Opening AppleWorks (cwk) files in Yosemite

I found some AppleWorks files that I need to work with and Pages 5.1.1 (the new version released for Yosemite) cannot open them. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to open them?
Previous versions of Pages were able to open such files - I do not know when Apple removed this feature from Pages.

1. Try using LibreOffice.
2. It was removed in Pages 5.0.
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