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CANADA ELECTIONS ACT
Flectorsl District mo
ancouver-Sout
SUMMARY OF RETURN OF
Thee LECTION EXPENSES _
by 9. te is below set out, as required
ction 63 (6) of the Canada
‘ns Act, a summary, signed by
al agent, of the return of

‘ On behale sponses made to me by him

| Candi s
; memiiates at the recent election of a

m,
 Menti
i on ets On file at my office and may,
be tyement of a fee of twenty cents,

f of James Beynon, one of the

to serve in the House of
ie of Canada held in the above
ned electoral district, which said

im,

there’ inspected and extracts taken
duetom at any reasonable time

7th m the six months next after the

day ,{Y Of September, 1974, being the
u > . ’
lutnished ¢ ny nich the said return was

& fated at Senccuver this 7th day of
Plember, 1974.
§ W. Harriman
um Returning Officer
Bxpentt of Return of Election
Ses of James Beynon.

CANADA ELECTIONS ACT
Electoral District of
Vancouver Centre
SUMMARY OF RETURN OF

ELECTION EXPENSES :

There is below set out, as required
by Section 63 (6) of the Canada
Elections Act, a summary, signed by
the official agent, of the return of
election expenses made to me by him
on behalf of Betty Greenwell, one of
the candidates at the recent election of
a member to serve in the House of
Commons of Canada held in the above
mentioned electoral district, which said
return is on file at my office and may,
on payment of a few of twenty cents,
be there inspected and extracts taken
therefrom at any reasonable time
during the six months next after the
23rd day of August, 1974, being the
day upon which the said return was

ished to me.

pair at Vancouver this 23rd day

74.
of August, 19 H. Mostyn
Returning Officer

Summary of Return of Election
Expenses of Betty Greenwell:

NDP PROVINCIAL CONVENTION

Parliamentary group
plays dominant role

When the smoke cleared from
what was expected to be a battle at
the NDP provincial convention in
Kamloops on the labor day
weekend, what emerged was little,
if any, change in policy and a
decisive ‘strengthening of control
over the
parliamentary group.

The convention turned out to, be
nothing of the ‘“‘watershed in B.C.
politics’ that may have been hoped
for, as the parliamentary bloc and

- their supporters succeeded in

winning rejection of a report by the
outgoing executive sharply con-
demning the Barrett government’s
failure to ‘‘follow policies set by
convention’’. The party executive’s
defeat was confirmed in the
election of a new executive in
which 14 of the former 16 members
were replaced.

The criticial report of the
outgoing executive was patterned
closely after the remarks of former
provincial secretary Hans Brown
(published in the Democrat). It
was defeated by a vote of 368 to 202,
but not before some harsh words
had been exchanged.

While statements such as “‘it
would be foolish to deny that the
state of the party is not healthy”
and charges against the govern-
ment that policy committees and
secondary leadership found itself
‘frustrated’, ‘‘demoralized’’,
‘apathetic’? and even “bitter’’,
were easily heard in the debate,
deep going discussion on policy did
not occur.

Number of :

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Roce wan whom widespread dissatisfaction among
Receipts Amount received Receipts Amount received a substantial “number of party

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Petty’ IL Telegrams NIL
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1) AdvertietPPlied $ 458.18 2 Goods supplied $ 385.83 acking
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' SEPTEMBER 14 —

BCFL PRESIDENT George
Johnston ... firemen’s legislation
“dangerous precedent.”

of the economy cried out for
debate, but found themselves over-
shadowed as a divided convention
battled over whether to exclude the
press.

As was expected, the controver-
sial ‘‘women’s caucus’’ did
manage to produce debate from
the floor over government inaction
on women’s rights, although
diverting much time and energy to
the misleading proposition for a
special ‘‘women’s ministry’’.
Nevertheless, the rejection of an
attempt by the leadership to refer
the issue “back to committee”
revealed an independent thinking

‘amongst the delegates and the

desire of a great many to get down
to questions of policy.

There was a vocal criticism as
well of government labor policy.
Labor minister King and the
enactment of the Essential Ser-
vices Continuation Act that forced
striking firemen back to work was
the main target, with B.C.
Federation of Labor officers
leading from the floor.

Federation president George
Johnston accused the government
of ‘‘over-reacting”’ and said it was

a ‘‘dangerous precedent’ that -

could easily be extended to other
sections of the trade union
movement. Len Guy, Federation
secretary, pointed out that if such
legislation had been adopted by
any other government, ‘there
would have been holy hell to pay.”
He appealed to the government to
work with labor, take the trade
unions into its confidence and
avoid compulsion.

In the elections the only two
members re-elected were.
president Frank Murphy who
defeated a former vice-president,
Alan Arilise, 357-229, and George
Johnston who was acclaimed
as second vice-president. The new
officers. are Joyce Nash of
Cowichan who won the job of first
vice-president, while Ted
Maclatchy and Shannon O’Neil
won the other vice-president
positions. Roger Howard was
acclaimed as the new provincial
treasurer.

Other general executive
members included Ken Antifaev,
Monica Davis, Lyle Kristianson,
Dorothy Leggett, Janette
Pesklevits, Red Vissor, Lloyd
Fedewa, and MLA’s Carl Liden
and Karen Sanford. Defeated
presidential candidate Arilise won
election to the executive on a run-
off ballot to become the only
successful ~ ‘“‘non-establishment”’
candidate.

Over all it would have to be said
that the convention solved little.
With the confrontation tactics of a
large bloc of trotskyists and ultra
leftists playing into the hands of
the right wing, the. real issues
remained buried. The convention
simply did not reflect the economic
and social problems that require
urgent attention: Little progress
was made.

COPE

Continued from page 1
will be no fundamental changes at

’ city hall,’’ Rankin said. With unity,

city council can be tran-
sformed . . . Let the others digest
that question, let them oppose
unity, and the working people of
this city will decide who is right.”’

The mood of the membership

a

was that their position was on the _

table and it was now up to the NDP
to respond. From this point on,”
Rankin continued, “I’m not
directing any remarks to the
leaders of the NDP area council.
I’m directing my remarks to the
membership of COPE, the
membership of the NDP, and the
Vancouver Labor Council who
founded our organization and
represent the largest group of
working people in the city.”

The membership meeting picked
housing as “‘the number one social
problem in Vancouver”? and the
main election issue. A report by
David Fairey of COPE’s housing
committee called on the city to
adopt a ‘‘complete housing
program’’ including the con-
struction of a minimum of 3,000
units annually on city-owned land.

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