GIVE THEM ‘CAKE’

John Tanche, White Rock,
-C., writes:— This is the cake.
Says the tract received through
€ mail from the Federal

Government.

If the price has gone up don’t
uy the article, it has gone up
ecause wages and salaries have

gone up’? . . . This causes

Inflation and loss of jobs”. . .
Of all absurdities this is the

Cake. Inflation has in the past
lstory been caused through war

pending, even the governor of

ae Bank of Canada finally
ames inflation as the cause of
the Vietnam war.”’

_The American war of

mependance inflation jumped

(

Bee first World War caused
3 ation to jump 122%. The
second World War inflation took
\ts toll. The Korean War was
at of a rise in inflation of
‘1%. The Vietnamese war like-
Wise is putting the skids on the
American economy and since
We are a satellite of the Ameri-
can economy we are skidding
With it since we are the pur-
Chaser of 50% of its inflated
800ds, and so is our interest rate
Which has doubled and which we
Pay the U.S.A. when we borrow
from Wall Street, that’s why our
hospitals, schools, housing are in
Such lamentable situations.

It is more profitable for the
financial interests to be engaged
jm infermal machines of destruc-

tion and horror than peacetime
Construction.

The U.S. own construction of
Peaceful development are gone
to hell, and our own Canadian
Counterpart is following in the
footsteps. Even if the dollar has
8ained lately in Canada it means
Very little if we continue to be a
barnacle on the American ship,
a much better way would be to

FOUL

Cont. from pg. 2
hundreds of thousands of
Workers today excluded, such as
agricultural laborers, students
Out of work, part time workers,
Civil servants such as B.C.
government employees, etc.

This would admittedly take a
much larger unemployment
insurance fund. But such funds
Would be quickly available if the
government ended its subsidies
and tax concessions to special
Interests such as the CPR,
Mining and oil companies; if it
cut its wasteful defence expendi-

tures which amount to $1800
million a year; if it instituted a
Capital gains tax on the wealthy.

It Pays
to Sell
the ‘PT’

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get detached if we had any brain,
but as long as we get such absur-
dities from our government
there is little possibilities until
we get educated as to where we
are going.

A magazine calling itself The
Plain Truth has this to say even
if it is printed in California
under the title of “Is America
Losing the Battle for Economic
Survival has this to say... - The
US. in 1949 had 73% of the gold
reserve or almost 25 billion
dollars. By 1970 it had dwindled
down to 11.9 billion dollars end of
quote, the war in Vietnam is

really putting a krinkle in their _

economy.

The killing of the two last
world wars had really paid off
well for the U.S.A. however
when the American Military
Industrial Complex thought they
could continue the same ver-
sion in Vietnam the story took
another turn, they were not
receiving any gilt-edge mort-
gage w/th good interest rates
from foreign countries it was
their own resources and credits
that took the brunt, and some of
their own capitalists are
becoming alarmed, those who
are not in the take-home pay.
This is something like the goose
who laid the golden egg.

If we had men in the Canadian
government who would tell you
authentic happenings and their
causes the public could make its
choice, but when we read that
wages are the cause of inflation,
as government authority well
that’s too much. One may well
ask himself why did all members
of parliament both provincial
and federal raise their wages if
by doing so they are causing infla
tion. If they did earnestly believe
cannard that labor is responsible
sheer hypocrisy, to ask from
others what you do not want for
yourself, perhaps this is what
we call good business ethics,
deep within as we can’t get used
to it.

Also a case in point last year
corporate profits have gone up
by twenty per cent, of course this
is not called inflation, but when
wages are trying to keep up
inflation caused by corporate

profits .. . brother then that’s

inflation.
How long will these lies be
accepted as gospel truths?

NOT MINI-PRICES!

A ‘Consumer’ Vancouver, B.C.
writes:— Prime Minister
Trudeau continues to spout the
cannard that labor is responsi-
ble for high prices.

I wonder how he would explain

the $13.00 price tag on my.

daughter Sally’s skirt?

It is a sleazy pinwale corduroy
mini-skirt. We measured it, and
there is less than a vard of
material in it.

The material retails in
Simpson Sears for. $1.69 a yard.
There is one seven-inch zipper,
two tabs, a yoke, a front and
back, entailing eight seams in
the whole garment.

