New era — new deal

he 28th Legislature of British Columbia is schedulec
to open January 26th, Its first session, to be held in
New Westminster, will mark the centennial of Vancouver
Island’s joining with B,C, It will also mark the Centennial

of Canadian Confederation, 1867, which British Columbia joined

in 1871, All together an historic Legislature,

While it may be too early to speculate just what legislation

the returned Bennett government may have in mind, past perfor-
mances are not a happy augury for the future. It is however
not too early for organized labor to declare what it wants, and
- since “Labor only wants for itself whatit wants for the people”
—because it is “The People”, to begin mobilizing its full
demonstrative, economic and political strength to win its im-
mediate demands now!

Top among these include an annulment of all repressive
and restrictive labor legislation enacted by pastSocred regimes
in the B.C, Legislature. The outlawing of all “legal” edicts
which permit or allow the granting of exparte court injunctions
against working men and women involved on labor-management
disputes, and.the prompt freeing of all workers now serving
prison terms — or who may face prison terms as a result
of such injunctions,

The enactment of legislation which shall hold inviolate the
right to strike and picket, free from government, judicial, or
police interference, Coupled with this the right of all govern-
ment or civil service employees to collective bargaining, and

these legislative

rising prices and living costs.

to withhold their labor services, if necessary.

These are only a few of labor’s demands, the most basic
and elementary which should be placed before this centennial-
year Legislature at its first session, Labor must be freed of
dog-collars,
decades of a century ago, buthavenoplace today in a so-called
enlightened society celebrating its first centennial,

To achieve these goals labor must regain its fighting elan;
return to a united and militant “stand-up” struggle against
any and all forms of government — monopoly repression, be
it an illegal exparte court injunction involving thousands — or
the case of one discriminated-against worker.

Whether the four imprisoned anti-injunction labor leaders
are freed or not before the 28th Legislature opens, labor should
have a monster lobby in attendance — to voice its demands
based upon a century of experience,

Another issue the new legislature should give prior attention
to affecting the wellbeing of Labor and the people, is the setting
up of commissions, similar to that now introduced by the three
prairie provinces in co-operation, to tackle the problem of

popularly used in the first

Mc EWEN

CBC President J, Alphonse Oui-
met described it as “a mistake!’’

ith so many “virtuous”
W Tories of the Munsinger
era literally busting a *moral”
gut to put the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation (CBC) under:
a rigid form of censorship, one
must be careful in voicing criti-
cism of CBC-TV programming,
lest he (or she) be labelled as
one of the “moral” herd,

: There is little doubt that the

November 27 CBC-TV program
Sunday was a bit far out for the
average Canadian viewer, This
strip of film, allegedly a British
production, showed a youthful
Adam,.and Eve (and just as naked):
in bed, discussing some of the
finer points of sex. Undoubtedly

a most favorable locale for such |

a discussion, In Merrie England
the theme scarcely caused a
ripple of protest, probably due to

the fact that BBC audiences are
- more sophisticated than we here

_ in Canada.

Following the general uproar
(mostly Tory) following that par-
ticular Sunday CBC-TV program,

Ever since his dictatorial
blackout of one of CBC’s highest
rated programs, This Hour Has
Seven Days, and for which its
Sunday program is projectedasa
substitute, and a miserably poor
one at that, this writer together

_ with thousands of Canadians have

regarded CBC President J. Al-
phonse Ouimet in his present
CBC capacity as also being ‘‘a
mistake’? and a most costly one
to Canadian taxpayers in dol-
lars — and in CBC-TV program
content,

In his defense of Sunday and
its dubious illustrated theme of
six education, M, Ouimet pleaded
to give Sunday a chance to get
established, to get its bearings,
That is a good suggestion pro-
vided Sunday producers can raise
their sights, from the bedroom
keyhole, and from yogified poets
who recite odes to their mothers,
well spiced with the poetic
language most popular by
“Gentlemen” washroom poets,

JAMES MacFARLAN

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DONALD “DUSTY” GREENWELL, inde-
pendent candidate for Vancouver
Parks Board, has called for larger per
capital grants from Federal and Pro-
vincial governments for recreation.
He is also urging equal treatment for
East End communities. Greenwell is a
World War 2 veteran and President
of the Metropolitan Community Coun-
cil. He lives in Hastings East.

