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Hart-burn in dove cotes

$ election time draws closer, considerable fluttering

is noticeable in the liberal dovecotes. First and fore-
most is the provincial problem, expressed in the Anscomb-
Hart Coalition. This ‘shot-gun wedding’, ‘bar-room bar-
gain’, ‘marriage of convenience’, or whatever opprobrium
the young Liberals may apply to it in expressing their
political frustration, is giving the Liberal stalwarts a lot
of headaches,

The Vancouver Young Liberals Association, recently
axpelled by the Vancouver Center Liberal Association for
their critical attitude towards the Coalition, declared their
intention of ‘going it alone’. In this they have the backing
of James Sinclair, MP (North Vancouver), who promises
the young Liberals “support from the federal party”. That
we interpret to mean that cautious Willie King, now on
the last lap of his premiership marathon, has flown a kite
to see how the land lies with those sturdy B.C. Liberals
who have been seduced by the tories in the Coalition
boudoir.

King cannily laid aside his proposed ‘labor code’ when
he saw Bill 39 being reduced to a skeleton of its former self
by the united opposition of organized labor. The young
Liberals also saw the labor support for liberal policies tak-
ing wing as a result of the Coalition’s difficulties with Bill
39. Now the bones of that monstrosity haunt the Coalition
chambers, with the Liberal Bridgets on the horns of a di-
lemma—whether to stick to their ‘illicit love’ with the tories,
or listen to the voice of ‘vigorous youthful liberalism’. Purg-
ing the young liberals has only added to the difficulties
of ‘party unity’.

And in the federal fold the burning question remains—

inherit King’s mantle of leadership, and with it
i ing Canada for

-speakin |
: the North Vancou-
Aside from these

provincial and

safeguarding the

Canada, and with a labor m
interests of labor and the nation will not be subordinated
to old-line party politics and fortunes.

All the traffic will ae

A RECENT CPR edict, made public by Vancouver whole-
LA salers and vigorously protested by Yukon Territory
merchants. that “the CPR will not accept Whitehorse
freight via the Haines Cutoff,” presents a new angle in the
rail magnates’ determination to gouge additional millions
- from the Canadian people in exhorbitant freight charges.

Widespread public protest, expressed in scores of bulky
factual memoranda and briefs
of Transport Commissioners, left little doubt in the minds
of that august body of what the people at least thought

about the proposed 30 percent boost in freight rates.

In the Yukon Territory the people are not so well
‘equipped to withstand the recurrent attacks of powerful
monopolies. The White Pass and Yukon Railway and the
British Yukon Navigation Company—one and the same
outfit, in which the CPR is a dominating factor, controls
every avenue of transport in the Yukon Territory. The

_ WPYR runs the 100-mile railway from Skagway to White-

horse, while BYN ships ply the Yukon River and tributory

waterways. 4
The ‘Haines Cutoff’, built during the war, between

Alaska, and the Alaska Highway to relieve the

_ Skagway-Whitehorse bottleneck, could and should be an
extremely valuable artery between Yukon points and tide-
water. The freight charge by the WPYR between Skagway
and Whitehorse on fruit and vegetables is $82 per ton,
with a similar ratio on everything shipped into the Terri-
tory. The freight charge by private truckers on the Haines
Cutoff to Whitehorse is $26 per ton, a difference of $56
per ton! What that means to the people of Whitehorse and
_ other Yukon points in living costs can be readily appreci-
_ But the CPR has spoken for its monopolistic satellites,
and says it “will not accept freight via Haines Cutoff.” The
‘Haines Road cost the Canadian taxpayers $10,000,000. The
$64 question is, how long will Ottawa continue its policy
of | monopcly interests to strangle the economy
_ and people of Canad>’s northland? a
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1947

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presented before the Board —

Bradt

“It’s sheer communism to give India or that kind of people inde-
pendence—what about our freedom and free enterprise?”

UNETTRTT Mn en Cu a ea

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we see it |
: By Tom McEwen

AST week the Canadian
ress carried a blurb that
Sam Carr, former national
organizer of the Labor-Pro-
gressive Party “is hiding in the
outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico.
The source of this ‘scoop’ is an

article in a recent issue of the —

‘Canadian Police Gazette’ a ma-
gazine devoted to pistol-packing
mamas, dumb detectives and ho-
micide, by one Harry Thornton,
late of the Vancouver News-Her-
ald.

