FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1968

LANDLORDS SPY
ON TENANTS

Some of the 200 Mounties who last weekend surrounded Simon Fraser
University, aided by stand-by fire trucks, to arrest 114 protesting

students.

RCMP no answer
to campus Crisis

By MAURICE RUSH

Acting president of Simon Fraser University Ken Strand and
Attorney General Leslie Peterson sent 200 Mounties to arrest 114
students who staged a sit-in after the university Senate refused to

discuss their demands with them.
At about 2 a.m. last Saturday
morning, as the sit-in students
were watching the movie *‘Alice
in Wonderland’’, a large number
of dark station wagons and a bus
pulled up along the university
roadway to unload RCMP who
had been collected from all over
the Lower Mainland for this
military-type operation.

Indications are that the police
Operation had been planned for
some time between the
University head and the attorney-
generals department to “‘teach
the students a lesson.’ The daily
press and other media have
joined in an attempt to drum up
opposition to the students, in the
Course of which the real,
legitimate demands of the
students is being played down.

Involved in the sit-in at SFU
Were students from UBC, SFU
and Vancouver City College.
Student bodies all over the
province have given their
Support to the demands of the
arrested students.

One of the major demands,
which lies behind the student

unrest in B.C.. as in other parts
of Canada, is the need for more
money for higher education. At
present the amounts of cash
being spent for university
education is totally inadequate.
The sit-in students are also
demanding that there be an
interchange of credits among
B.C. colleges and universities.
SFU has restricted admissions
and junior college students have
been arbitrarily denied credits
at SFU. This is due to the totally
inadequate facilities for
advanced education with the
result that students are being
forced into junior colleges where
the standards are claimed to be
inadequate. :
Another thorny issue for the
students is that information
recently uncovered in SFU
administration office files point
out political discrimination is
being used in the hiring of
professors. Students suspect that
the same political
discrimination also applies to
certain students who have

See PROTEST, pg. 12

Big landlords in Vanco

turn it over to the Vancouver

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VOL. 29, NO. 46

uver collect private information about their tenants and
Credit Bureau where it goes into secret dossiers. This

information can be used against the tenant when he applies for a job, wants to open a

credit account or seeks a loan.
operation has come under severe

This shocking practise was
revealed by the Vancouver
Tenants Council in a_ brief
submitted to the City Council’s
Landlord and Tenants
Committee last Thursday night

_ at City Hall’ Tenant spokesman

Bruce Yorke produced the
“Landlord Report’ form shown
below to prove the charge of
‘invasion of privacy.”

The “Landlord Report” form
is circulated to landlords by the
Greater Vancouver Apartment
Owners Association,
undoubtedly by arrangement
with the Credit Bureau of
Vancouver.

The Credit Bureau of
Vancouver is part of a vast
information collecting agency
across the U.S. and Canada
which keeps private dossiers on
millions of citizens for its
subscribers who are largely
employers and business firms. In
recent years the Bureau

MEMBER CODE No.

FULL NAME
OF TENANT

ADDRESS

PREVIOUS ADDRESS

PRA PLO VED BN ose. iocccnbpstsicr-vaehsie i corenss eee

criticism in both the U.S. and
Canada for its invasion of the
privacy of individuals.

No one knows how extensive
the information is collected by
these agencies which work very
closely with police authorities,
and recruits landlords,
employers and other groups to
collect information on private
citizens.

Without knowing why, a person
can be refused a job, credit, a
loan, or other services on the
strength of secret information —
some of which may be false —
provided by the Credit Bureaus.

Some time ago the Financial
Post of Canada called for a full
government inquiry into the
operations of Credit Bureaus.
Such an investigation is long
overdue.

A glance at the report turned
in to the Credit Bureau by
landlords shows how extensive

LANDLORD REPORT

the information is, going beyond
what should be privileged
information between a tenant
and landlord.

Landlords can turn in biased
and discriminatory information
which goes into the record for
the lifetime of the tenant
involved. The worst feature of it
is that tenant has no idea what
information about him has gone
into the records at the Credit
Bureau and is thus in no position
fo= correct oT counter
misinformation injurious to his
welfare.

* *

The Tenants Council brief
submitted last Thurscay to the
City Council's Landlord and
Tenants Committee called for
the adoption of a Charter of
Tenants Rights which would not
only exclude violations of
tenants’ rights but would also
ensure protection against

See LANDLORDS, pg. 12

DATE

He. =. POSITION

House Keeping Satisfactory Yes [J No [J] Damage Yes [J No [ Property Missing YesO. NoO

Pet Problems Yes [] No [J Children Problems Yes [] No [J Excessive Noise Yes ] No

Parties Yes (] No (J Rental $.....-.--- Per Month Tenancy: Monthly [J Lease [J If Lease, bensie

Ot Term

Furr iure

_..Length Of Tenancy
Owned By Tenant Yes [J No [] Leased Yes [1] No (J

Premises Rented Furnished Yes [] No [J

Rentai Paid As Agreed Yes [] No [] Slow Yes [| No [J Always Deliquent Yes (] No 0

Left Owing Rent $...

_____....Notice Given By Landlord [] Tenant (]

Wish To Locate Yes (1) No O Write Additional Remarks On Back Of Form

SIGNATURE.

MAIL TO

CREDIT BUREAU OF VANCOUVER, 400 ROBSON STREET, VANCOUVER 3, B.C.

FORM R-S

HERE’S PROOF. The above form, circulated among landlords by the Greater Vancouver Apartment Owners

Assoc., was produced at City Hall last Thursda

y night by the Vancouver Tenants Council.

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