ATTENTIVE FACES mirror the success of YCL summer school held in
Webster’s Corners last weekend. Some 40 young people attended the
three-day school focusing on the theme “Youth accuses imperialism”.

MB spreads tentacles

to many parts of world

MacMillan Bloedel announced
last week that it had entered into
an agreement with the giant multi-
national corporation, Brascan
Ltd., to launch a large scale joint
enterprise in Brazil.

The agreement calls for the two
to jointly build an integrated forest
complex covering a_ large
territory. It will include huge pine
and eucalyptus forests as well as
manufacturing plants.

It will be the biggest MacMillan
Bloedel enterprise in Latin
America, having previously joined
with the United Fruit Co. in a joint
venture to manufacture paper and
box supplies for the South
American fruit industry.

The Brazilian venture will
‘represent large scale capital in-
vestment by the B.C.-based

company, and make it a major
exploiter of Latin Americans.

In recent years MacMillan
Bloedel has branched out to
become one of the major world
forest monopolies. Last year it
bought out a 40 per cent interest in
a French company which was the
largest producer of hardwood in
western Europe. The price in-
volved in the purchase has not so
far been made public.

MB also holds large investments
in forestry and associated in-
dustries in Great Britain and the
Netherlands, as well as having
expanded across Canada. The huge
surpluses of capital derived from
its exploitation of B.C. forest
resources and woodworkers are
being used by the company to
become a world-wide operation.

Levi welfare plan opposed

Most people are disappointed at
the failure of Norm Levi, B.C.
human resources minister, to take
action against the Surrey and Port
Coquitlam municipal councils for
cutting off single welfare
recipients during the summer.

But what is even more
deplorable is the minister’s recent
announcement that he will un-
dertake a program shortly to press
welfare recipients who are em-
ployable to leave their home areas,
and move to “employment areas”’

— that is the north — where
“work”’ is available.

He did not spell out what action
he will-take to uproot these un-
fortunate people from their homes,
environments, families, etc. One
newspaper speculates that his
program will give a time limit for
those drawing welfare in the
preferred area, and then they
would have to move or lose their
benefits.

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Provincial rentalsman Barrie
Clark, has assured landlords he
will recommend to the cabinet that
the eight per cent ceiling on recent
increases be dropped on October 1.
And he appears confident the
cabinet will establish new
procedures for increasing rents,
which will include the following:

e A top rent which a landlord
may automatically impose.

@ The right of a landlord to
exceed this top rate, if his tenant
has no objection.

e The right of a tenant to appeal
any rate above the allowable
maximum, with the rentalsman
making the final decision which
will be binding on both parties.

This approach is obviously
weighted heavily in favor of lan-
dlords.

Landlords can and will have
professional experts — chartered
accounts, lawyers, etc — to present
their case for rent increases. How
can an ordinary tenant’ possibly
compete with these people? It’s
almost a foregone conclusion that
landlords will have their way.
What we'll end up with is licenced

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TECHNOLOGY IN FORESTS. Photo shows the new “Chiparvester’’” machine used by the Weyertm nei .
Company in ‘the U.S. to manufacture chips for pulp mills. The machines are capable of produc! anothe bg
weight in chips in 30 minutes, and some of these machines weigh as much as 57,000 pounds. Its

example of increased technology in the woods which enable the boss to produce more with fewer
id of passing some of it on to the workers

| Rentalsman proposals
. favor the landlords

inflation, a procedure which puts
the legal stamp of approval on rent
increases imposed by landlords.

Let me give you’an example of
the legal fictions a landlord can
create. a

A slum landlord in Vancouver’s
skid road area has a hotel with
commercial premises on the
ground floor, and with rooms and
apartments above. He leases the
apartment section of his hotel to a
member of his family, say his son,
and charges him a high montly or
annual rental. His son appears
before the rentalsman and has no
trouble in ‘“‘proving’’ that he must
increase his rents drastically if he
is to meet his lease payments.

This is a hypothetical example,
but it is the sort of thing that’s
going on right now.

I think the whole idea of having
an all-powerful rentalsman with
the power of economic life or death
over B.C. tenants is all wrong.

