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WASHINGTON — “The big
oil companies have Mr. Nixon
in a double hammer-lock. After
their massive contributions there
is little he can do to control
them,” reports Tim Wheeler,
Washington correspondent of
the Daily World: on January 3.

___ Commenting on a study by a
U.S. congressmen, Wheeler’s
report said:

The Senate Watergate Com-
mittee was handed a report to-

- day disclosing that Big Oil head-
ed by the Rockefeller brothers
and Richard Scaife of the Gulf-
Mellon fortune secretly pumped
nearly $5-million into President

: Nixon’s re-election coffers.

= The 58-page study prepared

by Rep. Aspin (D-Wis.) threw
light on why Nixon is giving the
green light for Exxon, Gulf,
Texaco and Atlantic-Richfield to
fleece the public with gasoline
and home heating oil prices sky-
rocketing through the roof.
Nixon today signed legisla-
tion setting a 55-miles-per-hour
speed limit. More significantly,
however, he gave his approval
this month for increases in gas
and fuel oil prices which govern-
ment sources indicated would
raise prices 10 cents per gallon
by March 1. An immediate one-
and-a-half-cent per gallon price
boost was approved. :
et Rumor: $1 x Galion
‘The average price of gasoline
in December was 43.3 cents per
gallon, meaning that consumers
by March can expect to spend-
ing 53 cents or more per gallon
eee for gasoline. Furthermore, Char-
i les Owens, spokesman for the
a - Federal Energy Office, refused
to predict any leveling off yafter
~ March 1,
ne Here in the capital the talk is
of gasoline rising to $1 per gal-
lon, with similarly_ disastrous
mei in the price of heating
me 0} = ™
‘eu Aspin’s report revealed that
oe 413 oil company directors, se-
nior officials and stockholders
in 178 different oil companies
contributed a total of $4,981,840
to President Nixon’s re-election.

Heading the list was a $1,003,-
000 contribution by Richard
Scaife, heir to the Gulf-Mellon
fortune. The five Rockefeller
brothers who own’ one percent
of Exxon, the most powerful oil
corporation in the U.S.; contri-

’ buted: $286,700 and -executives
of 10 petrochemical firms ‘gave
the President $505,000. Officials
from the 10 most generous con-
tributors kicked in a total of
$2,668,424, of which 70 percent
was in secret, illegal, corporate

contributions.
Oil Magnates Kicked
in $5,700,000

“The total contributions by
individuals directly interested in

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Oil firms fill re-election coffers

the oil industry comes to at
least $5,700,000,” Aspin said.

“The big oil companies have
Mr. Nixon in a double hammer-
lock. After their massive contri-
butions there is little he can do
to control them.”

He charged, “The entire bur-
den of solving the energy short-
age has been thrown on the con-
sumer—not the oil companies.”
He accused -the oil trusts of
“reaping huge windfall profits
and also undermining the envir-
onmental movement.”

The huge profits of the oil
monopolies havé become .a
major issue with motorists on

long lines paying through the

nose for a limited amount of
gasoline — and awaiting further
rises.

The nation’s top 20 oil com-
panies reaped greater profits in
1973 than in 1972. A sampling
of the profits bonanza for the
first nine months of 1973 and
the rate of increase over 1972
gives the picture:

Exxon $1.6 billion 59%
Texaco $838 million 35%
Mobil $571 million 38%
Gulf $570 million 60%
Standard

Calif. $560 million 40%
Standard,

Ind. $389 million 32%
Shell $253 million 41%
ARCO $178 million 37%
Phillips $143 million -30%

Aspin: said he is turning over
the study to the Senate Water-
gate Committee with a request
that it investigate “possible addi-
tional secret and maybe even
corporate gifts.”

Other oil contributors includ-
ed Amerada Hess Corp., with a
contribution of $261,956,
which $211,000 was secret; Get-
ty Oil Company, $179,292 —

of —

$77,500 of it secret; Standard
Oil of California, $166,000 —
$102,000 of it secret; Sun Oil
Company, $157,798 — $60,000
of it secret; Phillips Petroleum
Company, $137,000 — $100,000
of it secret; Exxon, $172,747 —
$100,672 secret, and others.
“Aspin used two lists of contri-
butors in compiling his expose.
One, published by the General
Accounting Office of the Federal

-government, lists contributions

made after April 7, 1972, when
a new campaign contributions
law took effect. The other was
disclosed as a result of a suit
filed by Common. Cause against
the Finance Committee to Re-
Elect the President.

Aspin gleaned from these lists
the names of the boards of dir-
ectors which he found listed: in
a report of the American Petro-
leum Institute.

Impact on Impeachment Seen

The big oil disclosures, coup-
led with the energy crisis, is ex-
pected to trigger new demands
for action on President Nixon’s
impeachment by the House Ju-
diciary Committee. The im-
peachment inquiry authorized
by Congress has yet to even
schedule hearings on Nixon’s
impeachment.

The Senate Watergate Com-
mittee, however, has scheduled
a new round of hearings later
this month, focusing on millions
of dollars in secret payoffs to
Nixon by the milk monopolists
and by Howard Hughes, much
of it funneled through Nixon’s
close friend, Bebe Rebozo.

