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Photo shows a de- " Vietng in downtown London this week protesting the war ~ Slleg they ~~: War in Vietnam. ae The Labor Party conference meeting in Scarborough, time Minister Wilson to repudiate British support of Ban on hippie baper blow to Press freedom Vane ; the chee Suver City Council struck a blow against freedom of “Uspens: Yesday when it voted 7-3 in favor of upholding the SI Neen ris bey ciiicn Of Mayor Camp- tron ‘ tty Council has been Marte Protested in many lhertiag aS an attack on civil ; or Totes.” . @ PT supports these s “Mayo, * Pelieving that if the P lice Ouncil can use Ors ee Power to impose dori x or to silence one _ ane qa cedent Will have al er which the ae rights Mange, MOrities will be in wv Te pe ee Will recall that Steg h yor Rathie was first Teatened t i “4 O drive nse he ah the Streets” be- Pihion, . .2"'t agree. with the PaDep, ’ &Xpresseq ty. this Pup: the lic Pro simile st Stopped him a a Protests m Yor Campbel} and Cil from carrying latest attack on Spinion and the edo his The Wave er then’ its aN Past issues, has ot PSitiy ‘nd clear on both the 8 {Nd negative aspects Movement, We " their use of Tds, their empha- s ©”) and their philoso; On aS of the hippie paper, Georgia Straight. phy to “opt out” from the prob- lems of society. But these are not the real issues involved here, Freedom of the press and the right of minorities to state their views are, We cannot condone in any way anattack on minority groups because some official may not like the way they talk, look or think, Alderman Harry Rankin hit the nail on the head in a public statement when he branded Mayor Campbell’s action inor- dering the Vancouver City Licence inspector to ban the hippie paper as “dangerous and foolish.” Rankin said: “It’s dangerous because it violates freedom of the press, We have laws in our criminal code against obscene publica- tions, If Georgia Straight falls into this category, and I don’t think it does, it’s a matter for the courts to decide. We can’t allow our headline hunting mayor to decide for us what our citizens may publish or read, See PAPER BAN, pg. 12 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1967 VOL. 28, NO. 40 Tribune « 10¢ ~ LABOR DEMANDS RASH HOUSING PROGRAM NOW Only hours after the Pearson government barely survived a no-confidence motion on its housing policies by a narrow margin of 14 votes, the Vancouver and District Labor Council unanimously condemned the Federal government’s policy and called for an immediate crash program to build critically needed homes. Delegates to the central labor body expressed strong indignation at the recent hike in NHA interest rates to 84 percent, The resolution adopted by- the VLC Tuesday, calling for a crash program on housing, also urged the government to “treat housing as apublic utility.” Council secretary E. P. “Paddy” Neale de- clared the new interest rate was “nothing short. of usury” and demanded that “the $2 billion Canada spends annually on the armed services and so-called defence should be chan- nelled into solving the:housing crisis.” Neale said the government’s interest hike has provided the big finance companies with a great opportunity to cash in and they will take full advantage of it. A letter from the B.C, Federa- tion of Labor, réti to VLC delegates, describ- ed the government’s housing policy as “socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.” At its previous meeting, the VLC adopted a resolution demanding that senior governments view the critical housing shortage as a national emergency and take immediate remedial action to solve the problem. This week’s action rein- forced labor’s demand for action now. The Federal government’s increase of the NHA mortgage rate has been hailed by big con- tractors and building companies across Canada Giant march and rally because it means more profits, However, hous- ing experts have warned that rather than stimu- late housing construction it will put new housing beyond the reach of most Canadians, They point out that under the new interest rate only those whose income is over $8,000 a year will be able to afford an NHA mortgage — that is about 15 to 20 percent of the popula- tion, It also means, they point out, that persons with such an income would have to pay 40 per- cent of their net annual earnings, after income taxes, for shelter, Since the annual average wage in Greater Vancouver is about $5,600 it.means that almost the entire working class in this area will be unable to afford a home under the National Housing Act, Another serious side to the government’s higher rate is that it will push up the interest rate in the whole mortgage field, It is already predicted that the mortgage rate (for other than NHA loans) may shortly climb to 94 percent on first mortgages and as high as 15 percent for second mortgages, All this underlines the charge made at the VLC that the government’s housing policies put profits for the rich before the housing needs of the many, to protest Vietnam war Delegates and representatives of more than 40 trade unions, churches, student groups, peace groups and community organizations agreed to join forces to stage a March and Rally, followed by a Conference to be held on October 21-22 in Vancouver to demand an end to the war in Vietnam. Timed to coincide with the International Day of Protest sparked by American critics of the Vietnam war, the Vancouver raliy is expected to attract several thousand participants who will add their voices to the million marchers expected in Washington, D.C. The Vancouver march is scheduled to startat City Hall at 11 a.m, and end in a mass open-air rally in front of the Court House at 1:30 p.m. Featured speakers will include Dr. James Steele, of Carleton University, Ottawa, whose incisive criticism of Canadian diplomacy in Vietnam has aroused widespread discussion andcontroversy, and Prof, C.S. Burchill, Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, who has just returned from a year of travel and study, most of it spent in Asia. The main themes of the March and Rally will be expressed in 10 official slogans which have been agreed on by all participating organizations, It is hoped in this way to distinguish the views of the sponsoring organizations from those es- poused by individuals who may wish to express privately-held views, The March and Rally will be followed by a special Conference to be held on Sunday, Octo- ber 22, from 1 p,m, to 9:30 p.m, at the Peretz School, 6184 Ash Street (South of Oakridge Plaza.) A wide cross-section of community organizations have been invited to send three representatives each to this conference. In addition, interested individuals are being encouraged to attend the conference as observ- ers, Two mainthemes will be dealt with, a close analysis of Canada’s role vis-a-vis the Vietnam war, and a critical assessment of the effective- ness of the work of groups working for peace. Protests are being planned across Canada as October 21st draws close. In Toronto the third International Teach-In will be held October 21- 22 in Varsity Arena, :