aa OCTOBER 16, 1964 L. 25 —Ol. 25, NO. 42 <>" 10¢€ ‘A =e Ce SS STARA A SAS SST SVT ST VVBV VSS STBT TTT VTS NEW SOVIET ACHIEVEMENT ‘Giant stride into space’ The world this week hailed ~, 4 new “Sunrise” in man’s €xploration of space when the New Soviet space “bus” —»+ Voskho d, meaning Sunrise, With three men aboard, circled the earth 16 times injustover 24 hours, The space ship with a pilot, doctor and scientist aboard, Was reported to weigh in ex- fess of 15 tons and included €xtensive scientific equipment for furthering man’s know- ledge of outer space. Placing the Soviet Union far ahead of the rest of the world in space exploration, praise for the Soviet achievement as Marking a new “giant stride into Space,” came from many Corners of the world. COL. KOMAROV, pilot of first space “bus.” into space without pressurized space suits. This latest flight, which em- Phasizes the Soviet Union’s The full extent of the scien- Preoccupation with peaceful tific advance marked by this €xploration of space, hadmany flight will not be known until firsts. Among these was the all the data has been studied. first flight with more than one Person aboard, It wasthefirst | The type of booster rocket ime a space vehicle landed used to place the spaceship Nn earth afterit’sflight*much in orbit is reported to be at ike a helicopter.” It was the least ten timés more powerful first time human’s had gone than the largest in the U.S. DR. YEGOROV, first doctor in space. PROF. FEOKTISTOV, first scientist in space. RDS SRSA T VV VT BV VVVVVVVVSVV WD PVT VVPVVVVVVVT SVT VD VVTVVVS VT VVVTVVSSVVVVVVVTTTVVVTVVTTSBVTSVBVVVT VT ST VT SVVVVVVWVVVV2% Stine TWWVWRVWVWVWWWGVVTT FOREST GIVEAWAYS BLASTED BY LABOR ‘Must stop selling our birthright’ Speaking for more than 100,000 B.C. trade unionists, the B.C. Federa- tion of Labor convention, meeting in Vancouver last Friday, has directed sharp fire at the Socred government’s forest policies and called for sweeping changes. Included among the changes asked for was the demand that no further tree farm licences be granted to private forest monopolies. Charging that the forest licen- ces to “monopilies controlled and/or ownedby foreign interests is against the interests of Canada and B.C.,” the resolution says that millions of acres of timber- land is being alienated from the people of B.C. by the present government for a mere pittance. «Natural resources by heritage are the common property ofall,” says the resolution, which was unanimously endorsed at the labor parley’s final session, Declaring its “opposition to the give-away policy” of the prov- incial government, the convention decided to make representation to the government demanding: e “No further tree farmlicences | be issued. e “Existing licences be reviewed with. the object of revoking those held by monopolies, @ «Public owned corporations be set up to exploit our forest resources for the benefit of the people of B.C.” The resolution was introduced by Carpenters Union Local-452. It charged that while forestry was B.C.’s largest industry it provided very little revenue when compared to profits accumulated by forest monopolies. Also this week Minister of Lands and Forests Ray Willison was urged not to grant forest ‘licences now pending toanypriv- ate company in the Squamish area, The action came in aletter from the North Vancouver Club of the Communist Party whicl: DANGER NUCLEAR I WEAPONS = FOR GERMANY “DANCER' BRITISH WOMEN PROTEST MULTI-NATION NUCLEAR FORCE. Above photo shows London women in protest before the West German Embassy against the multilat- é COTTONWOOD be. Quesnel QUESNEL TASEKO - YALAKOM > Squamish SB VANCOUVER Map shows area in which private monopolies mostly U.S., are seeking control over 40,000 square miles of public forests. B.C. labor has condemned such giveaways. asked that the Squamish forest district be set aside as a public forest with the raw materials sold to private companies if necess- pve Pointing out that hearings are scheduled in January at which private companies, including two powerful U.S, forest monopolies are expected to apply for licen- ces, the letter said that at stake in these hearings will be an area twice the size of -Nova Scotia. It says that “the granting of a forest licence to any private company virtually on Vancouver’s doorstep, and in an area just opening up to industrial develop- ment, would be contrary to the interests of B.C.” Pointing out that Williston had recently set aside the Findlay Forest and an area of. 18,880 square miles, the letter urges that a similar policy be adopted towards the Squamish forest — area, Emphasizing that companies may want to build mills in the area and may wish to have an ensured source of raw materials, the letter suggests that in that case the government could enter into a contract to sell raw mat- erials, but it urges that under no circumstances should the natural ‘resource itself by turned over to private companies, “Such a solution would prevent the takeover of this vital forest area by private monopolies and would ensure public control over the forest lands in an important and coming industrial area,” con- concludes the letter, eral nuclear force which would put the German finger on the nuclear trigger. This has been a key issue in this week’s British election.