Special interest in the Hughes
donations has been sparked by
reports that Teamster union
president Frank Fitzsimmons
and the union were tied in with
the huge contributions.

CPC demands release of Corvalan

The following telegram was sent Dec. 21, 1973, to the
military government in Santiago: :

“On behalf of thousands of Canadian workers and demo-
crats, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
Canada demands the immediate release from prison of
Luis Corvalan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of
Chile and Senator. We are shocked to learn that Luis
Corvalan has been transported to the notorious Dawson
Island concentration camp and that further arrests, tortures
and executions are being committed in Chile.

“At the same time we demand the release of all arrested
supporters of the constitutionally elected Popular Unity
Government and the restoration of democracy in Chile.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1974—PAGE 6

: ernment and warned reaction against collaboration with the U

USSR not liable Ee

former Soviet Jews |

MOSCOW—The Soviet press
reacted last month to a cam-
paign being waged in the West
attempting to place the respon-
sibility for the tragic position of
several hundred former Soviet
Jews presently strandet in such
cities as Vienna, Rome, Brussels
and Istanbul. These people fell
for the bait of Zionist’ propa-
ganda and left the USSR for
Israel. Most are skilled — doc-
tors, engineers and other profes-
sionals — who. lived in Israel
from a week to six months
before becoming disillusioned
and leaving. :

Referring to the more than
300 of these homeless, jobless
people now in Austria, several
newspapers there have demand-
ed the USSR issue visas and
permit them to return home.
They are called “stateless per-
sons” and ‘people without a
motherland” by the press which
uses their difficulties to engage
in a range of anti-Soviet attacks.

The Soviet journal “Evening

hatreds are punishable by Sovie
law.” a

The paper goes on to explé
that every person who deci
to emigrate to Israel, and con
quently lost their Soviet citiz
ship, had been warned
they could find themselves
grave situation in that country
that the reality of life in Israé
had nothing in common with tht
glowing reports circulated DB
the Zionist campaign. “It 3
therefore, natural that the Sov

iet people feel indignant at at
tempts to incriminate the USSR
for refusing*to restore citizef
ship to people who clearly
not cherish their homeland,”
paper says. “In reality, the
tire responsibility for the gri
ous situation rests with
Israeli government. It is
Aviv, through false propagan
which persistently persua'
Jewish families, including thi
in the USSR, to leave for Is
— knowing full well that th
country. cannot ensure no:

Moscow,” in reply, asks the living conditions for emigra
question: “Who is to blame for “The responsibility must
this growing tragedy?” and be shared by Zionist organ

tions and those who suppoti)
them for the misleading propa”
ganda about what awaits emlg
rants to Israel.” . 4
Evening Moscow concludé
by reminding the Austrian pr
that the USSR forced no one
leave their country and has
intention to receive back th
who did not wish to live in
Soviet Union.

places the responsibility square-
ly on those who drove these
people into such a venture.

“In the Soviet Union there is
no unemployment which, in
capitalist countries, drives hun-
dreds of thousands of people,
like rolling stones, to emigration -
in search of work. Anti-Semit-
ism, as any racial intolerance,
and the stirring up of national

Peru takes over giant ©
U.S. mining monopoly ©

LIMA — Peru’s armed’ forces
revolutionary government head-
ed by President Velasco exprop-
riated the -giant U.S.-owned
Cerro de Pasco mining corpora-
tion on Jan. 1, .

The government pointed out
that during the 55 years of its
operations in Peru, the company
had “failed to comply with its
legal obligations in respect of
hygiene, housing and insurance
for its workers, much to their
detriment.” '

It went on: “It has been estab-
lished that Cerro’s negligence in
this respect has caused the pol-
lution of neighbouring rivers,
causing serious damage to agri-
culture and to animal life. The
company itself has admitted the
seriouness of the surrounding
pollution, but has shown no
desire to bring it to an end.”

The Cerro de Pasco Corpora-
tion has operated in Peru under
different names for about 71
years.

The company claims that its
assets are worth about £58 mil-

lion, and last year produce
copper, lead, zinc, bismuth, g'
and silver and other me
worth about £90 million,
counting for 35% of Pe
mineral production.

Cerro has operated six ma
mines in central Peru. The
propriation of the company
marked by a mass meeting
miners at.La Oroya in the Andé
mountains, west of Peru’s ca
tal of Lima, where Cerro h
its main processing. plants.

In a nationwide broadcast
President Velasco denounce?
Cerro as “the most faithful sy
bol of the imperialist presenct
in Peru,” and said its takeo
was an occasion for rejoicing: |

He said the expropriation 0
Cerro would also mean “the
expropriation of its econo
domination and political po

In New York, the U.S. parem
company said it was confid
that the Peruvian governm
would live up its legal obli
tion and pay for Cerry’s pro
ties it has nationalized,

Marchers in a recent demonstration in Lima, Peru, declare th i ;
support for the anti-imperialist policy of the Velasco Alvarado ge