Li

‘

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1953

Con tinued

every available source of iron ore
in Canada from Vancouver Island
to Labrador.)

Complete with maps, diagrams,
and statistical tables, this is how
Business Week, in consultation
with leading U.S. big business
economists, sees the future seiz-
ure of markets in a plan that
sounds remarkably like the
“Heartland” plan of the German
bankers during the Nazi regime:

U.S. MANAGERS. The United
States: will need to get into over-
seas activities on a scale never
known before.

Managers and technicians will
be concentrated most heavily in
South America, the Near East
and Africa.

Colonies of permanent workers
for U.S. companies will take on
the aspect of typical suburban
developments in the New York,
Chicago or Washington style.

RAW MATERIALS: The USS.
is now spending $8 billion a year
for raw materials and food im-
ports. By 1960 the figure will be
$12 billion, by 1975 $20 billion.

DOLLAR CONTROL: The USS.
Commerce Department reports
that at the end of 1950 the U‘S.
held controlling interests in 7,500
foreign enterprises with assets of
$22 billion.

PLAYGROUND: Americans will
take their holidays “on North
Africa’s riviera or Australia’s
Great Barrier Reef.”

. The 1957 prospect “conjures
up pictures of Americans doing
business and having fun on a
worldwide scale. Of tourists
pausing for a weekend in Istan-
bul or stopping overnight in
Madagascar — not occasionally,

_but as part of a routine way of
life.” :

Business Week's Bilide for in-
vestments in accordance with this
25-year plan is as follows:

CANADA: Already No. 1 cus-
tomer. :

SOUTH AMERICA: Before
1940, the U.S. supplied only 10
percent of the continent’s total
imports; now, in a much bigger
market, they supply 50 percent.

MIDDLE EAST: Outside the
Western Hemisphere this has
been major outlet for U.S. in-
vestment since the war. This in-

_ terest will continue. .. .

AFRICA: Their present trade
amounts to little more than 500
million dollars a year. Africa con-
tains immense supplies of miner-
als the U.S. needs, bauxite, co-
alt, manganese, uranium.

AUSTRALIA: Not only has un-
touched raw materials but also
chas the attraction of being “politi-
cally stable.”

If you are wondering what’s
happened all this time, to the so-
cialist sector (one third) of the
world — they’ve got an answer,
‘however hazy, to that too.

“Spread of the U.S. economy,”
dream the Lotus Eaters, “will
press Europe and Asia back into
their traditional channels of
trade. The world will be divid-
ed into roughly three common
markets:

.. “The U.S. sphere .. .” (As out-
fined above.) ‘

“A Far East market, with Jap-
an selling its manufactures on
the Asian mainland and taking
raw materials in exchange. .. .”

“A Europen market somewhat
different than before the war. .. .”

Most European countries would
be busy supplying the USSR.

Candidates for
school board

ELGIN RUDDELL

teat

MRS. AGNES |. MURPHY

<

MRS. MONA MORGAN

Contesting school board seats
in the Vancouver civic elections
December 9 are three well-known
progressives, Elgin Ruddell, Mrs.
Agnes |. Murphy and Mrs. Mona
Morgan. Another strong inde-
pendent candidate bucking the
Non-Partisan slate is Dr. Joseph
Blumes, who polled 28,500 votes
last year and missed election by
a narrow margin.

Oil workers strike

As the Pacific Tribune went to
press this week 200 oil workers
at Shell Oil Company’s “Shell-
burn” refinery had gone on strike
to back up their wage demands.
The strike was called by the Oil
Workers International Union
when the company rejected a
ecnciliation board’s majority
award of a five and one-half per-
cent pay hike.

‘ghost patrol’?

“Motorists and pedestrians are being pushed around mercilessly in the current

police traffic drive,’’

elections, this week. Guise, popular business agent
Union, Outside Workers, criticized Vancouver City Council for its subservience

the B.C. Electric.

said Don Guise, aldermanic candidate in the December 9 civic
for Vancouver Civic Employees

to

‘Are the city council and its police administration acting as agents for the —

BCER?” he asked. “That: com-
pany has been complaining it was
forced to cut transit service be-
cause of the growing competition
from private car owners. Are
they trying to push these motor-
ists off the road?

“Council is trying to make the
public pay for its own short-sight-
edness. It delayed the construc-
tion of Granville bridge to the
point where its construction has
caused the most dangerous con-
gestion. There are not enough
through streets in the city, and
street lighting is terribly inade-
quate.

“In place of tackling these prob-
lems, we see the ridiculous spec-
tacle of police disguised as gar-
bage collectors. I believe we
need a clean-up campaign in the
city, but not this kind.

“This city council,” continued
Guise, “should begin to think in
terms of protecting citizens from
certain dangerous practices, such
as BCER gas storage tanks being
located in built-up areas of the
city.”

