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3 Abu in the London Observer ‘Go away! I don’t believe in ghosts!”

Communist leader takes Part in UBC seminar

“Russia, China and the West,” Was the topic chosen for the Un- Wersity of B.C,’s annual summer Seminar, which was opened last Weekend at the Point Grey campus With an address, ‘Canada in a Rapidly Changing World,’’ by Hon,

Oward Green, former Minister Of External Affairs,

A feature of the seminar, in Which some 250 students and faculty members participated, Was the Saturday afternoon and fvening panel discussion on

Peaceful Co-existence,’’ The Panel included B,C, Communist fader Nigel Morgan, who SPoke on the subject: ‘Co-ex- Stence - Is It Compatible With He Marxist Concept of Class

Tugele - National Liberation Md Socialism as theNext Stage

History?” -

Moderated by graduate stud-

ent Hardial Bains, the panel als included Rev, Jack Shaver, UBC United Church chaplain, who spoke on ‘*Co-existence-a Theo- logian’s Point of View.’’ Pof, Robert Kubicek, UBC Dept, of History, spoke on ‘‘Co-existence - An Historian’s Approach,’’

Pointing out that ‘‘the Marx- ist approach to co-existence is the result of changing world real- ity, of accumulated experience of class struggle, of realism and of sound common sense, Mor- gan declared, ‘*We are passing through the most revolutionary period of transition in all hum- an history,”’

A lively question period fol- lowed, and the seminar was

rounded out with a number otf papers by UBC. faculty and visiting lecturers dealing with Sino-Soviet relations,

Transit probe urged

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Behe P.U.C, announcement was i with open consternation by K eleven mayors and reeves °m the Greater Vancouver and peeater Victoria area, A special eting in the Vancouver city all led to an agreement among an to ask for a special meeting the Rue provincial cabinet before . ULC, hearings on the transit © increase,

Meanwhile, many more groups = Protesting the fare increase,

Victoria a veterans organiza- — has urged that the boost be

Jected on the grounds it would "pose impossible hardships on *Nsioners,

aa Vancouver the Downtown WSinessmen’s Association has eed a strong protest against i= fare boost, Their concern > aad stems from the im- “SSible congestion a fare boost ‘ll lead to, with more people ‘king to automobiles, and the

arm it would do to downtown Uiness, :

Hitting out at the Socred gOv- io ment’s pressure play on mun- *Palities and transit users to oa them pay for a transit sys- while the provincial govern- t a Sarners all the gravy from lucrative power, freight and . Operations, the B,C, Com- ist Party again this week re- = its demand for the im- C late setting up of a Royal " Mission to probe all aspects Do in transit needs ofthe metro- an centres,

The Communist Party urges that there be no further transit fare increase until such a complete probe has taken place and its recommendations brought forward,

On Tuesday Premier W,A,C, Bennett said it would be ‘‘in- appropriate’? for the cabinet to meet -municipal leaders to dis- cuss the transit situation while the PUC is considering the fare increase, This is obviously a dodge to avoid broadening the discussion with municipalities on the transit crisis and respons- ibility for it,

STRIKING SEAMEN FIGHT FOR SQUARE DEAL. Members of Seamen's Local 400, Canadian Brotherhood of Rail- way and Transport Workers, are shown picketing coastal

WEYERHAEUSER GETS SOCRED HANDOUT

U.S. monopoly takes over big Interior forest area

The giant U.S, Weyerhaeuser Company, reputed to be the world’s largest forestry enter- prise, this week announced that it had taken over control of the Kamloops Pulp and Paper Comp- any which was recently granted a large pulpwood harvesting licence.

The announcement came from Weyerhaeuser President Norton Clapp who said his company had acquired 51 percent control and that four officers of the U.S. company would constitute a majority of the 7-man board of directors which will control the company.

