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Organizer (Canada).”’ According to information re-
ceived, this letter was distributed on the campus of
the University of B.C. Other fascist and racist litera-
ture is appearing in many places in B.C. (See Tom
McEwen column, pg. 4).

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British Columbia.

City celebration to mark
International Women’s Day

The 54th Anniversary Celebration of International
Women’s Day will be held on Sunday, March 15, 1:30
p.m., at the New Inquisiticn, 726 Seymour St.

Featured speaker will be Mrs. Mickey Beagle, who
will report and show slides on the World Congress of
Women held in Moscew last year, which she attended as
a delegate from Britsh Columbia.

Program will include cultural items. A number of
women will wear internaticnal costumes, and interna-
tional baking will be available.

Door prize will be a scarf carrying the symbol of the
World Congress of Women. This scarf is the cnly one in

The general public is invited.

Conviction of Native
Indians thrown out

Two Native Indians on Van-
couver Island, who were con-
victed of having a deer carcass
out of season, had the convic-
tion against them quashed in
Nanaimo County Court Wednes-
day.

In a 26-page hour long state-
ment Judge A. J. H. Swencisky
granted the appeal of David Bob
and Clifford White. The case had
‘attracted wide attention because
of the issue of Native rights in-
volved.

Judge Swencisky cited the
Treaty of 1854 under which Na-
tive Indians were given the right
to hunt and fish over unoccupied
Jand. He held that the Treaty
had never been repealed or the
rights in it never surrendered by
Native Indians.

The Judge said the Native In-
dians lived by hunting and fish-
ing since time immemorial and
that these rights must be guard-
ed.

The case may well set a legal
precedent for Native Indians ac-
ross the nation. Recognizing the
importance of his decision, the
Judge suggested that the case
might go toa higher court.

Former NDP MP Tom Berger
acted for the defendants, who

were convicted and fined $100
(or 40 days) by Magistrate Lionel
Beever - Potts in Nanaimo last
September 25.

In his defence, Berger intro-
duced documents and treaties
dating back to 1768, including
a proclamation of King George
III which defended the right of
Natives to hunt and fish over all
unoccupied lands.

A BRITON AT NICOSIA. British-U.S.
attempts to foist a NATO force on
Cyprus has failed. At press time the
UN Security Council unanimously
agreed to a formulae for setting up
a peace-keeping force.

TAX WIN

Cont'd from Pg. 1

hes
he us a A developer wants to
area. apartment in a given
asks to © goes to the city and
tor a ave the area re-zoned
i Ment. In more cases than
ist city grants the applica-
and : - area is then re-zoned
Shoot *€S on land in the area
E Ip accordingly,
Payi Omeowner is stuck with
time eee land taxes until such
to iy Some developer decides
ori cae land on which his
ee two adjoining homes
3 S, of course, he is one
foot ee Le rage
there a of Revision claims
Which Provisions in the Act
oe, heeded by the asses-
Uld allow sufficient lee-
®ccommodate this prob-

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lem,
The
howeyes mand of the ratepayers,
Vised to’ is that the Act be re-
. so it mandatory:
Cision oy is appealing the de-
lowers, ong with the decision
of assessments on city
to 5 Ses, and it is expected

This is ¢ the Supreme Court.
Wher he second year running

Segg © city of Vancouver As-
into aa Department has run
Revision wt With the Court of
Ciay ast year the Provin-

Sion Slashn the Court of Revi-
City ae the assessments on
done ama; curses as they have
It ig ju this year,
the Agen TeaSingly obvious that
Ambion, sMent Act is extremely
late S, Particularly as it re-
this © city of Vancouver and
fore °Pment could serve to

© Overdue changes.

COLUMBIA

Cont’d from pg. 1!

He urged that the whole agree-
ment be renegotiated in line ‘¢ with
the so-called McNaughton plan,’’
so that the Columbia basin would
be utilized for the benefit of
Canada.

