3/2 million acres at stake FOREST MONOPOLY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1964 VOL. 25, NO.6 SCHOOL BOYCOTT! FREEDOM DAY FEBRUARY 3,1964 JOIN THE ONE DAY BOYCOTT! NEGRO FREEDOM FIGHT. This week Negroes in New York made history i @ mass boycott of the city’s schools to force integration of the ti ©ol system. Above is the poster issued in support of the demonstra- on. Negro and white children boycotted school for that day and all ighools were picketed. The demonstration will ‘carry the Negro revo- 0n to the schoolyards of New York City” says the committee in charge. The United Federation of T hers has a d it will defend any teacher who participates in the boycott. By MAURICE RUSH PLANS HUGE GRAB A huge deal involving U.S. and Canadian monopolies is underway to grab off 3.5 million acres of merchantable B.C. forest land in northern B.C. for a sawmill and pulp empire which will gobble up 40 million cubic feet of logs each year for production of lumber, pulp and other semi- processed products. government for a tree May. Principal parties behind the deal involve some of the most powerful monopoly groups in the U.S. and Canada. To carry through the dealB.C. Forest Products has taken over Alexandra Forest Industry, off- spring of the Wenner-Gren in- terests, to form a holding com- pany to exploit the vast area 150 miles north of Prince George. The new combine would tre- mendously strengthen the grip of U.S. monopolies on B.C.’s forest industry. The new merger would make B.C. Forest Products one of the major competing giants in the forest industry. Although long considered a Canadian company, its capital structure has changed. E. P. Taylor’s Argus interests. hold 400,000 shares in BCFP, while U.S. Forest monopolies now hold 1.7 million shares. Included among these are Mead Corp., a Dayton Ohio company, and Scott Paper. The latter also holds 50 percent control of New West- minster Paper. Controlling interests in thenew company will thereby rest in the hands of Argus, Mead and Scott corporations. Seeking to win public favor, the newly-formed company announc- ed last week that it will create new jobs by building a pulp mill with a daily capacity of 600 tons and a sawmill producing 50 mil- lion board feet annually. While suchplants will certainly create some new jobs, this will be at the expense ofallowing fur- ther strengthening the raw ma- terial economy of B.C. andalien- ating resources which, if proces- sed into manufactured articles es VLC hits A-arms at Comox; Street ‘blitz’ next Saturday Responding to a recent request * Canada of A-arms and make the e NDP national leader T. C. ‘ at made while addressing 1000 students at UBC, for a na- tional crusade to rid Canada of aes weapons, Vancouver La- ae Council Tuesday night unani- Thad endorsed an executive ommendation to ‘‘reaffirm la- oe S opposition to the storage Nuclear arms at the-Comox base,’ See in Vancouver last ies 2s the annual meeting of the es * Feace Council decided to ensify the campaign to rid country a nuclear-free zone. The Council has had postcards printed addressed to the-Prime Minister asking that he reverse his government’s policy and rid Canada of nuclear arms. A one day ‘‘blitz’’ signature campaign in downtown Vancouver is planned for Saturday, February 15 to get the maximum number of cards to Ottawa intime for when Parlia- ment opens in mid-February. In addition, other peace groups, trade unions, young people’s - groups and others are being ask- ed to take quantities of the card for distribution among the members. The proposal to bring nuclear warheads to Comox is to be pro- tested by a delegation to the Vic- toria Legislature. The delegation will leave Vancouver Tuesday ev- ening, February 18 and will pre- sent a brief to the B.C. govern- ment. They will interview as many MLS’s as possible. The meeting was asked to see that letters be sent to MLA’s ahead of the dele- See A-ARMS, pg. 3 Application has already been made to the B.C. farm license which may be decided upon early in in B.C., could provide thousands of permanent jobs and tens of millions of dollars of new income each year. Also of considerable signifi- cance is the announcement that the new U.S.—dominated company will rely on the use of Peace River power which will be avail- able in the area, it is expected, by 1968. The application of large blocks of Peace River power to the for- est resources in the area could provide for a vast wood manu- facturing industry which would transform the north. Instead, it will be turned over to U.S. and Canadian monopoly interests to amass huge profits from exploit- ing public forests and power to produce raw and semi-processed products, mainly for the U.S. market. The pattern of Socred policies for the north, and for development of the Peace River, becomes in- creasingly clear with the an- nouncement of the application for the tree farm license. Under Socred policy, the Peace is to. be- used to provide great quantities of power for monopoly groups, largely U.S., to exploit the un- limited natural wealth of the north for private profit. The need for a change in B.C.’s economic policy from that of a See FOREST GRAB, pg. 3 <= ~~ =p ~— Fort Nelson | | Ws Hudson Hope ~*| ) ae Sip p ] ! A Prince George | é liam 4 | ! s ef Lake ee | 5 SCENE OF VAST FOREST GIVEAWAY. Map above shows the hu (shaded) which B.C. Forest Products is ‘ying to get as a tree toe meas from the Socred government. The area is twice as large as the Esquimalt- Nanaimo land grant on Vancouver Island which stands as one of the most scandalous giveaways in B.C.’s earlier history. e B.C.’s shocking welfare situation -pPg.5 ® Canada needs a New Economic Policy -Ps.7 ® Columbia pact changes mask sellout -pg. 12