4 ee AD. ORS, CARUSO ee Review ~ Education needs FOUCATION hits the headlines again. “We lack qualifited fachers and sufficient classrooms!” the teachers. “We lack money!” the school trustees. And the akg of federal and provincial vetiments to assume major finan- tesponsibility is primarily re- Msible for the plight of our Sol system. et there are also grave defici- is. in the department of edu- “Hon itself. The department's at- € was well described by Stan Vans the B.C. Teachers’ Federation 78 nN he said, ‘The deparmtent a be satisfied just to find migh y for every classroom.” Me ig t have gone on to say what a Orly paid body it is, too. : OW can we expect young peo- oe be attracted to an occupa Uniy Which Fequires six years of oY training, gives them a afte ingsalary of $330 a month and thes, 20 years’ experience rewards tea With $560 a month — top pay € for Vancouver teachers. ee department of education, by ord: ack of policy and poor co- ination with the new College of Ucation, is itself to blame for in- quate qualification of teachers. fe. is no room at UBC to train oe teachers necessary and the ernment refuses to grant the Shey for expansion. Even at sum- ea school sessions hundreds of ae ers have been denied the eg they needed. for higher inntitication because of overcrowd- Ra, Again, since the College of . ae was established, no one 2 _Bive definite information on < tification and even school in- pe tots are at a loss as to how €y should evaluate courses taken Y teachers. As long as’ Victoria pays salary Stants» to municipalities on the ay of 40 children per class there ‘ be classes of 40 and over with “sultant poorer education. - It is high time the department of Ucation resolved these problems i: establishing a clear policy on ; col financing and planning, facher training and certification. : faily ti ‘eee Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. ° Phone: MArine 5288. * Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — HAL GRIFFIN Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 Six months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth Countries (except Australia): $4.00 Sne year, Australia, United States 4nd all other countries: $5.00 one year. — » assistant general secretary - EDITORIAL PAGE * REMEMBER WHEN Midway in the Kettle i's two-storey “outdoor plumbing” 4 Valley was a bustling community. N stands empty and decaying. HIS week’s mail brought me T two pamphlets, one from the B.C. Peace Council and one from the Vancouver Civil Defense. One’is published by a group of sincere and earnest people, ex- pressing the fears and the hopes of millions in their demand for an end to H-bomb tests and at- tendent fall-out horrors. The Peace Council pamphlet urges all and sundry to write or visit their MP* on this issue and get action when parliament opens this month. This pamphlet expresses the thinking of a majority of the world’s people. It also voices the opinion of the world’s outstand- ing men of science—even those whose labors unlocked the secret of the mighty atom — that the dangers from continued nuclear bomb tests can destroy mankind just as surely as by direct H- bomb warfare. A little slower perhaps, but equally fatal in the long run. Make sure your MP gets this P.C, Peace Council message: “We are being poisoned every day... in the food we eat .. . in the air we breathe .. . and the antidote is action to ‘Stop The Tests.’ ” xt % 5e3 The other pamphlet addressed “To The Householder” is full of helpful hints on how not to sur- vive despite its imposing title, Civil Defense Evacuation and Survival Plan for Greater Van- couver Target Area. ~ For the family man with a car the routine is as simple as getting down town on a Friday evening when any of the big department stores have a sale on, getting home on a normal Sunday even- ing through the Pattullo Bridge bottleneck. The usual require- ments on such occasions are a radiator in good condition, good brakes and illimitable patience in crawling home at five miles an hour. The Civil Defense “plan” advises us to keep our gas tank always “at least half-filled”, our car radio and battery in “serv- icable condition”,-to have a “3- day supply of food” on hand, some cooking utensils, and hell bombs or no, don’t foget that 20th century invention, the can- opener. : Having got the family car loaded up, with as many of the neighbors crammed in as you can take along, you now look at the road map supplied by the Civil Defense for your “survival.” If you reside in the “pink” area you head for the Pattullo Bridge bottleneck, It’s all “one - way” traffic but that’s no guarantee you'll make the bridge, unless the “enemy” is duly considerate and gives you at least a day to get there. Civil Defense says “you must get beyond this 20-mile limit.to be reasonably safe”. After that, “turn off the road wherever you can.” And, it should be added, if you can. Should you reach the 20-mile limit, the “survival” plan has a few ideas for shelter against fall- out. One of these is “a hole in the ground,” which Civil Defense. says, is “remarkably effective” and remarkably permanent. The road to survival is not a panic traffic jam nor a “hole in the ground”, but action. by mil- liong of Canadian working men and women determining to sur- vive by compelling the Diefen- baker government to take the action needed to stop the H-tests now’. October 4, 1957 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5 ow this old hotel, with Let labor beware JHE THEME of the Canadian : Chamber of Commerce an- nual meeting at Victoria this week was one long familiar to workers. Bill Ryan, business editor of the Vancouver Province, placed it suc- cinctly when he wrote: “Canadian businessmen will get down to the hard core of what they consider is a key contributing factor to inflation ..: Ina nutshell, they’re worried about what they consider is a con- stant abnormal rise in wages; if business and industry are to pick up the tab, they want a correspond- ing return on the dollar—greater productivity.” ; The worker is reminded of this lie every time he gets his pay cheque. The housewife knows it to be false every time she goes shopping, for the increase in the pay cheque always comes after the increase in prices. But there are thousands of farmers, small busi- nessmen, pensioners, who fall for this propaganda about wage in- creases being responsible for infla- tion and so are diverted from making common cause with labor. The fact is that the productivity of Canadian labor, in every major industry, has increased tremend- ously over the post-war period. This greater productivity is the source of the. enormous profits made by the big ‘monopolies over this same period. The drive for profits, com- biried with the huge arms expendi- tures required by monopoly capi- tal’s cold war program, is “the key contributing factor” to inflation. Organized workers will have to close their ranks to preserve what they have won, for what big busi- ness is saying through the smooth. | talk of its propagandists is that it preparing to attack wage standards, to extract more for less by means of the speedup and restriction of labor’s right to strike.