‘END RESOURCE EXPORTS’

Mining Engineer Charges
B.C. ‘Taken To Cleaners’

A veteran Vancouver mining
engineer, Charles M. Campbell,
said recently that Western
Canada and B.C. is ‘“‘being taken
to the cleaners in a thoroughly
professional way by the
wholesale export of our raw
mineral resources.”

In an interview published in
the Spring edition of Western
Business and Industry, Campbell
said: ‘‘On ore exported we pay
high freight and treatment
charges, get little or nothing for
the bylproducts,
treatment industry with its
personnel, purchasing power,
taxpauing benefits and research
facilities. We then import goods
we could make ourselves from
our own raw materials.”

Campbell told his interviewer
that we were in process ofgiving
away our limited and
irreplaceable mineral resource
for the least possible longlterm
return. He said that each new
announcement of plans to sell off
another chunk of the
resource—at a pauper’s
return—is greeted with public
applause and glowing reports of
how the economy has taken
another leap forward.

“Nothing is further from the
truth,’ he told his interviewer,
adding that press, government,

and. the interests—usually
‘foreign—which stand to. gain
directly, continually
misrepresent what is actually
happening.

“They say we exported 88.4
million dollars worth of copper
in 1967. This isn’t true. We didn’t
export a single pound of
copper—what we exported was
copper ore. Copper ore runs
about 25 percent copper metal
_and usually includes bylproducts
such as sulphur and iron. We get
nothing for the bylproducts and
the minimum return for the
ore.”’

Following are some exerpts
from the Western Business and
Industry interview, giving
Campbell’s views:

" “Aside from the low direct
return, Canadians actually
sibsidize some of these
operations by providing
necessary facilities—such as
railways—to service them. Both
the federal .and provincial
governments have spent large
sums to build facilities whose
main purpose is to make the
giveaway of the Western mineral

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“Campbell argues for full
treatment and utilization of the
metallic ores right here. If the
copper ore mined in B.C., for
example, had been smelted in
B.C. the value of the resource to
the economy would be multiplied
by a factor of ten , says
Campbell.

If this is true, the 1967 copper
export figures suggest this one
metal alone would provide about
twice the return of B.C. total
current output of all minerals
($884 million if copper treated
here, as compared to total 1967
value of all minerals at $392
million).

‘Campbell further contends that
if the copper metal smelted here
were then used by Westernl
based industries to produce
finished goods, the multiplier
effect could raise the value of
the raw resource a hundredfold
above what is currently returned
by the export of raw or
concentrated ores.

“This multiplier effect is now
working to the benefit of our
industrial competitors, says
Campbell. It comes as no great
surprise to Charles Campbell
that Japan’s average growth
rate (per capita GNP 1955 to
1964) was 8.9 percent, while
Canada’s chugged along at a

lrish mark

Connolly’s
centennial

A letter to a Vancouver Irish
rebel from Sean Redmond of the
British Connolly Association
tells of the tremendous upsurge
of interest being shown in the life
and work of the great Irish
patriot James Connolly,
executed for his participation in
the Irish Easter Rebellion of
1916. Excerpts from Redmond’s
letter follows:

“We are now nearing the end
of the Connolly centenary. It has
been a powerful success. We
organized meetings in London
(including a big rally in
Trafalgar Square). Also in
Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool,
Nottingham, Edinburgh, Perth,
Dundee, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

“The Edinburgh Trades
Council unveiled a plaque near
where Jim Connolly was born.

“Tn Dublin recently 250 young
people held a conference. There
was only one qualification for
attendance — one had to be

-under 25. They agreed to work
together to achieve an
independent, united Ireland in
which Connolly’s ideas would be
in operation.

‘‘These events are an
indication of the complete new
interest in Connolly and what he
represented. It is really
encouraging to see that at long
last he has come into his own’.

modest 2.8 percent in the same
period.

“At least part of Japan’s
spectacular growth can be
traced to the sale of
manufactured goods made from
raw materials (copper and iron
ore to name two) imported from
British Columbia. The benefits
of the multiplied value the
resource makes possible, have

‘gone to Japan and other nations

who import Western Canada’s
mineral wealth in a: raw or

_ semi-raw state....

