_ Harold Dean, Vancouver, writes
M part: Having attended the rally
Put on at the Agrodome on

} February 1 concerning ICBC rate
/ Increases I have come away witha

number of different impressions.
Obviously, the representatives of
I§ business want to throw the
burden of the crisis on the backs of
the working people. We have only

- Seen the start of this attack.

Tam immensely pleased that so
Many young people came to this
Meeting — they are being hurt the
Most and they are anxious to fight

ck. I am also sure that the
Tésentment will grow when people
are actually hit with the increases
~ hot just with the anticipation of
them ...

Why could not a young person

“have spoken — half of Canadians

are under 25 and the youngest are
hardest hit by these increases?
Why could not a housewife have
Spoken about the problems of being
home with children with no car?
"NY could not a small business
Man have spoken who is facing
Tuination by the increases?
Somewhere along the line a
toup of people in this groundswell
of a people’s movement are going
have to come up with rational
answers and not just short term
answers. :
It isn’t even necessary to bluntly
Point out that the transportation
Crisis is part of a general crisis of
Capitalism — this realization will
Come in due course. What is
Necessary is that the direction of
© movement should be aimed at
€ monopolies, where it belongs
and not just the insurance com-
Panies — they are only part of it.
The monopolies should be made
© subsidize” auto insurance by
Mcreasing their taxes. I am sure

now that the argument for cheap
public,transit is going to have a
greater effect. What the
monopolies,have done is make the
working masses provide their own
individual transportation, a cir-
cumstance which is becoming
increasingly difficult or even
impossible to realize...

The issues which are arising now
can and will provide a basis for
uniting greater and greater sec-
tions of the middle class with the
working class. To effect this kind of
unity requires imagination and
initiative and a strenuous effort to
overcome deeply ingrained sec-
tarian attitudes. .

Ron Sostad, president Neigh-
borhood Planning Association,
writes in part: With respect to the
talk of coalitions, since this par-
ticular issue will have represen-
tative effects on all areas within
the Greater Vancouver Regional
District . .. my group sees the task
of the local representative to en-
courage local action and popular
initiative to solve problems.

The Vancouver Area Council of
the NDP cannot break the
established capitalist machine
which the Liberals, Tories and
Socreds have established at the
civic level in Vancouver through
TEAM and NPA.

There are enough. progressive
and reform groups available that
could form an effective coalition,
but if the NDP-VAC can find the
time to come about to unity with
COPE maybe the radical left,
progressive reform groups,
working people and their trade
unions, the unemployed, women,
aged, welfare recipients, students
native people and others will see
that it is politically possible...

DORA BJARNASON

In the passing of Dora Bjarnason the Broadway
Club of the Communist Party has lost a dear and
devoted member. And while we merge our deepest
sympathy and sorrow will all the members of her

own dear family,

sons

and daughters and

grandchildren, we bow our own heads at the
passing of a devoted and loving comrade.

Farewell. dear Dora Bjarnason; we shall ever
remember the example you left us; your great

courage, your
ever-cheerful smile.

devotion

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Morris hits NDP gov't
stand on wage

Joe Morris, president of the
Canadian Labor Congress, has
called on the NDP governments of
Manitoba and Saskatchewan, who
are supporting the federal
government’s wage controls, to
“rethink’’ their support, He
coupled his appeal to the two NDP
provincial governments with a
warning that the trade union
movement will stick to its prin-
ciples “even if it means opposing
the party which this trade union
movement brought into being.”

Choosing a national platform to
make his statement, Morris ad-
dressed the first all-Canadian
convention of the Brotherhood of
Railway and Airline Clerks
(BRAC) meetlng in Winnipeg,
February 4-6. One hundred and
eighty-four delegates ratified a
new Canadian constitution which
gives the Canadian, membership
control over their affairs.

Addressing the convention on the
second day, Morris said: “There is
an upsurge of the political right in
Canada, a political backlash
against social reform sweeping the
country which threatens to
dismantle the social legislation
which we as trade unionists fought
for many decades to establish.”

