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By V. VICTOR

AS SPOKE THE SPEAKERS:
Nanaimo District Labor Council
held a public meeting. at the
Shoreline Hotel ballroom with
four well-known guest speakers
giving views on the Vietnam

struggle, The well-pleased over-.

flow audience. heard Dr, Will-
mott, professor from UBC and
an authority on affairs of South-
east Asia, tell of the unanimous
support the National Liberation
Front receives from the popu-
lous, for this body has the only
reform program to appeal to
the peasants after many years
of oppression under foreign con-
trol,

Next to speak was veteran
orator Colin Cameron, federal
NDP member for this riding,
His parting remark—that no
ideology, no matter how evil it
was thought to be, would war-
rant the bombing of innocent
citizens who had voted in the
government of their choice—de-
served the ovation it received.

Speaker number three was
Doug Greer, Liberal candidate
for the next federal election, As
a good Liberal, he extolled the
virtues of the (in)action of the
present Canadian government,
After fifteen minutes, one mem-
ber of the audience was over=-
heard to ask what he had said,
This summed up the thoughts
of most of the listeners,

Last speaker and certainly
the least was Dick Bond, past
president of the local C of C,
According to this extreme right-
ist, all is good that the Ameri-
cans are doing in Vietnam and
they will win the conflict for
they are the forces of good,

In spite of the varied opinions, -

it was a very interesting and en-
lightening evening.

* * *

WATER, WATER: And not a
drop to sprinkle. Despite the
fact that Canada contains four-
fifths of the world’s fresh water
and Vancouver Island is blessed
with more than its share of
fresh water streams and ri-
vers, all towns and cities on
the Island each year have a
shortage of water, But the wa-

news,

ter rates do not vary with the
variation of the water supply,
Odd, actually,

* * *

NO PARKING PARKADE: Na-=
naimo’s much vaunted Gordon
Street parking lot, which cost
the taxpayers a cool half-million
dollars to fill the inlet and build
the parkade, is conspicuous by
the lack of people using the fa-
cility. Since the lot was opened
six weeks ago, it has failed to
earn enough money to pay the
attendants on duty, This seems
to be a boycott by the citizenry,
who paid for the construction
and now must pay ten cents an
hour for the privilege of park-

ing.

The local rag maintains the.

public is not used to the idea
and the future should produce
better results, moneywise, It did
not mention that after Labor Day
there will be fewer motorists in
the city to use any parking spaces,
Most of the tourists will be on
their'way home by then,

The city is supposed to share
ten percent of the profits from
the coin machine company that

operating the concession, It.

would be interesting to know if
there is a provision to subsi-
dize the operators when they
are losing money daily, A cer-
tain one of the downtown mer-
chants has a brilliant idea to
help out (as long as it costs
said merchant very little), It
can readily be predicted there
will be a drastic change in the
Gordon Street Parkade in the
near future,

* * *

THORN IN THE THIGH: Of
Comox Air Base, that is, The
Peace Marchers continue to an-
noy officials, if only by their
presence, Airmen at the base
are forbidden to converse with
ban-the-bombers, If one does
speak to a marcher, his num-
ber, rank and name is taken
down by the Air Force provost
and disciplinary action is taken
when the offender returns to
base, It seems Air Force offi-

cials have little love for the —

crusaders.

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Fight looms on 5-Year Plan

A major battle is shaping up
in Vancouver around the 5-year
plan plebiscite to be heldSeptem-
ber 29. Once again reactionary
business circles are planning to

mount an attack to defeat the

plan, hoping to duplicate their
feat of last December when they
financed a large last minute ad-
vertising campaign to defeat the
previous plan,

Former alderman Bill Orr, a
spokesman for large real estate
and financial interests in the
city, said last week that a fund
of $15,000 was available for
righting the present plan, He

said a committee has been form-
ed which includes influential
businessmen and merchants,

This reactionary group wants
the plan defeated because, ac-
cording to Orr, it includes such
things as money for parks, li-
braries, hospitals and urban re-
development (slum clearance),
The group is particularly against
any money being used for slum
clearance,

This week the secretary of
the Vancouver Civic Employees
Union, Jack Phillips, wrote in
the union’s paper that his union

A PT reader sent us this photo of the recent demonstration against nuclear arms

outside the Comox air base. About 60 sit-downers blocked the gates to the base.
and were dragged away nearly 25 times in the 32-hour vigil only to return.

Eight were arrested during the last day and were fined $25 or 10 days in jail.
During the trial the youth told the judge they may be ‘“‘legally guilty’’ but they

were ‘morally right” in protesting against nuclear bombs.

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