: —Sean Griffin photos The attractive floats presented by the Women’s Auxiliary of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (top) and the B.C. Peace Council (bottom), touching on the themes of the resources sellout and the arms race, marked a welcome note of difference in the usual fanfare of the annual PNE parade last Saturday in Vancouver. Jack Phillips assumes post as CP organizer Provincial Communist Party workers into CUPE. leader Nigel Morgan announced A long time member of the this week that prominent trade. Communist Party of Canada, Jack unionist Jack Phillips has-been added to the organizational staff of the Communist Party in B.C. He assumes the post of provincial organizer. Having taken early retirement from his position as national representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which he had held for the past eight years, he came on staff for the Party August 5. Phillips is a well-known trade union leader in the province having been an executive member of the Vancouver and District Labor Council as well as a delegate to many provincial and national labor conventions. From 1947 until 1966 he was full time secretary for the Vancouver Civic Employees Union — Outside Workers — later to become Local 1004 of CUPE — and held the position despite numerous raiding attempts during the Cold War years and expulsion of the union from the Canadian Congress ° of Labor. He was largely in- strumental in bringing the outside SS _is a member of its central com- mittee and provincial executive and presently serves as chairman of the latter body’s labor com- mittee. JACK PHILLIPS — By ALD. HARRY RANKIN Are there any lessons to be learned from the Watergate scandal as far as Vancouver civic politics are concerned? You bet there are! One of the main ones is that corporate contributions to political campaign funds are very decidely: a form of bribe. Corporations don’t make political contributions — to candidates or to parties — without expecting something in return. In fact, they look upon such con- tributions as a form of investment. For a contribution of a few thousand dollars they expect and receive special concessions worth millions. The illicit gains made by International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) and the milk lobby during the Nixon ad- ministration proved that. Is Canada different? Only in this respect: political contributions are kept secret. Party discipline prevents any leaks. Investigations under our political system can only be launched by the party in power and it isn’t likely to do anything which would lead to its political exposure. Vancouver civic politics are run in much the same way as the politics in Washington or Ottawa, Save and except for the amount of funds involved. Big corporations made contributions to civic political groups and expect and receive concessions in exchange. Why did the CPR and the Block 42-52 interests support the NPA? Why do the CPR, the Four Seasons people and other developers support TEAM today? The answer is obvious. The most powerful area of City Council’s decision making powers: lies in rezoning. No large group of funds reach beyond Watergat developers or industrialists’ can give campaign monies on the basis of political welfare unless it is their own welfare.* No council can act independently if it owes any kind of promises especially in campaign funds to developers. Parties may deny these charges and say they can’t be proven. Okay, let its officials state under oath that they have not received contributions from corporate in- terests and developers that have benefitted from decisions made by councils. And let them reveal the source of their financial support. One of the main reforms Do tte required to clear the political a! Vancouver has to do precisely af such financial contribution. “a parties and candidates in Y elections. in i City Council should requifé candidates and all parties tot” the donor of every contrily i over $100 and also make sure ‘it not. circumvented by div! larger contributions. ; Secondly, Council should MY limitations on the amount of @ af that may be spent by or iM i, candidate or party on a or newspaper ads, or other 10 LONG TIME COMMUNIST Alex Dorland mourned Well known Communist teacher and trade unionist, Alex Dorland passed away in Vancouver General Hospital August 20 after a long iJlness. At the time of his death he was a resident of Nanoose Bay, Van- couver Island, where he had lived for the past five years after moving from North Vancouver. Born in Cahuvin, Alberta in 1911, Alex went on to graduate from the University of Saskatchewan. After settling in British Columbia, Dorland became a. long time member and former business agent of local 213 of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. In later years he took up teaching and taught at Delbrook and Hansworth Schools ‘in North Vancouver, transferring later to Nanaimo Secondary School. For almost his entire adult life he was an active member of the Eriksen in civic race Bruce Eriksen, president of the Downtown Eastside Residents Association, has announced _ his candidacy for an aldermanic position in the upcoming Van- couver civic election. As