_ Native Indians.

ON-TO-OTTAWA CARAVAN 3
Indian people demand justice

Alderman Harry Rankin said in

a press statement following a
meeting with Ken Basil, Chief of
the Bonaparte Reserve, ‘at shich
the launching of a caravan to
Ottawa on Native Indian rights
was discussed, that forty years
after the On-To-Ottawa trek of
unemployed, “the Indian people,
Stirred by a hundred years of
injustice, are covering these same
thousands of miles from the same
Starting point (Vancouver) for.the
same objectives — social justice.”
He said what the Indian people
want is some housing on all the
_reserves, not long-winded ex-
planations as to the constitutional
questions on why it cannot be done.
“The ordinary people of Canada
recognize the historical injustices
perpetrated against the original
inhabitants of our Canada. Time is
fast running out for a peaceful way

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to settle these problems — violence
only serves those who rule a
country badly,” said Rankin. He
pointed out that ordinary people

are hurt in those struggles,

whether it be workers on the picket
lines of Indians on reserves.

The Vancouver alderman said
that his travels through the
province have indicated to him the
vast potential of Indian lands that
can be developed for the use of
Native people — ‘‘all that is needed
is some capital and organization,
and to keep the greedy developers
out of the picture.”

He said these travels and his
contacts with Native Indians have
convinced him that there is a vast
potential of Indian leadership
available to head this develop-
ment. “I have also learned that the
life-style they have developed may
not square with out ideas but what

PHOTO SHOWS one of the Native Indian speakers at the demonstration in front of the legislature buildings
in Victoria on June 25. The demonstration demanded

justice for Native Indian land claims. Last weekend a
caravan left Vancouver for Ottawa which ho

ped to gather support across Canada to demand justice for

Indian Voice photo

is important is that it does not need
to.

Rankin said the NDP govern-
ment has an opportunity to show a
human face, adding that twenty
good prefab houses would cost a
quarter of a million dollars — then
tell Ottawa this is how it is done
and call on the federal government
to duplicate their action on all the
reserves in B.C.

He said no more’ feasibility
studies are necessary, no more
endless talks without action.

Rankin called for development ofa .

cooperative ranching industry for

_ Indian people in the Chilcotins and

develop in all other areas under
Indian leadership those skills and
occupations they know and want to
follow.

“Redress a hundreds years of
neglect. There is a time for action
now,”’ said Rankin.

It has been stated that during China’s first “
revolution’’, excessively ri
weapon of attack. Perha
cultural revolution — as a
the Whelans et alla whiff
“‘wisdom’’,

Just about the time we were
_ pact of this latest Whelan-Tru

dogs before people

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Should accommodation for dogs
take precedence over housing for
people? City Council’s Committee
on Finance and Ad-
ministration, seems to think so.

At Council’s meeting on Sep-
tember 10th, this committee,
composed of aldermen Volrich,
Bowers, Harcourt and Linnell,
brought in a Five Year Capital
Program to be submitted to
electors on November 20th. It
called for capital expenditures in
excess of $103 million.

City staff had recommended that
of this amount $17.5 million be
allotted to provide housing. The
Committee cut this down to $1
million. At the same time the
Committee proposed that $635,000
be set aside to build a new City Dog
Pound. ~

I protested both of these ex-
penditures. I like dogs and have
always had one as far back as I can
remember, but in my books, people
come first.

It was finally agreed that we
could renovate the old dog pound.

My motion to up the expenditure
for housing to $5 million was
referred back to Committee, which

DONALD GREENWELL

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Prominent trade unionist and
leading Vancouver community
worker, was elected chairman of
the Hastings-Sunrise Resource
Board last week.

cultural
pe hen-fruit became a popular ,
ps it is time we had such a
prelude to a genuine one, to give
of their own supply-and-demand

relationships.

destruction of food in order to keep the profits De peel
both are equally criminal and both should es ual
eliminated from the sphere of economic an

They used to tell us, and still do, that fis.
wouldn’t work”. The monopoly media seldom tire ©. ney
, Sets on this theme. What they mean of course
know anything about what they mean) is that the

is this Council’s time-dishonouteéd
method of killing and bu <4
proposals it doesn’t like: It’s irom
— this TEAM Council was elett
because it claimed to 7
‘progressive’ and ‘ree
oriented”. In actual fact the ©
NPA, which was about as mig
wing as you can get, was wil
spend more- on housing ¢
TEAM.