The treaty was ‘‘a betrayal
of the best interests of the peo-
ple of B.C. and of Canada’’ and
was designed ‘‘to satisfy the van-
ity of a provincial premier and
the power-hungry neighbour to
the south,’”? to whom he earlier
referred as ‘‘sharp Yankee trad-
ers.’’ :

Douglas said that while the
treaty might provide jobs for
3,500 men building the dams,
once the U.S. has the extra pow-
er the U.S. aluminum industry
would soon wipe out the B.C:
aluminum industry and lose Can-
ada ‘*thousands of jobs.’’

The treaty is expected soon to
go before the External Affairs
Committee where a rough ride
is anticipated.

Mauldin in the Chicago Sun-Times
“What are you—some kind of a
nut or something?”

By MAURICE RUSH

British Columbia’ Minister of
Lands and Forests, Ray Willis-
ton announced last week that
hearings on applications for for-
estry licences by giant forest
monopolies will be held in April
and May.

If granted, these licenses would
turn over just about all the re-
maining Crown public forest
lands in B.C. to one or another
of the large timber monopolies

Those applying for licenses to
establish exclusive control over
vast areas are:

@ Celgar (Columbia) Limited,
which is seeking a tree farm
license (formerly known as for-
est management license) for a
vast area north of Prince Rup-
ert. Williston will hear the ap-
plication in Prince Rupert on
April 20.

@ Macmillan, Bloedel and
Powell River, not to be out-
done by the other monopolies even
though it already controls most
of the Vancouver Island forests,
is after two liceses.

The company has applied for
two huge tracts of forests, one
for a tree farm license and the
other a pulpwood harvesting lic-
ense. Both are in the Kitimat
area and the company’s appli-
cations will be heard in Kitimat
on April 21 and 22,

The pulpwood harvesting lic-
ense includes six public sustained
yield units originally set up to
be run by the Forestry Depart-
ment to provide logs for smaller
timber companies. The public

sustained yield units on Van-
couver Island have been virtu-
ally wiped out by the granting
of tree farm licenses to the big
companies. The same process is
now being repeated on the main-
land,

@ Bulkley Valley Pulp and
Timber Co., whichis applying for
a pulp harvesting license in the
Burns Lake-Smithers area. The
hearing on this license will be
held in Smithers April 24.

@ B.C. Forest Products’ new
company, Alexandria Forest
Products, which is seeking three
and a half million acres in the
Peace River, will have its ap-
plication heard in Prince George
May 27-28.

@ Northwood Mills Ltd., the
backers of whom are unknown
are applying for a pulpwood har-
vesting license east of Prince
George and will be held on the

same dates as above.
* * *

BCFP profit
rises 85%

B.C. Forest Products Ltd.,
which recently took over Alex-
andria Forest Products, and.
iS seeking a 35 million acre
tree-farm license near Prince
George, announced a spectac-
ular profit increase of 85 per-
cent for the year 1963.

Net earnings of the company
in 1962 were $4,812,000. In
1963 the annual report releas--
ed this week showed a net
profit of $8,951,200.

March 6,

A bitter struggle is taking place
behind the scenes between these
forest giants over who will get
certain territories, since the lic-
enses overlap.

The. vast giveaway of Crown
owned timber lands to giant for-
est monopolies, in which U.S.
control is a major part, is caus-
ing concern in the province.

Recently the Vancouver Prov-
ince’s Pat Carney referredinher
column to a front page article
in the PT warning of the forest
sellout and admitted that ‘‘citi-
zens who never read the Com-
munist paper also consider
B.C,’s tree farm licenses as a
‘viveaway’ of our timber resour-
ces.’’

Not long ago a brief was pre-
sented to the B.C, legislature’s
select committee on forestry by
H. W. G. Harrison, director of
Western Forest Management As-
sociation, which sharply criticiz-
ed the tree farm license scheme,
The Association is spokesmen for
the smaller logging companies,

The brief charged that thetree
farm license scheme is return-
ing the lumber to the pre-Magna
Carta days of barons and serfs..
Harrison said under the present
system small loggers are being
progressively driven out of bus-
iness by lack of timber.

He added that with the take-
over of timber resources by
tree-farm license holders, less
public timber is being left for
loggers and that it is becoming
more difficult for independent

See FOREST, pg. 12

1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pcge 3