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TO NATIVE INDIANS. Members of the Squamish band recently
a CN work engine in front of North Vancouver Reserve No. 1 to
aying of two additional tracks in joint PGE-CNR undertaking.
objected that neither they nor Indian affairs branch were con-

liberal Senator Hits
Columbia River Deal

eae Senator Tom Reid

_- 'enate last week that the

thin 1S getting a far better deal

a poate and charged that

all fo not being compensated

Ue: Yr extra water going to the
$

tolg

te
ae Canadian dams are a
ans ee for the U.S,,’’ saidSena-
5 a who pointed out that due
iver 4S ation of the flow of the
S. ait Canadian dams, the
4 have more useable water
Petes of Washington and
Milliong This will be worth
Sen ‘S in the U,S,, he charged,
Pr, per Reid also charged that
€r Bennett is giving all the
Power to the U.S, and will

Orce :
, British Columbians, who

Dow Pay twice as much for their z

er i
to ,. *S Winnipeg and Toronto,

Y more expensive Peace

Wer Power,

He .
be Braeed that the treaty should

Nt to a Senate committee

City labor blasts U.S.A.

where External Affairs Minister
Paul Martin and Gen, A.G,L, Mc-
Naughton could testify, However,
contrary to expectations, the Se-
nate rushed through approval of
the treaty,

It was known that there was
opposition in the Senate to the
treaty, but it is widely believed -
that the Liberal government put
pressure on the Senate for gGuick
ratification of the treaty.

Special issue
next week

Next week’s PT will be a
special two-color Canada
Day edition. It will feature
many important and inter-
esting articles. A special
effort should be made to
give this issue wide distri-
bution. Bundle orders should
be in the PT office no later
than Wed. noon, June 24.

°n Cuba, asks CLC act

vaist Tuesday’s meeting of
Ug “ver Labor Council blasted

~. Olicy towards Cuba andre-
®re. the Canadian Labor Con-

. Bes,
Str S to tell Washington of the

erg od feelings of Canadian work-
his policy,

A

hitted on a resolution sub-
Oiler Y Marineworkers and
C Makers Local 1, council
America’s Cuban

lic
-Y as a “flagrant violation of

Midsummer Festival

sy he annual Scandinavian Mid-
the ’ Festival will be held at
0 ieee Park at the north
On a €Second Narrows Bridge
Sho 2 ay, June 28th, The event,
Central by the Scandinavian
] Committee, will start at
fro, * Buses will be available
at Noon © Kootenay Loop starting

PUBLIC MEETING
hear

WM. STEWART

speak on

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s
TOP THE DIRTY WAR
IN VIETNAM”

a
"8s, June 23, 8 p.m. -

DELL HOTEL HALL:
IN WHALLEY

ALL WELCOME

the United Nations Charter.” The
UN charter guarantees the’
sovereignty of all nations—great
and small—it said, and allows
them to develop in the direction
which seems best to them,

But because the U,S, State Dept,
doesn’t approve of the govern-
ment in power in Cuba, it was
exercising a big power might-is-
right attitude towards that coun-
try and its people, At the same
time, the U.S, is playing with ,
the peacé of the whole world, the
resolution stated,

Delegates unanimously backed
the resolution without debate,
following an executive recom-
mendation.

Speaks on Cuba

Barbara Strachan, delegate
from the Ladies Auxiliary, Oil
and Chemical Workers Union,
Local 9-601, to the May Day
celebration in Cuba, will speak
and show slides at the Lochdale _
Hall, Sperling at Hastings Sis

Mon, June 22nd, at 8 p.m.

HEAR
ROSALEEN ROSS
SEE
| st PICTURES OF

MAY BOMBING INCIDENT)
IN CUBA

SAT. JUNE 27 - 8:30 p.m.
4590 West 3rd Ave.

ALL WELCOME

LABOR ROUNDUP:

VLC backs Alberni workers,
UFAWU stand on |[2-mile limit

’ vancouver Labor Council has
donated $100 to workers in the
Alberni Valley and served notice
of motion on a second donation
of $1,000, Last Tuesday’s coun-

cil meeting was told thecompany .

has refused to budge on the key
question involved in the strike of
office workers—union security.

