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Indian Chiefs Reject
Socred Fund Control

ere Union of B.C. Indian
Bots, in rejecting Mr.
_vennett’s First Citizen Fund,
ave exposed once again the
YPocrisy which inevitably ac-
Companies government “gifts”
to Indians.
= he quiet-spoken young man
0 represented the chiefs’ in a
__ interview recently made it
quite clear that his people are
aware of the hypocrisy and
Would reject acceptance of the
und in its present set-up.
Bill Wilson, of Kamloops said
that some $13,000 granted the
Union would be returned to the

80vernment. They had asked for

$200,000 to enable them to make
4 Survey of what the Indian
People, the length and breadth of

3.C., wish to propose as alterna-
tives to the White Paper on
Indian Affairs.

Such a program — that is, to
Set up communication: to
develop a cohesive policy

etween many tribes and groups
Makes common sense.

Premier Bennett allegedly set
Up the $25 million fund for the

advancement of their (the
Indians) education, culture and
€conomic circumstances.”’

Who should know better than
the Indian what is entailed in the
advancement of his education,
Culture and economic circum
Stance?

‘Who should know better than
the Indian the need for com-
munication between the far-
flung people of his race, and the

heed for a cohesive policy that is

a true reflection of his needs?

However, the Socred ‘‘gift’’ to

-C. Indians came with strings
attached. Those strings entail
the administration of the fund
by Socred cabinet ministers,
(none of them Indian), and an
accounting, according to Bill
Wilson, of every cent spent.

Recreation Minister Kiernan
makes the government position
clear. Regretfully, he “‘got the
feeling the Indians would like the
fund turned over to them to
administer, but we have a
responsibility to the public at
large.”’

Since when has the Socred
government been so thoughtful
of the public?

And why the not-so-subtle
racism in that remark? -

There was promised a sum of
some $1.75 million a year for the
advancement of the Indian
people. Wilson says it has turned
out to ne something less than
$600,000 which is par for the
course on Socred promises.

Whatever the amount, we
believe that most people in this
province are intelligent enough
to know that the time has come
to turn over to the Indians them-’
selves the responsibility they
demand in running their own
affairs.

Premier Bennett should turn
over the First Citizen’s Fund to
the province’s first citizens.
There is little doubt they will use
it far more intelligently than will
the bumpkin cabinet in Victoria.

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SUNDAY, JULY 26

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Adults $1.50 Children 75¢_

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By Woodworkers Wife
If J.V. Clyne of MacMillan-
Bloedel thinks they are hard
done by with their profits at a
‘precariously low level’’, he

-should try to operate on the rate

of profit realized by plant wood
workers.

My husband works in a
plywood plant here on the Lower
Mainland: We are worse off
today than we were two years
ago when the last raise came
through, not only because of the
cost of living, but because
deductions make such holes in
the gross pay.

We have at hand a pay slip
from July, 1966 for 80-hours
which shows a gross of $273.17
and a net of $221.24.

In April of this year, 80 hours
gave a gross of $286.26 and a net
of $209.46. The only extra
deduction this year is $12.48 for a
bond which represents our total
“savings”

Sometimes I listen to the hot-
line radio programmes which
seem to boast -not only
ignoramuses at the mike, but
scores of nit-wit listeners who
are either past working age or
‘are hired by FIR to spread lies.

It is incredible that any in-
telligent person can believe that
industrial woodworkers are
living high on the hog. Where
does a take-home pay of some
$400 get you in this year of 1970?

We pay $135 for rent for a
small two-bedroom suite.
Because of the lack of efficient
public transit, we had to buy a
good car so my husband could
get to and from work, along with
insurance rates which are the
highest in Canada. Along with
heat and light and phone, gas
bills, car payments and medicine
for our baby who has a chest

YCL To Hold
Giant Bazaar

The Young Communist League
will hold its Summer Bazaar on
Saturday, August 1, at the
Russian. People’s Home at 600
Campbell Ave., Vancouver, B:G:

The Bazaar will feature a home
bake sale and “Cake Walk”.
There will be a White Elephant
Sale of “everything” — books,
records, clothing, as well as home
preserves, jams, etc.

There ‘will be a coffee and
+ snack counter, bingo, and a Fish
Pond for the kiddies.

If anyone would like to donate
home baking, preserves or jams,
or any white elephant objects
(anything saleable) to the Y.C.L.
for their Bazaar — please phone
days: 684-1451, or evenings: 988-
5021, and arrangements will be
made to pick them up.

ANNOUNCEMENT —
OPTOMETRIST

ANTHONY H.J. LEE, BSc.,
O.D., graduate of University of
Waterloo, Ontario announces the
opening of his practice for eye
examination, contact lens fitting &
visual training. Phone for appoint-
ment 687-1018.

253B East Hastings St. ,
Vancouver 4, B.C.

condition, over $200 has
disappeared. No matter how
carefully I buy groceries, we
cannot make do with less than
$100 a month which includes the
milk and fruit necessary for the
health of our two children.

_ There are some woodworkers
who no doubt ‘‘make out’’ by
moonlighting, or by simply
existing rather than living. Yes,
if one is prepared to chisel here
and there, never entertain, stop
smoking, make a fun night of
sitting on the front step, one can
doubtless get by with something
left over.

But my husband and I believe
that life should entail more than
a mere existence. There are
books to be read, good concerts,
plays and the odd movie we
would like to attend, but it seems
as the years go by culture must
play less and less a role in our
lives and the need to have money
for groceries more.

I often think what the amount
we pay to income tax would give
us in the form of a trip to another
country; even one month in a
land where workers have solved
the problems which constantly
beset'us. Or I think how great it
would be if just for one month we
could live without the constant
worry of ‘‘making ends meet’,
and always having another need,

on woodworker’s wages

another bill to face.

How we would love to have our
own house, but as things are
today there is not a chance
unless we are prepared to
saddle ourselves with a
mortgage the monthly payments
of which would take half our
paycheck. We cannot do it, and I
see no hope of owning our own
home unless God performs a
miracle for us, and he has not
been known to do that for wood-
workers as yet.

Yes, we woodworkers must
have a raise, but at the same
time we have to fight for other
things, such as a curb on prices,
and for the end of accursed
income and other tax hikes.

More and more I hear the men
who work with my husband in his
plant, and other plants, make the
point that the government can
control the cost of living by
means other than taking it out of
their hides. It is plain to see
since unemployment took over
three months ago due to lockouts
that even when no raise has been
given that prices do not go down.

Obviously, something else has
to be done, and in my opinion it
‘will mean a fight against high
interest rates, high profits, and
the control of land and forests in
the hands of a few who have only
one thing in mind — keep the
workers down and the profits up.

:

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‘There seems to be some doubt we can grow without merging.”

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