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Ernie Knott, secretary, Vancouver Island
region, Communist Party of Canada,
Writes: The replacement of B.C. Hydro
chairman Robert Bonner, formerly head
of MacMillan Bloedel, by another forestry
executive, Chester Johnson of West
Fraser Timber Ltd., indicates that there
will be no change in B.C. Hydro’s policy of
giving special treatment to the forest
industry, and other industries, while sock-
ing it to homeowners and small business.

Two top posts of B.C. Hydro — which
was created by W.A.C. Bennett mainly to
provide big business especially the pulp
sector of the forest industry, with cheap
power — are held by Chester Johnson
and William Sauder, who is the president
of Sauder Industries and chairman of
Whonnock Industries. It is significant that
Johnson’s company is Seattle-based and
has 2,000 non-union employees in B.C.
Sauder and Johnson are joined on the
B.C. Hydro board by another Vancouver
Magnate, Samuel Belzberg of First City
Trust.

Under the direction of these men, B.C.
' Hydro is selling “surplus” power at special
cheap ratres to industry and the United
States while at the same time applying for
rate increases for small customers who are

Forest industry has grip on Hydro

already paying 4.5 cents per kilowatt/
hour, thus subsidizing big industry. An
example of the effect of this policy is the
action by B.C. Forest Products in phasing
out the power house at its Victoria Gorge
Road plant, laying off 20 men to take
advantage of cheap “surplus” power.

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Ivor Mills, Vancouver, writes: I have
noted various events over the past two
weeks:

@ The joint statement by Soviet For-
eign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the
USSR and USS. Secretary of State George
Schultz outlining a framework for negoti-
ations to “work out effective agreements
aimed at preventing an arms race in space
and terminating it on earth”;

@ The Pentagon’s Nuclear Weapon’s
Deployment Plan was revealed by Wash-
ington defence analyst William Arkin, dis-
closing that secret plans are in existence to
ship nuclear weapons to Comox, B.C. and
Greenwood, Nova Scotia;

@ The second cruise missile test was
carried out in Canada and Defence Minis-

It is high time that Hydro’s board,
which is loaded with representatives from
big business, was placed under democratic
public control by including representation
from the consuming public, small busi-
ness, the labor movement and, of course,
Hydro’s own employees.

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ter Robert Coates called recently for
increased integration of the Canadian
economy with U.S. militry industry.

Those events, compared to the attitudes
shown about them, have impelled me to
ask Coates, the officer in charge: what in
fact are we doing?

Now that negotiations for a greater
trend toward detente are underway,
shouldn’t we in the west assume a greater
feeling of gratification — by calling a halt
to NATO’s war plans — particularly
when millions of people, both east and
west, have been demonstrating such desire
for many months already?

It is difficult to see our actions as any-
thing other than adventurist, as long as
these policies of ours persist as thew do.

Rally marks $1.5 million Tools campaign

More than 300 people turned out Sunday
to hail the largest achievement yet in Cana-
da’s annual campaign to provide material
aid to Nicaragua, at St. Marks Church in
Vancouver. :

_ Everyone in attendance placed a flower
In a gigantic peg board to mark the
Vancouver-based Tools for Peace project’s
Taising of more than $1.5 million in supplies
and money during the fourth annual drive
last year.

They cheered as Mayor Mike Harcourt
Pledged city council’s continued support
— which in two successive years has seen
_ the city donate rent-free warehouse space
— and declared Vancouver as the “peace
Capital of Canada.”

Other city politicians, labor leaders and
Members of the Coalition to Aid Nicaragua
acknowledged the successful drive, which
began in 1980 under the auspices of Oxfam
and the United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union.

Phil Rankin, Vancouver school trustee
and member of the civic Committee of Pro-
gressive Electors noted it was “ironic” that
Nicaragua was continuing to. build schools
while cutbacks in education by the provin-
cial government marked a “‘slide to barba-
rism” in British Columbia.

B.C. Federation of labor president Art
Kube noted labor’s continued support for
Nicaragua since the 1979 Sandinista revolu-
tion that toppled the U.S.-backed dictator-
ship of Anastasia Somoza.

(Tools for Peace organizers have noted
this year’s effort saw the largest contribu-
tion from trade unions in B.C. since the
project began. Nationally, the United Auto
Workers donated a truck to Nicaragua’s
Health Workers Union. A delegation of
B.C. Carpenters is to leave soon for a special
project in Nicaragua.)

Also speaking were COPE Ald. Harry
Rankin, and Bruce Yorke, three-times
elected alderman and aldermanic candidate
in the Feb. 2 byelection.

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Letters of support and congratulations
were also sent from the federal caucus of the
New Democratic Party, and provincial
NDP leader Bob Skelly.

Campaign organizer Rev. Wes Maultsaid
read greetings from Nicaragua’s consular-
general, who noted there are several other
major projects around the world in aid of
the Central American nation.

The Tools for Peace effort is credited
with inspiring several other similar projects
internationally. In Japan efforts are under-
way, while in Australia, trade unions have
initiated an aid campaign.

United States citizens, who have contri-
buted in past years to the Canadian effort,
have started a U.S. aid effort, while a major
campaign is underway in Norway and other
Scandinavian countries.

Altogether some 15 containers of mainly

medical supplies were filled and loaded, free
of charge by members of the International
Longshoremen’s union, the rally was told.

Peace meet Feb. 16

The Vancouver Peace Assembly cele-
brates its first anniversary Feb. 16 with a
conference featuring speakers on the inter-
national and trade union fronts.

The conference, which begins at 9:30 -

a.m., features Ray Stevenson, past vice-
president of the Canadian Peace Congress
(the VPA’s parent body) speaking on the
current international situation. =

“The economic crisis and the arms race,”
will be addressed by Geoff Meggs, editor of
The Fisherman and member of the Trade
Union Peace Committee. Phil Rankin of the
Coalition for Aid to Nicaragua will discuss
the threat the Central American nation
faces from U.S. intervention.

The sessions are followed by discussion
periods, a plenary to discuss and vote on
resolutions, and election of a new executive
for the assembly.

The registration fee is $5 for the confer-
ence, to be held at the Vancouver Indian
Centre, 1607 East Hastings St.

For information, phone the B.C. Peace
Council at 685-9958 (between 11 a.m. and 2
p.m.), Angela Kenyon at 254-8692 or Kathy
Ferguson, 872-4843, eves.

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