones expressed critic- ism of city council for failing to oppose B.C. Electric natural gas rates and to demand a pub- lic hearing by the Public Utili- ties Commission before the rates were approved. These rates, she claims, are exorbitant and she will continue to fight for a hearing and for their revision. Mrs. Jones is also critical of council for placing civic admin- istration into the hands of a four-man board, two members of which are to be appointed. This, she states, is undemocratic for it means the people will have even less say in civic af- fairs.