SELLOUT PLOTTED

Pipeline deal
kept secret.

By STEWART SMITH

TORONTO

Trans-Canada Pipeline Company, the U.S. firm with a
monopoly on gas pipelines in Canada, is going ahead with plans
for taking Alberta gas into the United States at Emerson,
Manitoba, and selling gas back into Eastern Canada through
the Niagara-Toronto pipe. And while this is going on, the

“Qntario bridge,” as it is now call-
ed, the decisive link of the trans-
Canada line from Winnipeg to To-
ronto, hangs suspended in doubt.
Innumerable secret conferences
are taking place. The whole thing
is shrouded in mystery because
US. profits are involved and Can-
ada’s vital national interests are
being sold out by men who are
trusted by many Canadians to pro-
tect our country. :

Trans-Canada has already start-
ed digging the trench for the pipe-
line between Winnipeg and Emer-
son, a town on the U‘S. border.

The company has made a con-
tract with Tennessee Gas (which
may be interlocked with the Am-
erican owners of Trans-Canada) to
deliver 200,000,000 cubic feet of
gas daily to the US. On Septem-
ber 15 Trans-Canada will appear
before the Board of Transport
Commissioners in Ottawa with a
new application to build a pipe-
line from Toronto to Montreal and
a sideline from Morrisburg to Ot-
tawa.

The purpose is to prepare. for
bringing gas in from the US. at
Niagara.

The size of the pipe from Alberta
to Winnipeg is to be 34 inches in-
stead of 36, a clear indication that
the U.S. bosses have no intention
of building the pipeline and pre-
serving Canada’s national interests.
_In the Canadian press reports
there is not a whisper on the great
patriotic issue involved. The big
daily papers are aware of the
strong indignation that the skul-
duggery going on behind their
backs would arouse, if known to
the public.

Even papers like the Cornwall
Standard Freeholder, which write
editorials in favor of the trans-
Canada pipeline, explain it with
the argument that U.S. gas might
get into short supply. Not a sin-
gle Canadian capitalist paper has

come forward with a patriotic)

position, upholding and champion-
ing the great nation-building value
of a trans-Canada pipeline.

The press constantly repeats the
argument about “Alberta gas pro-
ducers having a right to the profit-
able market in the U.S.” The “Al-
berta producers” are U.S. exploit-
ers who have seized control of Can-
ada’s natural gas resources.

The campaign being waged by
the Labor-Progressive party, call-
ing on the Ontario government to
set up a Crown Company, which
will build and operate the section
of the pipeline from Winnipeg to
Toronto, must now be pressed
with greatest vigor.

There are rumors to the effect
that the Crown Company might be

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a joint one, in which Ontario and
Alberta would put up 25 percent
each and Ottawa 50 percent.

It is impossible to see why the
Alberta government, a tool of the
American gas syndicates, should
have part control of the pipeline
in Ontario. Ontario’s people and
Canadian interests would be better
served by an Ontario-owned Crown
company. ; .

The main aim remains the
achievement of the “Ontario
bridge,” which had been scuttled
last July and which was reopened
only thanks to the patriotic pro-
tests of the people.

Premier Frost held long confer-
ences recently with Hon. Dana
Porter, now Ontario provincial
treasurer. Differences in the cab-
inet centre around Porter, whose
intimate connection with the big
coal and oil importing interests of
Bay Street are well known.

If a Crown company built the
line it would mean that gas could
be transported from Alberta to
Toronto for 12 cents per thousand
cubic feet. With this low cost of
transportation, it could be deliver-
ed at 35 cents per thousand cubic
feet or less.

It would be a tremendous boon
to industry and domestic consum-
ers if Canada’s natural gas would
be placed at the service of Can-
ada’s people at low cost and fuel-
starvation of Ontario would be end-
ed.
It may be that Premier Frost’s
prolonged conferences with Mr.
Porter indicate that the premier
has finally got down to the business
of telling him that the pipeline
must go through and Ontario must
do the job. -If so that is to be
welcomed. But if the matter is still
being jockeyed around and stale-
mated by endless argument, then,
the people of Ontario should know
about it.

The main thing ts to bring every
pressure to bear on the Ontario
government for the immediate
building of the Ontario bridge in
the pipeline.

LABOR

BRIEFS

Mr. Justice Manson has rejected
application of a New Westminster
fish buyer for lifting of an in-
junction restraining him, together
with officers and some members of
the United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union from interfering
with the fishing operations of four
gillnetters who scabbed during the
1954 salmon tendermen’s strike.

