ARUKLIGD TAL 3 STE GE COOL (APRS WOW Seems Qn ie Ti Ntemen 2% tere 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. - 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 . everything under control.’ Mr. Sharp can afford to . ly i bane, suave, slippery and complacent, his monoP if Ee ——