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JACK PHILLIPS ... in Van-
couver, Centre

CP fields

win back the riding from -the
Liberal’s Art Lee.

e Also in the Fraser Valley,
Jim Beynon will run for a se-
cond time as the CP candidate
in Mission Port Moody.
Beynon is a shipyard worker
and an executive member of
the Marine and Boilermakers
Industrial Union.

e At the north end of Van-
couver Island, in Comox-
Powell River, the CP’s Sy
Pedersen will be trying to
build on his more than 500
votes captured last year, the
highest Communist vote in the
country. Pedersen, a logger
and IWA activist , will see his
campaign take him into the
working class communities of

| Campbell River, Port Hardy,

SWANN in~ Surrey-
White Rock

Vi

10 B.C. candidates

Powell River and Sointula.

e Also .on Vancouver
Island, Alberni regional board
member and long time CP
candidate Mark Mosher will
be running once again in
Nanaimo Alberni.

¢ In Cowichan Malahat,
the Islands, the CP has nom-
inated woodworker and IWA
member Ernie Knott. Knott
was, the first candidate in the
field and promised to focus his
attack on Tory economic
policy and the defense policies
of Tory minister Allan McKin-
non running for re-election in
the close by Victoria riding.

© Vancouver Kingsway will
see the CP nominate United
Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union welfare officer Bert

SY PEDERSEN ...

in Comox-
Powell River

Ogden to contest the: riding
which also was recaptured by
the NDP from the Liberals last
year.

¢ In Richmond Delta long
time Fishermen’s Union leader
Homer Stevens will be taking a
third shot at the suburban
riding sprawling over the
banks of the Fraser River.

© The New Westminster
race will see CP candidate and
longshoreman Rod Doran run
once again in that city.

¢ The riding of Surrey- |
White Rock will focus the.
CP’s campaign in the Fraser
Valley. Fred Bianco polled a
solid vote last year, but Vi
Swann has been chosen to con-
test the riding this time. Swann
ran last year in the neighbor-
ing constituency of Fraser

Valley West sy

Call Clark gov't to account,

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

—— ee ESN VE UNS Lrvcrarn-arrentire—reasans:

NDP did the right thing when
they joined together in parlia-
ment to bring down Joe Cluck’s
government, evén if they may
have done it for the wrong
reasons. 2

The Conservative minority
government should be accoun-
table to the people of Canada at

this time for at least two goo

(1) Joe Cluck has reneged on
almost all of his elections pro-
mises, on which he got elected.

(2) Joe Cluck promised us
more jobs, lower inflation and
cuts in taxes. The budget

brought down by his finance

minister, John Crosbie, impos-
ed heavy new taxes that would
have taken hundreds of dollars

“PEOPLE AND ISSUES”

note from Bert Nilsson in
A Vernon received just after
we went to press witl. our year-
end issue brought us the sad
news that Francis Packota, a
reader and supporter for many
years, passed away in Vernon
Jubilee Hospital.

Born Francis Anaka in the
Ukraine in 1900, she spent most
of her 79 years on the prairies
where she was active in various
farm organizations which
sprang up during the depression
years. Im later years, she
devoted much of her time to the
peace movement, raising funds
and aid for both the Canadian
Peace Congress and Canadian
Aid for Vietnam Civilians. In
those same-years she became a
member of the Communist Par-
ty of Canada.

Bert Nilsson joined John
Alexiewich from Calgary in
paying tribute to Francis, prais-
ing her ‘‘honesty, her generosi-
ty, her friendliness and, above
all, her dedication to causes that
she would not benefit from
alone.”’

* * oh

e had hoped that Mike
Stevens, who was
hospitalized just a couple of

Es

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 11, 1980— Page 2

weeks before Christmas, would
be back on his feet before this
issue came out, but his recovery
is proving to be a little slower
than expected.

Nevertheless, Mike, who is
well known to Tribune readers
as a perennial poll-topper in the
annual financial drive, is in
good condition and is able to
welcome visitors. He’s in Room
411 in Vancouver’s St. Paul’s
Hospital.

* * *

n the lighter side, we have
oO just discovered how long-
time press director Minnie
Vainio has managed to get
herself in shape for the Tribune
drive and led her Niilo Makela
club to top honors in several
drives in recent years.

On New Year’s Day, she was
among those to plunge into the
bone-chilling waters of Van-
couver’s English Bay in tlfé an-
nual Polar Bear Club swim. At
76, she was the oldest ““polar
bear’’ among the hundreds who
turned out this year.

Apparently, she’s been going
for years, although, she allows,
she also goes at other times
besides New Year’s Day.

out of the pockets of working
people; it included. a deal with
the big multinational oil com-
panies that would have taken
additional billions of dollars out
of our pockets in the form of
higher gas and oil prices, and
promised us only higher infla-
tion and higher unemployment
for the next decade.

Now that Joe Cluck has
demonstrated the difference
between his words and_his
deeds, he should answer to the
electorate.

The same thing should have
happened, but didn’t in 1975.
You will remember that Pierre
Trudeau was elected in 1974 on
his promise that he would not
bring in wage and price con-
trols. A year later he brought
them in.

