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FRANK McMAHON

U.S. owns ‘Canadian’ company

Canadian Directors

of Westcoast Transmission
‘F. ‘M. McMAHON, president

L. McMAHON, vice-president

P, BOWSHER, secretary-treasurer

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R. WHITTALL, vice-president

R. HETHERINGTON, vice-president,

American Directors
P. McDONALD, vice-president

H. WRIGHT, director

Alsc Director Of:

Pacific Petroleum Limited

Alberta Distillers

Pacific Petroleum Limited
Canadian-Atlantic Oil Company Limited
Peace River Natural Gas Company Lid.
Charter Oil Company

Alberta Petroleum Operators Limited
Oil Ventures Limited

Canadian-Atlantic Oil Company Limited
Petroleum Operators Limited

Peace River Natural Gas Company Ltd.
Pacific Petroleum Limited
Canadian Colleries (Dunsmuir) Limited
Canadian Atlantic Oil Company Limited
Peace River Natural Gas Company Limited
Eastern Trust Company \

Inland Natural Gas Company

Yankee Princess Oils Limited

Alberta Distillers Limited

Employee of Ford, Bacon & Davis Co.

President of People’s Trust & Savings Co.
Sunray Oil Corporation

American Petroleum Institute

Standard Insurance Company

Continued on back page

HOW U.S, MONOPOLIES
PLAN B.C GAS STEAL

SEE PAGE 9

German arms
pact assailed

Some 50,000 leaflets will be distributed in Vancouver,
Victoria, Nanaimo and other provincial centres by members
of ‘the Labor-Progressive party on January 7, calling for the
defeat of the remilitarization of West Germany.

“No Arms for the Nazis” rally
will be held’ Sunday, January 9,
at 8 p.m. in Pender Auditorium
here, with war veterans Maurice
Rush and Bert Whyte as the
speakers. Z

The leaflet distribution and
the rally are actions in a nation-
wide struggle against ratification
of the London-Paris Agreement
for a new German army — a
struggle that embraces many or-
ganizations and groups.

The Canadian Peace Congress
will send a mass lobby to Ottawa
on January 10 as part of its na-
tional drive against the plan to
rearm Germany. Lobbyists will
press MPs to vote against the
ratification bill.

Keynote of the Peace Congress
campaign is: “Do not allow your
MP to be forced to vote on this
plan until you have forcefully
expressed to him your personal
opinion. Unless you do this you
have not done your duty to your
home or your country.”

The Congress of Canadian Wo-
men has also launched a national
appeal to all Canadian women to
make their voices heard against
the revival of German militarism.

“The time has come,” said
Mrs. M. Ferguson, CCW national
secretary, “for Canadian women
to rise as one and shout ‘War
Shall Be No More.’ We shall do

Continued on back page
See ARMS.

Season's greetings
to all our friende

N keeping with our, usual custom, we shall not publish an

issue next week. Our next issue will appear on January 7.
To all our readers and supporters the editors and staff extend
the greetings of the season with the fervent hope-that our
united endeavors in the coming year will bring us ever closer
to the realization of “Peace on earth, good will toward men.”