UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FIGHT FEE BOOST .

Where are the 10,000 scholarships
_ Pearson promised in last election?

The failure of the Pearson government to carry out its pledges made in the last election t0
help university students, plus the sharp rise in students’ fees and the drop in federal aid to
Canadian universities, promises to make education one of the major issues in the current fed

eral election campaign.

The students’ council of the
University of B.C, has organized
a teach-in for Wednesday of this
week to rally support against the
$56 average increase in fees this
year and to air the need for tui-
tion fees being abolished at all
Canadian universities,

Meanwhile the Alma Mater So-

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“DON’T PAY 2ND TERM FEES.” Thus reads the sign above at the University of B.C. registration lineups last week.

ciety committee, set up to fight
the fee increase, which isheaded
by AMS first vice-president Bob
Cruise, this week posted signs
urging registering students not to
pay their second term fees,

The rally on campus Wednes-
day willbe addressed by speakers
from the students’ council, fac-

‘ ulty and community leaders,

Cruise said his committee is
working with the Canadian Union
of Students to eliminate tuition
fees at all Canada universities,

“We passed a resolution about
it at the Canadian University
Students’ Congress in Lennox-
ville, Quebec early this month,
We'‘all realize the financial and
social barriers to higher educa-
tion, and something must be done
about it,”

An editorial states that “With
the election ahead, student action
could turn the Bladen report into
a real political football, with the
Liberals still wiping the egg off

after failing to implement the
10,000 $1,000 scholarships they

promised before the last elec-
tion,”

The Bladen report is expected
this fall, Dean Vincent Bladen
of Toronto was appointed a one-
man commission on university

financing,

Canadian university students

have decided to take their
on to the hustings in the Fed
election campaign, Not only
the Liberal government failed '
carry out its election pledge *
create 10,000 $1,000 scholat
ships, but Federal aid to uni
versities have been disgraceful
low - and has been declinif

The Federal share of Univer
sity of B.C. costs is only abl
20 percent, The Dominion Bur
eau of Statistics recently dig
closed that the average per sult 3
dent Federal grant to université
for operating expenses declin@
from $297 in 1963 to $271 in 196% |

These same figures show th
the Federal government's shat
for operating expenses of Cal
adian universities fell from 21")
percent in 1959 to about 10 pel]
cent in 1964, i

VICTORIA
TO NOMINATE

National Communist Party com
paign chairman Nelson Clarke,
speak at a nomination meeting
Victoria Friday, September 24
8 p.m. : /

This week a former Canadio"|
naval officer end Parksville villag?}
commissioner, Lt.-Cmdr. W. 5. *
Morrison, said he will allow his
name to go before the nominatind
meeting as a candidate. He wil
address the Victoria rally along
Clarke.

Stewart nominated in Vancouver South

Nominated Monday ofthis week
at an opening election rally held
in the Peretz School, William
(Bill) Stewart, Communist Party
éandidate for Vancouver South
constituency told his audience:

“In this Federal election cam-
paign the people df Vancouver-
South constitutency will know that
there is a Communist Party
candidate in the field, I shall
raise those vital issues ofpeace,
independence and social progress
for the people of our country,
Issues which the Liberal and
Tory politicians would prefer to
forget or gloss over,”

In his acceptance speech the
Communist candidate and Van-
couver City secretary of the
Communist Party, underscored
many of the issues upon which
the Liberals had made fullsome
promises in the 1963 Federal
election campaign, with little or
nothing to indicate their ful-
fillment, “But they did manage
without any mandate from the
people of this country to tie
Canada closer, economically and
politically, with the war policies
of the U,S, Johnson administra-
tion, Before the last election
Pearson promised to extricate
Canada from the nuclear com-
mitments made by the Diefen-
baker government, Instead we
now have U,S, Bomarcs and nu-
clear warheads installed at Ma-
caza, Quebec and over on the Is-

land at Comox.”

Principal speaker at the Van-

couver South nomination rally
was Nelson Clarke, national or-
ganizer and Federal campaign
manager ofthe Communist Party,

“Pearson’s calling this elec-
tion arose out of the determina-
tion of certain monopoly interests
to have a majority government
which could “get tough” with the
people — the same forces that
wanted a general election in 1963
to oust the Diefenbaker govern-
ment, They are probably not so
open and evident now as they were
then, but they are the same
forces who pressured this elec-
tion into being, They wanted it

now with even greater urgency
than they did in 1963,

“They want to be able to carry
through more take-overs of Can-
adian resources, Having got the
Columbia River they now want the
bulk of Canada’s water re-
sources, They want policies
which will tie Canada’s economy
tighter with that of the U,s.
They want Canada involved as a
member of the Organization of
American States (OAS), They
want to get tough with the labor
movement, to put a curb on wage
increases and the elimination of
strikes in the civil service and
other sections of organized labor,
They also want Canada to become
an active participant in U.S, ag-
gression in Vietnam and South-
east Asia.”

The Communist National or-
ganizer also emphasized that
given the majority demanded by
Pearson, “there is no assurance
that all the grandoise promises
made on medicare and other
pressing social legislation will be
implemented. We’ll more than
likely lapse .back to the 1919
Liberal policy of “promising®
medicare but not enacting it,
But with a Pearson majority gov-
ernment, Canada would certainly
become involved in Vietnam or
other U.S, war adventures at U.S,
insistence.”

The speaker also emphasized
that “having made his peace with
the Bay Street and James Street
financiers, it is also not outside
the realm of possibility of a

Diefenbaker majority, both
equally disastrous for the peace
and well being of Canada,”

“The position of the Communist
Party in this election,” concluded
Clarke, “is for Canadians to deny
to both parties of big business,
any majority government in
Ottawa and to defeat this objec-
tive by the election of a large
block of progressive candidates,
NDP, Communists and others

who might emerge, Thecreati
of a large ‘balance of pow® {
group of progressives woul?
serve the best interests of HY

Canadian people,”

The nomination rally was 5
chaired by Sid Sheard, prominelt a
labor resident of Vancouve! 4
South, Noted folksinger 7” |
Hawken gave a series of sone?
highly appropriate to the oce®
sion, :

NDP paper hits U.S.
interference in trade

The Commonwealth, NDP paper issuedin Regina, Saskatel!
ewan drew attention to the recent $30 million flour deal eal’
marked for Cuba and made the following comment:

“In the usual way of Washington, the subsidiaries of US.

firms in Canada are prohibited from grinding any of this flout
Fortunately in this case, we have enough Canadian-owne®
mills to handle this order, But suppose all, or 97% of ou
mills, were owned by the U,S, or as the Financial Post raisé
the question:

“What if the orders had been for cars, in which the indust!
in Canada is 97% U.S,—controlled or refined petroleum (93%), OF
rubber products (91%), Presumably Canada would have had t0”
forego almost the entire business and the benefits in jobs 42°
vital foreign exchange, because of the legislation of the US»
Congress,” x

“Until we gain legal control of all industries established
on Canadian soil through nationalization procedures or other
means, if any; or until such time when we are in a position to
compel the foreign owners of industries established in Can@ Le
to abide by Canadian laws and legislation, we should not t@
too loudly about being an independent nation: It only provokes
laughter,”

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September 24, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PO9? —