Two views on
Soviet writers

Allan Blakey, Vancouver,
writes: In a recent issue of the
Tribune a statement on the writ-
ers’ trial in the Soviet Union
was made, This statement left
me with serious misgivings.

How is it that the fact that a
number of Communist Parties
have sharply disagreed with the
trial, is only now printed? Why
has such information not been
printed earlier? Does the Trib
not print controversial stands of
different Communist Parties?
Shades of “managed news!”

The statement itself seems to
lean over backwards to please
everyone, It states that the So-
viet Union was right to do it but
not so severely. Not only does
the statement try to sit on the
fence but it is a rewrite jobfrom
the New York Worker! Is this
independent thinking?

In my opinion it is the re-
sponsibility of the Communist
movement in Canada to state to
the Canadian people that suchac-
tions are not part of our pro-
jection of a socialist Canada,

Surely such actions are notone

of the ways in which a superior
socialist and growing Communist
democracy should operate? Is
tHis the way in which social
problems are to be dealt with
in a socialist democracy? I

think not,
* OK OK

George W. Langstaff, D’Arcy,
B.C, writes: Since reading the
article in the Tribune, the “Trial
of Two Soviet Writers,” which I
don’t agree with at all, and I
just cannot understand how you
can print such weak stuff. I
think the Trib is a good paper
generally and the work you are
doing on the Vietnam war is
wonderful, But here’s how I see
the Soviet “writers” issue.

Anti-Soviet writers and anti-
Communist slanderers have
spread the black plague of the

_ 1900s and is responsible for the

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death of millions of people, and
destruction of the creative work
of man in great cities, towns,

villages and countryside,

No punishment can atone for
this great crime which has
brought so much suffering, des-
truction and cost. Though to
speak of cost in“ money” as com-
pared to human values hardly
fits the case,

Now you know all this -very
well, so why printa stupidarticle
and make it worse with the writer
ending up with advice to the Soviet
Union on how to conduct a trial,
saying it was too severe, and
hoping they would soon .be re-
leased.

(Ed, note: Due to the length
of reader Langstaff’s letter it
had to be abbreviated, but his
general opinion, based on the
terrible crimes done in thename
of “anti-communism,’’ was thai
these two writers got their just

deserts,)
* OK Ok

Sportsmanship

E.H. Tudor, Morningside, Alta,
writes: May I, through the
medium of your paper, make a
protest on behalf of sport and
goodwill to the cold-war tactics
of the Canadian announcers at the
world Ice Hockey tourney at Ljub-
ljana, Yugoslavia, recently. It
«dripped from their tongues and
their finger tips,”

Had Foster Hewitt been ir.
charge we surely would have
gotten a different break com-
patible with sport and goodwill.

The Canadian players are
quoted as saying “we wouldn’t
stand for such refereeing’ in
minor hockey in Canada.” Quite

true, they would have gota“mis- .

conduct” to say the least. When
players receive a penalty for
deliberate boarding, and then
knock down an opponent on the
way to the “sin bin’’ to vent their
spleen — then blame the referee
because he is a Pole or a Swiss
or a European — it is beyond
decent comprehension,

And the announcer plus the
press, to say that two goals
were disallowed is not true,
There were none allowed in the
first place, and the red light only
went on in the mind of one,
Chevrier, who probably sees a
Red under every bed, All the
disparaging remarks re the So-
viet team captain Boris Mayovev
is just another example of the
poor sport. Mayovev is the holder
of four consecutive world Olym-
pic championships,

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OTTAWA URGED:

Strong protest has been voiced
in B.C, and eastern Canada
against the giveaway of Canadian
natural gas resources to theU,S,
Two decisions are now before the
National Energy Board in Ottawa,
which if approved, would go a
long way towards selling out one
of Canada*s most important and
irreplaceable resources,

The Board has before it the
question of whether to grant a
permit to Trans-Canada Pipe
Lines Ltd, to build a gas pipe-
line from Alberta which will be
diverted into the U.S, in Mani-
toba and re-enter Ontario at
Sarnia, :

The Board also has to decide
whether to approve a deal be-
tween Frank McMahon’s West-
coast Transmission Co,, and the
El Paso Natural Gas Co,, in the
U.S, under whicha 25 year agree-
ment will be entered into under
which 600 million cubic feet of
natural gas a day will be export-
ed to the U,S,

The U,S, company will also
have an option to purchase an
additional 300 million cubic feet
a day — an option which they are
expected to grab up because of
the hunger for natural gas in the
U.S. This will bring the total
export from B,C,’s gas fields
of 900 million cubic feet a day.

Last week Nigel Morgan, B,C,
leader of the Communist Party,

wired the chairman of the Na-
tional Energy Board in Ottawa
protesting against the deal be-
tween Westcoast Transmission
and El Paso Natural Gas, The
wire said:

“Wish to register strenuous
opposition to application of West-
coast Transmission for 25 year
export of.additional six hundred
million cubic feet natural gas
daily.

“Such collosal exports, equi-
valent to eleven and a half mil-
lion horsepower of energy, jeo-
pardizes’ Canadian industrial
development, We demand public
hearings to weigh Canadian re-
serve against long-term needs

and guarantee against Canadian

deficiency.”

Early in March the Fort Wil-
liam and Port Arthur Labor
Council in Ontario submitted a
brief to the National Energy
Board opposing the granting of
a permit to Trans Canada Pipe
Lines to build the projected line
through the U,S,

The brief argues strongly for
an all-Canadian route and points
to the many advantages which
Canadians will derive from con-
struction of the pipeline across
Canadian territory, including the
boost it will give to economic
life of the country,

Signed by many prominent citi-

-

‘Halt gas giveaway’

zens, the brief told the National
Energy Board: “Once gas enters
U.S, territory near Emmerson,
Manitoba, its control comes unde1
the Federal Power Commission
in Washington. The National
Energy Board loses all control
from there until the gas, ifanyis
left, re-enters Canada,”

“We believe,” says the brief,
“that in order to maintain con-
trol over the use and distribution
of natural gas for Canadians, the
permit requested by Trans Can-
ada Pipe Lines Ltd., should be
denied, This natural gas is a
resource belonging to the people
of Canada and should be used
primarily by and for Canadians
under the control of regulatory
bodies of Canadian governments,"

William Kashtan, national
leader of the Communist Party,
sent a telegram to the National
Energy Board urging that the
application be rejected, He said:

*This is a clear case where a
U,S,-controlled monopoly utility
seeks to profit by selling Cana-
dian natural gas to the more
lucrative U,S, market at the ex-
pense of Canadian economic de-
velopment and gas customers in
less densely populated areas,

“The time has come for Can-
ada to nationalize the facilities
of the Trans Canada Pipelines
and operate them as a public
enterprise to promote industrial
growth in underdeveloped regions
of the Northland.”

April 7, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7