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Woodfibre
eviction order from U.S.

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1971

WAR PROTESTS
ROCK NIXON

residents

Vol. 32. No. 16

ight

See below

Huge protests against the U.S. war in Indochina and demands for a complete
and early withdrawal of all U.S. armed forces swept across the U.S., Canada and
around the world this week in a spring offensive for peace which shook the Nixon

administration to its foundation.

death of B.C. town

remains at the ceutre of the
struggles of the people for peace
in the world.”

i
: The powerful sweep of anti- !
fl war opinion in the U.S., which Support for Indochina War,’’ International Law, L. Gordon
i embraces all sections of society, expressed the overwhelming Jahnke is to speak. The film |
i including large numbers of U.S. opinion of Canadians. “Judgment at Nuremberg” will
y veterans, testifies to the gponsored by the Ad Hoc be shown.
y deepening crisis of Nixon's false Committee to End the Indochina Other anti-war activities are
$ “Vietnamization”’ policy. War, on April 23, the public is also being undertaken in B.C.
Demonstrations are taking invited to assemble at the and Vancouver by other groups

place in all major Canadian Courthouse at 7:30 p.m. and then over the April 23-25 weekend.

centres. In Vancouver, the main march to Christ Church : =

slogan of the Candlelight march Cathedral at Burrard and ee in Toronto last

Friday night: ‘End Canadian Georgia where UBC professor weekend, the Central Committee
! : of the Communist Party of
¢ Canada adopted a statement
, . which said that ‘‘enforcement of
! rus or ers the demand that the U:S.
i awe withdraws completely its armed

forces from Southeast Asia

| | BY BRUCE YORKE . The hard-hitting statement

A giant United States trust, the International Telephone & said that escalation of the war b
Telegraph Corporation (ITT), of 320 Park Avenue, New York, has the U.S. imperialists arid their
ordered the death of Woodfibre, a small sixty year old pulp town on South Vietnamese puppets into

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But the pulpworkers and their
families refuse to bow to the
dictates of the foreign overlords
and are conducting a many sided
battle to preserve the com
munity. :

About a month ago the
directors of ITT, the world’s
largest communications
monopoly with assets of
$5,192,587,000 and 1969 profits of
$234,000,000, announced plans to
shut down the 130 odd Woodfibre
company houses they rent to the
pulpworkers. The first phase
would commence in September
1971 and according to the
company dictate, Woodfibre as a
residential community would no
longer exist by September 1973.

However, the pulpworkers and
their families, townspeople
generally. and even-the technical
and middle management
personnel have different ideas.
In consultation with the British
Columbia Tenants Organization
they have formed the Woodfibre
Tenants Council, and through
this organized strength, have

the west side of Howe Sound, British Columbia.

conducted a series of actions
designed to preserve the
community.

Two meetings of the executive
of the Woodfibre Tenants
Council and the local plant
management have been held.
These meetings have revealed
two things. First, the company
(Rayonier, a 100% subsidiary of
ITT), is not prepared to give any
substantial financial assistance
regarding relocation costs; and
second, even the local manage-

See TOWN, pg. 12

Cambodia and Laos make it
crystal clear that U.S. imper-
ialism seeks a military solution
of their aggressive aims in
Indochina, including the per-
manent occupation of South
Vietnam.

The Communist Party state-
ment warns that there is ‘‘a
dangerous possibility’’ of this
U.S. aggression escalating into
a war of world proportions.
‘This possibility is under-
scored by persistent threat of
invasion of the territory of the

See WAR PROTEST, pg. 12

Special report

Soviet Congress

See pgs. 8 to 11