SHRUM’S POISON

Bert Padgham, Popkum, B.C.
Writes: Watching B.B.C.’s
Summer Hourglass a while ago I
Saw a crumb by the name of

hrum from B.C. Hydro
demonstrate ‘that DDT was a
harmless ingredient by drinking
it in front of the T.V. cameras.

€ was trying to prove that the
Spraying of this deadly poison on

Ydro’s_ right-of-way in
Squamish is harmless to
€veryone and everything.

About four years ago the Trans-
aan Oil pipeline sprayed
i fir right-of-way with this
pelly poison. Our property at
pkum is about 50 feet from the
Tight-of-way so the poison drifted
Onto our garden and ruined most
of a long row of raspberries (the
Plants just shrivelled up). I also

ad a long row of ‘‘Black-caps”’
perch I had bought from an
; Ntario Supplier, and they were

Tuined also. I had to send for new
Plants.

A number of neighbor’s
Sardens were affected too and
We did not have any comeback as
all residents adjacent to the
Pipeline had signed an easement
agreement. We hope they are
Never allowed to spray that
Polson again.

Now I would like to see our
éreat drinker Shrum drink a
aes of DDT every day before
the T.V. cameras. It would be
Interesting to watch. —

YOUNG PEOPLE

A Mother, Vancouver, Writes:
shen I saw an interesting
ni Tontation on a bus the other

ight which leads me to believe
€re is much untapped
4 Mpahty and support for unem-
aay young people who roam
€ Streets of this city.
hree boys loaded down with
packsacks, one of them carrying
: ttle pup, were deep in conver-
ation with a number of women
Passengers whom I would
Imagine had never been so close

® what our mayor chooses to
Call “hippies.”
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TED HARRIS
757 East Hastings St.
Vancouver 4, B.C.
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One boy said ““The mayor says
we can’t stay in the city, yet he
doesn’t want us to hitchhike, so
what are we supposed to do?”

A woman asked him, “Haven’t
you a home?”’ and the boy said
“sure, but they don’t want me.
They told me to get out and work
but there is no work.”

My seatmate Said, Lies: a
shame, isn’t it? The poor kids!”

One of the women told the boys
where to get off the bus so that
they would have a good chance of
getting a ride; another asked if
they had enough money to feed
themselves. The women were
interested and concerned, —
rightly so.

It is possible that there are
thousands of women, and men, in
this city who would like to give a
hand to unemployed kids if they
knew how to go about it. For too
long we have been led to believe
by politicians such as Mayor
Campbell, the chief of police,
reactionary editorialists and
others that today’s youth neither
need nor want our help and under-
standing. ©

Because there has been so

Postal workers pawns

little friendship, so little of the
helping hand held out to unem-
ployed young people they have
sometimes followed the leader-
ship of ultra-ultras who offer
them nothing but meaningless
confrontations and slogans such
as ‘‘Free the people!” and ‘‘Off
the pigs” . . . neither of them
designed to really free the people
or check police harrassment.

It would be mutually benefi-
cial if unemployed young people
and interested citizens of
Vancouver were to hold joint
meetings designed to promote a
program which would put
pressure on municipal, provin-
cial and federal governments to
provide financial assistance to
young unemployeds, and for the
provision of jobs.

Governments which take no
cognizance of the need to
provide useful work for
thousands of unemployed youth
in this country are asking for
trouble. Intelligent citizens know
that, and are willing, I believe,
to work with young people in
finding some answers.

in gov't 6% squeeze

Ottawa pictures the postal
workers as pawns in the federal
government’s campaign to
enforce 6 percent guidelines,
states the B.C. Federation of
Labor in a brochure distributed
this week.

The Federal government is in
the embarrassing position of not
being able to enforce its arbi-
trary guidelines on other
workers, so it is using postal
worker's to try to save face and
are refusing to bargain beyond
the guidelines, the Federation
says.

They point out that even with a
6 percent raise, post office

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employees would receive less
than other workers. Mail
handlers would receive only
$2.96 per hour, while a city of
Vancouver laborer presently
receives $3.23.

Letter carriers don’t receive
overtime for working more than
an 8-hour day. The Post Office
regularly hires low paid casual
help, undermining the jobs of
regular employees.

Other workers are gaining
protection against loss of jobs as
a result of automation, but the
Post Office refuses to accept an
automation protection clause,
even though technological
changes are already reducing
post office jobs.

‘The B.C. Federation of Labor
urges the public to tell the
government to quit exploiting
its own workers and to
immediately negotiate a just
settlement.

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RE-DEVELOPMENT PLANNED

Gastown meet advises
landlords of new setup

Some landlords in Gastown
have realized 30 to 40 percent net
profit on their investment,
Alderman Harry Rankin told an

audience in Gastown’s Maple

Tree park on Sunday afternoon.
He cited the case of one landlord
who owned a building with a
total assessment of $60,000 who
rented out 50 rooms with an
average rent of $50, plus a pros-
perous beer parlor on the main
floor. Rankin said there was no
excuse for raising rents on
rooms which at best could be
called slum-dwellings.

Called by the Gastown and the
Downtown Tenants Association,
the meeting is the first of a
series sponsored by the Tenants
Council to forward a campaign
for rent control and a renters
representative on the rental
grievance board, etc.

Rankin said that Gastown re-
development was compounding
the problems faced by war

veterans, old-time loggers and

fishermen who had lived in the
area for many years. Evictions
and rent increases were the
order of the day, with no provi-
sion for other accommodation.

A detoxication and a medical
centre is a must for the district,
as well as strict health inspec-
tion. He said city council must be
pressured to renovate and make
available some of the buildings
in the area as accommodation
for the residents being pushed
out by boutiques and cafes, etc.

At present malnutrition,
neglect and alcoholism
combined is causing the death of
at least one person per night in
the general skid road area. The
situation is a blot on the city.

A petition is being distributed
amongst the downtown
residents. It demands that
residential rents in the area be

frozen as of August 1, and that
evictions without cause be pro-
hibited. The district named is
bounded by Seymour, Pender,
Commercial and the waterfront.

The petition demands a
complete municipally planned
and administered re-devel-
opment of the area for both resi-
dential and commercial purposes.

Bruce Yorke chaired the
meeting.

‘Lest we forget’
HIROSHIMA

August 6, twenty-five years
ago, a United States plane
dropped the first atomic bomb
on Hiroshima and called into
being new, incalculable horrors
for mankind.

This week, on Friday, August.
7, peace lovers will carry out a
Silent Vigil to commemorate
the day, from 4p.m. to7p.m., at
the Courthouse Square.

An outstanding feature of the
ceremony will be the display of a
remarkable collection of
pictures showing the devasta-
tion that followed the first
atomic blast and its effect on the
victims of that awful day. The
photographs, never before
shown in Canada, have been
loaned by Asahi Shimbun,
Japan’s largest daily news
paper.

Sponsors of the event, Van-
couver Peace Action League,
cordially invite the public to join.
with them in this commem-:
oration, one of the main’
purposes of which is to
demonstrate the need to press
with even more determination.
for the total abolition of all
nuclear weapons.

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Sunday — August 16 — 12 noon on
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Bring a basket lunch, coffee, ice cream
‘available. Sports, fun, games & prizes

Concert Program begins at 1 P.M.

Bring your friends and enjoy the fun—
Rain or Shine. For information phone

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