NEW RESOURCES POLICY URGED:

GIVEAWAYS

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1968

Copper concentrates from Cowichan Copper Sunro mine flowing into freighter for refining and processing

somewhere else. This is what is happening to our valuable minerals, forests,
materials should be processed in B.C. to create new in

natural gas und oil. B.C.’s raw
dustries and thousands of new jobs.

Socred crisis deepens

“The resignation of Attorney General Bonner and
subsequent shuffle in the Bennett cabinet reflects a

developing crisis in the Socred government. Premier, _

Bennett is trying to patch up a crumbling edifice after
the humilitating defeat in Vancouver-South last week,
where the government had sought a vote of confidence
in it’s labor, school and resource policies, and been
decisively rejected, said Nigel Morgan, B.C.
Communist Party Leader, Wednesday.

“However, the Bennett administration seems to have
learnt little from the byelection judging by the double
announcement that additional sections of Bill 33 will be
proclaimed next week, and that the cabinet shuffle will
combine the offices of Attorney General (chief law
enforcement officer of the Province) with that of
Minister of Labor.

“Mr. Peterson thus takes on the role of administrator

of the sweeping powers embodied in Bill 33, with those
of prosecutor and chief high executioner in the
upcoming struggle to force compulsory arbitration on
B.C. labor.

“Attorney General Bonner’s resignation to move
directly into a top executive position with the largest
B.C. lumber corporation — MacMillan Bloedel — is
indicative of the extremely close relationship between
the monopolies and the top echelons of the Secred
government.

“MacMillan Bloedel chairman Clyne’s fullsome
praise of Attorney General Bonner is quite
understandable in light of the similarity of the anti-
labor provisions of Bill 33 and Mr. Clyne’s speeches
outlining what the employers wanted in the field of
labor legislation.”

VOL. 29, NO. 22

Create more jobs,
prosperity in B.C.

e A new national resources policy to encourage
processing of raw materials in Canada and stopping the
giveaway of B.C. and Canadian resources to foreign

monopolies.

-@ Repatriate ownership of Canadian resources through
nationalization of U.S. and other foreign monopolies in our

resources industries.

@ Immediate action by Ottawa to impose quotas on the

' export of raw logs and valuable mineral ores which are now

pouring out of B.C. without restrictions, or without regard to

the future of B.C.

These are three of the main points
in a special statement of policy
released this week by the four
Communist candidates in B.C. who
are contesting the upcoming June 25
federal election.

The four Communist candidates
are: Charles Caron in Vancouver
East; Robin Smith in Vancouver
South; Robert McLaren in New
Westminster; and Mark Mosher,
nominated this week in Comox-
Alberni.

Charging that ‘‘greedy U.S. and
other foreign monopolies have seized
control of our land, our forests, our
mines, our rivers, and our means of
communication,’ the Communist
candidates point out that over two-
thirds of our industry is in the hands
of foreign monopolies.

MARK MOSHER, leading trade
unionist and community worker, was
this week nominated as Communist
candidate in the federal riding of
Comox-Alberni. Mosher is a school
trustee in Alberni and secretary of the
Alberni District Labor Council.

“The gigantic sellout of our
resources is nothing short of national
betrayal. It is the denial of jobs for
the present generation and a secure
future for young Canadians. Only by
struggling to rid ourselves of foreign
control can our aspirations as a
people be realized,’ says the
statement.

The Communist candidates, who
are spearheading the fight in B.C. for
new economic policies, charged that
successive Liberal and Conservative
governments — together with a
complient provincial government in
B.C. — have surrendered our
country’s riches to foreign control.

Pointing out that lasting
employment is primarily
determined by ownership and use of
resources, the Communist
candidates urge that ‘‘U.S. holdings
in this country be nationalized, that
the wealth produced from these
resources be kept in Canada. thereby
creating thousands of jobs for
Canadian workers.”

Charging that ‘‘foreign monopolies
have already been handsomely
compensated for their investment,”
the statement says that ‘‘the
Communist Party — the party of
Canadian socialism — takes the
stand that the nationalization of
foreign monopolies is indispensible
now for the people's welfare as well
as for the future reorganization of
Canada into a socialist society.”

The Communist Party is also
advocating the setting up of a Crown
corporation to develop a steel
industry in B.C. as well as the
building of a Canadian Merchant
Marine.