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The peaks rise from beautiful Garibaldi Lake.

Power and profits

Nor how B.C.’s economy and
wellbeing may be: advanced by
the development of our rich hydro-

electric power resources, but how _

‘much profit can be extracted from

the consumer when the Peace
River Development project of Wen-
ner-Gren, B.C. Electric and com-
pany gets under way. How much
the construction cost, and how much
the profit? That is the underlying
theme of the present controversy
among electric power tycoons and
their Socred lackeys.

Over the weekend the B.C. La-
bor-Progressive Party convention
put the power issue in a nutshell.
“Private control over power re-
sources will be utilized primarily
for the extraction of profits for

the Wenner - Gren Corporation,

rather than for the maximum dev-
elopment of the industrial economy
of B.C.”

Under public ownership “‘con-
sumer prices for power would be
lower and tax burdens eased. Cheap-
er power depends upon public
ownership, and can not be realized
under private ownership.”

Comes the next provincial elec-

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Editor — TOM McEWEN
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tion, the Achilles heel of Socred
giveaway policies is its shameful
abandonment of the hydro resources
of B.C. to the power buccaneers,
vative and foreign. The Briggs ex-
pese opened the door to let the
people have a peek. The people
themselves must take it off the
hinges, clean house of Socred sell-

out artists, and elect a government

which will make public ownership
of power and other resources avail-
able to its rightful owners — the
people.

Neutrality —

wae ae at Lansing, Michigan
last Sunday before an audience
of some 78,000, Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker, starring in the
role of Charley McCarthy to the
Washington atomaniacs, declared:
“There is no neutralism in Canada’s
thinking or conduct .~ . no weaken-

ing of support for NATO.” a3

Diefenbaker may speak for the
Blimps and Bumbles in his Tory

‘ government; he may even speak for

the whole of his Tory party, al-
though that is questionable, but
he does not speak for Canada or
the Canadian people!

Perhaps the prime minister may
have forgot that he was elected
primarily, because of his demagogic
promises to change the policies of
the Liberal St. Laurent government;
policies which committed Canada’s
sovereignty, independence, economy
and peace to the dictates of U.S.
imperialism and “brinkmanship”
conspiracies—but the people have
not forgotten.

As the suicidal fiasco of Can-
adian-U.S.
policies unfold with each passing
day, the demand for a policy of
neutrality and complete disengage-
ment. from the war provocations

“integrated . defense” -

Comment

and Die [

and conspiracies of U.S. im
ism. finds an urgent and
widening response among the
adian people.

Since the Diefenbaker se!
of the Avro-Arrow “defense
ject (with its $400 millions 40
the drain) and the subservi ‘
ceptance of U.S. Bomarc }
as our key weapon of de
wider circles of people are
coming seriously disturbed and ut
easy.

While Prime Minister Dieten
baker was declaring for “no neutt
ity” and relegating Canada
Canadians to an atomic ashpile -
please his U.S. “defenders” the BG
district convention of the Labor
Progressive Party was reitetat
the one and only course for :
vival; “the realization of new
tional policies based on peac
ccexistence, and a complete 0
with U.S. imperialism .. +

The choice, and the time to
it is NOW, either a neuti
which means an_ intensified
for peace and mutual  survi
or, Diefenbaker’s “no neutrali
and U.S..triggered nuclear mi
launchine sites on Canadian
ritory, which do not “defend.”
invite devastating destruction! —

Tom.
McEwen

JIQ@OLD,” as the old veteran

G prospector of the rainbow
trail used to say, “is where you
find it.’ For the early gold-rush
pioneers of the Klondyke-Cari-
boo era (and far beyond), that
was the propelling incentive —
to dig.

Inthe wake of these pioneer
diggers came the card sharps,
the shell-game artists, the gals,
all well outfitted, not to dig
but to “mine the miners.”

In these days, however, the
modern ‘prospector,’ endowed
with a predatory instinct of
where to find gold, generally
heads for the most direct and
likely source — the pockets of
the gillible, unwitting, or de-
fenseless people.

The modern monopolist of our
day has made a science of gold-
digging. Together with his cor-
porate “partners” he corners the

source and production of essen-

tial commodities, rigs the price
structure, and elects a Liberal,
Tory or Socred government
to give his gold-digging “legal”
status. A setup which the old-
time prospector would call a
‘dead-pipe cinch.” , :
Then there’s the other type
of prospector, the wildcat fly-
by-night lad, who knows exactly
where there’s oodles of gold to
be found, if enough people will
just “grubstake” him in suffi-
cent volume to bring it out.

Take the case of Vancouver
“prospector” Jameg Harris Mc-
Kee and his Fraser River “black
sands” Eldorado.
going to wash out fabulous quan-
tities of gold from these sands,
ship it out in “milk cans,” melt
-it into gold bricks, and make all
those “investors” who had given
him their “confidence” and some
$850,000 as rich as fabled King
Midas to carry on their anti-
Communist crusade. -
When the Fraser River gold
scheme petered out, with nary a
“milk can” in sight, McKee took
off for parts unknown. Later he
turned up in Bellingham, ‘Wash-
’ jngton with another crusade for
gold, this time a little placer
mining in Sunny California. Of
course this new scheme would
require additional “grubstake”

‘ganizations and individuals such —

McKee was

investments, so prospector Mc
Kee kept the phone hot urging
old and new investors to get in
on this California bonanza,
which among other blessings,
would “recoup” all previous
Fraser River investments.
“Thar’s gold in them thar
hills.” =
Unlike the old-time prospec-
tor, however, McKee’s “grub-
stake” backers are in a class by
themselves. They consist of or-

as the “Freedom Foundation” of
Toronto headed up by the notori-
ous anti - Semite Ron Gostick —
and a few ministers, one
whom explained in an article in
the Toronto Telegram of April 6
that “We Sought Gold For God's
Work.” ae

In addition to these there ap-
pears tb be a lot of Baptists and
other misguided humans w
regard ‘‘God”s Work” as the
rabid promotion of anti-commu-
nism, anti - fluoridation, anti-
Semitism,, anti - mental health,
who desperately seek gold to
promote such racist and anti-
social trash as the Protocols of
Zion and Ron Gostick’s Cana”
dian Intelligence Service liter-
ary filth. :

What skulduggery is commit-
ted in the name of “Christianity.”

‘June 12, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P