» Bet Where forest steal looms oe eee This m ner, sh ice mono en. Ma. = earings on the licences are due in April and a All sh . ‘@p, with index in the upper right hand cor- Ws the vast public forests which U.S. and Can- polies are seeking to grab through forest’ ze ane black areas are licences already granted. ©d areas are being applied for. Double shad- Liar “ \ the same forests. ‘TREE FARM LICENCE AND * PULP HARVESTING AREA: APPLICATIONS 1A. MacMillan,Bloedel & Powell River Ltd. T.F.L. Application. 1B, MacMillan,Bloedel ‘& Powell River Ltd, P.H.A. Application. 2. Bulkley Valley Pulp & Timber Linited, P.H.A. Application.. ¢ Celgar Limited. — T.F.L. Application. “4. Alexandria Forest Produete. T.F.L. Application,” 5. Northwood Mills Ltd. P.H.A. Application, CROWN: RESERVES 6. United Pulp Co. P.H.A. Application. 7. Rayonier Canada Ltd. P.H.A. Application. S. Canal Development Co, P.H.A. Application, @. Rupert Enterpfises Ltd, P.H.A. Application, GL P.H.A. Nearing date tentatively set, TL oe a fet Applications enly, ed areas show where monopolies are fighting over The B.C» Communist Party has written Premier Bennett demanding that a new Royal Commission on Forestry be set up and that no licences be granted pending the findings of such a probe. McNAUGHTON’S WARNING TO MARTIN: Withdraw from dangerous treaty While we can for Canada’s sake old a Counsel to you, as an ae of very long standing; Seroys ae Taw from this dan- May, for as while yet you his w he sake of Canada.”’ Seneray oS the advice given by in g Totter G. L. McNaughton &Cretar ra few weeks ago to Atfains 14 of State for External Negotiat artin, chief government ty, °r on the Columbia Trea- i In his letter recently made pub- & Naughton wrote; eoreta,) You Mr. Martin, ternal * ary of State for Ex- Breda cuts: Canada, with the Propose Bess, that if this Is atin olumbia River treaty bY the oe Libby will be built after, 44, . “1d for all time there- by “ate *S action made possible th th Self and your colleagues eo ernment of Canada will ficiay yy. Vo Canada of the bene- Waters © and control over the Of Canad sees ast cai. origin in the ° tight to divert Na On Pe siither letter to Martin otocol ya 2? 1964, after the Wrote 4S signed, McNaughton ts Spok the paw smen have stated that ate at of the treaty will be Us. : Surplus of power in the Considers 1968 for a decade. able, that this is made avail- for wae aluminum industry, nA oe at dump rates, to On Kitim it. What is thie effect Ollectign I have a vivid re- Tesseq Of the anxieties ex- Y Alcan at the time of the K e leq dire * Dam proposal which ce we Teh tly to the intervention ing x poe and the pass- Bi ternational Rivers Ih th Nausi: (etter to Martin Mc- jack ea JECtign 6 cently expressed ob- of ee interpretations Cle in the protocol i under which Canada is ‘‘given’’ the right to divert the Colum- bia. ‘In dealings with the Un- ited States a future right and its exercise are two quite distinct matters,’’ he said, House hearings Explaining his stand on diver- sion of the Columbia, McNaugh- ton states that ‘‘a diversion out of the Columbia basin will, with- out a doubt, be construed as an injury to the U.S. because of the right given the U.S. under the treaty to build Libby, and such a diversion would cause damage and loss in the U.S. exceeding benefits. “So whether or not a right has been given to divert for consump- tive use, or any other use, its exercise will be subject to con- sent, and if this has not been given, the damages could be pro- hibitive This is an ini- quitous arrangement under which RAN. HARDING, NDP-MLA, brand- ed the Columbia Treaty as @ bad one and catastrophe for B.C. in the House this week. Canada is to be bound and the U.S. in fact left free.”’ The Columbia River treaty and protocol are now before the Ex- ternal Affairs Committee of Par- liament where it is expected to come under sharp fire. McNau- ghton’s appearance before the committee will be coming up, as well as many brief’s from in- terested organizations oOppos- ing the treaty. Of particular interest recent- ly was an article in the Feb. 15 issue of ‘‘Business Week’’. Pointing out that ‘‘U.S. and Can- adian power interests are taking some close looks at ways to pring out’? the 40-million kilo- watts in Canada, the article says: «¢The new protocol for the trea- ty on developing the Columbia River calls for Canada to build three dams with the power from them all going to public and pri- vate systems in the U.S.” ‘¢some two dozen transmission ties already exist along the bor- 9 der. 4 «Some of the more optomistie, in fact, even speak of a future North American power grid — pooling into one vast system U.S. and Canadian power resources.”’ It’s clear from: the above that whatever becomes of the pre- sent Columbia treaty the fight to save Canadian power resourc- es from wholesale giveaway to the U.S. will not be over — put will only be beginning. French CP makes gains The French Communist Party Monday doubled the number of seats it holds in the Depart- mental Councils. Although only half the Coun- cil seats were up for election, the Communists increased their number of seats from 50 to 100, | Women plan new moves in high prices fight The Women Against High Prices Committee wishes to ex- press their appreciation to all those who actively worked in the ‘*No Sugar Week’’ campaign, putting out leaflets, phoning etc., and also those who supported it by refraining from buying sugar that week. The Committee hopes that the success of the campaign to date will encourage more consumers to take up the fight against high prices. Mrs. Elaine Podovinnikoff, Chairman of the Committee, ur- ges more pressure to bring the price of sugar back to the Oct. 762 level of 73¢ per lb. Point- ing out that while the price of a 10 lb. bag of sugar has decreas- ed, the 5 lb. bag, (the most popular size) remains at its ori- ginal high price, Mrs. Podovinni- koff calls on the buying public to purchase as little sugar as possible, until further decreases take place. Turning to other it- ems in daily living which swal- low far too much of the con- sumer’s budget, Mrs. Podovin- nikoff announced that the WAHP Committee is initiating a cam- paign to have the Sales Tax removed from some of these es- sential items. ‘‘This tax is most unfair’ she said, ‘and creates extra problems for people in the modest income _ bracket, and more so for those on fixed in- comes, and the unemployed.’’ The week of April 13 to 18 is being set as a concentration time against the sales tax on soap, toothpaste, detergents, bathroom tissue, and other es- sential toiletries products. A meeting of the WAHP Com- mittee will be held to discuss the many aspects of the anti- Sales Tax campaign, on Wed- nesday, April 8th, 8 p.m., in Room 8, Labor Temple, 307 W. Broadway. Trade unions, Auxili- aries, women’s groups, and in- terested citizens are cordially invited to attend, and help with the campaign. Prices at new high OTTAWA—Living costs in Canada rose to a new high in January—up three-tenths of a point to 134.5. Socred forest policy under sharp attack The Socred government’s forest policy came under sharp YOUTH Cont'd from pg. 1 * A Petro-Chemical Industry. * A Steel Industry. * An East-West Power Grid, to supply Canadian power needs, ‘In its excellently prepared and presented submission, the dele- gation pointed to thousands of ‘products which could be process- ed under a properly regulated wood and chemical industry. These products range ‘‘from the heaviest structural timber to sheer rayon.”’ But instead of developing B.C.’s natural resources along these lines the provincial gov- ernment ‘‘has been content to let U.S. capital investments gobble up our vast forest reserves and ship wood and pulp,’’ along with unprocessed iron ore, ‘‘to the U.S. and Japan.’’ * cs * The brief demanded that city council press the Socred gov- ernment to establish a commis- sion which would study the thous- ands of commercial and indust- rial uses of wood and petroleum. It further demanded that the new provincial **Bank of B,C.’’ should launch a Crown Company for the purpose of creating such industries in the province. The submission went on to point out however, that before any serious consideration can be given to establishing a Can- adian industrial complex, aplent- iful supply of cheap power must be guaranteed. In this connection, implemen- tation of the McNaughton Plan for development of the Columbia River—as the basis for an East- West power grid—was essential. Turning to the question of Van-~ couver’s port and trade with the Pacific Rim countries, it showed that Vancouver’s trade withthese countries could be increased many times over if we had pro- cessing industries. Acting Mayor Halford Wilson thanked the two youth delegates for their ‘well-thought-out brief and its presentation.’’ He in- formed them the contents would be turned over to one of council’s standing committees for con- sideration. fire in the Legislature from many sides this week. MLA Gordon Gibson charged that management is getting most of the forest pie while ‘‘the ones getting almost nothing are Brit- ish Columbians.”’ He said the province’s net income from the forest industry was only $14 million or about two percent of the total forest income. Compared with this, the government spent $21 million to run the forests, including giv- ing trees free for reforestration. Gibson said the companies can afford to pay $86 million more a year in revenue to the proy- ince. Last week the B.C. Communist Party sent a letter to every MLA opposing present forest pol- icy and urging an early Royal Commission. Also Tuesday, Tony Gargrave told the legislature’s forestry committee that there has been a dearth of good sound discussion on forest policies, and he crit- icized the big corporations for failing to appear before the com- mittee. Speaking for the first time on forest policy, NDP leader R. Strachan hit the proposed lic- ence for Alexandria Forest Products in northern B.C. Former agriculture minister Alvin Hamilton, now touring China, told B.C. lumbermen they should visit Peking to promote sales. Hamilton is widely credited with having opened the way for the grain dea! with People’s China. He has indi- cated that there is also a vast mar- ket for lumber products there. March 20, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 .