According to Thornton's story,
he ‘met’ Carr in a waiting room
where the latter came ‘regularly’
to read English papers. There
are three points in the Thornton
story which establishes _ this
scribe either as a plain damn
liar, or one who has imbibed
too much of that potent Mexican

drink called ‘Pulki.’ Readers can

make their own choice.

First, a man five foot nine and
one-half inches can hardly be de-
scribed as “a little stocky chap.”
Second,
and only Victory Bond left) that
Carr is definitely not trying “to
sell shares of Noranda mining

stock to former American police

officers” or anyone else. And
thirdly, if, as Thornton alleges,
he knows Carr from Toronto, he
would scarcely require an ROMP
handbill describing Carr as “Rus-
sian-born and an alleged agent
for a Russian system of spies in
Canada.” Yes, I would definitely

say that Thornton is either a.

liar or an alcoholic, although I
would be ready to admit that his
report to the RCMP on having
‘spotted’ Carr, would be accept-
able in either capacity.

» One point in the Canadian

Press garbage on Carr is unques-

tionably true—which didn’t come
from the pen of -Thornton, and
carries an Ottawa dateline, viz.,
that the King “government is
content to let the Russian epi-
sode die out and not revive it

‘the

(and we'll bet our one

~

by the publicity the extradiction —

and trial of Carr would entail.”
It was quite natural that the
force that always ‘gets its man’
should publicly state through
Commissioner Wood that they
knew it all the time’ That is
unimportant. The important
point is that the King govern-
ment with its Taschereau-Kel-
loch-RCMP presentation of the
espionage case stands condemn-
ed before the bar of public
opinion.

So spokesmen
govern-
ment’ sweetly
announce to
the press that
the “esovern-
ment is con-(
tent to let the
Russian epi-f.
sode die out.”

One more,
angle: it is just
possible the
Thornton story
was especially
cooked to en-
able the powers that be to write
‘finis’ to a contemptible episode
which has backfired upon its per-
petrators. and reduced Canada to

‘close to

‘om Mcmawen

the unenviable position of a pro--

vocative satellite of an Anglo-

American bloc of anti-Sovieteers.
@

HIS is a tale of two good tory

. stockbrokers—one an ex-tory

MP, the other an off-scouring of

the old Tsarist ‘nobility’ The

first has to do with 74-year-old
-James McAusland, former
servative MP for a Toronto rid-.

Con-

ing who was recently sentenced
to four months in the cooler for
stealing an employees’ overcoat.
This is McCausland’s third jail
term over a period of years for
petty thefts, not to mention the
two» occasions when the, court
took ‘a lenient view’ .and gave
him suspended sentence.

The incident would hardly be
worth mentioning were it not for

7 AN

the fact that this one-time presi:

dent of the

Toronto Standard
Stock Exchange was one of thé
noisiest of the Toronto gang i?

whooping is up against the Red®

and the unions.

Ex-Russian Prince Constantin€ —
Michael Nakashidze Zeo-Oubnel —

ly, alias C. M. Nash, Toronto

stockbroker and ‘descendent of
Abyssinian and Georgian kin
who recently pilfered some $25,-

000 from Plastic Enterprises Ltd.

is out on bail.

At the wedding reception of -

this princely stockbrokers
daughter the police barged un
and insisted on ‘seeing paP®

Papa was “seriously ill’ but the

unesthetic cops haled him off ©
the cooler where he spent the
night ‘comfortably.’ The ‘Mon-
treal Standard’ painted a thrill
ing picture of the ‘prince to P@¥°
per’ vintage, calculated to en-
hance the idea that ex-Russia®
princes and all such rift-raft
make fine Canadian citizens. —
an ex-prince, who has work
himself up from a farm labore!
to railway mechanic and fi
stockbroker in his ‘adopted Jand,
the mere matter of purloining
some $25,000 or so, should not
regarded too seriously.

In Georgia, birthplace of J
eph Stalin, Prince Constant —
Michael Nakashidze Zeo-Oubnel
ly had an estate of over 600,000
acres, together with smaller
tates in Yalta, Batum and Le?”
ingrad. “When the Bolshevit®
came” laments f
stockbroker
hoosegow,
thing.” : :

The firm of C. M, Nash and

os

“they

-

of which our princely. s proke

er is head has been under inver
tigation by the Federal securities
Commission for some weeKS
the arrest of Prince *
Nakashidze etc., etc. was
result. A splendid type of #
grant as Colonel George’
would say. :
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