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The Communist Party
nominated two more candidates
for the pending federal election
last week, bringing the CP’s
number of candidates in B.C. to 14
— half of the constituencies in the
province.

In the newly created federal
riding of Burnaby, the CP has
nominated 55-year-old teacher
Betty Griffin. The only other
carididate in the field so far in
Burnaby is the NDP’s Svend
Robinson.

Griffin is well known in Burnaby
as past president of the Burnaby
Teachers’ Association and as an
executive member of Burnaby
ratepayer and PTA groups. She
has been associated with the
citizen campaigns to stop the take-
over of Burnaby parkland by oil

refinery expansion.

A teacher for 25 years, Griffin is
a member of the British Columbia
Teachers’ Federation’s education
finance committee, judicial
committee and is chairperson of its
income security committee.

Also last week, the CP

Cork memorial

A memorial meeting for Jim
Cork, long-time community ac-
tivist in Vancouver who passed
away April 3, has been set for
Sunday, April 23 at 2 p.m. in the
Hastings Community Centre.

Speakers at the memorial meet-
ing will include alderman Harry
Rankin, parks commissioner Andy
Livingstone and Hastings Sunrise
Action council president Gladys
Harding.

at

BETTY GREENWELL

CP candidates running

half of B.C. ridings

nominated Betty Greenwell for the
second time in Vancouver Centre
riding a seat now vacated by
retiring federal justice minister
Ron Basford.

A biologist by profession, Green-
well is best known for her
numerous attempts to gain election
to the Vancouver School Board on
the Committee of Progressive
Electors slate. In 1976 she polled
over 18,000 votes in the civic
election.

Greenwell is an activist in the
Hastings Sunrise community and a
director of the Hastings Sunrise
Action Council. Recently she was
awarded an honorary life-time
membership in the Hastings
Community Association.

Griffin and Greenwell join Vi
Swann, candidate in Fraser Valley
West, as CP women candidates in
B.C. The CP slate is one of the
youngest it has had with Van-
couver East candidate Fred Wilson
the youngest, at 26.

Of the 14 candidates, 11 are trade
unionists.

The other CP candidates are:
Jack Phillips in Vancouver Kings-
way; Jim Beynon in Mission-Port
Moody; Mark Mosher in Nanaimo-
Alberni; Ernie Knott in Cowichan-
Malahat-Islands; Homer Stevens
in Richmond-South Delta; | Bert
Ogden in Vancouver South; Eric
Waugh in North Vancouver-
Burnaby; Rod Doran in New West-
minster-Coquitlam; Fred Bianco
in Surrey-White Rock-North Delta,
and Sy Pedersen in Comox-Powell
River.

City juggling truck problem

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Should Boundary Road become
the major truck route in Van-
couver? Or, should it remain as it
is?

This was the main issue at city
council’s meeting on Tuesday,
April 12, 1978. Addressing council
and voicing strong opposition to
any changes that would increase
truck traffic on Boundary were
numerous citizen groups from the
area including planner Sol Jack-
son, as well-as Bruce Yorke from
the Committee of Progressive
Electors (COPE).

Before going into the issue any
further, I should mention that a
new road, Marine Way, is to be
constructed a few hundred metres
south of and parallel with Marine
Drive, starting just east of Kerr
Road and continuing on east and
connecting up eventually with
Scott Road in Surrey. It should also
be noted that Burnaby is develop-
ing a huge 1,000-acre industrial
park in the Big Bend area, on the
flats near the Fraser River.-
Further the provincial government
has plans for a new $150 million
bridge to Annacis Island which is
opposite Queensborough in New
Westminster. .

All of the above will have a pro-
found impact on the amount and
direction of the truck traffic
moving to and from Vancouver.

One thing at least is certain and
that is that the amount of. truck
traffic is bound to increase.

City council at its meeting on the
12th of April, considered a number
of proposals presented by city
staff. They ranged all the way from
keeping the status quo to making
Boundary Road the major truck
route and diverting all truck traffic
to Boundary. xt

To change Boundary into a
major truck route would mean
taking off a slice of Central Park
which the local residents, and I
think the majority of citizens,
would certainly oppose.

At present about 1,300 trucks a
day are using Knight Street, 625
use Joyce and 400 Argyle. Think
what these 2,325 additional trucks
would do to Boundary which is
currently used by about 225 trucks
a day!

I moved that council adopt
Option 1.A. The effect of this would
have been to keep Boundary pretty
well as it is as far as truck traffic is
concerned, but with the street im-
proved somewhat. In this I was
supported only by aldermen Har-

‘ court and Bellamy.

Council finally adopted Option
1.B., which alderman Harcourt
and I opposed.

Option 1.B. calls for some major
changes at the intersection of
Boundary Road and Marine Drive.

First of all, the grade on

Boundary Road going south down

the hill from Marine Drive to

Marine Way would be down con- ~

siderably so that it would be easier
for trucks to go up and down.
Secondly, left and right turns on

Marine Drive at Boundary Road —
would be cut out entirely by means —

of an overpass over Boundary

without any exits or entrances at

that point.

While the aldermen who support
Option 1.B. denied it, there is no
doubt at all in my mind that the
intention and result of this change
will be to encourage more truck
traffic to use Boundary Road.

The fact of the matter is that the
truck traffic problem in Vancouver
can’t be solved by juggling around
traffic from one street to another.
Heavy truck traffic just isn’t

compatible with neighborhood —

livability.
What is required is a regional

approach to this issue, one that
involves all three levels of govern-

ment plus the Greater Vancouver

Regional District.

It is also obvious to me that one —

of the directions we must look

‘solve this increasing truck prob-
lem is to move more goods by

railway. The tracks or at least the

roadbeds are already there if we

will only make use of them.

