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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1971

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GORDON HAMILTON :
EDITOR: RON THODY

Terrace, B.C,

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OUR OPINION |

Logger-statesman'

The weeks of speculation are ended.
Frank Howard, Skeena’s “logger-
Statesman”’, has announced he will
seek the federal New Democratic
Party leadership at its April con-
vention in Ottawa.

It will be, perhaps, the biggest fight
in his life. But Howard, the rugged
individualist, is no stranger to battles.
He's a honor graduate of the school of
hard knocks.

He freely admits he only went to
Brade 10 in school. His advisaries,
however, are academics. One is a
lawyer, one is a professor and another
is a college lecturer. One is a labor
leader in Ontario.

Howard’s post-schoo!l education was
first carved out of the B.C. forests
where he worked as a logger. He
received his elementary politics as
president of an IWA local in 1950, He
Braduated to a. provincial seat for
Skeena in the Legislature for the old
CCF. Defeated in 1956, he cast his eyes
upon federal waters for Skeena and has
been returned to office in four con-
secutive elections with more than 50
per cent of the popular vote. Here,
Howard gained not only practical
experience but the more subtle lessons
aS a member of parliament.

He has become a crusader for human
rights, for the downtrodden and
dispossed,

While being neutral during elections,
we support Howard in his bid for NDP
leadership. This is because Howard is
truly a man of the people and the NDP,
in theory, is a party of the people.
Individual rights, Howard says, are a
basic tenant of democratic socialism.

He has indicated the party heirarchy is .

too far removed fromthe people. He
people,

Politics aside, we believe Frank
Howard does have something to offer.
His opponents are part of the Ontario
clique. Howard is like a fresh wind out
of the north, bringing to his party the
real, human earthiness, honesty and
pioneering spirit.

In his annowicement, our logger-
statesman, who, has made Terrace his
adopted home, ‘put it this way:

“My working class background will
help me always to reflect the hopes and
needs of the people of Canada and give
a dimension to Canadian politics that is
lacking, within the government at the
moment,”

And, he keeps in touch. Howard
constantly is visiting his Skeena riding,
talking to constituents on a community
level. His record of this speaks
eloquently for itself, While most
politicians hibernate in Ottawa,
Howard is visiting the Queen

‘ “ete
oP os

wants to-bring the party: back to ‘the’

Charlottes, talking to fishermen in
Prince Rupert, loggers and pulp mill
workers in Terrace. Farmers,
Businessmen. The whole spectrum of
the community.

He has a strong instinct in knowing
the pulse of Skeena’s the people and
fights for their rights and the rights of
all Canadians.

With the honest, straightforward
audicity of the north, Howard, we
predict, will rock the NDP leadership
convention, .

One platform he has nailed down is to
find ways and means of putting
Canadian industry back into the hands
of Canadians. He believes there are a
number of practical, immediate things
that can be done “to head us in the
direction of having authority over our
dwn resources.” He said he would
2laborate on this before the leadership
2ontest, .

But Howard firmly indicated to The
Herald last week that he will not limit
his arguement to industry. And here's
where real hell may break loose: he
wants to see more Canadian control of
unions within the Canadian Labor
Congress. He wants to see Canadian
union members’ dollars stay here in
Canada rather than flow steadily into
international union headquarters in the
United States.

Of course, the NDP has always been
hot over foreign “ownership and
control” of our industry --- but it is
super cool on the arguement that all
unions, specifically the international
unions, become Canadian entities,
keeping Canadian control and dollars
at home.

Thatis.only the tip of.the iceburg-and

“* policy of hands-off on unions.: And the.

reason is glaringly obvious. The
former CCF merged with the all-
powerful Canadian Labor Congress
which is made up of most of the unions
in Canada. It was a marriage of
socialist politics and labor.

‘But, the CLC is directly affiliated
with both the American Federation of
Labor and the Council of Industrial
Organizations: both powerful U.S.
equivelants of the CLC.

Most important, Howard has talked
to the people of Skeena and has avoided
seeking support in his bid from NDP
MP’s and MLA’s, However, in his
Statement, Howard says: . “I-have had
encouragement and assurances of
support not only from Western Canada,
but Ontario as well.”

