F DO YO SRONRUSSSTEUCEOUSSSEUNSOUDETENUSUSLTESERSESTUUOUEEPSEORSOGT rious rise in . VWery few inemic condi- ety blame the en make the -of punishing - should they > mditions they Parely the en> be placed on -o control in- - oly interested (this morally - Though the - ago, instead “+4 to produce ssies urgently broad, indus- ® 1g a big sur- 'yment as a Fn. As their 4 depends on © ofit they can down wages -:allous as to cds. of their 'trariwise as - employment -f take home ere is an in- F ney” : 's provide de- i handicapped - said by the stultifyine G vork? On top = ze housewife _3t with the -) on the door = !lord, sheriff, '_ ctor, for as | even a brief «> forced idle- sudget. » os nor schools © nditioned be- are being ad- hhaviourism of the child arising from the environment of nag- ging worried parents who are thwarted of their modest am- -bitions to achieve a greater degree of security for the fam~ ily. Both home and school are devoid of facilities for building amateur radios model planes, etc., as they cannot afford the appropriate equipment needed to keep step with the technical development of society. As an escape from scolding parents, the children find vent for their latent-creative ability in the form of mischief and organize into gangs. This ac- tion in itself ‘is displaced crea- tiveness. The most pathetic as- pect of this controversy is the fear of social workers to lay the blame where they know it be- longs..To save their jobs they blame the parents—as though they are not already punished enough. Soars JOHN MACKENZIE RED TAPE Sir: Tape, in the dictionary, means either a long strip of fabric, paper, etc., or a flat worm parasitic in animals. Red de- notes a deficit in account( in the red), and generally can be found in large corporations and by wealthy individuals who, through reams of documents and papers (red tape), defraud the governme¢at on taxatiui. Today, hundreds of ves*fans are wading through yaids of red tape to get a discharge, but the tape is weaving a web around their future happiness. Each veteran, before get- jizens and bus drivers made a solid blockade cles at the Ford plant when police threatened — PACIFIC ADVOCATE U THINK? SS CAQUERSUQCUQSLSCESRURECUREREOCNUNTECLSETADER PURIST RY ting into civvies, is interviewed, lectured, and inspected by do- zens of officials, such as quar- ermasters, doctors, paymast- ers, rehabilitation experts, documentary clerks, ete. At each stage, the future civilian signs from three to half a do- zen papers, sometimes in trip- licate or more, in all about twenty separate sheets. ‘As a vet, I accepted this with a soldiers grumble, being hap- py to know the war was over and once again entering into life as a peaceful citizen, but little did I realize in those first happy days the awful mess I was in due to tape, yes, red tape. Recently I had to see a doctor and remembering my little book of rules, given to all vets at discharge, in which it says we are entitled o a year’s free med- ical care, I went to Shaughnes- sy, the soldiers’ hospital]. Arriving at the hospital Fri- day morning, about ten, I was told the line up was so long, it would be impossible to see the doctor before Monday morning. Monday morning I again went to Shaughnessy, this time at eight a.m., it took an hour too see the admittance clerk, who took my name and said “Wait here.’ Two hours later my name was ealled, I answered a few ques- tions and then was told “Go to your right and sit down by the second door, you will be called again, but stay there.’ At the second door, there was no room to sit, like many oth- ers I sood, irritable at the de- lay and the standing, for I was ill. One hour later some- one said, “Time to eat, get your meal ticket at the wicket, be back at one-thirty.” At four p-m. we were told o come back in the morning. Next morning the doctor was there at nine, but he had to leave to attend to other duties, he was back at ten-thirty, and as my name -was well up on the list, I got in to see him at eleven. The M.O. was very nice, only taking ten. minuets to look me over and write out a prescription, but ... getting the prescription, answering nu- merous questions, and signing _ more papers, kept me at Shaugh- nessy until twelve-thirty. Being inquisitive, I asked the doctor “Why the delay?” He said, “Well, it takes two or three months for Ottawa to appoint more help.” This may be true, but I believe Red Tape is the culprit, this parasitic worm, mainly produced by cor- poration lawyers holding down high positions in the army and in the department of veterans affairs, are doing everything in their power to force the vets to keep away from -veterans hospitals and thus saving on taxation. On the second day in Shaughnessy, three vets quit the line up, saying they were going to private doctors, dis- couraged with the delay. : Legion branches, wielfare bodies, trade unions! Take heed! Demand Ottawa act quickly to appoint more help; demand a more simplified system, not mounains of red tape. VETERAN. SUUREVAruesvucescrescecccuessaneessy hort Jabs » o ew . SUDFOCESUEGUORUDESUVOEDSORRECSSUOTRDDDUBERUERSESSDREEE Who Fears? “N° one knows better than I do how a man feels when he is about to be thrown out of a position.” If giving