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Despite leaden skies in the morning and
the modest expectations of a possible
20,000 to 30,000 attendance by the
Organizers, every seat in the
32,000-capacity Empire Stadium was filled
before the scheduled starting time of 11
a.m.

And still the contingents and individuals
arrived, long after the first of several
musical groups began the hour-and-a-half
long concert that proceded the public ad-
dresses. Many of the rally participants
marched under the banner of their respec-
live trade union or community organiza-
tion through the gates at the north end of
the stadium. As each arrived, a roar of ap-
Proval went up from the thousands already
Seated or milling about on the playing field
In front of the stage.

Perhaps most indicative of the growing
breadth of the anti-budget protest were the
contingents of uniformed Burnaby and
Vancouver firefighters, who marched in
behind the Vancouver fire department’s
brass band. As with other recent additions
to the protest, they received among the
largest applause.

They were followed closely by uniform-
€d bus drivers of the Metro Transit
Operating Company, who had parked
their buses to attend the rally. They were
‘Se the job by 2 o’clock when the rally
€n ‘ :

Other groups paraded around the cir-
Cumference of the field. Participants left
their seats to march behind the banner of
their organization, creating a riot of color
as the standards of the United
Steelworkers, the Hospital Employees’

_ Union, the B.C. Government Employees’
Union (many of whom had also booked
off for the day), the Downtown Eastside

te

ALAN BOROVOY ... ‘worst societal
elements will be unleashed.’

Residents’ Association and dozens of other
organizations fluttered in the breeze.
Meanwhile, the performances given bya
combination of folk groups, rock groups
and actors continued. These ended with a

‘No gov't can ignore

protest of this size’

rendition of the national anthem by the
firefighters band.

B.C. Federation of Labor president Art
Kube headed the speakers’ list with a
speech that constituted a public letter to
Bennett: ‘‘Mr. premier, the polls are clear.
The people of the province want this
legislation withdrawn.

‘“‘There is a common bond of peaceful
protest, one that will continue to grow until
the government listens to us and acts on our
demands,’’ said Kube, promising that
‘‘Operation Solidarity will continue until
these goals are accomplished.”

Rick Watson of the B.C. Coalition of
the Disabled accused the government of
knocking out ‘“‘the support system on
which B.C.’s disabled-depend for their ex-
istence,”’ citing the removal of support
grants, the firing of hundreds of Ministry
of Human Resources workers, and the
abolition of the B.C. Human Rights Com-
mission and the Rentalsman’s office.

‘And the motive is not restraint — this
budget is hypocrisy,”’ he said.

He was followed by Vickers, who said
the Socred measures are based on the
callous notion of ‘‘the survival of the fit-
test . . . and indeed, it is the survival of
the richest.”’

Alan Borovoy of the Canadian Civil
Liberties Association noted that the aboli-
tion of the Human Rights Commission, at
a time when racial minorities suffer in-
creased attacks on the street and in their
homes, ‘‘will unleash the worst elements of
society... =

“This is what: you create when you
abolish a human rights commission. And
how can a five-member committee handle
the caseload a staff of 40 handled
before?,’’ he asked.

“‘The hopeis the kind of demonstrations
that people are mounting against this pro-

gram — and there is not a government in
this country that can ignore demonstra-
tions of this kind,’’ he asserted.

*‘We’ve been discussing violations of
human rights around the world, and we’d
be remiss if we failed to address the ques-
tion of human rights violations right here,”
said United Church Moderator Clarke
MacDonald, in reference to the just-
concluding World Council of Churches
conference.

For private sector workers, Jack Munro,
regional president of the International
Woodworkers, had this warning: ‘‘If the
premier gets away with this in the public
sector, sure as hell the private sector is next
on the list.”

Also addressing the rally were fired
Human Rights Branch Director Hanne
Jensen, BCGEU member Hugh McLeod,
who was recently dismissed in the wave of
government layoffs, Vancouver Mayor
Mike Harcourt and Aziz Kahki, chairman
of the Interfaith Council.

Communist Party members were active
during the rally, distributing 20,000 copies
of a special leaflet entitled ‘‘Unite to scrap
the Socred budget.”’ ’

The leaflet noted that the Socred budget
has ‘‘cut corporate taxes and continued
spending on resource handouts to govern-
ment’s political friends, while increasing
taxation on the vast majority and slashing
social services. ‘

“‘To impose such a budget for the rich at
the expense of the working people and the
poor, it was necessary to attack hard-won
political, democratic and human rights,”
the CP leaflet explained.

The Pacific Tribune also played a part in
promoting the rally. Prior to the event,
15,000 copies of a special two-page edition
were distributed at workplaces around the
Lower Mainland.

B.C. gov’t policies dictated by world elite

The real decision makers in the western
World are two powerful, secret and ruthless
Srganizations that operate as an invisible
8lobal government. Their power and in-

Uence is greater than that of many national
Povernments, They are made up of the
oF sentatives of the biggest corporations
j Western Europe, North America and

aan, plus key figures in the government,
ny and secret services of each country.
nae have successfully infiltrated every
ales ment in the western world. They are
yo the decision makers determining
pent policy in British Columbia.

