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By NIGEL MORGAN

an Peecennett government continued its onslaught on labor
ain vil rights this week. Three more bills were among the
ah of dozen introduced, as the 1972 Legislature moves into
< BIDE stretch. These are obviously intended to extend
Ocred’s dictatorial power — even though hardly likely to

Bill 77— “An Act to Amend the Municipal Act’ — extends
Pe sion for limiting ‘“‘renumeration in excess of the
€ntage fixed (by the Cabinet) with respect to the Public
by-la . - under section 56 of the revenue act. . . unless the
W providing for the excess has been submitted to the

. and the number of votes polled in favor
- €quals at least three-fifths of the votes polled’’ for
Ts, aldermen of all municipal administrations and council-

ee cularly. obnoxious and vicious amendment to the
ie eal Elections Act — Bill 48 — is aimed at taking away
ili ng-held right of candidates to be identified by party
ation on the ballot unless the party nominates a minimum

Under the new provisions, Communist and Conservative
hae candidates in the last election would have been called
freee cents. Shades of insipient fascism! Like mass
3 ployment, the denial of hospital beds to the sick and
en the inadequacy of classroom facilities and the
ation and suffering of welfare and our senior citizens,

hhett dictatorship is moving to legislate the existance of
Ommunist Party out of sight in their ‘‘free, dynamic

- LABOR ACT AMENDMENTS

i pees Saw the intorduction of “‘a bill to amend the trades
divig; make By, Labor Minister James Chabot — one of the most
vai Ve and potentiall explosive pieces of anti-labor legislation
Notably, the new amendment gives the employers
ely what the contractors have placed as a major demand
¢ actically all current ‘negotiations’? with the Building
€S unions of the B.C. construction industry. It is bound to
a Profound impact on wage and contract talks going on for
: jauilding Trades workers.
agreem amendment aims to make illegal all clauses in any
Providi ents (and most unions have had them for years),
ing union members the right to refuse to handle ‘‘hot
Products from a company that is on strike of
- It will make any and all union-management
S that restrict in any way a third party ‘‘null and
» and opens the way for non-union workers to challenge
Re non organization and basic rights in the courts. :
attem ee: and everything that even permits a person to
ae to dissuade anyone from handling or refusing to do
€Ss with any company or person engaging in the most
8eously unfair, scab-herding, union-busting practices is to

ane is a lesson for labor in the Vancouver experience,

€ united public protest defeated the Four Seasons
ay, and so far has blocked the plans of big business to
: a third crossing and freeways on the public. Similar
and q Protest by labor and progressive forces now can block
efeat Bills 3, 37, 48, 49, 77 and the Trades Union Act

betwreene rowing co-operation
®emp|j farmer and labor was
ation, qed this week when
dent Farmers’ Union presi-
SeSsiong Atkinson addressed
Allieg ct, the Fishermen and
the Wor tKers convention and
He a S Auxiliary.
“Most 1Upthe assemblies that
are _ 'Shermen and farmers

Poor because they are

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Corporatey the same giant food

8 than the; ae that take more

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t Driggs the spread between

Tetajy P2!d to fishermen and
“Saig ,PTices of fish, Atkinson
ound : Same spread could be
Products. the prices of farm

‘

eHow .
%9 conte U22Y Consumers paying

that , 2 Pound for pork know
tory pte farmers get only 18
€nts of that price?”

Food monopolies gouge
-Tarmers and fishermen

He told the women’s rally that
it was imperative there be an
interchange between the people
across Canada who are in the
food-growing business so that
mutual problems can be under-
stood and joint action under-
taken. He pointed out that
Acadia Fish company in Nova

’ Scotia was in the dairy business

as well as fish; that National
Grain (U.S. owned) was in
control of vast acreages of grain
lands on the prairies, as well as
hog, chicken, and beef produc-
tion and feed and grainsales. -

The small independent farmer
is being forced out by agri-
businesses such as National just
as the small fisherman is being
forced out of work. The govern-
ment is aiding the process
through policies geared to the
interests of the food corpora-
tions, Atkinson concluded.

Growing drug problem reflects

lecay of dying social system

By JIM BEYNON

The mythical land of despair is
not so mythical when mothers
cry for their children; children
on hard drugs, children with
their minds burned out by acid or
fogged by marijuana, children,
almost babies, sniffing glue and
nail polish remover.

In the tragic situation which
has grown up not only in the Van-
couver area but throughout
Canada the authorities appear
to have no answer. Harsher
penalties and no substitute for
stronger drugs, or less harsh
panelties and no substitute for
drugs, and now curses at the
LeDain commission by parents,
doctors and Narcotics Founda-

tions all add to the general confu-

sion regarding ‘‘cures’’.
Immediate action is necessary
to provide medical and
psychological help to those
afflicted with the use of drugs,
and prison to those who profit
from human misery. (I’ve often
wondered if there was a real
crack-down on organized crime
how many so-called respectable

~ people — doctors, lawyers,
_|. businessmen, etc., would get to

see what jail is like from the

. other side of the bars.)

