| Apache Indians win praise

‘ Indians of Arizona’s San Carlos reservation. While an estimated one
_ Million head of beef cattle have been moved out of drought-blighted
rangelands in the U.S. southwest this year, the Apache Indians have
Si their herds in good condition, as shown by this herd on the Gila
Ver. Their conservation methods have provided water for their

Sattle and prevented drought losses.

LPP campaign leads to
pipeline policy change

TORONTO

On March 13 this year Trade Minister C. D. Howe brushed off demands for an all-Canadian natural
gas pipeline from Alberta to Quebec with the statement: “The government of Canada has no immediate

concern with this problem.”

Almost nine months later, on December 3, he told reporters that the government would act quickly
to aid a merger of two gas pipeline companies to carry through the 2,500-mile project.

What made him change his mind?

Major credit must go to that vast
Canadian public which responded
so enthusiastically to the ringing
call of the Labor-Progressive party
in what it described as “The Battle
for the Pipeline.” It was the cam-
paigning of 100 LPP federal can-
didates; the striking Put Canada
First program distributed in 600,-

000 copies across the country
which gave first prominence to the
need for building the line.

This was followed by the out-
spoken campaign of J. B. Salsberg,
LPP member of the Ontario legis-
lature, and the activities of LPP,
trade union and citizens’ delega-
gations which brought the issue
to city and town councils, many
of which approved the plan for

it’s Still a Crime’ says
LDR analyzing Bill 7

ng new tract on the St. Laurent government’ :
: Which -The new pamphlet, entitled It’s Still a Crime is a
Played an important part in preventing the passage 0

i Lhe tic Ri
si League for Democratic Rights,

0
: . af periiament
t e ; “ °
Wr p question, “what is
Sng with Bill 72” the tract an-

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g the Anglican Out-
bok for January 1953:
eal
atization of
“ontaing ma

is not a mere re-or-
the Criminal Code. It
ling th ny important and start-
threaten e°5 in criminal law that
Won N freedoms and safeguards
Y centuries of struggle. . .
in its © exaggeration to say that
- Bi 7 csent form Bill H8 (now
Severe Could be used to curtail
Y not only the freedom of
but Isbooes legitimate criticism
Sttika ,.;° _bard-won freedoms to
and picket lawfully.”

: Rder section 52 of the proposed
: wee Striker could be given
as this ithe Sentence. Referring
Roches, ise the Hon. Arthur W.
ate jc? AO declared, in the Sen-

Tae ge of Canada Debates,

» PP. 746-7 and December

ltis

ever alert to the dangers of McCarthyism in Canada, has issued a
s proposed revisions of the Criminal Code embodied in
follow-up on the widely circulated It’s A Crime
f Bill 7’s predecessor (Bill 93) at the last session

1952, p. 164) “That is a dandy piece
of legislation to use in case of a
strike. ... Any plant would qualify
under this. It would cover any act
or omission that impairs the ef--
ficiency or impedes the working of
any plant in any town, city, or else-
where. . . . That is new. legislation
which is terrible and drastic. . . .”

“What are the ‘interests of Can-
ada’? Does ‘Canada’ signify the
land of Canada — St. James Street,
for instance? .. .”

The Canadian Congress of Labor
had this to say about section 365:

“It can only be aimed at the
working-class and the Congress is
unequivocally opposed to it... .
This places labor in these indus-
tries completely at the mercy of
the employer.”

Criticizing the new definition of

Mine-Mill combats
Planned Trail layoffs

ela B.C.
NS workers in the
miseraneee face the prospect of

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Harvey Murphy, international
representative, declared in a press
statement to the Pacific Tribune:

“We are out to fight against these
layoffs now. We do not intend to
leave the unemployed and_part-
time workers to the mercy of the
employers and government, where
they are compelled to fight back
alone.

“It is the duty of the trade
unions to stand up now, and act
in the interests of their unem-
ployed members. The trade unions
should get together now to compel
government action for export mar-
kets, public works, and increased
unemployment insurance benefits
as a stop-gap.

