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EDITORIAL

The ‘public be damned’

n matters of vital concern to organized labor and the people

generally, the Bennett government and its big monopoly
backers invariably resort to the pretext that whatever they do is ‘‘in
the public interest.’’ In this Bennett and his cohorts take upon them-
selves the omniscient powers of a Diety in determining what is,
and what is not ‘‘in the public interest.”

Should Bill 33, the alleged progeny of MacMillan and Bloedel’s J.
V. Clyne, — Bennett and Co. become ‘“‘law’’ that will be its key
gimmick in the hands of a Socred diety; to determine at what point
labor’s inalienable right to bargain collectively, to strike and picket, is
“not in the public interest’’.. Having so determined with the ‘‘legal”’
authority of Bill 33, labor will be ordered back to work and take what
the government and bosses say is ‘‘in the public interest’’. In short, to
impose a canon of slavery upon labor under the pretext of serving the
“public interest’’ (read monopoly interest).

On the Minister of Highways Gaglardi scandal, however, Bennett
applies the soft pedal on the ‘‘public interest’ angle. The demand for a
judicial inquiry, a royal commission or some such public inquiry into
the Gaglardi mess would most assuredly be very much in the public
interests. But nothing doing. High priest Bennett takes his fallen-from-
grace apostle Gaglardi under his wing, portfolio and all, declaring
“Phil has done no wrong — just a minor indiscretion’’, then gives his
critics the old evangelic query “Brother, are you without sin?’’.

It may be recalled that Socred ex-Minister of Forests Robert
Sommers, who got a bit involved in a spot of payola in his forest
licences hand-out to big business, with the aid of Messrs. Bennett-
Bonner et al, managed to keep that scandal in their “‘not in the public
interest’’ cold-storage for well on to two years, before the public
interest forced the issue into the open under public inquiry and
Sommers consigned to oblivion.

Now a similar position is being taken by Bennett with regard to the
Gaglardi stewardship, first by keeping ‘Flyin Phil’’ in the cabinet sans
portfolio, and second by Bennett taking over that job himself — as an
added assurance thet the “‘public interest’’ will not be made aware of
all the facts, any r ore than it is on the rule-of-thumb financing as
conducted by minister of finance W. A. C. Bennett.

The public have every reason to question these Socred occult
powers of determining what is — or isn’t ‘in the public interest’’.

On the one hand its readiness, implicit in Bill 33, to declare labor’s
rights and aspirations ‘‘not in the public interest’, while in the case of
its defaulting ministerial incumbents, the ‘‘public interest’ be
damned.

Somewhere along the line, and soon, the public interest will have to
go to bat with this Socred omniscience with which its sanctimonious
pulpiteers drape themselves in pious pretense. :

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But Haven’‘t Given Up

Cam A L

Promoters defeated
in Arbutus battle

By ALD. H. RANKIN
City Council last week by a 6-4 vote
turned down the application of
Dominion Construction Company to
build a regional shopping centre at
Arbutus and King Edward. That vote
to reject had my full support.

Those behind the shopping centre
application were interested solely in
their own financial gain.

The CPR owns the 38 acre site. For
City Council to rezone this land from
RS-1, a single family dwelling area,
to CD-1, a comprehensive area,
would have meant an immediate
threefold or fourfold increase in land
value for the CPR, from a present
value of about $3 million to $10
million or more.

For Dominion Construction
Company, the $20 million shopping
centre meant a lucrative contract.

Woodwards and Simpson’s Sears
would get the jump on their
competitors in a profitable market.

_-The residents of the area were
strongly opposed and for good
reason. The whole character of their
residential area would have been
destroyed by the intrusion of this
huge commercial complex. Many
smaller merchants would be
squeezed right out of business.

It was this determined opposition
of the residents and voters that split
the NPA on Council, and caused
some of its members to vote against
the shopping centre.

There are other good reasons for

turning it down.

No proof was presented that the
residents of this area need or want

‘another shopping centre in their

midst. Oakridge and the downtown
are quickly accessible to them.

Considering our present desperate
housing shortage, this land should be
used for housing, preferably Garden
apqrtments, to provide another 500
or more much needed units.

The application to rezone this area
was in effect a demand for ‘‘spot’”’
zoning; a demand that Council
reverse its policies to suit special
interests without regard to its
commitments to the residents of the
area, or an overall plan for city
development.

