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YCL urges program
for jobless youth

By JIM BEYNON

Harmful emanations from
high places have been polluting
the lower mainland recently.
The sources, the warped mouths
of big business, the unhonourable
Tom Campbell and his federal
sidekick Ray Perrault. To be a
politician plundering and
misusing public funds is
respectable, but to be a hungry,
homeless kid looking for a job is
a major crime.

Their successful attempts to
generate an atmosphere of
public hatred toward the kids in
the armory and now at Jericho is
aimed to make them the
scapegoat for all the evils of the
city, provincial and federal
governments.

The failure of a red-neck
vigilante group calling
themselves ‘‘workers’’ which
has since been denied by
organized labor is the result of
such rantings just like Hitler’s
Brown Shirts.

The Young Communist
League condemns the rantings of

- the neanderthal minds of

Campbell and Perrault with
their attacks on young people.
The criminals and negative
elements are those in the govern-
ments who disregard the basic
rights of a man to’a job and toa
happy life. There is no need for
poverty and hunger, for
Canadian kids having to hit the
road looking for a job,as in the
1930’s. Cynical politicans and
their bosses — big business —
must be forced to deal with the
real problems facing Canadians,
such as peace, jobs, housing,
medical care, pensions.

The vast profits being milked!
out of Canada by foreign owners
should be used to provide a high
living standard and jobs for
Canadians, and a future for our
youth.

Secondary industries must be
built to utilize raw materials
which are now being exported;
steel mills, petro - chemical
industry, wood processing, etc.

The educational system should
be expanded and developed to
provide comprehensive educa-
tion and training for young
people and all those needing it in
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a balanced economy, and a living
allowance for those taking the
courses.

A proper system of hostels and
housing should be built across
Canada to provide decent shelter
for people including beds,
blankets, sheets, sanitary
facilities with showers and a
place to wash clothes, hot meals,
medical and recreational
facilities. :

The Young Communist League
calls upon all Canadians to fight
for a happy future and not to be

‘mislead by would-be emperors

such as Perrault and Campbell
who seek to have us fighting
amongst ourselves and not at the
main enemy-of the Canadian
people — big business — which
thrives on unemployment,
poverty and misery.

Tenants fight
eviction case

Vancouver Tenants Council,
the only organization in the city
which concerns itself with the
rights—of-citizens-who must pay
rent to keep a roof over their
heads, is now facing a struggle in
another field — that of an elderly
citizen in a Senior Citizens
Home.

The residents involved in the
latest struggle is the Icelandic
Old Folks Home on Harrison
Drive,- where notice of rent
increases to 71 tenants was given
last May 29.

* Resident Edward Gee, close to
80 years of age, contacted the
Tenants Council for advice.
When told that under terms of
the Landlord and Tenant Act
three months notice of rent
increase was required, he
proceeded to organize his fellow
tenants into an association
which protested the increase.

Using a fire in his room (there
had previously been other fires
in tenants rooms with no notice
to evict) Mr. Gee was in June
given notice to quit the
premises, which he refused to
do, feeling that his efforts on
behalf of the tenants were the
real reason for the notice. A
court action has been launched
against him.

The Vancouver Tenants
Council will appeal the decision
in County Court. This is an
important case, for senior
citizens are involved, and anyone
who wishes to contribute to
defray costs of the action are
asked to send help to the council

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970—PAGE 2

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

The spectacle of our million-
aire mayor Tom Campbell trying
to whip up public hysteria
against a few hundred homeless
and jobless kids being moved
from a hostel in the Beatty
Street Armory to a new hostel at
the old Jericho army barracks is
more than shameful.

And to refer to a government
operated youth hostel as a
brothel and to refer to these
young people as thieves, as
mayor Campbell ‘did last week,
is to strike a new low even for
him.

It’s the act of a political
charlatan and demagogue,
looking for cheap votes by the
dangerous method of arousing
bigotry and prejudice.
Personally, I’ve always been a
bit suspicious of sanctimonious
individuals who set themselves
up as judges of public morals.

By centering attention on the
expenditure of a few thousand
dollars on needy young people,
mayor Campbell hopes to divert

‘attention from the million dollar

handouts his administration has
been giving to big developers and
promoters.

The real issue as far as these
young people are concerned is
jobs. The fact is that jobs could
be created for them, and for all
unemployed in B.C. and Canada,
if our senior governments took
just two steps.

