ee won SIAN aad se ata A a 4 Z 4 This beautiful photo of Tim Buck was taken forthe PT during one of Tim’s last visits to B.C. The editorial board has decided to present this photo, enlarged and framed with aninscription, toeach supporterand reader who raises $82 or more in the current financial campaign. Tim was 82 years of age when he passed away. ISLAND CP TO NOMINATE The Vancouver Island Re- gional Committee of the Com- munist Party announced last week that it‘has decided tocon- test the federal riding of Nan- aimo-Cowichan-the Islands and that anominating meeting will be held soon to name a candi date. The Party has already nom- inated Mark Mosher in Comox- Alberni. The B.C. Communist Partyis aiming toname11tol2 candidates in B.C. federal rid- ings as part of national objec- tive of 55 to60 Communist candi- dates across Canada. By ALD. HARRY RANKIN Our new TEAM City Council and Mavor have been in office now for three months. That should be long enough to pass judgment on their perfor- mance. What stands out most clearly on examination is the reluctance of this Council to grapple with the real issues fac- ing the people of Vancouver. TEAM Aldermen get really enthusiastic about neigh- bourhood pubs and sidewalk cafes. By a substantial majority. after a cat and dog fightin Council. they approved underground shopping malls at the corner of Georgia and Gran- ville. Following protests by some Granville Street mer- chants. they piously repented and tried to do an about-face. Alderman Pendakur wants the city to gointo partnership with a private developer. with the city floating $6 million worth of shares. to build a fish market on GranvilleIsland. Andsoonand so on. The business world is the centre of their universe. Their . middle-class obsession with ‘quality of life.” whatever the hell that is, doesn’t reach down far enough to reach the ordinary man. On the real issues facing the majority of citizens — ris- ing taxes and rents. the spir- alling cost of living. the acute housing shortage. the poor bus system— about these issues this TEAM Council cant get excited. I've tried to get actionona few issues. I've had some rooming houses that were unfit for human habitation closed down. I've pushed and bullied Council to demand an increase in welfare with big issues facing public — +. ratesand to builda Detoxifica- tion Centre. But on other major issues I haven't got anywhere. It hasn't moved to initiate any large scale program of public low rental housing to relieve the desperate housing shortage. Nor to bring about a re-assess- ment of big commercialand in- dustrial properties to compel them to pay their fair share of taxes. When this Council gets boxed into a corner, as it frequently does, it refers embarrassing issues to one of its committees. That's what happened when I introduced a motion that in- creased values resulting from rezoning should accrue to the city. Although the majority of aldermen had previously de- clared themselves publicly in favor of this idea, they hastily referred it toa committee. “Don’t tell Barron's that,Can- ada is already in the telephone business, with a couple of prov- inces already owning the sys- tems. Don’t tell Barron's that On- tarioownsitshydrosystem. Don’t tell’ Barron’s about FDR who started the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority). ‘We're putting together the same kind of program as the New Deal, which saved American capitalism. —NDP Premier Dave Barrett, (April 3, 1973), inreply to an article in Bar- ron’s, a Wall Street publication, which called B.C. “the Chile of the North.” : t’snotso mucha signof growing oldasitis with the damned laziness that grows with the vears. Here it is. well into April already and this column hasn teven vet begun to get its PT financial drive brigade under wav. Oh ves. like a lot of other well-meaning people. we ve got our pledges in, butunless these are backed up by a lot of dimes and dollars. print shops in particular are not greatly impressed. In these piping times of soaring prices. plummeting living standards anda higher synthetic content of sawdust and other substitutes in the family shopping bag. one bright politician has come up withthe unsolicited advice. (and therearesure lots of that bovine by-product around these davs! that Mrs. Housekeeper should buv more “bargin foods” for the family table. Old bread, stale meats. semi-rotted vegetables. fruits. etc., fly-blown fish and other such “marked down” delicacies. That is only one of thescores of solutions tothe high prices that . the pundits offer. while they do nothing aboutitotherthana continuous yakkity-yak. For working class papers like