' The Pacific Tribune has campaigned for years against the export of raw materials and has urged that processing industries be set up in B.C. to provide thousands of new jobs and add to _ the province's economic growth. What would the processing of B.C.’s mineral Ores mean for the Pacific Coast in terms of new "jobs and economic growth? Here are a few facts: @ Charles M. Campbell, a veteran Vancouver | mining engineer, is quoted in ‘Western Business | & Industry,’ as saying that if the copper ore mined in B.C. had been smelted in B.C. the value of the resource to the economy would be multiplied by a factor of ten. In 1968 B.C. exported $110 million worth of copper concentrates to Japan. Using Campbell's _ figure, B.C.’s economy would have gained over $1 billion by processing the copper ore here. “Imagine the number of jobs that could have provided! e At the turn of the century there were four copper smelters in operation in B.C. Today there are none, although B.C. is one of the world’s _ biggest producers of copper ore; it is our single largest mineral export. There is also no molybdenum smelter although B.C. prokduces 5 percent of the world’s supply. Stop exporting jobs; process ore in B.C. | FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1969 e The value of iron ore shipped to Japan comes back to Canada in processed form (steel, etc.) worth seven times the value of the concentrates shipped out. @ Smelting is the key to changing over from raw material exports to processing. An example of what smelting facilities can mean is shown by the one and only smelter we have at Trail which employs 3,000 workers, or 25 percent of the entire labor force in B.C.’s mining industry. The big foreign monopolies — U.S. and Japanese — which are taking over control of B.C.’s mining industry have a vested interest in seeing to it that processing is not developed in BC. They want our raw materials for their own smelters and processing plants. They do not want to see industries set up in B.C. which would be in competition with their plants abroad. Therefore, as long as they are able to influence B.C.’s mining policy these monopolies will block any move towards processing industries in B.C, That’s why ending foreign control of B.C.’s mining industry is vital and why the government must act to encourage and promote a smelting industry in B.C. now. VOL, 30, NO. 11 PUBLIC EXCLUDED FROM HEARINGS NATO REVIEW A HOAX “The review of foreign and defense policy promised by Prime Minister Trudeau was a hoax from beginning toend."’ This was the charge made by William Kashtan, national leader of the Communist Party, following press reports of a statement by the chairman of the House Committee on External Affairs, lan Walsh, that his committee was not going to recommend any basic change in Canada’s NATO policy. “The so-called review’ _—_—_—___ Kashtan said, “has been of a semi-public, closed door SOVIETS DENOUNCE character with the _ public excluded, The Canadian people BORDER ATTACKS are thus faced with being — See pages 3 & 10 committed to policies in which they had no say.” NR ROT 8 RN A statement issued this week by the Party's national executive said ‘there has been no serious effort to secure the opinions of those many Canadians who believe that Canada should quit NATO. Among those whose opinions have been denied a hearing is the Communist Party itself whose request for a hearing has been refused both by External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp and by the House Committee on External Affairs."’ The Communist Party announced that it will place a picket line on Parliament Hill this Wednesday, March 12 to protest ‘‘against Prime Minister Trudeau’s apparent willingness to advise President Nixon about Canada’s foreign policy before he tells the Canadian people what that policy is going to be.”’ Prime Minister Trudeau is scheduled to meet with the U.S. president in Washington on March 24. That will be two days before the House Committee on External Affairs is due to report. Kashtan said: ‘‘Canadians expected a change with Trudeau but that’s exactly what they're not getting.” A statement issued by the Communist Party in conjunction with its demonstration on Parliament Hill Wednesday said the Party was protesting against Mitchell Sharp's ‘‘continuing deafness with respect to any and all arguments for Canadian withdrawal from NATO—and this in the face of. easily established facts that NATO has never been anything but a pact to promote the interests of U.S: imperialism.” The Communist Party statement charged that NATO has always supported reactionary regimes including the West German neo-Nazis who have just given another display of their brinkmanship in West Berlin. ‘It has undermined Canadian sovereignty and costs the Canadian taxpayers directly half a billion dollars a year that is desperately needed for homes, schools, hospitals and people's welfare.” The Communist Party campaign for Canadian withdrawal from NATO rolled into high gear recently with many radio broadcasts and newspaper advertisements in many of the main centres in B.C. and Canada. A special postcard (see page 12) and a sticker have been widely distributed. The Communist Party is urging that Canada replace NATO with a new independent foreign policy of non-alignment which will serve to advance the cause Of world peace and security for Canada. CITY ‘QUIT NATO’ MARCH SATURDAY The Communist Party will hold a demonstration Saturday, March 15 in downtown Vancouver to demand withdrawal of Canada from NATO. Delegates attending the Party’s provincial convention this weekend will take part in the demonstration and others are urged to join. The demonstration will form up at Pender and Dunlevy Sts., at 12 noon and march down Hastings St., to Victory Square where a short meeting will be staged at about 12:30 p.m.