THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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HOPE LOGGERS MEET

Loggers in the Hope - Boston Bar areas are urged
to attend a special meeting arranged by the officers of
Local 1-367 IWA, October 12, at 7 p.m., in the Hope

Purpose of the meeting is to hear complaints of
loggers conscripted by the Forest Service last

The news media and Forest Service officials have
been invited to attend. Local MLA
will also be present in order to hear complaints which
arise and involve members of his constituency.

William Hartley

GYPSUM PLANT CLEAN—
CANADA WIRE "HOT"

The B.C. Federation of
Labour has taken the products
of Western Gypsum Limited
off the ‘‘hot”’ list, but has an-
nounced a “‘hot’’ declaration
against the products of Canada
Wire & Cable. Secretary-
Treasurer Ray Haynes stated:
today:

‘We have been advised by
the Cement, Lime & Gypsum
Workers Local 400 that they
have negotiated a settlement in
their-six-month strike and are
now back at work.

“However, at Canada Wire &
Cable, 24members of Local 264
of the International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers are
still on the picket line with the
company attempting to cir-
cumvent their strike - after
unloading its warehouse ma-
terial prior to the strike taking
place. The Federation has
asked all its affiliates to do
everything possible to assist
the strikers at Canada Wire &
Cable and ensure full imple-
mentation of the Federation’s
‘hot’ policy.’

SHORTER WEEK WANTED

The Public Service Alliance
of Canada wants the federal
government to consider the
four-day work week for public
servants.

PSAC President Claude
Edwards says most federal
public servants now work a
four day week 21 percent of the
time, because of the 11 paid
holidays they get under PSAC
contracts.

The Alliance wants the
government to establish a
committee to study the im-
plications of the four-day week.

Edwards says public _ser-
vants can expect a start on the
shorter week for some occupa-
tions within the next two or
three years, and it should be
widespread in 10 years.

What devils club... I don’t see no devils club!

been.

hollows,

swallows?

PSYCHEDELIRIOUS.

PSYCHEDELERIUM TREMENS

Remember when HIPPIE meant big in the hips,

And a TRIP involved travel in cars, planes and ships?

When POT was a vessel for cooking things in,

And HOOKED was what Grandmother’s rug might have

When FIX was a verb that meant mend or repair,

And BE-IN meant simply exisiting somewhere?

When NEAT meant well organized, tidy and clean,

And GRASS was a ground-cover, normally green?

When lights and not people were SWITCHED ON and OFF,
And the PILL might have been what you took for a cough?
When CAMP meant to quarter outdoors in a tent,

And POP was what the weasel went?

When GROOVEY meant furrowed with channels and

And BIRDS were winged creatures, like robins and

When FUZZ was a substance that’s fluffy like lint,

And BREAD came from bakeries, not from the mint?
When SQUARE meant a 90-degree angled form,

And COOL was a temperature not quite warm?
When ROLL meant a bun, and ROCK was a stone,

And HANG-UP was something you did to a phone?
When CHICKEN meant poultry, and BAG meant a sack,
And JUNK trashy cast-offs and old bric-a-brac?
When JAM was preserves that you spread on your bread,
And CRAZY meant balmy, not right in the head?

When CAT was a feline, a kitten grown up,

When TEA was a liquid you drank from a cup?

When SWINGER was someone who swung in a swing,
And PAD was a soft sort of cushiony thing?

When WAY OUT meant distant and far, far away,

And aman couldn’t sue you for calling him GAY?

When DIG meant to shovel and spade in the dirt,

And PUT-ON was what you would do with a shirt?

When TOUGH described meat too unyielding to chew
And MAKING A SCENE was a rude thing to do?

Words once so sensible, sober and serious

Are making the FREAK SCENE like

It’s GROOVY, MAN Groovy, but English it’s not,
Me thinks that the language has gone straight to POT.

By ALDERMAN
HARRY RANKIN

The internal conflicts among
the owners of the Vancouver
Canucks, over who is going to
get his snout the farthest into
the financial trough, has
served to obscure the most
important issue involved.

The Vancouver Canucks is
owned by Medicor, a U.S.
outfit. It is no more Can-
adian than B.C. Tel. While
both of them dress up their
front windows by adding a few
Canadians to their boards of
directors, to give them a
Canadian look, control
remains firmly in U.S. hands.

The Capozzi family, former
business partners of Premier
W. A. C. Bennett, are now
trying to muscle in on
ownership of the Canucks with
a $3.5 million loan. However,
with interest at 18 percent —
$630,000 a year — they can’t
lose no matter what happens.
If they don’t get their money
back they get ownerhsip of the
Canucks. :

That a Canadian entry in the
National Hockey League
should be U.S. owned is bad
enough. But what is much.
worse is that the citizens of
Vancouver are subsidizing
U.S. and Canadian commercial
sports promoters to the tune of
millions of dollars a year. This
is due to the way that the
P.N.E. is run.

The citizens of Vancouver
built and paid for the Pacific
Coliseum, the home of the
Vancouver Canucks.

Then the P.N.E. board of
directors signed a nice, cozy
sweetheart agreement with
Medicor, the owners of the
Canucks, which gives them the
use of our Coliseum and all its
facilities:at far below the cost
of operation, and completely

out of line with the huge profits
they make on each hockey
game.

This happened because our
NPA dominated City Council.
turned over control of the
publicly owned PNE to a small
group of private businessmen.
They are running it not to
make profit for the PNE or the
city-of Vancouver which owns
it, but for their business
associates in commercial
sports. They allow their
business associates to use our
publicly owned facilities for
next to nothing and then make
up the deficit by charging high
admission prices and high
parking rates to Vancouver
citizens for entry to the P.N.E.
(On the other hand admission
to the race track is now free,
because they want people there
to make bets from which the
track operators make a big
killing.)

These businessmen, who
angrily and indignantly shout
about people on welfare living
off the taxpayers, don’t mind
putting their own sticky hands
into the public purse to help
themselves. That’s
“business,”’ you see, which is
supposed to make it O.K. But

LOCALS MOVE

Local 1-118 IWA Victoria has
moved its office to 3656
Raymond St. South, Victoria,
B.C.

The new telephone number is
479-1675.

* * *

Local 1-417 IWA Salmon Arm
has moved its office to
Kamloops. The new address is
Ste. 102-1050 West Columbia
Street, Kamloops, B.C.

The new telephone number is
374-6941.

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as far as I’m concerned, it’s
still robbing the public.

City Council can and must
find a way to restore control of
the publicly owned PNE to the
people and take it out of the
hands of the selfish private
interest groups that run it
today. The facilities of the
PNE should be used first of all
for amateur sports, com-
munity projects and
recreation. They could be
available for professional
sports too, if not needed for
community activities, but only
if a proper rent is paid. If these
commercial sports interests
were paying their fair share of
rents for facilities, today,
admission and parking fees
could be cut in half at least.

It’s high time we put an end
to control of the PNE by U.S.
and Canadian private business
hucksters, restored it to public
control and use it for the
benefit of the public.

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