And if the Ontario vote is split four
ways? Frank Howard, the man of the
people, may well be the’ new leader of
the federal NDP.

Precious

We are justly proud to live in a
society which upholds individual.
freedoms. Our press is free, and not
muzzled as in totalitarian: nations.

As Canadians, we love our land and.
we have naturally accepted that our
government will always uphold the
basic freedoms which grew out of
British Common Law.

Only once in peacetime has our in-
dividual freedom be restricted, and yet
we in B.C. and in every province
outside of Quebec did not feel the full,
terrifying impact of the War Measures
Act brought out of a dusty cupboard to
check terrorism before it could explode
into an orgy of violence in Quebec. But
the sad truth of it is that the govern-
ment needed the Act, pure and simple.

It makes us think. We-realise sud-
denly that we, in this mighty nation,
heive no written constitution under

which our citizen's freedoms ring out. _

There is an Act which deals with
Canada, its government and people:
the British North America Act which
created Canada in 1867. But this is q
British..Act and can be amended
only by Canada going to the British
Parliament. We are free: but are we
fully. independent when we. must go
running over to Britain to amend the
Act? No. Wearenot, |... 7
. But we are pleased to see that British”
Columbians | ‘8
parliamentary .committeé: in: Van-

bombarded .. a Then we will truly be “The true north:

couver last week with proposed
amendments to Canada’s constitution, .
whenever it is drawn up.

A. stream of briefs advocating
proposals ranging from establishment

of a federal office of education to en-
trenchment of fundamental human

‘Fights within the constitution; from

environmental protection to
guarantees of the aboriginal rights of
our Native Indians.
More than 1,000 persons attended the
hearing..
However, we must disagree with
former justice minister E. Davie

- Fulton who recommended that an
- immediate start be made

em on bringing
the British North America Act, the
present constitutional instrument, into
complete Canadian- jurisdiction.

‘A group of university professors told
the hearing it was, one of the most
successful . constitutional ‘documents

_ ever written, -

And, it is. But it was written more
than 100 years ago, before we needed
pollution confrolg and new arid better
methods of coriniuinication between all’
levels of municipal government,
among other niodern needs, .

Yes, gentlemen. Borrow fromthe: -

BNA Act, but discard it in Britain and
sever this last umbilical link. Build ‘on
it The Constitution of Canada.

Btrong and free”.

.
s

“What’s with the bang, bang you’re dead bit — Pve defoliated your hideout,
strafed you with napalm, zapped you with nerve gas...”

Frank Howard's

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Report from Parliament Hill

In 1966 your Parliament
passed a law to provide that
anyone who murdered a
policeman would be hanged.
Murders of another nature
would be libel to life im-
prisonment.

This 1966 law was for a five-
year experimental period
which, by simple arithmatic,
ends this year. »

There isa theory which says

the threat of hanging will act, :-

irect: Lat the:sfatened be Iq» 47 AG.a deterrent to.murder., To.
,a direct slap’ at: the :federdk-NDP's.: sre theory dosent acai ie

cases of mental derangement,
in moments of intense
emotion, where fear has
control, or in ° instances
where cold calculations are
made.

But Parliament said if we
threaten to hang in fact do
hang, persons who murder

police officers then that will
act as a deterrent to others
who might do the same thing.
And Parliament is supreme in
making such laws-or so we
are lead to believe.

POLICEMAN KILLED

In St. Boniface on July 18,
1969 four men were engaged in
a robbery. In the course of
that reberry Constable L.W.
Shakespeare of the St.
Boniface police ‘department
was murdered. “Parliament

’ said that he whd. commits sich

a murder is to be hanged. One
of the four was convicted by
our courts of the murder and
was sentenced to be hanged.

This report is being written
on January 7 and this is the
day Cliff Lurvey, the con-
victed murderer, was to hang
But he wasn’t hanged because

.your government commuted

that death sentence to life
imprisonment on December
23

Now there might have been
extenuating circumstances
but what about the theory of
deterrents? What about future
situations where criminal acts
are being committed and the
police arrive on the scene?

