~~ GEE T WONDER WHO'S BEHIND ALL This 27 ANDREWS <= New integrated welfare program B.C. delegation conference aim Committees are being formed across Canada to organize the sending of representative dele- gations to the World Congress of Peace Forces being held in Mos- cow, October 2-7, 1973. The conference tosetupaB.C. Committee is being held in Van- couver’s Unitarian Church, 49th and Oak Street, on Wednesday, May 30 at 6:30 p.m. The supper conference is expected to draw wide support for the job of launching a cam- paign in B.C. to send a repre- sentative delegation from the Pacific coast province. Letters have gone out toa wide variety of organizations, includ- ing trade unions, churches, to world peace of meeting peace groups, civic govern- ments, etc. Recently representative com- mittees were set up in Quebec and Ontario. Aconference was held in Toronto Saturday, May 12. In Quebec, a meeting to set up an initiating committee was called by a number of organi- zations, including the Quebec Federation of Labor, the Confed- eration of National Trade Unions and the Quebec Teach- ers Federation. Mrs. Jeanette Morgan of the Canadian Committee for the World Peace Congress will speak at the Vancouver con- ference. = faces need for better services By ALD. HARRY RANKIN The decision of the provincial government to integrate all family and child care services in Vancouver can be a good one. I say ‘can be” because it all de- pends on what the purpose is. If its purpose is just to save money by eliminating some of the duplication, confusion and jurisdictional welfare that exists today among the many dif- ferent groups administering these services, thenI can’t get enthusiastic about it. If, on the other hand, its pur- pose really is to provide better and more humane services and to improve the quality of life for the people affected, thenI’m all for it. Norm Levi, who now bears the new title of Minister of Human Resources (previously it was Rehabilitation and _ Social Improvement) had this to say on May 15abouthisintegration proposals: ““We do not expect to save money but we do expect to spend it ina much better way.”’ Fur- ther, he said, the purpose of integrating all social services is to provide ‘‘a planned, sys- tematic approach to resolving the problems that exist for fam- ilies’’. And, he added, its pur- pose is tomake services “‘imme- diately available’’. . . to people within the area in which they live ... within the com- munity.” The Minister of Human Re- sources also said that he would consolidate allrelevant social legislation into one act by the spring of 1975, to be called the ‘‘Family andChildrenAct’’, and that a section of the city of Van- couver would be selected as a pilot project to try out his new integration policy. His remarks were based toa large extent on a report on so- cial services existing in Van- couver prepared by Maurice Egan of the city’s Social Plan- ning Department. Among other things Egan recommended that the provincial government establisha Crown Corporation in Vancouver to be known as the Vancouver Family and Youth Services Bureau which would have entire responsibility over the field of providing assist- ance to families and children. The pilot project in Van- couver as well as the over-all plan for integration will have to be watched closely, bearing the following in mind: We don’t want any im- personal, cold Crown corpora- tion dealing with social services. People can’t be admin- istered as if they were pro-| perty. The whole scheme should remain strictly under the control of the Minister of Human Resources who is responsible to the legislature and the people for his actions. Wedon’t wantaschemethatls over-efficient and under-funded. Nor do all people with problems have to be treated as ‘‘cases with social workers assigned 1 each ‘‘case’’. Those on welfare who are able to work need tobe provided with a job and per haps some training, which would take care of most of thei! problems. Those who for some reason cannot work (deserle mothers who must take care? their children, the physically incapacitated, and those wit real problems which preve? them from fitting into society must be provided with enougs — assistance so they can live asde cent human beings. At all levels beginning from the top and extending into fiel -work, there must be labor all citizen representation in 4 administrative and polity bodies. The citizen represent@ tion should include the people b& ing administered to as well 4% the community. Communist Party condemns Barrett Quebec statement ‘“‘The Communist Party sharp- ly condemns the statement of B.C. Premier Barrett from Que- bec City on ‘French separat- ism’,’’ Nigel Morgan, Provin- cial leader of the Communist Party declared in a press state- ment Tuesday. ‘‘His inflammatory, Anglo- Saxon chauvinist remarks can only dogreatharm to Canadian unity,’’ Morgan stated. ‘‘It will be welcomed by big business ~across Canada which counts heavily on maintaining divi- sions between the working means that for the remaining weeks of the drive we have to put on anextra spurt, ‘get the lead out’’ and get going. Wecan do it; we have done it many times before in years past. Wecan do it again. Just that