Members of a World Peace Council delegation, now touring the U.S.,

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are shown being welcomed by

members of the Detroit city council recently. Headed by Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the Council
(second from right), the delegation is promoting support forthe New Stockholm Appeal to Stop the Arms
Race, A delegation from the Council will also tour Canada prior to the World Conference on Multinational
Corporations being held in Toronto, Nov. 14-16. The delegation will be guests at a public reception on
Thursday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, 49th and Oak in Vancouver.

Civic elections

A number of prominent trade
unionists and progressive civic
leaders have declared themSelves
as candidates for the November 15
civic elections.

Heading up the list of candidates
is Alderman George McKnight who
is seeking ‘re-election in Port
Alberni. McKnight is well known
throughout the province as being a
consistent fighter for labor’s  in-
terests in civic government, and
last month won. wide support for
his proposals to the Union of B.C.
Municipalities convention which
would have brought about
sweeping changes to municipal
financing. Joining McKnight in
seeking re-election in Port Alberni

_ is another labor incumbent, Walter
Behn,

Former Trail mayor, F.E.
DeVito has announced that he will
be running for an aldermanic seat.
DeVito is a long time supporter of
progressive policies, and as mayor
he was one of the first elected civic
officials to endorse the United
Farm Workers’ call for a boycott of
scab grapes.

A number of tenants’ leaders
have indicated that they will be
seeking election to city councils
throughout the province. Anne
Tarasoff has been nominated to
run for the Victoria City Council
She is president of the Victoria
Tenants’ Council and _ has

repeatedly called for tenant

aagicee new has been added if it may be so
scribed. The Trudeau regime which has been spen-
ding the peoples’ resources like the proverbial drunken
piper, thereby boosting inflation no end, has now moved
from a position of empty rhetoric. about voluntary
restraints to punitive class legislation. Its wage and price
controls bill, which is now the law puts the major em-
phasis upoon the “‘high wages’’ of the workers as the
prime cause of inflation, thus making labor the scapegoat

as well as the victim.

Basically it is an act of ruling caste desperation in the
sole interests of big business, rather than one demon-

strating a normal intelligence.

From the era of ex-finance minister John Turner’s
curing inflatfon-by increasing unemployment we have
now moved to a new phase — the open injection of the
class struggle, predicated upon a ceiling upon wages, and
perhaps, just perhaps, a teeny weeny tap on the wrist for
those who fatten on rent, interest and profits, the prime
ingredients of inflation, as Karl Marx so well elaborated

over an hundred years ago.

Organized labor in Canada may have some difficulty
determining which day in October 1975 was the blackest —
the NDP Barrett government back-to-work | strike-
breaking edict, or the Trudeau wage and price controls,
both highly Op pote aia of — pine Now. it sine the

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GEORGE McNIGHT
in civic govern-

representation

ment.
Another well known tenants

leader, Ernie Crist is running for

office in North Vancouver District, -

while the secretary of the British
Columbia Tenants Organization,
Margaret DeWees is a candidate

for the Richmond Municipal

Council.

The New Westminster and
District Laber Council has en-
dorsed a number of candidates in
the Lower Mainland area including
the first vice-president of the
BCTO, Ray Cox who is running for
alderman in Surrey.

Joining Cox as a labor endorsed
candidate is well-known _in-
dependent Wilf Lennox. Lennox is
a long time resident of Surrey and

major task, dictated by the urgency of its own survival, of
forging that measure of labor and ‘peoples’ unity which
will make both days damn good and black for those who
enacted such legislation.

The rich to whom inflation spells more and bigger
profits, more boodle in the pocket, more class power to
swing gigantic armament deals, competitive trade, etc
and ete, are highly jubilant, that the Trudeau control, plus
its Barrett back-to-work edict, will produce for them and
their class more security and greater dividends — all at
the expense and degradation of the working class. More
for the rich — much less for the poor!

In this grand illusion, they are in for one hell of a
disappointment. The multiple committees, commissions,
boards and government bureaucracies already being set
up to make these decrees work will compound inflationary
trends to newer and higher levels. The $100,000 or more
per annum that it will take to keep the Jean Luc-Pepin-
Plumptre administrative twins going, to say nothing
about all the rest of the horde of administrative high-
Salaried appointees, will make present-day inflationary
flights look like flying a kite in place of a supersonic orbit
in space!

It is already well known that a number of supermarket
chains feverishly hiked up food prices just minutes before
the Trudeau deadline on the control program. Thus we
have monopoly’s way of ‘‘combatting’’ inflation.

And when was a big business baron ever stuck for ways
to justify increased prices on the basis of higher costs? —
especially when the board — like the toothless Prices
Review Board — is always willing to lend a sympathetic
ear. Figures don’t lie, as the old saying goes, but liars can
always figure.