Tastes differ of course as to
what constitutes good TV pro-
gramming, but there is a wide-
spread and growing opinion that
CBC-TV programs have gone —
and are steadily going from bad
to worse, with Sunday just about
hitting the bottom of the “cultur-
al” barrel,

Add to all that the daily spill-
over pollution of the U.S, “kultur”
factories which serve as the bulk
of CBC-TV presentations and a
sorry mess emerges indeed: to-
tally obscuring the two percent
or so of CBC-TV productions
which render a valuable educa-
tional and cultural service to
Canadians, as wellas illustrating
a much greater potential, Truly,
to parody an old Churchillian
cliche, ‘‘never have so many paid
so much for so little,”

What -CBC-TV needs is not
government or Tory-inspired
censorship, an evil which would
far outstrip the evilsnow dogging
the CBC, but an administration
with its finger upon the pulse of
a growing and dynamic Canada,
heeding the beat of the pulse by
the selection and encouragement
of program producers who can
give it a full and inspiring ex-
pression.

To accomplish this, areal old-
fashioned housecleaning, begun
but incompleted in the This Hour

More aid for education
urged by Jim MacFarlan

J. D. (Jim) MacFarlan, a 30
year old Burnaby high school
teacher, who comes from a
pioneer Vancouver East family,
is running as an indepedent for
Vancouver’s School Beard on a
five-point program. In his first
try for public office, this is what
MacF arlan proposes:

e Establishment of a special
commission with wide commu-
nity representation to study t
special needs of education in
Vancouver East,

e Pre-kindergarten training
and day care services to be
launched as a joint School Board-

local-provincial project,

e Relieve taxes on the small
homeowner, Vancouver School
Board to lead in initiating a public
campaign to have the Federal
government pay the full cost of
elementary education, As an in=
terim measure the provincial
government to take this respon-
sibility.

e Establishment of a major
educational research centre in
Vancouver,

In a statement this week Mac-
Farlan said, “As a professional
educator, I feel that I could be
of considerable assistance onthe —
School Board, In addition I feel
that the eastern section of the city —
must be represented by someone —
who lives there and understands —
the problems of the area,” The —
MacFarlan family has lived in —
Vancouver East for 60 years.

“Medicare should cover

e Protest the provincial gov-
ernment’s decision to restrict
school construction. Additions to
Nelson and Grandview schools
are affected,

all essential

Last week’s debate in Parlia-
ment on medicare prompted the
Communist Party’s Central Ex-
ecutive Committee to issue the
following statement:

“The Communist Party joins
with the opposition parties in the
House of Commons (who repre-
sent a majority of the Canadian
people) in calling for the exten-
sion of the government’s medi-
care program to cover all ser-
vices essential to the health of
the people, :

“The principle of public re-
sponsibility for the health of the
citizen cannot be effective, if the
citizen is denied access under
the plan to dental, optical, and
psychiatric services.

“We further call for the inclu-
sion under the plan of the provi-

Has Seven Days issue, needs to
be completed now, First by the
maximum encouragement and
promotion of Canadian talent in
CBC-TV productions, plusa min-
imum interference by CBC di-
rectors, their political axe-
grinders and their would-be
censors,

To eliminate CBC president J,
Alphonse Ouimet as one of CBC’s
prime ‘‘mistakes,’’ together with
relegating cultural (?) Minister
Miss Judy ‘“‘Batman” Lamarche
to some other post, remote from
CBC’s potential attainments in
its reflection of Canadian life
and culture (progressive and
otherwise) in a new and cheneine
world.

To achieve this basic change
requires, not censorship nor
.*tcriminal charges” as the Mun-

services’

sion of drugs at no more than 4—
nominal charge so that the price
gouging of the big drug monopo
lies can be broken,

“We re-emphasize our demand
that the whole medicare program
be brought into effect in Canada’
centennial year — 1967,”

Await result
of Orange case

‘Considerable public interestis —
centred on the judgement expect
ed in the near future on charge
brought by the Crown against 10
firms that they conspired to les-_
sen competition in the Japanese
orange trade in Canada,

The Crown alleged the firms
were involved in a pact to con-
trol the market,

singer and Profumo-ized “virt
uous” Tories and Victorian er:
Liberal Senators urge, but th
insistence and encouragement for
a public-financed Crown Corpor
ation to turn its sights upwards
instead of being pushed gutter
wards by so called directors,
more ‘‘honored in the breach tha
the observance” of their real
function. 4

When Canadian families (aS
reported) have to chase their
young hopefuls “off to bed” or out ©
of the room to avoid a CBC pro-
gram, then it is obvious we are
hitting a new low on the T
screen, No wonder the tubes
give out with a startling fre-
quency,

Yet worse than that, the day
any government, Liberal or Tor
claps a censorship upon the CBC="

that will mark its funeral oration.”

Pacific Tribune

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune

Editor—TOM McEWEN

Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH

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