‘B.C. forest industry faces new
threat from high U.S. tarriffs

The very survival of B.C.’s forest industry is threatened by a recent move
in the U.S. to impose higher tariffs on the wood products entering the U.S.

Last week three senators from the U.S. Pacific northwest wired President
Kennedy urging him to rush through higher tariffs. The U.S. forest industry
is reported to be in a state of crisis.

Seventy-five percent of B.C.’s forest exports go to the U.S. Because of.
trade polciies which put all our eggs in the U.S. basket, B.C.’s economy, towards'
which forestry contributes 40%, is gravely menaced.

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| RIDAY, JULY 13,

BIG BUSINESS GANGS UP
ON SASK. MEDICARE PLAN

| ‘There are two kinds of doctors!’

Threatening violence to overthrow Saskatchewan’s
Medicare plan, the Liberal Party’s front organization, eas
Keep Our Doctor’s Committee, has joined with the Sas- ah ie
katchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an a
assortment of Socreds and Tories, to force the govern-

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is

(Stop US. spac
 *Weeps wor

eee B.C. Peace Council
it erated Wednesday that
Wil] Stage a protest

Bara
Sha © against the U.S.

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Us test, starting at the

“Ye, “Mbassy in Vancou-
Rotter Burrard and
9a. at 12 noon Friday.

§
fhe (Ock and horror swept
Moy, wt this week with the
hag, cment that the U.S.
Cute, *Ploded an H-bomb in
The race Monday.
Produc US. announcement
Worlg ed €n instant blast of
Major \de protest. In all
lang, ‘S@Pitals of the world
Dace €monstrations took
‘ bassigg Utside the U.S. em-
this a are continuing

2 No . af
height cial estimates put the
Ff the test at between

250 and 500 miles and the
force at ten megatons—equal
,_ to ten million tons of high ex-
plosive. <5
Atomic Energy Commission
officials claimed that any ef-
fects on the Van Allen
radiation belt would not be
known for at least two
eks.
e Epipatists have warned that
there has been insufficient
time to predict, what the full
effect of these tests would be
for humanity and the uni-
verse. They have urged the
space test be* called off and
warned of possible dire con-
nces involved.
eon the explosion of the
first nuclear bomb in ‘space
the U.S. now has credit for

three firsts.
It was first in starting the

e madmen’ cry
ld after new test

atomic race with its bombs
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It launched the hydrogen
bomb race by beginning work
on it.

And now it has started a
new stage in the nuclear
weapons race by exploding
an H-bomb where none have
been exploded before.

The latest U.S. test came as
the biggest peace congress in
history. opened its sessions
in Moscow. Larger and more
representative than any sim-
ilar gathering before, the del-
égates were stunned by the
announcement.

Many delegates took the -

rostrum. to denounce the

test. Opening the congress
British Prof. J. D. Bernal de-

clared the aim of the con-

See SPACE, pg. 3

against the medical health
scheme are the giant North
American drug monopolies
and insurance companies,
who are sworn enemies of
any government action
which might curb their pro-
fits.

Also giving strong support
to the reactionary gang-up
in Saskatchewan. is the U.S.
medical profession which has

organized a big campaign of

pressure. on the provincial
government to abandon the
plan.

The monopoly press in
Saskatchewan and_ through-
out Canada have joined in a
campaign against Medicare.
Concealing the real provi-
sions of the Medicare Act

Supporting Saskatchewan’s Medicare plan are the above

i} THE OATH OF THE OATH TO ae
} HIPPOCRATES HYPOCRISY ment to withdraw its social legislation.
Peseiure ns ) Sere Strongly backing the fight which have already been i

watered down to meet pre
vious objections by doctors
to the-point where much of
its value has been lost, the
monopoly press is determin-
ed not to allow a government
health scheme to take root
anywhere.
RECALLS B.C. ACT

The gang-up on the Medi-
care plan recalls the Health
Insurance Act which was
passed by the B.C. legisla-
ture in 1936, and which still
remains on the statute books,
but was never implemented
because of threats of actions
Similar to those now taking
place in the prairie province.

Answering charges against
the _Saskatchewan Medicare
See MEDICARE, pg. 3

demonstrators who picketed the offices of the B.C.
College of Physicians at 1807 W. Tenth on Tuesday.
This was one of many similar demonstrations during
the past week. These picketers are protesting the grant-
ir + of licences to Saskatchewan doctors to practise in B.C.

—Photo by Ben Clifford