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Generation Gap?

George Collins, Vancouver,
tes: A working class paper,
Pet is interested in many
Btn S important to the class

Bele. A lot of things have

/ {0 said about youth. On a

World Wide basis the question of
an 1s happening amongst
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Pere is nothing like bringing

Olt one more means to split
a along the line of race,
i Creed — or whatever else
Basi the agenda to help Big
Hess— to help Imperialism.
ica. changes come more
technolo, these days with
comes E to Bee it so. With it
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os where once it was

Elvis Presley, and with the

Beatles now a decade away.

However progressive we may
be, however change is welcome,
we are not up to it, as common
folk, to adjust ourselves to what-
ever fad enters in the way of
music, dress, etc.

One of the latest fads is the
rockband. Not many older
citizens feel at home with such
sessions. We have not come to
the stage whereby youth choose
to invent some sort of culture

where other generations may.

join them. Older citizens are
generally blamed for the “‘gap-
generation.’’ There may be
much to be said younger folk
making older folk feel a bit more

welcome.
* * *

B.C. Tel. Profits

L.A., Vancouver, writes: In
reference to Ald. Harry Rankin’s
article about the excessive profit

| P. Regional letter urges

| Wide range of civic reform

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ol believe there is a pressing

ion pe CXAmination of elec-
Wide pocedures, including a
Teformon ee of much needed
Commit Stated the Regional
arty j tee of the Communist
Committ. letter to city council’s
The | Fe on electoral reform.
Of fy a called for extension
eliminate rights to tenants;
busines 10on of multiple voting by
boarg. mcm: election of civic
(hospitay and commissions
Qualig; S, PNE, police, etc) and
leations and methods of

CBictr at:
Theration of electors.
Coney) e2nding Committee of
dealin On General Purpose is
t aaa citizens views on
Stio i
Mocedures ete of election
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requested the opportunity of
presenting further views on the
matter when hearings are held,
but in the meantime put for-
ward its position:

Strenuously opposed cash
deposits for candidates in civic
elections, and called for the
adoption of a requirement for 25
names for alderman on nomina-
tion papers, and 50 names for the
nomination of mayoralty candi-
dates.

Opposition to the designation
of political affiliation of candi-
dates on the ballot was
expressed. The city committee
favors holding annual civic
elections, with half the members
of council, parks board, etc.,
being elected annually. Exten-
sion of the term of office for
elected representatives was
opposed.

The Communist Party
reiterated its long-standing
demand for the reintroduction
of the ward system of electing
aldermen, and proposed an

* increased number of aldermen

and an elected executive to
replace the present Board of
Administration.

The letter was signed by
William Turner on behalf of 16

Communist Party clubs in
Vancouver.
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read that one of the reasons
given by B.C. Tel for raising
their rates was that they needed
the extra money to expand in out-
lying areas.

If this is so, surely this would
amount to what would be a
demand that the public subsi-
dize the expansion of a private
industry, so that it would have a
greater capitalization on which
to charge interest; the interest,
however, going to the private
shareholders.

In these days of monopoly capi-
tal the high profits are an
unwarranted gouge. If these
profits can be invested in
expansion of the company, one
has a vicious circle, in that the
original injustice can then be
multiplied in the form of a
semmingly warranted demand
for a ‘decent interest return’ on
the extra capitalization. (Old
B.C.E.)

It is claimed that many U.S.
companies operating subsi-
diaries in Canada have never had
to add any new capital from
outside Canada for expansion of
the branch plants. But B.C. Tel
are also asking us, the public, to
provide the money for this
private expansion, and to do so

interest free.
** *

Non-Stop;

Harry Ball, Surrey, writes:
With Surrey municipal council
cutting employables off welfare,
suggesting they go pick berries,
they have shown their class
leanings by promoting slavery.
They don’t know whether there
will be berries to pick. There is
no guarantee the berry crop will
be fit to harvest, so they will be
forced to beg or even steal to
survive, which will cost the
taxpayer a lot more than welfare
in the long run.

