en Na : 4% FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1969 DID UBC RESEARCH CONTRIBUTE TO THIS? Photo shows South Vietnamese being ministered to who have been poisoned by toxic chemicals used widely by the U.S. to destroy crops and foliage. Canada helped the U.S. develop some of the poison gases. TENANTS OPEN DRIVE Rent review board urged The first province-wide organi- zation of tenants came into being last weekend with the setting up of the B.C. Tenants Association ata conference in Vancouver. Represented at the con- ference were thirty delegates representing tenants groups in Vancouver, Burnaby, New West- minster, Port Moody, Surrey, North Vancouver, Victoria and Prince George. A fouf pomt program adopted by the conference calls for the following. e Abolition of the provincial Distress Act; e Abolition of the provincial Landlord & Tenant Act, and its replacement with a_ statute Spelling out a charter of tenants rights; e. Provincial legislation providing the right of tenants to to vote on all money by-laws; e The setting up of Rental Accommodation Grievance Boards, like the one now estab- lished in Vancouver, in all other major B.C. municipalities, cities, districts and towns. The executive was instructed to make preparations for a large public meeting in the lower main- land sometime in the third week of January. Purpose of the meeting is to launch a petition campaign addressed to the provincial governments, calling on them to enact the first three points of the program, and also set in motion plans for a mass lobby of tenants to the Legislature in February. The Vancouver Tenants Council met Tuesday with the recently appointed Rental Accommodation Grievance Board and urged, through its secretary Bruce Yorke, that the Board ask City Council to adopt a new regulation which would provide ‘‘notice to quit’ (now known as ‘‘eviction notices’’) under which notice to vacate would only be valid if they were for a limited number of specified reasons. At present no reason is required. The Vancouver’ Tenants Council is also asking that the city’s Board appoint. Rent Review Officers, and that these officers have the authority: to investigate complaints of unreasonable rent increases, to mediate between the parties, and to recommend what increases in rent, if any, is justified. The Council also reeommends a regulation under which any rent increases in the city can be See TENANTS, pg. 12 VOL. 30, NO. 50 Sita mm 10¢ ALT UBC RESEARCH U.S. MILITARY! BY THE EDITORS Dr. Hugh Keenleyside has rendered a service to the public with his exposure this week of the fact that the University of B.C. is receiving grants from the Pentagon to do research for the U.S. military. Dr. Keenleyside, chancellor of Notre Dame University and retired co-chairman of B.C. Hydro, charged that 13 Cana- dian universities are carrying on this type of research for the U.S. military, which he condemned as “contrary to the spirit’ of university life and an activity which should be banned from all campuses. In. his original charge, Dr. Keenleyside named _ three research projects of this type going on at UBC. However, it was later admitted by officials of the university that there were five such projects, paid for by various branches of the U.S. mili- tary, including the Navy and Air Force. “Is it for this that we provide facilities at Point Grey? Is it an adequate excuse that 12 other uni- versities are also being subsi- dized by the armed forces of the United States?’ These questions asked by Dr. Keenleyside are also being asked by the public. The attempt by UBC deputy president William Armstrong to justify the research on the grounds that what was _ being done was ‘‘pure research” which has no military application is so much hogwash. If that is the case, why were the research grants handed out by the U.S. ALD.GEORGE McKNIGHT, fighting labor alderman in Port Alberni, was re-elected to city council at the top of the poll in last Satur- day’s civic election. military? Has the Pentagon only the interests~of pure science for the good of mankind at heart? Surely Mr. Armstrong cannot expect the public to buy that. Especially since he himself admitted that they were having trouble with the program. and that one professor at UBC had refused to take part in it because it was too closely related to poison gas research. And is Mr. Armstrong unaware that poison gases have been used widely by the U.S. in Vietnam? Not long ago the Defense Research Board in Canada admitted that the irritant or nausea gas CS was developed in Britain, tested in Canada and manufactured in the U.S. One is now prompted to ask: How much did Canadian university research contribute to this project which has helped the U.S. military carry out its policy of genocide in Vietnam? Why are Canadian uni- versities carrying on this research program for the U.S. military? It must be obvious to everyone that the work being done at the universities flows out of Canada’s military alliance with the U.S. It's part of the same policy which permits over 500 firms in Canada to participate in subcon- tracting on U.S. military contracts, to which about 175 companies are devoting their major work. This business now totals over $300 million annually. Many Canadian firms are producing arms for shipment to the United States which are then used in the Vietnam war. The most offensive co-opera- tion which has developed out of our military alliance with the U.S. has been the agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Britain for the development of chemical and biological warfare. It's time to call a halt to this immoral and_ disgraceful activity in our universities and elsewhere. Public opinion demands that research at our unt- versity for U.S. military use be stopped and that Canada end its complicity inthe Vietnam war.