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FOR CONSPIRACY AND CRIMES
AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE

UNITED STATES

@ VIOLATION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
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@ PLOT TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE

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LIP program no substitute
for full employment policy

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Some Local Initiatives Pro-
grams (LIP) grants are really
out of this world and deserve the
criticism being levelled at
them. Most of them are a poor
substitute for programs that
will contribute toemployment
in a worthwhile way.

We need a Canadian merchant
marine, secondary industry to
process our natural resources
at home, a large scale housing
program, and soon. Ottawa is
doing nothing about these, andin
their place is providing funds
for all sorts of short term pro-
jects, some of them quite use-
less.

On the other hand, some are
useful to the community and to
our citizens. Onesuchexample
isa LIP grant for the provision
of transportation facilities for
senior citizens, to enable them to
go on outings, shopping, etc.
This is both necessary and good.

‘Park priorities must serve people’

The Vancouver Parks Board
must establish priorities based
on the needs of the people and
carry them out, this was the de-
mand voiced by Donald Green-
well, vice-president of the
Hastings Community Asso-
ciation and a candidate for
Parks Board in last December’s
civic election for COPE.

The demand was voiced ata
panel discussion in the public
library held recently at which
Greenwell was one of the panel-
ists. Greenwell, who is also a
leading member of the Elec-
trical Workers Union, lashed out
at the present board for failing

to carry out its duties and sug-
gested the commissioners re-
sign if they continue along their
present course.

He was particularly critical of
“the waste of $10,000 of the tax-
payers money’’ to conduct a
survey which is a ‘‘means of
covering up the inefficiency of
the present Board.”’

Summing up the kind of pro-
gram Vancouver needs, Green-
welllisted the following major
seven points:

e Anelected Parks Board.

e Establishment of many new
recreation and cultural facil-
ities for the people’s use.

e Real estate developers to
make their development more
liveable not like Block 42-52. _

e Provincial financed reac-
tion and cultural programs like
the former Pro Rec program

cancelled by the Socred govern --

ment.

e Imaginative development in
the communities, such as the
way Still Creek was developed
in the 1930’s. ,

e Improve. nd ~ upgrade
present facilities.

e Make the PNE into more of
a recreation and park facility,
not an asphalt jungle.

But what happens? As soon as
the project gets underway and
senior citizens get used to it, the
grant is finished. What happens
then? The people concerned
come to City Council and ask for
a grant to help them continue, in
this case for $10,000.00.

No one can argue that their
cause is not deserving. But it
must be argued that the city,
which has only property taxes
as its source of revenue, has a
limited budget. If the city starts
providing grants that Ottawa
should be providing, youcanbe
sure that the Ottawa sources will
dry up for good.

It’s arather dirty trick to play
on senior citizens too, getting
them used to a necessary
service and then cutting it off.
It’s not only disappointing and
frustrating, it’s heartless and
cruel.

And it’s not as if Ottawa didn’t
have the funds. The LIP fund
amounts to $165 million. And if
that isn’t enough, some of the
$2.1 billion spent annually on de-
fence could be diverted to useful
LIP grants.

2 we mx mos se

Some defence expenditult
may be necessary but most?
this $2.1 billion is used to 8
fat, high-profit contracts toU»
corporations in Canada. Its! :
penalty we pay for belonging!
NATO and NORAD, for havillt |
foreign policy dictated by tht
United States and an exterm
affairs minister who is lit!
more than an anaemic ech0®
Nixon! ia

I think we should turn the hea
on Ottawa to end this policy?
starting something useful W! ‘
LIP grants and then suddenly “
ting it off. Where the grat
serve useful community Pl”
jects they should be made Pp
manent. his

And while we press for UW”
type of LIP policy let’s noti!
get the main issue which !5
projects to serve the nationa™
to create employment inas¥,
stantial way. The money
there — in Ottawa. It’s jt
question of whether it’s spenlt
subsidies and concessions —
U-:S. corporations or of
jects of use to the people
Canada.

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“Time was when | used to resent George going fishing

every weekend!”

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In case some choosy job-seeker may turn up his (or her)

and

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he government, we are told in the columns of the me-
dia and other sources, ‘‘is leaving no stone unturn-
ed’’ to cope with the problem of unemployment. Periodic
statistics on the subject issued by the Dominion Bureau of
Statistics (DBS), largely to provide grist for the gab of
politicians, are exuberantly optimistic. Coincident with this
optimism, the personnel staffs of Manpower and UIC have
been greatly increased, the one to ‘‘guide’’ the jobless to
where the jobs are (?), the other to delay and/or deny the job-
less their legitimate UIC benefits; and of course to create the
impression that there are jobs in abundance, if only those
choosy thousands of jobless would take them.

