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BRITANNIA

New Yank grab here

BEACH. Arrangements were announced last

week to sell the Howe Sound Co., mine to the giant U.S.
Anaconda Corporation. Base metals worth $400 million have
been taken from this mine since it opened in 1888.

Caron warns against U.S.
mineral resources grab

“The announcement of the
powerful Anaconda Company
8aining ownership of Britannia
Copper mine at Howe Sound is
More than a change of one U.S.
Owner for another,’’ said Charles
Caron, Communist Party spokes-
man for Coast Capilano Federal
riding,

“The significance of this trans-
action is outlined in the January
llth issue of the Globe and Mail,
which says: ‘It is understood
Anaconda’s pending purchase of
Britannia will be followed by ex-
tensive mining exploration by
the company in British Columbia’.

“It is no accident that at the
last meeting of the B.C. Yukon
Chamber of Mines, Gavin Dirom
of the American Smelting & Re-
fining Co. from the U.S. was
elected chairman,”’ Caron contin-
ued.

“A Survey of Mines 1963, a
Magazine published by the Fin-
ancial Post, shows a wide scale
extension of control of B.C. min-
€ral resources through U.S.-Cana-

dian-Japanese interlocking direc-
torates.

“British Columbia mineral re-
sources are: lucrative plums for
these U.S. mining sharks. These
resources are obtained for next
to nothing, then exported to the
U.S. and Japan at the expense of
Canadian development.

“The Socred government remov-.
ed the British Columbia tax on
the export of mineral concen-
trates obviously to facilitate the
give-away of theSe resources.

“We need to enact federal leg-
islation which will restrict fur-
ther acquisition of Canadian
resources and repatriate those
already lost. The Communist
Party proposes: (1) Export tar-
iffs should be imposed on the
export of raw material, thus en-
couraging the development of
processing industries in Canada;
(2) A systematic policy of na-
tionalization of Canada’s natural
resources, particularly those un-
der foreign ownership,”’ concluded
Caron.

Council urged to press for
changes in Fed. Indian policy

“Solution to the problems
of the Indian people lies not
In their absorption into the
Cities or their de-Indianiza-

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tion, but in creating. condi-
tions in their communities
which will allow their culture
to flourish while at the same
time creating economic condi-
tions for a standard of life
equal to that enjoyed by the
average Canadian.”

This was the main point
made in a letter to Vancou-
ver city council by Commun-
ist Party city secretary Wil-
liam Stewart.

The letter charges that the
“prevailing Canadian Indian
policy is at the root of the
tragic death of Irene Ruth
James and more than 40 like
her over the past two years.”

B.C. Communists write Bonner,
urge lumber industry safeguards

The B.C. Executive of the
Communist Party of Canada
called this week on Trade and
Industries Minister Bonner to
take decisive steps to protect
the ~ B.C. lumber _ industry
from a severe cutback as a re-
sult of threatened U.S. import
restrictions.

“Any cutback in import
quotas or increase in tariffs
will have the most severe ef-
fects on our economy,” a let-
ter sent by Nigel Morgan,
B.C. leader of the party, de-
clared. “Since 84 per cent of

Canada-Soviet
joint research
is called for

Soviet Ambassador Amas-
arp Aroutunian has called for
a Russian-Canadian agree-
ment on co-operation in the
peaceful use of atomic en-
ergy.

“T think that our countries
can mutually gain for their
benefit if you search for mu-
tual understanding and co-op-
eration in the field of peace-
ful use of atomic energy,” he
told a press conference in Ot-
tawa.

Dr. Aroutunian said that he
has made preliminary ap-
proaches to Canadian govern-
ment officials and the reac-
tion had been favorable.

He suggested the agree-
ment should provide for an
exchange of information and
scientific visits.

Cox to speak

Cedric Cox, Burnaby
MLA, who attended the
fourth anniversary celebra-
tions in Cuba, will report
to his constituents at a
public meeting in the Cap-
itol Hill hall, Mon., Jan.
21 at 8 p.m.

The meeting is sponsor-
ed by the Edmonds Club
of the NDP and Local
9-601, Oil, Chemical and
Atomic Workers Union.

all Canadian lumber exports
to the U.S. originate in B.C.,
and $348 million of B.C.’s
$685 million worth of lumber
production is sold in the U.S.,
this is a question of top im-
port for this province.

“We should demand that
Ottawa make it abundantly

clear,’ the letter declared,
“that the imposition of re-
strictions on this industry,

which accounts directly and
indirectly for $46 out of
every $100 produced in B.C.
and provides employment for

wwess

over 70,000 workers, cannot
be countenanced.

“Secondly, Ottawa should
make it clear that this step
would immediately bring re-
taliatory action by the Cana-
dian government.