Municipalities should have the
right and duty to set up municipal
rental accommodation boards to
deal with all phases of landlord-
tenant relations and with the power

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to make binding decisions base
guidelines established PY
provincial legislation. 4

Secondly, the general rule shoul
be that all rent increases must?
justified and that the top allowa?!
increase must not exceed the rate
of inflation the previous yea
There could and undoubte@!
would be some exceptions to
rule, but they could be judged
their merits. A

Third, the provincial
ment should make availabl
tenants, without charge, exper
such as accountants and lawyeS
who can represent their interés”
when landlords apply for P®
mission to increase rents. 4

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workers :

elen Mathieson, one of B.C.’s and Canada’s grand old

Communist veterans, has crossed the Great Divide. She
was 89 years old when she left us, with 50 or more of those
years dedicated to the Communist Party she passionately
loved, to the rearing of her own little family, (all but one
who has already predeceased her), to the building of
Communism and the advancement of her fellow workers.

Down through the years the Communist movement of
all lands have produced many outstanding fighters for
equality, justice and liberty; revolutionaries who, despite
the alleged ‘“‘handicap”’ of being a woman, have stood
courageously in the front ranks of every struggle of the
common people for bread, shelter and Socialism.

Who hasn’t heard of Passionaria, the brave Spanish
woman who gave the deathless slogan to that Spanish
Republic, indeed to all republics of all the peoples: ‘‘It is
better to die fighting, than to live forever on your knees’”’.

Or the heroic women of the Canton Commune (1912)
harbinger of the New China, who calmly told their
Koumintang executioners, “shoot, your own hour is
coming soon’’.
Or the German Communist tribune Klara Zetkin,

the German Reichstag with Karl Liebknecht and Rosa
Luxemburg against the insanity of war and fascism.

In America, too, we have had our Mother Bloors, our
Gurley Flynns, our Mother Jones, who have braved the
bullets of the mining, lumber, packinghouse and other
monopoly outlawry to win unionization for the workers. It
is the fearless work and dedication of such women fighters

that has produced an Angela Davis and countless
thousands of her kind. |

And in Canada no less the names of our own
Passionarias add to the glory of this endless struggle until
Socialism is won, Annie Buller, Becky Buhay, Pearl
Wedro, Jeanne Corbin. Their names are legion and en-

dless, as we sorrowfully add still another, that of Helen
Mathieson. ;

Helen Mathieson was unique in that she reflected a
combination of all those courageous and steadfast women.
Back in the early days of the stirring 30’s she was in the
forefront of every struggle. During the years when the
Hunger Marches, demonstrations, “tin canning” and
every other activity was at its peak by Canada’s million-
fold unemployed youth, Helen Mathieson was always
there, as a mother, citizen and Communist, agitating,
fighting, exhorting for work and wages, for bread and
opportunity for a “lost generation” of dispossessed youth.

Possessed of a strong and determined character, Helen
vee _ Sa excuses of the Establishment of the

y at all levels as “‘che ing’”’
ice ap buckpassing” and fought

In aid of the 1,200 Canadians who went to fight fascism

democracy in Spain.

onl
in the ranks of the Mac-Paps and the Internal a
Brigade, whom she always referred to as “MY essiNt
Helen Mathieson’s work reached a new height. Powe jal q
a healthy instinctive contempt for right-wing Jaté
Democracy, her anger knew no bounds when and
Mackenzie King and sundry other nation trayal.o! 7
ternational Social Democrats engineered the be thei
that Spanish Republic (and the Mac-Paps) by : jeaviNb
famous “‘non-intervention”’ decree, which meal gest)
the way clear for Hitler and Company [0

In her last years when she was nearing the “90 be
Helen was the chairman of our Broadway Club. tings
boys used to drive her down to attend these mee «rulind
take her home again. She was often strict in het “of
and sometimes garrulous in her reminiscence”
bygone day, but we loved and honored her for it. :

ere

Often, when the subject of the club meeting Bo oi B
to it, each new victory of the common people oO 4 ware
or anywhere) for freedom and equality, br ough nd be
glow the face of this dear and courageous woma® ind you
crown of silvery hair would be all that would © :
that the years were mounting up.

Now we add her name to the long list of noble rp
who made the cause of Socialism their destiny — ele
reward and often with many heartaches. ae «por
might brusquely say to us now, as Joe Hill Pe,
mourn”, but organize a bigger and better

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