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mean starving Canadian indus- try of power it needs and feed- ing American industry with what it withheld from our own.”

M, J. Coldwell’s declaration in a recent CBC broadcast that the pipeline is not_a party issue but a vital national issue is further evidence of the strength of popu- lar feeling against the sellout of our natural gas to the U.S.

Native beats income tax

An income tax decision that might possibly affect hundreds of Native Indian fishermen has been handed down in magistrates’ court at Brighouse.

Magistrate Robert Palmer last week dismissed a charge against Frances Point, a fisherman liv- ing on the Musqueam Reserve, adjoining the city.

Point was hailed before the court because he did not file a 1954 income tax return.

Arguing the case for Point, Andy Paull, of the North Ameri- can . Indian Brotherhood, said that Indians on the reserves were considered wards of the Crown and were, therefore, not subject to taxation. “No taxation with- out representation,” was the plea put forward by* Paull.

Appearing for the income tax department was Robert Edwards.

Magistrate Palmer said lower courts had “no guidance” in such a case.

“The defendant proved he lived on the reserve and therefore had none of the rights of an en- franchised Indian. Some prece- dent should be established by the supreme court in cases like these,” said Magistrate Palmer.

The magistrate Said that he had no guidance on the point and dismissed the charge. The Income Tax department will likely ap- Peal to a higher court.

Even the Financial Post and some of the country’s biggest dailies, among them the Toronto Star, have taken up the cry for an all-Canadian pipeline whose benefits would come to Canada instead of the U.S.

The announcement last week that the controlling 51 percent of the shares of Trans-Canada have been surrendered to the U.S. Ten- nessee Valley Gas Company will further embarrass the Howe plan and strengthen the demand for public ownership of the line. as demanded by organized labor.

In this national struggle for our country’s interests, all pat- riotic Canadians in this prov- ince should join in the demand for an all-Canadian publicly- owned line, insisting that Brit- ish Columbia’s new pipeline from the Fort St. John-Peace River area be linked to the East-West Canadian grid.

We must see that the fullest ‘co- operation is reached between provincial and federal govern- ments for carrying through this great national project.

Within the next decisive few weeks this question needs to be raised everywhere — in broad public meetings; in resolution and individual letters to cabinet mem- bers and MPs, in leaflets and let- ters to the press and through radio broadcasts.

A great victory for the policy of putting Canada first can be won provided national sentiment is mobilized to achieve what the majority of the people want — an all-Canadian publicly-owned natural gas pipeline.

In an article written for the Canadian Tribune last week, J. B. Salsberg said:

“It is abundantly clear that C. D. Howe’s policy violates Canada’s sovereign right to utilize Canada’s newest source. of cheap power for the benefit of this country, and retain for Canada the ex- clusive’ right to determine how and when to build the facilities for distribution for this source of power.

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“Howe persists in a _ policy which, if implemented, will pro- vide cheap power to U.S. indus- try at the expense of Canada’s industrial development. _Howe’s policy is harmful to Canadian sovereignty and a severe blow at Canada’s economic future.

“As these facts become known the tide of opposition is rapidly rising. The demand, “Give the pipeline back to Canada,” is growing.

“This can be done when the pipeline bill. comes before the House of Commons.

“Regardless of what the FPC in the U.S. does and whether Trans-Canada Pipeline Company is able to complete financing ar- rangements by April 30 — at it promised the government it would do — parliament should nullify the temporary arrange- ments made between the govern- ment and Trans-Canada.

“Parliament’s decision should be to proceed immediately, with the provincial governments con- cerned, to construct a Trans- Canada natural gas pipeline which will be operated by a crown company as a_ publicly-owned utility, with its first and sup- reme task delivery of natural gas to Canadian homes and industries at cost. \

“Such a demand should come from all sides, from all political

parties and, above all, from the

trade unions. It should be direct- ed to the St. Laurent government and to every MP individually. “Victory can be won in this far-reaching battle for Canada.”

’Peg meet

to discuss

Laborers’ contract

Vancouver Local 602 Building Laborers and Local 168 Tunnel and Rock Workers will send representatives to Wim- nipeg to discuss a new union contract with Pipeline Contrac- tors’ Association. The five-year contract signed by international officers, which would have forced the men to work for $1.20 an

hour on natural gas pipeline con- struction, has been decisively re- jected by the union members. W. L. Hunchuk, secretary of Local 168, issued this statement to the press: “During the last month, the

‘executive of Locals 168 and 602

held numerous meetings with in- ternational representatives and other local unions and finally on March 12 met with Labor Minis- ter Lyle Wicks, with regard to the pipeline agreement which was signed for all of Canada by: the

Hungary signs pact

for. Canadian wheat OTTAWA

An $8,800,000 wheat deal has been signed with Hungary, Trade Minister C. D. Howe informed the House of Commons this week.

Canada will sell Hungary 5,500,000 bushels of wheat under the trade treaty, the fourth sign- ed this month. Other countries which will buy wheat from Can- ada are Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.

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president and secretary of our

international union.

“At all these meetings the ex- ecutive and members of Local 168 maintained a firm stand by stating that members of Local 168 and those employed on pipe- line construction are not covered by this agreement as it contra- venes the provisions of the Labor Relations Act. We, therefore, again urge the LRB to process our application for certification without delay.

“On March 10 the executive of Local 168 and Local 602: met the international representatives in Vancouver. It was agreed that Locals 168 and 602 would send a representative to Winnipeg for the purpose of negotiating a eol- lective pipeline agreement on be- half of the locals concerned and the Canadian Pipeline Associa- tion. brought to the members for rati- - fication and would not be ‘signed unless approved by the members.

“The full support and coopera- tion of each and every member is necessary in order that a new agreement covering pipeline con- struction may be negotiated.”

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