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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1967

VOL. 28, NO. 35

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of huge mineral resource

By MAURICE RUSH
The Liberal government in Ottawa has given its appro-
val to a huge deal which will see some of the most powerful
U.S. financial groups take over control of rich mineral deposits
in the Yukon for exclusive export to Japan. Ottawa has also.
agreed to build roads and other facilities out of public funds
to facilitate the biggest sellout in the history of Canada’s

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wn above, carried placards condemning Greece's fascist military govern

Vietnam vote big fraud

some of

This week one of the candidates
for Premier changed the South Vietnamese armed
forces have been issued two voting cards.

Most of the voting will take place in villages
which are surrounded by barbed wire and are
virtually concentration camps in which the chief’s
word is often law. Villagers live under the sone
of reprisals if they don’t vote — and if they don’t

vote the right way.

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are unacceptable to
been screened and some
which means that the sla
for public office are consider:

military clique.

ese features, candidates who
the military dictatorship have
pared from running —
te offering themselves
ed “politically safe.”

Growing opposition to the war in the U.S, is
now centred on the giant peace march will con-
verge in Washington, D.C. on October 21 for a
mass anti-war rally. Expected to be the largest
demonstration ever to be held in the U.S.,
marchers have already left from many parts of
the U.S, for the long trek to the nation’s capital,

north.

The deal announced last Fri-
day by the Anvil Mining Corpora-
tion ensures that “the vision of
Canada’s north,” about which
Canadian politicians have been so
glib, will now be wrapped in an
American flag, and that the whole
northland of Canada — and its
storehouse of treasures — will
be developed and controlled by
U.S, capital,

Involved in the giveaway are
an estimated 75 million tons of
lead-zinc ores with some silver.
The $60 million Anvil Mine will
be on the Pelly River, north of
Whitehorse. The Company an-
nounced this week that it has
signed sales contracts with
Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co,
and Toho Zinc Co, of Japan for
the total mine output for the next
eight years,

According to reports, con
tracts over this period are ex-
pected to bring the mining corp-

oration about $250 million, The.

deposits are reported to be fab-
ulously rich, containing about 69
percent lead and 20 ounces of
silver per ton, Zinc concentrates
run as high as 54 percent,

An important feature of the
deal, in which the Federal gov-
ernment is involved, is that all
ores and concentrates will be
shipped directly to Alaskan

ports — probably Skagway or
Haines — for export to Japan,
The huge development will thus
bypass B.C, completely.

The significance of this ar-
rangement is that the Federal
government has committed it-
self to a policy of integrating
Canada’s northland, especially
the Yukon, with Alaska, It’s a
form of continentalism applied
to Canada’s north under which
the major profits and economic
benefits will go to U.S, groups,

To facilitate the deal, the Fed-
eral government has undertaken
to dig deep into the nublic trea-
sury to build facilities which will
cost many millions of dollars,
Seven and a half million dollars
will be spent by Ottawa just for
a development road from Ross
River to Carmacks,

Ottawa will also pay out of
public funds about two-thirds of
the cost of an access road and
bridge to the new townsite and
mine pit, Ottawa hasalso under-
taken to improve existing routes
or build new ones to the Alaskan
ports of Skagway or Haines — a
distance of about 350 miles ata
cost of many millions of dollars,

Sixty percent of the ownership
will rest in U.S, hands and 40
percent is reported to be Can-
adian capital, American firms
involved in the deal are the First
National City Bank of New York,
Bankers Trust Co, and United
California Bank, Engineering
work for the giant Anvil operation
is being done by the Ralph M,
Parsons Co, aname well familiar
to Canadians concerned with their
water resources, This is the
firm of U.S, engineers which
drew up and are promoting the
Parsons’ Plan for diversion of
B.C. water to the U.S.

To make the bitter pill more
palatable for Canadians, the An-
vil Corporation has agreed that
it- will “study the feasibility”
of building a lead-zinc smelter
in the Yukon,