Co IR Deccavsnssevanittlfl , ea rill NTT BUINIE i few Mins FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1954. LPP wires Bennett: “Peace River gas must be used primarily for B.C. industrial de- velopment and cheap fuel for tomes,” said the Labor-Progres- sive party this week, in a wire to Premier W. A. C. Bennett de- manding that he halt signing of any pending - agreement with U.S. gas companies until a full review of policy can be made by the legislature. First announced as “a deal for distribution of Peace River gas to the west coast, including Van- couver,” it was later disclosed that four-fifths of the natural gas would go to northwest states and California. : The LPP wire charged that such a deal “would sentence B.C. to economic serfdom to the United States” and said that only after this province’s needs had heen met should we export our surplus. No gas deal uniil House can review The LPP is currently cam- paigning by petition for a pub- licly owned pipeline to service B.C.’s industrial and domestic needs first — the pipeline to be tied in with an all-Canadian sys- tem to guarantee that the rich natural gas reserves will serve Canada’s power and fuel require- ments. “Only when present and future needs of Canada and British Col- umbia are fully satisfied should one cubic foot of our natural gas be exported,” said Alf Dewhurst, LPP provincial organizer. The deal would involve West- coast Transmission Company, Pa- cific Northwest Pipeline Corpo- ration, Pacific Gas and Electric Company and El Paso Natural Gas. The four firms have been negotiating the deal for some time. Make 1955 year of peace is council’s call By PHILLIS ROSNER STOCKHOLM At the World Peace Council meeting, which opened here last week, a+new Stockholm appeal was made. (It.was from Stock- holm, nearly five years ago that the historic appeal to ban the atom bomb was launched.) Italian Senator Professor Don- inin proposed to the council: “Make 1955 the year of peaceful negotiations.” Let there be a_ conference early next years of people of all lands, all points of view, said Donini. He was introducing the first item on the council’s agenda: “Collaboration between European countries and a system of Euro: pean security.” “Our movement has won enor- mous prestige,” he continued, “but now we have greater re- sponsibilities in view of the dangers to European and world peace through the London and Paris agreements.” : The possibility of success was great, and the Soviet note of No- vember 13 proposing a European conference on a collective secur- ity pact had increased those pos- sibilities. : “Negotiations must begin im- mediately’for a solution of these problems,” he said. Listening to this new call were representatives of many lands, old and voung workers and intel- lectuals, representatives of col- onial and free peoples. “With the fate of Europe is bound up not only the most ser- ious threat of war, but also the most serious chance of peace,” Nya Ehrenburg, famous Soviet writer, told the .council. “And peace in Europe would mean quiet sleep for the inhabi- tants of New York, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Melbourne. “Neither military blocs nor an armed Germany can safeguard the future for the cornfields and the children of Europe.” He called for acceptance of the Soviet proposals. “To wait longer is impossible.” The time had come to call on European states to collaborate, regardless of the principles that guide their internal policy. The U.S. must be a participant, he added, because twice “it has happened that she has been dragged into a war begun in Europe and because the Ameri- can people is closely linked to many of the peoples of Western Surope.” Gilbert de Chambrun, French deputy, also called for “an as- sembly of peace forces of all countries.” Among those elected to the presidium were Ilya Ehrenburg, J. Matsumono, vice-president of the Japanese Diet, and John Burns, president of the British Fire Brigades’ Union. 