Arecent edition of a UBC publication of job perspectives
for students this summer was, in the main, foggy inits out-
look. This year is better than last year, etc, buta large body of
students will just have to trust to pot luck in catching up with
a job, etc. and etc. (In this social system pot luck and spiral-
ling living costs seem to go hand in hand).

Now for those jobs. If perchance ‘‘onehasa friend whohas
afriend. . .”’ there is a remote chance of being added to the
bulging staffs of Manpower, the UIC or some other govern-
mental department of a rapidly expanding bureaucracy, but
don’t bank too much on it. Short of that, the most prolific ‘‘Help

Wanted’’ we have seen in recent times calls for dishwashers ‘

(pearl-diving we used to describe it in the halcyon Hungry
30’s), chicken pickers . . . or flickers, ‘‘no previous experi-
ence necessary’ ’, flyer distributers, to keep the housewife
posted on day-by-day “‘bargains”’ in rising food costs, pick-and-
shovel jobs galore, and as for ‘‘out of town’’ jobs— they would
just seem to be as numerous as mosquitoes; with few takers.
‘‘Contact your nearest Manpower for details, etc.”’. Fewof
any such jobs hold any ‘‘promotion’”’ to the affluent, but they
do boost the statistical morale!

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nose at the menial nature of some of the jobs listed, just re-
member that the press media andkindred sources of malarky
have been serving up Horatio Alger yarns relative to some of
these jobs for more years than we care to think about.

How some millionaire or wealthy industrial tycoongothis
start by selling papers, doing the leg-work (after school)
delivering hand-bills, picking berries, or whathave you? H.R.
MacMillan, J.V. Clyne, Frank MeMahon; all those well-heeled
buccaneers, according to the Horatio Alger scribblers got:
their start that way. And it must be admitted, without going:
into detail on the capitalist modus operandi of accumulating
wealth, that they and thousands like them have done very well
at it. In fact they are what ails B.C., Canada, and much of the
world today. 3

On that chicken-picking job which they tell us is in big
demand, but the supply of willing applicants low. It t6ohas
produced its ample quota of millionaires, but not from its
picking departments. The Horatio Algers have giventhat area
a wide berth, and not without good reason.

We recall an incident in Toronto of nearly 50 years ago
when a group of Jewish ‘‘chicken flickers’’ came to the
Workers Unity League (WUL) and said please come and help
us, our working conditions are intolerable, and our wages
next tonothing. These were mostly bearded old men, devoutly
religious in the observance of their Jewish faith, but exploited
beyond the point of human endurance. They came to us, a
“Red” organization for help, when all else had failed them,
and becamea unit of the WUL. With them it had been a life-
time ‘‘job’’, the Alpha and Omega of their existence, and the
end was worse than the beginning, because in the beginning
at least, they had youth.

Down in the Deep South of the U.S. today where countless
thousands of chickens are processed daily from which mil-
lionaires are created almost overnight because of soaring con-
sumer prices and witha big Canadian market to the detri-
ment of the home producer, tens of thousands of Black Am-
erican chicken processing workers are on strike, and have
been onstrike for long months for improved working condi-
tions, decent wages, new health standards, and anend (in
reality) toslavery.

Should you succumb to Manpower or UIC bureaucratic
blandishments and decide to make ‘‘chicken flicking”’ a
career, a UBC Arts degree is not essential, but a strong
constitution, plus a will to fight, is. ;

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1973—-PAGE 2

CP club urges
ward system

of
The Vancouver East cH
the Communist Party pres om
abrief tothe city council Sy
munity Development — the
mittee Tuesday calling { ;,
setting up of a ward sys!" 4
Vancouver, and wuree ig
Hastings East ward which W,
embrace the area east O° ag,
toria Drive to Boundary R “¢he
and north of Broadway  ~

waterfront.

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Pointing out this area by
approximately twenty
sand people, a brief present the
the club said it supporte®. an
idea that there be one alde? pis

for every 20,000 peopyy nav?

means Vancouver wou rme?
double the number of aldeh™
than at present.

ve pte |

It said it favored a retM og
the principle of area repr ould
tation, andthataldermen® ge
beelectedonthesamepat™ he
arrangement as at presen.
club also urges that an off} ich
opened in each ward choo!
should be shared by the Seo
Board Trustee and Parks - ne
missioner elected in the ® igor
manner by ward as the © —
man. ce

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j
It urges that the term of
be for two yearsand tha’ cit |
be no candidates 7
required,