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The Committee of Progressive Electors stepped up theircampaign fora full ward system last week with spot
public meetings in several areas in the city. Shown is COPE school board candidate Angie Dennis speaking at

Broadway and Main.

— Sean Griffin photo

LABOR URGES SUPPORT

Majority want ward —
system, poll shows

The Vancouver and_ District
Labor Council has sent a special
letter to all affiliated unions urging
them to do everything possible to
turn out their membership on Oc-
tober 24 to vote for a full ward
system in the upcoming plebiscite.

Dated October 3, the letter
draws attention to the resolution
adopted by Council on June 19

which states, ‘‘That the Vancouver -

and District Labor Council
recommends the establishment of
a full ward system... ~ ;

The letter, signed by Council
secretary treasurer Jack Lawrence,
points out that voters will be asked
to decide these questions:

‘Close city waterfront to developers’

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

City Council's Special Waterfront
Development Committee, chaired
by alderman, Setty Pendakur, has
emerged as. the spokesman for
developers desirous of exploiting
the Vancouver waterfront for their
own private gain.

This Special Waterfront Develop-
ment Committee tried to smooth
the way for the Dawson developers
to take over where the Four
Seasons developers left off. Now
this committee and TEAM are
pushing the proposition that the
City of Vancouver should keep only
the western section of The Four
Seasons property, and turn the rest
over to the Dawson developers for
a huge commercial apartment and
hotel complex.

The Special Waterfront Develop-
ment Committee has become the
chief promoter for a privately own-
ed so-called Fisherman's Wharf to
be constructed on the waterfront
site presently occupied by the
Evans Colemam Evans Wharf.
This would be a glorified tourist
project with restaurants, boutique
shops and what not.

At first the committee tried to
get City Council to go into the pro-
ject financially, jointly with a
private developer. Council turned

that down. Since then the com:
mittee has concentrated its efforts
on getting the okay of City Council
and the National Harbors Board
for this project.

The Special Waterfront Com-
mittee has been working closely
with the CPR’s real estate arm,
Marathon Realty and its Project
200 and has secured what alderman
Pendakur called ‘‘fantastic
cooperation’’, from.the CPR. That
really stretches credulity to the °
breaking point. The CPR has never
been guilty of cooperating with any
government for the good of
Canada. Its whole history has been
one of rip-offs at public expense.
Its dealings with municipal coun-
cils have followed the same
pattern.

The Special Waterfront Develop-
ment Committee in pushing the
private commercial development
of the waterfront, has claimed that
it is opening up the waterfront for
the public. That is as spurious as it
is transparent. It is opening up the
waterfront for the developers. The
public’s participation will be
limited to tourists and others who
can afford the services and
facilities offered by the developers.

At this point it should be made

o%6",
ecetetetete:

Committee is not just acting on its
own. It is a TEAM committee and
represents TEAM policy. This is
the party that in the last civic elec-
tions promised to protect the peo-
ple of Vancouver from the
developers. Remember?

The committee’s proposal for a
Fishermen's Wharf has come up
against strong criticism from trade
unions on thé waterfront. The
Pacific Coast Maritime Council,
representing 15 unions, ina brief to
the federal minister of transport
dated September 26, takes the posi-
tion that ‘“‘too much of the Van-
couver waterfront has already been
turned over to private commercial
developers.

“Our harbor,” it says, “should
be used mainly for shipping and
ocean trade, not for tourist
facilities which do not have to be
located on the waterfront.” A
Fishermen's Wharf, of the kind
proposed by alderman Pendakur, it
says, ‘‘would be a still further en-
croachment ‘on the waterfront and
reduce still more the area available
for port development.”

It proposes that such a port be
built elsewhere, possibly on False
Creek, and that it be a publicly

-owned facility where commercial

fishermen can sell their catch

directly to the public. It concluded
that there should not be “any
further encroachments by com-
mercial developers on the water-
front.”

The Pacific Coast Maritime
Council has a good point and Van-
couver City Council should. take
notice.: Why should we encourage
the use of valuable waterfront
property for commercial develop-
ment when it is needed so badly for
port development?

The Maritime Council points out
that Vaneouver has great
possibilities of becoming a major
world port and that more and new
port facilities should be planned
now to take advantage of the new
trade opportunities opening up
across the Pacific.

It proposes a whole series of new
developments for the Port of Van-
couver including more facilities to
handle container and _ general
cargo, waterfront roadway, a new
dry dock ship repair facility, and a
new modern passenger terminal.
Mindful of the public’s interest in
waterfront operations, it suggests
that several public observation
points be established along the
waterfront roadway.

It urges Ottawa to take action to

See WATERFRONT, pg. 11

(1) At large system: Do you favor
keeping the present at large system —
for electing aldermen? :

(2) Full ward or partial ward
system: If the Council were to ap-
prove a change to a partial ward

system, or a full ward system,

which would you prefer? aa
(3) Size of Council: What size of ©
Council do you favor? «ae

Lawrence told the Pacific 7

Tribune that the labor council

plans to place advertisements im] |

the two daily newspapers at least
three days prior to the vote on-Oc-
tober 24 supporting the full ward
system.