8 Comince’s application for a license to export power from the Waneta plant on the P to build a chemical and fertilizer plant at Columbia City on the Oregon coast and close dow: federal government. A shutdown at Calg Morgan campaigns against Kaiser deal TRAIL, B.C. Realization that export of water power to the United States also means export of jobs has become more widespread in this district, as the result of a campaign against the Kaiser dam deal launched by the Labor- Progressive party and headed by LPP pro- vincial leader Nigel Morgan. Casual acceptance of the Ben- nett government’s give-away plan and Lands and Forests Minister Kobert Sommers’ statement that “B.C. can’t lose on the deal” has been replaced by a demand for all the facts before the Kaiser dam proposal is finalized. Three broadcasts by Morgan over the Trail radio, and two more over the Nelson station, plus LPP advertisements in the Trail Times and the Nelson Daily News and distribution of 2,000 ‘leaflets to workers in both cities, have directed public at- tention to the Social Credit gov- ernment’s betrayal of the peo- ple’s interests. Farmers attending the fall meeting of the West Kootenay- Boundary Central Farmers’ In- stitute in Nelson last week dis- cussed a resolution dealing with the proposed Kaiser storage dam on the Columbia River. Members of the Rossland Cham- ber of Commerce decided to write directly to the Kaiser Aluminum Company, asking for information on the proposed dam. Unemployed carpenters in Trail, Castlegar and Nelson, who had previously favored the Kaiser dam because it would provide a humber of temporary jobs, now understand that it would also mean the loss of many perman- ent jobs,“ which would _ inevit- ably be created if Canadians har- nessed the Columbia for Cana- dians. “Let's keep the power, and industry will come to us,” they say. The LPP slogan, “Stop the Ex- port of Jobs; Bring Industry to the Kootenays,” has become pop- ular with wide sections of peo- ple in this district. fact that export of power means export of jobs. a ary would throw more than 300 Canadians out of wo “In recognizing how important power is to industry, one must also recognize that industry will come to where an abundance of cheap power exists,” says a front- page article by W. C. Muir in the influential Mine-Mill Com- mentator, a union paper with a circulation of 5,000, published by Mine-Mill Local 480. “The proposed Kaiser dam at Castlegar will only create jobs of a temporary nature on our side of the line,” the article con- tinues. “It will help create jobs in industry of a permanent na- ture on the U.S. side. YIn rent- ing the site we would in effect be exporting jobs for a very small return as compared to proper development of. the Col- umbia. “The untapped power potential cf the upper Columbia means thousands of~jobs of a perman- ent nature for Canadians, while the proposed Kaiser dam, from a long range point of view can only benefit the Americans. .. . “So let the B.C. Power Com- mission build the largest and best dams that can be built on the upper Columbia. Make the power available and power-hun- gry industrialists will move in to take advantage of it. Let’s not sell our river interests down the iver.” An illustration of how export of power to the U.S. also means export of jobs was given by Nigel Morgan in a radio address over Trail station CJAT last Fri- day. Cominco planned to export | Power from its Waneta dam on the Pond d’Oreille to the US., thus enabling the building of a fertilizer plant in Oregon. Oper- ation of this plant, Cominco offi- cials admitted, would enable the PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 26, 1954 — PAGE 12 company to shut down, its Calgary plant. Closure of the Calgary plant would throw 300 Canadians out of work. The unemployment situation is grim in Nelson and Castlegar, and bad in Trail. For a solid week the “Help Wanted” column in the Trail Times offered noth- ing but one “Santa Claus part time job” and an appeal to join ,the Canadian Army. “In the Kootenays there is dis- tress,” reports the current issue of Union News, Mine-Mill district organ. “Layoffs are continuing in the smelter. Mines are shut down. ‘Tt is in this district that the government proposes to set up a dam for the Kaiser aluminum interests, giving the Americans 80 percent of the power develop- 1s Bae ee : “Tf Kaiser doesn’t get the power (from a storage dam on the Lower Arrow Lakes) the aluminum in- dustry has to go’ where -there is power. “In the Kootenays there is an ideal location for an aluminum industry. We have the power, we have the men, and we will eppose the government’s plan to export not our water, but our jobs, and the future of the whole of the Kootenays. “This issue is a big one because the progress of this province is wrapped up in a policy. “In northern B.C. our great re- sources are being alienated. Cas- siar asbestos, a whole mountain, is being dug up and exported. It provides jobs in Pennsylvania, and yet everyone knows that this rich asbestos development could provide plenty of jobs in B.C. “We have the power and the resources, but what we definite ly need is a government with 4 program for the development of jobs in B.C.” end d’Oreille river to Oregon, as part of a play n its Calgary plant, has been refused by the rk. Cominco’s scheme illustrates vividly the