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Car cavalcade tours city urging
hegotiations to end Vietnam war

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me

aa man on Kingsway called
cae for! you” and the young
ee an smiled as the cars stopped
a traffic light. The carscar-
Das : Signs reading “Write Mr.
ee =n ~ Negotiate in Vietnam”
“ae Thousands Died in Two
orld Wars — No More!” They
ian Part of a cavalcade of more
1h thirty cars (shown above
Ng up at Burnaby High School’

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which toured downtown streets of
Vancouver and New Westminster
Saturday to demonstrate against
the war in Vietnam.

The parade marked the contin-
uance of the campaign being led
by the B.C. Peace Council to
arouse wide protest against the
slaughter of innocent people, A
spokesman for the B.C. Peace

—Fisherman photo

Council declared that the admis-
sion by the United States that it
is nowusing napalm bombs makes
it even more imperative that this
inhuman war be brought to an
end,

The Council has urged that all
possible influence be brought to
bear upon the Canadian govern-
ment to insist upon immediate
negotiations,

Fishermen’s parley airs
Problems facing industry

ene the 21st annual con-
s 3 the United Fishermen
ein Workers Union
ae s last Saturday morning
eet ishermen’s Hall, Alder-
HE alford Wilson, represent-
ei] ayor Rathie and City Coun-
“ er atulated the union for
Reon pee it had done in fisheries
Servation and preservation

* * -SO that it will be an active
ry for generations unborn.

coe

More th

an :
att 150 delegates are in

€ndance at this historic

-, AWU convention, In addition

vite representatives, mem-
en os the union’s Women’s
aes are attending the con-
Aan -The Women’s Auxiliaries
la heir own convention Sunday
Stic
Many vit

: al i
well. issues affecting the

ann pele of UFAWU members
a oe nustry generally areon
" Sa agenda, Some of
f € urgent of these include

ish i
sh Prices for the coming sea-

e
*tension of the Salmon Welfare

Bhi to provide sick, death and
arch benefits to fishermen,
ae a the convention pro-
ithe: he delegates expressed
US “disagreement with

bitrat
Bolle ao the beginning of a
hero, State” as contained in the
ene Mendations of the Feder-
«aig aaa . Committee, Such
ee ndations can only serve
aoe to “strip commer-
ermen of their right to

argain Collectively,”

oT
nee bold manner in which the
oe ttee attacked the rights of
a ‘ercial fishermen stands in
P contrast to the timidity

Company contributions and

Position of compulsory ar-—

with which it dealt with company
profits and costs,” union secre-
tary Homer Stevens told the con-
vention,

A convention resolution call-
ing for the “immediate removal
of all foreign military forces
from Vietnam” and urging the
Canadian government “to use its
utmost influence to bring about
a peaceful, negotiated settlement
based on the terms of the Geneva
agreement” was unanimously
adopted by the delegate body.

During its opening sessions

the UFAWU convention also urged
upon U,S, President Johnson “to
enforce the rights of the people
of Alabama to register, vote,
assemble and protest,” and to
urge upon Prime Minister Pear-
son “to convey a like message”
to the U,S, president, During the
noon recess many of the con-
vention delegates joined in the
demonstrations before the U.S,
Consulate on Georgia Street.

At press time the UFAWU con-
vention is still continuing its
sessions,

BUT WHERE SHOULD IT BE?

and trade

_ By WILLIAM E. STEWART

During the last Vancouver civic
elections Mayor Rathie assured
the voters of this city if they
turned down the Stafford Smythe
coliseum proposition they would
scuttle Vancouver’s chance for
major league hockey and a coli-
seum for many years to come.

Sports scribes in the city, who
would agree to flood Granville
St., (all in the name of sport, of
course) cried bitter tears over
the short-sightedness of the local
citizenry and its inability to rec-
ognize the generosity and public
spiritedness of Mr. Smythe.

A few short months after the
elections and the dismissal ofthe
Smythe proposal we are faced
with two proposals for a conven-
tion centre- sports coliseum
complex combined in the one
instance, and a stadium big
enough for major league hockey
in the other.

