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Big Business concerned

with tarnished image?

By MABEL RICHARDS

Big Business, on the surface at
least, is concerned about its
tarnished public image— as well
it might be.

This message came through in
bits and pieces made at the
National convention of the
Canadian Chamber of Com-
Merce in Vancouver last week.

From the warning note
Sounded in speeches from social
Workers to the plaints voiced by
Company presidents, the
Consensus that business smelled
less sweet than a rose to the
public was plainly evident. At
the same time they cried — how
they cried! — because every-
body is picking on them.

Society (read Business-Ed) is

‘under attack by labor, youth,

governments, customers, and
heaven knows who else,
lamented the newly elected
Chamber president.

A social worker told them

why: ‘“Your world and the world ©

of the poor are too far apart.”’
Said a federal government
Spokesman, ‘‘Businessmen are

not listened to when they
complain about taxes and...
threats to private enterprise

. these cries of doom are
simply not credible and neither
the audience, nor, one suspects,
the speakers, really believe

them.”’

‘““The universities are
producing the smartest, best -
trained. . . graduates ever...

but more and more we are
unable to relate to them and
therefore attract them to our
fold,’ said an Air Canada
chairman.

“When they do enter business,
they leave quickly because we do
not give them a chance to act on
their knowledge; because we do
not give them a real role in
making our system efficient,
productive and just.”’

But the breast - beating and
surface soul - searching was as
fleeting as it was unusual. By the
end of the conference the boys
were back on the beam again.

broken down into regional
quotas.

WHERE DO
_ YOU STAND?

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and individual press club

To reach our goal we have to ensure the renewal of
every single expiry and we have to win 150 new readers.

You can help your club get into the swing by
renewing your own sub; by asking your friends to renew
their sub; and by winning a new subscriber.

SPEED THE DRIVE

DRIVE QUOTAS

Quotas Achieved’

Club
GREATER
VANCOUVER
Bill Bennett 42 1
Broadway 74 2
Frank Rogers 21 -
Kingsway 2 40 1
Niilo Makela 6 3
Olgin 20 1.
Peter McGuire 10 2
Point Grey 38 3
Van. East 131 4
South Van. 42 6
Victory Square’ 39 3
, North Burnaby 65 2
Edmonds 20 ]
North Shore 55 4
City Misc. 42 2
TOTALS 645 32
PROVINCIAL
GENERAL
Powell River 19 1
Sointula 13 :
Trail Rossland 46 1
Correspondence 22 f
Prov. Misc. 46 4
TOTALS 146 6

Club Quotas Achieved >
VANCOUVER
ISLAND
Alberni 20
Campbell River Tees
Cowichan 23. =
Nanaimo 46 -
Parksville Oxi ee
Victoria ~ DOE 2
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DEWDNEY -
Haney Maple Ridge 13 ]
Mission. 12 1
i 25 2
OKANAGAN
Kamloops 22 1
Notch Hill 13-5
Vernon 21 -
5623
DELTA
Coquitlam 17 2
Ft. Langley 11 :
New Westminster 29 =
Surrey 49 1
White Rock Delta 41 6
Agg.-Chilliwack 7 3
. Fraser Ind. 6 2
160 14

Said Hu Harris a Obusiness
policy professor, and member of
Parliament from Alberta: “.
Business as such doesn’t have
any social mission at alles ==.
Your obligation is to produce a
product and put it on the market
in conformity with the rules.”
(Former speakers had made it
very clear that the less rules and
controls from government, the
better they liked it.)

So, if there are no tough rules
governing industrial pollution,
why should business worry about

the smell in the public’s back -

yard? If there are no rules
governing excess profiteering,
why should business get a kink in
its conscience? If Finance
Minister Benson can be horn-
swoggled into making
mincemeat of every tax law
which cuts into business profits,
why should the august gentle-
men in the Chamber of Com-
merce rest less comfortably?

If there are no ground rules
governing the exploitation of the
nation’s resources without
thought of our children’s
children, why should business-
men make their own? Is there
any profit in conservation,
indeed, in cultivating a social
conscience?

If we believe, (and some
people do) that Big Business in
Canada is hewn from a more
humanitarian clay than their
brother - bosses in the U.S.A.,
the C of C convention in Van-
couver last week helped dispel
the illusion.

Despite the words of the
speakers who were chosen to
polish their image for the sake of
the public, businessmen can no

more change their spots than can-

the leopard. The professor was
right; where profit is the sole
incentive, social conscience can
have no place.

VITAL READING

This week’s featured new
books at the People’s Co-op
Bookstore, 341 West Pender St.,
include the following:

“Year Of Victory” — Marshall
I. Konev - A vivid picture of the
scope of the Soviet offensive in
the final months of World War II
by the commander of the 1st
Ukrainian Front - $2.25.

‘“‘Gold Creeks And Ghost
Towns,” — By N.L. Barlee - A
historical probe into early
communities in the interior of
B.C. This excellent look at our
past is adequately supported by
numerous photographs. East
Kootenay, Boundary, West
Kootenay,
Similkameen are covered. Large
format - paperback cover -
$2.75.

‘“‘German Imperialism: Its
Past And Present,’’ — Prof. A.
Yerusalimsky - A Soviet
historian lays bare German
preparations for the 1st and 2nd
World Wars and brings to light
methods employed by present-

' day West German militarists in

new intrigues. - $3.25.

A 10 per cent discount can be
had on any of the above three
books by mailing this clipping
with order. B.C. customers
please include 5 percent sales
tax and .20 cent each for mailing
costs.

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CONFERENCE ON INFLATION

Education minister
foresees no change

A delegation from the B.C.
Parent - Teacher Federation
presented a brief to the provinc-
cial government on September
17. According to reports, the
brief was received with unenthu-
siasm which has marked
Education Minister Brother’s
reaction to any call for a change
in the present formulas.

The brief, presented by the
Federation's Anna Ennenberg,
Doris Hartley and Catherine
Shoen, demanded that the provin-
cial government establish a
more flexible formula for
determining the cost per struc-
tural unit of the basic education
program, basing it upon the
needs and circumstances of
each school district, and revising
it annually by means of
systematic research and
consultation with the

educational authorities of each
school district. —

The rescinding immediately
of the 110 percent ceiling on
operating costs was urged, and
that the ministers of education
and finance be requested to take
necessary steps to enable school
districts to go ahead with orderly
planning and construction of
adequate facilities. Strong
opposition to the use of portable
school rooms was expressed.

Recommendations included
many which dealt with problems
of serious concern as they relate
to chil¢ren, in the social as well
as the education field.

The brief, wide-ranging and
progressive in its approach to
the problems facing education in
the province, is one of the most

important submitted to the

government this year.

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