“And does my client look the type of man who would be carrying a razor in his inside pocket?” EDITORIAL Socred ‘miracle’ man t doesn’t happen too often in real life, especially down among the ‘‘lower orders’ but it can happen the thrill of “‘discovering’” that the one solitary dollar in your jeans turns out to be a twenty-dollar bill! ..Just last. week this ‘‘miracle’’ happened to ‘prime minister’ W.A.C.' Bennett, who also happens to be B.C. Minister of Finance, when he “‘discovered’’ that the $691,000 budgetary cash surplus he “‘thought’’ he had, turned out to be a cool bundle of $39 million? “‘Some book-keeper’’ Ah, yes, and how! Verily the old biblical adage applies in this particular instance, viz, ‘‘to him that hath, more shall be given, while he that hath not (mostly the well-fleeced taxpayer ) even that shall be taken away”! In his dual capacity as premier and finance wizard WAC has produced many such ‘miracles’ during his sixteen years tenure of office, many perhaps not quite of the same magniture as this latest one, but all designed to project and perpetuate Social Credit as a permanent political way-of-life for British Columbia. as The formula for performing such ‘‘miracles’’ is simplicity say the public ’cow) for all the traffic will bear, funnel the proceeds into the financial Houdini’s exclusive departmental accounting machine — then get ready to be propagandized, brain-washed, enticed, cajoled— even bribed— with your own money; all to the accompaniment of a brazen line of political chatter— plus a winning ‘come-on’ smile! But the ‘‘miracle’’ doesn’t end there. Come election time— or WAC’s pre-election rehearsal campaign now in full swing, even before such an event is officially announced, a ‘‘miracle”’ of such proportions makes doubly sure that the diety performing such feats has a head-start on his less ‘‘blessed”’ contenders! Needless to say also, the Bennett ‘“‘miracle’’ touch has a very beneficial and reassuring effect upon big business monopoly; those realists who depend upon the exploitation, toil and sweat of working people to fill their profit balance sheets rather than on ‘“‘miracles’’, but who benefit greatly from all such financial sorcery and chicanery from one of their own kind! Space does not permit delving into all the fiscal details which enabled Bennett to perform this latest ‘‘miracle’’. It is important to note however, that the ‘‘miracle’”’ also is designed to impress New York money-lenders with B.C.’s ‘‘double-AA”’ fiscal rating, so that these usurers may be assured that the “sky’s the limit’’ as far as ‘‘Beautiful British Columbia’’ is concerned — that is at least until the people of B.C. have dispensed with Socred ‘“‘miracle’’ workers— for good! The Bennett ‘‘miracle’’ however, has cleared up a lot of questions for a lot of people as to why there is ‘‘no money”’ for needed health, educational and numerous other social services — those things the people are taxed for— but do not receive. Bennett needs the dough — not what he ‘‘thought’’ he had but what he knew he had for ace-in-the-hole pre-election handouts — essential preliminaries to the performance of another ‘‘miracle.”’ itself; milk the middle and lower taxpayer (we were going to, -be™ = = PSs Sa e g%e .Pacitic “be Editor—TOM McEWEN — Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year. ; al Tribune ‘West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune Let Council hear your views— Landlord and Tenant Board to curb rent profiteering By ALD. HARRY RANKIN Last Tuesday at City Council I put forward the following resolu- tion, which I hope will be debated on Tuesday, July 15, 1969, and on following days. Iam sure Council would like to hear from people on their reaction to a by-law of this sort. Let us hear your comments and suggestions on this by-law. Keep in mind that your ‘participation in _ this decision is of vital importance. Resolution That the Vancouver City Council provide for the establish- ment of a Vancouver Landlord and Tenant Board and that the Council pass the following draft By-law with any amendments or alterations that may be necessary made by Corporation Counsel: e Under the powers accorded to Vancouver City Council under provisions of the Rent Control Act 1954, Ch. 34, Sec. 1, we hereby enact the following by law. e The appointment by Council of a three-member Landlord Tenant Board to hear representa- tions from aggrieved parties dealing with rents and rental conditions in residential dwellings. e Term of office for the Board shall be three years. e Appointees shall be either tenants or home-owners resident in the City of Vancouver for the previous two years prior to appointment and by occupation and experience likely to be conversant with the problems