the Pacific Tribune, caught in the prices squeeze of the times. doing a big job and with the certainty of much bigger responsibilities inthe weeks and months ahead. there’s no solution along the bargain foods - route. ( There are already more than enough right-wing social democratic sheets and other far out rags peddling that mental “bargin food” pablum. thereby corroding the public stomach against the kind of a fight needed to end it.) Dear OI Bill Bennett. blessed be his memory. used to savy during drive campaigns when he was the top columnist in the old PT and its forerunners that -"I’mnot the whole column but only asmall part ofit. The oldduffers who write me their ideas and send along their hard-earned dollars anddimes are the most important part of it. Without their help I wouldn't be much help to the PT myself...” That goes for this scribe too. Without the fund of ideas and the thousands of dollars these “Old Duffers” have contributed over the years. my contribution to peace, progress and socialism would be very small indeed. As the years pass and Life pursues its irrevocable cycle, many of these grand Old Duffers’* have crossed the Great Divide. but in they have left us a legacy and example which m Ol Bill's standards— they always stood by the how hard the going. In this vear of high prices. high profits. hi high hopes. this column is pledged to raise a hundred dollars. Thatisa lot of dough. veton| compared to the tens of thousands in slushor funds some monopoly tycoon pays. or is pr have his grasping and greasy hand in Wie schane Hei Some of them even pay more than six hundred a plate ( whibhe high food prices don t event count) to boost t partisan political broker into the seats of th “mighty.” So we're confident this column’s shock brigadiers can equal. if not surpass that and so keep the long fightin tradition of the PT unbroken. g Mr. J.V. Clyne of MacBlo fame, who st youthful vears as a rip-snorting “socialist.” wind up as one of B.C. most pernicious labor union monopoly tycoons. now wants wage fre for the inflation his kind alone creates. Another of his monopoly side-kicks. the n Frank McMahon. made a trifling contributi to re-elect Richard Nixon. ‘with money filch oil and gas consumers!. McMahon. billionaire Hughes. only appears in public to help get off the hook his fellow-crooks who may have carrie their prices gouging and similar swindling far Bena ‘en limits allowed by the law. Therestof thetime Frank is . n pocketing the millions from oil and gas reasoned : BA: providing slush funds for the home talent Bs See The PT needs the $22.000 and more to continue against all such monopoly vermin, and even with government in Victoria. the fightis by no me point of fact in a changing World. itis onl shoot for that minimum target. their passing easured up to PT. no matter gh promises and minimum of six yvafleabite when Straight bribery heir favourite eunprincipled arted out inhis and bids fair to haters and anti- €zes asa**cure™ Otorious oil baron on of $40.000 or SO. ed from Canadian like the secretive On rare occasions— the fight an NDP ansended In ¥ beginning. So let’s My proposition would ha¥ meant a fight with big deve opersand land speculators®™ the CPR for instance. TEAM aldermen are notP pared for a showdown of ™ kind. : So it goes. TEAM Alder are willing to change the!or of misgovernment (a tWO%™ ward system, for example! not the content. They spec! ize in the kind of change! leaves things as they are. But can’t go on that way forevel: = Real issues can’t be shov under the rug indefinitely ™ referring them to commill®™ and hoping they will disapP) What is required at this stage think, is a clear message fy citizens to our ‘‘pushme— 7 me’ TEAM Council to start@ ‘, ing with and solving some ° i problems that bother the ort” ary citizen, not just those of¢ cern to business. Canadian Tribune | editor on the mel rio Tle Readers of the Pacifl¢ nihil . une will be happy to 1ea% gar John Weir, editor of the ii¢ dian Tribune whohasbee?? no sick list for four months: Moir | on the road to recovery: {0} underwent an opera” — remove a brain tumor. est The PT extends its warts greetings to John and ovell | him a speedy and full eC jis so that he can return important duties. in ¢ future. Ke The PT would also like ore this opportunity to ex put thanks to the Canadiat © ora staff whose friendly © 4 jst? tion each week has ena bring our readers seve? 1 ne national and internation@ MAY DAY. a1 be Ou issue of the PT wil a. the press April i} at Place greeting ads by ; make bundle orde” Monday, April PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAYs APRH 13, 1973->-RAGE 2, + 5