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With this issue, we conclude publication for 1980.and extend our best wishes to all our
friends and supporters. We want to thank all those who, by their subscriptions and
donations — and by their comments and criticisms — have enabled British Columbia’s
Beebo weekly to reflect in its pages the struggles that marked the first year of a new

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But as we conclude this final issue for 1980, we are also reminded that the thing which

Season has come to symbolize — peace on earth — is today more precarious, more
Precious than it has been in many years, as the U.S, and NATO powers continue their
deadly arms buildup. Certainly in 1981 there will be no issue so important, no issue
around which the building of an active movement so imperative as that of peace.

We intend to be a partisan voice in that struggle. Our supporters and readers have ex-
Pected that of us since 1935 and we look forward to their continued support.

VICTORIA—BC Coalitio
“gainst Racism chairperso
lecia Crump and 30 represen- |
tatives of community and ethnic
Organizations, trade unions and the
B.C. Teachers Federation lobbied
MLAs here last Tuesday deman-
that the provincial govern-
Ment take immediate court action
@gainst the Ku Klux Klan.
At a press conference at. the} jam
legislature Crump said the Coali- |

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WOK |
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tant permission for prosecution
ofthe KKK under section 281 ofthe |
Ctiminal code, which outlaws in- |
Citement of hatred.

Coalition members were suc-
Cessful in meeting with most MLAs
from both the Socred and the NDP
Caucuses, and also had a brief
Meeting with premier Bennett.
However attorney general Allan
Williams did not meet the lob-
byists.

The Coalition reported a good
Tesponse from most MLAs, par-
Ucularly the NDP members. A
Notable exception was former at-
torney general Alex MacDonald
Who argued against taking the

to court on the basis that it
Would only give the Klan more
Publicity,

One Coalition member respond-
€d that the argument “‘is just like
Suggesting that Hitlerite war
Climinals shouldn’t have been
brought before the Nuremburg
Courts because it might have helped
the Nazi cause.”

NDP MLA for Vancouver
Center Emery Barnes supported
the demands of the Coalition and
ae Williams of ‘‘stonewall-

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TOP: B.C. Teachers Federation president Al Blakey leads a march of close to 4,000 teache
through downtown Vancouver Thursday as teachers continue their mass demonstrations against
the Socreds’ de-indexing of pensions. Bottom: Demonstrators fill the huge plaza outside the old
Vancouver courthouse to hear retired teachers and local association presidents pledge to continue |
the campaign for full indexing. At right, one teacher holds up the words to the parody of The

The ‘urban
strategy’ to

transform

Greater

Vancouver
— pages 4, 5 —

TRIBUNE PHOTO — SEAN GRIFFIN

rs

hort session on BNA
Act ‘acolossal waste’

VICTORIA — The third session
of B.C.’s 32nd Parliament opened
Dec. 4 with all the pageantry and
pomp reserved for the occasion,
and it ended without ceremony just
one week later, an expensive and
colossal waste.

The only reason for the seven
day session was the determination
of the Socred government to secure
legislative support in its constitu-

tional wrangle with the federal=

government, and to use that pro-

cess to mobilize public support for

the Socred stand.

It failed even to achieve that and
as the session ended last Friday all it
had in hand was the narrow
passage, along party lines, of a
weak and confusing resolution op-
posing the patriation of the British
North American Act until the
federal government can secure
unanimous support for such an ac-
tion, and for an amending for-
mula.

The NDP opposition which had
declared itself in support of the
Trudeau-Broadbent constitutional
package, jumped on the resolution
for its suggestion that unanimous
support from all provinces would
be needed for constitutional
change, and charged that the
resolution would spur western
separatism. ‘‘This resolution is suc-
cor. to western separatism,’ a
demagogic Dave Barrett told a
press conference following the
throne speech, ‘‘It protects the
right of any separatist group in any
part of Canada to hold the country

See CP page 3

The Grievance,
a short story
— page 9

Rolf Knight,
B.C. author
— page 10

Boxing Day,
an old custom :
— page II