HOMER STEVENS

__Homer Stevens, president of
4 ‘the United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union, says:

“The Trib is indispensable for
an activist in the labor
Movement.

_ “I find information that just
Can't be found in any other
Newspaper. News about what is

Ppening in our own trade
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Major political and social
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DAVE WERLIN

“But most importantly my
whole experience in struggling
in the labor movement has
taught me that working people
need a press that is their own,
that is biased from the working
class point of view. The Trib is
that paper in B.C.”

Dave Werlin, Secretary of CUPE
Local 1004 says:

I subscribe to the Pacific
Tribune for three specific reasons
and I recommend it to all working
people in B.C.

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Trade unionists say:

Firstly, I subscribe to the
Tribune because as a trade union
member I find it absolutely
essential as a source of. in-
formation about and analysis of
what is happening in the labor
movement.

As all trade unionists who have
ever been on strike know, we
cannot rely on the big daily papers,
radio or TV for unbiased in-
formation about the _ labor
movement.

Secondly, I find the P.T. to be a
valuable source of information
about world affairs from a labor
point of view, something else that
is not available through the mass
media.

Finally, as a working person, I
have a big stake in the main-
tenance of world peace and cannot
rely on the mass media, which is
often owned and controlled by
those who profit from arms
manufacture and war, to explain to
me what avenues are open to me to
do my part in the quest for world
peace.

Iurge all working people in B.C.
to. subscribe now to the Pacific
Tribune, the only labor paper

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LANDLORDS

Cont'd from pg. 2

to refuse entry and is no longer
prosecuted, charged or fined. This
landlord is also operating without a
city permit.

Offending landlords have drawn
the obvious conclusion from these
cases. It is more profitable to
violate the law than it is to obey.
The chances are that they will
never be prosecuted. If they are,
the trials can be delayed endlessly,

so small as to be negligible. To
spend $50 or $100 for a fine rather
than to spend $500 or $1,000 to clean
up or repair premises is good
business. :

But other ‘people are drawing
different conclusions. They see one
law for tenants and another for
landlords. They see the law as
protecting private property rather
than people. And they are rapidly
losing all confidence in our whole
system of law enforcement. ;

My view is that we must insist
that the law is enforced in such a
way that justice is meted out. The
rights of people and the protection
of people must be placed ahead of
the rights and protection of private

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OBITUARY

CHARLES THOMPSON

A long time supporter of the
‘Communist Party and Tribune,
Charles Thompson, died in Vic-
toria on Friday, September 19.

He was born in Toronto in 1901,
worked as a farmhand in the Ot-
tawa Valley before World War I,
and in 1915 was involved in his first
strike in a logging camp in Nor-
thern Ontario.

Thompson came to B.C. in 192
and worked in orchards near
Penticton. During the Hungry
Thirties he was active in the
unemployed movement in Van-
couver. Later he went to work as a
civic employee and was an active
member of CUPE Local 50 and the

Victoria Civic Employees Union ~

from 1946 to his retirement in 1966.
He held many executive positions
in the Victoria local, including two
terms as president.

Protests hit

‘blockb

Carrying placards reading,
“Stop blockbusting,” ‘Is your
house next?’’ ‘‘Families need
homes — not blockbusting,’’ about
100 people staged a demonstration
in the 2500 block East Pender St.,
Sunday, September 28 to protest
the blockbusting tactics of
developers and land speculators.

Taking part in the demonstration
were residents of the neigh-
borhood, members of COPE, the
B.C. Tenants Council, the Down-
town Eastside Residents
Association, the West Broadway
Citizens Committee, and Residents
for Secure Housing.

The protest was
because homes on the north side of
the block are being demolished and

- families turned out on the street to

make way for land assembly for
purposes of speculation by
developers. The same practice is
taking place all over the city as

developers move in to demolish ~

decent housing to make way for
more commercial type buildings
which are more profitable.

Signs carried by demonstrators
said, “Blockbusting is criminal,”
and called on city council to pass
Ald. Harry Rankin’s motion to
control demolitions and make it
mandatory for any developer
seeking to tear down or demolish
low rental housing be required to
secure a permit under which he
would be obliged to construct a
greater number of low rental units.
City council has deferred the
motion despite widespread

demands it be adopted. é
Tribune correspondent Carey
Robson, who took part in the
demonstration, said that on the
north side of the 2500 block East
Pender St., one house is privately
owned and being rented, three lots

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mounted

Two signs in the 2500 block East Pender describe what is happening in
“many parts of the city as homes are being demolished by speculators to
make way for more profitable development.

usting
are owned by Fedco, of which two
have been turned into a parking
lot, and on seven other lots in the
block, three houses have already
‘been demolished and another is in
the process of being torn down.
Dale Garnett, a young single
parent with a three-year-old child
has lived in three of the houses on
the block. She told the Tribune her
first house cost $185 per month, but
she was forced to. move out after
three months because the landlord
refused to undertake any repairs.
The second house she moved to
cost $165, which was increased to
$185 in three months, and then she
was told the rent would be in-
creased to over $200. Faced with a

21 per cent boost in seven months’

she was forced to abandon having a
home and moved in with a relative.
Since then both houses have been
demolished and are now empty
lots.

One of the residents who
organized the demonstration
charged that six houses were
bought in the block two years ago
for $110,000 by lawyer John Andru
(see photo below) who wants to get

the property rezoned and sell it to a ~

developer for $500,000. The Tribune
was told that in addition to three of
the houses being torn down and a
fourth under way, families in two
other homes have received evic-
tion notices.

This pattern can be repeated in
hundreds of areas in the city as
speculators move in to buy up low
rental housing for demolition to
make way for more profitable
commercial buildings. At a time
when the housing crisis in Van-
couver is at its worst ‘‘block-

busting is criminal,’”’ as one sign _
carried by a protester said last

Sunday.

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