ny committee set up by monopoly-controlled govern- ment to “‘study’’ government-management-labor relations in our free-enterprise scheme of things, suffers from one fundamental defect right from scratch; it’s biased and distorted illusion that wages and prices (read profits) operate on an equal footing, while government, sitting above both, dispenses regulations (read laws) with equal regard and concern for both. Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau has christened the ultimate in this process as the *‘Just Society’. The purpose of such a parliamentary committee now in operation is to evolve ‘‘guidelines’’ by which a ‘ceiling’ on wages and prices may be determined, all under the specious pretext of putting a kibosh on ‘“‘inflation’’; that is a ‘freeze’ on wage levels for working people, versus an ‘appeal’ to big business to be a shade less greedy in its insatiable hunger for profits. In this way, could it be ‘voluntarily’ realized and accepted by both management and labor, without resort to imposed “restraints” etc, a ‘‘new era’’ in labor-management relations would be ushered in; no more demands for “unreasonable” wage increases, no more strikes or lockouts, no more unions (in the accepted meaning of the word), no more class struggle. The perfect corporate state — with the real causes of inflation left intact and unsolved— the murderous U.S. war on Vietnam, the war pacts of NATO, SEATO, NORAD, the unchallenged rule of monopoly over all, and the lord knows how many more, each with their huge war drains — swallowing billions of unproductive dollars annually. Such a committee therefore must produce a “‘factual™ base, a plausable explanation whereby Trudeau can construct his ‘‘austerity”’ cure to curb inflation with. Strangely enough— or perhaps not so strange, the ‘guidelines’ towards combatting inflation, either applied voluntarily or by government compulsion, are already being touted far and wide, without even bothering to supply any data from this committee’s alleged ‘‘studies”’ for the need of such guidelines, thereby exposing the whole bag of Trudeauean tricks — to saddle the Canadian people with the whole burden of a government-created inflation and crisis. As for management, it comes into this utopian search for equality, partnership of a ‘‘new relationship”’ with labor in an entirely different set of circumstances. Out of the vast profits it extracts from labor, it buys up or otherwise absorbs through the media of the governments it promotes and finances, all the natural resources, all the *‘means and machines”’ of modern production and distribution. ..Therefore, to assume that this monolithic octopus will “voluntarily” or otherwise forego its voracious hunger for greater and greater profit rakeoffs. is to revert to childhood beliefs, such as the moon is ‘‘made of green cheese’’, and which we now know from Man having made a sure-footed landing there, that the ‘‘cheese’’ theorum is out — just as the monstrous illusion that modern monopoly, which has, does, and is even now murdering millions of human beings for profit — will now ‘‘voluntarily’’ or otherwise, surrender that vested right, sanctioned by divine and man-made decree. Even the saints must laugh at that pipe dream. ..With a government parading its bastardized concept of a “Just Society’’ and utilising the phoney pretext of ‘‘inflation” as a reason why “it cannot get on with the job,’ such a government also manages to obscure the fact that it itself is the most consistent advocate and creator of it's socalled inflation. It spends the people’s substance in billions of dollars for war. Through the setting up of new bureaucracies of welfare, etc. it robs the widows and orphans, starves the old age pensioner, drives the farm producer from his land and home, boosts its own wages by 50-percent periodically, sans mediation, collective bargaining, or “‘arbitration”’, pockets its “thirty pieces of silver’’ in every big giveaway of the nations resources to foreign and home-grown monopoly, then sets up a committee to study ‘‘wages, prices, costs, etc., ete. ad infinitum — then recommends “‘prices and wage restraints’, with all the real emphasis on the latter, plus a sea or oratorial froth and window dressing on the former. In short, it wants to see the lion and the lamb of modern industry and society “‘lie down together’ — preferably with the _ lamb already devoured. . And perhaps most desired of all; to see the John Doe of Canadian labor picked clean to the bone to level off the criminal war-promoted inflation, for which the Trudeau government and its Liberal and Tory predecessors alone are responsible. Thus a new set of ‘‘labor-management-government relations— in which the latter at the behest of monopoly, seeks to destroy all elementary freedoms, and turn Canada into the “corporate state” of the Hitler era, more politely referred to today as the “‘Just Society.”’ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 7, 1969—PAGE U.S.