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$80 billion uranium scandal:

_ uranium imports in 1940. Then ue ee qian, what ue at ees sare whale? eae sub-local 217 will be held on Sun-| uing to be member Pe Riicer or ee is cong to fight unemploy- | get down on their knees and give | gay.” representative of a trade union.” eo 2,400,000 Rees of concen-| ment and secure increased benefits | thanks for Marstall plan aid, be- WIU officials will appear be- | The WIU is pressing a similar tated ore were brought in.|on a longer-term basis for out-of-|hind ‘our backs the government 1 : : e : fore the Labor Relations Board | charge before the Board against = Part ¢ame from the Belgian Con-| work members. ; has turned over to the Yankees} 59 ay this week to tuke up the |Alaska Pine; New Westminster, | ES go, most from Canada. From 1941} iy Stewart of the B.C. Feder- asap ue. 80 ae se paaae cases. “We will charge outright, | where Tom Baschuk, green chain to 1945, Canada supplied practical-| ation of Labor and Minerva Miller nats ee SaaS Neo Greet Aa rank intimidation and discrimin- | puller, was discharged, allegedly ly all of America’s bomb material.| of the LPP will be other featured ree whom? : : ation and complete violation of | for “incompetence,” though he had Can we estimate how much left our | SPeakers. P : the Industrial Arbitration Act,” | 2 ae eke Sanat | Nbr aaa 2 i Actually, Canada’s uranium is said Pyitchett. A sworn statement by Baschu country? ¥¥| It is nopea that a good turnout | worth infinitely more than Yan- Under the section of the Act|®!VeS some interesting sidelights América owshns. at Youre 800 ples Ergiuce a lively discussion] kee dollars, Thé U.S. dollar will dealing with unfair labor practices, on the case. On January 28 a was “standard” atomic bombs, ‘prob- ‘ a e floor any all matters af-| crash when Wall Street crashes. | i; js clearly stated that no employ- called into the office of T. Sever ably mote, While Joliot-Curie, head|of unemployed, St] But the atoms of Canadian uran-"| or shall ‘seek by intimidation, by. ak Pane eaeety ie enytons ish , of unemployed. ium represent absolutely safe. : “We have a report from the un- of the French Atomic commission, A “securities.” Uranium is tomor- ion (IWA) against you. Are you figures that each bomb contains Fe See Aoi ce row’s “hard currency of power.” Gi - W k not a member of the union?’ % 60 to 200 pounds of pure U-235 or by several unions, and may be ae: ea pre Mane, this POCKiss IviC or ers b gene 8 Sag eae! a Sas 3 Pu, somé scientists put the figure| called in the near future. In con- the border at a rate of thousands een, bu as n ger

- most precious natural resource.

Wall St. grabbing Canadian ore

at bargain-basement prices

By DYSON CARTER

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_ Under the guise of military secrecy, Canada’s uranium is being poured into the United States. This deal, going on at a rate which even parliament cannot find out, is plundering our country of our

the Wall Street pirates a minimum of $80 billion worth of potential

millicn ‘dollars!

For eight years Canada has been America’s main source of uran- ium. We still are. This uranium is being processed into the atomic bomb elements, U-235 and Pu (plu- tonium). But these elements, even when stocked up for use in bombs. are potential sources of power in stupendous quantities.

_ One pound of U-235, used up in atomic pile, will deliver more than 10 million KWH of power. The or- dinary uranium which Canada turns over to the U.S. can be con- verted into U-235 or into Pu, a sim- ilar power source. Suppose we as- sume that half of the uranium can- not be processed (no longer true), then each pound of uranium is worth $25,000. ‘

But the secret uranium-buying authority has set a price lower than $3 a pound! In other words,

$1 for uranium worth over $8.000. The robber barons of the old rail- way building days must be turn- ing over in their graves with envy! :

Now, if only a few tons of uran- jum were involved the scandal would be of slight importance. But vast quantities of uranium are streaming out of Canada to the U.S. The government says the fig- ures are “military secrets.” But any scientist can arrive at a prob- able estimate. : °

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Washington last disclosed its

as low as 20 pounds. We can safely take 50 pounds as a conservative guess. So about 15,000 pounds of pure nuclear energy material have been piled up in the U.S.