“Thirdly, no time should be
lost in moving to find alter-
native markets for B.C. lum-
ber in the socialist and Latin
American countries, to lessen
Canadian dependence on the
whims and instability of the
U.S. market.”

22a

Vancouver Labor Council
elected its executive com-
mittee for 1963 at its last
meeting. The new executive
reads as follows:

President — Ed Sims
(Brewery Workers).

lst Vice - Pres.
Thompson (IWA).

2nd Vice-Pres—Norm Up-
\ hill (Plumbers).

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Syd

\ 3rd Vice-Pres.—Bill Black men).
\ (Hospital Employees). Credentials Comm.— Bob N
Secretary —Paddy Neale Cook (Marine Engineers). \
(IWA). Municipal Affairs Comm. }
Organizational Comm. — —Arne Hansen (Steelwork-
Mel Kemmis (Bakery Work- ers).
O44 4 Ye at a , 4444 A.

VLC elects new executive :

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ers).

Legislative Comm.— Jack
Henderson (Bldg. Service
Emp.).

Public Relations —Orville
Braaten (Pulp & Sulphite).

Grievance Comm.— Jerry ‘
Le Bourdais (Oil, Chemical }
& Atomic Workers).

Education Comm. —John
Hayward (Street Railway-

,

Many municipalities
face tax increase

One after another, towns
and municipalities of B.C. are
recording the bleak prospect
of another sizeable tax hoist,
as provisional budgets which
must be in by January 21 un-

der the B.C. Municipal Act.

Key to the final bill tax-
payers will receive, will be

the new financial formula
from the B.C. Legislature,
which appears to centre at
this time around the Bennett
proposal of increasing the
Homeowner Grant from $50
to $100, and cancelling out
the Provincial government’s

“grant-in-aid”
government.
Among municipalities

of municipal

an-

ticipating a hoist are Burna-
by, where an increase of
nearly three mills has been
predicted by Municipal Man-
ager Balfour; District of
North Vancouver, up nearly
two mills over last year’s mill
rate of 36.1; Richmond, one
of the hardest hit, is provid-
ing for a 16-mill jump.

The Communist Party in
B.C. has said that welcome as
the Homeowner Grant would
undounbtedly be, it is no ex-
cuse for slashing the former
“grant-in-aid”. What is need-
ed is more aid from the sen-
ior governments, a shift in
the tax load, and genuine tax
relief for municipal ratepay-
ers.

The VANCOUVER SUN: Thur., Nov. 15, 1962)***5 5

15.5-Mile Drop by Parachute
Claimed Record by Soviets

MOSCOW (UPI)—A Soviet

“SUN DOESN’T READ

air force major Wednesday
claimed a world record free
fall of 15.5 miles from a bal-
loon before opening his para-
chute less than a mile above

the earth.
A companion died when he
ls parachute immedi-

perature of the stratosphere.

—

They didn’t
read it|

ITs

-| parachutist

‘if smeared with violet

The record setter was iden-
tified by the Soviet press as
Major Evgeny Andreyev. He
was dressed in a space suit
with its own oxygen supply.

“Andreyev dropped with his
back to the earth for 5 kilo-
meters (3.1 miles)” the Soviet
news agency Tass said. “The
saw the sky,|
which was ‘of violet color as}
ink
from a giant ink pot.’

“The fringes of the horizon
were orange. The stars were
salient and very bright.

“At the second minute, An-
dreyev turned his body and be-

ing a dropping angle of some

40 degrees, Andreyev managed
to avoid landing in the water.”

Tass said at one point An-
dreyev was falling at a speed
of 723 feet a second.

stratosphere continued
more than four minutes,” it
said. “At an altitude of about
1% kilometers (.93 miles) &
signal device warned that it
was necessary to prepare the
parachute. A few seconds later
Andreyev pulled the ring.”

The co} nion who died in:
the fall was identified as Col.

|Peter Dolgov.
gan to fail face down with his| Tass said only “the many
hands wide apart. From high|times world prize winner Col-

up in the sky he was able to

onel Dolgov, who opened his

distinguish the Volga and its
tributary, the Irgiz. By creat-

OWN RE-

parachute immediately after}
jumping, died in the air.”

drop of the two Soviet parachutists, and

DIAL 1130 While welcoming the an- PORTS. Last week the PT exposed the how Dolgov died. We suggest the “Sun”
nouncement that the city “sensational” report of the “Sun” that editors read their own paper. Above all,
cs council intends to take ac- Soviet “spaceman” Peter Dolgov was killed we suggest that “Russian experi’ Arthur

in space. Above is a UPI story from Moscow,
carried in the “Sun” on Thursday, November
15, 1962, in which it details the parachute

Jan. 18, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3

OG IS? ds ew KG rie ae Ee Sse:

Every Sunday

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tion, the letter points out that
more than a Social Centre to
aid Indian people is necessary.

Karday read the columns of his paper a little
more carefully.

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