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A note for

the record

on Swankey’'s review

Nelson Clarke, Toronto, writes:
I have read The One-and-a-Half
Men and I think Ben Swankey’s re-
view (‘‘They fought for their peo-
ple,” Tribune Apr. 30, 1982) is
generally very good.

I think my only critical point
would centre on the estimation of
Malcolm Norris. In the second
paragraph Swankey says: ‘“‘Jim
Brady was deeply committed to
revolutionary Marxism, to Com-
munism, and for most of his life a
member of the Communist Party.
Malcolm Norris, while a member
of the Communist Party for a pe-
riod, leaned more towards the
CCF.”’

I agree fully with respect to
Brady, but I think it is a little too
simple to say that Norris ‘‘learned
more towards the CCF.’’ I think
during the years I knew him I found
his outlook and positions to be
much closer to that of the Com-
munist Party than of the CCF. I
never knew him to give expression
to illusions about social democ-
racy.

It is true that to a much greater
extent that Brady tried to work

‘‘within the system’’ in the depart-
ment of natural resources, and in
doing so may at times have held
some false hopes about what could
be accomplished. But in this con-
nection a factor to be remembered
is that he had a large family to sup-
port, (indeed two families) for
which he felt a great deal of re-
sponsibility.

He needed a job, and I’m sure
concluded on balance that it was
better to hold a job where he had
some possibility of influencing
events which concerned him so
deeply, rather than taking some
other type of employment which
would drastically limit his contact
see the North and the Metis peo-
ple.

In this connection, one other
point. I wish that Swankey had
mentioned that Norris’ funeral was
held in Calgary where the family
had recently moved, and where he
must have been largely unknown. I
am sure the attendance would have
pee much different in Prince Al-

ert.

Where do
poor goP

Don Larson, Vancouver,
writes: The other day, I talked
with someone who lived in the
Aylmer Hotel on Cordova
Street in Vancouver. Dave —
his name — lived in the low in-
come hotel that stood, along
with the Grandview and the St.
Francis Hotels, near the Seabus
and the Sears shopping centre.
For $145 amonth, he had access
to color TV, a convenient laun-
dry room and a fast elevator.

But the Aylmer was pulled
down to put up more luxury of-
fice space.

Dave and hundreds of other
so-called poor and marginal
people are being pushed out of
their communities and environ-
ments by mini-mega-project
monsters (like the Sears tower)
and mega-project monsters (like
B.C. Place). Every statistic
available points out that there is
an excess of office space and
that there will continue to be.
Yet B.C. Place wants thousands
of square feet of high rise luxury
office space on the B.C. Place

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