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Members of the Bakery Workers Union picketed Vancouver Parks
Board warehouses at Stanley Park last week after the board reneg-
ed on a previous commitment to review the awarding of a $50,000
contract for buns to a distributing company which will purchase the
buns from a Seattle bakery. The pickets were lifted when the board
agreed to hear new evidence that the distributor was a ‘salesman’ civic needs,’’ COPE president

for Gai’s Bakery of Seattle.

ne of the few remaining links
with an early socialist tradition
in this province was broken last
Thursday with the death in Soin-
tula of Urho Tynjala whose name
was as familiar to the residents of
the Malcolm Island community as
was Sointula itself. And for two
ions, Urho was among the
staunchest of the supporters of the
Tribune, going back to its begin-
nings as the B.C. Workers’ News.
Born in North Dakota June 17,
1899, Urho came to Sointula in
1902 with his parents who were
among the early founders of the
utopian socialist community at
Sointula — ‘‘the p 1 ace of har-
mony” in the Finnish language.
Although the utopian socialist
community foundered, Urho
himself continued the co-operative
and socialist tradition it fostered,
taking it with him to Finnish co-ops
in what is now Thunder Bay and
Kirkland Lake where he worked in
the 1930’s and ’40’s. Later return-
ing to Sointula, he turned to the
fishing industry for his livelihood.
For the last decade and a half,

however, he and his wife Anna

‘PEOPLE AND ISSUES

operated a small general store in
Sointula where Urho not only sold
his wares but exchanged ideas and
raised funds for the Tribune’s an-
nual financial drive.

Heis survived by his wife, Anna;
a brother, Eino Tynjala in Soin-
tula; a daughter Dora Lindsell in
Burnaby; four grandchildren and
three great grandchildren.

Our condolences to them. Here,
as in Sointula, he will be missed.

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e didn’t know when we com-
Wi mented last week on Sear’s ad-
vertisement for Olympic T-shirts
which urged buyers to ‘‘show their
support for the Olympics”’ that the
parent company in the U.S., Sears-
Roebuck, had to be brought into
line with the Carter boycott.

We learned this week that Carter
instructed one of his advisors,
Anne Wexler, to contact Sears-

Roebuck and order them to cut off -

their financial contributions to the
United States Olympic Committee
in order to compel the USOC to
back the boycott.

Presumably the huge depart-
ment and catalogue store chain

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CITY OF VANCOUVER
REGISTER OF ELECTORS
VOTERS’ LIST CANVASS

During the period commencing Monday, March 17th, 1980, and including Monday,
June 30th, 1980, a canvass will be made of dwellings throughout the City of Vancouver.
Enumerators will call at each residence ONCE ONLY taking the names of eligible
electors. :
If no contact can be made, a ‘‘pink’’ business reply card will be left for completion,
and mailing to the City of Vancouver Voters’ List, 2512 Yukon St., Vancouver, B.C
See RETURN YOUR COMPLETED CARD WITHOUT DELAY. No postage is
required.
If you are in doubt that an enumerator visited you, or you do not feel that you re-
ceived the “pink’’ card, please phone the Voters’ List office, (873-7680 or 7681, 7682,
7683, 7684) to enquire if the enumerators have visited vour area. =
Persons missed during the enumeration may register, in person, at the Voters’ List
office, 2512 Yukon St., Vancouver, B.C., up_to and including Thursday. August 21st,
1980, during office hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.). You are urged to register at your
earliest convenience. i

Qualifications of Electors are as follows:

RESIDENT ELECTORS

1. Must be resident in the City of Vancouver CONTINUOUSLY from January

Ist, 1980 to and including June 15th, 1980 :
AND 2. Must be Canadian Citizens or other British Subjects, 19 years of age or over
ON ELECTION DAY (Wednesday, November 19th, 1980)
OWNER ELECTORS

1. Must be the registered owner of property in the City of Vancouver by July —

3ist, 1980.
AND 2. Must be Canadian Citizens or other British Subjects, 19 years of age or over
ON ELECTION DAY (Wednesday, November 19th, 1980).
Your full co-operation will assist the Voters’ List office in compiling a list that is as
accurate as possible,

CITY HALL, VANCOUVER, B.C. March 15, 1980 R, Henry, CITY CLERK

COPE to launch election

with nominations May 14

The Committee of Progressive
Electors will launch its 1980 civic
election campaign at a nominating

‘convention May 14.

The COPE executive will be rec-
ommending to the membership
that it run a full slate of candidates,
but leave open the mayoralty posi-
tion and one aldermanic position.