The shopping centre would

B.C. MEETINGS
FOR KASHTAN

“The Crumbling Dollar — Are We
Heading for a Crash? will be the
subject on which William Kashtan,
national leader of the Communist
Party, will speak during his
upcoming B.C. tour.

Kashtan, who recently returned
from the Budapest meeting of
Communist and Workers parties,
will speak at the following centres:

VICTORIA — Sat. April 6; 424
Skinner St. at 8 p.m. SURREY—
Sun. April 7, 2 p.m. in Dell Hotel
banquet room; VANCOUVER —
Sun. April 7, 8 p.m. Stry Union
Hall, 125 E. 8th Ave.; KAMLOOPS

— Mon. April 8, 8 p.m.; VERNON —

Tue. April 9,:8 p.m. Elks Hall.

generate a huge volume of new
traffic in the area, requiring
expensive additions topresent roads
and high maintenance costs. These,
together with the many other
services which the city would have to
supply — water, sewer, police and
fire protections, etc. — would
quickly eat up the estimated $650,000
in taxes that would be paid by the
shopping centre. The city would end
up subsidizing the project.

The promoters were defeated but
they haven’t given up.

“We're not licked yet,’ said H.
Clarke Bentall, president of
Dominion Construction, ‘‘at the
appropriate time and place we are
prepared to restate our position to
Council.”’

When and where will this
“appropriate time and place’’ be?
After some further pressure has
been brought on NPA aldermen who
voted against the project, to make
them realize the error of their ways?

Or will it be left until after the
December civic elections when the
Establishment hopes to have a
majority on Council from its new
civic political party TEAM?

UJPO TO MARK
GHETTO RISING

In honor of the 24th Anniversary of
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the
many millions of people who
suffered at the hands of Nazism
during World War II, the United
Jewish Peoples Order will officially
open its Commemoration Photo
‘Mural Exhibition on Wednesday,
April 3rd, 1968 in the Peretz School
Auditorium, 6184 Ash Street (off 45th
and Cambie) at 8:30 p.m.

This photo mural display consists

of sixty 2 by 4 foor panels illustrating —

events in and around the Warsaw
Gheito and how they relate to events
in today’s world. Many of the
photographs shown have not; been
seen here before and are uniquely
mounted.

This display will remain open as
follows: April 4th — Noon until 10:00

p.m.; April 5th — Noon until 6:00 .

p.m.; April 7th — 2:00 p.m. until 8:00
p.m.

Kashtan on
gold crisis

‘We're victim of
U.S. war policy’

“The illusion’ that Canada
would be the beneficiary, not the
victim of U.S. aggression in
Vietnam has been swiftly
dispelled by the: gold and
currency crisis’’*,’ William
Kashtan, National Leader of the
Communist. Party stated at a
public meeting in Welland House,
St. Catharines, on Sunday, March
24th.

Kashtan went on to say that,
“U.S. aggression with its
financial and material drain on
the U.S. economy has more than
anything else, contributed to the
currency crisis. It may lead
before too-long to devaluation of
the U.S. dollar and the Canadian
dollar also, to a disruption of
world trade and the real danger
of a capitalist world economic
crisis. Its effects would be
disastrous for Canadians, both in
jobs and living standards.

“Tt should now be obvious even
to the Pearson Government that
one way of protecting Canada
from the consequences of U.S.
aggression in Vietnam is to
dissociate our country from it.
Instead the Government keeps on
trying to find reasons why it
should continue to make blood
money out of the sale of arms to
the U.S.A.

“Even from a strictly
economic point of view Canada
stands to lose from continued
support of U.S. policy. But there
is more to it than that. U.S. policy
in Vietnam. has reached a dead
end. There are only two ways
open for it now. Hither more
and more escalation with its
attendant dangers of spreading
war, or a peace settlement

which President Johnson re-

jects.

“This is yet another reason
why Parliament should not only
call for an end to U.S. bombing
but dissociate Canada from this
criminal and genocidal war.
Recently President Johnson
called for quarantining the

aggressor. One could not agree’
-more. Both he and his dangerous
policies need to quarantined for

they constitute a danger to all of
mankind,” Kashtan concluded.

CRUMBLING

ITS EFFECT ON YOU
HEAR

WM. KASHTAN

Nat'l. Leader, Communist Party of Canada

SUNDAY — APRIL 7 — 8 P.M.
STRY HALL

125 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver
ALL WELCOME
AUSP: VAN. CITY C’TTEE., CPC.

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