Word: ownership
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Last week in a convention at Montreal the CCF of militant Quebec Province adopted a resolution demanding public ownership of all power resources in Canada. The resolution singled out the controversial $106,000,000 Shipshaw development in the hinterlands of Quebec (world's largest power dam, with the possible exception of Boulder), as a "scandalous exploitation of Canadian resources," made it a leading argument for public ownership, a vital campaign issue in the next election. To steer clear of interference with the war program, CCF tempered its resolution to read...
Tireless CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell has been more voluble and outspoken on this Shipshaw finance than on the question of public ownership. Already producing power and scheduled for completion in November, Shipshaw was under construction 15 months before its existence was revealed last January. The Aluminum Co. of Canada had financed it to the hilt from contracts on future aluminum deliveries signed with the U.S., Britain and Australia. Primarily, the dam was built to supply power for the war production of aluminum. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones advanced $68,500,000 in fund's of the Metals...
...event in history since the Reformation," was the forerunner of revolutionary changes still due in the Western world. Despite its merciless dictatorship, its leaders' intense will to power and intense suspicion of any outlook which deviates from their own, if Russia "is able to show that the private ownership of the means of production is unnecessary," it will have opened a new and creative epoch in human experience...
...ownership of the means of production is not transferred from private to state hands, says Laski, Anglo-American union will mean only a strengthening "of Anglo-American imperialism...
...terms of ownership, this is the shape of the war plant that the U.S. has contracted for between June 1940 and February of this year-by which time materials shortages were ending plant expansion. No New Deal grab for power but hard-money business logic dictated the mounting blocks of Government ownership in the nation's new manufacturing capacity-from 41% in petroleum to 99.6% in explosives. In terms of dollars, the U.S. Government has financed some 85% of the entire program. Private capital financed as much expansion as it would have in normal times. The Government naturally shared...