Walter Allen, president of Al-
berni IWA Local 1-85 and mem-
ber of the Alberni Emergency
Labor Committee, told delegates
that white collar workers are de-
manding to be recognized as just
that—workers,

He said the principle of union
recognition is not something that

can be negotiated, like wages or:

conditions, and over 4,000 work-
ers who have been idled by the
office workers strike are pre-
pared to stay out “till next Christ-
mas” if necessary, to establish
this principle,

The morale of workers in the

Alberni Valley has never been :

higher,” Allen stated, “and I’ve
seen some pretty vicious

strikes,”

He charged MacMillan Bloedel &
Powell River with taking the same
attitude towards white collar
workers that industry showed to
blue collar workers in the 30s,

“This huge empire recognizes

neither social responsibility nor .

moral obligation,” he said, add-
ing that the workers would have
to teach the giant monopoly a
badly-needed lesson,

Council endorsed the stand of

the United Fishermen & Allied’

Workers Union on the 12-mile

limit. Secretary Paddy Neale .

read a letter from the union,
which requested council’s back-
ing on this question. A request
to state this backing to the House
Committee on Marine and Fish-

eries was unanimously agreed to °

without debate,

‘Local 400, CBRT, representing
roughly half the seamen at North-
land Navigation, has applied to
the government-appointed trus-
teeship over the maritime indus-
try for permission to take a
strike vote,

The strike request stems from
a majority conciliation board re-
port which offered a $24 wage
boost, spread over 26 months,

‘on a base rate of $1,85 an hour, -

This is exactly what the SIU has
settled for with Northland,

The union representative on
the board brought in a report
which would have awarded $10 a
month from Jan, 1/64; a further
$10 on July 1/64; and $20 on Jan,
1/65, over atwo-year agreement,
In addition, he proposed time and
a half for overtime instead ofthe
prevailing time and aquarter and
a penalty cargo rate of $1.25 an
hour instead of the current rate
of $1 an hour, Cargo is usually
handled by longshoremen,

The seamen say they are pre-
pared to strike to win the terms
of the minority report,

In other VLC business, dele-
gates decided to:

* Establish a joint policy with
the B,C, Federation of Labor to-
wards the proposed Bank of B,C,;

* Oppose any and all “work-
for-welfare” schemes;

* Oppose use of funds from the
sale of Vancouver’s airport to
supply land to the Smythes for a
coliseum;

* Instruct the Municipal Ad-
visory Committee to investigate
the whole question of free land
for the Smythes;

* Urge the Canadian Labor
Congress to press for a federal
commission to investigate opera-
tions of the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind,

Public pressure blocks

outright forest sellout

Faced with mounting public
opposition to any further give-
away of B,C, Crown forest lands
to the big monopolies, Minister
of Lands and Forests Ray Willis-
ton last week announced a com-
promise decision which would
see some Crown lands turned
over to a giant monopoly, while
others will be retained under
public control,

First he announced that the
giant Northwood Mills Ltd,, which
combines the financial interests

of Noranda Mines and the huge ,

U.S, Mead Corporation, would be
granted a pulp harvesting licence
of 2,1 million acres east of
Prince George.

Later he announced rejection
of a tree farm licence applied for
by Alexandra Forest Industries,
controlled in part by B,C, Forest
Products, for 15,4 million acres
north of Prince George, This
vast licence was strongly op-
posed by many groups, includ-
ing independent loggers in the
area,

Instead of granting a licence,
Williston offered the company

’ long-term rights, up to 2lyears,

for pulp from the area, for which
it would have to bid, The forests
themselves would remain under
Crown control and supervision,
The minister’s decision sets a
new precedent in that up until

turned over to private monopo-
lies under licence,

The retreat of the provincial
government on this issue is due
to fear of political repercussions
if all interior and northern for-
ests were divided up among the
big monopolies, as has been done
on the coast, It is seen asamove
to take some public pressure off
its forestry policy,

Williston was quick to point
out that his latest decision does
not necessarily indicate that he
is abandoning the tree farm
licence and pulpwood harvesting
licence form of. tenure, He says
the plan for pulp sales to private
companies by the Crown was de-
vised to meet the “special prob-
lems” posed in the Peace,

Many organizations, including
the New Democratic Party and
Communist Party, have urged
that the Crown manage ALL for-
est lands and that private com-
panies buy the raw materials
from the Crown,

A number of forest licence ap-
plications are still to come up,
including MacMillan, Bloedel and
Powell River, Columbia Cellu-
lose, the Bulkley Valley Pulp,
These would cover a large area
up and down the coast from Prince
Rupert and inland to Smithers,
The public will be watching these

now rights to forests had been ~ with great interest,

USSR AND GDR SIGN FRIENDSHIP PACT. Photo shows
German Democratic Chairman Ulbricht (left) and
Premier Khrushchev signing a 20-year treaty of
friendship, mutual aid and co-operation. The treaty
pledges both countries to come to each other’s im-

mediate aid if either is attacked.
sides to regard West Berlin ‘‘as a separate political
entity.’’ Khrushchev called for an overall German
peace settlement and normalization of the West
Berlin situation.

It pledges both

June 19, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3