1.General AUGUSTO PINOCHET 2. Admiral JOSE TORIBIO MERINO 3.General-GUSTAVO LEIGH GUZMAN 4.General CESAR MENDOZA for — Assassination of President Salvador Allende “High Treason against the Chilean People ™ Crushing Democracy and Freedom in Chile Unleashing a Reign of Fascist Terror in Chile And Other Crimes--- | The crisis in energy: a corporate creation By ALD. HARRY RANKIN If ever there was a phony, aI tificial, manufactured, ener8y crisis, this is it. : We have no real oil shortage 12 Canada. In fact we have enough to supply all our needs for mary, many years to come. But oil is in short supply for tw° reasons. The first is that a great proportion of Alberta’s oil is €X ported to the United States. The S€ cond reason is that the big oil cOT- porations have deliberately cUr- tailed production in order to put the squeeze on government and the consumer to force higher prices. The oil companies cannot honestly claim that productson costs have gone up when in fact they have gone down, due to automation. But they do insist of 2 higher price in Canada because the price in the United States and 0” the world market is higher. 4nd why is it higher? Because these same big international oil CF porations that control Canada’s Oil resources set the price higher 12 the U.S., and on the world market. The energy crisis is a perfect ©X- ample of the mess Canada iS 11 because our governments have followed a policy of allowing big ion oil cartels to secure a ee hold on our oil and natural ources. eThcre is’a way out, of course, if we can find a government with enough guts to stand up to the oil corporations. The short term solution should include at least five steps. The first is to clamp controls on the export of oil and gas to the United States until all of Canada’s needs now, and for the foreseeable future, are met. The second is to build a pipeline to send our Western oil to the Eastern Canadian market. The third, to put a stop to any further price increases in gas and oil. In fact, the demand should be to roll back prices to what they’ were on January A. 1973. At the same time the govern- ment, under threat of expropria- tion, should order the oil com- panies to go all out in production. It’s a crime against the people of Canada that they should be allowed to create an artificial shortage. exploration of Canada’s Sok a ofeehors areas for oil and gas should be undertaken by a crown corporation and all finds kept and developed under public Isabelle Allende to The Canadians for a Democratic Chile Committee have confirmed in their most recent bulletin that Mrs. Isabelle Allende, a daughter of the late Chilean president, will speak in Vancouver in the week following November 25 or December 2. : As the exact arrival of Mrs. Allende will be contingent on engagements elsewhere in Canada, the date and place of the meeting have not yet been finalized. Further information will be releas- ed as soon as it is available. Chile made headlines in B.C. in- terior points last week following a speaking tour by Maria Ines McLeod on behalf of the Democratic Chile Committee, to Kamloops, Vernon and Kelowna. Mrs. McLeod, in addressing the Kamloops and District and Kelowna labor delegates of the bloody spectacle which has seen “more than 25,000 workers, students, and political health. This trifling incident, sparked by the disinterment of a Socred political corpse, was aimed primarily at discrediting the NDP, that, and wasting the taxpayers’ money. It had, nor has no other purpose. But it does suggest that the more naive among us should begin revamping our individual and collective concepts of politics and politicians. Of course we all know about that famous crack, “‘liars, damn liars and statistics” as it applies to politicians. We also know, some from experience, others from observation, that it is contrary to the rules for an MLA, MP, cabinet minister or a prime minister to tell lies to the House, be they little white lies or professional whoppers. But by the very nature of things in a capitalist society, the old political parties of big business do it, often heaping barefaced falsehoods on shameless fibbery. In today’s changing BREE sseennemereece PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1973—PAGE 2 councils, told. Tom McEWEN a tempest in a teapot which blew up in the B.C. } Legislature last week over transport minister Bob Strachan allegedly lying to the August assembly about the affairs of his department is happily ended. An all party committee, by a majority vote gave Bob a clean bill of - refugees from other Latin American countries killed.” The councils were horror struck with the story of ““La Hermida one of Chile’s newest and biggest urban developments, and a stronghold of the countries democratic forces. The Junta’s answer to a human chain placed around the communi- ty by residents to prevent the military from entering was “to bomb it off the map,” while “almost all the people were machine gunned to death.” Bill McLeod, committee secretary, who left Chile with Maria McLeod one