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Just outside of Saint. John, New Brunswick, is ” gleaming modern oil refinery plant. Vistors to the site can licten to a strategically— plaved intercom,rep1ay mess- age extolling_the virtures of

the refinery and K.C. Irving.’

The Saint John Telegraph, Journal and Evening Telegram, Monoton Times an Transcrip , and the Frederiction Gleaner are all the daily English- language news papers in New Brunswick. Even a cursory perusal will show there is as much diference in their pages as there is in the refinery's taped messages. _V

Therefs a reason for all this. Both the refinery and the newspapers are owned by the same person: K.C. Irving. "There were many situtations in New Brunswick that cried out for media coverage --but they recieved little or no attention from the Irving gr oup because of the danger of involving an Irving interest other than the mass media."

Sen. C. McElman For a long time Charles Mc- Elman was a political out- sider-- a liberal in New Br- unswick, a province that has traditibnally elected Conse- rvatives. Yet Charles McEl— man was also the man who brought the outsider to powb er . As full time Liberal Party organizer from l95h on, he was probably the man most responsible for the Party's unexpected 1960 upset vicL‘ tory that brought Louis Rob- ichaud to power and turned the once-outsider Liberals into the_very pillars of the establishment.

After serving as Robi- chaud's executive assistant for six years, McElman was elevated to the senate in 1966.“, In‘tho’se hallowed chambers, McElman did the unthinkable for a New Bruns- wicker. He attacked K.C. ' Irving, and, more specifically his interests within the media.

Perhaps it was his senato- rial immunity that suddenly embcldened McElman for the attack, or perhaps it was the late-sixties friction between he.Liberals and Irving. But (no matter the reason McELman

_revea1ed t6 the public the flagrant abuses of: tbs Irving press.

The first inking of the skirmished to come was the outcry that was raised when Kieth Davey asked McElman to become a member of his commiss- ion on the Mass Media. He was characterized by the hostile press as a Liberal

_Farty hack, a man out to

,get Irving. A December 1969 appearance by Irving, Frederictionn Daily Gleaner editor Michael Warde 'and Saint John Telegraph-Journal publisher Ralph Costello, was remarkable only in the amount _of venom that the Irving

._group spat at McElman

This was one of the big- gest news stories to affect New Brunswick in a long time, yet the Irving press was so docile and submissive to their master, and so used to sugar coating news that the story was either run without comment or held back so as to link it with atia cks on EcElman himself.

But then on March 10 and 11, 1971, in,a speech to the Senate, McElman offered a far-ranging indictment of the Irving press. After detail- ing the vast conglomerate structure of the Irving tEmpire, he urged that a Press Review Board be set up "to ensure that the news business continues to be everybody's business".

He referred to the Toronto Daily Star's characterization of New Brunswick as "Irving's private empire, complete with its official press -- print and electronic.“ Again he reiterated the theme of New Brunswick as a "Journalistic disaster area" and outlined the specific abuses in num- bered and numbing detail. ’~

Finally he called for a "free and independent press; in New Brunswick"; a press: that would be a watchdog of the Irving corporate structure and the provincial government.

Irving's only passomon is .making money, and he excels at‘it. As Ralph Allen point- ;ed out in MacLean's, in the only major article on the man, Irving doesn't smoke, 'drink, listen to music, read, look at paintings, or fish. Outside of high finance, his only known activity is going to church on Sunday. It might have been Irving that Max Weber was referring to when he wrote "The Protestant‘ Ethic and the Spitit of Cap— italism."

"New Brunswick is proud, poor, and patriotic. Who keeps it that way? IRVINGS" -~ worker at Irving's refinery

Edited from: Ken Waxman, THE GEOﬁGIAN

JI’I‘BIItl) Club

The last meeting of the French Club met on Thursday night, Oct. 1h. The usual activities, includ- ing conversation, listening to French tapes, and singing French songs, were enjoyed by the

participents. Coffee and cookies were served throughout the even- ng. .‘I

The next meeting will be held in the Co—Ed Lounge of Marion Hall on Thursday, Oct. 29. Either slides or a film will be included with this next meeting.- Anyone wishing to learn French or

participate in a French c - sation is welcome. onver

R. McAtee

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