But this materail has been ob-

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tained from no iess than 2,225,000 pounds of uranium. And all this uranium, in the atomic pile, will give useful power. Taking the 1940 import figure, and the total bomb figure, we see that Canada has probably supplied America with at least 500,000 pounds of uranium yearly,

The power that can be obtain- ed from this uranium—figuring electricity worth only one half cent per KWH—has a potential value of no less than twelve and a half billion dollars. In the last seven years, over $87 billion worth. :

Picture this as actual power. Can- ada’s total yearly output is about’ 40 billion KWH. The uranium we ship to the U.S. represents power equal to 2,500 billion KWH. That is,

Jobless hear union heads

“Vancouver is being haunted by a steadily rising unemployment statistic,” says Sid Zlotnik, chair- man of a meeting to be held in Pender Auditorium here this com- ing Wednesday on the unemploy- ment crisis in British Columbia.

Thousands of jobless loggers, shipyard workers, fishermen and others are demanding action to provide work and wages. »

Harold Pritchett, president of the Woodworkers’ Industrial Union,

trast to the situation in the “Hun- gry thirties,” the majority of un- employed today are trade unionists, who look to their unions to lead the fight for a government works Program, and pending that, ade- quate benefits or relief.

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the Yankee atom bombsters are taking from our country each year, enough uranium to supply all Canada’s power for 60 years!

These figures are so huge that we may ask if they are not exag- gerated. I think not. I have as- sumed that only half of our urani- um can be used to produce atomic power. Nuclear physicists report no wthat in new “breeder” piles, not only can all the uranium be used to deliver power, but the pile will actually make still more power-producing substance.

Again, uranium is now being used in atomic piles to change thorium, a more -plentiful sub- stance, into a source of atomic pow- eI This greatly increases the world’s atomic energy resources. To the same degree, it raises the value of uranium, the essential ele- ment.

Finally, uranium not only pro- duces power. It makes a great va- riety of atomic materials which are of tremendous value to indus- try. The production and sale of these materals will be a future business of inestimable value.

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Ottawa will not tell the nation what is being. done with our uran- ium. The excuse given is that at- omic bombs are vital secrets. The real reason is that the most pre- cious metal in the world, the “raw material of the Atomic Age,” is be- ing sneaked out of Canada by for- eign monopolies hiding behind the war scare.

Our uranium is being sold to foreigners at a price so low that the deal can almost be called theft. While our workers, farmers and

of millions of horsepower.

If we were only supplying Ame- rica with the stuff for atomic bombs. which can be used to threat- en the peace of the world, that would be shameful enough. But the Wall Street bankers can take the uranium we, are handing over to them, and turn it into power worth tens of billions, whenever they see fit. Sia

This is Liberal-Tory “national policy.” This is the kind of “de- fense pact” Ottawa offers us.

This is a program of fore-doomed industrial, financial and military suicide for Canada. For the Am- erican’s it is history’s recodr ver-

= ~ sion of the sucker game—“Come

war you lose, come peace we win!” f

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SOROS SOOO 24 HOUR SERVICE UNION TAX!

Hardrock miners, mill and smelter workers throughout Ca- nada are determined to smash all union-raiding efforts of CCL president A. R. Mosher and Un- ited Steelworkers director Chas. Millard.

Meeting at Trail, the district executive board of the Interna- tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in B.C. unan- imously resolved to resist all ef- forts of the CCL to raid the jurisdiction of the union, and recommended to all local unions in the province support of the stand of the Sudbury member- ship which condemned; the ac- tion of the CCL in establishing charters in Timmins and Port Colbourne. é

“Our union will stand solid de- spite the threats of CCL effi- cers to suspend Mine-Mill if it does not carry out their arbi- trary orders to get out of Tim- mins and Port Colbourne,” says a, union statement.

