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Watertront development
for people or developers?

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

I’m glad to see that Mayor Art
Phillips and urban Affairs
minister Ron Basford now agree
that we need an overall plan for
the development of Vancouver’s
waterfront. That’s what I’ve
been advocating for years. But
unfortunately Phillips and
Basford are limiting their plan-
ning to only a small area of the
waterfront — the 100 acres
between Main Street and Stanley
Park and north of Pender,
Georgia and Hastings.

Both of them now declare that
they want to replace the ‘‘ad
hockery”’ of previous waterfront
development with a plan that
will be for ‘‘the benefit of our
citizens.’ And both of them now
suggest that the old Four
Seasons project and the CPR’s
Project 200, (with its huge con-
crete structure that blots out the
sky and the view of the harbor
and the mountains), were mis-
takes. If they had been complete-

COPE reiterates unity appeal

~ The Committee of Progressive
Electors following its annual
meeting Saturday again appeal-
ed to the Vancouver Area Coun-
cil of the NDP for unity of the
two groups in this year’s civic
elections.

The appeal, endorsed by all
members present at the meeting
noted the fact that COPE and the
NDP had secured 25% of the pop-
ular vote in the 1972 elections and
called on the NDP to “to join
with COPE, the trade union
movement and other concerned
citizen groups in sponsoring one
slate of candidates united around
a common program.”

Ever since the NDP opted to
contest civic elections on a par-
tisan basis, COPE has urged uni-
ty between the two organizations
and this year reiterated its posi-
tion that ‘‘progressive civic
groups cannot hope to achieve
victory so long as they remain
divided.”

“It is our conviction,” the
COPE i

unity would arouse such in-
thusiasm and energy that the
election of a substantial number,
if not a majority of reform can-
didates would be assured.

The meeting also elected a new
slate of officers for the coming
year with president Bruce Yorke
heading up the new executive.
Ben Swankey was elected vice-
president, Joan Rankin,
treasurer and Margaret Chunn,
secretary. The ten members of
the executive were Ben
Margolese, Frank Kennedy,
Chris Shelton, Paul Bjarnason,
David Stone, Sam Vint Jr.,
Columba Rush, Gladise Bjar-
nason, Bridget Moran and Sid
Worobetz.

Speaking to the annual
meeting, alderman Harry
Rankin called on city council to
take action to build low rental
housing for moderate and low in-
come groups.

“TI receive far more calls to-
day than at any other time in the

seven years that I’ve been on
council, he said, from people who
are in panic and dread because
they’re being evicted or can’t
pay the exorbitant rent increases
being demanded of them. City
Council refuses to build any low
rental housing in the False Creek

area. Our TEAM council thinks _

this area is really too good for or-
dinary working people. It’s only
interested in so-called. quality
housing for the middle and upper
income groups.”

The meeting endorsed a
‘resolution calling on the provin-
cial government toi double its
housing appropriations, asking
city council to set up a city hous-
ing authority to begin building
housing starting in the south east
corner of the city, and endorsing
a petition initiated by the Down-
town Eastside Residents
Association appealing to the
provincial government to es-

tablish rent review boards and _

collective bargaining Tights for
tenants

ly candid, they could have added
that they both supported these
projects when they were still in
the planning stage.

What they are proposing, in
fact, is to open up this area of the
waterfront to developers and to
construct a complex of office
buildings, luxury apartments and
hotels, expensive tourist
facilities and yacht clubs for the
rich. The only ‘‘citizens’’ that
will be able to enjoy these
facilities will be those in the top
income brackets. It’s in line with
TEAM’s concept of making the

downtown area an ‘‘executive- .

type”’ city.

My ideas for developing this
area of the waterfront are quite
different because waterfront
development should serve the in-
terests of the majority of the
citizens and not just the business
community and the wealthy. My
proposals include the following:

e A large part of this 200

acres, at least half of it, should ,

be park space, for the enjoy-
ment of all the citizens. It should
include a beach.

¢ No land presently held by the
National Harbors Board or land
held or acquired by the city
should be turned over to any
developers, by way of lease or
sale. Furthermore, any facilities
or structures placed on publicly

PRICES

Cont'd from pg. 1

the prices of basic foods such as
bread, meat, milk, potatoes,
citrus fruits, coffee, tea, etc.
Where necessary this may be ac-
complished by subsidies, but
these will be ineffective unless
accompanied by rigid controls.

¢ Remove housing from the
sphere of speculation and bring
rents under control.

e Curb monopolies and their
practices which result in out-
rageous profit margins. Enforce
anti-monopoly laws with
penalties that hurt instead of
miniscule fines.

“But the first, immediate step
is the decisive, drastic roll back
of prices of necessities,’ con-
cludes the brief

owned lands should be publicly
built, publicly owned and public
ly operated. This would include
restaurants, museums, art
galleries and a fishermens |
wharf. a

e A new modern passengel —
terminal should be constructed |
to meet the needs of our I y
creasing ocean passenger traffi€ |
and to replace the disgraceful —
facilities now existing. :

e The ferry service betwee!
Vancouver and North Vancouvel |
should be restored and a ferly —
slip built in this area of the
waterfront. ;

¢ There should be a continuous —
waterfront public walkway right
from Main Street through
Stanley Park.

