BRITISH COLUMBIA Tenant activist Dave Lane explains legalities surrounding security deposits to 350 Nacel tenants in Richmond. Tenants hit Nacel The Tenants Rights Action Centre is aid- ing dozens of tenants to retrieve security deposits from a landlord that centre co- ordinator David Lane describes as “tone of the worst offenders in the province.” More than 350 current and former tenants of Nacel Properties packed a com- munity centre in Richmond May 22 to ask questions, log complaints and to take action against the landlord, which owns several buildings containing a total of 3,700 suites in the Lower Mainland. Tenants told their stories of how Nacel management withheld all or part of their security deposits for repairs and cleaning despite the fact the tenants had left their former suites in good order. Several took copies of a special form prepared by the centre to aid the tenants in filing a suit in Small Claims court. Lane told the crowd the gathering “has to be the largest tenant meeting in this pro- vince for the last two years.” The meeting was called following weeks of preparation by firefighter and ex-Nacel tenant Bill Miloglav, who with his wife Alan Leary phoned about half of Nacel’s former tenants. The couple also participated with centre staff in leafletting all of Nacel’s build- ings informing tenants of the meeting. Miloglav said he discovered some 450 tenants who have been “robbed” of their deposits by Nacel. Ex-Nacel tenant Renee Bibby received no replies to her calls to Nacel offices when she tried to complain about an undetailed $100 deducted form her $178 security deposit. Lane said several of Nacel’s actions in deducting from or refusing deposit returns were illegal. Lane predicted the actions will shake up one of the areas “most notorious” land- lords. “‘Nacel has to be scared. Norm ‘Cressey has to be scared, and when he reads the reports of this meeting, he will be,” Lane told the cheering tenants. Only 4 weeks left To date, $50,246.73 has been raised which means from here on in an average of $2,000 per day is needed if we are to make our $100,000 objective by the Victory Already, North Island, Victoria, Creston, Sunshine coast, Seamen and Niilo Makela clubs, are over their targets and are well into the race for the shields. Let’s rally around the spirit of the Trekkers highlighted in this week’s pages, Four weeks to go and we are pressing the panic button... Banquet, June 22. An all out effort is needed now, and we’re counting on you. We're hoping that other clubs will quickly follow their example. and guarantee that the Tribune will continu our second 50 years. Here are the results so far: GREATER VANCOUVER Amount Quota Raised Bill Bennett 800 168 Burnaby 6,000 2,793 Coquitlam 2,700 1,814 Kingsway 7,500 2,906 New West. 2,500 1,558 Nigel Morgan 2,200 676 Niilo Makela 700 798 North Van. 3,000 2,403 Olgin 700 500 Richmond 1,600 856 Seamen 500 1,077 Van. East 11,000 9,691 Van. Fishermen 800 --- West Side 4,900 3,912 FRASER VALLEY Chilliwack 350 200 Delta 750 212 Langley 700 540 Maple Ridge 2,800 680 Surrey 5,000 3,289 White Rock 1,600 891 KAMLOOPS-SHUSWAP Kamloops 1,000 236 Shuswap 800 34 e that militant tradition as we begin OKANAGAN Penticton 800 39 Vernon 1,500 254 N. COAST/INTERIOR Correspondence 2,500 350 Creston 400 500 Fernie 250 200 Powell River 600 499 Prince George 150 67 Sunshine Coast 800 808 Terrace 100 --- Trail/Castelgar 900 246 VANCOUVER ISLAND Campbell River 2,000 1,182 Comox Valley 1,500 324 Nanaimo 2,900 2,467 North Island 400 614 Port Alberni 1,600 520 Victoria 3,200 3,724 Miscellaneous 3,216 Total Achieved To Date: 50,247 2 e PACIFIC TRIBUNE, MAY 29, 1985 Earlier this month Canadians commem- orated the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II and the defeat of Hitler and his Nazis. For me and thousands of others Canadians the memories remain vivid. I was among those who enlisted in the first months of the war, spent 5% years overseas and saw action on the European continent. Foremost in the minds of all of us is the question: Must we go through the hell of another war — this time a nuclear war from which there will be no return? Most Canadians have learned the lessons of the last war. We don’t want another one. The majority of Canadians want an end to the arms race and a freeze on the building of more nuclear weapons. They oppose Cana- dian participation in the insane and danger- ous Star Wars program being implemented by President Reagan. They oppose testing ~ of U.S. first-strike missiles in Canada. They don’t want Canada transformed into a mil- itary satellite of the U.S., and they want. wasteful military expenditures diverted to useful peacetime production of goods our economy needs. But it is equally obvious that the govern- ment of Canada and other governments in the western world have not learned any such lessons from World War II. Hitler and the powerful industrialists who financed his rise to power built up the German war machine for the stated pur- pose of destroying Bolshevism. In that they had the support of the western powers who followed a policy of appeasement, who sac- rificed Spain, the Ruhr, Austria and Cze- choslovakia