The B.C. district board is also requesting William Mahoney, CCL regional director of West- ern Canada, to publicly retract and apologize for insults against the union and officers of the union.,

Telegrams were sent from the board meeting to Timmins Local 241 and Port Colbourne Local 63%, complimenting

Mine-Mill board hits CCL raidine tactics

District 26, UMWA, from Glace

dom of a membership to run

members and officers on their “determined stand to resist the dictatorial union-busting de- | cree of the CCL, and pledging full support of the 8,000 mem- | bers in B.C. in the fight to “preserve the integrity of Mine-Mill.”

By resolution, the executive board members, after hearing a full explanation given on the matter of handling of IWA funds, expressed their satisfac- tion that no one in the union was guilty of aiding or abetting any secession movement, that the officers of the district had acted in good faith and that all funds had been returned.

Support for the miners’ po- sition toward the CCL union- raiding has come from coal miners across the Dominion. “We think raiding is as bad as scabbing,’: wired Robert Stewart, secretary, Local 4530,

*Bay. “Nova Seotia miners are strong defenders of the free-

its own affairs without dic- tation from any person or group.”

Harvey Murphy, Mine-Mill re- presentative, has been invited to speak to UMWA, District 26, at Drumheller this coming Sunday on the CCL situation.

WIU battles companies in union-button firings

Woodworkers’ Industrial Union leaders and members will battle on the job and before the Labor Relations Board on behalf of four workers at Capilano Shingle Company, Vancouver, who were discharged for supporting the WIU and refusing to pay dues to the IWA. |

“These men were fired for wear- ing the WIU button,” said Haroid Pritchett, union president. “A leaf- let has been distributed in the plant and a protest meeting of

say nix to plan

Members of Civic Employees Union, Outside Workers, jammed the large hall at Pender Auditorium last Friday to turn “thumbs down” on the Peterson pay plan.

Business agent Donald Guise re- ported that under the pay plan, out- side workers employed as swamp- ers and laborers would have their pay cut by four cents an hour. This would affect hundreds of workers, Tradesmen, who now re- ceive up to 50 cents an hour less than the going rate, would receive six-cent increases, and a few other categories would also receive small increases.

The union unanimously endorsed the position of the bargaining com- mittee to have nothing to do with the Peterson pay plan—a position shared by the inside staff, firemen and police.

This Monday the. union’s bar-

dismissal, by threat of dismissal, or by any other kind of threat... to compel or induce an employee to refrain from becoming or contin-

member.

After discussing Baschuk’s work, Reeves finally said: “It is no use to put you back on the job again because they will just put pressure on you and you will have to quit. If I were you, I think it would be better for you to just go.”

“Well, what is it. am I fired or am I laid off?” said Baschuk.

“I didn’t say I was firing you,” replied Reeves. “You go to the Un- employment Insurance and_ tell them you have been laid off.”

In a hastily-sprung election at Horton Shingle Company, Victoria, the IWA won certification by a one-vote margin, polling 21 votes out of 41 eligible to vote. The WIU polled 17 votes and there was one spoiled ballot.

Second annual convention of the Woodworkers’ Industrial Un- ion of Canada has been called for April 2-3 at Pender Auditori-

um here. The union was formed

October 3, 1948, as a’ direct. re- sult of employer-inspired disrup- tion carried on by a “boss bloc” within the IWA. A constituent

‘ ‘Phone 137 gaining committee meets with city | convention was‘held later in the

Frank Harris, Ist & Argyl dhe under chairmanship of month, where a constitution was

: William Fraser, government-ap- | adopted and voted on and tem- DSRRPO] OOS OSS | Pointed conciliator.

porary officers elected. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 11, 1949 — PAGE 2