News Jteti:- B.C. liquor sales in 1970
amounted to $224 million, bringing the gov-

eee Prorre of almost $65 millions. J

1971 profits $25.5 millions |

BY MABEL RICHARDS

Shed a tear for J.V. Clyne. His
company, MacMillan Bloedel,
madea profit of only $25.5 million
in 1971 and his heart is wrung by
the plight of the shareholders
whom he infers rely on their
dividends to pay the rent.

Crown Zellerbach and B.C.
Forest Products cried their way
to the bank with net returns of
close to $9 million and $5.45
million respectively. These

‘figures, of course, are the

figures for public digestion and
do not take into account the
amounts allowed for invest-
-ments, depreciation and all the
other gimmicks possible under
our tax laws.

Woodworkers in the IWA were
made aware of the real facts
regarding forest company
returns when they met last
month at the Coast Conference
on Wages and Contract. The

Mac-Blo real estate plan
will add to huge protits

Plans recen
i tly announced by
aeMillan Bloedel to turn large
S of land previously used for

Be
-681Ng over to real estate promo-

lon i
ie aroused wide criticism
ae Onservationist groups in

ao decision by MB to go into
ae estate business was
Officials oeaE neni

a e Said land throughout
Bint a half of Vancouver
Gea echelt Peninsula, Gulf
isGula ee aa River area,
Teal estat ivided and sold as
rateMillan Bloedel holds huge
: of private forest lands: It

of
sown forest lands under Tree
ran Licenses granted by the
7 Cial government. What it
fowie do now is to utilize
ands for its forestry

operations while selling off its
private lands at great profit to
the company.

What the latest plan boils down
to is another scheme to amass
even greater profits by selling
off profitable private forest

lands, while depending on public

forest lands to get cheap raw
materials for the monopoly’s
industrial enterprises.

In keeping with this plan, the
company is putting up strong
opposition to demands from
conservation groups that a
portion of public forest lands on
the West Coast of Vancouver
Island be withdrawn from a

isa
SO one of the largest holders:7o Tree Farm: Licence held by MB

for the Pacific Rim National
Park. The proposed park would
be one of B.C.’s most beautiful
natural forest areas left on the

B.C. coast.

Art, Socio-

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Also:

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The company is claiming that
loss of a part of the Licence on
the West Coast would lose
important log supplies which
would undercut production and
lead to loss of jobs. The hypoc-
risy of the company is seen in the
fact that alienation of huge
tracts of company-owned forest
lands by the new real estate
promotion would lead to aliena-
tion of this land from forestry.
The argument the company uses
on the West Coast of the Island to
oppose the park, it completely
ignores on its privately-owned
forest lands.

Spokesmen for the Sierra Club
of B.C. have charged that sale of
the company’s private forest
lands will eventually remove
large areas of land from
sustained-yield forestry and
lower the amount of fibre going
to the company’s mills, resulting
in loss of jobs.

They point out that the
decision by MB indicates that
there are moves by private
forest companies to turn profit-
able forest lands into sub-
divisions and that this will lead
to rising pressures by these
companies to expand logging on
Crown forest lands and for more
public forests to be turned over
to them under Tree Farm
Licenses.

What is involved in this latest
move by MB is another huge

profit squeeze on the public:

Turn our privately-owned forest
lands into more profits by
putting it on the real estate
market. At the same time press
for more intensive exploitation
of Crown forests to meet
production needs.In the end the
public will pay and MB’s profits
will go up.

The company should be told in
no uncertain terms that if it has
more forest land than it now
needs for its operations that the
government will withdraw some
of the Crown lands. MB can’t
have it both ways: more Crown
lands for forestry so that it can
sell its own forest land as real

estate.

tired refrain from the bosses
that increased wages were an
impossibility was given the lie
in a massive study compiled
from authoritative sources for
the union.

It was emphasized that in
every phase of the woods
industry the production per man-
year has increased dramatically
since 1960. Where a logger
produced 65 thousand cubic feet
twelve years ago, as an example,
he cut 96 thousand c.f. in 1970.

Sawmill production per man
jumped from 127 thousand
board foot in 1950 to 315 thou-
sand B.F: in 1970. Pulp and
paper, from 279 tons to 500 tons
per man in the same period. As
the work force decreased,
production increased.

Not least, the IWA figures
demonstrated that labor costs
decreased in relation to the unit
cost of production.

Last week the IWA went into
negotiations with Forest Indus-
trial Relations (FIR) which is
headed up by John Billings. A
press conference called by the
union before the talks began
heard Regional President Jack
Moore say that company profits

are up, lumber prices are up, and
productivity is up, and he is con-:
vinced the employers can afford
the increases asked by the union.
“If it comes to a strike it will be
their fault,” he warned.

The IWA is demanding a $1
per hour increase on a base rate
of $3.72. They are demanding a
say in the size of crews, a say in
pollution control, and overall
revision of 75 cents an hour for
hourly-paid logging categories,
free room and board for loggers,
a 50 cent an hour increase for
tradesmen, double time for.
overtime, a pension plan to be
paid by the employer and other
fringe benefits.

‘There has not been a strike in
the industry on the coast since
1959. Whether there is one this
year or not depends in full
measure on whether the workers
win a Satisfactory contract
settlement.

That applies as well to the
southern interior, where wood-
workers are seeking wage parity
with coast locals. They are
asking for $1.14 an hour across
the board and are demanding
parity in health, welfare, vaca-
tion, pension and _ dental
programs.

STOCK.
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\) WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THOUSANDS

OF PEOPLE WORKED HARD FOR, MY
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