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no answer

fo problems of youth

By UBC STUDENT

When we heard on eampus that
young people in Jericho were
being driven out by police, a
Number of us who strongly
believe that problems of
Unemployed are our problems
(for we may be soon joining their
Tanks) got into cars and busses
and drove to.the barracks.

Though I have seen young
_ People man-handled by police
before, this was the first time I
have seen blood running from
Wounds made in the most part by
Police beatings. My companions
and. myself were shocked and
frightened, and I connected
What I saw happening with a
Police state, for the power was
all in their hands, and people just
helpless victims of over-
powering force.

There seemed to be hundreds
Of police on hand, some in
Mountie uniforms, scores of city
Police, motorcycle cops, and
€ven army men in the Jericho
grounds.

When the riot act was read I
and hundreds of others didn’t
hear it, because of the noise, but
Within a few minutes the police
had moved in on the kids sitting
on the ground with their belong-
ings. They prodded them with
the riot sticks, or if they didn’t
move, lifted them by the hair.

Some of the policemen hit the
kids on the heads, and bodies. I
Saw blood running out of the ears
and mouth of the minister Ted
Mahood. He had just got out of
the hospital. His friends’ begged
the police to leave him alone and
they carried him away to the
NOW bus. I saw other kids
hauled away by the hair to the
Paddy wagons.

When the Jericho kids were
driven to the south side of the
road, the police lined up facing
them, then they moved suddenly
on the young people, prodding
and hitting them, driving them
south up the hill, as far as 8th
Avenue. Even kids who fell down
were beaten, one of them a girl
who looked to be no more than 14
ot 15 years old.

The Sun and Province say the
police used restraint. All I can
say is, what are the police like
when they are unrestrained?

It is true many of the kids in
Jericho have psychological and
physical problems which must
be treated. Others are genuinely
trying to find a place in society.
The government’s answer to all
their problems is to club them on
the head.

Closing Jericho is no answer.
Makeshift hostels are no answer.
Some of these kids need medical
and psychiatric help, now.
Others need jobs, and a friendly
hand. It is up to adult society to
see that something is done for
them, for when we, as students,
try to do something we are put
down as ‘‘student agitators’,
and so on.

Many UBC students want to do
something. There are few such
as the engineer who yelled that
he and his cronies would drive
the Jericho kids out of the SUB
building.

Many of us at least know we
may all be on the breadlines
when we get out of university,
the way things are going now.
Even engineers.

Will police riot sticks and
beatings be the answer for us
too? We'd better think about it.

Lower Mainland teachers
mount fight for pension

By SCHOOL TEACHER

“There used to be a time when
teachers, instead of saying they
wanted more money, would
stand up and say all sorts of
other things that they wanted
and then they would say, “‘Oh,
yes we want more money — not
because we want the money, but
because it would be good for
education.”

You know that great theory of
teachers, that if they keep
talking about money and fighting
for higher salaries it somehow
shows that they’re not really
interested in the children.

In that case if you-really want
to prove that you are interested
in the children you shouldn't get
paid at all!”

“We as teachers have exactly
the same right to be interested in
all the good things and bad things
that money will buy that
anybody else in our society has.
When a carpenter or bricklayer
negotiates a 50% increase in
three years he doesn’t stand on
the street corner telling society
how much better off society will
be when he gets all that money.
And I don’t think we should
either.

“There is this business that
somehow we wouldn’t be profes-
sional if we exhibited a great
concern for money. Well I’ve
never heard anybody say that a
doctor is not interested in his
clients because he makes a lot of
money. As a matter of fact, I
don’t think anybody would dare
to go to a doctor who earned a
teacher’s salary. I think it is
about time we got rid of this non-
sensical notion.”

This was how Albert Shanker,
President of the United Federa-
tion of Teachers of New York,
which, with over 70,000 members
is the largest local of the Ameri-
can Federation of Teachers of
which he is Vice-President,
spoke to the teachers in Toronto
last November.

Thousands of teachers in the
lower mainland will hear Mr.
Shanker at the Queen Elizabeth
Theatre, Thursday, October 22,
at 8:00 p.m. at the invitation of
the B.C. Teachers Federation.

Mr. Shanker reflects the
feelings of most of the teachers
in this province who have
become acutely aware of the
crisis in education brought
about by the bankruptcy of the
provincial government.

He speaks at a time when our
23,000 teachers are in the process
of taking a province-wide strike
vote on the issue of the dis-
astrous pension situation.

He speaks at a time when
Education Minister Brothers,
speaking at the Trustees Con-
vention October 12, theatened
legal action to invalidate work-
ing and learning conditions
contracts, and warned that little
extra money would be available
for increased operating
expenses in 1971 — in other

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TEACHERS PENSIONS COMPARED.

Above chart shows the low level of

B.C. teacher’s pensions compared to others across Canada. Straw votes
conducted in Victoria show 84% vote in favor of strike for higher
pensions; Burnaby indicates 90-100% support. Actual vote is to be

taken Oct. 30.

words, hold back during nego-
tiations presently being carried
on.

Even. Jim Campbell, retiring
president of the Trustees
Association, in his address to
the opening session of their con-
vention described the govern-
ment’s inaction as ‘“‘basic gut-
lessness.”’

“The education system must
become the major agent for
social change. To a large extent,
schools are being used to make
young people fit society as it is.
But the purpose of education
should be the long-range consid-
eration of the problems en-
dangering man’s survival.”

“Schools now serve the produc-

tion-consumption cycle. They
equip students for existing pat-
terns. They basically, for the
rank and file, defend the status
quo.”

Mr. Campbell suggested that
the province is in the midst of a
period of reaction against pro-
gress in education and against
power for school boards. This
period began with the first big
school construction freezé in
1966. The second major step was
introduction of the govern-
ment’s controversial educa-
tional finance formula.

Undoubtedly Mr. Shanker,

who, (although he has twice been
jailed for leading teachers’
strikes) has won the best
teaching contracts ever seen,
will find a very receptive
audience in Vancouver and on
Vancouver Island which he
visited October 21. It is to be
hoped they took his following
words to heart:

‘‘We have paid a very high
price for our so-called profes-
sionalism. We have fewer rights
than most truck drivers. Every
other worker negotiating
contracts is going to lead a
decent life. We can’t say the
same. And it’s because we’re a
bunch of snobs! We don’t want to
associate with other people who
are also struggling. But who else
is going to help us in these
fights? The Real Estate Associa-
tions? The Chamber of Com-
merce? The Board of Trustees?

The only people who have sym-
pathy for us are people who work
for an employer and have to
negotiate their salaries. And
we ought to be extending a hand
to them and working out rela-
tionship so that when they are in
trouble we help them, and when
we are in trouble they will be on
our side.”’

BETHUNE
MARXIST CLASSROOM

Lecture No. 2

“NATIONALIZATION - WHAT IT MEANS ”

Lecturer — Emil Bjarnason

SUNDAY - NOVEMBER Ist - 10 A.M.
FISHERMEN’S HALL - (Boardroom)

138 East Cordova St.

NIXON WANTS CONGRESS To REGULATE THE EXPLOSIVES INDUSTRY TO KEEP EXPLOSIVES OUT OF THE HANDS OF ‘TERRORISTS?

— Andrews in U.S. Daily World

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