SOVIET PREMIER ALEXEI KOSYGIN

Big layoffs face

B.C. pulp workers

Fifteen hundred workers face
ayoffs at Terrace and Prince
Upert ‘‘because of poor
Market demands,’’ according to
Columbia Cellulose president

“s€orge Scrimshaw. Columbia

Cellulose is owned by Celenese

Orporation of the United

tes.

The pre-Christmas layoffs
affect loggers and pulp workers
the operation which has been
Slven huge forest cutting
licenses by the Social Credit
S0vernment.

The Nixon surcharge on Cana-
dian exports. to the USA has
Sharply affected many woods
erations. Rayonier, another

Merican-owned company, has

‘tld off their workers at

Sodfibre sporadically in past
Onths, a move militantly

| Potested by Canadian Pulp and
Per Workers.

They told provincial cabinet
Misters that holders of Tree

4 ~ 8m licenses, such as Rayonier
' nd Columbia Cellulose, should

© obligated to live up to the

S0nditions of the grant, i.e.;

€ep their mills operating at the
“pacity warranted by the allow-
le cut.

4 woanadian Pulp and Paper

°rkers Union represent
Olumbia Cellulose employees
Prince Rupert. The IWA

“presents men in the woods .

‘Vision of the operation. The
WO unions should continue the

_ Strong protests to the govern-

ent over layoffs by companies

njoying monopolies over thou-
Sahiig of acres of forest land,
granted by the Socred govern-
ment at the price of one cent per
acre annual rental; five cents
per 100 cubic feet of allowable

harvest.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1971

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‘Hands across
Pacific for

By MAURICE RUSH

“Vancouver is a window

~ through which Canada looks out

at the Soviet Union and the coun-
tries of Southeast Asia, Latin
America, and the entire Pacific
area. . . We want the peoples of
our two countries to be joined ina
firm handshake across the
Pacific.”

That was the message brought
to Vancouver by Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin as he outlined the
bright prospects of co-operation
between Canada and the Soviet
Union in expansion of trade,
joint action to fight pollution
and in the field of scientific and
cultural exchanges.

Speaking at a banquet in the
Vancouver Hotel last Saturday
to more than 900 prominent
citizens, Kosygin received many
ovations from his audience.

Pointing to the Soviet-
Canadian Shipping Company
which is operating in Van-
couver, Kosygin said: ‘“‘May
there be more and more such

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examples and may our trade
initiatives always be success-
ful.”

The most enthusiastic
applause came in his speech
when he said: ‘‘In the coming
decades mankind will have to
work hard to solve problems
such as the discovery of new

More on Kosygin
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— Premier

sources of power, space
research, utilization of
resources of the world’s oceans,
the improvement of the biologi-
cal nature of man and the
restoration, and in effect the
achievement for the first time
in history, of true harmony
between man and his environ-
ment.”

The most overwhelming
demonstration of the warm
feeling felt by the people of Van-
couver for the Soviet Premier
and his mission of peace and co-
operation came Friday night at

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trade, peace’

the Coliseum when 16,000 hockey
fans rose to give him a standing

’ ovation, completely drowning
out a few hecklers who were
silenced by the vast outpouring
of public feeling towards the
Soviet Premier.

This demonstration of how the
public felt about closer co-opera-
tion and friendship between
Canada and the Soviet Union was
in sharp contrast to the hate
crowd, which tried unsuccess-
fully to stage demonstrations
against the visitor. The turnout
to their widely publicized demon-
strations was less than half that
expected.

However, the little publicity
given the ovation at the Coli-
seum involving almost three
times the number of people who
took part in all the hate demon-
strations, and the big play given
by the media to the ‘‘protests”’
stand in glaring contrast.

When the media showed
pictures of the hate demon-
strations on TV or in the press
they showed close-ups of
weeping women, people on their
knees praying and other tear-
jerking emotional tricks.

But when they showed a quick
glimpse of the crowd at the Coli-
seum there were no close-ups
and no attempts to ascertain the
genuine and spontaneous
feelings of the audience. Nor was
there any attempt by the media
to sample public opinion, on the
street or elsewhere. They
appeared stunned and amazed by
the ovation in the Coliseum.

It is quite obvious from the
coverage given the hate crowd
and their anti-Soviet and anti-
Communist demonstrations
that the cold war and anti-com-
munism lives on strongly in the
ranks of the media. Many of
them (but not all) have not yet
caught up to the new. winds of co-
Operation and friendship
blowing across the land. But then
after more than 50 years of anti-
Soviet and anti-Communist
indoctrination, the media will
take some time to catch up to the
thinking of the Canadian people
and the new reality of the world
we live in.

A particularly disgusting
exhibition was staged by Van-

See KOSYGIN, pg. 12