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Essai:
RONALD REAGAN
ARMED AND CONSIDERED EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

Law should protect

buyers of used cars

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

No used car dealer should be

- permitted to offer a car for sale
until it has gone through a pro-
vineial government motor
vehicle testing station. If the
vehicle passes the test, the
prospective buyer will know at
least certain basic minimum
requirements have been met
and the vehicle is fit for the road.

If the vehicle has been
rejected at the testing station,
the buyer will know what repairs
must be made before the vehicle
is safe for the highway.

A law governing the above
would help to protect the buying
public against the dishonest
practices of some used car
dealers. When you buy a used

Furthermore, the law against
tampering with mileage indi-
cators should be strictly
enforced, with penalties for
violations increased if
necessary. Many people are
being cheated today by the wide-
spread practice of turning back
the mileage on the mileage indi-
cators. A person may buy a car
that shows 30,000 miles when
actually it may have gone.60,000.

I am introducing a motion in
City Council to have Vancouver
pass the necessary by-laws con-
cerning the testing of used cars
by dealers. If for some. legal
reason Vancouver cannot do so,
then we must insist that the pro-
vincial government act on the
car, you'll at least know whether matter. The car buying public is
some of its essential parts such _ being victimized too much today
as brakes and steering mech- by unscrupulous used _ car
anism are ina safe condition. dealers.

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YCL collects many names
on peace petition at PNE

An army sergeant said he
would like to add his name to the
petition but he was sure ‘‘he’d
get in trouble”’ if he did so.

The YCL’ers kept up the good

Members of the Young Com-
munist League set themselves a
goal of 2,000 names on the
OUTNOW peace petition in one
week. The first day, with just

three canvassers at PNE gates,
they made a good start on their
goal.

One young man got 50 names
on his petition within 45 minutes;
another had talked to scores of
people and achieved 29 names
for his petition within the hour.

“The majority of people we
ask to sign do so gladly’’, said
one of the young Communists.
‘Young people are especially
very receptive.”

The YCL’ers are amazed to
find that some members of the
public think the war in Vietnam
is over. ‘‘I thought Nixon has
already pulled out American
troops’’. said one lady.

Another said indeed she would
sign, for she had lived through
three wars and wanted to see an
end to them for all time.

work during the PNE and while
final figures are not available,
the consensus is that more and
more people are concerned with
ending the vicious war in
Indochina.

In Toronto trade unions have
formed an OUTNOW committee
to campaign for signatures. They
circulated the petitions at Labor
Day parades and picnics.

A mother of two in Toronto

went to shopping plazas,

concerts, plays and pop
festivals, as well as to depart-
ment stores and plant gates to
get 1500 names on the petition
within a few weeks.

She said it was the easiest to

work on in all her experience, for -

even some of the people she
approached for a signature took
with them petitions so they
themselves could collect names.

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DH Postal union victory

service to all labor

The postal workers deserve
commendation for the services
they have rendered to all labor in
defeating the spokesmen for
monopoly who want to destroy
free collective bargaining and
the right to strike. This was the
comment of Communist. Party
labor - secretary
Magnuson, in a statement
issued September 4.

Magnuson’s statement said:

It is impossible to find any
rational argument to justify the
Trudeau Government’s handling
of the postal dispute. The
stubborn refusal to bargain in
good faith resulted in much
unnecessary hardship for the
workers involved and incon-
venience to the public at large.

The Government’s effort to
impose a 6 percent guideline on
wages was doomed to failure on
all counts a long time ago. From
statements issued by both
Trudeau and Mr. Drury,
Chairman of the Treasury
Board, it would appear that the
Government sensed this fact,
even though it sought to cling to
its position to the very end.

Having rejected a conciliation
report by Judge Lippe and all
efforts of a subsequent
mediator, the Government
came close to blocking 15 days
hard work by its last mediator,
Mr. O’Connor, after union nego-
tiators accepted proposed terms
for tentative agreement. f

“As to the terms of the
settlement itself, this has yet to
be voted upon by the members of
the postal unions. On the surface
it would appear that the union
has made significant gains by
holding firm against extremely
heavy odds. The Treasury
Board, holding a club in one hand
and a gun in the other during a
year of tedious manoeuvring,
refused to budge from its
intransigent position of trying to
force the union to capitulate.

Most significant is the fact
that the spokesmen for monopoly
who want to destroy free collec-
tive bargaining and the right to
strike, granted public employees
three years ago, have suffered
another defeat. The postal
workers deserve commendation
for the services they have
rendered to all labor.