-B.C. gas pipeline | poses threat to province By MAURICE RUSH A huge natural gas pipeline running from Prudhoe Bay in Alaska south through B.C. to the U.S. border at Kingsgate, which will carry vast quantities of B.C. gas to the U.S. and mark a big step towards the integration of B.C.’s economy with the U.S., is now in the advance stages of planning. The new pipeline, which will cost $1.2 billion to build, is part of he far-reaching gas deals reported in the PT recently which, if approved later this month by the National Energy Board in Ottawa, will see over six trillion cubic feet of B.C. gas go to the U.S. in the next 20 years. The announcement that the new pipeline will be built came from the Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. and the Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, which are jointly forming a new company to be known as Mountain Pacific Pipeline Ltd. The accompanying map shows the route of the pipeline and the two phases in which it will be built. The first would run 995 miles from Kingsgate on the B.C. -Idaho boundary to the Fort Liard area in Canada’s A good deal by City Hall By ALD. HARRY RANKIN One of the better deals City Council has managed to come up with this past year has been the purchase of the Associated Foundry property at 4080 Nanaimo Street. This foundry has been a source of irritation to residents of the area for many years because of its pollution of the air with smoke and fumes, not to mention — flying metal. Last year a special committee of Council, of which I was a member, recommended the City buy the property. Council turned it down. This year the Special Committee of Council re Associated Foundry, of which I was chairman, again recommended acquisition of the property. This time Council bowed to public pressure and agreed. The purchase price of the foundry property was $149,000. The land involved, which is actually worth only about $75,000, will be converted to residential use. While the initial loss will be about $75,000, this will be made up when the City amalgamates the foundry property with other pieces of city-owned property immediately adjacent which couldn't be used as long as the foundry was there. The foundry will likely be able to vacate by the end of 1970 and the property should be available for residential use soon after. The eradication of such industries, hang-overs from the past, in residential areas, is necessary to good city planning and development. It removes obnoxious and _ unsightly establishments and opens up new lands for residential use. See. Prudhoe Bay : ot oR a9, Sie “ALASKA ¢ te eee gee %Mackenzig Deite. \ PHASE 2, * aes Mountain Pacific ; Pipeline Project s Faue ‘1,085 Miles ) Seer et aes . vie 6, ‘ Se MS Ft Liard MA" eee, ates tie jar Qe Se o. Ss | Eat i Chg be ee fh ‘\eoe Le pS ote re ee eerues vient HASE 1, ee : Mountain Pacific 9 -~ Pipeline Project Sg. Oe. 385 Miles gee i ; : Fdmonton | Northwest Territories. This major part of the line will cost about $400 million and will carry 800 million cubic feet of gas a day from B.C. sources, and is scheduled to be completed by Nov. 1, 1973. The second phase will carry the pipeline from Fort Liard to Prudhoe Bay which will carry the pipeline from Fort Liard to Prudhoe Bay which will bring the capacity of the pipeline to nearly 1.7 billion cubic feet a day. Builders of the pipeline have said that additional compressor facilities will be added which will bring the capacity of the pipeline to 2.5 billion cubic feet daily. This, they say, will be completed by 1978. : not only draw on B.C.’s natural gas reserves for export to the U.S. but will also tap large gas reserves recently discovered in the Fort Liard region in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The gas will flow through Ye U'S. to the California market am western and Mid-continenl@ U.S: 3 For Canadians there are ! major issues involved. Firs there is the massive givea"®) ~ of a vital B.C. resource ! te U.S. which could serve 4§ i basis for large scale indus development in B.C. The seam is the economic and poe implications of a major es south pipeline which integ™ B.C.’s economy with the 4» a vast scale. ae Big business interests in ad U.S. have for years endeav? to pressure Canada into agree : that Canada’s resources o 2 i water, hydro power, etc., SM",, be seen as ‘‘continent resources and developed ae north-south basis. In ant words, continental develop ig is seen as a means of yee B.C. into a major raw male hinterland with its reso being hauled off to the Usa it used to serve the needs of U-»: dustry. The. building of the oe pipeline would open the way similar continental vital arrangements for other wil -~ resources. The first one fot comes to mind is waliag sind which the U.S, has been PICT, a long time through its NAW diversion plan.The Alaska ty U.S. pipeline would Be a strengthen the hands of forces in the U.S. wy 16 | pressing for diversion of well | fresh water resources, ©" ay as those B.C. industrialists 1, politicians who see great pr hae from serving U.S. monopolié the The upcoming hearing “4 ip National Energy Boar te 4 Ottawa opening Nov. 29, ing ; natural gas pipeline deals "49 es major importance i future of B.C: and Canada. HELP! THE CHILDREN OF VIETNAM SEND YOUR DONATION TO. CANADIAN AID VIETNAM CIVILIANS, BOX 2543, VANCOUVER 3, B.C.