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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JUNE 22, 1956

nesday this week.

selves had expected to win.

The Socreds, who threw their
two provincial premiers — W.
A. C. Benhett of British Col-
umbia and E. C. Manning of
Alberta — and several cabinet
ministers into their attempt to
topple the CCF, obtained no

, more than a foothold. They won
three seats from the Liberals,
their first mm the legislature since
1938.

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Ignoring his. usual cocky

pre-election predictions of a
Socred victory, Premier Bennett
professed to be “very pleased”
with the results.

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“Social Credit,’ he consoled
himself, “is the only party on
the increase in Saskatchewan.

Factor in the CCF victory
in many closely contested seats
was the Labor - Progressive
party’s decision to withdraw all
but two of its candidates and
to give critical support to the

COR °
. 1956 1952

COORG 2 = 35 42
iiberals, 13 11
Social Credit__-__ 3 oo
Doubtful __--.---- 1 —
Deferred ==> 22520 1 —
53 53

Canada affected by
Trinidad oil deal

A big oil deal affecting Canada is being concluded in
Britain with scarcely a mention in Vancouver daily papers.

Yet in Britain itself the deal is bitterly opposed by
both Labor and Conservative MPs as a sellout to the United
States. And in Trinidad, whose oil will pass under U.S.
control, labor leaders are protesting the sellout to the United
States and openly voicing their fear of U.S. racial policies.

The deal is important to Canadians because more
large oil holdings in this country will pass under U.S. con-
trol as a result of the deal. .

The deal, to which the British government has already
given its conditional assent, is the sale of Trinidad Oil Com
pany to Texas Oil Company.

Trinidad Oil is wholly owned by Central Mining Cor
poration, of which Lord Bailieu is the head. Trinidad Oil
is also a joint owner with Texas Oil of Regent Oil Company,
one of Britain’s big gas distributing companies.

By the deal, Central Mining Corporation stands to
make $28 million profit, the British treasury will add $180
million to its dollar reserves and between $5.5 and $8.5 mil-
lion annually will be lost to the sterling area.

Protesting against the sellout in the British House of
‘Commons paneer Harold Wilson (Labor) charged that
Texas Oil was motivated by the prospects of large-scale

expansion in Canada.

Continued on back page — See TRINIDAD

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CCF popular vote declined
from 54 to 46 percent and the
Liberals’ popular vote, des-
pite their gain of two seats,
from 39 to 32 percent.

In Quebec, where voters also
went to the polls on Wednesday
this week, Premier Maurice
Duplessis and his long -en-
drenched Union Nationale swept

Continued on back page
See VOTE . :

* Soviet and Yugoslav leaders have reached a common viewpoint in discussi
Yugoslav President Tito’s visit to the Soviet Union, it is announced. Here =
Soviet Communist party secretary Nikita Krushchev. A Yugoslav economic delegation is now in
the Soviet Union negotiating Soviet aid for Yugoslav industry. (Story on page 3) :

CCF returned
with 35 seats

Social Credit’s full-scale invasion of Saskatchewan,
designed as the prelude to a federal sweep of the western
provinces, was pulled up short in provincial voting on Wed-

The CCF government of Premier T. C. Douglas was
returned to office with 35 seats, seven less than it held in
the last legislature but more than the CCF leaders them-

Jenkins
for ward
system

“Labor peeds a voice in city
council,” Sam Jenkins, presi-
dent of Marine Workers and
candidate -in the June 27 civic
byelection to fill the council

veeancy created by the recent
death of Ald. D. E. McTaggart,

told the Pacific Tribune this

week.

Jenkins’ program is one that
labor and progressive organiza-
tions can heartily endorse. Main
planks include:

Administration reform: “I
oppose the four-man board
scheme cooked up by the Non-
Partisans, and support the pro-
posal for a return to the ward
system. Democracy must be ex-
tended, not curtailed. At pre-
sent a citizen wanting to dis-
cuss a problem with an alder-
man has to run all over
Shaughnessy Heights to - find
one.”

Town planning: “For years
the downtown parking problem
has been a civic scandal. The
city should build and operate
rnulti-deck parking facilities.”

Tax reform: “Tax relief to
homeowners has to be tackled
:n a constructive manner. Utili-

Continued on back page
See BYELECTION

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