Friday, Sept. 18, 1981 Vol. 43, No. 34 ICP leader demands Kaplan destroy files on 800,000 Communist Party national leader William Kashtan has called In a letter to Kaplan, Kashtan said that he assumes that mem- the list of 800,000 will have their names expunged from therecord. | On federal solicitor general bers of the Communist Partyare © Why some? Why not all, other Robert Kaplan to immediately included in the files. . _ than those really involved a ont _ JOrder the destruction of files ‘“ Id has Sonous activities against - compiled by the RCMP security We gic sure: tO WOE leof Badian people? < : taken note of the RCMP style o: fe ’ Service on 800,000 Canadians. democracy this country has sunk We believe that if = govern- | Existence of the files were re- to with the connivance of various pars nae. 5 sae re sveel are i ~ }vealedinthe McDonald Commis- Politicians and how the term ‘se- yan political dissent and what it | ~ Jsion Report on illegal activities of | Curity’ has been used to under- Coil. subversion, it will immedi- | ‘|the RCMP. Most files are on Ca- Mine democracy, freedom of dis- ately undertake the destruction of | nadians involved in legal political Sentandtherighttoassociation,” 4. "ROMP lists, including the | or labor activity or on those who he said. names of all those members of the | have visited the Soviet Union or “We note that you are quoted © Communist Party of Canada | other socialist countries. as saying that some of those on who may be on theselists.”” | TRIBUNE PHOTO— SEAN GRIFFIN . Her placard making an ironic reference to an earlier human resources Minister's regressive policy, this woman was among more than 100 people who demonstrated outside Grace McCarthy's constituency office Monday protesting the Socreds’ latest welfare cutbacks. A new policy announced Aug. 27 and slated to take effect Nov. 1, lays down Strict guidelines for “employable” recipients and slashes benefits for those recip- ients anywhere from $35 to $55 a month. Particularly hard hit are single mothers Who are considered “‘“employable” if they have only one child over six months. They will have benefits reduced by $35 and, like other “employables” will be | taken off the welfare rolls every four months and will be forced to re-apply. The Welfare Rights Coalition, which organized the demonstration, condemned the cuts as “regressive.” It pointed out that, since the shelter allowances provid- ed by MHR are already grossly inadequate in Vancouver's tight housing situa- | tion, the cuts will have to come from food budgets — and from children’s Mouths. Jobs are simply not available, the Coalition stated, pointing to news- Paper ads which, far from offering 5,000 jobs as McCarthy claimed, offered only 700 openings of which only 73 were for unskilled positions. Social workers, who will be consumed with paper work as a result of the new Policy, have also protested. One organization of social service workers in Van- Couver, the Downtown Urban Core Workers Association, plans to innundate the HR with paper by encouraging welfare recipients affected by the changes to launch appeals. A possible legal challenge and other actions are also being con- The Socred steamroller ‘pushing B.C. Place ontothe city of Vancouver ran into its first real roadblock this week when Vancouver city council responded to strong pressure from citizen groups and refused to approve the roadway system proposed by B.C. Place as the “‘spine”’ of the development. The three COPE aldermen on city council, Harry Rankin, Bruce Eriksen and Bruce Yorke, and mayor Mike Harcourt led the fight to deny approval of any roadplan for B.C. Place or the new amphitheatre until a proper planning process had been. carried out and.guarantees secured. that affordable hous- ing, a major park and a proper transportation plan areincluded in the plans. The five NPA aldermen on council, as expected, were prepared to give B.C. Place ap- proval for all it asked without asking for any commitments in return. Hopelessly in the middle were the two TEAM aldermen, determined to find a com- promise that didn’t exist. When the three positions ultimately came together, B.C. Place went away without a roadway plan. COPE’s Bruce Yorke led off the debate with a motion not on the road plan, but on B.C. Place itself. It called on council not to even consider the roads until seven conditions were met in- cluding the completion of a full site plan, social impact studies, cost benefit analysis and a pro- per transportation plan, and commitments on housing, park land and a reduction in propos- “ed commercial space. Although the motion had been changed to meet some of the objections of TEAM, the strong policy statement failed with only COPE and Harcourt supporting it. Next to be considered was an NPA motion to approve the whole roadway system as pro- posed. NPA aldermen attacked the 69 public delegations that had opposed the road plan in two special public hearings as “comic opera”’ and ‘‘a travell- ing circus”. Ald. Warnett Ken- nedy conceded the point op- ponents of the road plan have made when he likened the whole issue to the third crossing debate of 10 years ago. “‘I see the same people opposing it, and I’m reliving the whole sordid affair,’’ he said. The NPA motion also failed, opposed by COPE, TEAM and Harcourt. Then TEAM’s Marguerite Ford proposed her ‘‘com- promise”’ which would not ap- prove the roadway system, but only a realignment of the Cam- bie Bridge to bring cars near the stadium, and the alignment for a road on the east side of the stadium only. It eventually pass- ed, six to five, with TEAM and the NPA supporting it. However it soon was ap- parent that the compromise solved nothing because it would neither be adequate to service the stadium, nor did it demand that the roadway plan, which eventually must be addressed, be properly planned. A motion from ald. George Puil to ‘‘reconsider’’ the whole matter at the next meeting pass- ed unanimously, after B.C. Place officials indicated they may be prepared to make fur- ther concessions. In effect, when city council meets again Sept. 29 it will deal with the whole issue again. Only then, the TEAM aldermen will have to decide to follow either COPE or the NPA’s lead. We're out for new subs With this edition, the Tribune opens its 1981 circulation drive. Over the next 12 weeks we intend to win 200 new subscribers and in- troduce our paper to thousands of new readers. But for this paper a circulation drive isn’t a mere business matter. Its real purpose is to strengthen the entire progressive labor move- ment by bringing our analysis and militant policies to working peo- ple. And unlike other papers, our circulation drive can’t be accom- plished by a high priced ad campaign. We will rely on our readers and supporters to do the job for us. We will keep you informed of our progress in the circulation drive. Watch in coming weeks for details about how you can help make our drive a success. x Sidered. =