president of the 450-member DERA, Eriksen has exerted heavy pressure on Vancouver’s skid row slumlords and on city council to clean up the downtown-eastside in line with fire and health regulations. “It isnot just in the interest of my area and the members of DERA that I have decided to run as aldermanic candidate,” Eriksen said, “It is for the proper, in- telligent and human development ‘of the whole city of Vancouver, so that the monster TEAM was supposed to stop — but has actually encouraged — is finally slain, so that decent liveable ac- commodation replaces slums and so that sound buildings remain as residential accommodation and not demolished for office space of which this city has no shortage. “T intend to run as in indendent candidate. My platform will be non-partisan. I will be approaching the four civic groups to endorse me as a candidate and support my platform. The campaign will offer us an opportunity to bring our case to the public. My election will give the downtown-eastside a voice on council.” Sa publicity. ae Communist Party of Canada. es Sincere condolences an sats tended to his family, wife Fes" gj) Timmy, Danny and KeviP | daughter Marie, two sisters uncle Gordon Dorland. _ nel A.memorial service will ooape at First Memorial ‘‘Boal or of Lilloet St., North vancoyy ‘f Saturday August 24, al © tip Frank Hansen, former edilol 7 Saskatchewan CCF org monwealth” and Nigel M Cot | provincial secretary of a munist Party, will speak. Beaver Transtet|| * Moving * Packing * Storage 790 Powell St. | 1 Phone 254-371 ae Dy, VANCOUVER ISLAN? | LABOUR Picnic, CONCH & SALMON BAR-B-! PARKSVILLE : COMMUNITY CENTR! (Rain or Shine) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER '* | 1 —7P.M. -nment | / Top Musical Ener a . ae 0 Free Ice Cream for the Chit Es : EVERYONE wel Con : Am! TOM McEWEN Wee at least one expletive has now been deleted. “I won’t resign” Richard Milhouse Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, alias Tricky Dicky, alias the Mad Bomber, alias ‘‘Let-me-make-this-perfectly-clear”’ etc. and etc. has done just that: resigned. And aside from new president Gerald Ford (whom Nixon effectively chose as his succbssor) plus a newly rejuvenated Establishment well founded on the bedrock of monopoly, nothing basically has changed. True, it could be said that a measure of honesty and ‘fair dealing” has already been exacted on White aoe activity but then-again Nixon was never noted for picking honest men, either as advisors or successors. Now King Nixon has abdicated, dropping from the high post of president to that of ‘““commoner’’; a very special commoner it is true, with posh palatial residences, a special Social status among his own kind, and a potentially in- CIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1974-RAGE 2 . dictable criminal record that would make even Al Capone green with envy. Since Nixon jumped the gun on impeachment by resigning, impeachment proceedings — so the argument goes — would be largely superfluous. Those who presume to know more about impeaching politicians in the U.S. than we do hold to the opinion that “dereliction” of duty or responsibility rather than acts of crime are the true _ 8rounds for impeachment. Later the criminal acts can be dealt with in the courts. ; Be that as it may, there are countless crimes that Nixon. stacked up for himself (aside from tax evasion) if and when the American people wish to transfer him from the position of “‘plain’’ commoner to the cold storage of the hoosegow. That is unless he is held to be some very special species of malefactor who stands above-the-law, or as some kept press sobsisters are now wailing ‘he has suffered enough”’. Nixon’s crime list covers a wide scope. Here are a few as listed in American Report: Tonkin Gulf, My Lai, the Christmas bombings, ruthlessness in Saigon. The cold- blooded murder of untold millions of Vietnamese, North and South, of Laos and Cambodia. Crimes against the very earth of Vietnam, to say nothing of the crimes against its people. “understrappers. Are such collossal crimes ' eri And what shall be said of his crimes against the uted at people? Against the draftees hounded, pers ail bi: exiled, with amnesty noisily and callously reject ee the youth of Black America, murdered, tof ris ML outlawed by his dictatorial decrees and those of 20 4 | : suf swered — buried in a nondescript ‘“‘he ha it enough’’? aant and eee In Nixon’s resignation both an ex-president the bat . stitution is on trial. If he is not brought before : equ? ‘ justice it will be because a Senate and Congress 4 culpable in his crimes against the America” him, a ft against other nations, and to impeach or chat a or cl? ‘USS. journal frankly admits, would be to impe@' a ‘themselves. ; presi That is what the loud and prolonged cheers fo et al} ite Ford’s inaugural spiel denoted. Just let’s fort with i sorry and rotten mess of Watergate and get tera’ “ib business of (expletives deleted). Better to of cle? tolerable things” than to tackle the ugly J° them up. That is how the arrogant patrician: | Roman Empire regarded the crumbling of ie up: But crumble it did despite their efforts to patch? Truly, history repeats itself.