MEET YOUTH NEED Mayor Campbell's war on youth condemned “The heartless, provocative and sweeping attacks on Van- couver’s unemployed youth by the publicity-seeking, mil- lionaire mayor of this city is not only an insult to all decent, citizens but a great disservice,” Nigel Morgan, Provincial leader of the Communist Party declared in a press statement. “To shout ‘work or starve’ when there are as many people on Vancouver’s welfare roll as there were in 1934 (34,000) and one out of every ten of B.C.’s work force are jobless, is to stamp himself unfit for the high office entrusted to him,”’ Morgan said. Pat O’Kane, chairman of the. Young Communist League charged: ‘“‘The Mayor is trying to throw sand in our eyes to cover up his own ineptitude and lack of leadership in the present Richmond laxity of By MABEL RICHARDS. The situation in Richmond where unsafe levels of lead pollu- tion have been determined in a certain area is symptomatic of all that is wrong with pollution control in this province. Six cows in that particular area died of lead poisoning last year. Yet nothing was done to stop the source of the lead poison: ing until last week when a lead- producing plant in the contamin- ated area, Metalex, voluntarily closed down ‘‘until results of tests now being taken by pro- vincial and federal authorities are known.”’ FMC Chemical plant at Squamish spewed mercury into waters of Howe Sound for many months without being called to account. As a matter of fact, they operated for seven months without a permit from the Pro- vincial Pollution Board, and during that period were never checked by a representative of that body. On May 1 of this year, the Pacific Tribune asked edi- torially: How many large companies polluting our air, land and water are operating . without permits or checks on their operations? Despite the inescapable fact of the six dead animals, companies in Richmond which could conceivably have been the unemployment crisis. Thousands like me, with three small children have been laid off for months, and Campbell is trying to use an infinitesimally small number of infantile, noisy pseudo-radicals to divert atten- tion from the real issue — the price we’re paying in high interest rates, rent and inflated prices as a result of the criminal U.S. aggression in Indochina. “Only by cutting Canada loose from the bankrupting policies of toadying to U.S. imperialism and taking steps to build B.C. manufacturing, a Canadian merchant service fleet, and develop two-way trade with the socialist and under-developed countries can jobs be found.” Morgan charged Campbell with ‘‘Indiscriminately heaping abuse and invective on thousands See YOUTH, pg. 8 By ALD. HARRY RANKIN Vancouver ‘desperately: needs more day care centres for the children of working mothers. Today we have only 22 group day care centres with places for 664 children. We need at least’ five times as many just to meet urgent, immediate needs. We owe it to the children of Vancouver to. see to it that they are adequately provided for when their parents (or parent) are working. We owe it to the many mothers (some of whom are on welfare) who cannot take a job because they can’t afford a private baby sitter. The provision of day care centres is a responsibility of government no less than educa- tion. The funds should come from the provincial ‘govern- ment; the administration could be taken care of by the city. Wherever a group of parents establish a cooperative day care centre, it should be entitled to the same grants as a govern- ment operated centre. The government-appointed board' which today grants licenses and conducts health inspections of day care centres is composed of seven appointed civil servants, responsible to the Hon. P. Gagliardi, minister of Rehabilitation and Social Improvement. I believe the board should include repre- sentatives of parents, labor and community organizations and be responsible to city council. Many of the day care centres we have now are closed during the. two summer months. They affair indicates pollution source of the deadly pollution were allowed to operate for a year. Who is responsible for such laxity? The responsibility/must be laid at the door of the B.C. Pollution Control Board, whose inspector, according to a Metalex spokesman, had commended the company on _ its ‘‘clean”’ operation. Despite the facts which many anti-pollution groups such as SPEC have brought into the open about mercury damage to plants, humans and wild-life, an inspector of the provincial body allegedly gave a lead-producing plant a ‘“‘clean”’ bill of health, while animals died practically in its backyard. The indifference and the subservience to industry of the Pollution Control Board is expressed in the scores of “‘incidents’’ such as the Richmond affair that come to light every few months. It is expressed in the continuing bankruptcy of policy to control further contamination of the Fraser River; in the light- hearted fashion licenses for pulp and paper operations are handed out. New operations are mooted for Quesnel, on the Fraser and Quesnel Rivers system; for the Ashcroft area, for Huston, and for Bella Coola. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 31 —Page 2 Cee control What plans have been made, it any, for the disposal of effluent from these new industries, and what, if anything, is the Pollution Control Board doing to make sure new methods of anti- pollution are worked out before the licenses are given? SPEC has made the charge that no one knows what standards the government has set in regard to new pulp mills. Jim Maranchuk, the SPEC spokesman, said it is impossible to accurately discover standards now made for individual pulp and paper permits, and ‘‘even these standards are not enforced by the province’’. He continued, ‘‘What we need is total access to all the infor- mation there is so that the best minds we. can find can be put to work on finding solutions. . .” Senator Muskie of Maine said recently, **The time has come to put an end to the notion that our corporations live lives of their own, surviving on profits made at the expense of our human and natural environments. . . So long as industry is allowed \ to continue to function with one goal in mind — profits, and to hell with the environment — * they will continue to do so. It is up to the Pollution Control Board, to control their death- dealing activities, and the people must demand they carry out their job. Day centres for children _ urgently needed in city should be kept open the year round because no working mother gets.»two months holidays. And some centres should also be kept open for parents who work the afternoon or night shift. We also need more day care centres for children with special needs such as deafness, physical disabilities, retardation, and emotional and_ learning disorders. Today we have only four of these with places for approximately 60 children. e we will, of course, need mon trained supervisors. Bul that shouldn’t present any problem as both Vancouver City College — and Capilano College offer this training. We have many fine people who would like this aim ing; they should be assisted finan cially while taking the course. i ener The PT’s regular centre peas were held up in the mail Hh week. In their place we rept four features from the U.3 Daily _ If we substantially increase the number of day care centres he ‘‘ideal’’ comes under the general heading of ‘saving 3 the world from communism’. It is highly illogical, destructive of life and material, totally immoral in all its aspects, and above all utterly hopeless. It is an attempt on the part of a powerful segment of modern society’s futile effort to negate history. ; We have just recently had occasion to mark the end of the Korean war — 20-years later. June 25th marked that historic anniversary, at which the arch criminal, U.S. imperialism, ha to sign an armistice agreement to terminate that war to ‘‘save Korea from Communism’’, peace terms which it did not dictate, and which it tried every trick in the book to delay, alter or eliminate entirely, much as the U.S. ‘‘peace’’ delegation mm Paris do today on the issue of Vietnam peace. "Twenty years later the U.S. still maintains an army of well over 65,000 troops in South Korea. For the past 17-years or more that army has busied itself building a South Korean army of ‘‘regulars’’ well above the 600,000 mark, with an additional half-million Korean militia force, and with a corresponding U.S. annual “‘investment’’ (generally listed as ‘‘foreig? investment”’) totalling billions annually. All this is carried oe under an alleged threat of North Korea’s ‘‘warlike intentions. ..For well on to 20-years or more tha bulk of this vast US. investment, aside from its actual Dulles-CIA-Korean wat commitments, has found its way into the pockets of South Korean President Park Chung Hee, his predecessors, and the ruling military Junta he heads as puppets for U.S. imperialism. Nevertheless despite this vast injection of U.S. dollars and limited other ‘“‘foreign’’ credits, South Korea doesn’t prosper, that is, the common people don’t. The country is faced with serious trade deficits 1969-70, (over $1-billion in 1969) inflation is rampant, the black market on all domestic needs takes its full toll. The economic and social conditions of the great mass of the people was never worse than it is now — after 2-years of being ‘‘saved”’ from Communism. “Canada,” says a recent edition of the Toronto Globe and Mail, ‘‘is more than a little interested in the future of the two Koreas. . . with its loss of nearly 300 men as its investment 10 peace’’ during the Korean war, and still harbors the US. fantasy of ‘‘a renewal of attack”’ from North Korea. : Clearly the ghost of John Foster Dulles walks in Ottawa, as it does in Washington. And on this 20-anniversary of that criminal” war, that ghost in being disturbed no end by the simple fact that on that historic anniversary North Korean President Kim Ill Sung proposed to South Korea the signing of a non | aggression pact between the two states of an identical people. Obviously nothing frightens ghosts so much, living or dead,, as the mere mention of peace. 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