ft a - - ie 4% : 1 a ene 1st Issue, December, 1961 WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER Closer ECM Trade Ties Advocated Negotiations to secure closer trade relations with the European Common Market were advocated by IWA Regional President Joe Morris in a recent radio address. These would be necessary to pro- tect Canada’s export trade, he contended. “Blind and isolationist opposition to Britain’s entry into the European Common Market has proven to be the most fruitless of policies.” The IWA official stressed the im- portance of such negotiations be- cause of an obvious concern among lumber workers with regard to prospects for lumber exports to the United Kingdom. He described the opposition expressed by Canadian Ministers as ill-timed and _ short- sighted. It is reasonable to expect, he said, that Canada will ultimately gain in trade relations with Western Europe, after Britain becomes a member of the ECM. In a review of the situation he said, in part: “It has been difficult on this side of the Atlantic to realize the spectacular success of the Com- mon Market. Industries in all of the Inner Six countries have been pros- pering mightily. The freer exchange of goods has resulted in a higher standard of living in all these coun- tries. Unemployment has virtually disappeared. The striking economic growth now made apparent in the Inner Six countries holds many ob- ject lessons for Canada ... Let us not overlook the fact that trade with the ECM countries has risen in approximately the same ratio that trade has risen since 1958 with the United Kingdom. Economic Reasons “The economic reason for Britain joining the European Common Mar- ket is that she will lose a vast market in Europe if she stays out. She will also find that inside this Common Market 170,000,000 people will be offering her stiffer competition in world markets. Coupled with this is the fact that exports to Common- wealth countries have dropped from over 60% of total exports to less than forty. Since all Commonwealth countries are trying to industrialize themselves, and protect their infant industries, they have raised tariffs against British manufactured goods.” Inevitably a new kind of economy is growing and must grow in the free world. We must have satisfactory relationships with the six nations of the European Common Market, with the seven members of the European Free Trade Association and with the other free nations to whom we wish to sell, and from whom we need to buy. The idea of an Atlantic Commun- ity, it is encouraging to find, has many powerful advocates. In the United States the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act expires next June. It is said that President Kennedy is . Waging a fight to obtain “new tools” for the problems of international trade. Canada should be awake to new opportunities instead of bewail- ing the past. Basis Now Laid As a military alliance, the Atlantic Community has already taken shape in NATO, a team of European LOCAL FALL-OUT: ——_—$_$__—_, ITS INTENSITY AND EFFECT ON MAN gens for persons exposed _20_MEGATONS =f yee a nies ——4 or 96 hou pee miles L THE DAMAGE } A surface explosion of a nuclear bomb would bring local downwind fall-out of a minimum of 450 roent- urs. The distance for this intensity varies with the size of the bomb. 100 MEGATONS 50 MEGATONS Minor incapacitation ima ce, vi are Sn THE RADIATION The effect on the human body of short-term exposure to fall-out is measured in roentgens. A roentgen is thé unit used to measure the exposure dose of of gamma radiation, which is the most penetrating kind. Sickness and some deaths alt aE 200 0 400 ROENTGENS 500 One agency through which this can be achieved is the newly-formed Or- ganization for Economic Co-opera- tion and Development to which Canada and the U.S. both belong. The members of the OCED pro- duce far more than half of the world’s goods and conduct two thirds of its trade. Working together, these nations can tremendously ex- pand thir own commerce and help solve world economic problems. New Democratic Party Seeks Organizer Applications are invited for the position of ORGANIZER for the New Democratic Party for a period of at least one year, to commence in January. Send applications to the Provincial Secre- tary, 517 East Broadway, Vancouver 10, B.C. States plus the U.S. and Canada. It was originally intended to include economic co-operation, with some- thing like internal free trade. Prominent members of the Euro- pean Common Market quite openly state that their organization is only a half-way house. The goal is eventually an Atlantic Community. Poltical Programs Television and radio times for New Democratic Party speakers on the CBC’s British Columbia Provin- cial Affairs (free political time) pro- gramme is as follows: December 18 — CBC Radio. December 20 — CBC Television. Forest Fires Cost B.C. $15 Million Deputy Forest Minister of British Columbia, R. G. McKee, told dele- gates attending the Western Forestry Conference in Portland December 6, that B.C. has spent almost $15 mil- lion in the past four years fighting forest fires. This cost he stated is approxi- mately fifty per cent of the total fire fighting bill for all of Canada. Value of mature timber destroyed by fires in B.C. in that period is 800 million cubic feet with a conservative value of $16 million. Lost Timber “Over 500,000 acres of immature timber was also killed, valued at $100 million if it had lived to matur- ity,” he said. The deputy minister said this province has an immediate need for 12 water bombers of the Grumman Avenger type, five small “bird-dog” planes, and 10 “two-place helicop- ters” to aid in fire fighting and pre- vention. Lookout Systems He said lookout systems need to be augmented, too, and 100 miles of four-wheel drive truck trails need to be built. He told the delegates that until such times as catastrophic fire-fight- ing bills and losses are reduced, there’s not much point in talking about more intensified forestry on public lands in B.C. McKee said that less than six per cent of the fires account for more than 80 per cent of the fire fighting bills and a similar amount of dam- a ge. The fires get large because sup- pression forces can’t get there in time, he said. McKee pointed to one fire on a public working circle which has used up that circle’s stumpage revenue for the next four and one- half years. Salvage Job However, he said much of the fire-edamaged timber is being sal- vaged. In 1961 the Forest Service put up for sale 98 million cubic feet of fire killed timber. Only 16 mil- lion feet of this remains unsold, he said. 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