“According to what Charles
Campbell has been saying for 40
years now, there is very little in
it for us. There never will be
much in it until: (1) Western
Canada ties development of
mineral wealth to full treatment
facilities. A copper smelter in
B.C., for example, is decades
overdue. (2) A program is
enacted to restrict the export of
raw or semi-raw ores from
Western Canada. Most

developed nations have had this

type of law for years.

“What Campbell is advocating
is a policy which sacrifices an

immediate shortlterm profit
today for lasting and
immeasurably larger profits
tomorrow.”

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Telegram to Prime
Minister Trudeau. Ottawa,
from A. Stenberg, Youth
%: Secretary, Communist

= Party of Canada on a
= matter of urgent necessity:

% “Urge you to meet crisis
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= employment by
: immediately guaranteeing
= that no student will be
=: forced to terminate
education this fall due to
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* elimination of financial
barriers to education must
= become a first priority for
a just society’’.

Geer FORUM

Joe Ivens, Okanagan Mission,
writes: The whole world
excepting China and South East
Asia, altho they will have
something to say is asking —
‘What is wrong with the United
States of America!”’

Some people who have looked
at this problem from a class
viewpoint, who have studied
Marxism-Leninism don’t have
to ask. Let me say we know the
ruling class of the USA and those
under the indluence of the USA
way of life will say, ‘‘Those
Communist’ but it isn’t that
easy.

My viewpoint is that the
assassination of R. F. Kennedy
was useless and stupid. Isn’t the
world changing! Isn’t the
younger generation taking over!
Isn’t violence in the fore-front!
Where did they learn this!
Haven’t the millions been
infused with war. Isn’t the U.S.
at war now trying-to exterminate
a nation of rice farmers, who
only want peace and the country
for themselves! Isn’t the napalm
that has been dropped and spread
being done to kill and maim men,
women and children, and every
other means except the H-
bomb, and that may come yet!

Let us think of what the
American ruling class did, just
to remind us: the Sacco-Van-
zetti affair, Tom Mooney; the
so-called spies, Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg. And now at the
moment killing of children is
going on in Vietnam, mothers
and fathers wailing for their
offspring whom they loved.

_Remember, the Vietnamese are

people, a very beautiful people
and have been forced to fight
back for themselves and their
country. Much will be said and
written now on what is wrong
with the USA. Haven’t they done
everything evil to make
themselves the most hated
people in the world!

Isn’t it time they woke up and
ended their damnable cant and
humbug. It is the class society,
an imperialist-capitalist  so-
ciety, that is the root cause of
what is wrong. Remember no
matter what form of society
takes its place, and capitalism
will be swept away, even then it
will take generations to really
bring peace and ‘“‘love thy neigh-
bor as thyself.’’ It will come but

it will take more than one brick
to build a wall.

My whole heart goes out to the
wife who lost a husband and to
the fatherless children. Also my
heart goes out to the mothers ~
I’ve mentioned who lost and are
still losing their children in
Vietnam.

Let the President of the USA
take the lead and call his war
men back home. Preach and act
as the people want, for genuine
peace and to help bring in a
better life for the Black people
and the poor white. Or will he
rather let things go from bad to
worse! The common people will
bring the greatest turnover the
world has yet seen, the young.
generation will see to this. But
the people of the USA can make
a start at it.

The above is only a slight
coverage of what’s wrong with
the USA. France is undergoing
strife. And there is no turning
back or trying to hold the status
quo. Real progress is needed,
intellectual education is badly
needed. Teach the younger
generation that work is
honorable. I see imperialsim is
on the brink of collapse and
socialism will take its place. It
can’t be anything else except
laissez faire, and you have that
now or next door to it. It is the
capitalist system that is wrong
with not only the USA but the
rest of the capitalist world.

The Soviet Union has no doubt
gone more liberal, that is the
leadership following Krushchev,
whom they replaced. However,
they have made great changes in
the interests of the people, but I
hardly think they are moving
towards a Communist Society.
The people of these countries
will decide their future, and the
rest of the world will do the
same thing. It is beyond anyone,
now, to turn the clock back.
There is only one road and that is
straight ahead.

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