little extra spurt. Should we go well over the top of the minimum target set (and needed) the ‘‘PT”’ can survive and rejoice. Below that target, means the tacit accept- ance of ministerial mentality on what is ‘‘normal’’, which neither the editorial board, the printer, nor thereaderscan (or will) accept. So it’s heave-ho for a victory campaign and an assured Pacific Tribune. The ranks of the many veteran old-timers who have made e had a couple of experiences at home last week with we our mail delivery which brought to mind the pio- neering days of the pony express. A letter from Berkeley, Cali- fornia, airmail, took exactly seven days to reach Vancouver. A relay of fleet ponies would have madeitinlittle more thanhalf that time. Worse still, it took exactly five days for our modern high- priced Canada Post to get our Pacific Tribune from 193 Hastings Street to 1995 West 14th Avenue. Anold spavined nag could have galloped the distance in little over half an hour. It would just seem that the higher the postage cost, the lower (and slower ) the service. It may be, of course, that too few of us as yet have got ‘hep’ to the Ottawa mentality, as illustrated by our Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Whelan. That worthy told us last week, apro- pos skyrocketting food prices, that all such prices are nothigh at all; that the trouble is that in the past Canadians have been living practically ‘‘for free’’, so that today’s prices are just normal and no more. So what is everybody squawking about? If the Postmaster mentality runs parallel to that, thenitis clear we are headed for pony express services with monopoly increasing price tags in the saddle bags. All part of the ‘‘Just society’ promised by one Pierre Elliot Trudeau. These and other irritants in our daily lives serve to under- line another problem, viz, that the Pacific Tribune financial campaign has still a long way to go before the ultimate target is reached. In terms of time, we are well over the half- time mark, butin terms of target objective, abitlow. That their annual contributions to successive campaigns through the media of this column (and tothis onealso) are thinning. In the past year or two many of these grand old rebels, men and women, press builders for the working-class, have crossed the Great Divide. We salute their memory, and hope the youth of this and coming generations willemulate their devotion, steadfastness and sacrifices to keep the ‘PT’ rolling off the press; to realize as they did that the printed word in papers like the Pacific Tribune, is a powerful weapon for peace, progress and socialism. They were indeed the ‘‘salt of the earth’’, the builders of a solid foundation upon which a progressive organization is built to stand; to meet the storms and stress of the daily struggles, torecord and rejoiceintheir victories, and gather new strength in defeat—a militant working class press— is which the ‘PT’ stands (and will stand) asa front- rank fighter. A new generation will give a good account of itself. Already youth predominates in the publication and managerial offices of Pacific Tribune. Thatitselfisa good augury for the future. The ‘PT’ itself, despite its nearly half-a- century of blazing the trail for struggle and enlightment, re- flects a new youthfulness, so important in these times of change and movement. This combination of a great fighting tradition, a wealth of experience, plus a vibrant youthful initiative, and plusa loyal and devoted readership, is impossible to beat. The monopoly press would invest a lot to get it. We haveit. We only needa mere minimum of $22,000 to hold it, and hold it we will! PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1973—PAGE 2 people of French and English Canada to stem the tide of Pr? ress.’”’ : “Barrett’s talk about Be Canada’ and refusal (along WV the Tories andB.C. Socreds)¥" recognize the existence of he French Canadian nation andt : gross inequalities an ist justices which presently eX, only worsens the situatiom Morgan stated. ‘‘Is he unawah of the fact that personal incom per head of population nat Quebec is 27 percent below ! : of neighboring Ontario, 4 that 40% of the unemploymé in Canada is in Quebec?” to ‘‘Premier Barrett will nave be made to realize that bb English-speaking Canada hee to faceup to the fact that Fret Canada isa nation. Fora man his position to mix up the ide4 a ‘nation’ with the idea ® , fuse ‘state’, serves only to con refer 0 ted, stable community of peo? formed on the basis of. : mon language, territory, °° 4) omic life, and psychology make-up manifested in a ©° mon culture.”’ “Canada is not the only Pir nation state in the world; #7 gium has its Waloons and #™, ish and Czechoslovakia he Czechs and Slovenians. ein people of Quebec, like Be: British Columbia, have now by to gain and everything to lone : separation from Canada pt ine ing presentinequalitiesa¥ ir justices are removed an an right to run their own nation ns decide their own fate }§ cognized. oath “They want to be not am ada— or they ven which they can be the "sis ity,’ he concluded. “And! be they should have the supP A ana every English-speakin8 °° ine dian, and particularly, Premier of British Columb!