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Stockholm Appeal

30,000 sign for peace

The B.C. Peace Council has
announced that 30,000 signatures
have been collected in B.C. on the
Stockholm Appeal to End the Arms
Race. During Habitat, 14,000
people signed the petition, in-
cluding many visitors at the
Habitat Forum.

In addition to individual
signatures, the Appeal has been
endorsed by many central labor
bodies. Nearly every labor council
in B.C. has endorsed the Appeal
and some have made financial
contributions to the B.C. Peace
Council to aid the campaign.

Labor Councils to so far endorse
the Appeal are the Vancouver and
District Labor Council, New
Westminster Labor Council,
Victoria Labor Council, Campbell
River Labor Council, Nanaimo
Labor Council, Kamloops Labor
Council and Alberni Labor Council.
The Appeal has also been endorsed
by the recent convention of the
B.C. Division of the Canadian
Union of Public Employees, and by
the United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union, and the Marine-
workers and Boilermakers Union.

The Peace Council office in-
formed the Tribune that it recently
mailed out letters and copies of the

‘Need more outdoor recreation’

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN
With the holidays here the rush is
on for the great outdoors.
Many people, and I’m one of
them, enjoy their holidays walking
and hiking. With our coasts, forests

’ and mountains, we in British

Columbia are more than fortunate

i this respect.

However walking and hiking are
usually more enjoyable when you
can go along a trail of some sort. In
fact, in the roug terrain that we
have, wilderness trails are almost
a must. -

Successive governments of B.C.
have given a lot of attention to and
Spent a lot of money promoting
tourism, that is encouraging
tourists with money to use our
hotels and motels and resorts. But
damn little has been spent on
developing ‘wilderness trails.

I have before me a brief sub-
mitted by the Outdoor Recreation
Council of B.C. to the minister of

_ recreation and tourism last March.

The brief is titled ‘A Trails and
Access Programme for ‘British
Columbia.”

The brief points out that a
comprehensive outdoor recreation
policy for B.C. ‘‘should not be
concerned just with hiking trails in
wilderness areas for the fit. It
should be concerned with the
recreational needs of the whole
public and this includes families of
various ages, people with limited
incomes and limited vacation time,
the handicapped, the elderly and
the very young. :

The brief lists 25 issues and
recommendations for government
action. Among them are the need
for a Trails and Use Area Act, the
right of public input, conflicts
between mechanized and non-
mechanized trail activities.

The underlying theme of the
brief is the need “‘for the provincial
government to coordinate the
many resources within govern-
ment, industry and public toward
producing a Comprehensive

Outdoors Recreation Policy for
BGes

“Outdoor recreation in B.C. is
becoming more diffuse,” the brief
emphasizes, ‘tas access to remote

areas increases, as population and
the variety of recreation equip-
ment increases, and as the popular
areas of our parks become more
eroded.” The parks system alone
cannot, and should not, be ex-
pected to provide the variety of
recreational activities that the
public are seeking. ~

“We wish to stress that trails,
special use areas and the provision
of access routes to land and water
are the means by which a great
number of outdoor recreationists
participate in and enjoy the
recreational activities ‘of their
choice. It is not necessary to create
a park- excluding industrial use
every time we wish to have areas
and trails for recreational ac-
tivities. There are many places in
this province where recreation
should be integrated with forestry,
mining, cattle grazing, agriculture
and urban development.’’

The Outdoor Recreation Council
deserves your support in its
campaign to make more healthy

outdoor recreational facilities
See RANKIN, pg. 7

Appeal to 300 B.C. local unions
urging endorsation.

Peace committees in the Fraser
Valley, Victoria and Nanaimo are
planning extensive coverage of
public events and shopping centres
to give the public an opportunity to,
sign the petition. To help
popularize the Appeal the B.C.
Peace Council has prepared
leaflets which are available from
their office at Rm. 712, 207 W.
Hastings St., Vancouver. :

To aid the campaign members of
the B.C. Young Communist League
have prepared for sale a special
summer ‘‘T”’ shirt with the dove of
peace emblem and the words
“Stockholm Appeal.’ The shirts
are blue and of good quality and
sell for $4.00 each. They are
available at the PT office, B.C.
Peace Council office and from
members of the YCL. A children’s
size will be available soon.

