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TRANS-CANADA PIPELINE

mean starving Canadian indus-
try of power it needs and feed-
ing American industry with
what it withheld from our
own.”

M, J. Coldwell’s declaration in
a recent CBC broadcast that the
pipeline is not_a party issue but
a vital national issue is further
evidence of the strength of popu-
lar feeling against the sellout of
our natural gas to the U.S.

Native beats
income tax

An income tax decision that
might possibly affect hundreds
of Native Indian fishermen has
been handed down in magistrates’
court at Brighouse.

Magistrate Robert Palmer last
week dismissed a charge against
Frances Point, a fisherman liv-
ing on the Musqueam Reserve,
adjoining the city.

Point was hailed before the
court because he did not file a
1954 income tax return.

Arguing the case for Point,
Andy Paull, of the North Ameri-
can . Indian Brotherhood, said
that Indians on the reserves were
considered wards of the Crown
and were, therefore, not subject
to taxation. “No taxation with-
out representation,” was the plea
put forward by* Paull.

Appearing for the income tax
department was Robert Edwards.

Magistrate Palmer said lower
courts had “no guidance” in such
a case.

“The defendant proved he lived
on the reserve and therefore had
none of the rights of an en-
franchised Indian. Some prece-
dent should be established by
the supreme court in cases like
these,” said Magistrate Palmer.

The magistrate Said that he
had no guidance on the point and
dismissed the charge. The Income
Tax department will likely ap-
Peal to a higher court.

Even the Financial Post and
some of the country’s biggest
dailies, among them the Toronto
Star, have taken up the cry for
an all-Canadian pipeline whose
benefits would come to Canada
instead of the U.S.

The announcement last week
that the controlling 51 percent of
the shares of Trans-Canada have
been surrendered to the U.S. Ten-
nessee Valley Gas Company will
further embarrass the Howe plan
and strengthen the demand for
public ownership of the line. as
demanded by organized labor.

In this national struggle for
our country’s interests, all pat-
riotic Canadians in this prov-
ince should join in the demand
for an all-Canadian publicly-
owned line, insisting that Brit-
ish Columbia’s new pipeline
from the Fort St. John-Peace
River area be linked to the
East-West Canadian grid.

We must see that the fullest ‘co-
operation is reached between
provincial and federal govern-
ments for carrying through this
great national project.

Within the next decisive few
weeks this question needs to be
raised everywhere — in broad
public meetings; in resolution and
individual letters to cabinet mem-
bers and MPs, in leaflets and let-
ters to the press and through
radio broadcasts.

A great victory for the policy
of putting Canada first can be
won provided national sentiment
is mobilized to achieve what the
majority of the people want —
an all-Canadian publicly-owned
natural gas pipeline.

In an article written for the
Canadian Tribune last week, J.
B. Salsberg said:

“It is abundantly clear that C.
D. Howe’s policy violates Canada’s
sovereign right to utilize Canada’s
newest source. of cheap power
for the benefit of this country,
and retain for Canada the ex-
clusive’ right to determine how
and when to build the facilities for
distribution for this source of
power.

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“Howe persists in a _ policy
which, if implemented, will pro-
vide cheap power to U.S. indus-
try at the expense of Canada’s
industrial development. _Howe’s
policy is harmful to Canadian
sovereignty and a severe blow
at Canada’s economic future.

“As these facts become known
the tide of opposition is rapidly
rising. The demand, “Give the
pipeline back to Canada,” is
growing.

“This can be done when the
pipeline bill. comes before the
House of Commons.

“Regardless of what the FPC
in the U.S. does and whether
Trans-Canada Pipeline Company
is able to complete financing ar-
rangements by April 30 — at it
promised the government it
would do — parliament should
nullify the temporary arrange-
ments made between the govern-
ment and Trans-Canada.

“Parliament’s decision should
be to proceed immediately, with
the provincial governments con-
cerned, to construct a Trans-
Canada natural gas pipeline which
will be operated by a crown
company as a_ publicly-owned
utility, with its first and sup-
reme task delivery of natural gas
to Canadian homes and industries
at cost. \

“Such a demand should come
from all sides, from all political

parties and, above all, from the

trade unions. It should be direct-
ed to the St. Laurent government
and to every MP individually.
“Victory can be won in this
far-reaching battle for Canada.”

’Peg meet

to discuss

Laborers’ contract

Vancouver Local 602 Building Laborers and Local 168
Tunnel and Rock Workers will send representatives to Wim-
nipeg to discuss a new union contract with Pipeline Contrac-
tors’ Association. The five-year contract signed by international
officers, which would have forced the men to work for $1.20 an

hour on natural gas pipeline con-
struction, has been decisively re-
jected by the union members.
W. L. Hunchuk, secretary of
Local 168, issued this statement
to the press:
“During the last month, the

‘executive of Locals 168 and 602

held numerous meetings with in-
ternational representatives and
other local unions and finally on
March 12 met with Labor Minis-
ter Lyle Wicks, with regard to
the pipeline agreement which was
signed for all of Canada by: the

Hungary signs pact

for. Canadian wheat
OTTAWA

An $8,800,000 wheat deal has
been signed with Hungary, Trade
Minister C. D. Howe informed the
House of Commons this week.

Canada will sell Hungary
5,500,000 bushels of wheat under
the trade treaty, the fourth sign-
ed this month. Other countries
which will buy wheat from Can-
ada are Poland, Czechoslovakia
and the Soviet Union.

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president and secretary of our

international union.

“At all these meetings the ex-
ecutive and members of Local
168 maintained a firm stand by
stating that members of Local
168 and those employed on pipe-
line construction are not covered
by this agreement as it contra-
venes the provisions of the Labor
Relations Act. We, therefore,
again urge the LRB to process
our application for certification
without delay.

“On March 10 the executive of
Local 168 and Local 602: met the
international representatives in
Vancouver. It was agreed that
Locals 168 and 602 would send
a representative to Winnipeg for
the purpose of negotiating a eol-
lective pipeline agreement on be-
half of the locals concerned and
the Canadian Pipeline Associa-
tion.
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fication and would not be ‘signed
unless approved by the members.

“The full support and coopera-
tion of each and every member
is necessary in order that a new
agreement covering pipeline con-
struction may be negotiated.”

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