BIG DODGE

Uppermost in the mind of
whoever :is " commilling=' the
dffence’ will be" the’ ‘need to
escape arrest, (002 ne

If he knows the ‘most he will
getisa life bit witha chance of
parole he could be less
hesitant about shooting a
policeman to effect his escape
than he might otherwise be.

The federal government, by
commuting death sentences to
life, either agree the deterrent

theory is invalid or really
don't care what Parliament
said five years ago.

To me the law is there, and
as much as I disagree with
this concept, it has to be
carried out,

WHAT'S POINT?

What is the good of a five-
year experimental period if
during that: period the
government refuses to carry

~out the-will of Parliament and
orefuses,; to-;,Jet,.the,: so-called
experiment work, -+- 4.40:
A law which is ignored by
those charged with the
responsibility. of ad-
ministratation brings the
whole force of law and order
into disrepute and we have tco

much of that already without

our government contributing
to a further decline.

Feminists rattling the

Topped off by the report of
the royal commission on the
status of women, 1970 has ‘
been a year when women as a
phenomenon have been news,
though few individual women
have made headlines.

After three years’ wait for
the report, it was criticized by
many women as being out-
dated, its recommendations
already put in the shade by
the current feminist crusade.

Feminists have certainly
rattled the bars in 1970, loudly
“nd rudely, Some haye-
scorned the report as middle !
class, Milquetoast and mean- ;
ingless without accompanying :
sweeping political change.

ommends were to be done,
Canada’s social and economic

structure would have to _

change markedly,

The report generally has
made little stir, and the peo-
ple may be right who say it -
will be ignored.

Laura Sabia of St. Cathar-
ines, Ont., the woman who
started the drive to have the
commission appointed, said
that if it is to have any effect
at ali, women will have to get
behind it and push, She hopes
to mobilize women’s organiza-
tions again to do just that,
NEED DEEP CHANGES

The recommendations for
abortion on demand, divorce
after a year’s separation, a
network of day care centres,
ments got immediate atten.
tion. They_are important, but:
the cumulative effect at some

~of the other recommendations

could make or require the

-- deepest changes,
In fact, if everything it rec- ,. P e

The report recommends
true equality in education, be-
ginning with a change in text-
books so that women are not
invariably shown in domestic

_roles, It recommends family-
* life courses that would raise

questions about traditional

YOUR OPINION |

‘We enjoy The Herald’

The Editor,
The Herald,
Terrace, B.C.

-Your creative writing has +

certainly put a lot of life into our ©
“Local Rag’”’ and I must say we 3
enjoy reading it, ,

But I think at limes you do get *

a little carried away with your *

“enthusiasm.'"

You see people, being what

they are, want to believe what -

they read and are disappointed

when they find that a good!

headline does not actually ,
portray the situation as it really
was. So that although we enjoy
reading the paper we become a”
little wary and say, well if he

was wrong there maybe he. is

wrong here too.

headiine in last weeks paper

that says “Cooper lashes out at

Mayor Jolliffe,”

“One example of this is the 2
: paper and I’m sure you'll im- .

prove when you get to. know ug
- all. _ ;

...) nave had-several people ask _ Sincerely, _

“appointed to the Court of

Revision and 1 have'to tell them
in all honesty that I was nat
annoyed at the Mayor in any
way, nor did I“Lash out’ at
him. I just stated that I had
served on the Court of Revision
in years past and that I would
like to decline this year. I don't
think that the Mayor took of-

fense at my remarks, al least, I ;

certainly hope he didn't,

-The point is this, that
perhaps, Mr. Editor, you should
choose your adjectives with legs
abandon, because if you say i

‘ain “‘Lashing out at the Mayor” |

-when I make a statement as
“mild as that, what “posstble
‘description could you use. if I
actually got mad? .  - oy. !
, JNevertheless [ enjoy the |

excitement you put .into: the

better. 4

. aa event!
ame why I was so.upset at being (Mrs.) Edna Cooper,

sex roles by discussing social

-and psychological attitudes as

well as biotogy, . ;

It recommends the end of
the “tacit assumption that a
living wage for women is
lower than for men.” .