Bila € names of these two groups are the
is erberg Club and the Trilateral Commis-

n. Their Canadian counterpart is the
cond €ss Council on National Issues. Their

Nduit in B.C. is the Fraser Institute.
duc Cir activities for the most part are con-
the €d in secret. The public hears only what
So 8TOups wish to tell them or what is occa-
heey exposed by some members who

© Parted company with them.

pute Bilderberg Club was set up in the
h city of Osterback in May, 1954. Its
President was Prince Bernard. It holds
a conferances, each one in a different
d untry. It is a club of financiers, in-
Seen 8, politicians, generals, heads of
tio St services. Its funds come from multina-
the Organizations and secret services of
the Countries in which it operates. Most of
Mee t> members are American. Its
NAT o are attended by the heads of
ficials the CIA, top U.S. government of-
It in and the top military brass of the U.S.
unig taes also some top right-wing trade
Clo; leaders from groups such as the AFL-
the U.S.

Its 1968 m, e :
eeting was heid in Canada and
panded by Lester B. Pearson as well as the
weet of the Bank of Canada. Present
ful nce Tepresentatives from such power-
United rationals as ITT, Standard Oil and

: t.

a 1977 meeting in England was attend-
George People including Henry Kissinger,
Ball, David Rockefeller, Alexander

Haig (then the Supreme Commander of
NATO), Chancellor Helmut Schmit and
Joseph Strauss of West Germany, represen-
tatives of Nestle, Unilever, Coca Cola, Ben-
dix, ITT, Standard Electric and Dupont, as
well as Lane Kirkland, head of the AFL-
CIO. :
The Trilateral Commission was set up in
1972-73. It is headed by David Rockefeller
of New York and operates as a world

shadow government. It is composed, like the

Bilderberg Club, of representatives of the
big. multinational corporations, politicians
and generals. Its strongest and most effective
arm is the CIA. oes
The Trilateral Commission, which in-
cludes many members who also belong to
the Bilderberg Club, was established because
its sponsors felt the need to have an
organization that could be more flexible in
its tactics, one not so openly identified with
all right wing, fascist and dictatorial govern-

ts and movements in the western world,
wee in which the U.S. would have more
control. Its central aims, however, are the
same as of the Bilderberg Club — to stop the
spread of socialism, to undermine existing
socialist states, to crack down and destroy
national liberation movements and to defeat
reform movements.
At its 1978 session in Germany, Kissinger
was added to the executive committee, thus

strengthening U.S. control. In 1978 the.

Bilderberg Club and the Trilateral Commis-
sion agreed on some organizational changes
and also a merging of their efforts. The
Trilateral Commission became the Atlantic
Institute. BA
The policies of the Trilateral Commission
have ae accepted by NATO and most of
the countries of the western world, It boasts
that all recent U.S. presidents, vice-

presidents, and heads of CIA have been

; Trilateral members.

Canadian members of the Trilateral
Commission (some of whom are listed in
The Canadian Establishment by Peter C.
Newman) include Robert Bonner, head of
B.C. Hydro, former Liberal cabinet
ministers Mitchell Sharp and Donald S.
MacDonald and Michael Kirby, senior ad-
viser to Pierre Trudeau.

These two groups are responsible for the
high interest rates in the Western World, the
high inflation rate (both of which are highly
profitable for big business), the Cold War,
the intensification of the arms race by Presi-
dent Reagan, the ovrthrow of democracy in
Chile in 1973, the destabilization attempts in
Poland, and the aggression the U.S. is cur-
rently undertaking in Central America.

The Business Council on National Issues

{BCNI) was set up in Canada in 1977. It is
made up of 150 chief executive officers of

major corporations, most of them multina-
tionals. Its first two co-chairmen were the
heads of Imperial Oil and Noranda Mines.

It was set up because the big corporations
felt that the Candian Manufacturers
Association and the Chamber of Commerce
had to cater too much to many of the smaller
business firms that made up its membership.

It set itself the job of lobbying the federal
government and provincial governments to
ensure that they would carry out the policies
desired by the big corporations. In 1982 the
BCNI demanded that Ottawa impose wage
controls on public employees. The Trudeau
government complied in its June 18 budget
of that year.

The Fraser Institute, with headquarters in
B.C., is funded by the big corporations. It
takes its philosophical leadership from the
“new right” of the U.S., from the U.S.
economist Milton Friedman whose policies

are being implemented by President Reagan
(cut social services to the bone, spend the na-
tion’s wealth on war preparations to make
the military industrial complex even richer).

In B.C. the institute has carried on an in-
tensive and well financed propaganda cam-

_paign to the point where it has now become

the economic and philosophical advisor of
the B.C. cabinet.

It identifies ‘“‘big government’? and
“government intervention,” as the main
culprits. By this it means government spen-
ding on social services (unemployment in-
surance, medicare, education) which it
wants re-organized on a user-pay basis
without the expenditure of public funds. As
part of this process it wants the number of
public employees drastically decreased as
there will be less and less public services
delivered.

By ‘‘government intervention,”’ it means
that it wants all laws repealed which in any
way hinder big business from doing what it
wants — elimination of taxes on corporate
profits, environmental protection legisla-
tion, zoning bylaws, and most of all labor
legislation which grants unions legal recogni-
tion and which provides some protection
such as safety regulations, minimum wages,
maximum hours, compensation for injury,
and so on.

The Bennett government in its recent
budget began to implement some of these
policies. If it is allowed to get away with
them, more will be forthcoming in this and
further sessions of the provincial legislature.

: B.C. is today not under the control or
direction of its people. It is being directed
and manipulated by powerful economic
bodies working in secret and behind the
scenes — right from the Trilateral Commis-
sion to the Fraser Institute.

Its no accident that B.C. should de the
first province in Canada to succumb to these
alien influences. In Social Credit, with its
anti-human rights, antitabor, anti-teacher,
anti-doctor, anti-medicare philosophy, the
Sours (OU eect t
subject.

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