Court ‘wrong priority’ —Phillip

Communist Party federal
candidate in Vancouver Kingsway,
Jack Phillips, this week criticized
the proposed ‘‘juvenile accounta-
bility panel” that Liberal MP
Simma Holt is backing in the Cedar
Cottage-Kensington area of Kings-
way.

Under the program, juvenile
offenders would go before a private
citizens’ ‘‘court’’ for sentencing
which would decide on an “ap-
propriate means of providing
restitution to the victim or com-
munity.”

“Holt has her priorities all mixed
up,” Phillips charged ‘in a state-
ment Tuesday in response to a
weekend conference aimed at
winning community support for the
idea. ‘Instead of promoting make-
shift approaches such as this she
should be fighting for policies that
would get to the root of the
problem.

-PEOPLE AND ISSUES:

“We have more than enough
policemen, prosecutors, and social
engineers to deal with juvenile of-
fenders at the official level. What
the situation calls fer is social
action to get at the root of the
problem and to guarantee young
people a life with a purpose. In the
long run that’s the only way to
eliminate juvenile delinquency.”

Phillips linked juvenile problems
with high unemployment — an 18.4
per cent unemployment rate
among 15 to 19 year olds in 1977. He
also noted a Vancouver Sun report
on job creation programs for
students which showed that in 1977
only 31 jobs were created in
Vancouver Kingsway for students,
although there were an estimated
2,370 out of work.

‘Those 31 jobs were like a tear
drop in an ocean of misery,” he
said. ‘Is it any wonder that with
mass unemployment,

rising _

le

JACK PHILLIPS ... Juvenile
situation calls for social action:
prices, official pessimism and
commercialized corruption that S°
many juveniles run afoul of the
law? The wonder is that the
majority of young people have

maintained a good sense of social”

responsibility.”
Holt’s priorities should be jobs at

trade union wages and more
educational and job training oP”
portunities for juveniles, Phillips —

said.

or anyone who has read the near paranoid articles in its

organ New Solidarity — a recent article on the CLC
convention, for example, accused the leader of the Ontario
Federation of Labor of organizing a slogan-chanting goon
squad to oust its delegate from the convention floor — the
North American Labor Party, otherwise known as the
National Caucus of Labor Committees, would appear to be
at the far, far, end of political lunacy. But as we’ve noted in
our pages over the last few years, there is CIA method in
that political madness. And now, documents which the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation was compelled to release
and which the Washington, D.C. magazine Public Eye
obtained, prove that beyond any doubt.

According to the files, the NALP has occupied itself to a
considerable degree in spying and information-gathering
activities. One document showed, for example, that in
February, 1974, a Mr. Shulman of the NALP met with U.S.
Department of Commerce officials offering ‘‘substantial
evidence which would exonerate president Nixon from
Watergate charges.” :

Another showed that in May, 1976, the NALP began a
regular program of passing information to government
agencies and within two months, it had made 11 contacts
with the FBI, four of them personally, at FBI headquarters,
and the rest by telephone.

Just as sinister, the publication noted, are the NALP’s
activities in compiling information on labor and
progressive organizations for use by police. According to
Lyndon LaRouche, the mysterious head of the NALP, it’s

all part of the organization’s “common concern” with the ©

FBI about “fighting the danger of terrorism.”

The result has been, as was the case in the anti-nuclear

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—April 22, 1978—Page 2

demonstrations in New Hampshire in the U.S. last year,
that NALP agents have worked closely with the police as
provocateurs. And their information-gathering is in-
valuable to fill out police dossiers on community and labor
activists.”

NALP organizers, ‘hustle to gather up contacts, lists of
key activists and academics,” the Public Eye stated, “...
and before long they ... have assembled files complete
with 3x5 index cards which show personal data on most of
the community’s activists.”

Interestingly enough, the FBI successfully blocked the
release of its files on NALP activities after July, 1976 — at
which time the organization became much more openly
allied with the ultra-right. As the Public Eye put it, the
pattern of ideology and activity set by the NALP “‘closely
follows that of the Fascist tradition.”

Beware of people waving copies of New Solidarity and
exhorting you about ‘‘fusion power”’ or the evils of the Bank
of England. ; ; :

* * *

p ensions from government agencies being what they are
—and living costs also being what they are — it was with
considerable appreciation that we accepted a cheque this
week for the financial drive from Mildred Liversedge who
sent us $100 from her home in Cowichan. :

Ina brief note which she enclosed, she told us, ‘“‘I save for ©

a long time until there is enough. I get a bigger cheque than
some as Ronnie was a WW I veteran . . . and being a careful
person and realizing the necessity of the Tribune, I give
with pleasure to the drive.”

The ‘‘Ronnie”’ is, of course, the late Ronald Liversedge
whose memoirs, Recollections of the On-To-Ottawa Trek

has — at least in the original — become a collector’s item —
And his veteran’s cheque which Mildred still receives

should really include credit for more service than it does:
For Ronald, like some 1,200 other Canadians of his
generation fought with the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalio? —
in Spain — a record of service which the federal gover” —
ment has, to its shame, still failed to recognize.

* * *

‘It is with some sadness that we note the passing of a long

time supporter, Les Jacques who died in Powell Rivet

General Hospital March 23. He was 75.

A fisherman and fish buyer, and an active member of thes) .

United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union, Les came
this province originally from New Brunswick. His career i?
the fishing industry began in the early forties, ending w}
his retirement in 1973. He was an honorary member of the
UFAWU Local 42 at the time of his death.

Well known to the Tribune, Les was also a familiar sight
during our financial drives when his many donations
provided much needed assistance.

RIBUN

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