Mr. Trudeau has made his
position on this matter clear
during the postal confrontation
by threats of legislation

settlement. It is not without signi.

ficance that the Canadian Manu-
facturers Association chose
this specific moment to present
its demand that the Federal
Government withdraw the right
to strike from public service
workers. Its delegation to Mr.
Drury was carefully timed with
an expected breakdown of yet
another mediation attempt in the
postal talks.

The struggle is not over for
workers in the public services.

‘The enemies of labor will

WILLIAM KASHTAN
Elks Hall, Vernon

Thur., Sept. 24—8p.m.

Ro SSSR SRS SRE

Bruce.

continue their nefarious work
both inside and outside of govern-
ment and parliament?

What is needed now is that
Central labor bodies, local labor
councils, provincial federa-
tions, and particularly the CLC,
develop a militant and coordin-
ated public campaign for labors
rights, spelled out in A Charter
of Labor’s Rights.

tf ow much, and yet how little things have changed. On
this morning of Labor Day I have listened to a

The next stages of the battle
involve other public service

- employees, auto workers and

railway workers.

In all of these struggles ahead
only the most solid unity and
coordination of the whole
movement from coast to coast
can hope to succeed against the

combined forces of employers —

and governments.

number of Labor Day greetings by an assortment of federal,
civic, labor and sundry other prominent personages, including
some of our current labor leaders.

All a shade more sophisticated than the specie of the
Hungry Thirties, but their ‘‘message’’ remains, on the whole a
deadly parallel of that belly-robbing period.

There is a deep concern expressed about current ‘‘labor
trouble’’, strikes, etc., and its alleged effect on the economy,
but little or nothing on the burning problem of rising
unemployment and the suffering it brings to countless
thousands of human beings across Canada. Not a few of these
political Labor Day ‘“‘seers’’ center their attention upon the
Hippies and other large segements of Canada’s youth, not with
the aim of assisting these young people secure gainful
employment of some sort, but with getting rid of them, or
forgetting their existence altogether.

In the halycon Thirties the ‘‘message’’ of such pundits to a
jobless generation of Canada’s young people was to “‘stay
away” from every province and every civic centre. If they
would just ‘“‘stay away’ from B.C. and/or every province
between here and the Atlantic seaboard, everything would be
“solved’’.

Today the ‘‘message’’ is to run them out, of Vancouver
and/or all points East, coupled with insulting remarks anent
their ‘‘unwashed”’ appearance, dress, ideas, etc., etc. A sort of
“‘set off the earth’’ finale.

..Of course we have changed over the years. Instead of a
Gerry ‘‘Riot Act’? McGeer we have a Tom Campbell, and a
Wacky Bennett in place of a Duff Patullo, while federally an
“Tron Heel’’ Richard Bedford Bennett has been replaced by a
peregrinating taxpayer’s liability, M. Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
but the thousands of disposed, adult and youth remain and grow
in numbers, and to these ‘‘statesmen’’ the problem is not how
to cope with it, but how to bury it.’

One of the methods used is the construction of more and
bigger jails, heavy increases in police personnel and
expenditures, new techniques of police brutaility, etc., etc., not
for the advancement of gainful employment and more jobs, but
to persecute those who protest their economic exclusion in the
scheme of things.

A lot of these so-called Labor Messages tell us ‘‘what the
government should do’’ to alleviate the situation, but this
generally takes the form (and did this year again) of trying to
focus attention on some other government.

Again a strong similarity to the Hungry Thirties.
“Unemployment,” Pattullo used to say with monotonous

out its own profit belt.”

Hippie. “I don t— I'm moving.”

regularity, ‘“‘is a federal matter’’ and today’s Socred High
Priest with his communications ‘‘plug-in with God”’ tells us the
same thing, while civic pundits seek to side-step the issue by
tirelessly repeating that it is a ‘‘provincial matter’ and not the
responsibility of any civic centre. Masters at the art of buck-
passing, but extremely low-grade legislators.

In the tragedy of millions of jobless adults and youth, those
just beginning their manhood years, and those tens of
thousands condemned to the indignity and hopelessness of a life
on-welfare’’, these so-called legislators do not, or refuse to
see this end result of their own inadequacy and bankruptcy. |

But of course all the above and more are ommitted from
their so-called Labor Day *‘messages’’. in their ten or fifteen
minutes of empty platitudes, and “hope” that things will
improve: that labor will be more amenable to monopoly’s
concern for more profits. more considerate of the dangers of
inflation’. more willingsto submit to ball-and-chain coercive
laws: ever ready to “tighten its belt’. while monopoly “‘let’s

On Hippie economic status. from the U.S. Farm News. A
Hippie was walking down the street carrying a cigar box. His
friend said. “I didnt know you smoked cigars.” Said the —