He called the Trudeau anti-
inflation program “class
legislation” and said “in every set
of negotiations from one side of the
country to the other the state is
standing behind the employer,
ready to use its awesome authority
in his interests.”

RANKIN

Cont'd from pg. 2
have a champion that will go to bat
for them.

DERA’s request also received
very widespread support
throughout Vancouver. Literally
dozens of community
organizations, prominent citizens
and political leaders of all stripes
supported it. Even the city’s Social
Planning Department recom-
mended the grant. __

But the TEAM-NPA coalition,
the business interests they
represented were adamant and
angry. DERA must be taught a
lesson. There must be no in-
-terference with the profits of slum
landlords and sleazy beer parlor
operators no matter what the cost
in human suffering, or even the
cost in terms of the extra police
required. And no one who gets a
grant from the city must be per-
mitted to criticize the mayor or
aldermen even when they refuse to
enforce their own by-laws.

DERA’s battle for this grant is
not yet over. It has the right to
appeal.

I urge you to give DERA your
support. Don’t let the mean,
revengeful attitude of the mayor
and his right wing cohorts deprive
a genuine citizens group of a grant
which it richly deserves. Write
Council and let it know how you
feel. If youneed more information,
phone DERA at 253-8235, or better
yet, call at DERA headquarters at
616 East Cordova and see for
yourself the fine community
services it is operating.

“Labor will stick to its principles
even if it means opposing the
party which the trade unions

brought into being”... Joe
Morris. .

Turning his attention to the stand
taken by the NDP provincial
governments in Saskatchewan and
Manitoba, Morris warned that they
must “either side with the labor
movement from which they
sprang, and with the working
people who support them or side
with the corporations and the
monied class.”

Summing up the CLC’s position‘
of opposition to the federal Liberal
government’s wage control
program, Morris said: ‘There is
no middle ground on which to fight,
for in this battle there can be no
compromise. Our opposition is
total and complete and we will not
back off.’’ At this point he warned ~
that the CLC will stick to its
principles even if it means op-
posing the NDP.

Only a few days before Morris’
statement, the Manitoba NDP’s
annual provincial convention,
meeting in Winnipeg on the
February 1 weekend, took another
step to the right. Under the urging
of Rremier Schreyer, a majority of
delegates endorsed the provincial
government’s policy of cooperation
with the federal government’s
wage control program. This puts
the Manitoba NDP in direct op-

controls

position to Manitoba Federation of
Labor policy.

With the wage control issue
clearly the most -important item
before the three-day convention,
Premier Schreyer maintained that
with all their faults and im-
perfections, the guidelines were
better than no guidelines at all, and
his government was prepared in

ithe national overall interest to join

in an effort to check inflation. He
summed up his position as: ‘“‘The
guidelines are the first faultering,
miserable step in the right
direction for the future.”

The premier’s position was
sharply attacked by many trade
unionists and other delegates, but
many who were personally op-
posed to wage controls never-
theless voted in support of
Schreyer’s position under the in-
fluence of the argument that not to
do so would constitute a stab in the
back of the premier.

Only a few days before the
Manitoba NDP convention, the
Blakeney NDP government in
Saskatchewan, on Wednesday,
January 28, announced Saskat-
chewan’s participation in Ot-
tawa’s “‘anti-inflation’”’ program.
The Saskatchewan Federation of
Labor on January 29 branded the
government’s action as ‘“‘a sad day
for the workers of Saskatchewan
and a shameful day for premier
Blakeney and his cabinet.’’ The
statement charged that the
government has been un-
principled, hypocritical and_in-
consistent in its announcement and
said that the government is siding
with the Liberals and the cor-
porations in their attack on
workers. ‘“‘They were elected and
re-elected as the champions of free
collective bargaining and yet they
are now party to a program that
destroys collective bargaining
more effectively than Bill 2 ever
did.”’

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