” UNEMPLOYMENT BUREAU “Back again! What’s the trouble this time?” | | the membership of: SAE NE I HE NILE SR NS IB EPIL SEASON'S GREETINGS _ To all our friends who helped make our 50th year rich in successes For continuing growth in 1974 The Young Communist League 5 BAS SALES I ES OI BES EAS EA HK SAX ON Bre PRO BK CS Bee Bes F IR BAS PAN SES RRO BAS EA ERS BS CAS BRK BAS CAN CRY OX AX BE BD Season’s Greetings and Warm Wishes for a New Year of Progress towards. our B.C. PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE OMMUNIST PARTY of CANADA 408 — 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver V6A 1N7 % BS SERRE BS PRS ESE CAS PSS BES CASES BE OOS BOY BAN PANE OK CAS. _McEWEN f Joe Doakes were to swallow all of today’s high-pressure expertise pablum in one gulp, the dose would be fatal. It follows that all such expert baloney must be fed to him well chewed over and often; pre-digested so to speak, in order that his proletarian stomach can absorb the mess over the course of a long- range treatment. Fatalities are thereby reduced to a max- imum, which, in the expertise of Establishment calculations, become the minimum. A bit confusing, but that is the specific purpose and aim of the expert when dealing with the end results of capitalist-promoted crises. Like the good Madame Plumptre that’s what he (or she) draws a fat (uninflationary) salary for. When the experts get onto the subject of Joe Doakes’ chronic joblessness, the result is like something out of the Arabian Nights; Joe finds that his joblesness has risen sharply over the -“‘same time last year’, but after in- umerable large helpings of “seasonal adjustments’ have been thrown in like nuts in a fruit cake, his jobless status is away down. To the professional expertise Newton’s laws of gravity, on the ups and downs of things, don’t mean a damn thing. His job is merely to provide the grist which one Establishment mill will grind out until Joe’s transforma- tion is complete — from a permanently jobless worker to a destitute “‘welfare”’ recipient. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1973—PAGE 2 Development proposals | for UBC endowment lands By Ald. HARRY RANKIN The announcement by the provincial government that it in- tends to proceed with the develop- ment of the University of B.C. En- dowment Lands has generated a good deal of public discussion, not to mention rumors and specula- tion. Involved are 1,700 choice acres adjacent to both Vancouver and the university. As I see it, there are three major concepts to be considered: (a) How much of the land should be used for housing, and how much for parks. (b) What mixture of various types of housing would be best suited for the area. (c) What will be the transporta- tion needs arising out of the development. On these concepts I would like to make the following observations: I think that 1,000 of the 1,700 acres should be given over for one major park. All the land selected doesn’t necessarily have to be in one piece but it should be in- tegrated as one park. Land selected should certainly include the best timbered lands in the area. This leaves 700 acres for housing and other developments. Now I know that some people may take the simplistic view that it should all be divided up into conventional 50 by 120 foot lots for individual houses. This approach would not only limit the number of people, it would also confine the area to mid- dle and higher income groups. I think we should kiss that con- cept goodbye as being unsuitable for our needs. ,, I would say that there shouldn’t be any single family dwellings, but I do feel strongly that the main emphasis should be on mixed hous- ing, that is, on medium rise apart- ment buildings, condominiums, etc. I would like to se multiple dwellings of the type that would provide as much housing in these 700 acres as would 1,700 acres of single family homes. Who would live in this housing complex? My idea would be to make it a University Village, with priority given to those who study or work at the university. This would include students, professors, others on the teaching staff, stenographers, technicians, mechanics and all. others working at the university in ~ one capacity or another. Naturally the rents charged should be related to the incomes of these various groups. I think that some senior citizens housing should also be included in the complex. "That raises the whole question of ‘transportation. At present thousands of people cross our city every day going to and from the uni9versity. They come from North and West Van- couver, Richmond, Delta, Bur- naby, New Westminster, Surrey and even further up the Valley. For the municipalities concerned it ‘means a big bill for road and street ‘maintenance; for the individual people concerned it means big car expense bills. This traffic problem can be met in part by providing residence on the University Endowment lands ‘for many of the people who study and work there. But even more im- portant is the need to provide good public transit to and from the un- _ iversity from all parts.of the Lower Mainland. Rapid transit, express buses, conventional buses, — they should all be used to provide an integrated transportation system that moves people quickly, efficiently and at low fares. ‘ Obviously the developments I have proposed would also make some commercial developments necessary on the Endowment Lands, but I think they should be limited to the smaller type of shops that are able to provide some of the everyday needs and services for people. I don’t think we want any big shopping centre plaza type development. These are my ideas for the development of the University En- dowment Lands. I think everyone should express their opinion. This is one development that should meet the needs of the people, not the narrow interests of private developers. ANNOUNCEMENT Weather conditions prevented our national pages from arriving on time for this week’s issue of the PT. In their place we are using 5 j : 5 ‘: goal of security, Peace and Socialism ¥ : 4 5 ¥ ¥ lolesececetecenaceteretetetetatetetetetetete! sceneeegenee! PNG SE SG SEIS NGI SESE SBI PES And don’t forget to celebrate Joe’s expertise ““eman- cipation”’ with this week’s Human Rights Week. There are still three quarters of a million of him in Canada denied the right of a job.! Then there is the problem of inflation which, like. the ‘poor, we are said to “have always with us” and which provide the experts with a vast amount of Establishment pap to get their pablum molars into. Already this highly remunerated expertise has listed a large number of “‘basic facts” (their own) as to what infla- tion is, does, and doesn’t do. If a trade union goes after an extra dime per hour for its members, that is “highly inflationary”. But if a powerful monopoly or corporation increases its annual profit take in "73 by anywhere from ten.4o thirty million bucks or over, that is not inflationary, merely “good business enterprise. If however the local dogcatcher thinks he should have a few more bucks for chasing a stray Fido around the block such a request is not only highly inflationary according to the ex- perts, but a demonstration of ‘“‘poor citizenship” to boot. On the other hand should any political yahoo or group of the same at any and all levels of Establishment administra- . tion, not excluding the socalled “socialist” level, vote themselves a substantial salary hike for their service to the public, such a pay boost is not considered to be inflation or inflationary. It all depends on how close one is to the public pork barrel. It would appear therefore from all the evidence collected (also at the public expense) by this Establishment exper- tise, that since monopoly profiteering, prices gouging, cor- We pledge all our efforts in the New Year towards the brotherhood of men; to be realized through the United front for Peace and Socialism. SURREY CLUB Communist Party of Canada SESE three feature pagesfromtheU.S. ~ Daily World, towhomweexpress . our thanks. : SEASON’S GREETINGS AND : ! § B Ry N ; Best Wishes for many more triumphs $ for Peace, Canadian x yi dependence & Socialism 2 5 in 1974 S ¥ Mona & Nigel Morgan ¥ porate ripoffs, salary hikes, etc, to say nothing of ‘peace time’’ war expenditures”’ running into the billions, that all or most of the above does not constitute inflation; only the — extra dime in Joe Doake’s pay envelope does that — if he is lucky enough to have one. From all this expertise a larger question directly emerges. Since Joe doesn’t really own a damn thing except his ability to reproduce his kind and his labor power by hand or brain, which he must sell in order to survive at all, it should be obvious to all but the hired professional expertise that the basic elements of inflation do not and can not derive from Joe’s very limited “‘market’’ scope. To the corporate magnate, Joe is a commodity to be bought or disposed of as the profit indices warrant, and to hell with inflation — as _long as they can load it onto Joe. In the era when Joe wasn’t exactly a ‘‘freeman’’ as evidenced by a century of struggle for the right of union organization and collective bargaining, the slave owners of the American Deep South were also having their periods of inflation. Chattel slavery, like wage slavery, was getting too expensive in their massive and highly profitable cotton production, and as today, they sought to put the bulk of the blame on the chattel slave as they now do on largely dis- possessed wage workers. Time marches on, and if we would free ourselves of the evils of inflation, we must first of all clean out the ~ monopolist profiteer and all his breed, including the Establishment “‘expert’’ who concocts collosal illusions to’ perpetuate a collosal stupidity — viz, profiteering by infla- tion. SOS SSS SR