a i, i ok ¢ m - ~ sas, Re of OTHER ” GROM THE HALIS OF MONTEZUMA “To THE SHORES OF TRIPOL! Nations t e ot < yr ¥ 2 am THEY RIP-OFF ANY COUNTRY FROM SEA ~To SHINING SEA VOTING DAY NOV. 17 Unionists contest civic elections throughout B.C. A record number of candidates have filed pomination papers for Sivic office jn B.C.’s municipalities _ who go to the polls on Saturday, Nov.- 17 Ali -crtres and municipalities outside of Van- couver will vote on that day. In addition to electing mayors, aldermen and school trustees, voters will also ballot on school money bylaws totalling close to $70 million. Although many mayoralty and school board seats are uncontested, with a large number of acclamations, there will be a sharp contest in most municipalities for aldermanic seats. In contrast to previous years fewer aldermanic positions fave gone by acclama- tion. Of 681 seats at stake, only 65 went by acclamation when nominations closed on October 29. A feature of the civic elections is the increased participation of trade unionist and labor candidates in important industrial areas. Par- ticular attention in this regard is fixed on Alberni and Burnaby, where labor already has strong elected positions and are making a bid this year to extend representa- tion on civic bodies. Trade unionists are also running for civic office in important areas such a Nanaimo, Trail, Surrey and North Vancouver. In Alberni labor is taking part in the election through the newly-formed Citizens First Committee, and in Burnaby through the Burnaby Citizens Association. The North Vancouver civic. organization, which broke through last year with the election of some of its candidates, the Association for Community Action, will be run- ning candidates again this year. aces oreo City should recycling business - By ALD. HARRY RANKIN City Council has decided on a pilot project for the collection of paper, (mainly newspapers), for recycling purposes. They will be collected along with garbage, pick- ups can be arranged in between garbage collections and citizens can deliver papers personally to a central depot. The papers collected would be sold to a dealer selected by the City Engineering Depart- ment. : The project is good as far as it goes. It would help to conserve resources and curtail pollution of the environment. I think we should go a Step further, however. We should collect not only newspapers, but any other material that can be recycled, including textiles, glass and metals. And once we begin collecting all this material, why should we sell it to a private dealer? Why can’t the city itself go into the recyclng » business? The advantages are obvious. A lot of materials now thrown away and buried in the Burns Bog could be saved and reused after recycling. This in itself would be a tremendous saving for society. Secondly, if there’s money to be made from gathering materials for cycling, why should this opportuni- ty be turned over to some in- dividual when the city could make some money for itself? The profits from recycling could do a great deal to help our environment- The recycling of waste materials raises an even larger question — that of the waste of valuable resources by all the fancy packag- ing that goes on today for con- sumer items. 99 percent of this fan- cy packaging is a complete waste of resources. It serves no useful pur- pose whatsoever. In fact in many cases more money today is spent on the wrapper than on the product itself. Beaver Transfer * Moving * Packing * Storage 790 Powell St. Phone 254-3711 go into The consumer who buys a chocolate bar, a bar of soap, a few nails or screws, or a box of apples isn't interested in the packaging but in the contents. I have no doubt that millions of dollars could be saved and prices cut drastically if all this fancy packaging were dis- pensed with. Fancy packaging is one of the many wastes caused by our private enterprise system. There waS a time, not so long ago, when many consumer items, particularly food, were sold in bulk and were none the worse for it. Their cost was a lot lower as a result. ; ; However since we do live in this wasteful private enterprise society, the problem is to re-use as many of our resources as possible. Our city can play some small role at least in this by picking up and having recycled as many items as possible. That is why I am urging that city collections be extended from newspapers to other items such as glass, metals and textiles, and that the city actually go into the recycl- ing business. One other important point could be mentioned which adds a note of urgency to my proposal. It is only so many years before the Burns Bog will be filled. Where do we take our garbage then? Shouldn't we now be looking into ways and means of recycling all our garbage? Colin Snell, business agent for Local 452, Carpenters, shown here speaking at the B.C. Federa- tion of Labor Convention last week, is one of several trad unionists contesting an aldel manic seat for the Burnaby Citizens Association in the municipal elections November 17. Hugh Cooper i + President BCA anda membe,y hike Government Employees Union dall from the with Gerry Ast. T long f 2m Con IBEW business A é eekin -elec- t S g re-elec ion. Gary Begin ang Barry Jones are the BCA candidates in the oor board Knott seeking school board aa Ernie Knott, a long time resident of Sooke and a trade unionists employed for m BY veheee lumber industry Y: years ae is ¢ : oa rte ag ding, Sooke. He Ww : for the seat last vests : candidate Knott is campajon; : Paigning. o program aimed at henetie g nan struction on a n SAR dary school in the Mot a Lake area instead of makin a ditions in the Dunsmuir Scho . es also pledged to ensuring that the provincial government holds t its pre-election pledge of remojdid school taxes ana from the home and Jack Higgin ar , fisherm former member of the IWA rs ue ing several other municipal trade union candidates on the Island in contesting a regio Courtenay. 810nal board seat in Tom yy e couldn't agree More. At a recent executive ses- sion of the AFL-CIO in Miami, FLorida, Presi- dent George Meany declared, apropos of President Nixon's firing of tne Watergate chief prosecutor Archibald Cox, that ~ the president of these United States is ‘emotionally un- balanced.“ in other words just plain “nuts,” : ts d that h should “step down or be impeached.” sk : * That's going some for Meany, who has been one of the ad Bornber’s most enthusiastic supporters in his futile attempts to bomb Vietnam and Cambodia “‘back to the stone age, to say nothing of his latest “‘brinkmanship™ anent the Middle East escalating dangers. __ Stung by Meany’s momentary frankness, whom he con- or _— a trusted friend, the President had some sty words for George, stating among ot i “Meany is not qualified to seed labor Spay It so happens that both principles in this high-level repartee were and are both eminently correct and right in their observations; that the one is “mentally unbalanced,” the other “unqualified to lead . . .”” And since the basic. law off qialectics (or Jogic) do not permit a separation of the PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1973—-PAGE 2 ieteteteneneatate*e"e schizophrenic from the labor faker in capitalist society, both are right in their evaluation of each other. “Two peas from the same (rotting) pod.” ** * For some considerable time now a Wide variety of press columnists, commentators and other pundits have been do- ing lengthy screeds on labor. The most recent of these to sound off on labor's inability to erase the class struggle, (which its class colloborationist segment has long tried to do but with little or no success) is Mr. Harold Greer in the Vancouver Sun edition of October 24, 1973. Mr. Greer notes that the 100th anniversary of organized labor in Canada was celebrated with “‘a minimum of fuss In labor circles.” ‘With this auspicious start Mr. Greer chews lustily on the bone of his theme. It would appear, according to Mr. Greer, that during its first 100-years, labor just hasn’t managed to produce a workable alternative or substitute for the strike. Hence. in keeping with Gallup poll opinion, plus Greer ‘thinking, the strike and its objective for higher wages ‘is Sym onymous with economic inflation and high prices.” SO say they all. Such “‘thinking’’ of course, iS neither new nor true.. Every Establishment apologist, together with a large ests selenite proportion of the public (unfortunately), plus every profit- grabbing monopolist, have learned to parrot this same tale, viz; that high wages are the prime cause of high prices and Se beg high, inflation,”. When a working Plug, through his union . Saati ae aa ane ssssris enemas SOFSSSSOOSG - -tial between a slave status and free ri Si main differen- sks for a 10-cent an hour wage increase. . SESE ST to be highly “inflationary, but let the oy — is os , levels of administration vote themselves rae ies at a hike, that doesn’t affect inflation in the $10 — an hour Greer poses some conundrums he “ge : < primarily to confuse rather than clarify, What re up, “to bargain in good faith?”’; an absence = we oe mula on ‘what is bargainable?”’, and a Sinai pe se “accepted sta ioe arbitrators, “jn, ; n pi 0 rbitrati See cotati S, see strike,”’ ete. and Perhaps Mr. Greer shouls have he] . a Barrett NDP government of B.C. got ae his propsective (with a Social Credit hall-mark), ang new” labor bill Relations Board under way. Neither ee new Labor Code” nor its enforcement appendages on is new Labor good faith” as far as B.C. labor is conce re conceived “in Moreover labor has learned in the tned. what is, and what is not bargainable: he ast 100-years just strike and picket, being definitely "Sht to organus, bargainables. among the un- Should the Barrett-King Labor attempt to impose compulsory artim te Board strike (and they wouldn't be the first to nan in lieu of the both they and columnist Greer wil] ~ ake the attempt), made good use of its first 100-years a is that labor has just some things that aren’t “bargainaty, 1873. There are withold labor power is primary, markj le’. The right to r! ser