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Seodwill,”’

Speaking at the opening of the
1969 Cowichan Valley Com-
munity Forest Museum, with a
beaming Premier W.A.C.
Bennett on the platform,
MacMillan told the people of B.C.
to re-elect the Socreds or ‘‘risk a
blight” on the forest industry
which, he said, an ‘unfriendly
government or too high taxes”’
will bring.

In making his threat,
MacMillan joined J.V. Clyne and
Sol Rothman, general manager
for Cominco operations in
western Canada. These warnings
indicate that the big business
community in B.C. is running
scared, and is embarked on an all-
out drive to ensure re-election of
the Socred government.

In one of his rare public
‘appearances, MacMillan heaped

Swa n-Woost

The Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday
Night demanded that no decision be made
On the Swan-Wooster recommendations
for a Second Narrows crossing and
freeways leading into the heart of the
City, until the public has had a full
Opportunity to discuss the question.

This action arose from indications that Mayor
Tom Campbell and members of city council are
determined to push through a decision at city hall
at Thursday’s meeting.

Dr. S. Pendakar, of UBC, addressed the labor
Council and pointed out there are big questions
Still unanswered such as: whom will it serve and
how much will it cost? He said the public should
be fully informed and consulted before any
decision is made. Dr. Pendakar said the Swan-

Ooster scheme is tentatively said to cost $40 to

__ 460 million, but that will only be a start. It will
a kely run into $600 million or more before

er scheme hit

completion. He said this would saddle taxpayers
with an $80 or more tax hike for the next 20 years
unless they make sure ‘‘who pays’’ now before

. any scheme is gone ahead with.

The VLC named secretary Paddy Neale and
Metropolitan Committee chairman Frank
Kennedy to attend Thursday’s council meeting to
back up the stand that there be no decision until a
full public discussion has taken place. The VLC
earlier submitted a brief on the scheme.

Speaking at seminar Sunday Ald. Harry Rankin
said that the decision facing city council on the
new Burrard crossing is perhaps the most
important to be made by the city in the next 25
years.

He added that the wrong decision on the
Burrard crossing issue could cause the city
irreparable damage at the expense of the ‘little
people.’’ Rankin has urged a rapid transit system
be given priority over freeways, and has charged
that big business promoters in the downtown area
want to funnel all traffic towards their ventures. - -

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VOL. 30, NO. 21

By MAURICE RUSH

praise on Premier Bennett and
the Socred government. ‘‘All
credit and all praise to Premier
Bennett for what he. has done
.. . L hope from the bottom of
my heart that none of these new
political bugs growing up can cut
him down. He knows how to
make use of the resources. Let
us all keep him there to do it.
You know, you can’t make
changes without taking risks
. . . but I don’t wish to take any
risks with us ending up the worse
off for it.””_

MacMillan said the forest
resource must be saved from
high taxes levied by ‘an
unfriendly government’, and
added that he was sure Bennett

_ does not head this sort of govern

ment.

He praised Premier Bennett's
choice of cabinet ministers as
“high quality people, especially
to run forests, mines and
agriculture .. .”’ (H.R. did not
mention that one of these “high
quality’ people. former attorney
general Robert Bonner, moved
from running these industries
from Victoria to the executive
suite at the MacMillan-Bloedel
building).

In an insulting reference to the
working people of the province.
MacMillan said some people
suggest owners .of timber
companies ‘‘don’t do anything.”
The fact is. he said. the owners
do the worrying. *‘as well as the
organizing to provide jobs. The
owners are competent to do the
worrying, while people
competent to do the ‘sweaty
work’ perhaps aren't.” he added.
To H.R. there are two kinds of
British Columbians: the
“competent organisers” of
industry and the ‘sweaty ones”
meaning the working people.

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TIMBER BARON
BACKS SOCREDS

MacMillan wants resource
giveaways to continue

Timber tycoon H.R. MacMillan is the latest powerful voice of big business to be
raised in a warning to British Columbians to stick with the Socred government and not
to elect a government unfriendly to the big monopolies— or else!

MacMillan-Bloedel, the
company which MacMillan
founded, has good reason for
wanting the Socred government
to continue in office. The
provincial government has
granted this giant monopoly.
which dominates the forest
industry, a vast empire of public
(Crown) forest lands under the
province's forest legislation.

The volume of timber granted
to MacMillan-Bloedel up to 1965
totalled 9,482,000,000 cubic feet —
and this in perpetuity, mostly for
a cent an acre per year. The
volume of public timber granted
to all the forest companies totals
23.2 billion cubic feet. This
means that MacMillan-Bloedel
received over 40 percent of the
total forest area granted to
private monopolies out of the
public domain.

The same giveaway policies
have been in operation in the
mining industry. natural gas. oil.
power and what have you. The
men who have grown fat from
the resources giveaways can be
expected to go all out to continue
the good thing they now have
going for them.

The chorus of big business men
coming out in support of the
Socred government with
warnings of dire consequences
should their privileges be ended.
will likelv be added to before
election day rolls around. Still to
be heard from is Frank
McMahon of Westcoast
Transmission fame. who can be
expected to again warn B.C.
workers that they stand to lose
"10.000 jobs’ — as he did in an
earlier election— if thev don't re-
elect the Socred government. We
will likely have to wait for this

See MacMILLAN, pg. 12

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