to the Nazis. But Hitler and the German industrialists double-crossed the West. They attacked their allies first and only launched a war against the Soviet Union after they had conquered all of Europe, except Britain, by force. Hitler’s aim right along had been world conquest; anti-Sovietism and anti- Communism were his main propaganda weapons to conceal his real aims. Now, 40 years later, President Reagan is using the same line, again using an intense anti-Communist and anti-Soviet propa- ganda campaign to justify his preprations for World War III. And again his first vic- tims will be his allies, those western powers that are appeasing Reagan and which are - subordinating their economies and their policies to those of the U.S. ~ On the demand of the U.S. administra- tion, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney also has agreed to complete U.S. domination of our economy (through an open house for U.S. investment and free trade) and the complete subordination of our defence pol- icies to those of the Pentagon. The western powers have not learned the lesson that the Soviet Union and the other | socialist countries of the world are here to stay. Attempts to overthrow the Russian Revolution by a war of intervention from 1917-21, participation in by 14 countries, failed. So did Hitler’s attempt from 1941-45 when he had all the resources of Europe behind him. But the U.S. believes it can succeed where Hitler and others failed, and is willing to risk the destruction of the whole world to achieve its aim. An essential part of this preparation fora first-strike war against the Soviet Union isa propaganda campaign of misinformation about the Soviet Union, which is portrayed by President Reagan as a socially backward country with a “Mickey Mouse economy” and one that would crumble under a U.S. attack. The following are some of the facts that our corporate controlled media has concealed about the Soviet Union: © The Soviet Union is experiencing neither unemployment nor inflation and its planned economy saves it from economic crises; gaeg Hitler's rise provides lesson about Reagan @ It leads the world in the production of oil, steel, wheat and many other goods; .» @ Its rate of economic growth is about double that of the western advanced indus- trialized countries; @ Soviet wages have doubled since 1970 and the retirement age for men is 60 and for women 55; - @ One-third of all the doctors in the world and one-quarter of all the scientists are in the Soviet Union; The Soviet Union does not have a drug problem and the crime rate is only a fraction of that in the U.S. e All education, including university, is free, and today 86 per cent of all Soviet workers have a high school education or better. To the above should be added the fact ~ that the socialist countries of eastern Europe, with only 10 per cent of the world’s — population produce 40 per cent of the industrial goods of the world. You don’t have to be pro-Soviet to draw the conclusion that the Soviet Union is a highly industrialized country with an advanced social system that is here to stay. And militarily it is able to match anything done by the U.S. Whether we like socialism or whether we like capitalism, to be realistic we must recognize that they both exist and that neither can be destroyed by force. The only sensible approach is to recog- nize the need for peaceful co-existence. Let the competition be limited to which system can provide the best life for its people. _ But the most important lesson to be learned from World War II is that wars are not caused by ideology, but by the greed for profits. While war brings death and suffer- ing to millions, it also brings great riches to the few. In World War II, big U.S. corpora- tions supplied war goods to both sides. The real government of the U.S. today is | | } the military industrial complex — a merg- ing of corporations engaged in war produc- tion with the Pentagon and the U.S. admin- istration. The headquarters of the military indus- trial complex today is the in the state of California. Six of the 10 biggest U.S. war contractors have their operations in Cali- fornia. Twenty-five per cent of all workers in California are engaged in war produc- tion. The military industrial complex in Cali- fornia, headed by the Bank of America and allied with Texas oil interests, is the most reactionary force in the U.S. today. It has captured the leadership of the Republican Party; it put Reagan in as governor of Cali- fornia and then as president of the U.S. A report recently released in the U.S. showed that whereas corporations engaged in the production of industrial and consu- mer goods made an annual profit of 12 per cent, those engaged in war production made a profit of 35 per cent. That is why. they are boosting the arms race. Thatiswhy — they are promoting anti-Soviet and anti- — Communist hysteria. They couldn’t succeed in their plans to divert $322 billion from U.S. government revenues into war expen- ditures next year without manufacturing a ~ Soviet threat. If we are to prevent another world war, we'll have to find ways and means of curb- ing these merchants of death.