“T expect that the national coun-
cil of Mine-Mill will discuss some
of these matters when it meets tn
Toronto next week.”

treason aimed at curtailing free
speech, the tract quotes from Sat-
urday. Night, “. . . no such official
action is necessary to turn a legiti-
mate action into treason. .. . These
amendments were drafted very
hastily, and upon the urgent in-
stigation of the United States. They
have been criticized by many of
the best liberal-minded lawyers in
the country.”

Again the Anglican Outlook is
quoted, “The law of treason was
restricted within reasonable limits
by an English law of 1351 and has
remained substantially unchanged
since then. The statute of 1351
represented a milestone in the
struggle to make men secure from

tyranny: is
The tract appeals to citizens to

write er wire their opposition to
Bill 7 to their MPs.

the all-Canada pipeline as opposed
to the Consumers Gas Company’s
plan to pipe gas into Toronto from
the U.S.

In September, mounting opin-
ion forced Premier Frost of On-
tario to come out in favor of the
Pipeline, but it was J. B. Sals-
berg who called for an emerg-
ency session of the House to
support the project. Salsberg
urged the- legislature to pass a
law blocking the Consumers Gas
Company’s plan.

Last month Salsberg warned of
a pending decision on the disposi-
tion of Alberta natural gas. He
charged that rival financial groups
were involved in the struggle for
Canada’s gas and that millions
were being spent by U.S. interests
to block an all-Canadian pipeline.

He urged intensifed public ac-
tion to prevent “buccaneering U.S.
interests and their Canadian allies”
from réalizing their plan, likening
the struggle for the line to the
historic construction of the first
all-Canadian* transcontinental rail-
road, also opposed by U.S. inter-
ests.

Salsberg also challenged the
Consumers’ Gas argument that U.S.-
imported gas would be cheaper at
53 cents compared to a 55 to 70-
cent range for Alberta gas.

Quoting the.report of Bechtel
Engineering Corporation, he point-
ed out that Canadian gas even un-
der private ownership could be
sold at 51 cents a thousand cubic
feet compared to the final 56 cents
which the Consumers’ Gas plan
would cost users.

Last week a report from Ottawa
in the Financial Post (December
5) confirmed Salsberg’s position,
pointing out that “information now
obtained from the Federal Power
Commission in Washington indi-

cates that the cost of U.S. gas in
Toronto may be 5-6 cents higher
per thousand cubic feet than the
cost of Western Canadian gas,
even at the start.” :

The announcement that Alberta
gas would be made available to
Eastern Canada via an all-Cana-
dian line was made by Premier
E. C. Manning of Alberta and
Trade Minister Howe on Thursday
last week.

Buck warns
gas pipeline
not yet won

TORONTO

Noting that a “significant vie-
tory to put Canada first has been
registered on the Trans-Canada gas
pipeline issue,” Tim Buck, national
leader of the Labor-Progressive
party, this week tempered his com-
ment with this warning:

“Let us be warned that the AIl-
| Canadian pipeline has not yet been
|; won. We have seen how Cana-
dian governments for nearly half
a century have licked the boots of
special U.S. interests to thwart the
building of the St. Lawrence Sea-
way. :

“These ‘special U.S. interests’
are still at work to undermine the
nation-building pipeline. They
must be exposed and defeated by
the action of the people.”

Buck added that unless publie-
spirited Canadians maintained con-
tinuous pressure upon the federal
government to prevent it, there
was still serious danger that the
pipeline would be built immediate-
ly as far as Winnipeg with its
branch to the U.S. market and its
completion to Ontario and Quebec
delayed for years.

The LPP, he = said,
strengthen its fight for: :
@ Construction of the Trans-Can-

ada natural gas pipeline as a

publicly owned and operated na-

tional project to provide gas at
cost to communities served be-

tween Alberta and Quebec .
@ Immediately setting up of a

Crown Corporation to start the

job at once, to provide jobs for

Canadian engineers and work-

ers, orders for Canadian indus-

tries, and to combat the threat
of economic depression.

@ Engineering and building of the
project by Canadian engineers
and workers, with manufacture
of pipes and equipment in Can-
adian plants.

“The people’s opinion is clear.
They want an All-Canadian pipe-
line and they want it built at once,”
said Buck. “They want Canadian
engineers to plan it and Canadian
workers to lay the pipes made by
Canadians from Canadian steel.”

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