the name of the author of the fore-going was the 64 dollar question, few would walk off with the prize. Ol’ Bill would certainly be among the losers. _ These words are quoted in a Department of Labor news release rel- ative to a delegation of union members who visited Ottawa on the week- end of Sept. 8. They rolled off the silver-coated tongue of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. Capitalist politicians toy with phrases, especially if they are phrases like the one that flowed from the bifurcated tongue of the belly-crawler alleged to have beguiled Mother Eve in the Garden of Eden. Such phrases as the politicians love, the phrase sof diplomacy, always have two meanings, one for their hearers, the purpose of which is to create some desired impression, the other to serve as an alibi if the first is checked up on. In these words of Mackenzie King, the key word is “position”. With the exception of two or three years, during the last war, when he was “working” for the Rockefeller interests in the States, organizing a man- agement-employee set-up—company union sort of affair—entirely in the interests of the Rockefellers, he has been consistently engaged in political life. When, in 1908, he first came to Vancouver as chairman of the government committee investigating the anti-Oriental riots of the pre- vious year, he was still a very young man and under the wing of Laurier at that. He was much too young then to have had any worries about being “thrown out of a position”. Any such fears therefore, which he may suffer from, must have their origin in, or arise from the possibility ef, being ditched by the voters—which actually did happen on more than one occasion. There is quite a difference between 3 ‘position’ and a job. Losing a position such as Mackenzie King holds, and has held, with a tidy bank roll to fall back on, is something like the business man who goes bank- rupt with only a hundred thousand dollars saved out of the wreck. The feeling engendered by such a “calamity” cannot be compared to the feeling of the worker with a flock of kiddies let out of a job, a work- er whose wages have been frozen while at the same time the cost of living has soared and what was left of his pay-cheque was gouged out of him in taxes to pay for the war. Sure, there is a difference between a position and a job and the “feeling” about being thrown out of both of them. It must be added, too, that the delegation, which was asking for amendments to the Order-in-Council, P.C. 1003, got a neat brush-off from the sympathetic Mackenzie King and the unsympathetic Humphrey Mitchell. Industrial Area : FO® many years the people of South Vancouver have been asking, requesting, petitioning, pleading, praying, for an improvement in the street car service, in the area east of Victoria and south of Kingsway particularly. They have proved that there is a need for street car or bus line services south of 5 th on Victoria and for a cross town line on 41st or 49th from Boundary Road to Granville, but without making a dint on the golden armour of the B.C. Collectric. Imagine their surprise, then, to learn that a hairbrain scheme of our Corney City Council to create an industrial area in the heart of that district is being well fortified with BC Collectric lines. This area two miles long by one mile wide, is well populated al- though there are some bare patches too. It is probably the only section of any city in Canada where the kids have a two mile hike to school, for if the old man doesn’t own a jalopy they have to make it on the hoof. But the proposed new car lines will not help the residents of the area, although they will be an additional traffic hazard for the children. They are spur lines for freight cars and according to published plans are designed to run through two public parks and part: of a third one, for which the Park Board is at present asking the city for $80,000. to make improvements. Beforé the people who live in that area allow the BC Collectric to lay spur lines they should compel the company to bring the present in- adequate service up to scratch, with busses running from Victoria to Boundary on 41st, 49th and 54th, and on Joyce, Kerr and Victoria to the Marine Drive, and a bus line across the city from Boundary to Gran- ville Street on 41st or 49th. : The apparent spirit of cooperation between some of the people at the City Hall and the BC Collectric does not indicate any burning desire for public ownership; it certainly does not seem to be the kind of en- thusiasm we need if it is to help the Vancouver people to take over the street car system. Clean them out and put in labor men committed to that purpose, at the fortheoming elections! Obituary HAYE just heard of the death of Blaylock and the election of the union secretary, Russ. Cummings as councillor at Yellowknife. Wonder if there is any connection. Abaut Blaylock—so sorry (Japanese style). His funeral will be in a few days. Feel like Jim MacLachlan did when he wrote about the funeral of Sam Gompers, “We are unable to be present but we heartily endorse the event”. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1945 hove esi heaps laa dag SEIS Diet AG desi cn an sae aes oe RN tae ih GI att