NDP victory in Ontario
raises election prospects

TORONTO — New Democrat
James Renwick won a smashing
victory in Riverdale by-election
Sept. 10, doubling his party’s vote
of a year ago and capturing a
Conservative provincial strong-
hold.

The result: James Renwick
(N.D.P.) 7,326; Kenneth Waters
(P.C.) 5,783; Charles Templeton

(Lib.) 5,758; Fred Graham (Ind.)
92.

Welcoming the N.D.P. win in
Riverdale the Ontario leader of
the Communist Party, Bruce
Magnuson, said:

“It is difficult to over-estimate

JAMES RENWICK

the importance of this victory,
It shows the possibilities that
exist for a tremendous advance
of democratic and progressive
forces in Ontario, provided they
are united,

“In some respects the River-
dale victory has an affinity with
the wartime election of Joe Nose-
worthy in South York in 1942
in a federal by-election. It .was
a forerunner to the greatadvance
made by the C.C.F. in the 1943
provincial elections in Ontario.

“A similar opportunity exists
for the N.D.P. today, provided the
working people and all progres-
Sive forces are brought into ac-
tive participation during the next
provincial election campaign.

“In Windsor there was not
the same campaign spirit that
existed in Riverdale, The result
shows that at this time no spon-
taneous shift can be counted on
— success for the Left willcome
only as a result of hard work
and good organization.

“Public feeling is rising
against the Robarts government,
but as yet the people do not see
a clear alternative,

“The Communist: Party wel-
comes the N.D.P, victory in
Riverdale, and‘hopes that greater
unity of the working class will
be achieved throughout Ontario
between now and the next pro-
vincial elections.”

"Peg labor veteran honored

WINNIPEG — A veteran trade
unionist and one of the leaders
of the 1919 General Strike, R.B.
(Bob) Russell, was presented on
Labor Day with an address of
appreciation signed by Premier
Duff Roblin and Labor Minister
O. Baizley. ‘

Students hit
apartheid

A round-the-clock picket for
one solid week of the South Afri-
can Embassy in Ottawa will be
staged by Canadian students to
demonstrate their opposition to
apartheid,

The picketing program is one
of a number of actions endorsed
by the international affairs com-
mission of the Canadian Union of
Students Congress held at York
University recently,

He is the first trade unionist
to be so honored by a govern-
ment in Manitoba “in recogni-
tion of,” as the address declares,
“his long and devoted service to
the cause of the labor movement
in this province.”

Russell, now 75, retired two
years ago because of ill-health
as executive secretary of. the
Winnipeg Labor Council and as a
member of the Manitoba Labor
Board,

For his participation in the
1919 General Strike he was
charged with seditious con-
spiracy and jailed for two years,
Russell served for many years
as secretary of the One Big Union.
After the merger in 1956 with
the Trades and Labor Congress
and the Canadian Congress of La-
bor, he was appointed to the Win-
nipeg Labor Council,

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CARON HITS DAVIS STAND

Liberal MP charged w
‘gigantic hoax’ on pub

charge that Jack Davis, par-
Doe. secretary to
Prime Minister Pearson and
Coast-Capilano M.P., is again
playing a key role in a gigantic
hoax on the Canadian people, was
made this week byB,C, Commun-
ist Party organization secretary
Charles Caron,

In a letter sent to North Van-
couver and city newspapers,
Caron, who opposed Davis in the
last Federal election, said, “Mr,
Davis is urging that Canada ex-
port vast quantities of our fresh
water to the United States, all
the while stoutly maintaining that
such a policy would be in the in-
terests of Canada,”

Recalling that in the last Fed-
eral election Davis appealed that
“We must keep Canada strong
and free,” and told the voters
that the draft Columbia River
Treaty was a “sellout in aseries

of five feature articles appearing -

in the Vancouver Sun,’ Caron
pointed out that “when elected to
office Davis completely reversed

his opposition and became an ac-
tive spokesman for the sellout
and even directly participated
in the formulation of the precise
terms,”

Caron said, “Mr, Davis could
not summon up the courage to
be in the House of Commons
the day the final vote was taken,
He could not bear to listen to his
Own words being read back to
him by those patriotic M,P.’s
who took part in the debate in an
unsuccessful attempt to save this
mighty resource for Canada,”

Caron’s letter states:

“For $275 million the Colum-
bia River was placed under U.S,
control, This resource is possib-
ly the greatest undeveloped water
source on the North American
continent,

“With this much control al-
ready surrendered discussion are
now taking place in the U,S,
Senate on a $100 billion plan
to drain off to the U.S, all of the

remaining waters from
Mountain Trench,

“Mr, Davis’ ‘Great V
the development of our ™
sources for Canada is ae
tical froth, Canada is Me™
with the abundance of W
the United States, His
consists of another &
foreign power of animpoh”
tural resource that is ney
for the future of our ¥

“We have the ability !!
our water resources 1!
hydro power for the it?
of the prairie province:
extension of interior Wa@™

Caron said Davis’ ¥
our future is one of dep
on the U,S,, the obvi"
come of which is less
over our resources asilll |
in the Columbia Treas |
is not Canadianism but &
tician’s talk, leading to",
ordination of Canada tote”
concluded Caron,

- in
SELLING CANADA BY CHECK. Here’s the $273,291, 661.24 for which Socred and Liberal politician’
Ottawa and Victoria sold the Columbia River to the U.S. Future historians will view this check in ™
same light as the purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians and Alaska from the Russians.

B.C. gas users subsidize low U

A charge that B.C, natural gas
users are subsidizing cheap gas
rates for the U.S, and that the
present deal with the U.S, be-
tween West Coast Transmission
and U.S, gas companies is the
“biggest bargain” for the US,,
was made by the Victoria Daily
Colonist in last Sunday’s edition,

Written by the paper's business
expert, Harry Young, the article
makes these points:

“For the past six years West-
coast Transmission Company has
been selling up to 400,000,000
cubic feet a day of B.C, natural
gas to the United States at a

price of 22 cents athousand cubic
feet,

“This colossal amount of ener-
gy is being sold under a 20-year
contract to Pacific Northwest
Production, an affiliate of El Paso
Natural Gas, and is perhaps the
biggest bargain in this type of
energy available in the North
American continent,”

“Unfortunately the contract is
so unfavorable to Westcoast that
this company is unable to profit
from it, and is forced to ask its
B.C, customers — mainly B,C,
Hydro and Inland Natural Gas —
to keep it going by subsidizing
its U.S, customers,

“The tragedy for B,C, is that

this contract has another 14 years
to run, So long as it is in exis-
tence, the future development of
the B,C, natural gas industry is
at a stalemate and cheap gas for
B.C, is only a dream,

“As long ago as 1958, the Bor-
den Royal Commission on energy
established the fact that West-
coast had made a bad deal. ..,
The analytical firm of Stone and
Webster informed the Borden
Commission that Westcoast could
make no profit from its U.S, con-
tract,”

Explaining how the deal was put
across by the U.S, companies
(with complicity of Westcoast
Transmission and the Socred
government, ed,) the Colonist
article points out that the Borden
Commission was told that, “Pa-
cific Northwest Production had
set the price on the estimate
that Texas natural gas could be
delivered to San Francisco at
34 cents per thousand cubic feet,”

But this figure was later proven
false as were the promises made
by the companies involved, Young
writes:

“The Borden Commission then
discovered it was erroneous that
Texas gas could in effect be laid
down inSan Francisco at 34 cents,
and also that none of the West-
coast gas was indeed going to
San Francisco, but to Washing-
ton, Idaho and Oregon, where

the delivery costs wet®

“The Borden Commis?
not advise that the contrat
be broken but it reco™
that a better cost formul?”
be’ insisted upon before |
licences to export natur
were awarded any Canadl 4
pany, What makes it all™
galling for British Colm
says Young, “is that a
Transmission Company ~ |
largely owned by US:

_ panies,”

The fact that U.S. be
interests control Westet
brought out often in the ©
of the Pacific Tribun®
charged repeatedly that we
McMahon, president 2? y
coast, was the front ma? ti?
which theSocred govern™® fe
tified the deal as being
interests, é

¢

The Colonist article PO”
that a solution to the pr
“without raising internatle
cidents” is not easy, but
gests that one solution "i
to install a rival pia
Westcoast, which would act
from a restrictive com!’ g
this way, it is suggested ig
might be able to get away y
the control Westcoast
over the natural gas ind
B.C.

September 25, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—