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that the whole Viet Nam effort may be doomed, i
may be falling apart beneath our feet. (Wall Street
Journal, 23-2-68).

3. Recent events such as Viet Cong attacks on all
of South Viet Nam principal cities — even the capital
of Saigon — show that the South Vietnamese govern-
ment is utterly inept, has in fact collapsed and has no
control over the country, despite our t dous expen-
ditures of money and lives, and dreadful losses among
the Vietnamese people. (Ernest Gruening, American
senator, AP, 24-2-68).

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NLF CONTROLS NEARLY ALL SOUTH VIETNAM

Pp shows the National Liberation Front in virtual control of most of South Vietnam. Small arrows show
ry major city and U.S. military base encircled and under attack. This map shows the desperate position of
U.S. and puppet forces. In a statement last week the NLF said the key issue facing the Paris talks was

her the Nixon Administration was willing to end its aggression and withdraw its troops unconditionally.
said, was the decisive question, not whether talks were held in public or private.

Tribune

VOL. 30, NO. 14

10c

FOREST POLICY HiT

Socreds support
monopoly control

Charges that the Socred government has put “‘itself
in harness’ to the big forest monopolies, and that a
handful of them dominate B.C.’s major industry
resounded through the Legislature last week. ,

The attack on the govern-
ment’s forest policies came
from the NDP MLAs and was
spearheaded by Vancouver East
MLA Bob Williams who said that
the Socred government operates
a ‘built-in system of deals
within the monopoly of the big
companies in B.C.”’

In the attack on the monopoly-
ridden forest industry in B.C.
and the government's policy,
the following points were made:

e B.C.’s forest industry is
dominated by the ‘big five’’ who
have monopoly control and
dominate the northern half of
Vancouver Island. These
‘corporate empires’’ were
branded as ‘‘corporate banana

republics within B.C.’ .The five
forestry giants named were
MacMillan-Bloedel, Crown

Zellerbach, Rayonier, Canadian
Forest Products and the Tahsis
Company.

e ‘We own the trees but we
are acting as if they belong to
someone else,’ said MLA Bob
Williams, who charged that a
total of between 60 to 70 million
acres of forest land under tenure
(mostly in tree farm licences) is
held by forestry companies in
B.C. yet no property tax is paid
on the land.

e The House was told that
payments from tree farm
licence holders amounts to a
cent an acre or $10,000 a year per
million acres and even less from
holders of pulp harvesting areas.

© Asking the question: ‘‘How
much does the_ industry
contribute to provincial
revenues,’ the NDP charged
that only about three per cent of
the province’s total revenue
comes from the forest industry.
Out of a billion dollar budget
about $70 million - or about seven
per cent - is listed as forestry
revenue.

WILLIAM KASHTAN,

But, the NDP pointed out, you
have to deduct from that the cost
of forest service, $28 million, and
then the logging tax because it's
simply an income tax of $12
million - which leaves an actual
income from the forest industry
of $30 million - or three per cent
of the province's total revenue.

e Charging that the monopo-
lies are making huge capital

See FORESTRY, pg. 12

national
leader of the Communist Party,
will deliver the keynote address
at the opening session of the
Party's national convention
which meets in Toronto over the
Easter weekend. Coming before
the parley will be resolutions
covering labor legislation, the
need for a new Canadian
constitution, democratization of
education, the crisis in
agriculture, housing, poverty and
the Native peoples. A contingent
of 26 delegates from B.C. will
attend the parley.