Communist candidates
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Bennett Gov't gives away
lion acres

Meet the nine Communist candidates in Greater!

Vancouver who will campaign around the
gram for peace, progress and
Pacific Tribune will introduce

provincial ridings.

Vancouver East

arty’s pro-
security. Next week the

the ten candidates from

On the very same day Prem-
ier Bennett announced the

at Kelowna another announ
cement was made from Vic-
|toria which served to under-
| line the real giveaway charac-
|ter of the Social Credit gov-
| ernment.
|

|

| Last Wednesday the Minis-
| ter of Lands and Forests, Ray
| Williston, announced that Mac-
|Millan, Bloedel and Powell
| River Co., had been granted
la tree farm licence covering
}an area of 950,000 acres of
some of B.C.’s best forest lands
|on Vancouver. Island, Queen

| Charlottes ‘and B.C. mainland. |

| This followed by a few weeks
|the granting of half‘a million
| acres to Canadian Forest Pro-

date for the provincial election

acres of the choicest public
| forest lands.

The granting of the license |
by the Social Credit govern-
ment was immediately Brand-
led as “a vicious piece of busi-|
ness” by president Larry Ek- |
| hardt of the Truck Loggers As-|
|sociation, which represents |
| small logging companies whose |
existence is threatened by the}
| big monopolies. .
In. a brief to the Sloan Royal

| Commission in 1955, at which
| the Communist Party submitt-
|ed a brief opposing the forest
| license scheme, H. R. Mac-
| Millan urged that no further
licences be granted to anyone
on the coast. He argued it
| would: be detrimental to the
best interests of the province.

| berland

there is very little choice tim-
of commercial value
on the coast left to divide up
among the five major forest
monopolies.

Commenting on new license
granted MacMillan, Bloedel
and Powell River Co., Comox
Communist candidate Jack
Higgin said ‘once again the
Social Credit government has

|exposed its hand as the tool

of the big monopolies. This
new licence will give greater
economic power to the Mac-
Millan, Bloedel and Powell
River Co. The timing of this
license for the eve of the elec-
tion. smells very much like a
deal to ensure support for
Social Credit from this big
monopoly.”

Cauees Eta at Vanco Now the company has reversed | He added that as a wood-
Isl: ar Z | its stand and the Social Credit; worker he will campaign
slana: Lgtoxz s : 7 i i
| government has acquiesed. strongly against the license
The licensé granted ~last|) Hoping to take the sting out| and will call for the earliest
| week is the largest to be given} of this newest giveaway, Lands| repeal of legislation under
lany company on the ~coast.| and Forest Minister Ray Wil-| which the peoples timber re-
}MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell} liston said future licenses for| sources are being alienated to
BES | River Co., have now been; the B.C coast are out for at| big business, and for a review
TINA > S ~ ~ hb a - | give re c Tf a c J years. be! c s ITE L 0
NIGEL MORGAN JACK PHILLIPS geiven more than. 1,700:000 vpast Bae Ot Ae ail endr licenses granted up t

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Vancouver Centre

Burnaby | Plywood workers urged

to fight layofis now

There is no reason why a single worker should be
laid off in the plywoods industry said an open letter dis-
tributed to workers at MacMillan-Bloedel Plywood Div-
ision plant in Vancouver Friday by Vancouver East Com-
munist Party candidates, Nigel Morgan and Jack Phillips.

Last weekend 400 plywood ,

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LIONEL EDWARDS ROY SAMUELSON

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workers at this plant and Al-
berni were laid off by the com-
pany onthe pretext of ‘poor
market. conditions.”

The leaflet said: ‘‘This com-
pany in the three months end-
ing June 30 cleared $6,788,-
193. Multiply that by four and

BRUCE YORKE
August 12, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

you will see that the company
has made the largest profits in
its history. It can afford to
continue hiring the 400 work-
ers being laid off.”

Answering the company’s
claim about a market crisis

the leaflet says: “Countries
liké~ China and _ Indonesia

would like to trade with us if
credit arrangements could be
made. But as long as the U.S.
cold war policy is allowed to
determine our trade policies
we can have no real economic
advance and_.development of
our industries.

“Development of local indus-
try and a low cost house build
ing program would use up. all
the plywood that could po0s- »
sibly be manufactured. In- _
stead, natural resources are eX
ported to the U.S: for their in-
dustries and.there is no real
housing program _ because
money is wasted on a $2 bil
lion arms budget.’

The Gommuunist candidates
urged the workers to stand
solidly together to defend the
right to employment.