The real issues in this elec-
tion, as I see them, in addition
to the whole question of the
credibility of our two major
political parties include the
following:

(1) Is Canada going to con-
trol its own energy resources,
especially oil and natural gas, or
are we going to allow the big
multinational oil corporations
to decide how and when they
will be developed and how
much we will pay for them?

We have rich resources of
energy, enough to last us for
many decades to come, with a
low cost of production. There is
no justification for bringing
Canadian domestic prices up to
world levels. As long as these
foreign-owned oil corporations
have a stranglehold on our oil
and gas, they will continue to
screw us around, creating shor-
tages whenever it suits their pur-
pose.

Just keeping PetroCan, as a

DERA cutbacks

The Downtown Eastside Res-
idents Association this week
Suspended its community ser-
vices and advocacy program
which thousands of local
residents have relied on oyer
five years.

DERA president Bruce
Eriksen told the Tribune Tues-
day that the association had no
choice. The money had run out,
he said, and both the city of
Vancouver and the provincial
government have refused to
grant a single cent for the con-
tinuation of the services.

But while right-wing NPA
alderman Warnett Kennedy and
TEAM’s Marguerite Ford
publicly applauded the closing
of the services, Eriksen warned
them not to eulogize the death
of the association so hastily.
DERA continues to have strong
and growing membership sup-
port, he,said, and it will remain
active on broader social issues.

“We don’t have any money
to keep providing the band-aid
social services,’’ he said, ‘“‘but
we will continue to deal with the
political questions that affect
Our members. In fact, we’ll
have more time than ever to
deal with the politicians.’’

DERA hasn’t given up ‘the
battle for funding and it will

nationally owned oil industry, is
not enough. We need’ to take
over the whole works. Then the
oil tiger will become a nice tame
pussycat.

(2) Inflation: How it can be
controlled and the rate brought
down?

Trudeau certainly didn’t
“wrestle it to the ground”’ as he
promised and Joe Cluck’s
budget predicted two-digit in-
flation for the foreseeable
future.

The problem is that neither
the Liberals nor the Conser-
vatives tackled the key cause of
inflation which is the profiteer-
ing of the big corporations who
have a monopoly on practically
every segment of the economy
and who have made price-fixing
among themselves a way of life.

No company should be allow-
ed to increase any price without
first being compelled to justify
them publicly to a government-
appointed board on which con-
sumers and labor are adequately
represented.

(3) We don’t have to accept
the idea that large scale
unemployment is here to stay.

New jobs could be created by
the hundreds of thousands if we
were to build up industries to
process our resources and not
ship them out in their raw state;
if we were to build up our
manufacturing industries; build
a Canadian merchant marine;

undertake a_ massive’ housing»

project to overcome the acute
shortage in this area; and build
rapid transit systems.

(4) The so-called Quebec pro-
blem will not be solved until
English Canada recognizes that
the people of Quebec constitute

. a nation in their own right, that

they have the right to decide

urges Rankin

once again attempt to secure

funds from Vancouver city
council in 1980. The association
has also appealed to the pro q
vincial ombudsman to ine
vestigate its charges of political
discrimination. j

But for the meanti e
DERA’s skeleton volunteef
staff will refer local residents tO
social services agencies and
government departments. If
only the first day of referrals, —
the various agencies were
swamped, Eriksen said.

At St. James social services, 1
at Gore ave. and Cordova, 4

ee

reported 60 people were turned _

away. 4
Without DERA’s services

people will undoubtedly suff

hardships,

on the shoulders of the city 7 |
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province which imposed
“economic sanctions’? on the
association for political pur-
poses. 2,

The wide range of del

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Ly,

offered by DERA have include
advocacy help for residents in
disputes with the federal pen-
sion department, the provincial
welfare department, city health
and fire departments, landlords:
and the Rentalsman., E

&

their own destiny and all their
own? -affairs;~ and..that . these
_rights should be guaranteed ina
new Canadian Constitution. —
(5) Peace and arms reduc-
tion: ; Fi
For Canada to spend $2.5
billion on nuclear bombers and
fighters that become obsolete as
fast as they are produced, just
seems insane. \g
So does Canada’s support for
NATO’s plans (under U.S.
pressure) to establish 572 new
Cruise and Pershing II missile
bases in Europe. ‘

There is no road to peace ex-

cept through arms reduction —

and eventual complete disarma-
ment and this can only be
achieved through ” negotiation. |
Canada, as a middle Power,
should play a constructive role
in these negotiations and not
just be a ‘‘me too”’ echo of the
war hawks in the U.S.
To cut our present arms
budget of over $4 billion a year
by just 50 percent would release
billions for the many useful pro-
jects Canada so badly needs to
stimulate our economy and pro-

vide jobs. That would also be ~

the quickest way to reduce our
huge deficit.

We’re always being warned
about the dangers of a Soviet at-
tack that never materializes,
and while we’re busily looking
to the North, our grasping
neighbor to the South has his
hands in our pockets and is tak-
ing over the whole country —
all in the name of protecting us _
from the ‘‘Soviet menace,” of
course. Z

The real subversives in this
country are those who are sell-
ing our country and its
resources to the U.S. and who-
allow that country to dictate our
foreign policy.

he said, but th a
responsibility will have to fall _

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