If welfare recipients are
forced to sell their labor at a
lower price in order to survive, it
will eventually cut into every-
body’s standard of living by
encouraging lower wages and
creating more unemployment.
When people have not the money
to spend it hits the business
people. And people who are laid
off as a result go through the
same process and the whole
cycle repeats itself. Where does

it stop?
OBITUARY

Funeral services were held for
Charles Fraser, 61, on June 29 in
the Boal Chapel with Rev. H.

. Irwin officiating.

Charlie Fraser has been a high
rigger in the forest industry for
many years. He came to B.C. in
the 1930’s and was active in the
unemployed struggles in the old
relief camps, and later was an
active member of the IWA
struggles. He was a member of
the Victory Square Club of the

Communist Party of B.C:

Left to mourn his loss are two
brothers, Ernest and Ken, of
Manitoba, and his many friends
and comrades in Vancouver.

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CCU body gives okay
to important resolution

The annual convention of the
Council of Canadian Unions was
held at the Vancouver Hotel last
weekend, with approximately 60
delegates and some forty
visitors in attendance.

In the keynote address to the
delegates séecretary-treasurer
Kent Rowley sharply con-
demned government handouts
to private industry, both
domestic and foreign.

Tax concessions and special
depreciation favors must end,
he said, and the main natural
resources of Canada must be
declared the property of the
people-placed under govern-
ment control.

Other points in his address
were the need. for natural
resources to be processed in
Canada and a condemnation of
the invasion of non-Canadian
teachers in our schools.

He said ‘‘The branch-plant
economy needs branch-plant
managers. The schools and
universities are regarded as
training grounds for those who
will help to ‘‘manage’’ American
interests in Canada.”

CCU delegates put forward a
number of resolutions dealing

with the economic, social and cul-

tural life of the nation;

e Condemned the practice of
handouts to private industry,
expecially foreign-owned, and
demanded that any concessions
made in either taxation or funds

be only to those industries owned .

and controlled by the people of
Canada.

e Condemned the continuous
attempt of government spokes-
men to lay the blame for infla-
tion and umemployment on the
backs of the working people,
whilst ignoring high interest
rates, land and housing specu-
lation by profiteers, and the
untaxed profits of the wealthy.
They urged the immediate dis-
missal of John Young, head of
the Prices and Incomes
Commission for his irresponsible
attacks on labor, and of Louis
Rasminsky,.head of the Bank of
Canada, for his failure to give
correct guidance to the finan-
cial institutions of Canada.

eUrged that the Canada
Development Corporation be

made a 100 percent government-
owned institution that will
ensure that natural resources
and industrial production are
used for the development of the
Canadian economy; that
particularly oil, gas, power
resources be placed under Cana-
dian control; that foreign con-
trol of any industry be
eleminated; and that the
economy be placed under
Canadian ownership.

e Condemned the War
Measures Act and opposed the
adoption of any new legislation
that would in any way deprive
citizens of existing freedoms.

WORSE

Cont’d from pg. 2

dismal test is further diluted in
the proposed test set up by the
panel.”’

The test is a condition written
into a number of B.C. pollution
permits now in force. “‘The three
mills near Prince George, for
example, must be able to show
that 100 percent of yearling
salmon survive when exposed to
a 65 concentration of their
effluents over 96 hours. In much
the same way a cage full of
children could be dangled near a
belching pulp mill stack for
three days, and, if they all live it
might be said the atmosphere
was Safe. . .”

“So the mountain of evidence,
and all the carefully prepared

slides, photographs, affidavits,.

exhibits, and written material
submitted to the forestry
hearings has come to this: A
report that offers inadequate air
standards, does not even deal
with many subjects canvassed
at the hearing, and even has the
temerity to describe many of the
briefs submitted as being
emotion and opinion.

“This report is an insult to the
participants in the hearing, with
the possible exception of the
Council of Forest Industries to
whom it will doubtless be most
welcome.

“‘We are marching, to the rear,
here in Beautiful British
Columbia.”’

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