Prior to the U.S. takeover, the Kamloops Pulp and Paper Company applied for and was granted a huge area of public forest lands almost half the land area of Vancouver Island. The pulpwood harvesting licence (Number 2) includes 13 public working circles set up originally for small loggers who will now be virtually eliminated.

The licence granted by Min- ister of Lands and Forests, Ray Williston, takes in a vast forest area stretching from Lumby north to Clearwater between Rev- elstoke and Kamloops.

During hearings conducted in

B.C. Gov't would curb

health plan

Despite assurances given to the -public by Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Health Minister Martin a few weeks ago , that B.C, would sup- port a comprehensive medi- care plan such as recomm- ended in the Royal Commision report, it was made clear ‘this week that the Socred goy- ernment intends to press for extensive curbs on any nation- al health plan,

This was made clear by the stand of Health Minister Martin at the federal -prov- incial meeting of health min- isters in Ottawa this week, Martin urged that ‘‘deterrent’’ fees be imposed for many services

over two years.

freighter-passenger vessel Northland Prince. Thirty men

May hy Williston on forest licences, the deal between Kam- loops Pulp and Paper and Weyer- haeuser came under sharp crit- icism as a “sellout of Canadian resources” to the U.S. This crit- icism forced Williston to declare at the time that no company granted a licence would be al- lowed make a capital gain from its sale.

RAY WILLISTON, Minister of Resources Giveaways in the Socred government, granted the Kamloops licence even though he knew it would be immedi- ately taken over by the huge U.S. monopoly. The editorial on page four demands that he cancel the pulpwood licence at once.

Now that the licence has been finally completed the Weyer- haeuser interests have taken over complete control and plan to build a 250-ton-per-day pulp mill which will provide raw materials for the company’s manufacturing plants in the U.S.

When the Forest Management Licence Scheme was first intro- duced in the early 1950’s many B.C. companies were taken over by U.S. corporations after they had acquired a forestry licence. During the last Royal Commis- sion evidence was produced showing that tens of millions of dollars had been made by B.C. companies which acquired public forest lands and then sold themas capital assets to U.S. monopolies,

The major means by whichU:S. companies have acquired the dominant position in the forest industry of B.C. has been through the purchase of controlling interest in companies which had been granted such licences as has; now again been granted to the Kamloops Pulp and Paper Comp- any.

Strong protests to the B.C. government are expected from the public and from small logging companies who will be eliminated in the licence area, demanding the licence be cancelled.

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Seamen still on strike at Northland operations

Seamen at Northland Shipping and Northwest Shipping are en- tering their second week on strike determined to win demands for wage increases and time and a half for overtime,

‘CBRT Local 400 delegate Mike James told Vancouver Labor Council on Tuesday night that meetings are being held with B,C, Federation of Labor leaders in order to plan an ef- fective campaign to insure vic- tory,

The men are on strike to back up demands for a $40 a month wage increase and a high- er penalty rate for doing jobs usually handled by Longshore-

and ten women are involved. They are demanding time and one-half overtime and $40 monthly wage increases

—FISHERMAN photo

men, in addition to the overtime question? e

Carpenters in Victoria havewona ~

package increase of 71 cents an hour and in Kamloops of 86 cents an hour, In both cases the increase , based on a two year contract, will establish parity with rates paid on the Lower Mainland,

The union is on strike in the Kootenays for 86 cents an hour,

~which would also achieve parity

for that area of the province,

The Bakery and Confectionery Workers Union has signedathree year agreement with all major bakeries and organized super- markets, The new contract af- fects about 600 workers and pro- vides for an across the board

wage increase of 45 cents an hour, spread over the three years,

In addition, employees. will receive three weeks vacation after five years, four weeks after 10 years, and other fringe bene- fits.

The union membership has been on the 35 hour work week since 1956,

Ambulance drivers in the Lower Mainland have won a re- duced work week with no loss in take home pay, They will now work 56 hours a week in- stead of 86, as formerly, This means their wages have gone up from $1,07 to $1,50 an hour,

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