involved on Spanish territory.

Mac-Paps to hold party

Veterans of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion who fought
in Spain in the anti-fascist war will hold a party on December
18 in the Ukrainian Hall at 805 E. Pender.

The vets have been organized since October 13, 1937,
following their return from Spain, and include in their ranks
veterans of the Canadian Mac-Pap battalion; any veteran of
the International Brigades who is an established resident in
Canada, and any resident Canadian citizen who during the war
in Spain was actively involved in the loyalist cause and was so

Aims of the association are to maintain and defend the
integrity and independence of Canada as a sovereign state; to
defend and expand democracy in Canada, and aid in the restora:
tion of democracy to the Spanish Republic.

They also seek official recognition from the Canadian
government for those volunteers for liberty who are veterans
of the International Brigades, so they shall be accorded full
status as veterans of Canada’s wars. They request aid for those
members who were disabled or who are presently infirm or ill
as a result of their service in Spain.

The party on December 18 is open to the public. Tickets at
$1.50 are available at the Co-op Bookstore, Ukrainian Hall and
the office of the Pacific Tribune.

The pleasant evening will include a sing-song, dance and
smorgasbord. Everyone welcome.

A.R. Anthony, Victoria,
writes: I was suspended
yesterday afternoon from my job
without pay for a half-day’s work
for refusing to fall trees in a
hazardous canyon made more
dangerous by-the five and a half
inch fall of snow, without safety
footwear and safety equipment.

This project I am on is to
survey, and push through a road
from Kelsey Bay to Port Hardy,
the American mining Co. At
present we are going through
MacMillan-Bloedel forest
workings and I wish someone
would come out here and see the
destruction of our Canadian land
and photograph it.

‘ Trees have gone; roots have

been uprooted helter-skelter,
and now they are stripping
gravel beds for building private
company roads through land that
is under tree-farm license. It

ay

Xmas edition

The PT’s special Christmas
edition in color will be out on
December 18.-Individuals,
clubs, organizations and
others who wish to have their
greetings included should have
them in the PT office no later

would be interesting to know how
much they are getting to strip
the gravel beds.

Another point that bothers me
as a Canadian: I gave a lift to
two hitchhikers who were
planting trees paid by B.C.
Forest Service on MacMillan
Bloedel’s logged-out areas,
working 9 hours a day and
Saturdays with no time and a
half, at $1.75 an hour, with poor
billeting quarters.

I just cannot sit back and see

this rape of our natural

resources as you so correctly
placed it in one of your issues of
the Pacific Tribune.

RUMMAGE SALE

Dec. 5th, 11 a.m.—3 p.m.

-& BAZAAR

Dec. 6th, at 2 p.m.

CLINTON HALL

2605 East Pender St.
Proceeds to Children’s
Xmas Party.

than Friday, Dec. 11.

Creston ranchers hit
by loss of grazeland

Ranchers in the Creston Valley
are having worse than the usual
problems connected with making
a living.

Many acres of grazing land
have been turned over to Wildlife
Management, and ranchers are
being forced out. Some of them
say the supervisor of the WMA is
an American whose main
sympathies lie with the hunter
rather than the man who makes
a living on the land. However
that may be, the problems have
been multiplying in the last
several months, and ranchers do
not know where to turn to get the
situation rectified.

One rancher writes he has a
$300,000 investment in a dairy
herd operation but has now lost
a lease. on 1630 acres of grazing
land. He says the Wildlife
Management supervisor told
him the lease was cancelled by
the B.C. Department of Lands.
In turn the B.C. department told
him they expired the lease
because Wildlife Management
was taking over the area.

Another rancher, a widow,
writes “If I am deprived of my
pasture lands .. . I will be
forced to find an alternative. . .
I am a widow, am too old to be
retrained into a new profession,
and I am too young to collect old
age pension. . . My cattle have
been my whole life. . . and it is
being taken away fromme.. .”

This rancher states: ‘‘The wild
game, birds and cattle can get
along with each other. Their
main enemy is man. with his
destructive gun. The ducks on
my upper pasture nest in bushes
near the spring and the game

VITAL READING

Topical literature is available
at the People’s Co-operative
Bookstore, 341 West Pender St.,
685-5836.

My Lai 4-Seymour M. Herch—
A report on the massacre and its
aftermath— paperback— $2.25.

Chemical and Biological
Warefare — $2.25, by the same
author.

Tenant Rights— By Alderman
Harry Rankin and tenant leader
Bruce Yorke— 50 cents.

Pollution— A topical pamphlet
by alderman Harry Rankin about
a pressing civic issue— 50 cents.

The Only Good Indian —
recently printed collection of
essays by Canadian Indians
edited by Waubageshig— $3.50.

National Identity or Cultural
Genocide — A reply to Ottawa’s
new Indian policy — by Ben
Swankey— 35 cents.

