Credit’s policies of giveaway. $457.3 million dollars. ~ jobs. tax, etc. as Kaiser and Mitsuibi. a ‘captive market’.”’ as a crown corporation. 100,000 new jobs featured at PNE 100,000 new jobs for B.C.! is the theme of the Communist Party booth at the PNE this year. Situated on the lower floor of the Coliseum, the attractive. booth manned by volunteer labor features a relief map of the province, with the location of resource industries marked on it. Banners inscribed with the economic facts of life in B.C. 1970 ive a telling picture of what the sellout of our resources Means to the people in terms of dollars and cents— and jobs. The map was designed and constructed by John Tanche of White Rock. The theme leaflet prepared by the Provincial Committee of the party, details how millions of dollars and thousands of jobs are lost to B.C. workers through Social __ The leaflet points out that present resource export of coal, Iron ore, copper, wood, pulp, oil and natural gas amounts to If the same resources were used for manufacturing in BiC., a return of $1,270 million would be realized, and 126,000 The added government revenues could provide 50,000 additional new homes, built and amortized over 20 years; new Schools to the value of $50 million; more hospital beds, for $50 million; a $25 per month increase to old age pensioners; and _ $47 million for tax reductions on homes, and reduction in sale. The Social Credit government has speeded up the giveaway of our precious and irreplaceable mineral resources. Most of it has gone, the leaflet says, to the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company and to U.S. and Japanese monopolies, such Nearly all public crown forests have been handed over toa few big monopolies in perpetuity for a cent and half per acre Per year— about 40 percent of it going to McMillan-Bloedel. B.C. is being kept as a raw material hinterland for foreign manufacturing industries. These foreign monopolies have a Vested interest in preventing processing industries in B.C. “They want our raw materials — not manufactured ‘products to compete with their plants abroad. They want us for The Communist Party urges a policy which will see the Setting up of a crown corporation to build a copper smelting industry in B.C., and the adoption of legislation requiring all Copper ore to be smelted in the province. Secondly, quotas Should be put on the export of iron ore and coal, preserving major deposits for an early start ona steel industry to be set up Present giveaway forest license legislation should be repealed. Monopoly control of public forests should be phased out, and the forests returned to public control through an expanded forestry service. Logs from crown forests should be Owned by the crown and sold by auction to the highest bidder. Wood products manufacturing in B.C. should be promoted and Strict quotas on foreign export of logs be imposed. The PNE project is part of the overall campaign by the Communist party of Canada for 1 million new jobs in Canada. Douglas, Nichols are labor picnic guests Tommy Douglas, M.P., and Jack Nichols, secretary of the Nited Fishermen and Allied orkers’ Union will be special Suests at the annual Vancouver Sland Labor picnic and concert on Sunday, September 6 in the arksville Community Centre. € picnic is an: enjoyable annual affair which has become 4 tradition on the Island on the abor Day weekend. Chris Harrison, chairman of he Labor Day picnic com- Mittee, announced this week that 4n extensive program of sports Pee and games with attractive prizes has been planned. A special feature is a new perpetual trophy donated by Bob Johnston Pontiac Buick Ltd., for the winners of a tug-o-war composed of members from different unions on the Island. There are also prizes for the youngest and oldest holders of a union card. Musical enter- tainment, a fiddler’s contest and a talent show are other high- lights of the day’s program. A salmon barbeque, free ice cream and a “‘paint-in” for children will add to the fun. — Vancouver Island Labor Picnic CONCERT & SALMON Bar-B-Q PARKSVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE (Rain or shine) SUNDAY — SEPT. 6, 1970 1-7 p.m. Top Musical entertainment Prizes from V.I. Merchants All Welcome COMING TO. B.C. William Kashtan, national leader of the Communist Party, will be in B.C. between September 19-23 and will address public meetings in Vancouver and other B.C. centre. WAC ‘top man’ on totem pole ‘‘Where I come from we would have buried the carver with the pole,’’ said a young Indian about the carving at New Hazelton which depicted Premier Bennett as top man on the totem pole. When the premier visited the community last week, he was visited by people concerned with the Ksan Village Cultural Centre, some of whom were responsible for the totem pole. Bill Wilson, who would bury the carver, said the Ksan project is run by non-Indians who are prostituting Indian art. It wasn’t because Mr. Bennett was included in the work, but depicting a white man on an Indian totem was not native art. “It’s the idea that Indian culture could be exploited to this degree!’’ he explained. There is a certain irony in the idea of the Socred premier looming high on the totem pole in any legitimate Indian community. Only last month the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs told the premier and his cabinet what they thought of them, and it: didn’t rate any symbol other than, perhaps, the head of a vulture. : In case you don’t recognize the big chief at the top of the Totem pole recently erected at Ksan Village Cultural Centre in the Hazelton area, it is B.C.’s “prime minister’’, William Alexander Cecil Bennett, WAC for short. 0 LALA iL Jah detain. Academic freedom big issue at SFU By MABEL RICHARDS To people outside the academic community, the “happenings” at Simon Fraser University these past months have been something of a mystery. Student activities, the strike and subsequent suspen- sion of seven members of the faculty, the investigations, the charges and counter-charges — have served to bewilder rather than enlighten the man/on the street. To many concerned students and teachers the issues at stake centre around the question of academic freedom — the right— even the duty — to take new approaches to education in a changing’world. For those concerned with employee rights, there is now very sharply at stake the ques- tion of the right of appeal, and the validity of a decision handed -down by an impartial body as to whether or not an employee should be dismissed or retained on the job. In the case of the Simon Fraser teachers, such a decision has been recently handed down, and the president of the univer- sity, Kenneth Strand, or the ‘‘boss’’ in this case, has rejected it. Some months ago a tribunal to rule on the case was set up under terms of the unversity’s Academic and Tenure Brief. Chairman\of the committee was Prof. E. E. Palmer of the Univer- sity of Western Ontario, faculty of law; Prof. J. S. Dupre, chair- man of the U. of Toronto’s politi- cal science department, and Prof. Wm. Livant, U. of Saskatchewan professor of sociology. One of the members of. the tribunal was named by Supreme Court Justice J.O. Wilson, one was President Strand’s own appointee, and the other was. chosen by the SFU faculty. It is alleged that Strand agreed that the decision of the tribunal would be final where it concerned the re-instatement of the suspended teachers. The tribunal, known as the Palmer Committee, came to the unanimous decision that the teachers should be re-instated. They wrote, in part: “... Therefore, we find unanimously that there is no cause for dismissal of the faculty members involved and that therefore, the President may not recommend dismissal to the Board of Governors.”’ But President Strand immed- iately rejected the findings of the tribunal, and so far as can be learned, the fate of the teachers is still in limbo. Any know- legeable trade unionist recog- nizes that this type of arrogant action on the part of ‘‘the employer’’ must be opposed. There can be no doubt that the situation at Simon Fraser University is deteriorating and will grow more futile as time goes on. This is to be deplored for at one time, in its early begin- nings, Simon Fraser University was the centre of new ideas, new concepts in education, and filled with the vitality inherent in a new venture off to a unique goal. Today there,is a definite danger that really worthwhile teachers, — those who recognize that new circumstances demand new approaches to university teaching — will refuse to even enter their names for Simon Fraser’s faculty. The American Anthropological Association’s executive committee has recommended that the Cana- dian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) establish a commission of inquiry and inves- tigate all facets of SFU. They have also censured SFU for failing to accept the decision of the Palmer committee. There is little doubt that CAUT is more than concerned with the teaching environment at Simon Fraser. As CAUT is, in effect, ‘the union of university teachers, their concern must be echoed by: all progressives, and parti- cularly those parents who wish to have their sons and daughters educated in an institution aligned to the twentieth century. Se Volunteers for PNE booth needed Volunteers are needed for the Communist Party’ booth at the PNE. Shift will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; 2 to 6 p.m.; and 6 to 10 p.m. The booth will operate on a 7-day a week schedule until clos/ g date: Those able to help are urged to phone the Party’s office at 684-1451 or get in touch with city secretary William Turner. Classified advertising COMING EVENTS Save all good RUMMAGE for the B.C. PEACE COUNCIL’S RUMMAGE SALE to be held in NOV. Phone 685-9958 be- tween 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. or 987 1576. HALLS FOR RENT: CLINTON HALL, 2605 East Pender. Available for ben- quets, meetings, weddings, etc. Phone 253-7414. BUSINESS PERSONALS NOW OPEN POLITANO’S BARBER SHOP 132 East Hastings St. (Closed Wednesday ) RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME— Available for meetings, ban- | quets and weddings at rea- sonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. 254-3430. UK RAINIAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE — 805 East Pender St., Vancou-’ ver 4. Available for Banquets, Weddings, Meetings. Phone: 254-3436 or 876-9693 REGENT TAILORS LTD. — Custom Tailors and. Ready- to-Wear, 324: W. 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