It was manufactured in
Montreal, where garment
workers are notoriously under-
paid on a piece work basis. One
of them told us that the labor on
the skirt would work out ata cost
of perhaps 20 cents. The cutter
would machine-cut dozens at a
time, the skirt would be sewn on
an assembly line basis, with
dozens of them turned out in a
hour.

The garment worker said the

material would cost the manufac-

turer not more than 69 cents a
yard. Labor: 20 cents; materials
69 cents equals 89 cents.

Add a few cents to get the skirt
to an outlet, even on the west
coast. Add a few cents more for
the wages of the underpaid girl
who sold the skirt.

Labor responsible for the price
of that sleazy bit of a mini-skirt?

Mr. Trudeau, I don’t believe
you.

Many prison deaths

demand public inquiry

The sudden death of an inmate
in one of B.C.’s penal insti-
tutions is not new and it is not
news.

It is news when inmates risk
tear gas, water hoses and riot
guns to protest the death of one
of their number as ‘they did at the
B.C. Penitentiary last week.

The inmates claim their fellow
prisoner was ‘“‘murdered’’,
according to press reports. The
warden of the penitentiary, Eric
Atkins, says a coroner’s jury
found that prisoner Walton Brass
had died from a ‘‘massive
cerebral hemorrhage.’’ He said
also that Brass’s ailment was
one ‘“‘he had apparently had for
years.”

“The Vancouver Sun reported
that Brass had spent the bulk of
his time in the B.C. Pentiten-
tiary in “segregation,” meaning

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a hole about 8 foot square
without a cot in it.

It is idle to speculate as to
what brought on the “massive
cerebral hemorrhage’’ that
allegedly caused the death of this
young man. It is not idle to
wonder why a man who was
known to suffer from a‘ malfor-
mation of a major blood vessel in
his brain” should be kept in the
Hole.

A penitentiary service board of
inquiry will look into the cause of
this latest mass prison protest.
Who is on that board? Will the
Federal Committee which is
investigationg prison condi-
tions in Canada be looking into
this particular case?

There are many questions
being asked now by citizens of a
society which is usually not
prone to worry too much over
the welfare of prisoners. They
want to know why a man who
suffered from brain damage was
kept in solitary confinement, and
exactly why his death was so dis-
turbing to the other inmates.

NPA MORONS ‘SOLVE’

ISSUES BY LOW TRICKERY

City council voted 8-3 to reject
requests for reforms of the Land-

lord-Tenants Grievance Board
when a delegation from the Van-
couver Tenants Council
appeared before them on August
4

‘Despite the fact Alderman

Harry Rankin had given notice of:

motion regarding the Tenants
Councils requests: two weeks
prior, Alderman Adams and the
NPA aldermen, along with
Brian Calder, voted to take no
action on the representations
until after December, thereby
ruling out any discussion on
Rankin’s specific motions.

Bruce Yorke, secretary of the
tenants group and a COPE alder-
manic candidate in the
December elections, said the
NPA action was a ‘‘cheap parlia-
mentary trick.”

He said before the board held
any hearings, as far back as last
December, the Tenants Council
had asked them to adopt the
procedures outlined in their
submission, but city council
refused.

The board chairman is Orson
Banfield, a retired insurance
executive; Reginald Rose, a
former manager of the Board of
Trade, and Mrs. Theresa
Galloway, whose husband is
president of Paramount
Construction.

Specific requests in the
Tenants Council’s submission

included the following reforms:
A tenants representative on the
Grievance Board; night sessions
of the board; advanced public
knowledge of cases before the
board; published reasons for
decisions; correction of
improper and biased infor-
mation coming from the
grievance board and its staff.
The Council asked for night

sessions of the board because.

many tenants cannot get off
work during the day to attend the
hearings. Advance public infor-
mation on cases coming before
the grievance board is necessary
in order to provide advance
counsel, Yorke explains. Pub-
lished reasons for decisions of
the board are imperative if any
objective basis for judging the
fairness of the decisions are to
be made.

Yorke states that there have
been cases where the grievance
board has given improper and
biased information. In some

instances, tenants inquiring

about bringing a grievance to the
board have been advised to drop

» the idea.

The new provincial act gov-
erning rental hikes, Yorke says,
implies that there can be no
more than one hike per year, yet
members of the board have
allegedly given the advice that
only three months notice of a
rent increase after one years
occupancy is necessary.

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