Both proposals are an im-
provement on the rejected Smythe
coliseum which was a straight
steal from the taxpayers of Van-
couver. The downtown coliseum
complex now proposed by Mayor
Rathie fits the suggestions made
by the Communist Party in Van-
couver during the election cam-
paign in every respect but one:
the location! The Party contends
that the traffic and parking prob-
lems which would arise from a
20,000 seat hockey rink in the
centre of the city are insoluble,

City Council, city engineering
authorities and downtown busi-
ness interests are aware of this
but are prepared to turn a blind
eye to the problem because of

City needs coliseum

complex

the business benefits to the down-
town area which would arise out
of the establishment there of
such a complex,

The Pacific National Exhibi-
tion Park proposal overcomes
this problem but does not pro-
vide for either a convention or
a trade-centre.

There is a very real need in
the city for a trade-centre and
a convention centre which would
fit in with efforts to expand our
trade with the Pacific rim and
attract major conventions to the
city.

Given a proper location and
type of complex which would unite
the people of the city, both Ot-~
tawa and Victoria could be com-
pelled to help finance the project.

However, so long as downtown
business and sports interests
keep putting their individual
needs against that of the com-
munity as a whole, they will de-
prive both themselves and the
community of a proper coliseum,

In the meantime what has been
proven is that by rejecting un-
sound propositions, such as the
Stafford Smythe coliseum, Van-
couver does not close the door
on future possibilities, but to the
contrary, opens the door for more
logical proposals.

By this token the people should
reject both the proposals now
being pushed by City Council and
the PNE and ask for the imple-
mentation of the mayor’s present
coliseum and trade-centre com-
plex, but in another area—the
Exhibition grounds or somewhere
else in the east end of the city,

Probe forest policy demand grows

The demand for a new Royal
Commission to probe B.C. forest
industry gained strength last
week in the midst of growing
public concern over the vast give-
away of the province’s resources
to private monopolies.

The demand, heard both inside
and outside the Legislature, was
also spurred by disclosures in
the House recently which showed
that vast profits were being made
from public forest resources by
private interests, while the pro-
vincial revenues remained
shockingly low.

These were some of the de-
velopments inthe past week which
have served to focus the public’s
attention in the critical state of
affairs in B.C,’s forest industry:

Last Thursday Minster of
Lands and Forests Ray Williston
announced that millions of acres

of public forests will be allocated .

as pulp harvesting areas to three
giant companies. These are:

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United Pulp Co, Ltd.; Weldwood
of Canada Ltd.; and Intercontin-
ental Pulp Ltd.

This latest parcelling out of
Crown forest lands to large mon-
opolies follows on the earlier
granting of similar licences in
northern and central B.C.

Speaking in the Legislature

ERMC HER .

~PACIFIC TRIBUNE

last Wednesday Tony Gargrave
(NDP- Mackenzie) charged that
the forest industry is falling
into the hands of afew companies
and said this presented grave

economic dangers for B.C.

a commission should examine
closely the’ implication of pulp
harvesting licences in B.C.,
which he described as a new
venture in forest policy.

Gargrave said: “The minister

_ Gargrave called for a Royal
Commission investigation of B.C.
forest policy, and said that such

(Williston) is in the process of
carving up the province into pulp
harvesting areas which will prob- |
ably turn out to be the most
significant cutting tenure de-
vised.” He added that either by
accident or by negligence B,C.’s
great forest resource is falling
into the hands of a few,

On Friday March 19 the Van-
couver Sun in a leading editorial
‘entitled, “Time for a new forest
probe,” urged “a thorough- going
investigation of British Colum-
bia’s forest policies...” The
editorial pointed out it is almost
10 years since the late Chief
Justice Gordon Sloan made his
second report, and said MLA’s
of all parties are showing dis-
satisfaction with the way the
Forest Act is being obeyed or
ignored.

The Sun’s editorial points to
recent criticism raised in the

; House to justify the need for a
son eee S)} thorough airing of forestry

s [ Stimpose’ | policy, It points to charges of

2 if -L Charges monopoly takeover, lack of rev-

enues to the province, lack of a
“watchdog” over forest policies,
and says: “There is enough here,
in one day’s sitting of the Legis-
lature to justify a rather search-
ing enquiry,”

March 26, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3