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ea FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958
28 Awe VANCOUVER, B.C. | ¢
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Forest management
“mendments assailed

Reg Cc

~NSes ate. BC, — Renaming of forest management lic-

Mana ements is just “an attempt to deodorize forest

ich is licenses without removing the cause of the smell,
“'der oh... MOMopolistic control of forest resources,” CCF
He «tt Strachan told the House this week. °

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Bay Witiers Forests Minister :
oh ch ton’s Statement that “Throughout this election
ting 0 Scked issuance of ex- campaign the two Vancouver
“Dseg lad Management lic- daily papers, the Sun and the
of ling» found nothing out Prevince, have deliberately
Scop crew a warning from Pblacked out all reports of

toria) qoregory (Liberal, Vic- What LPP candidates are say-
Mme inc, Williston “will be- ing and doing. If you don’t
‘lteg vy ived in the scandal believe this, look in those
Ptedece *Tound the head of his Papers tomorrow. You won't
Nets) eae (Robert Som. finda line about this meeting.”
This is what Nigel Morgan,
LPP provincial leader, told
the 1,500 people who turned
out to hear Tim Buck, LPP
national leader, at Exhibition
Gardens here Friday last
week.

The dailies proved Morgan
right. They didn’t print a line
on the meeting. But they did
give prominence to a meeting
addressed the same night by
Labor Minister Michael Starr,
even crediting him with an
audience of 600 when, by
Pacific Tribune count, only
100 attended.

If a U.S. H-Bomb is accidentally dropped on Vancouver
city civil defense chief Air Vice Marshal Heakes will recom-

mend an immediate evacuation of the city. Yet Defense Minis-

ter George Pearkes said in Victoria Tuesday he was satisfied

nuclear bombs carried across Canada in U.S. bombers “have

never been a danger to life and property.”

Take over

Britannia,
says union

VICTORIA, B.C. — “Since
private industry will not oper-
ate Britannia Mine, the gov-
ernment must,’ Mine - Mill
Union told the government
select standing committee on
labor here this. week, in ‘z
brief which proposed that
Victoria and Ottawa take over
ihe American-controlled mine
and operate it “either for
their own account or until
such time as the private oper-
ators are prepared to re-enter
the enterprise on a more rea-
sonable basis.”

The union pointed out that
“this is a measure which the
most dedicated of free enter-
prise governments have not
hesitated to resort to in time
of strikes. They should have
no qualms about doing so
when management is lying
down on the job and refusing
to live up to its responsibility
{to the community.”

Contending that the mine
could be operated profitably,
even at the present depressed
price of copper, the Mine-
Mill brief listed recent econo-
mies and ‘suggested that in
February the operation reach-
ed the break even point, and
would have shown a profit
in March.

A policy of “voluntary cop-
per curtailment” on the part
of big mining companies was
blamed for the quick closure
of Britannia and the result-
ing hardship suffered by its
workers.

“We believe that either the
Howe Sound Company has
committed itself to sell the
mine to a new operator who
intends to make a new deal

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See BRITANNIA

The H-bomb drcepped this
week near Florence, N.C.,
wrecked a farmer’s home, in-
jured six persons and dug a
crater 75 feet wide and 35 feet
deep. in the yard. Its trigger
exploded but there was no
atomic explosion. All persons
were warned to stay out of
the immediate area while U.S.
Air Force personnel searched
for any indications of atomic
radiation from the bomb. They
later announced they had
found none.

British scientists have warn-
ed that even if an H-bomb plu-
tonium detonator “half-ex-
plodes” the area over which the
poison spreads might be quite
large, and decontamination
would be difficult, as plutoni-
um takes about 24,000 years
for half of any quantity to dis-
integrate.

Following Pearkes’  state-
ment, Ernest Knott, of Vic-
toria, announced that he was
entering the election campaign
as LPP candidate to contest
the Esquimalt-Saanich riding
now held by the Conservative
defense minister.

“I was deeply shocked by
General Pearkes’ statement,”
said Knott. “If there was no

Continued on back page
See H-PLANES

DEFENSE MINISTER
PEARKES

“There is no danger”

ERNEST KNOTT
“The danger is real”

BCE distorts issues
in electrical strike

@ Over the past two weeks, full-page advertisements. in
the dailies have pleaded the B.C. Electric’s inability to
meet the, wage demands of striking electrical workers.
This week, published profits of the B.C. Power Cor-
poration, parent company of B.C. Electric, blew the case
sky high. Profits for 1957 were at an all-time high of $13,-
792,214, topping 1956 profits of $12,373,862 by more than

$1,000,000. Now . .

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