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Tenants hail

court victory

The Vancouver Tenants Council has hailed the ruling
of Country Judge A. McClellan last Thursday as ‘‘the
most important development in landlord - tenant
relationships since the passing of the new provincial act

last February.”

Judge McClellan’s ruling.
declared that the organization
of tenant associations and
membership in them “‘consti-
tute attempts to secure or
enforce the legal rights of
tenants.”

In a press statement, the
Tenants Council said:

“In effect his lordship has said
that the new Act gives tenants
the legal right to organize, and
as a consequénce, considerable
legal protection against
evictions.

“(The provincial Act says that
in an eviction proceeding a
Judge may refuse to grant an
order for possession if in his
opinion the tenant is
‘“‘attempting to secure or enforce
his legal rights’’).

“Judge McClellan’s ruling was
given in County Court when he
quashed an appeal sought by
Rosenthal Holdings (owners of
the Orwell Hotel) against a June
4th decision by Judge Gerald
Levey in the Provincial Small
Claims Court.

“In the June 4th hearing Judge
Levey ruled that tenant Lewis
Williams’ actions in protesting
an illegal rent increase notice
was the real reason for his
receiving a notice to quit. Judge

Levey refused to .grant

Rosenthal an order for
possession but he sidestepped
the question of the legal right of

. tenants to organize.

“Judge McClellan in quashing
Rosenthal’s appeal also affirmed
that the new Act in effect gives
tenants the legal right to
organize.”’

Bruce Yorke, secretary of the

Vancouver Tenants Council,
said: ‘‘We feel that Judge
McClellan’s ruling is an historic
landmark for B.C.

“Tenants no longer have to
fear reprisals from landlords
because they have got together
to do something about their
grievances. We urge tenants to
form organizations, not only to
secure their legal rights but also
to establish the bargaining
strength necessary to bring
about fair rents’’, said Yorke.

Meanwhile, in connection
with the original issue that
resulted in last week’s ruling,
the Vancouver Tenants Council
announced that they will ask the
City Prosecutor to launch
proceedings against Rosenthal
Holdings,:compelling them to
return the illegal rent increase,
(approximately $5 per month,
for 6 months for 30 tenants).

COPE campaign underway
for December civic vote |

The Committee of Pro-
gressive Electors (COPE) has
nominated five more candidates
for the December 9 civic
elections. The nominations
were made at a Nominating Con-
ference held at the IWA Hall,
2859 Commercial, on September
26 with 65 COPE members in
attendance.

Nominated for city council
were Paul Sabatino, lawyer, and
Mrs. Muriel Pandia, retired
school teacher. Dennis Rankin,
UBC student, and Russel
Pedersen, architect, were
added to COPE’s school board
slate, while Karl Zuker, jeweller
and secretary of the Cassiar
Ratepayers, was nominated for
the parks board. .

Previously COPE had
nominated Harry Rankin, Bruce
Yorke and Ronald Gomez as
aldermanic candidates; Mrs.
Margaret Chunn and Paul
Mitchell for school board; and
Donald Greenwell, Ed Leong and
Sid Shelton for the parks board.

COPE announced earlier this
month that in view of the

decision of the Vancouver: NDP —

to enter half a slate of candi-
dates, it would also limit itself to
half a slate to avoid any split in
the labor and progressive vote.
COPE treasurer Jean Sheils
reported to the meeting on plans
for a $10,000 campaign fund.
Each member will be asked to
raise $25.00.A banquetanddance
in honor of alderman Harry
Rankin will be held October 30. A

ALD. HARRY RANKIN
. . . heads COPE slate.

Appeal for

Dr. J.F. Angel, president of the
Canadian - Arab Friendship
Association in Vancouver, has issued
the following appeal for aid to the
victims of the fighting in Jordan:

Invariably, the real victims of
violence are the innocent
bystanders whose only fault lies
in their physical presence at the
site of conflict. This is the case
of the estimated 10-20 thousand
casualties of the civil war in
Jordan.

The fragmentary information
published, and the eye - witness
accounts of the news— reporters
arriving in Beirut from Amman
paint a grim picture of the
‘“‘human condition’’ in that
tormented country: the wounded
and the dead lying in the streets
of Amman, refugee camps
shelled out of existence by the
Royalist heavy artillery, lack of

Arab relief launched

medical supplies . . . and the
plight of the children .. . For
those of us who still remember
the civil war in Nigeria, the
picture is frighteningly familiar.

Some may debate the longs
and the shorts of the Palestine
Question forever, and would
even try to blame. the events in
Jordan on one side of the conflict
or the other. At times like this,
however, I believe that a
wounded man is just that: a
human being in distress who
needs help, our help, regardless
of his political views.

The Canadian - Arab Friend-
ship Association in British
Columbia, a charitable - cultural
group registered in British
Columbia, as well as a number of
concerned individuals, are
presently attempting to raise
some assistance for the victims

food, water, electricity and. ‘zof the civil war in Jordan to

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provide milk for the children,
medical supplies, food and
clothing.

