THEIR CREDIT IS BAD away our natural gas to $80 million. this weeks as: a poor company.” $8,250,000.” Turning to individu Philadelphia lawyer to million. Pity poor U.S. e @ @ millionaires Pity the poor American millionaires who want to build the Trans-Canada pipeline so they can carry bigger — and all at our expense. Between them they control $3 billion. But they’re so short of cash (which Trade Minister C. D. Howe solemnly attributes to eral tightness of credit) that they cant raise a mere So they're asking Canadian taxpayers to let them have the $80 million they need wealth to the United States. government is’ determined to give it to them even if it makes every patriotic Canadian gag. What are the corporations that control the shares of Trans: Canada Pipelines Ltd? Charles E. Rea (Cons., Toronto-Spad- - ina) gave their names and as sets to the House of Commons Tennessee Gas Transmis- sion Company — “‘I find that this company has a total invest: ed capital of $798 million.’ International Utilities Corporation — “Their total invested capital is $87 million. They are getting to be Canadian Delhi Oil Company—‘‘Assets of only al shareholders, Rea noted that Clint Murchison, Texas multi-millionaire, con- trolled four companies with total assets of $2,285, 250,000, adding that ‘‘it would take four years. and a adel find out everything he owns. ~Pi i illionai Their credit Pity the poor American millionaires. is sO bad me the government will lend them $80 make their fortunes even assets of more than the gen- to carry this country’s And the St. Laurent , BCE blamed in lineman’s death B.C. Electric was “negligent in carr : intenance of property,” jpapectiony She Joa e probing the death of James M. m a broken neck whén a jury Tuesday this week, Hornby, 57, who died fro Highbury and Twenty-ninth base and hurled him 20 feet to the ground. _ Evidence showed that only two men were responsible for inspecting 300,000 poles on the Lower Mainland, and BCE supervisor William Johnson said they could examine about 50 a day. iS “Tt would take them 36 years to complete one tour of inspec- tion,” observed a juror, and Johnson agreed. Pest control expert L. a Tucker testified that the pole which collapsed was badly eat- _€n by termites. . Hornby was 20 feet up the rotten pole making repairs on a communications circuit when it snapped at the base and crash- ed to the sidewalk. His safety belt preverited him from jump- N ying out proper said a coroner’s pole at snapped like a stick near its ing clear, and he was pinned under the foot-thick pole. Police said he was dead on arrival at Vancouver General Hospital. An employee of the City of Vancouver, Hornsby lived at 2566 West Eighth. In a rider to the verdict, the: jury said: “We feel the pole owner (BCE) has been negligent in carrying out proper inspection and main- tenance of his property with regard to the safety of workers and the general public. “We recommend that proper inspection be carried out by the owner every five years after installation.” The jury also recommended that all poles be tested below ground level for termite dam- age and that the word “tested” in Section 1065 of the Work- men’s Compensation Act be more specifically defined. TGs a una area heehee ror t VOL. 15, No. 22 PRICE 10 CENTS. Se VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JUNE 1, 1956 Pipeline called By MARK FRANK national scandal OTTAWA The House of Commons was somewhat quieter when CCF leader M. J. Coldwell arose to speak in the national pipeline His words were those most Canadians might have used had they stood in his place: debate last Monday. “The people of Canada of this project © fora Al: 83.4 percent by powerful gas States. are financing some $200 million corporation which is controlled and oil companies in the United “T say this is a scandalous thing; it is an outrageous thing, and the people of Canada should understand exactly the man- ner in which it is being undertaken.” Outside, on the broad walk in front of the House, a line of 30 banner-carrying marchers paraded up and down. “Save the Pipeline For Canada’’ the banners read, proudly borne by members of the Labor-Progressive’ party which had sent a cavalcade to protest the government’s action. - Cee Buck to speak Friday And across Canada labor and other people’s organizations were moving into action to as- sert their will on both the House and the Senate, to which the bill must go before June 7. Here in the nation’s capital was manifest the crisis in Can- ada’s national policy. Here on the floor of parliament was an issue that summed up in itself Continued on back. page See PIPELINE ‘ 1871: a national railway controlled by C Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party, just back from Europe where he was a fraternal delegate to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist party, will address a mass public rally at Exhibition Gardens this Friday, June 1, &t & p.m. During a one-week stay in British Columbia the LPP lea- der will speak at a public meet- ing in Courtenay (Native Sons Hall) Saturday, June 2 at 8 p.m.; and at Nanaimo (Eagles Hall) Sunday, June 3 at & p.m. anadians — 1956: a national gas pipeline controlled by Canadians.