The move to nominate early
comes after a series of discussions
between COPE, the Vancouver
Labor Council and alderman Mike
Harcourt, who has declared his
candidacy for mayor.

Two weeks ago the VLC indi-
cated that it would back a united
slate of COPE, Harcourt and al-
derman Darlene Marzari in the
1980 election.

“COPE is encouraged by
indications that the Vancouver La-
bor Council is considering
conducting a strong, parallel cam-
paign along COPE’s program-
matic lines, and have told us that
they are determined to see the wid-
est possible unity and mobilization
of working people around their

Bruce Yorke said in a statement.

concurred but, significantly
Carter’s action in effectively
blackmailing the USOC has spur-

red American athletes to pursue a -

lawsuit against the Olympic com-
mittee.

Apparently, the U.S. Lawyers
Committee for Sports Freedom
has been lining up plaintiffs for a
major lawsuit against the USOC
which alleges violations of the
USOC and International Olympic
Committee constitutions as well as
public laws.

The suit hangs on Article IX of
the USOC constitution which
states, in part: ‘‘No member of the
USOC may deny or threaten to
deny any amateur athlete the op-
portunity to compete in the Olym-
pic Games.”’

Extend
Rent Controls

May Day
Greetings

Greater
Vancouver
Renters Assoc.

“Tt is with this concept of unity
around prografii in mind that
COPE has decided at this time to
leave two spots open — in the
mayoral position where alderman
Mike Harcourt has declared his in-
tention to run, and one aldermanic
position in the likely event that al-
derwoman Darlene Marzari de-
cides to seek re-election.”’

Up for nomination at the May
14 meeting in the Ironworkers Hall
will be nine aldermanic positions,
and a full slate of nine school board
and seven parks board positions. A
number of familiar names and pre-
vious COPE candidates are expect-
ed to run: Joe Arnaud, Bruce Erik-

sen, Sol Jackson, Harry Rankin,

David Schreck, Jean Swanson and

Bruce Yorke for aldermanic pos!
tions; Connie Fogal, Wes KnapP
and Pauline Weinstein for school
board; Libby Davies, Phillip Rat
kin, David Stone and Pat Wilsot
for parks board.

Last week TEAM president
Martin Zlotnick announced thathe

also would be running for mayO!- —
Zlotnick was an official of the —

CPR-Marathon Realty backed
Downtown Stadium Committe,
and was an unsuccessful parks
board candidate in the 1978 elec
tion, finishing Well out of conten”
tion. :

Richmond backs GVRA

_ Fifty angry tenants have won
their council’s support in a fight
against landlords who are ex-
ploiting a loophole in the Residen-
tial Tenancy Act which allows
them to hike rents as high as they
want.

Under the Act, rental units built
after 1974 are exempt from rent
controls and tenants from two
apartment complexes in Richmond
have been hit with rent increases of
up to 75 percent.

Richmond municipal council, at
its regular Monday night meeting,
unanimously endorsed the pro-
posal by the Greater Vancouver
Renters Association and the ten-
ants from the two apartment build-
ings, that the provincial govern-
ment enact emergency legislation
giving tenants of post-1974 units
legal recourse to appeal rent in-
creases under section 70 of the Act.

“Richmond council will be ask-
ing other municipal councils tO”
back this demand at the next
meeting of the Greater Vancouvet —
Regional District,”” GVRA presk —
dent, Tom Lalonde said. e

A second motion by alderman
Harold Steves that the housing
committee investigate the
possibilities of obtaining seven per
cent rent controls for every rent@ —
aor BC ye une ae
The GVRA along with Red
Door Rental Housing Registry
spokesperson, Linda Mead, and
other tenants, are arming

themselves with Richmond coun- —
cil’s decisions when they meet with —
Jim Nielson, minister of consumet —

and corporate affairs this Wednes- —
day, to ask for legislative changesin —
the Act.

MAY DAY GREETINGS

to our friends in the
labor movement

SAM

Surrey Alternative Movement

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MAY DAY GREETINGS

to our friends and supporters

‘many thanks for your overwhelming
support for our 1980 civic grant appeal’

Downtown Eastside Residents Assoc.

‘working for a better community’

Burnaby
Citizens
Association
greets

MAY DAY |

MAY

cope

DAY GREETINGS
You're invited fo
colebrate Harry Rankin’'s 60th
birthday May 10, 6 p.m., Russie
Hall, 600 Campbell Ave., Van.
Dinner and dance $6; students,

pensioners $4.

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