involved. e One member of the Board shall be designated by the Council:as the Chairman. e Remuneration for Board members ehall be $35 a day for the chairman and $25 per day for the other members (per day to include any part of same. e The Board by regulation will set out procedures by which aggrieved parties can launch appeals with the Board and the manner of giving of notices 04 parties concerned. : oe e The Board shall rende binding decisions on . Me following matters — notice ° rent increase, notice ue termination by the landlord an® justifiable reasons for same ; notice of termination by * — tenant, level of service 4 maintenance to be provided: ~ “deposits”, and the condition fo" inspection of rental accom ~ modation by the landlord. e The Board may render no binding awards — publishable PY the Vancouver City Council— the question of monthly rentals. e On the matter of staff, amd other administrative problem the eboard be given power to a€ within a budget set and approve by Council. : ‘e That the summatt a Convictions Act be applicable ™ ~ any violations of the said By-law: ‘We have won’ three Viet | women tell city audience By MABEL RICHARDS “We don’t ask the United States military to ‘capitulate’; we only demand that they withdraw their forces to preserve the lives of our people and young Americans. Once troops are withdrawn, peace will restored and_ national conciliation and concorde will follow.” This was the key issue which three Vietnamese women who visited Vancouver last week stressed again and again. During a public meeting in the Queen Elizabeth theatre, and in the course of a two day conference of Canadian and American people sponsored by the Voice of Women, Mme. Vo Thi The; Mme Nguyen Ngoc Dung and Mme. Li Thi Cao made it clear that other considerations were secondary to the need for U.S. troop withdrawal from their country. Nearly 700 people packed the theatre for the meeting which the tiny, sweet-faced women addressed. Madame Nguyen-Ngoc Dung is an assistant to Madame Thi Binh, foreign minister in the new Provisional Revolutionary government set up in South Vietnam, and is_ presently stationed in Paris for the ‘peace’ talks. ; She told the audience that President Nixon is escalating the war. Nearly 3 million tons of bombs had been dumped on her land — about a quarter the area of B.C., and recently the raids had been stepped up to some 21,000 per day. “Yet,” she said, ‘‘we have liberated one village after another, and now four-fifths of our country has been liberated.” Madame Vo Thi The is a young U.S. professor of literature at the University of Hanoi. Through her interpreter she told the audience that the women of Vietnam have a very simple aspiration. It is to live in happiness with their families. “To do this’, she said, ‘“‘we must stop the bloody plans of the U.S. aggressors. We_ still consider the’ American people our friends, and we believe that they will not allow the U.S. militarists to continue to enrich themselves upon the blood of our two populations!”’ Slight, delicate appearing Madame Le Thi Cao, a teacher and a leader in the National Liberation Front, said that women had no choice but to fight by any means to rid their country of the aggressor. “Women have stood before tanks, have encircled heli- copters. Even the G.I.’s are afraid of the ‘long-hair’ army,”’ she told the cheering audience. The deputy commander of the South Vietnam Liberation army is a woman, she said, and there are two women cabinet ministers in the new Provisional Revolutionary government. “Self-determination for the Vietnamese people is all we demand! Besides our determina- tion, we know also we have your support!”’ } A dramatic highlight of the meeting was the moment when a soldier, wearing uniform and battle colors, stepped on to the stage and presented the visitors with flowers. “We have taken life and beauty from your people,’ he said. ‘“‘The United States has made a mistake for which they can never be forgiven. Long live . am North Vietnam! Long livé united Vietnam!”’ d The audience rose cae cheered, and_ the ee Vietnamese women Wee forward to warmly shake by ye hand. Afterwards, in the 10?) the young soldier.was heal® , — say, ‘‘I can never go back nove On the platform with pe officials and the Vietnam in visitors were several 4s 5 quished guests from the U.S: 4 a Canada. They included Mal aad Reynolds, the famous folk sine ll who presented some deligh satirical songs; James é Minifee, author and broadcas ‘i Dr. E.W. Pfeiffer, scientish #19 Ken Kirkpatrick, fF Am American Friends Service ~ wh mittee, as well as well- we Vancouver personages: American peace fithers. BC Dean Helen McRae of U-™ chaired the meeting. _ ane ™ er. ‘Just give us the tools, finish the job’