NEW

+) ROAD

HOLBERG REPORT

O CELEBRATE the com-
pletion of the road from
Port Hardy to Holberg, across
the northern part of Vancou-
ver Island, a car cavalcade
from Port Hardy visited this
Rayonier logging camp the
weekend of July 17th.

This new road is part MB
& PR (Port Hardy Division),
part government (Cape Scott
Working Circle) , and the bal-
ance Rayonier (N. E. Main).
Because of current logging,
the road is open only at night
between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00
a.m. and, frankly, it is not a

highway.

_ To the 90 members em-
ployed at Holberg, it is a for-
ward step getting away from
the isolation associated with

logging camps. Pete Roth-
man, Camp Chairman, was
on holidays during the week-
end, but he has played an
important part in making the
road possible. As a faller, he
put down many of the trees
along this right-of-way. John
Belansky, the Camp Secre-
tary, was perhaps not the
first to “open” the new road,
but he and his Ford have
made enough trips that he’s
considering adding signs to
the car door: “See John!
Guide to Holberg Wilder-
ness.”

In preparation for the
event, the camp was all deck-
ed out with a new coat of
paint; Fritz Haughland, the
Superintendent, adding new
lawns to the existing flower
gardens, making it an attrac-
tive camp. (He is competing
with Mahatta River.) The

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

local storekeeper, Dick
Burke, had his store all spic
and span and open for busi-
ness, as he is 365 days a year.

From Holberg the road
branches off in two directions;
one branch takes you to the
Holberg Air Force Base

where there are about 100
families. The second branch,
if you don’t get lost on a log-
ging road, will take you to

Bill Moore’s camp, Down-
town Winter Harbour. Many
of the 25 members of this

West Coast camp will wel:

come this road connection, as
well as the proposed addition
to the fishing community of
Winter Harbour.

The Safety Committees of
both these camps would like
to add: Be Safe, Drive Care-
fully, Have a Happy Holiday!

7
N.D.P. S$ “PROGRAM AND POLICIES”

Confronted with a flood of
over 400 resolutions sent in
by constituency associations
and unions, the third conven-
tion of the federal New
Democratic Party buckled
down to the busines of spell-
ing out for the Canadian peo-
ple, as federal leader T. C.
Douglas called it, “the pro-
gram and policies on which
we will contest the next fed-
eral election.”

T. C. DOUGLAS

In addition to this mass of
resolutions, the federal coun-
cil of the party put before al-
most 1000 delegates a series
of major policy statements
which in a substantial way
added to the basic program
adopted by the new party at
its founding convention in

1961.

Federal leader Douglas
stated the three major goals of
the party are national unity,
social democracy in a dy-
namic society and Canada’s
‘contribution to world peace.

The council’s resolutions gave
details of how these three ob-
jectives are to be achieved.

“National unity,” said
Douglas, “must begin by rec-

ognizing the fact of the ‘quiet _

revolution’ in Quebec and the
desire of French Canada to
retain and develop their na-
tional and cultural identity.”

The NDP federal leader
said that Quebec is in a mood
to accept the kind of policies
with which the party is
identified. In Robert Cliche,
the party in Quebec has a
provincial leader second to
none in the province.

PARTY’S GOAL

Unity in diversity, and not
uniformity, is the New Demo-
cratic Party’s goal.

Dealing with the building
of social democracy, Mr.
Douglas said that the differ-
ence between the. NDP and
the other parties is “not so
much in economic techniques
as in the social goals we have
in mind.”

The Liberals may be adopt-
ing some of the NDP tech-
niques such as the economic
planning council and a Can-
ada Development Corpora-
tion, “but the important thing

is not the economic tools but
the purpose to which they are
put and for whose benefit,” he
pointed out.

The Liberal finance min-
ister’s development corpora-
tion is an example of cribbing
NDP ideas but perverting
them to illogical uses. “It will
‘be a gigantic mutual develop-
ment fund” with the financial
interests who form Canada’s

economic elite appointing the

directors and controlling the
fund.

In response to the leader’s
statement, the convention
unanimously adopted a reso-
lution confirming “the inten-
tion of an NDP government
to retain complete control of
the fund” and using it for the
benefit of the expansion of the
Canadian economy.

Turning to foreign policy,
the federal NDP leader pro-
posed three guidelines for
Canada, first, an independent
policy, second, greater relia-
ance on collective security,
third, a substantial foreign
aid program.

Sweden, Yugoslavia and In-
dia have shown their inde-
pendence although India has
more reason to fear China
than we have and more need
of American economic assist-
ance.”

UN IGNORED

“The rule of law through
the United Nations” was fun-
damental to the building of a
peaceful world. Mr. Douglas
condemned the Great Powers
for always ignoring the UN
“whenever it suited their pur-
pose to do so —Russia in
Hungary, Great Britain and
France in Suez and the Unit-
ed States in Vietnam and the
Dominican Republic.”

The smaller nations have
most to gain from strengthen-
ing the authority of the UN,
he stated. “This means re-
thinking our defense policy in
terms of providing peace-
keeping forces for UN-sanc-
tioned operations rather than

squandering $22.5 billion, as.

we have done, on obsolete
military hardware.”

The federal leader con-
cluded by spelling out the es-
sentials for a much increased
foreign aid program “in keep-
ing with our vast resources.”

Spending only half of one
per cent of our gross national
product on foreign aid is not
good enough. “We spend
seven times this amount on
defense equipment which can-
not defend us in a nuclear
age.

OWN DESTINY

“We must be prepared to
give the emerging nations the
right to work out their own
destiny; we should be prepar-
ed to help them make that
destiny a promising and pros-
perous one.”

Advocating the expenditure
of two percent of Canada’s
gross national product on for-
eign aid, a policy later adopt-
ed by convention resolution,
Mr. Douglas emphasized that
this means “shipping locomo-
tives, power plants, factories,
machine tools and farm tract-
ors” to these needy nations.
“It means shipping surplus
food, consumer goods and ap-
pliances, all of which we can
produce in abundance, there-
by giving employment to our
people and establishing trade
patterns for the future.

ABOVE ALL

“Above all, it means creat-
ing goodwill with the people
of other races and other
tongues, so that some day
their children and our chil-
dren will live in a peaceful
world.”

JOHN BARTANUS, Local 1-118,
IWA, Camp Chairman at C.P.S.

(Rayonier Ltd.), Jordan River,
shown with two beauties, a 45 and
a 32 Ib. Spring Salmon, landed
recently in front of his home, just
north of Sooke, B.C. John was
ably assisted in the catch by Russ
Heathman, IWA Camp Commit-
teeman at Butler Bros. Logging,
Sooke. Who wouldn’t vacation on
Vancouver Island?

TIGER IN TANK

The B.C. Federation of
Labour says most motorists
have a bigger tiger in their
tank than they realize. In a
brief submitted to a public
enquiry into gas prices, the
Federation charges that com-
petition between oil compan-
ies is largely illugionary and
prices in B.C. are unduly

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