Continued

PHONE

the Phillips Electrical Company
of Brockville, Ontario.

Mrs. Jones, whose signature ap-
peared as one of the complain-
ants on Zlotnik’s affidavit, said
in her open letter that “the evi-
dence brought forward with re-
gard to the Phillips Company
now proves. conclusively the
charges against the B.C. Tele-
phone Company.”

She continued:

“Both these companies, as can
be seen in the affidavit, are con-
trolled by the same parent, the
Gary Company. The B.C. Tele-
phone Company buys all its tele-
phone equipment and_ supplies
from the Phillips Company on
the basis of what is now estab-
lished to be illegal price-fixing.

“Telephone subscribers of Brit-
ish Columbia are therefore com-
pelled to pay higher rates to pro-
vide a so-called fair return on a
falsely inflated figure for capital
investment by the B.C. Telephone
Company. This device enables a
regulated public utility, the BCT,
to funnel extral profits through
an unregulated company, the
Phillips Company, the profits fin-
ally going to the parent company
in Chicago.

“In view of the evidence
brought down by Goldenberg on
the Phillips Company, the Civic
Reform Association (of which I
am president) asks you to make
an application to the Board of
Transport Commissioners for a
reduction in B.C. Telephone rates,
bringing thew down to the level
existing prior to the increase last
March.

“We would ask further that the
increases just granted by the Pub-
lic Utilities Commission to the
North-West Telephone Company
(a. subsidiary of the B.C. Tele-
phone Company) and due to go
into effect in a few days, be sus-
pended immediately.”

Candidates for
city council

x

ae

EFFIE JONES

MRS.

DONALD GUISE

Two popular progressive candi-
dates seeking aldermanic seats in
Vancouver civic elections this
coming Wednesday are Mrs. Ef-
fie Jones, who polled more than
17,000 votes last year, and Don-
ald Guise, of Vancouver Civic
Employees Union, Outside Work-
ers. Guise, the only trade union
candidate in the running, is mak-
ing his first entry into civic
politics.

Weekend peace
parley in city

“The aim of the present cam-
paign of the World Council of
Peace is to bring about great-
power negotiations that will lead
to an end to the cold war. Noth-
ing short of an end to the cold
war is its objective,” said Ray
Gardner, chairman, B.C. Peace
Council, on his return this week
from a meeting of the national
council of Canadian Peace Con-
gress in Ottawa.

Gardner will make a full re-
port of the council meeting and
of the peace delegation to par-
liament at a two-day meeting of
the B.C. Peace Council this Sat-
urday and Sunday in the Pender
Auditorium. Sessions are from

10 a.m. till 5 p.m. daily.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 4 1959 —

Labor forces
Duplessis to

defer bills —

By HARRY BINDER

MON'

The Duplessis government ye
forced to beat a temporary retrea
last week when it agreed 10 i
mit its new anti-labor legislall
to the Superior Council of
for consideration.

Quebec’s three trade unio?
centres were unofficially NO” |
of the government decision 0
hold up debate on Bills 19, f
and 22 pending review °
legislation by the council.

The government action be
after the three trade ive
centres declared their uned ils
cal opposition to the thre€ sev
In addition, the representally ch
the Syndicates and of the ~ 1+
unions on the Superior Coun the
Labor threatened to resigR og.
government pressed for in
ate adoption of the pills.

(The Superior Council of
is composed of 30 members; move"
representatives of the la oy ets
ment, eight of the emP ;
eight sociologists and eCORO™ oat
with six non-voting $0V™
representatives.) » any

The bills would decertifl
union officered by anyon ere fone
in Duplessis’ opinion 4
Communist doctrine“
strikes by public service i
ees; and put all strike VO" —
der government control. Io

The Federation of Que!
dustrial Unions (CCL) has
a meeting of representa” igh
the Syndicates and the “Lo {0
Federation of Labor pattled
consider aid to the of “S
strikers at Noranda.

Leaders of.the CCL a" favor
Syndicates are known
re-establishment of the
a liaison committee of
union centres. ve

Labor representatives @ | gov’
pressing for adopt ode
ernment of a ne ’
which has been drafted 0) she
Superior Council of Ley nt
council has been working and it
draft for some four Ye +6 abo!
is presently being sen tte.
Minister Antonio Barre 4 the

Union leaders consider the oo:
time has come to pre jegis!
ernment for adoptio?® extend
tion which would mover
rights of the labor 4 ered ‘
Such action is consi ins doh
as part of the fight 20, © va

gic

of

tion of Bills 19 aM© * qofeal ae
have not yet pect
Their adoption has 0? eee
layed. nl rest
Protests by wires io are  .
tions from many WT up fe
ready pouring in upo ued? sian
and union leaders in canal uo”
appealing to the © at 10 "yo

trade union movem thes?
port the fight against ue
Carthyite measures: — pA