The first would be for the pro-
vincial government to take the
initiative in establishing
industries in B.C: to process our
raw materials instead of
shipping them out of the country.
We ship our iron ore to Japan
and then import steel and manu-
factured goods from that

country. Why can’t we have a .

smelter right here in B.C.? A
steel mill in our province would
attract scores of other
industries. Our economy would
boom. Thousands of new Jobs:
would be created. --

A second step to provide jobs,
and this one should be taken. by
Ottawa, would be to end the
special tax concessions and

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We just feel you're not making it
boring enough.”

‘A MILLION NEW JOBS”

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subsidies to big corporations—

and cut out wasteful defence
expenditures. Recently Ottawa
bought and equipped an aircraft
carrier for $50 million. Now the
government has sold it as scrap

for $750,000. Also $138 million:

was spent on new jet fighters
that are going straight from the

“assembly line into mothballs.

That’s how our money is being
wasted by Ottawa.

At a time when we have half a
million jobless, a severe housing
shortage and galloping infla-
tion, Ottawa continues to pour
$1.8 billion a year down the drain
on so-called defence expendi-
tures. Canadians need defence

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spending.-Think of what could be
done if the $2.5 to $3 billion now
wasted annually on subsidies,
tax concessions and wasteful
defence expenditures were used
instead for housing, or to build a
Canadian merchant marine OF
to provide senior citizens. with
decent pensions?

But our mayor and his
Establishment backers say
nothing about this. They never
become indignant about
handouts in the millions to big
business; they are only
outraged, or pretend to be, when
a few thousand are spent on
jobless youth. This is what you
call political hypocrisy. Our
mayor thrives on it.

against this kind of ‘‘defence’’

M228 a gregarious animal with a strong herd in-

stinct, builds himself large cities, then sees only
what he has built, rather than what a city really is. There are
some few rare exceptions of course, but in the main real estate
has priority over human life.

Take for instance a current Establishment-inspired -
campaign urging upon all its citizens to ‘Love Vancouver’,
with numerous carbon copies of a similar maudlin hogwash
advocated for other metropolitan centers.

There will be many skeptics, especially with a civic
election in the offing, if ‘Love Vancouver”’ includes that NPA
real-estate cabal at City Hall, most of whom only a mother
could love— at great sacrifice to herself.

A city is people — hundreds of thousands or millions of
them, living together in a more-or-less tightly-packed
community, much like human sardines in a can.

People, not cold stone, cement and steel, are the real city.
Take people out ofa city, and what remains? A dead
monument to the abyssmal ignorance, the greed, cruelty and
rapaciousness of Homo Sapiens.

Remember that shot from On The Beach, depicting the
culmination of a nuclear science on how to destroy people
without disturbing any real estate; all city structures intact—
only the real city, the-people blotted out. A nice horror thriller
to. send cold chills down the spine, immoral and criminal to the

_nth degree— but sufficient to underscore just what the political

seals of ‘‘free enterprise’’ mean when they sound-off with their
“Love Vancouver”’ claptrap.

The beauty and lovability of Vancouver — or any other city
for that matter, is its people, not its masonry, or its natural
surroundings, (and remember we, the superior ‘‘white man”
have already done a fair-sized job in polluting, bartering away,
and/or desecrating these — in many areas already beyond the
point of no return.

Take a walk down your favorite city street sometime and
just watch the people pass, (which comparatively few people
ever do). There one can see, even. among those window-
shopping, color, annimation, life. The expoiters and the
exploited, the aged and the youth, the ‘“‘derelict’’ and the
substantial citizen’’, the virtuous and the not-so-virtuous, the
real-estate shark, and those who by necessity violate ‘‘the
majestic equality of the law’’ by sleeping on park benches or
under bridges, to quote the immortal Anatole France.

Yes, in our advanced and comfortable ‘‘civilization’’ (for the
few) we have invented classifications and definitions covering
all segments of the people, from the ‘“‘haves to the have-nots”’
and in between. Thus, without malice aforethought, as the
lawyer boys say, one must include Vancouver’s versatile
“Terrific Tom” in this “‘Love Vancouver’”’ binge.

Even our erstwhile unofficial and highly sophisticated”
“Town Fool’? Foickus would readily admit that he held no
menopoly on civic foolery. The basic difference between the
two was that Foickus helped laugh at themselves, which is
always a healthy pastime, while all ‘‘Terrific Tom’’ manages
is a horse laugh at himself, from the people. A poor return on
the high cost of chief magistrates.° :

People, that's what makes a city, beautiful, lowables
versatile and living — not a mass of steel and concrete, erected’
to the greater glory and prestige of a MacMillan by a
MacMillan.

As my revered teacher, guide and comrade, Georgi

_Dimitroy once said, ; ; civilizations pass, aw ay, but, the people

remain