Meanwhile, the campaign by the

Committee of Progressive Electors |

(COPE) got underway last Friday)

when a specially prepared truck
with signs and slogans toured ma-
jor shopping areas of the city urg-
ing support for the full ward
system. . ;
COPE’s plan calls for 21 wards 10
Vancouver
elected in each ward. a
Results of a public poll released
last week by the Vancouvel
Province. shows that Vancouvel
citizens favor the ward system by 4
margin of better than two-to-one-
When asked if they prefer the
present at large system of electing

aldermen, those who answered —

voted 67.94 per cent for the wal"
system, 32.06 per cent for the eX
isting system. Also significant was
the public’s reply to the question
whether they favor a complete 0"
partial ward system, 58.3 per cent
wanted a full ward system.
The poll shows that support for
See WARD SYSTEM, pg. 12

SOVIET RECEPTION
BY INVITATION

The PT mistakenly reported
last week that tickets are
available for the reception of
Soviet guests at the Faculty
Club, University of B.C., on Oc:
tober 16. Attendance is by ins
vitation only. To request an 1”
vitation, phone 688-7612.

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with one alderman —

t took the Trudeau Liberal government of Canada

only a few days after the bloody military coup in

Chile to give formal recognition to the military junta now

ruling that stricken nation by mass killings, military-police

terror by firing squads, bestial brutality and the cruel
beating of masses of innocent citizens.

This murderous ousting of the democratically elected
government of Salvador Allende and his cabinet ministers,
President Allende and many of his government colleagues
murdered in cold blood, meant, and means nothing to the
Trudeau government and its U.S. apologia, Foreign Affairs
Minister Mitchell Sharp. To these hangmen-assistants all
that was important was that the military junta killers were
“in full control of the situation” as a guarantee for
Canada’s shameful recognition.

The lame excuses offered by Sharp was to the effect
that by such recognition the interests of Canadian citizens
in Chile could be “protected.” It is worthy of note however,
that what few Canadians were in Chile during the military
coup orgy of counter-revolution, took the brutal beatings
and threats of death, and not Herr Sharp or any of the
Liberal gang he speaks for.

What Sharp, Trudeau and Company were really protec-
ting was something else. The hope that now the Allende
democratic era, brief as it was, has been drowned in the
blood of the Chilean people, that big U.S. and Canadian
monopolies such as the Anaconda Copper, International

Nickel, the International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT)
etc. etc. giant monopoly enterprises that were extracting
huge profits from the natural resources of the Chilean peo-
ple, will have these properties restored to “free enterprise”
with the termination of Salvador Allende and his
nationalization policies.

President Allende believed these resources were the
property and heritage of the Chilean people and that they
should be developed to enrich the economic and social ad-
vance of the people, rather than for the pelf and profit of
powerful foreign monopoly. By their unseemly haste to ex-
tend recognition to a murderous fascist military junta, the
latter was what the Trudeau-Sharp gold-dust twins were
seeking to ‘‘protect.”

Of course, it would never do to accuse Messrs. Sharp-
Trudeau and Company of aiding and abetting fascist
murderers who killed off the first democratically elected
Marxist government in Chile. They would always weasel

out of such a charge with a flood of ‘diplimatic’ gobblede-:

gook. But by their shameless haste to extend “recognition”
to this trigger-happy junta, and in the sole interests of U.S.
and home-grown monopoly, that is not so easily explained
away . . . and the more they ‘explain’ the deeper they
sink in its profit-sticky mire. One didn’t hear of them seek-
ing to ‘protect’ anybody just over a year ago when the U.S.
CIA-ITT were spending millions then on espionage,
sabotage and counter-revolution to overthrow the Allende
government.

Of course, the pattern has many precedents. The King
Liberal government wasted no time in ‘recognizing’ the
Greek fascist (largely military) junta, first to “protect”
foreign monopoly investment, but primarily to head off an

by the Greek people. To ‘‘save’’ Greece from an alleged

. intervention,” with the Liberal King government as one

inevitable democr tic takeover of the reins of government

“recognized’’ a fascist coup as the most preferable. an
ever since its excesses in mass murder, concentratl0
ues and prisons, has not disturbed official Ottawa 19 t
east.

From the criticisms and protests of the Canadian pee
ple against such ‘‘recognition’’ of Murder Incorporate@:
fine flow of “diplomatic” guff and meaningless words. ! S
nothing in the way of action for the restoration o
democracy where it was first cradled. ait

And Spain, who can forget Spain? A democratically
elected government, almost the first in the Iberian pen
Sula, fighting with almost bare hands against the combin
axis of forces, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. Appealing
the democratic nations of the world to give it arms t0 f
fend its democracy, and the so-called democratic wot
deaf to all such appeals.

Accompanying this denial the gross betrayal of “non

of

its principle architects. “‘Non-intervention” to halt what Be
tle aid Spain could find to help in its heroic struggle: es ee
intervention” to leave Hitler, Musso and Franco 4 a
hand in the murder of the democratic Spanish govern™ f
and people. In many respects the Spain of yesterday yi.
deadly parallel with the Chile of today, and the Macken
Kings of yesterday an exact mould for the Sharps @
Trudeaus of today. syne
No doubt the news media and other reports of the y e
ta firing squads in Chilean villages, towns and cities | 5
Mr. Sharp the assurance that the ‘new government Ir

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everything under control.’ Mr. Sharp can afford to . ly i

bane, suave, slippery and complacent, his monoP if

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