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SKAGIT PARK

“SAVE OUR VALLEY.” About 2,500 placard-carrying protesters from all

parts of the Lower Mainland as far away as Kamloops, converged
Sunday on the Skagit Valley to protest the projected flooding. The rally
dedicated the area as “Skagit Park.’’ Photo shows a section of the huge

crowd.

‘Skagit Deal Bad One’

The Vancouver branch of
SPEC has issued a detailed
report on the value of the Skagit
Valley as a recreational area
from a dollar and cents angle.

Viewed from the same
premise, the valley flooded by
Seattle Light Company’s Ross
Dam will accrue to the provin-
cial treasury less than one year’s
net income were it developed as
a park.

“The only sums to be realized
by the province in the deal that
was signed in 1967 between Mr.
Williston, Minister of Lands,

-Forests and Water Resources.

and the city of Seattle, are rental
payments at $34,566.21 annually
. . . Apart from this, there is a
once-only windfall to the
province from the sale of timber
to be cleared in the valley. The
Forest Service estimates the
value of this material at $5
million, from which the province

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can be expected to realize
$500,000 in stumpage and royalty

The Skagit, developed as a
recreational area, would bring
immediately a minimal income
value of some $739,200 a year,
according to SPEC researchers.

This figure is gross. With a
deduction of capital recovery
figure for development costs,
set out at $152,400, there is a net
annual value generation of
$586,800 per year.

SPEC. comes to these
conclusions after taking into
account many factors. They used
many and varied sources for
their conclusions, amongst them
Fish and Game Branch reports,
consultant engineers, and
reference material prepared by
top. men in the. field of
recreational resources and land
economics.

The report concludes:

~*By the ordinary standards of
price theory the Skagit deal is a
bad bargain for Seattle and for
B.C. Logging should stop
forthwith. The whole deal should
be shelved. Any sums paid by
either party to the other should
be repaid. .. . Neither party
should be liable for the historical
change in circumstances and
community. valuation that has
made the original scheme for the
now irrelevant and
unacceptable.”

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 30, 1970—PAGE 12

MANY GROUPS SPEAK OUT

Repeal War Measures Act

demand spreading in B.C.

Labor unions, university
students and professors,
newspaper columnists, civil
liberties and ratepayer groups,
as well as the Communist Party,
NDP and youth groups in
Vancouver this week made
known their strong opposition to
the War Measures Act.

Over the weekend, the NDP
provincial council met to
express firm support for the
position of 16 NDP. Members of
Parliament who opposed impo-
sition of the act from the
moment it was announced as a
fait d’accompli by the govern
ment.

Dave Barrett, provincial
leader of the NDP, said he was
thankful the federal members
had the guts to stand up against

B.C. FED. ACTS

Cont'd from pg. 1
represent,. have earned public

confidence with respect to their”

concern for civil liberties.
“Already the dangers have
been clearly” shown. In British
Columbia, a provincial order-in-
council has perverted the intent
of the War Measures Act by

forcing school boards to take.

extreme and unnecessary action
against individuals. Mayor
Campbell of Vancouver is
seeking to misuse the Act to
persecute hippies and other
citizens of whom he doesn’t
approve. <

“We believe that there is a
very real danger of this kind of
frightening witch-hunt
spreading throughout Canada.
Before the cause of civil liberties
in Canada is set back 50 years, it
is essential that the sweeping
powers provided by the War
Measures Act be curtailed.”’

Petitioning set ?
for Saturday

As part of the world-wide
week of protest against the
Vietnam war, the B.C. Peace
Council has called on all
peace workers to take to the
streets of Vancouver Satur-
day. October 31 with the
OUTNOW petition.

Already more than 10,000
names have been collected in
B.C. This coming weekend is
expected to see a sharp spurt
of activity to swell the
number of names collected.

Petitioners are asked to
report to the Peace Council
office, Rm. ~ 712-207. W.
Hastings St.. between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
For information phone 685
9958.

the act. Previously, young New
Democrats had sharply opposed

the government measure. +
At UBC and Simon Fraser uni-
versities, students. held

meetings, sent wires to the pro-
vincial & Federal governments,
put out leaflets and through their
campus newspapers carried on
a campaign against the Act and
its threat to democratic liberty.

New Westminster IWA locals
passed a resolution opposing the
government’s Act, requesting
the New Westminster Labor
Council to do likewise. The
central executive of SPEC,
major anti-pollution group in the
province, made known their
concern ‘‘with respect to the
probable and unforeseen
attrition of civil liberties.”

Sun and Province columnists,
in contrast with their papers’
editorial harangues, warned of
the dangers inherent in the

_ government*move and were

particularly aghast at the B.C.
crackpots who are taking advan-
tage of the Act to further their
own primitive political goals.

As the ramifications of the
oppressive laws become more
apparent to the public, the semi-
hysteria whipped up by reac-
tionaries is being replaced by
questions. Many people are
asking, “was this act
necessary?”

Last Saturday the B.C. Com-

munist Party published the full
statement of its national
executive in a large advertise-
ment in both daily newspapers,
attracting wide attention. The
Pacific Tribune’s special issue
last week was distributed in 7,000
copies to industrial plants and in
communities.

Last Saturday a banquet in the
Fisherman’s Hall, organized by
the Young Communist League
in support of their new paper
“Young Worker’’, heard
Communist Party provincial
chairman and PT editor Maurice
Rush, Communist veteran Tom
McEwen and city secretary
William Turner call for repeal of
the Act and restoration and
extension of civil liberties.

Resolutions adopted at the
YCL banquet called for repeal of
the War Measures Act and
rescinding of the provincial
order-in-council.

Also, last Sunday night a
banquet organized by the United
Jewish People’s Order, held at
the Peretz School, heard its
national secretary Sam Carr
Strongly denounce the undemo-
cratic War Measures Act. |

This week the B.C. Young Com-
munist League issued a leaflet
for wide distribution protesting
the attack on civil liberties and
called for youth to unite to de-
mand repeal of the War Meas-
ures Act and the B.C. order-in-
council.

Socred school edict
spreads witch hunt

Cont'd from pg. 1

additional edicts aimed at labor
and other sections of the popu
lation? :
Immediately reacting to the
order-in-council, the B.C. Teach-
er’s Federation executive last

weekend passed resolutions |,

which called for repeal of the
order, offered support to any
teacher dismissed under the
order, and is seeking public
support for its repeal. One
resolution said:

“The BCTF deeply resents the
B.C. cabinet order-in-council of
October 22 and expects an
immediate repeal of this order
which seriously threatens the
civil liberties of all public
school and post-secondary
teachers, including such
liberties as freedom of expres-
sion, both inside and outside the
classroom and freedom of poli-
tical opinion.”’

Another resolution called on
all segments of society in the
province to support the teachers

in their call for repeal of the
order. A letter is being sent by
the Federation to all organiza-
tions in the province asking for
support in their fight.

The Faculty Association of
the University of B.C. joined in
the criticism through its presi-
dent, Dr. Peter H. Pearse.
Calling on the provincial govern-

ment to rescind its order, he
said: ‘“‘The order has the effect
of putting ‘teachers and pro-
fessors under double jeopardy. It
singles out teachers, and
implies that they should be
subject. not only to the special
restraints placed on all Cana-
dians, but also, apparently, to
summary dismissal.”’

The B.C. Civil Liberties Union
termed the order-in-council as
“hasty, dangerous and perhaps
vicious.’’ It said ‘‘This was a
most serious and alarming
development,’ and went on to
blast the B.C. government for
starting a witch-hunt. é

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