One day last month on rising
to get our logger husband off to
work, we looked out on a beauti-
ful scene: a full yellow moon
tow in the western sky, above the
mountains. Most people are still
sleeping, as they should be, at
the hour of 5 a.m, for it is night
for more than half the year. The
loggers who work around Co-
wichan Lake are out from 11 to
12 hours a day in order to put
in an 8-hour work day, This year
they want portal to portal pay,
which will shorten their hours,
more like the dark ages than what
we like to think of as the en-
lightened sixties!

All I.W.A. members in this
area have received an attractive
leaflet from their local office,
pointing out that the second stage
of negotiations has been com-
pleted with no offers from Forest
Industrial Relations,

Fronted by an imaginative pic-
ture by an artist whose name is
Hett, it depicts progress in the
forest industries from the age of
oxen and the tiny log cabin, to
modern methods of logging and
sawmilling. and the attractive
ears and homes of the present
day. All this-in a setting of
deep forest, with here and there
a clearing,

What it shows is the progress
won by woodworkers, who by their
massive toil have felled the years
of timber and converted it into
useful products. Their life’s
blood has gone into bettering
conditions for their fellow man
all around them, But it has al-
ways been a tremendous struggle
to win, in the first place, decent
wages,

And ever since the wood-
workers’ union was established,
it has beena tremendous struggle
to maintain a decent standard of
living, to get back sufficient of the
values they alone produce, to
enable them to provide the ne-
cessities of life for their fam-
ilies and themselves,

ake

The leaflet points out two
simple facts, one, the vast profits
that the lumber monopolies make
out of their labor; and secondly,
the skyrocketing cost of food,
since Marchof 1964 to the present
day. Bacon, up 66,1 percent,
Ham, up 81.6 percent. Eggs,
up 37,2 percent. Beef, up 21.5
percent. Bread, up 15 percent.

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Lettuce, up 38,5 percent, Apples,
up 78.6 percent, And so on, a
list of 25 products that we need
every day.

The hundreds of millions of
dollars in annual profits made by
the companies isastounding, The
local appeals for the one thing
that can determine the outcome
of negotiations, strong and force-
ful leadership, and all-out sup-
port on the job,

This area, as most people
know, is one of the richest tim-
ber reserves in B,C, All around
us grows the green stuff, And
yet, every year we hear the cry

for. higher taxes to finance

schools and hospitals, so neces-
sary to the population. Howoften
the people find themselves forced
to vote against these things be-
cause they haven’t got the money
to pay out, Why should they,
when there is enough of the
world’s best timber all aroundus
to give us all the educational and
hospital and medical facilities we
need? Every child should have
the opportunity for free education
right up to and including univer-

_Sity, if he desires it,

ie a ale

It makes one wonder. some-
times. how we can go on accept-
ing the fact that some big pri-
vate monopoly “has the God-
given right to pocket the millions
and millions of dollars in profits
that come out of the industry.
This rightfully belongs to the
people who bring those trees down
and make something of it. It be-
longs to them and to their
families, No one needs to be de-
nied anything, there is plenty,
plenty for all.

There is only one solution, and
that is a truly people’s govern-
ment, where no big company or
monopoly owns the resources of
this country. A government that
is run in the interests of people,
not in the interests of private
profits,

It’s going to be a big struggle,
but it will be won, one day, be-
cause socialism is on the agenda,
We just have to look at the
struggle being waged by so many
underdevelopéd countries of the
world to know that. They are
fighting to get rid of foreign
monopolies that hold them down,

They are holding us down too.
right now today, trying to cut the
hard-earned wages of wood-
workers by jumping the price of
food,

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Canada urged to ignore
U.S. threat over fisheries

The House of Commons stand-
ing committee on fisheries is
being asked this week to con-
sider adoption of a statement
presented: by MP Frank Howard
calling on the federal govern-
ment to ignore recent threats
posed by U.S, Senator Warren
Magnuson in the dispute between
Canada and the U.S. over U.S.
interpretation of salmon bound
for Canadian streams,

Senator Magnuson’s threat to
have the U.S, use economic pres-
sure on Canada to get its way in
the dispute over the division of
the Canadian pink salmon catch
has aroused widespread concern
in the fishing industry and led to
Howard’s proposed statement,

The U.S. has taken the position
that they have an almost unre-

stricted claim to salmon bound ~

for the Skéena River because
of so-called historic rights, which
means that once U.S, fishermen
have fished in an area their rights
exist in perpetuity, even at the
expense of the country that bred
the fish,

The Canadian delegation in the
fisheries’ talks has taken the
stand that inasmuch as the U.S,

would not agree to move its
southeastern Alaskan salmon net
fishing limits inward in the spirit
of the 1957 agreement establish-
ing such limits, that Canada has no
alternative but to announce that
it must review its established
limits with the possibility that
those limits would be moved
seaward,

U.S. Senator Magnuson has
countered this stand by Canada
in. way that the U.S, is prone to
deal with international issues
these days: by showing their bare
knuckles, He has threatened that
“the Congress of the UnitedStates
will become an immediate party
to the dispute,” and has also
threatened economic sanctions in
the form of curtailed importation
into the U.S, of Canadian fish
products,

The statement which Howard
will urge the House of Commons
standing committee on fisheries
to adopt says that Senator Mag-
nuson’s statement “detracts from
the spirit of co-operation,” It
adds that “a mutually acceptable
agreement about division of catch
is necessary but cannot see how
“such an agreement can be reach-
ed when one party to the dis-

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cussions resorts to the threat of
economic sanctions.”

Pressure from the U.S, is
building up for a postponement
of the negotiations meeting pro-~
posed by May 17 in Seattle “to
a time beyond the coming salmon
season.” The aim of the post-
ponement is to prevent negotia-
tions on a settlement by the time
of this year’s fishing season.

The House of Commons stand-
ing committee on fisheries is to
be asked this week to support
and press for the meeting to take
place on May 17, Otherwise, Can-
ada will be left with no alterna-
tive but to take unilateral action
to protect its fisheries,

YOUTH AID
TO VIETNAM

Last Thursday, May 5, a gath-
ering of youth, deeply concerned
with the human suffering of the
people of Vietnam, met to form
the “Youth Committee for Medi-
cal Aid to Vietnam civilians,”

The Youth Committee is start-
ing a door to door campaign in
the Vancouver East area to raise
funds for the purchase of medical
supplies to be sent to Vietnam.
Other fund raising plans for the
Youth Committee are public
meetirfgs, film and slide show-
ings, parties, panels, debates and
cultural events.

All funds raised by the Youth
Committee will be donated to
the Canadian Aid for Vietnam
Civilians Committee, Box 2543
in Vancouver, :-

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