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Angela Davis protest urged

3 The eyes of the world will be
4ocused on the courtroom in San
R afael, California Tuesday of
‘this week, where the arraign-
ent proceedings against
Angela Davis will mark the next
lage of the Reagan-Nixon drive
0 railroad the black Communist
ducator to the gas chamber. ,
At the arraignment, California
fficials will attempt to link
ngela Davis to the courthouse

ug. 7.

n the shooting.

An unprecedented protest
Ovement in the U.S. and
Tound the world has demanded
n end to the persecution of
ngela Davis.

Recently a large number of
eading personalities in France
ent a special message to Presi-
“ent Nixon. Last week a large
“sroup of Soviet women sent an
Ppeal to President Nixon to
Stop the disgraceful
€rsecution of Angela Davis.”
he group included cosmonaut
ikolayeva Tereshkova, Galina
lanova, and Soviet women
Prominent in Science, culture
and technology.

The U.S. United National Com-

hooting in San Rafael of last

ittee to Free Angela Davis last '

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Saturday called for stepped up
protests to save Angela Davis’
life.

Messages should be sent to
President Nixon and the
California Assistant Attorney
General Albert W. Harris in
Sacramento, California de-
manding that proceedings
against Miss Davis be quashed.

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BY MABEL RICHARDS

A few years ago a man who
ranches in the Cariboo country
south of Quesnel took a visitor to
a high point of land overlooking
the Fraser River. Pointing to the
sweep of land on the other side
he said ‘‘Once this land belonged
to my grandfather who came to
the Cariboo in the gold rush days
of 1868. Now every inch of it
belongs to an American from
Texas. And he never lives here.
Just uses it as a tax deduction,
that’s all!”’

The thousands of acres in that
particular ranch, and many
thousands more acres of farm
and ranch land have passed into
the hands of Americans. Some of
them use it honestly — operating
it themselves; others have taken
over the land once belonging to
Canadians as a ‘“‘tax deduction’,
and are strictly absentee land
barons.

Not only the farms and
ranches in the Cariboo have
become part of the American
Empire, but big mining
companies and pulp and paper
operations as well are turning
what Caribooites once fondly
called ‘“‘The Big Country” into a
hinterland of profit for foreign-
owned companies.

The small businessmen in the
Cariboo greet this exploitation of-
our natural resources with open
arms. To them it means money
in the bank. But the problems
inherent in industrial develop-

_Ment in any area bring more

than a few headaches to the
municipal and_ regional
authorities, as well as increased
tax burdens to the people, '
through the necessity of building
new roads, schools, sewers,
hospitals, pollution control, and
all the accoutrements that go
with an expanding population.
When thosé problems are
considered along with the fact
that the profits from the new
industries all too seldom are left
in the country, much less the
area, the people begin to wonder

if industrial ‘“‘progress’’ in this

OBITUARY

ROSS MINCHIN

Active. trade unionist and PT
supporter, Ross Minchin, 53,
passed away on Boxing Day.
Funeral service was held at
Bell's Funeral Home on East
Hastings on Dec. 30.

_ During the last 10 years
Minchin worked as a longshore-
man and before that as a
seaman. He suffered from a
heart condition. Members of his
family reside in Hamilton, Ont.

Benevolent Assn.
Of Canada

Progressive Fraternal Society
Caters to all your needs in the

day and age is all the Chambers’
of Commerce crack it up to be.
The editor of the Quesnel
Cariboo Observer in the issue of
December 30, 1970, put it this
way: “The year 1971 may be the
last of the lazy, free-wheeling
years. The writing is on the wall
that has, up until now, shielded
us from the merry antics of the
southern captains of industry
. . . The Cariboo will no longer
be just a stretch of open country
to separate Vancouver’s Howe
Street and the rapid
development of the north... .”’
“.. .There will be problems.
The coming of the Quesnel pulp
mill— seen as a miracle cure for
all the north Cariboo’s economic
ills — has already given some
lumber mill operators a case of
the shakes. The pulp mill people
shouldn’t go around chopping
down trees to crunch up into
chips, everyone agrees to that.
So the onus falls on the mills,
already struggling to make a

policy.’’ Can the
manufacture pulp chips for the }
price offered? They’ll have to, or
sell out to larger concerns. The
ugly word efficiency once again
emerges. . ..”

Once the country of the
Cariboo was spotted with small
saw mills which gave work to
many loggers and truckers. They
did not make a million, but it
was a liveable existence for the
worker who sought freedom
from the big city environment.

These small saw mill operators,

and to a great extent, the truck-
logger, have been forced out or
into bankruptcy by the inroads of
the large operators.

That of course is progress in -

today’s terms. But is the
monopolizing of the Cariboo
country by giant, American-Jap-
anese companies ‘“‘progress?”’

This is the question that the
editor of the Cariboo Observer
does not answer in his otherwise
excellent editorial.

He asks “‘Do we take away the
small ranches and set up large,
efficient ones that make a penny
or two per pound on that food for
the gods, beef? Do we dam the
Fraser in the south Cariboo to
provide British Columbia’s
population centre with power?
Do we embark on a develop-
ment plan to create tight little
packages of people or do we let
newcomers settle where they
desire in the Cariboo? Do we
keep inviting industry or do we
find out how much our
environment will handle and
draw the line there? (Nobody
else seems to have done this. )’’

Cuittséi country thiSdtened
by big foreign takeovers

Weldwood, which has strong
financial connections with U.S.
Plywood Corporation and who
boasts on its board of directors a
number of the financial elite of
Canada, is well entrenched in the
Cariboo with thousands of acres

of timber tied up. They are

building an $85 million dollar
pulp mill on the Quesnel River,
very close to the town.

Gibraltar Mines is putting ina
$74 million copper mine
operation at McLeese Lake,
halfway between Williams Lake
and Quesnel. This venture will

depend on American or Japanese °

money to get off the ground.
Block Brothers, who are
exploiting a one-time privately
owned ranch at 100 Mile House,
are also alleged to have been
helped by a large influx of
American, money. This is a
: ‘recreational’ project, but if
they benefit from it as richly as

they have from their other real

) j estate ventures in the Lower
dollar out of toothpick trees j

under the ‘‘close utilization :
mills {

Mainland, their American
friends can afford to settle on the
108 and twiddle their thumbs all
the rest of their days.

The pollution and economic
problems which has inevitably
followed not too far on the heels
of giant monopoly investment
has not really paid off for the
people in the southern part of the
province. Our resources are
going fast, and what we have left
is a vast cesspool of ecological
damage and many thousands
unemployed, with those who are
employed wondering daily when
the axe will fall on them.

The people of the Cariboo, the
Big Country which so many
B.C.’ites, other Canadians, and
Americans have enjoyed as a
holiday haven without peer,
should think twice before
allowing their vast, rich and
beautiful domain to become
only a haven for profit-seekers.

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