Gov’t Canadians say: Let’s get on with the gas pipeline ourselves. gas pipeline only answer to U.S. block | TORONTO Unless the St. Laurent government heeds public demand and takes the all-Can- adian natural gas pipeline project out of U.S. hands and launches it as a publicly-owned venture, there is no likelihood that it will get started this year or even next. But if the government is compelled to take it over construction could easily begin within six months as a wholly Canadian project, financed, built, owned and operated by Canadians. As the situation now stands, ' the U.S.-controlled corporation, Trans-Canada Pipeline Ltd., to which Ottawa handed over ex- clusive rights to build and oper- ate the line from Alberta to Montreal, bases the whole pro- ject on the export of gas to the midwest United States. It has an WSs application before the Federal Power Commission to pump Alberta gas via Emerson,’ manitoba, and Tennessee gas into Canada via Niagara. But Washington reports that there isn’t a snowball’s chance in July of getting a hearing be- fore 1957, if then, let alone by the Canadian government’s May 1 deadline. . Powerful U.S. interests, main- ly coal operators, are at work to HUB HUMOR “I'm worried—all he does is pick - his food" SAVE DOLLARS DURING our Winter Clearance Sale. Suits, reg. to $69.50 now $39.50 — Suits, reg, to $79.50, now only $49.59 ~— Sport Shirts, Dress Shirts, Pa- jamas, and Zipper Jackets, 1% price — Jackets and Slacks, 20 percent off regular prices. SAVE DOLLARS Last Two Days 45 EAST HASTINGS. 4 block the whole deal and sabo- tage the Canadian line. Trade Minister C. D. Howe has given an undertaking that if Trans-Canada is unable to settle the export question by May 1, “the government must reconsider its policies in the light of the cir- cumstances then prevailing.” The project has been in the hopper now for three years but has met one delay after another | ‘from the U.S. owners. j Today, Canadian newspapers | and public opinion, cutting across | all political parties from Conser-} vative to LPP, strongly favor pub- lic ownership. Ontario. Ontario’s , Premier. Frost has joined this demand and the firm ,of account- j ants he hired to advise him re-' ported that public ownership is economically feasible without. dependence upon exports to the U.S. Saskatchewan’s Premier T. C. Douglas also favors public the LEGISLATURE AN and \ POINT of VIEW by ? LABOR-PROGRESSIVE NIGEL MORGAN ownership. But in the Toronto Star of Jan- uary 9, Charles Woodsworth re- ported from Ottawa: “Recents controversy concern- ing the extend of American par- ticipation in the proposed trans- Canada pipeline has done. noth- ing to remove the threat that U.S. oil and gas interests will control the enterprise. If pre- sent plans to build the line are adhered to, that threat amounts tc an absolutely certainty.” Ottawa has forcast legislation at the current session covering the arrangement with Ontario and Trans-Canada to finance and construct the $118 million“ bridge” section across northern Ontario as a government project, turning it over to the U.S. company for rental and eventual ownership. But Ottawa observers are asking what value such legislation now has when it is known definitely that Trans-Canada Ltd., cannot complete its arrangements by May 1 without another extention from Howe. The Financial Post commented on January 14: , “The governments at Ottawa and Toronto will have to decide whether it is still worthwhile asking the House of Commons and the Ontario legislature to ap- prove the financial terms of the deal with Trans-Canada. It would be a waste of time to ask for approval on the basis of the May 1 deadline.” What public opinion across Canada is saying is: “Take the project out of U.S. hands and let’s get on with the job our- selves. How long are we going to let these Texas millionaire kick us around?” ; : “SOONER OR LATER — IT’S CAMBELL’S FOR CARS” SEE “The Pick of the Market” JOHN BESPALKO Campbell Motors Lid. 1234 Kingsway Phone: EXpress 2474 Vancouver 10 1 U.S. screening Canadian jobs MONTREAL A Canadian who wants a job in his own country must swb- mit in advance to questioning by the U.S. Army. The U.S. military has been empowered by the Liberal government Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent to bar Canadians from work: | ing in Canada. This is what in the recent St. Jean, Quebec, federal byelection, learned when he decided to return to his for- mer employment in the Labrador area because he was: unable to get work in Montreal. He visited the Unemployment Insurance Commission offices at 745 St. Antoine in Montreal. On the fifth floor of this fed- eral government building, are the offices of the U.S.. Army Air Force. Canadians who want to work in Labrador are obliged to pass through these offices of a foreign power. Viens was given an application form, “Standard Form 60 — Nov. 1949, U.S. Civil Service Commis- _| sion.” Question No. 16 to which Can- adians must reply on order of the U.S. military, follows: “Are you now or have you ever been ‘a member of the Com- munist Party, USA, or any Com- munist or Fascist organizations?” Question 17 reads: “Are you, or have you ever been, a member of any organiza- tion which (1) advocates the over- throw of our form of government; or (2) advocates or approves acts of force or violence to deny other persons their rights under’ the United - States Constitution; or (3) seeks to alter our form of government by unconstitutional means?” Viens had an interview with a Miss A. Swain, in the employ of the U.S. military, who makes arrangements for transport to Labrador, Miss Swain told him: “We can- not arrange for your movement to Labrador with your political ideas.” | She brought out of her desk a copy of the Quebec newspaper, Le Combat, with a photo of Gas- ton Viens, listed as a candidate of the Labor-Progressive party. Viens’ reply to this was: “I am not going to Labrador as a candidate. I am going there to work.” : Miss Swain countered with: “We will never employ a work- er who has the least bit of a ten- dency towards left ideas.” Viens, of course protested that / Gaston Viens, LPP candidate} — he had already worked foul months in Labrador, : work had been found most sati8- factory, that he had no crimi record. But the decision of thé U.S. Army Air Force was final: this Canadian would not havé the right to work in his owD | country, because his ideas dis: pleased a foreign power, af military officials of this power. Criminal who made | fortune from gas 1 gets Bonn post BERLIN The man who made a forte out of Zyklon, the gas used t0 destroy millions of people in the | Nazis gas chambers, has been ap | pointed to a key post in the neW West German Atomic Commis: | sion. He is Herman Abs—sentenced | in absentia by a Zagreb court #0 | 15 years for war crimes—and dit ector of 40 companies under Hit ler. He is one of the 13 big bust nessmen on the commission. Abs is also director of the | Deutsche Bank, a job he did fot Hitler, too. The Bulletin of the U.S. Office of Military Govern ermany stated in Nov ment in ember 1946: pe “Abs was the guiding spirit of the villainous Deutsche which combined an unusua concentration of economic pow er with active collaboration i? the criminal policies of thé Nazi regime.” : Others who are “back on th? job” include two directors of thé Hoechst Chemical Company which was set up to carry 0? where I.G. Farben left off. (Ths was the huge chemical trust that /Was supposed to have been bro- ken up.) Until the formalities have bee? gone through whereby the re striction on Germans makiné nuclear weapons may be remov' by NATO, the U.S. is to supply atomic and rocket weapons. HE % JOE GERSHMAN Editor, Canadian Jewish W. eekly (Vochenblatt ) SUBJECT: AR “ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST” { UE ee en ce HOE ec, Te Gok GEL Ae —— Wednesday, February 8 - Spm, RECEPTION HALL, PHOTO CENTRE : 2870 WEST BROADWAY | = Arranged by: Vancouver Vochenblatt Committee SILVER COLLECTION | ! POLLO LL ULL UML UALR ME EE ee ECT TT FEBRUARY 3, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — that his” . 7