But in the final analysis the
growing drug addiction and the
prevalence of drugs is a reaction
of the youth to the rotten system
they are being raised in. They
seek an escape from reality ina
country where the rich grow
richer and the poor grow poorer.

They are taught early in life to
cherish free enterprise and told
that if they worked hard, went to
church, and kept their nose clean
they would become healthy,
wealthy and wise.

They were taught that to want
to make the industries run for
the needs of the people, and the
profits produced by the workers
used for the good of all; that to
want a better life for the people
even if the capitalist owners of
industry lose out — made one a
communist or at least one of
their stooges, a killer of cats and
an eater of babies.

Capitalism, free enterprise, .

and all its works is a bankrupt
perverter of mankind.
Unemployment and poverty is
the bitter crop reaped by the
Canadian people. A working
class capable of mass produc-
tion of goods are unemployed,
or, if working, receive only a
small percentage of what they
produce while being hit by high
prices, high taxes and high rents,
with many living in slums.
Farmers capable of growing
food for the world’s hungry are
forced not to grow food, but pay
high prices for the necessities,

Spring Bazaar

Sunday, March 26, 11 a.m. sees
the opening of a colorful Spring
Bazaar at the AUUC Hall, 805 E.

‘Pender St. Home baking, pre-

serves, candy, knitwear, and a
boutique featuring stylish
apparel for the young set will be
highlighted, along with handi-
craft including coffee tables,
lamps, and even a dinghy for the

- water buffs. Bikinis and straw

hats are there for summer days
on warm beaches. |

Sponsored by the Labor
Bazaar Committee. Free admis-
sion. Come one, come all!

and one by one are being driven
off the land.

Youth growing up in the
insecurity of capitalism see their
parents worrying about jobs,
and bills. They grow up seeing

goods in stores and not being

able to buy them because they
are poor. They grow up without
having a place to play because
real estate and insurance
companies and provincial and
municipal authorities care more
for profits and taxes than they do
‘for green parklands and recrea-
tion facilities.

Youth go to school to acquire
knowledge, and have aspira-
tions at some time in their early
years for a better life, but are
faced with a system where
humans and their needs come
second to profits, and where to
“do in your neighbor’’ is the
order of the day.

Youth are forced to grow up
very fast to face the unhappy
truth of Canadian life. It is often
too much for them and they drop
out and ‘“‘turn on”’ with drugs.

Is it any wonder that not only
‘young people but adults as well
try to escape these realities into
the euphoria of drugs? Away
from the poverty and insecurity
of Canadian “‘reality’’?

One sometimes wonders if the
availability of drugs is not a
conscious policy of the Canadian
and American ruling class to
head people into blind alleys, and

away from the struggle for a
better life.

But no matter what sort of a
drug-induced trip they go on,
they still come back to the same
damned reality.

All the youth opportunities
programs in the world, and all
the Gaglardi schemes to subsi-
dize his business friends under
the guise of creating employ-
ment will not stop the further
deterioration of the capitalist
system. It cannot be saved.

The needs of the Canadian
people for control and owner-
ship industries for jobs, housing,
medical care, in fact for a future
is becoming the rallying call
for all Canadian workers,
farmers, small businessmen
and youth.

Drugs are not sapping the mili-
tant spirit of the growing
number of political Canadians,
just as the pipe dreams of
“peoples capitalisms”’ and ‘‘just
societies’ are not being
swallowed. But as these fail the
Canadian ruling class moves to
other methods and are now
further curbing democratic and
civil liberties, seeking to rule
through fear, thus making it
imperative the people to unite
even faster in their common
struggles.

The fight against a cruel and
inhuman social and political
system is the fight against drugs.

PROFIT fy SYSTEM

DAILY WORLD

Indians ask Quilt review

The militant action taken by
B.C. Indians and their sup-
porters has resulted in orders for
new and separate investigation
into the death of Fred Quilt of
the Annahim Reserve who died
following an incident involving
two RCMP officers.

Attorney-General Peterson
said he would order such an
investigation after he met with
a delegation to Victoria led by
Chief Douglas Hance of the
Williams Lake area. The dele-
gation was the culmination of
weeks-long protests and demon-

strations by Indian people across —

Canada. The campaign is con-
tinuing.

In a letter distributed by the
Fred Quilt Committee, the
Indian activists ask the public to
sign a petition to the attorney-
general demanding he ‘‘take
steps to bring the person, or
persons responsible for his
(Quilt’s) death to justice.”

They say legal advisors have
told them there is enough
evidence to warrant that the
attorney-general charge at least
one officer in the death of Fred
Quilt.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1972—PAGE 3