* * *

Harvey Murphy, western vice-
president of Mine-Mill, has moved
to Toronto to take up his duties in
the national office of the union.

* * *

Some 3,000 Okanagan valley
packinghouse workers, members
of the Federation of Fruit and
Vegetable Workers (AFL - TLC)
were scheduled to strike Thursday
this week following collapse of
negotiations over a 10-cent hourly
wage boost.

x * *

The second guaranteed annual
wage contract in Canada has been
won locally — by three workers,
members of AFL Street Railway-
men’s Union who work for Can-
adian Car and Bus Advertising
Ltd. and put up advertising cards
in buses and trolley coaches.

A new 14-month agreement gives
them GAW, a four-cent hourly
pay hike and an $8.50 per month
bonus in lieu of a bus pass.

* * *

More than 900 members of Local
464, Milk Drivers and Dairy Em-
ployees Union (TLC) are now tak-
ing a strike vote, following failure
of bargaining sessions to produce
a satisfactory agreement.

* * *

Some 250 B.C. barbers have ac-
cepted a new contract giving them
a $5 weekly wage increase. Under
the agreement they will receive a
$45 weekly guarantee and 65 per-
cent of their barber chair earn-
ings over $64.50 a.week.

The new contract comes into ef-
fect September 4.

Ex-RCMP grilled

Ex-RCMP Sgt. Terry Parsloe,

Parsloe that the reason he found

Neil Fleishman, counsel for
Flash tabloid, demanded typewrit-
er samples from Parsloe’s two
machines to prove that he did actu-
ally write a report that “cleared”
Mulligan of accepting protection
money.

Fleishman’s action followed his
statement to Parsloe on Tuesday
when he said: “I put it to you, you
did not write this report.”

Cross-examined by Oliver, coun-
sel for Det. Sgt. Len Cuthbert,
Parsloe said that he kept notes of
his “investigation” into charges of
police gnaft in a small notebook,
he thought just the one, but he
could not say if he filled it.

Oliver: “So the results of your
contacts witht 50 to 100 persons,
the investigations of five agents,
and the results of your own in-
vestigations over 34 months were
contained in one small, 5 or 10 cent
notebook?”

Parsloe: “Yes, but there were
things not relevant I didn’t put
down.” :

He said he had burned the note-
book along with other notes he
had, he could not remember their
contents, about 15 or 30 days after
submitting his report.

“J usually burn notebooks,” he
said.

Oliver: “Yesterday you said you
were the author of this report. I
suggest to you that you are mis-
taken.”

Parsloe: “I wrote this report.”

Oliver: “Who drafted the report
for you?”

Parsloe: “Nobody. I drafted it,
this is my report and I typed it.”

The cross examination was then
taken over by Vic Dryer, assist-
ant commission counsel.

Parsloe told him he had under-
taken only one special investiga-
tion of a minor nature since the
one in 1950. The one into the
police department was conducted
mostly in his spare time and in the
evenings and did not conflict with

“whitewashed” Chief Constable Walter Mulligan, was given 2 grilling

at police probe

author of the $1,700 report which

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by lawyer H. A. D. Oliver during cross-examination this week, as."
royal commission: probe into charges of laxity and corruption I the
Vancouver police force resumed. At one point Oliver suggest

no evidence against police officets

accused of graft in 1950 was that he had not tried hard enough.

his duties as a security officer. |

Dryer questioned Parsloe about
his plan of campaign when staruBe -
the investigation. © : ect

He asked for the first perso? het
saw: the first place he went;
districts they were in. But Pats”
loe could only say he would prob:
ably visit “different clubs or hang
outs.” ah i
Dryer: “In other words, you cap
tell us how you set out to do this’

ParSloe: “I know how I set out,
but the details ...” ae

Dryer: “You might forget names:
and so on, but you must have
some sort of plan — and that plan
would be called to your MM,
where you went or who you oi

Parsloe: “It might have beep ae
club — looking for someone. f

Dryer: ee you went out to Bt
unknown persons whose faces
can’t describe at places you
remember for purpose you
describe and on a date you
remember.” 1 for

When G. L. Murray, couns®
Vancouver Magazine Serv}
gan questioning Parsloe abou
agents and contacts he had ¥
Commissioner Tupper intertuP"
ed:

“TJ understand you do 0 be
to give away names that my
useful to you in your future ¥
But those names may be of US?
me, they may have something
tell me and if you remember
you can pass them to me |
pape.” ; ‘

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