It urges the prohibition of
occupational “‘sex-typing” and
the opportunity for - more
women to take occupational
training courses.- =

If housewives were included
in government pension - plans
an the basis of their contribu-
lion to the economy, there
would net be a dispropor-
tionate number of elderly ~
women living on starvation in-
comes,

- WIVES ARE LIABLE

The report recommends set-

‘ting up of human-rights

boards with temporary spe--
cial committees on women's
rights as a place to start,’

Tn 1970, the Dominion Bu-
reau of Statistics counted 2.8
million women in the work.
force, one million more than
in 1960..A few stirrings of

bars

change for them appeared’

during the year,

In Ontario, the employment
standards branch is credited
with collecting $400,000 to cor-
rect wage under-payments to
women. -

Ontarlo also enacted a
Women's Equal Opportunity Act
te prohibit discrimination In job
classifications, recrultment,

-hiring, training, promotion and

dismissal, The act came intoef.
fect Dec, 1,

The day after the status re-
port came out, a news report
said the federal government
plans to introduce legislation
for - mandatory maternity
leave and insurance benefits
next year, The report had ree.
ommended such legislation.

NEW JOBS OPENED
The Canadian Labor Con-

- gress, at its 1970 convention,

voted to make equal rights for
women a collective bargain-
ing issue. If-unions did go, it

would be a departure for -

many of them,

NOSTALGI.
IT USED

‘Textile
labels

good

BY THE CONSUMERS’

ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

The recent announcement of %
progress in the plan to introduc
& voluntary .system of car
labelling for textiles is certainly :.
Zocd news for all consumers. ;

Damaged fabrics have been a .
source of costly annoyance for |
many years. More recently, ;
dry cleaners and Jaunderers, as -:
well as consumers, have had a ;

problem with many of the new ‘3Eae

synthetics because they did not :;
know the proper way: to treat '
them. So for all around better '
consumer relations, _ in-
formative care labelling will be
very welcome.
To be fair, some fibre, fabric «
and garment manufacturers -
have tried to be helpful. They :
give very detailed cleaning |¥
instructions on packages, :

wrappings or hang-tags, which - “aaa

- if they ever reach the con- |
sumer -- are prompily detached | &

from the garment and rarely ‘Zam

associated with it again, q
For many years the Con- d
sumers’ Association of Canada
has been stressing that a more 3
logical step would be tohavethe °4

instructions permanently at- im
tached te the garment by means :

of a sewn-in label,
STANDARDIZATION
The Association has been

urging manufacturers to adopt | 3m

a standardized set of symbols .
on asmall label as a permanent }1
reminder ta the purchaser to

dry-clean or wash, bleach or not Jia

as the fabric required,

Neither consumers nor
manufacturers would want a |
large, oversized label but with !
the use of symbols, the con- |
sumer could get the message |
without any language problems.
This type of care labelling has ;
been in use in Europe for quite ;
some time now and has proven ;
very successful,

A Canadian Government a

Specifications Board committee |
has been working on a care
labelling scheme for Canadian
consumers for about six years.
ALL REPS

The committee is composed
of representatives of all phases
of the textile industry from fibre
producers to retailers, as well
as other interested groups --

detergent manufacturers,
daunderers and dry-cleaners

and members of Consumers’
Association of Canada.

Progress has been made.

Test methods have been
established and standards set
which every fabric must meet
before it can be labelled with
the symbol] appropriate to that
operation. The label will apply ff
to the whole article not just the.
major component. If a garment
is composed of two or more
fabrics, each one must meet the
required standard for the
cleaning method recom-
mended,

This should eliminate the
horrors oi shrinking interlining,
bleeding color in the trim,
rusting buttons or a disin-
tegrating belt.

SIMPLE FORM

The important pointis that an
approved method of cleaning
household textiles can be
presented in a simple, clear
symbol form and can be per-
manently fastened to the article
to which it applies.

In announcing the plans for
the introduction of a voluntary |
system of care labelling for
consumer fabrics effective next
fall, Consumer and Corporate
Affairs Minister Ron Basford
urged all consumers to support
the new system of labelling. .

The three colors — red, amber
and green -- and the five-symbol
system -will employ woven or
printed labels on clothing, yard
goods and household - textiles.
The symbols will advise con-
sumers on the proper procedure
to use --.how to wash, bleach,
dry, iron or dryclean fabrics,

ry Tele

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