month before the coup, told delegates that the Junta has forced people ‘‘to work on Saturdays without pay and all former Allende administrators are facing trial by a military court if they refuse to hand over factories to the military.” He said that the prices of consumer goods have been raised by 200 to 1800 percent, -while wage levels have been world, moving steadily forward to socialist new society, capitalism relies almost as mUC 4 ; as it does on nuclear weaponry to perpet™ate its tottering existence; to give the masses falsehoods in lieu of bread and peace. é Never since the fabled days of the Otorious Ananlas has that noted liar had such a close compétitor as the chet commander of the United States. With every new Watergate revelation, he sinks lower in t#2¢ mire of the ly- ing profession. The sole comfort he has, lie the famed Mae West, is that he is “not alone.” We too, have our Watergates and our professional liars in 20d out of Parlia- ment, so why pick on NDP-er Bob Strachan? : The answer is obvious because thoS¢ who entertain ideas of a future society without capitalists must be exor- cised by a deveilled capitalism. They canr0t be shot as they are in Chile (with the official approval of the external af- fairs department) so they are smear€d speak at city rally frozen. : The Kamloops labor council responded to Mrs. McLe©d’s appeal ‘“‘not to let three years of progress drown in blood,” with an action resolution to investsgate means of giving aid to democfatic Chilean organizations, and to C4tTy on the Committee’s petition ©@™- paign for the revoking of Canadian recognition of the Junta. . Kelowna council joined With Kamloops in advising Mitchell Sharp of their “extreme dis- pleasure” of the Canadian recQ8nl- tion, together with an appea! for the Canadian government to grant asylum to Chilean political Tef- ugees. The McLeod’s visit to Kam Oops precipitated an editorial the following day in the ‘““KamJ°Ops News’’ which stated, “As in @V€ry military coup the first victims Ws freedom. Under Allende, opP9S!- tion leaders were free, eve® to sabotage his government. e prevaricators in the hope that the odiur? Of the falsehood will stick. concepts of a h on falsehood as liars and i P : aie d ilitary immediately imprisone ae executed hundreds of socialist and communist leaders.’ leading kesman for Canadians for carat? in Chile Committee spoke to labor councils in the Okanagan recently. Maria Mcleod, 4 sion on Strachan, lying? ’ would all our en vice, including rapid. tr. \arete SNS re ownership and control. The long term Solution is to the whole oil.and gas industry ea der public Ownership. Not onl ergy needs be taken care of, but it would also pr- ing handreds of millions of d annually into the public treasure These, of course, are federal ang provincial government problems But Vancouver City Council a also do something ¢ Sa the effects of big incre i price of oil and gas. a One such action wo : the endless talking ‘and a building a good public transit. ser. ansit. That n the Use of oney for the would greatly cut dow oil and gas and save m commuter: Some f i rapid transit could be one a operation ina relatively short time! if we begin on them now. The freeway interests anq the oi} coil porations may not like it, but the needs of the people ahead of their peel must be Die ee COPE Urging new Ward vote The Committe Electors is callin COPE also pl, aimed at gettin borne out by numbers of unansyw : ballots. One-fifth ered or spoiled did not respond to council represent. nn, COPE presi- Sur position js that Margaret Chy dent, said that « When the notorious Jimmy Tho Ae finance in the cer ee “socialinns minister of Britain leaked hydget Secrets, thereb : at monopoly capital Aa a handsome kit enabling British of the House as well as most of the Liberals tri all British labor py charging that the pei smear symptomatic of oi labor, ‘i ie left ¢ &ct was Gallacher to hur, the canard back to “The heart of British labor is hee Tory benches. declared. “It is you pour moral cor. accused in this Thomas dereliction of dut and: ty. You can corrypt a very small segmey, and responsibili- but never the whole. = \ Getting back to capitalist politics an ee who lie outright ot those who rely q politicians, those _ themselves elected We Might pose th problem: a politician's pre-election and speedily forgotten when election a living demonstration of falsehood, ling, the Tory side 0 the late Willie Tuption that stands t of British labor Nn falsehood to get © thought Provoking _ Promises, Promptly IS assured. Is this not The compilation of statistics to ob otherwise hide the stark truths of reality» ure, COVer up or assumption (or announcement) that the wig. ms “inflation,” while the corporate rip-o widow's Mite fuels priceless jewel of diplomatic doub) means “no”? and Vice-versa? Enro Trudeau Liars’ cjub: — he will sta The come, ortable ff does not? Or that © talk where “yes? I Mr. Sharp in’ the Nd among its finest, ee SRS ce) counteract > St” government in n and sound,” he Sei ommend ante 2