¢ No expansion of yacht clubs
should be permitted. Wé
shouldn't alienate any mote
public space for the use of a few
rich people. _

* All planes should be barred |
from this area of the waterfront |
This noise pollution we can @ -
without.

* Boat building should b®
removed to another site, peralps .

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further up Indian Arm. :
¢ No luxury apartments % |
hotels. There’s no housing sho! |
tage among the wealthy. Aly
facilities built should be for
use and enjoyment of all citizem™:

not just a few. |

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feature article in the magazine section of the
Vancouver Sun of February 23, 1974 is a look
at one of the more ignominious parts of our history, an
episode of which most Canadians know little and if they
did could hardly be proud of it and about which the news
media has had little to say since those world-shaking
ears.
: The story is a sketch history of the exploits of the
Canadian Expeditionary Force in the multi-imperialist
invasion of Soviet Russia. It was the first of several
fruitless efforts to crush the Bolshevik Revolution at
the urging of the arch-imperialist Winston Churchill to
strangle the infant of Bolshevism in its cradle.

These Canadian armed forces, according to this
author, engaged in their share of pillage and killing and
in the historical process destroyed yet another illusion
that various Establishments have sought to maintain
over the years: that Canada does not interfere in the in-
ternal affairs of other nations. Such an oft-repeated tale
lacks credibility as much as the Expeditionary Force
itself. And the ruling class of this country is primarily
of the same breed as those from whom the October
Revolution stripped of all power.

“T would welcome Mr. Solzhenitsyn to Canada’”’

nnaire Prime Minister in his

characteristic non-intervention pose. Well, why not?
Former Nazis have received an asylum and welcome in
Canada from the same ruling class, be it Tory or
Liberal, so why not their kindred soul, Solzhenitsyn?
After all they had, and have, a common aim and pur-
pose: the ultimate destruction of the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics.

Nor does M. Trudeau express his welcome without

- some official precedent. It wasn’t an idle gesture on the

part of the late Liberal chief Mackenzie King when he
specially visited Adolph Hitler, to find that
megalomaniac”’ a very fine gentlemen.’ Later he ex-
pressed his joint hopes with atomic bomber Harry
Truman, that if Hitler could just be convinced to move
in and lay the Soviet Union in ruins, they together could
move in and “‘gather up the pieces’’! As with the first
Canadian expeditionary invasion, that hope was not
destined to be realized. On the contrary both had to rely
heavily on the Red Army and Soviet people to rescue
them from a world disaster of their own making.

Not to be outdone, however, Mackenzie King salvaged
an obscure dissident clerk from the Soviet Embassy in
Ottawa, one Igor Gouzenko, building around him such a
Soviet ‘“‘spy” thriller as to make the dime novelists
green with envy, and presented this melodrama all
ready made to Messrs. Churchill and Truman as a
worthy launching platform for their Missouri introduc-
tion for the engineered production of decades of cold
war against the Soviet Union!

“Head-in-a-bag’’ Gouzenko had one redeeming
characteristic. He never posed as an intellectual. Now a
confirmed alcoholic (at the taxpayer’s expense) he has
long been inarticulate. Not so with the ‘‘millionnaire in-

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‘twisting the news when the twisting dovetails with ve Fo

tellectual” Solzhenitsyn and those reactionary sectio" : j
of the Canadian news media who give him thei! ee
qualified approval. :

Last week William (Bill) Kashtan, national Jeade’ |
of the Communist Party of Canada addressed a letter
several of these individuals and corporations, © ra
among whom were the Canadian Broadcasting CorP me) q
tion (CBC), Pierre Berton, Mordecai Richler, M be
Callaghan and Mark Gayn. Mr. Kashtan could havé |
cluded scores more, but these ‘‘intellectuals”’ and af |
Sovieteers are a typical cross section of the preed: 5

They have already had ample oportunity and oF 3
to spout their anti-Sovietism and sabotage for dele!
over the airwaves -and into the homes of millions ° a
Suspecting Canadians, Their collective rallying i
to Canadian artists and literati could well be, ‘Inte ut f
tuals of Canada Unite. You have nothing to 10S€ jy

decency and detente. You have a Solzhenitsyn to wi

All those referred to are influential cogs ine
Canadian news media, radio and TV. All are adep e

political and financial interests of their respon g

falsehoods, designed to discredit Soviet achievem@ |

in cultural, industrial and other fields. Now all are ay

the Solzhenitsyn ‘“‘band wagon.”’ it]er>!
for Bi-yeln world TaNeriAlisin with its ite
spook-consulting Kings, Trumans, Churchills et al ee a
tried it, and failed dismally, It is not written nd
handful of ‘“‘intellectuals,”’ petty forgers
professinal prevaricators, will fare any better-
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