Man. government new tenant s law WINNIPEG — As of Septem- ber 15 it will be illegal for land- lords in Manitoba to seize their tenants’ property for any reason whatsoever, to accept damage deposits exceeding half a month’s rent and to prevent political can- didates from canvassing rented premises. On that date, these and other provisions of Manitoba’s new Landlord and Tenant Act will come into force. One signficant portion of the act, providing for the appoint- ment of a rentalsman to arbitrate landlord-tenant disputes, will not come into force until a later date. Under the act, tenants who are in default of their rent may be evicted but, ther property cannot be seized. Under the act, the final settlement of disputes involving default will be left to the courts. Also under the act no tenant will be required to make a security deposit exceeding one-half a month’s rent. The act adds that “in determining the disposition of a security deposit, ordinary wear and tear shall not constitute ’ damage to the premises.” As of September 15 tenancy agreements will not be permitted to contain any provision for the delivery of post-dated cheques “or other negotiable instrument” for the payment of rent. Although landlords must still grant their approval before a ten- ant may sublet his apartment, the act prohibits such consent from being arbitrarily or unreasonably withheld. The landlord is further prohibited from demanding any money for granting his consent, with the exception of reasonable expenses incurred by him. Also, landlords will not be able to de- mand any payment from trades- men or deliverymen in return for gts them exclusive access to premises. Landlords will be required to give their tenants 24 hours writ- ten notice before entering their apartments. Such entry can be made only during daylight hours. The act provides for two excep- tions “In cases of emergency and Ses except where the landlord‘has a right to show the premises to prospective tenants at reasonable hours after notice of termination of the tenancy has been given.” After September 14, political candidates wil! be completely - free to canvass in rented prem- ises, No landlord will be able to dis- criminate against anyone by re- fusing to rent or renew a lease on the basis of race or creed and “because of membership or par- ticipation in an association of tenants.” Landlords will not be permit- ted to increase the rent payable under a lease arrangement unless they give tenants 90 days written notice. The act also provides for cover- age of all dwelling units with five or more tenants. It will include not only rooming houses but will also apply to company boarding dwellings which house several hundred workers, aimed at pro- viding the hundreds of Manitoba workers residing in these com- pany boarding houses with some breathing space in the event they are fired or laid off. If they’ve been paying their rent, say, for every two weeks, then they will have to be given two weeks’ no- tice before they must vacate the ° premises. Two subsections set out the re- spective responsibilities of land- lord and tenant: “A landlord is responsible for providing and maintaining the rented premises in a good state of repair and fit for habitation during the tenancy and for com-. plying with health and safety standards, including any housing standards required by law, and notwithstanding that any state of non-repair existed to the knowledge of the tenant before the tenancy agreement was en- tered into.” : “The tenant is responsible for ordinary cleanliness of the rent- ed premises and for the repair of damage cause by his wilful or negligent conduct or that of per- sons who are permitted on the premises by him.” Ukraine trip. a big SUCCESS. q The Shevchenko Ensemble of the Association of United Ukra- inian Canadians has returned to Canada a::er a concert tour of the Soviet Ukraine. The Ensem- ble were met with friends and flowers at Toronto’s interna- tional airport on their return. The tour was tremendously successful. Every performance was filled to capacity. Members of the Shevehenko Ensemble met relatives, sometimes for the first time, on their tour. It is to be hoped that Prime Minister Trudeau will translate into practical proposals the friendly welcome the Soviet people gave to Canadians, by extending all relationships be- tween Canada and the Soviet Union on the basis of frienrship and peaceful coexistence. _ Children’s sidewalk competition in the GDR with the motto: “Friendship with children of the world.” INQ NEW YORK—Gus Hall, Gen- eral Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States, termed . anti-communist | state- ments made recently at a public meeting in Toronto by William Kunstler, a lawyer for the Chi- cago Seven, a form of “copping out.” “Anti-communism in all its forms,” said Gus: Hall, “has be- come the main ideological pil- lar which capitalism uses to ex- tend its decaying system. Anti- Communism is the big lie, the smoke screen by which it tries to hide the exploitation and en- slavement of peoples and na- tions. It is the instrument of division and diversion. Anti- communism is the main. ideolo- gical cover for wars and impe- rialist aggression and racism.” He went on, “In the ranks of the left, red-baiting is the wedge that divides its ranks. For some, red-baiting is a way of trying to appear respectable. It is a form of ‘copping out.’ It is a form of begging for mercy. When the ruling class gets indi- viduals who are among the pro- gressive forces to redbait, it has achieved an initial success in its reactionary drive.” William Kunstler made a re- turn trip to Canada, after fight- ing broke out at a public meet- ing in Toronto, and charges of assault were laid against him by the right-wing Edmund Burke Society. In a press con- ference he declared that he had returned to prove that “I am a ’ good lawyer” and to act in such a way to set an example against intimidation. “He stated,” said Gus Hall, “that he was a member of the Democratic Party. Then he went on to glorify this party of L.B.J., Stennis, Humphrey, Mayor Da- ley and Mr. Kunstler. There were disbelieving glances in the press corps when he said, ‘I am a registered Democrat,: which is far more left-wing than the Communist Party of the U.S.A,’ Kunstler followed this up by re- peating the usual ‘gutter-like falsehoods and slanders against the Communist Party of the United States.” Hall classified Kunstler’s lumping of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union together as “an effort to cover up the brutal, ugly. character of U.S. imperial- ism.” “Redbaiting,” declared the CP- ~ USA general secretary, ‘even by PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1970—PAGE 10 £§ IODAD---ONGE F RIV/MITIFS YA CGHAN--SMUBA QHADLS pie the uninformed, is an error. But redbaiting. by one who knows he is spreading a falsehood and uses it to ingratiate himself with the forces of reaction is a political crime. It is opportun- ism. To mouth radical phrases and then to shield oneself from the attacks of the enemy by red- baiting is the worst form of ‘copping-out.’ “The forces of reaction never get too disturbed about people who repeat ‘far’ out’ radical, if not revolutionary - sounding, phrases as long as such people join the forces of reaction on basic class issues — on issues that count. Anti-communism is such an issue. , “One cannot for long success- fully defend some victims of capitalist oppression,” conclud- ed Gus Hall, “while slandering and villifying the working class revolutionary party. One need not be a Communist or a radi- cal to defend Communists or radicals, but there are serious questions about the abilities of a defense attorney to defend victims of capitalism when he joins the side of the prosecu- tion in a slanderous red-baiting attack.” a ee ee - has drafted “A PROGRAM FOR THE RIGHTS OF CANAD! _class women in all campaigns and movements behind working _ class program. WOMEN PUT FORWARD | NEW DRAFT PROGRAM The Women’s Commission of the Communist Party of Canada © WOMEN” and is calling for widespread discussions of it. In vieW of the developing militant movements among Canadian women | and the increasing attention given their problems, the Canadian Tribune is publishing portions of the draft program: Draft of cage A PROGRAM FOR THE RIGHTS OF CANADIAN WOMEN I. PEACE II. EQUALITY ON THE JOB Equal pay for equal work; end discrimination in hiring, job training and promotion, and particularly special discrimination against Native Peoples and of women of the national groups establish the 6-hour, 5-day, working week, with no loss of pays maternity leave with pay and no loss of seniority; lower the retirement age of women to 60 years. Raise the minimum wagé to $2.50 an hour, because wages for the majority of working women are fixed by minimum wage levels. Ill. FARM WOMEN'S RIGHTS Extend minimum wage laws to cover towns and villages; and similarly extend all safety laws, and hours of work laws. Mas- sive government programs aimed at elevating all aspects 0 rural life to equal those in the most highly developed areas. IV. END THE SPECIAL POVERTY AMONG WOMEN Fight for a million jobs for working men and WOMEN; be right to a job a women’s right; organize the unorganized; specia’ provisions for the care of children, so that the mother may wor at a job. Gniversal free child care for all children from 6 months to 12 years of age; freedom for family planning; rescind all abortion laws and legalize abortions. V. EQUALITY IN POLITICAL LIFE Encourage and assist the greater participation of, working VI. MASS MEDIA End degredation of women by the mass media. VIL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Work for international friendship among all women. VIII. A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR WOMEN Which would guarantee by law, equal pay for equal work, equal job opportunity, equal training and education. Special provision in all welfare, pension and guarantee in come proposals for the special problems of women, Public: ly subsidized child care; full recognition of common 1aW marriages; end all legal discrimination against women; equa property rights with men; end the stigma of illegitimacy; make sex discrimination on the job illegal. The Women’s Commission of the CP ends by stating that working for socialism is the only assurance of women’s full emancipation; and declares that it will fight for the entire trade and farm union movement, the federations and associations 9 professional people and civil servants, to organize the unorgan" ized women, and says that in order to develop a serious approach to this question, the promotion of women within these organiza- tions is necessary. The Women’s Commission declares that it will struggle for its program in the political arena. Ss oS ee Women’s Congress Another shipment to Vietnam The Congress of Canadian Wo- men has announced its second shipment of seven crates of chil- dren’s clothing, knitted woolen cot blankets, toys and other things, to the Union of Viet- namese Women, Hanoi. The ship- ment, valued at $3,500 was plac- ed on board the S.S. Omsk for free carriage to Vladivostock, to be transshipped to Vietnam. Since June, 1969, the Congress of Canadian Women have sent 14 grates of similar goods, valued at $8,000. “The first seven crates were distributed,’ wrote Mde Phan-Thi-An, President of the Vietnamese Women’s Union, “to a number of provinces, including Haiphong Port, which has been subjected to more than four ee years of heavy U.S. bombins* These beautiful gifts are an © pression of the fine and friendly sentiments of Canadian wome™ rallying around the Congress a Canadian Women, towards wo” en and children of Vietnal: Please accept our _ sincef thanks.” The Congress of Canadia® Women has expressed its thanks to the government of the US and its people, for shipping fre the gifts from Canadian people to Vietnam. : The shipments are assisted >: the B.C. Canadian Aid to Viet | nam Civilians, which stores t crates until: the boats arrive # the port of Vancouver.