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QUOTAS ACHIEVED

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Broadway 700
Centennial 500
Frank Rogers 750
Kingsway 1200
Niilo Makela 325
Olgin 300
Peter McGuire 700
Point Grey 300
Timber 300

South Vancouver 550
Vancouver East 2000
Victory Square 1000

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QUOTAS ACHIEVED

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Surrey 1300
White Rock 350
OKANAGAN

Kamloops 225
Notch Hill 110
Penticton 160
Vernon 400

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Comox Valley 250
Nanaimo 700
Port Alberni 500
Victoria 600

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North Vancouver 1100

Powell River 275

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Trail 400

Burnaby 1100 Misc. “A” 400

Coquitlam 425 Misc. “B” - 400

Fraser Ind 350 Tom’s Column 600

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Kashtan stresses united action
in fightback against inflation

Beginning a two week tour of
western Canada that will ul-
timately take him to several cen-
tres in this province as well as
Regina, Winnipeg, Edmonton
and Calgary, Communist Party
leader Bill Kashtan called Mon-
day night for united action by the
trade union movement and un-
ited political action by Com-
munists, New Democrats and
other groups to establish a
program that will guarantee the
living standards of working peo-
ple.

Kashtan’s tour of B.C. will
wind up at the Party’s provincial
convention March 30 where
delegates will be elected to the
22nd convention to be held in
-Toronto April 12 to 14.

“This is the first time in post
war history,’ Kashtan told the
meeting in Websters Corners
that workers have fallen behind
the inflationary spiral. While
previously their wage increases
were ahead of increases in the
cost of living, however slightly,
this year prices have outstripped
wages.

Pointing to an imminent

‘federal election, Kashtan

criticized the Conservative Par-
ty’s program of wage and price
controls and the demagogic at-
tacks by that party on govern-
ment spending.

“Stanfield is trying to take a
page from Mr. Heath and from
Nixon both of whom imposed
such controls — with disastrous
results, particularly in the case
of Britain,’ the Communist
leader said. ‘‘And the imposition
of wage and price controls here
will mean only the maintenance
of the status quo — the only ones
who will benefit will be the
monopoly corporations.”’

He emphasized as well the
main thrust of Stanfield’s
charges of excessive government
spending and pointed out that
they are aimed at cutting back
social security programs, notaby
unemployment insurance. ‘‘The
Conservatives want workers to
be forced to take any job at any
wage,” he declared. “‘And, at the
same time as they were at-
tacking unemployment in-
surance, nobody in their party
said anything about the big
business interests who got a half
billion dollar tax-free gift last
year.

“‘And what of the Liberal Par-
ty?” Kashtan asked. ‘‘Their
answer is much the same: what
is good for the corporations is
good for the country. John
Turner, in fact, stated it almost
in those words.”

COLUMBIA

Cont'd from pg.-1

two-river policy. AS a conse-
quence, he charged, ‘‘B.C. got
locked into very expensive
power. Alberta was given a full-
blown environmental disaster.
And Canada lost one of its
greatest opportunities with
respect to Columbia River
waters.

“The legacy which the Colum-
bia Treaty offers Canadians,” he
concluded ‘‘are three basic
lessons for future developments.
These are to be cautious when
undertaking a development; to
value our resources with great
care; and to start with the
presumption there will be no ex-
ports.”

He noted that when the
Liberals attempt to justify infla-
tion they glibly speak of shor-

tages and the world-wide.

phenomena of price increases.

“But inflation is not world
wide. The socialist countries
have stable prices on housing and
food — all the things on which we
have seen such huge increases in
this country.

“The government programs
are not aimed at coping with in-
flation. They are aimed at
providing minor concessions to
mitigate the effects of inflation
on the assumption that if enough
is given to big business
something might trickle down to
the working people.

If we want to deal with infla-
tion, we have to get at the source
— not the workers, not the
farmers, but the monopoly con-
trol of the economy and the ex-
porting of inflation into this
country by the U.S. corporations
who are attempting to resolve
their own crisis at the expense of
Canadians,”’ Kashtan declared.

He told the meeting that hous-

ing, transportation and energy
should be looked upon as public
necessities and should not be
subject to the whims of private
companies.

“‘We’ve need of a program that
will ensure a guaranteed annual
income for workers, substantial
wage increases and escalator
clauses so that wage increases
can be protected from the worst
effects of inflation. We need
militant economic and political
action by working people to work
towards winning a majority in
Parliament that will serve the
interests of working people.”’

He noted also the unity in
Quebec of the Quebec Federation
of Labor, the Confederation of
National Trade Unions and the
Quebec Teachers Federation
who have worked out a three-
pronged program. to. combat in-
flation.

“We need that kind of unity
everywhere,”’ he said, ‘‘the kind
of unity that will enable us to ad-
vance the alterntive policies that
are so vital to the progress of
this country.”

INGUHE
REG SANURIE

By NIGEL MORGAN

Good news, and a significant
development for Britishn Colum-

~ bia, was the announcement by

Education Minister Eileen Dailly
that a new formula for financing
education in this province is
coming, and that some impor-
tant legislative changes can be
expected at the fall session.

While the minister’s five-page
White Paper — entitled ‘‘The
Public School System — Direc-
tions for Change’’ — has come
under opposition fire for not
projecting any specific proposals
for policy changes, it has begun

the most thorough-going ex-.

amination of B.C.’s education
system undertaken in thirty
years.

Examination of five main

areas has been proposed:— 1) ©

the financing of education (ob-
viously a key question if there is
to be any real improvement); 2)
organization and administration
of school districts; 3) program
and curriculum; 4) authority and
responsibility in the school
system; and 5) the universal
right to education. Study groups,
the personnel of which will be an-
nounced in the next few days,
will be set up in each of the five
areas.

Briefs are being invited from
the B.C. Teacher’s Federation,
the Home and School Federation,
the B.C. School Trustees
Association, students

‘themselves, and all other public

and interested groups. The B.C.
provincial committee of the
Communist Party will be among
those presenting its views and
recommendations.

The White Paper
acknowledges the fact (which
previous governments have
refused to do) that ‘‘the needs of
many students are not being ap-

propriately met in the school

system’’ today. Inviting a frank
and open discussion, it
provocatively states that while
the school system provides a
Satisfactory educational ex-
perience for some, others leave
‘without literacy, optimism or
confidence’. The education
minister’s report poses the
question: “‘Is it not possible that
in some cases the system fails
rather than the students?”’ Anda
good question it is!

The paper questions whether
the current practice of
segregating children into pre-
school, elementary, junior-
secondary and senior-secondary
schools is a good one.

It calls for an examination of
whether the present arrange-
ment of dividing the province
into 75 school districts for ad-
ministration is the most efficient
arrangement, or whether larger
districts along regional lines
wouldn’t be better.

The report recommends a
redesigning of the structure of
the educational system in such a
way that authority and respon-
sibility will better reflect ‘the
fact that the primary
relationship in education is
between the teacher, the pupil,

.and the parents; and that other

parts of the system must be in
support of that relationship. It
calls for the introduction of new
courses and programs that will
be more meaningful and
stimulating to students.

On the financing of education,
the White Paper states that the
government recognizes that to
meet educational needs of each
student requires that ‘‘resources
be distributed on an equitable
basis’. Mrs. Dailly announced a
departmental. study group is
already examining the financial
aspects of education and working
on the outlines of a new financial
formula... -

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1974—PAGE 3