As the campaign for support of
the Stockholm Appeal moved into
high gear across Canada attempts
were being made in various circles
to sabotage it. While the big
business media have ignored it,
hoping thereby to keep it” from

public attention, Maoist elements

have launched an attack on it.
The most disruptive action came
recently when James G. Endicott
launched his own ‘‘Peace Petition,
1976”’ which attacks the Stockholm
Appeal and seeks signatures for a
four-point program which

generally supports the Maoist line.
Large quantities of this petition
were Sent out recently by Endicott

along with his May-June issue of —

his ‘‘Far Eastern News Letter.’ |
Peace activists will join in |

roundly condemning this |
disruptive action by Endicott and
repudiate it for what it is: an at-
tempt to divide the peace
movement and render the
Stockholm Appeal ineffective. :

The B.C. Peace Council -has —
announced that throughout. the
summer it will concentrate on
having the petition circulated at
large public gatherings and
shopping centres. Quantities of the
petition have gone out to most
points in the province, and local |
peace activists areurged to step up —
their activities in support of the

Stockholm Appeal with the aim of |

helping achieve the 150,000 target —
set for B.C.

Announcement

In keeping with previous years, —
the Canadian Tribune and Pacific
Tribune will publish eight-page
editions during July and August.
With our Labor Day edition we will
return to our usual 12-page paper.

During the summer months the
PT will carry four pages of feature —
materials from the Canadian
Tribune, and other working class —
periodicals. When and if
necessary, to meet any emergency
that may arise, the number of B.C.
pages will be increased.

Despite the reduced size during
the summer, the PT will continue
to give live and full coverage to the
struggles of the working people.

About 400 Ontario workers, injured in industrial accidents, staged a
protest march recently in Toronto demanding justice from the Ontario
government and its Workmen's Compensation Board. Photo. shows the

marchers, one of them in a wheelchair.

—Tribune photo

McEWEN

ed target in the Pacific Tribune drive was $40,000 and
the workers of British Columbia topped that by going

"over $50,000 — a magnificent effort indeed. For over 40
_ years, the workers of this province have seen to it, come

hard times or good, that their paper is always able to
carry on the fight. This year, despite skyrocketing living
costs, phony inflation and an even phonier Anti-Inflation
Board, topped off by the Socred junta, the working people

made sure that their paper would meet the battles of the ©

times. It was indeed a great demonstration, symbolic of
the mood and determination of the workers.

This column thanks all who contributed and gave their
Support to its weekly blurb. Many of our old timers have
passed on and in this column we salute their memory —
and example. Their names are legion and their sacrifices
the stuff of which new struggles are made. They topped
those struggles with $50,000. What they did sets the pace

_ for a new and younger generation.

* * * * *

The aging John Diefenbaker is an old Tory of the “‘old
school tie’’ vintage — not only a Tory but a most reac-

tionary Tory, viewing everything even mildly progressive
with a most jaundiced eye. He is of the loud-talking type
who invariably manages to speak first, then thinks af-
terward~— if he does any thinking at all.

He generally manages a noisy harangue about labor
and, being all and everything for free enterprise, he can
usually put on a fine display of pure and unadulterated
“indignation’’ when the occasion arises. But his greatest
shows are reserved for “‘liberating’’ the Ukraine for
Ukrainian nationalists or fuming to diehard Zionists about
preserving the freedom and independence of Israel from
the *‘Arab hordes,” especially the PLO whose homes the
Zionists have stolen in the occupied areas.

Nowhere, however, does this senile Tory rise to such
heights of oratory as when he is on the subject of royalty
with special emphasis on the present incumbent. Dief
goes completely berserk when anyone, be it a nation or an
individual, expresses a dim or derogatory view of this
highest of all symbols of a parasitical life style. Then his
booming words, if not the sense of his oratory, make in-
spiring-illusions — for a few, at least.

One can just imagine what a reading of one of James

‘Connolly’s many essays on royalty would have done to this

faithful Tory had one come his way. Connolly, for those
who may have forgotten his name, was one of the leaders
of the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland and executed by the
British for his efforts. :

“What is monarchy? From whence does it derive its
sanction? What has been its gift to humanity?’” Connolly
asked in the Irish Worker of 1911. And he answered this
way:

“Monarchy isa survival of the tyranny imposed by the
hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the
darkest hours of our history. It derives its only sanction
from the sword of the marauder, the helplessness of the
producer and its gifts to humanity are unknown, save that
they can be measured by the pernicious examples of
triumphant and shameless iniquities. .. .”

If monarchy has changed in the intervening years, it

has been for the worse. Last year, inflation spurred the

Queen to put the bite on the British taxpayer for a million
pound ‘“‘wage”’ increase to augment the family budget.
This year, she bought a $2 million estate as a gift to
another wedded pair from the royal stock.

‘Inflation has some value — but not to the poor.
Monarchy, and the system to which it has adapted so well,
are the only beneficiaries.

“TRIBUNE |

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