We appeal to our fellow

Canadians, no matter where
their political sympathies lie, to
help and support this humani-
tarian cause. : :

Donations: of any kind will be
helpful, no doubt, in alleviating
some of the misery of those who
lost their homes, and the
children who lost their families.
Kindly send donations to any of
the following:

Arab Palestine Orphans Fund,
P.O. Box 3255, Vancouver 3; or
The Palestinian Red Crescent,
c/o P.O. Box 3255, Vancouver 3;
or The Canadian Red Cross
(Mark ‘“‘Jordan Relief”’.)

The C.A.F.A. would like to
take this opportunity to express
gratitude to all those who helped
make this appeal possible.

drive to double COPE’s member-
ship is also being launched.

Bruce Yorke, chairman of the
Canvassing Committee,
reported on plans for making at
least. two canvasses'of city
homes, beginning in the middle
of October. Eighty poll captains
are being selected to organize
the canvassing and leaflet
distribution.

Publicity Director Ben
Swankey reported that an

election campaign headquarters
had been opened at the Labor
Temple, 307 West Broadway,
phone 876-8118. Leaflets for dis-
tribution to homeowners and
tenants are in preparation.
Lawn signs with the names of
candidates will be placed at
strategic locations throughout

the city. aes
“Our campaign is under way

now,’ said COPE president
See COPE, pg. 12

T he idea is slowly but surely seeping in that Canadians
may become, and in many areas have already
become a nation of landless people, a vassal nation to a foreign
overseer, a pawn to be bought and sold on the market, much as
a whore is on a city street.

The Communists first drew attention to this growing state
of affairs, this trading away of Canadian lands and resources,
many years ago, but no one paid much attention. Who worries
about what the Communists have to say — until the plain hard
facts hit themselves in the face? But eighteen out of twenty
million Canadians can’t all be wrong, the Establishment to the
contrary.

Professor Robin Matthews of Carlton University, Ottawa
told a recent gathering of the Canadian Council of Teachers in
Winnipeg last month ‘“‘that the time has come to confront
Americans, if we are going to be masters in our own house —
that the U.S. is engulfing Canada from the Arctic to the
Maritime and elsewhere, economically through subsidiaries,
socially through the media, culturally in the arts and
universities.

“Five non-Canadian faculty members are hired for every
one Canadian. We are preparing our youth, with the co-
operation of ignorant and arrogant aliens, to misunderstand
and to be contemptuous of Canada.’’ It is reported by the
Canadian Press that the Teachers Council gave Prof.
Matthews a standing ovation. Too bad they didn’t all ‘‘stand
up” years ago when this criminal bartering away of Canada
first got under way.

..Another ‘‘awakening”’ is featured in the Toronto Star of
Aug. 22/70. The Township of Longford some 80 miles north of
Toronto, close enough to Messers Robarts and Trudeau — if
they were other than dollar ‘‘patriots’’(?) has become a
“private wilderness empire, owned by a company with a
majority of U.S. directors, and populated by about 36
vacationing families, with a minimum of 1,000 acres of more
apiece,’’ U.S. families that is.

On the current maps Longford doesn’t look like much. In
reality it is situated in the heartland of Ontario’s parkland
beauty — Lake Simcoe, Muskoka, Algonquin Park, etc. Lakes,
rivers, mountain ridges abound, a vacationist’s paradise. But
on the maps ‘‘a grey mass of nothingness’’ now owned entirely
by U.S. tycoons, with homes listed as ‘‘cottages,’’ but which a
local writer describes as ‘‘a millionaire’s paradise with
mansion instead of cottages’, many having ‘“‘guest cabins’
adjoining, the equal of a good cottage.

E Pluribus Unim. Reminds us of the Irish poet Oliver
Goldsmith in his Deserted Village — only in a new U.S. dollar-
mad buccaneering age;

“Til fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulated— and men decay’’.

Then Goldsmith was writing on the ruthlessness of Kritish
“Enclosure Acts” which drove the Irish peasant from his land
and home. Today it is U.S. imperialism with its ‘‘Fifth
Column’’ Canadian Establishment, serving as a broker by
selling out or giving away this land Canadians have long been
accustomed to thinking was theirs. :

It would also seem that this U.S. grabbing of Canada’s
lands and resources is a communicable disease, common to
imperialism.

; A Japanese “‘trade mission’”’ recently visiting Ottawa, told
our alleged minister of energy, mines and resources, J.J.
Greene, that ‘Japanese companies will want a 50-percent
ownership in new Canadian mines from which they may or do
buy minerals’. ‘‘So sorry’’, but we only want a half-ownership!

So don’t clutter up Junior’s mind with all the sordid details
about Roberts Bank, the CPR, the Bennett coal sellout, etc.,
etc. Just put it to him this way, as a citizen of the Canada of
Tomorrow: If the U.S. owns 50-percent of Canada’s basic
industries, and Japan gets to own the other 50-percent — how
mush is left for Canadians?

Correct the first time — Banzai, which is Japanese for
“hurrah.”’