At the same time the Be
Council turned down the request
the Social Services Committee
which I am chairman, for 4 oe
of $3584 for a Native India “a
formation Centre! This is loca
on Nelson Street, just two blo !
off Granville Mall. Why oe
Because more and more Ii ,
people are frequenting this a i
The police supported the-idea;
did the Indian people. ;

The Mayor objected. He wa
the Mall kept for ‘nice’ ae, |
The Indian people do not fall af
this category. So TEAM alder
Massey, Bowers and Volrich # c
Mayor Phillips voted against! a
that: defeated the proposal, i
by Council rules expenditure
this kind require an affirm
vote of at least 8 members:

Two years of experience. .
this TEAM Council, has conv!
me that it represents big bus!”
and developer interests even ™ its
effectively than did the NPA#™ |

they-day. _ eee

Surrey CUPE
hits survey

jon

The surrey school board’s an
in hiring a U.S. firm, ManPG
Optimization Program, to a
a $9,000 survey of all aspects ©
job and personnel systems f has
district’s non-teaching
been protested by CUPE | pet?

CUPE local president tees
Gidora said that the school ie J
attended a convention in How
Texas and were talked into {
dertaking the survey undef |
pretext that there will be 4 $4
to taxpayers. th

“Anyone who believes |
saving could be initiated W! t have
type of program surely mus gail

ative

with
ed

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their heads in the sand, ~~

Gidora.

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Wre said crime doesn’t pay? Whoéver it was hadn’t heard

of agricultural minister Eugene Whelan’s disposal of
some 20-million dozen eggs to keep his ceiling price levels
intact, nor of a U.S. appointee-president handing down a
blanket pardon to another ex-president for the multiple
crimes that’ character had committed during his
presidency.

Crime always pays, providing the criminal can get
away with it, and providing he is part and parcel of a
government-industrial Establishment which concerns
itself primarily with profits to the exclusion of all else.

On the subject of eggs alone the much-touted law of
supply and demand gets all shot to hell. The Canadian
consumer may want eggs with his ham, if he can afford
the latter and pay a stiff upgrading price for the former,
but neither has anything remotely to do with supply and

demand. . 5 : :
“In its wisdem”’, (some wisdom) a Liberal government

authorizes the stashing away of some 20 million-dozen
eggs, ostensibly to rot, and at the taxpayer, i.e consumer’s
expense, just in order to keep the price of eggs
skyrocketting, and the profits of the hordes of chain
Stores, middle-men and similar robbers on the up-and-up.
The fabled Dick Turpin never had it so good. Even the
venerable Mrs. Plumptre in the course of her useless
prices “‘investigations”’ realized from the stench of this
political egg ‘“‘cold-storage” that there was something
rotten much closer than the state of Denmark.

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news that president Gerry Ford had conferred a full and

our century’”’. Now when a
colleagues, appointees, etc

another holding

down an office in a Ministerial Capacity for the deliberate

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of socialism, plus an alleged absence of “free Jabo

wouldn’t or couldn’t make it ‘“‘work’’. worki06s
Despite all this balderdash about socialism not ito! |
what disturbs them most is that it does work, ™ jou!
monopolies, without profiteers and robber barony iste”
criminals in presidential chairs and without thout the
engaged in the wilful destruction of food. Wie pil
profit-producer of inflation and without pr ne week’
juggled while the shopper is still trying to get ! a wor’
groceries. Without all that (and more) socialis
very well — for the people. joa pel?
Were we totry itin this country, there would jan’ a
a “stink” for a short time, much worse than i
million dozen eggs or Nixon’s “‘credibility gaP’ - bt abo"
“withouts’’ would be shouting to high heave’. ot
“ruination’’etc., just as the recent mine operate” rons: w ;
the B.C. mining act, or others of the profitering Act, 3 i
doubt Trudeau would trot out his War Measures ut with ;
did in ’70 to terrorize the people of Quebec, aid ber
people’s determination and unity, socialism ue “thre?
the agenda of history instead of hunger, distres®:
of a “depression” and worse. meric
“I have seen socialism,” said the great ”" (and
Lincoln Steffens of the then young Soviet Unio?
works’’, init. A
It would ‘‘work”’ for us too, if and when we Wi} 0
a future it is infinitely more attractive than pre
rotten eggs, and/or criminals in high places:

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