SELLOUT PLOTTED

Pipeline deal kept secret.

By STEWART SMITH

TORONTO

Trans-Canada Pipeline Company, the U.S. firm with a monopoly on gas pipelines in Canada, is going ahead with plans for taking Alberta gas into the United States at Emerson, Manitoba, and selling gas back into Eastern Canada through the Niagara-Toronto pipe. And while this is going on, the

“Qntario bridge,” as it is now call- ed, the decisive link of the trans- Canada line from Winnipeg to To- ronto, hangs suspended in doubt. Innumerable secret conferences are taking place. The whole thing is shrouded in mystery because US. profits are involved and Can- ada’s vital national interests are being sold out by men who are trusted by many Canadians to pro- tect our country. :

Trans-Canada has already start- ed digging the trench for the pipe- line between Winnipeg and Emer- son, a town on the U‘S. border.

The company has made a con- tract with Tennessee Gas (which may be interlocked with the Am- erican owners of Trans-Canada) to deliver 200,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily to the US. On Septem- ber 15 Trans-Canada will appear before the Board of Transport Commissioners in Ottawa with a new application to build a pipe- line from Toronto to Montreal and a sideline from Morrisburg to Ot- tawa.

The purpose is to prepare. for bringing gas in from the US. at Niagara.

The size of the pipe from Alberta to Winnipeg is to be 34 inches in- stead of 36, a clear indication that the U.S. bosses have no intention of building the pipeline and pre- serving Canada’s national interests. _In the Canadian press reports there is not a whisper on the great patriotic issue involved. The big daily papers are aware of the strong indignation that the skul- duggery going on behind their backs would arouse, if known to the public.

Even papers like the Cornwall Standard Freeholder, which write editorials in favor of the trans- Canada pipeline, explain it with the argument that U.S. gas might get into short supply. Not a sin- gle Canadian capitalist paper has

come forward with a patriotic)

position, upholding and champion- ing the great nation-building value of a trans-Canada pipeline.

The press constantly repeats the argument about “Alberta gas pro- ducers having a right to the profit- able market in the U.S.” The “Al- berta producers” are U.S. exploit- ers who have seized control of Can- ada’s natural gas resources.

The campaign being waged by the Labor-Progressive party, call- ing on the Ontario government to set up a Crown Company, which will build and operate the section of the pipeline from Winnipeg to Toronto, must now be pressed with greatest vigor.

There are rumors to the effect that the Crown Company might be

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a joint one, in which Ontario and Alberta would put up 25 percent each and Ottawa 50 percent.

It is impossible to see why the Alberta government, a tool of the American gas syndicates, should have part control of the pipeline in Ontario. Ontario’s people and Canadian interests would be better served by an Ontario-owned Crown company. ; .

The main aim remains the achievement of the “Ontario bridge,” which had been scuttled last July and which was reopened only thanks to the patriotic pro- tests of the people.

Premier Frost held long confer- ences recently with Hon. Dana Porter, now Ontario provincial treasurer. Differences in the cab- inet centre around Porter, whose intimate connection with the big coal and oil importing interests of Bay Street are well known.

If a Crown company built the line it would mean that gas could be transported from Alberta to Toronto for 12 cents per thousand cubic feet. With this low cost of transportation, it could be deliver- ed at 35 cents per thousand cubic feet or less.

It would be a tremendous boon to industry and domestic consum- ers if Canada’s natural gas would be placed at the service of Can- ada’s people at low cost and fuel- starvation of Ontario would be end- ed. It may be that Premier Frost’s prolonged conferences with Mr. Porter indicate that the premier has finally got down to the business of telling him that the pipeline must go through and Ontario must do the job. -If so that is to be welcomed. But if the matter is still being jockeyed around and stale- mated by endless argument, then, the people of Ontario should know about it.

The main thing ts to bring every pressure to bear on the Ontario government for the immediate building of the Ontario bridge in the pipeline.

LABOR

BRIEFS

Mr. Justice Manson has rejected application of a New Westminster fish buyer for lifting of an in- junction restraining him, together with officers and some members of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union from interfering with the fishing operations of four gillnetters who scabbed during the 1954 salmon tendermen’s strike.

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Harvey Murphy, western vice- president of Mine-Mill, has moved to Toronto to take up his duties in the national office of the union.

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Some 3,000 Okanagan valley packinghouse workers, members of the Federation of Fruit and Vegetable Workers (AFL - TLC) were scheduled to strike Thursday this week following collapse of negotiations over a 10-cent hourly wage boost.

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The second guaranteed annual wage contract in Canada has been won locally — by three workers, members of AFL Street Railway- men’s Union who work for Can- adian Car and Bus Advertising Ltd. and put up advertising cards in buses and trolley coaches.

A new 14-month agreement gives them GAW, a four-cent hourly pay hike and an $8.50 per month bonus in lieu of a bus pass.

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More than 900 members of Local 464, Milk Drivers and Dairy Em- ployees Union (TLC) are now tak- ing a strike vote, following failure of bargaining sessions to produce a satisfactory agreement.

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Some 250 B.C. barbers have ac- cepted a new contract giving them a $5 weekly wage increase. Under the agreement they will receive a $45 weekly guarantee and 65 per- cent of their barber chair earn- ings over $64.50 a.week.

The new contract comes into ef- fect September 4.

Ex-RCMP grilled

Ex-RCMP Sgt. Terry Parsloe,

Parsloe that the reason he found

Neil Fleishman, counsel for Flash tabloid, demanded typewrit- er samples from Parsloe’s two machines to prove that he did actu- ally write a report that “cleared” Mulligan of accepting protection money.

Fleishman’s action followed his statement to Parsloe on Tuesday when he said: “I put it to you, you did not write this report.”

Cross-examined by Oliver, coun- sel for Det. Sgt. Len Cuthbert, Parsloe said that he kept notes of his “investigation” into charges of police gnaft in a small notebook, he thought just the one, but he could not say if he filled it.

Oliver: “So the results of your contacts witht 50 to 100 persons, the investigations of five agents, and the results of your own in- vestigations over 34 months were contained in one small, 5 or 10 cent notebook?”

Parsloe: “Yes, but there were things not relevant I didn’t put down.” :

He said he had burned the note- book along with other notes he had, he could not remember their contents, about 15 or 30 days after submitting his report.

“J usually burn notebooks,” he said.

Oliver: “Yesterday you said you were the author of this report. I suggest to you that you are mis- taken.”

Parsloe: “I wrote this report.”

Oliver: “Who drafted the report for you?”

Parsloe: “Nobody. I drafted it, this is my report and I typed it.”

The cross examination was then taken over by Vic Dryer, assist- ant commission counsel.

Parsloe told him he had under- taken only one special investiga- tion of a minor nature since the one in 1950. The one into the police department was conducted mostly in his spare time and in the evenings and did not conflict with

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He asked for the first perso? het saw: the first place he went; districts they were in. But Pats” loe could only say he would prob: ably visit “different clubs or hang outs.” ah i Dryer: “In other words, you cap tell us how you set out to do this’

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