UVa eee Vol.16 No. 10

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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1957 VANCOUVER, B.C.

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Jiddie East countries from o peression” by “international ‘mmunism,” Senator Joseph i O'Mahoney (Dem., Wyom- hg), chairman of the Senate tat Trust and Monopoly Sub- “Mmittee, charged that “the “eantic oil companies, exer- Sing the power of political Mi; economic states in the widdle East, have had a hand framing our foreign policy.” O'Mahoney presented docu-

'S charges.

poenator Esteves Kefauver

€m., Tennessee), also a mem- €r of the Anti-Trust and Mon- | oly Sub-committee, declared:

_ “It is becoming apparent to * larger and larger extent that he policy of this administra- tion in dealing with the Middle aut problem, has a relation- 5 P to the wants and desires

the large international’ oil ‘Mpanies which are operat- i in the Middle East, which “day own 57 percent or have ti Percent of the oil produc- °n of the Middle East.”

tj In ‘the House, Representa- lg Robert L. Sikes blasted ie 25-cents-a-barrel price ike for crude oil which the °l industry put over early in anuary in the wake of the Uez crisis. This was immedi- ately followed by price in- “reases in Canada where the oil industry is owned largely Y the big U.S. corporations.

t Sikes charged it would cost ine U.S. $2 billion a year, Though other estimates ~ were SOmewhat lower.

O'Mahoney presented a sen- Sational document from oil “oOmpany files showing how €cretary of State Dulles Worked with representatives of Standard Oil of New Jer- _ Sey, the world’s largest oil trust, Standard Oil of Califor-

1a, Texas Company and other oil corporations in formulat-

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Congress gets proof of! trusts shaping US. foreign policy

WASHINGTON

Proof that the mammoth oil trusts are shaping U.S. loreign policy and have engineered a new billion-dollar Profiteering at the expense of the public was presented_in the U.S. Senate and House last’ week. Attacking the Eisenhower Doctrine, which: is supposed to defend the

ing policy in the Suez crisis. These are also the compan- ies which own the major part of the industry in Canada. O’Mahoney also read docu- ments which showed that 15

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SENATOR KEFAUVER He charged that the interests of the oil trusts

JOHN FOSTER DULLES . . were the guiding force in U.S. foreign policy.

RATEPATE

REVOLI GAINST GH TAXES

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Vancouver homeowners expressed alarm this week over the possibility of an-

other increase in taxes.

A delegation from Central Council of Ratepayers, embracing almost every ratepayers group in the city, appeared before city council, urged a lower mill rate in view of higher assessments and proposed that taxes be increased on improvements, with graduated exemptions for homes and small commercial properties.

SEE STORY ON PAGE 5

ls CPR property in Vancouver

under-assessed by $2.5 million?

Did the property evaluators of the city of Vancouver favor the Canadian Pacific Rail- way when they made up the assessment role for 1957? Did they assess CPR property at a figure $2.5 million below what it should have been?

If the answer to these questions is “yes,” it will automatically raise another question: “To what extent is the Non-Partisan city council involved?”

| Strike threat wins

office workers case

VICTORIA, B.C.

A last-minute capitulation by management averted a threatened strike Tuesday this week by 14 office workers at Canadian Industries’ plant on James Island.

Office Employees’ International Union, Local 15, won for its members a $25 monthly across-the-board in-

crease, the exact wage hikestrike lasting more than a few

demanded.

Decisive factor in helping the white collar workers to win their demands was the deci- sion by 130 plant workers to respect picket lines. They are members of Canadian Chemi- cal and Explosives Workers, Federal 128.

The plant produces 2,000 cases of dynamite daily, and is sole supplier for the prov- ince as far east as Nelson. A

days would have tied up many mining and construction oper- ations.

The wage dispute dated back to July, 1956, when Office Em- ployees gained jurisdiction and promptly asked for a $25 in- crease.

After prolonged negotiations a conciliation board handed down a majority award of

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A property evaluator for- merly employed by the city tossed a bombshell into the lap of the NPA council this week when he charged that the CPR has been receiving preferential treatment in prop- erty assessments.

The evaluator, J. S. Mulcahy, delivered a written submission to the Court of Appeal on Wed- nesday of this week, in which he made serious’ charges against the city’s assessment department.

He charged that in the» case of the Cardero-Burrard right- of-way, the 1957 assessment should have been $1,2177,192, in place of $646,f00. In the case of the Burrard-Abbet right-of- way, he claimed the assess- ment should have been $4,024,- 276, instead of $2,419,276.

Dealing with the central and False Creek yards, Mulcahy argued that the assessment

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