Bob Haddow, LPP federal candidate for Montreal-Jacques

Cartier, is shown petitioning for a Canadian-owned gas

pipeline on the streets of Montreal,

Continued from pace I

U.S. PRESSURE

Some one was putting pres-
sure on the government.

There were three outstand-
ing immediate pressures on the
government to force -its bill
through at all costs:

® A tussel between gas mon-
opoly groups in the U.S. forced
the issue. One headed by Ten-
nessee Gas, cracks the whip in
Trans-Canada, the company
with the charter to build the
line in Canada. .

Tennessee needs Alberta gas
to oust its rivals Northern
Natural Gas and People’s Gas
trom mid-west U.S. markets.
Social Credit spokesmen are
their accomplices in Alberta,
and the Liberal government at
Sttewa «os

e Tennessee holds a gun
at Canada’s head in the form
of supplies of 34-inch pipe stock-
piled just outside of Pittsburgh.
This pipe is needed for the 575-
mile western section from Al-

berta to Winnipeg. Midwestern,
4 subsidiary of Tennessee, holds

» this pipe through options. What
the big U.S interests in Trans-
Canada have been saying, in
effect, to Canada is: “Loan us
that extra $80 million or there’s
no 34-inch pipe for you.”

® Liberals who have been
generally knuckling down to
U.S. financial, political and
military domination of Canada
end the turning over of our
natural resources, are approach-
ing a federal election. They
jace a growing popular resent-
ment against such anti-Canadian
policies. Ottawa wants the
pipeline deal out of the way;
pipe in the ground and gas flow-
ing -before an election, reliev-
ing the pressure for public
ownership.

But this timetable has been
upset by the explosive crisis in
parliament and growing protest
~n the country. :

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The Tupper police probe which lasted
former chief constable Walter Mulligan and det

eight months and cost $57,727 found
ective sergeant Len Cuthbert had accepted

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down the country at every op-
porunity we have.”

As to the next stage of the
fight; the company, he said, was
under an obligation to repay
their $80 million loan by next
April. “They may fall. down
on this, in which case the gov-
ernment is pledged to take over
the line at-this point. We would
press strongly for this course of
action.” : *

Regardless of whether Trans-
Canada carries through its plan
to build the western leg of the
Vine or not, the CCF leader said
“we shall continue to point out
the deficiencies of this method
of building the pipeline. ‘We
shall continue to point out that
the consumer and producer stand
to suffer. Because of the meth-
od of financing this project it
will cost Canadians twice as
much as a publicly-owned utili-
ty.”

Both Opposition Leader
George Drew and Ontario Pre-
mier Leslie Frost in eleventh
hour pronouncements made pub-
lic their approval of the prin-
ciple of a publicly-owned pipe-
line corporation throughout the
length of the project.

On June 1, Premier Frost
wrote a labor-sponsored Citi-
zens’ Pipeline Conference in To-
ronto that while the whole issue
was in the hand of the federal
authorities, “a preferable. alter-
native” was a_ publicly-built
line. ;

“This alternative is not with-
out its difficulties... in my
sudgment, however, this is the
only practical alternative to
present proposals.”

On June 4, Conservative
spokesman George Drew recom-
mended to the House that the
present Northern Ontario Crown
Corporation be expanded.

“Give that Crown Corpora-
tion the power to build the
whole line from the Alberta
boundary to the east,’ he ap-
pealed to the government.

Saskatchewan’s Premier T. C.
Douglas has made a similar plea
for a publicly-owned line.

In the country stunned Can-
aaians glued to their radios as
each dramatic turn of events
was reported, were angered at

‘the disdain by the government

of parliamentary democracy, and
use of public money to bail out
U.S. investors. © .

Last ditch rallies sponsored
by labor in cities like Windsor,
Port Arthur, and Toronto gave
some indication of the peopular
backing that could be expected
in coming months on the issue
ef sellout to the U.S.

In Toronto a Citizens’ Pipe-
line Conference jointly spon-
sored by the representatives of
110,000 organized workers in
the area called unanimously for
public ownership, and the kill-
ing of the pipeline bill. It urg-
‘ed massive protest by unions,

municipal counci’s, individuals
and organizations. Strong ap-
proval was given the idea of a
people’s “march on Ottawa” to
lobby MPs.

The 1,000,000-member Cana-
dian Labor Congress was also
urged to make a cross-country
appeal for a change in the pipe-
line legislation. Speaking from
platform and floor of the con-
ference attended by over 200
were Alistair Stewart, CCF MP
for Winnipeg North; Donald
Tlerhing, Conservative MP for
Eglington; Donald MacDonald,
CCF leader in the Ontario leg-
islature; J. B. Salsberg, former
member of the Ontario legisla-
ture, representing the PP.
Ald. William Dennison of Toron-
to; and Councillor Ken Woods-
worth for Swansea Town Coun-
cil.

Liberal spokesman Paul T.
Hellyer, who promised to turn
up, failed to put in appearance.

Stewart charged that Howe
was a “fuehrer,”’ seeking to pass
on blackmail from Tennessee
Gas to the Canadian people.

He derided the “barefoot boys
in Cadillacs” that had come to
mulct the Canadian taxpayer.
Howe had found it easy enough
to’ provide millions for these
destitute millionaires, but could
not find the money for a health
plan or a South Saskatchewan
River Dam project, he declared.

Elected to speak for his table
group at the conference, Sals-
berg said “the fight around the
pipeline is important, not only
because of its immediate mean-
ing, but because it epitomizes a
larger struggle now going on
to save Canadian resources from
U.S. control. A victory in this
battle would signalize a change
in national policy in other
areas.” He urged the highest
forms of mass pressure on the
government.

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hether charges should be laid recommended
ck from California, where he fled during

the latter part of the probe.

(This week a local tabloid
charged that ex-Chief Mulligan
had left his job with Rosedale
_ Nursuries in Los Angeles and
had disappeared from public
view again.) 3

The “interim” report turned
in by the committee to Bonner
is probably the final disposition
of the case, for no plans have
been made for any further meet-
ings of the committee.

The report claimed that evi-
dence taken at the Tupper probe
would not stand up in court,
and stressed that it might be
difficult to extradite Mulligan
from the United States.

Attorney-General Bonner
made it clear that he does not
intend to take any action against
Mulligan, by placing responsi-
bility for further moves in the
hands of Vancouver city prose-
eutor Stewart McMorran.

The Tupper report accepted
as true the evidence given by
Mulligan’s former mistress,
Helen Elizabeth Douglas, who
testified that Mulligan has told
ner he received $38,000 from
gamblers.

Authorities made no attempt
to stop Mulligan from’obtaining
a passport and moving to the
United States,

He worked as a salesman: at
Rosedale Nurseries in Mon-
‘rovia, a Los Angeles suburb,
until April. Then he packed
his bags and vanished. .

Mulligan had said on several
occasions that if he came back
to Vancouver to face ‘charges
he would “put the finger” on
several prominent people in
the city. ~

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