Look On Canada Now —
Selected writings of Leslie
Morris, 1923,1964. This much
awaited book is now available —
$10.00 cloth and $3.95 paperback.
Ideal for gift.

B.C. readers kindly include 5
percent sales tax.

NEW YEAR'S EVE FROLIC

FISHERMEN’S HALL
138 East Cordova St.

CELEBRATE WITH FRIENDS!
FUN — FAVORS — REFRESHMENTS
Tickets — $12 per couple.
Reservations:
phone 688-5288 or 684-1451
AUSP: Van. Labor Social C’ttee.

- Attention ‘
PT. ALBERNI
READERS!
SOCIAL

EVENING

SAT. - DEC.12th At 8 P.M.
LONGSHOREMEN’S HALL
2nd Ave. So., Port Alberni
SLIDES OF “EXPO’JAPAN |

by HAROLD & JEAN PRITCHETT

(Refreshments)
AUSP..PT,Press Club» - All: Welcome

have their young up there also,
and they all go unmolested by
my cattle.”’

Ron Evans, vice-president of
the West Creston Livestock
Association, said in an interview
with the Creston Advance: “‘Not
only is grazing reduced, but the
time now allowed for grazing on
Game Management land has
been reduced.”’

While everyone agrees that

Wildlife Management is a wise
and necessary step, they do not
agree that agriculture,
especially the production of
necessary foods, should have to
suffer.

Cattle must have grazing land,
or raising. cattle is totally
uneconomic. The confusion that
exists between the Wildlife
Management authorities and the
provincial Department of Lands
should be cleared up without
delay.

“1 HAVE ASOLUTION--- ONLY ONE OF
US Witt EAT!’

B.C. Tel
Boost?

B.C. Telephone Co. is ask-
ing for an increase in rates
for this coming year, accord-
ing to president J. E.
Richardson. The Canadian
Transport Commission has
to give an OK before the
rates go into effect.

B.C. Tel is part and parcel
of American electronic mono-
polies.

The net profit of B.C. Tel in
1969 was $19,195’000; in 1968 it
was $16,900,000. At the time of
their last increase in 1958,
net profits were $4,100,000 so.
they have not done badly out
of the last rate hike.

This new appeal for a rate
increase will in all likeli-
hood raise again in the legis-
Jature the need to take over
the utility. Such a move could
bring B.C. telephone rates in
line with those on the prai-
ries, which are publicly
owned and operated.

IN MEMORIUM
In loving memory of a dear
husband and father, a loyal
Comrade and staunch fighter
for the rights of labor, the
family of CORAY CAMP-
BELL donates $10 to the

Pacific Tribune in _ his
memory.
Mary Campbell & Family

SURREY VOTE

Homes for Senior Citizens.

Endorsed by

Chronic Care Hospital Facilities.
Improved Bus Service & Rapid Transit
Remove School Costs from Homes.

BALL, Harry . . . New West. Labor Council

Aged.

*

VOTE “LENNOX” FOR SURREY

ENDORSED BY WESTMINSTER LABOR COUNCIL
* Low Rental Housing & Facilities for

Day Care Centres ;
* Rapid Transit & Better Bus Service
* Lower Educational Costs on Homes

_ Classified advertising

COMING EVEN?S:

DEC. 5 — SLIDE SHOWING by
Rod Doran on SOVIET UNION,
LITHUANIA & BLACK SEA
RESORT. SAT., DEC. 5th at 8
P.M. sharp. 426 - 8th St. NEW
WESTMINSTER. Refresh-
ments. Ausp: New. West. Club
CPA. Phone 521-5847 for
details.

_ NOTICES

.CANCELLED DEC. 5th showing

of JAPAN EXPO ’70 SLIDES
by North Burnaby Press Club.

WINNER of the LABOR
BAZAAR XMAS HAMPER was
Ticket No. 1137. Will MRS.
BUCKLEY — Ticket No. 456223
please claim SALMON PRIZE.

HALLS FOR RENT

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME-
Available for meetings, ban-
quets and weddings at rea-
sonable rates. 600 Campbell
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CLINTON HALL, 2605 East
Pender. Available for ban-
quets, meetings, weddings,
etc. Phone 253-7414.

CANADIAN,

UKRAINIAN
CULTURAL CENTRE —
805. East Pender St., Vancou-
ver 4. Available for Banquets,
Weddings, Meetings. Phone:
254-3436

BUSINESS PERSONALS

NEED CAR OR HOUSE IN-
SURANCE? Call Ben Swankey,
433-8323.

REGENT TAILORS LTD—
Custom Tailors and Ready-
to-Wear, 324 W. Hastings St.
MU 1-8456 or 4441 E. Hastings
—CY 8-2030. See Henry Ran-
kin for personal service.

DRY CLEANING
& LAUNDRY
Also Coin-op
LAUNDERETTE
2633 Commercial Dr.
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