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River jg Rag lara ship shown here loading iron ore at Campbell
trucked 26 eae u Maru. The ore is mined at Quinsam River and
iles to Campbell River to be loaded aboard freighters

or Japan,

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Not one cent for
B.C. from iron ore
Shipments to Japan

C VICTORIA, B.C.
ee to 800,000 tons: of B.C.
Japan . have been shipped to
Sonant y the U.S.-controlled Ar-

Company without the
government being
" pe collect one cent of rev-
Natural om this exploitation of
compan resources by one foreign
Market for another foreign
enment And the federal gov-
ineiat has rejected a_prov-
stop is tk eriage request to
um ins ee bec British Col-

Thi :
Bigtocan ens information was
to the legislature last

week by Lands and Forests Min-
ister R. E. Sommers.

Sommers, replying to a ques-
tion put by William C. Moore
(CCF, Comox), reported that the
Argonaut Company had shipped
779,922 tons of iron ore from.
Vancouver Island to Japan, re-
presenting about 10 percent of
known iron ore reserves in the
province.

The minister’s explanation re-
vealed a basic weakness in the
Socred government’s proposed:

Continued on back page
See IRON ORE

ASKED

“We are taking ste
ps to have an investigation
: te ss of the BCTele ;
ne eee Peace Act,’ Effie Jones and Sid Zlotnik ioe eo a
fee er RA ment’ ay en the latest rate increase granted the compan sie aia
7 p C oo spokesmen opposed granting of the increase at : Kasimeyse
ransport Commissioners hearing in Vancouver eat oa

The latest phone hike ran

ges from 15 cents monthl i

lines to 85 cents on business phones. The boosts will sly donee GRE Wa
next week.

‘The BCT is violating Section Two

cae S of the C { Hi 4

purchase of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment Te ee Act by the

in 1952) from the Automatic Electric Company, an affiliated BE a eo ea
; statement

issued Wednesday this. week by Zlotnik and Mrs Jones. ‘“The Board of Tra: C
Yansport Com-

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