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: Schools Committee”, Vancouver, writes:
On behalf of the student body and the
residents of the West End, we protest the
attempts to close down King George High

“restraint.”
The B.C. Ministry of Education on
Dec. 10, 1984, made an official recom-

couver School Board concerning budget

trict will receive $8.1 million less than
expected for the next 18 months, which
will mean a decline in the quality of educa-
tion and the loss of 387 jobs by June, 1986.

Among the ministry’s recommenda-

the. closure of King George Secondary

School on June 30, 1985. It was indicated

by the Vancouver trustees and board offi-

cials that this would have to be carried
_ through unless the Ministry of Education
eased its ordered budget cuts in the pro-
‘vince’s school districts.

If King George were closed it would
mean the elimination of the only secon-
dary school facility in the downtown West
End area. This would affect 400 day stu-

School and the government’s policy of

mendation to a committee of the Van-

reductions. The Vancouver School Dis- .

tions to the committee was one calling for

Socred restraint ruining education

King George High School “Save our

dents. Those who live in the West End.
would have to attend high schools that are
farther away, such as Britannia, Sir
Charles Tupper, Eric Hamber and Kitsi-
lano. Many parents who are unemployed
or on welfare could not afford the extra
cost of bus fare twice a day.

Closure of King George would also
affect 5,000 other students enrolled
throughout the year in the school’s night

Bonner’s final solution’?

Lorna Morford, Coquitlam, writes: In
his reply to Bob Williams demand that
Robert Bonner be let go as B.C. Hydro
chairman (quoted in the Vanocuver Sun
Dec. 11), Bonner tries to justify his over-
building of the $2 billion Revelstoke Dam
by stating: “‘. . .most of the industry in B.C.
is over-built in relationship to current
markets — andif you go by uneployment
figures, some of our population is surplus
to the marketplace as well.”

So now the unemployed are not only
destitute, hungry and demoralized — they
are also surplus. The Nazis had a solution

school courses. Approximately 60 per cent
of night school students are ‘West End
residents.

Besides laying off teachers and cutting
back on the quality of education, the
government wants to close schools. The
Social Credit party policy of “‘restraint”’ is
not only ruining our economy but is also
ruining our education system.

for their surplus. If they are going to con-
sider genocide for the unemployed, then
the first thing they must do is fire Robert
Bonner so he will be unemployed and
available to lead the victims.

Although Mr. Bonner does not appear
to have the mental capacity to figure it out,
there is another solution to the problem. If
the unemployed were employed, the
market place would improve and the
industries would be needed and not “over-
built”. However, that wouldn’t correct
Bonner’s boner.

_ More than 500 people packed the audito-
tum of the Hastings Community Centre in
east Vancouver Dec. 23 to pay a final trib-
ute to Dusty Greenwell who passed away
suddenly Dec. 16.

_He had been touring the Grandview area
with other community activists for a Can-
ada Works project when he collapsed and
died. Two years earlier, he had undergone
heart bypass surgery.

It was a testimony to his standing in the
community and the progressive movement
that those who came to honor his memory

500 pay tribute to Dusty Greenwell

_ Spanned four generations and included

aldermen, trade union and community
leaders and the two Vancouver East NDP
MLAs, : ‘
From Toronto, Bill Kashtan, leader of
the Communist Party to which Dusty had
longed all of his adult life, sent a message

_ tothe memorial which read: “The passing

of Donald Greenwell is a great loss to our
Party. Dusty as he was known far and wide,

_ Was a man of principle who fought all his

life for the cause of peace and socialism and

; the building up of the forces of labor and the
ye .-he will be remembered by all of

Born in Extension in 1919, the son and

, : 8randson of coal miners, he received lessons
| in the working class cause early in life from

his grandmother who had earned respect

and admiration throughout the Vancouver
___Island coalfields for her militant address to

the court in defence of the miners during the

7 1912-13 strike.

_ Even before he himself went into the
mines, he was assisting the underground
Organizing campaign by the Workers’

; Unity League-affiliated Mineworkers Union

of Canada, carrying clandestine leaflets
Tom one miner’s home to another in the
handlebars of his bicycle.

|i his tribute, B.C. Communist Party
leader Maurice Rush remembered meeting
dim in 1936 during an organizing campaign

“when I was told to go out and meet a
young militant miner working at the Five

Acres mine.”

: Rush noted that he was one of the “‘pio-

ering members of the United Mine

tkers” which won the certification for
€ miners in 1938 after the Mine Workers
nion of Canada voted to merge with the

_ international union,

DUSTY GREENWELL (I). . .watching returns with alderman Harry Rankin at COPE
election night headquarters a month before he died.

For a number of years after the B.C.
Federation of Labor was re-established as
an affiliate of the Canadian Congress of
Labor, Dusty was a member of the execu-
tive council, representing the UMWA.

He volunteered for service during World
War II and later took part in the D-Day
landing in 1944. Wounded in action, he was
discharged with a disability pension and
returned to the coalfields.

But with the closure of the last of the-

Nanaimo mines in 1952, he brought his
family to Vancouver where he went to work
for the B.C. Electric Company and joined
Local 213 of the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers. Later; he was one of
several members suspended by the interna-
tional for defending the integrity of the
union against the attack by the right wing.
But his support was affirmed, Rush noted,
when he was acclaimed first vice-president
in the first local elections after this rein-
statement. :

It was also in Vancouver that Dusty

. earned a lasting reputation as a community

ganizer and civic activist.

John Grant, director of the Hastings
Community Centre told the memorial that
Dusty “has done more for this community
than. anyone I know.

“He was always there fighting to get ser-
vices and trying to get people involved in
issues he considered important,” he said.

And alderman Harry Rankin, who with
Dusty had been one of the founding
members of the Committee of Progressive
Electors, recalled working with him in var-

ious ratepayers’ organizations and early
civic elections.

“He ran with me several times for parks
board,” Rankin said, ‘and although he
never got elected, he did more to influence
parks policy in Vancouver than any other
single person.”

Rush noted that Dusty had been one of
the “pioneer builders of civic unity in Van-
couver.””

“He was busy throughout the last civic
election and before he died he had signed up
to work in the byelection,” Rankin said.
“He truly died with his boots on.”

Dusty is survived by his wife Betty, his
daughter Donalda, sons Tom, Jim and
Peter and two grandchildren.

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Family members
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sincerely for
sharing their
sorrow and
offering your
support in —

memory of
Dusty
Greenwell.

Betty Greenwell
and family

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