Nor was it any accident that the Trudeau decree for
penalizing the unions and the people omitted any

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has been active in civic affairs
over the years as well as, being an
active member of the telegraphers
union.

The labor council also endorsed
two members of the newly formed
Surrey Municipal Electors, Frank
Izzard and Bill Fomich.

Also supported by the ‘labor
council is former Coquitlam school
trustee, Eunice Parker. She has
called for a major change in school
financing and expanded use of
school facilities.

The labor council agreed to
support one other slate, the Bur-
naby Citizens Association. The
BCA is running Tom Constable for
mayor and Gerry Ast, Fred
Randall,
council seats.

and Mona Allison for

Doctors

serve B.C. needs

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Early in September the B.C.
College ‘of Physicians and
Surgeons decided that immigrant
doctors must practice in northern
B.C. for a period of five years. The
purpose of this was to improve
medical services for the people of
our northern communities. At
present they have only one third as
many doctors, in proportion to
population as has the densely
populated area around Vancouver.
Specialists are also in short supply
in the north.

The B.C. Human Rights Com-
mission has decided that this
decision by the  doctor’s
organization is an infringement on
human rights and in contravention
of the United Nations declaration
on the mobility of people within a

- country.

I think this decision of the
Human Rights Commission is both
incorrect and unwise. It confuses
the issue of individual rights with
the rights of society and in’ effect
places the rights of individuals

above and goed of the rights of

people.
It is the right of the peoples of our
northern areas to have more and

. better medical attention. And if

doctors, for one reason or another,
fail to individually’ satisfy these
needs, then some form of com-
pulsion is necessary.

To limit the rights of the in-
dividual in the interests of society
is hardly anything new. We limit
the “right”? of employers to work
their employees 10 or 12 hours a
day, we limit their ‘‘right” to pay
less than the minimum wage, we

' limit their “right” to ignore basic

safety precautions on the job.
Such limitations are necessary in
the interests of society. I think the

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moment:

‘

thousandfold.

-years, before going off to greener

-has the right but the obligation to

mortgage companies and other
financial institutions and the huge profits that they reap
from usurious interest rates. After all, it is not so long ago
that a Tory politician commented in an unguarded —
“banks are the invisible government of the
country, no matter which party runs the visible one.’
Thus, while an NDP government toys and tinkers with —
the idea of a new banking system, it is all the while
enacting shameful strikebreaking legislation. And the
Trudeau controls spell out exactly what the financial
tycoons want, with the program going into effect even
before Parliament has had a chance to debate it.
Truly, “whom the gods would destroy, they first make —
mad.” It’s not for nothing that labor has describe
Trudeau’s action as ‘‘sheer madness,”’ equalled only by
the War Measures Act passed half a decade ago. This on
is aimed at the working people of an entire country and
the evil it purports to combat will be multiplied 2

Mr. Trudeau was also characteristically silent on his
enormous — and rising — war budget, a key factor in the —
inflation that he and his partners now are pretending to
combat. What else is new?

IRiSsONe

should

decision of the doctors falls into
this category.

To argue that it contravenes the
United Nations: declaration is
without merit. The U.N.
declaration was aimed at con-
demning practices like those in
South Africa where black miners
were imprisoned in compounds
and compelled to work long hours
at substandard wages and under
unsafe conditions so that the white
mine owners may make super-
profits.

If theres criticism to be made of
the doctors’ decision, it is that it
doesn’t go far enough. It should
include all graduates from medical ~
school. My argument for making
this statement is that the education
of our doctors is paid for out of
public funds. They are in debt to
their country. Furthermore when
doctors begin practice, they are
again subsidized by the state and
the taxpayers who provide all
hospital facilities and laboratories
to doctors free of charge.

Let me hasten to add that the :
doctors are by no means the only
ones. Lawyers, dentists and many
other professions are in the same
position — subsidized by the state
and the people. ;

I would also advocate that any
person who. graduates from any
Canadian university be compelled
to work in Canada for at least five

pastures somewhere else. They
also owe something to the people
and country which paid the bills for
their education. Why should we
pay the enormous cost of educating
our young people only to have them
immediately absorbed by U.S.
business or other institutions? .

If we were to take such steps it
would most certainly curb the
rights of individuals or‘limit their
mobility. But what comes first, the
needs of the society and_ the
country, or the personal wishes or
ambitions of individuals? The
answer is obvious. Society not only

legislate in the interests of its
citizens, and individuals need ani
desires must be subordinate to this
need of society. m

Therefore it would be advisable
for the Human Rights Commission
to take another look at its decisiol
and clear up some of its confus
thinking on this issue.

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