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Westminster labor hits |
rezoning of farm lands |

The New Westminster and
District Labor Council submitted a
brief to the hearings of the Greater
Vancouver Regional District
recently urging that agricultural
land in Delta and Richmond be
preserved, and opposing rezoning
which would open rich farm land to
developers.

Representing 50 affiliated unions
with 20,000 members, the New
Westminster Labor Council brief
was presented by Rod Doran,
chairman of the council’s
legislative committee, at hearings
May 20 in the Town and Country
Inn, Delta, B.C. Purpose of the
hearings of the GVRD was to con-
sider proposed changes of the
boundaries of secondary
agricultural land reserves.

The brief emphasized the

Halt abuse of liquor laws

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Many downtown liquor outlets,
and particularly cabarets, are
ignoring, if not abetting the
distribution of alcohol and hard
drugs to whomever walks through
their doors, whether they are
under age or. not. This is the con:
clusion of our youth workers, and
city police who patrol this beat.

Minors are not prohibited by law
from entering cabarets, although it
is against the law to serve them
liquor. But they are being served,
either directly by the waiters or
through drinks purchased by
adults and then handed over to

_ them. Often over 50 per cent’ of the
_ Clientele are under age.
Drug trafficking and drug abuse .

is also rampant in these cabarets.
Intravenous use of drugs (mainly
speed) is practiced openly in the
washrooms. Young people are
““fixing”’ in the rest rooms. Many of

_ these young people are also high

school students who buy drugs in
and around the clubs and then in
turn sell them around their
schools.

The owners and managers of
these offending clubs have been
contacted time and again by police
but nothing has changed. Money

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and profits are more important to
them than the ruination of the lives
of young people. , *

Not all nightclubs are engaging
in these unlawful practices. Some
bar anyone under 19 and demand
proof of age in doubtful cases
before serving liquor. But others
just don’t give a damn; as long as
the dollars keep rolling in they
close their eyes to all violations of
the law.

These practices bring other
equally harmful results — over-
serving, drunken employees and
brutality by bouncers. 2

This situation can be brought
under control. Among the
measures that should be taken are:

e Management (and not the
waiters and other staff) must be
held legally responsible for any
serving of liquor to minors.

e Where more than one serious
violation occurs the liquor licence
of the establishment should be
taken away.

e Liquor Control Board in-
spectors must be instructed to
conduct inspections in the evenings
as well as in the daytime and to.
crack down on offending establish-
ments.

- @ The provincial government

magnates cutting through mountain gorges, would bury
just as many unnamed and unknown Chinese laborers as
_ the coal barons in Vancouver Island mines or up in the

Crow.

should amend the laws on cabarets
to require thém to observe the
liquor and other laws and

regulations with stiff penalties

including jail sentences (not only
fines)~ for offending owners and
managers. Youth under 19 should
be barred from cabarets.

Iam aware that the intention of
the provincial government is to
liberalize drinking habits and laws.
But more thought and attention
must be given. to how these laws
operate in practice, and abuses,
suchas the above, can and must be
corrected.

necessity of retaining the
remainder of the rich soil of Lulu
Island and preserving the market
gardens and nurseries in the area.
“We are specifically opposed to
removing any of the “Spettifore
Lands in the Delta area from the
reserve,” said the NW. labor
council.

Pointing out that the principle
inherent in the Land Commission
Act (previously known as Bill 42),
was to stop the large-scale
speculation that bought up farm
land and subsequently pressured
municipal councils to have the land
rezoned, which led to a rapid

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Rod Doran, chairman of the NW
labor council’s legislative
committee, presented the brief
opposing rezoning of farm land at
hearing in Delta.

Progressive candidates run

in Resource Board elections

Several progressive candidates
have thrown their hats in the ring
for the Grandview-Woodland
Community Resource Board
elections slated for Thursday, June
12:

Six electoral sub areas have been
designated for the election with

two candidates to be elected for.

each electoral area.

True, we had to send our two row-boat destroyers, the
Rainbow and Naiobe to stop a boatload of East Indian

The candidates are as follows:
Electoral area 1: Leona Dolores
Rodrigues, Douglas W. Laalo.
Electoral area 3: Sonia Anderson.
Electoral area 4: Mike’ Chrunik,
Joan Morelli. Electoral area 6:
Ralph Crescenzo, Sam Vint.

Another candidate, Susanne
Dahlin, has. already been elected
by acclamation for electoral area

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depletion of the province’s limited]
supply of arable land, the labo!
council urged that the principle of
the Act be upheld. i
Charging that “‘it is obvious thal)
the speculators and land |
developers have put the goal |
super profits before the princi
inherent in the Land Commissio! |
Act — which is to save aly”
preserve our farm land,” the brie! |
recalls the situation in B.C. befor’)
the freeze on agricultural land wa |
brought into effect. :
““A study by the B.C. Federati0
of Labor shows that from 1951
1971 the number of farms in B-
decreased from 26,000 to 18,000 —
drop of 30 per cent. In the sail
period there was a loss of 199,
acres of prime farm land —
average loss of 10,000 acres P#
year in B.C. There is no scarcity !
land in B.C. as a whole or on

- Lower Mainland, but there 1S
-very limited supply of farm lal

Only 2.3 per cent of B.C.’s—
million acres is arable and W?
thirds of our arable land is rane?

-and woodland, leaving 0.7 per cen

under crops. Pe.
“This situation is arrested, DY
we cannot afford to lose any M
agricultural land — the line ml
be held. In other words, we havé
rising population and ©“
diminishing supply of arable)
land;’’ says labor’s brief. {
It points out that B.C. impor)
most of its meat and farm produc

. yet in one of the most fertile are e

in the world, the Delta lands of tit)
Fraser River, farm lands we)
depleted at the rate of 3,000 acres®
year for the last 20 years. Wal
ing of the threat to B.C.’s {09
supplies in the future, the br
points out that one of our mal)
sources of imported farm produc ;
is California, which, it is |
estimated, will become an i
porter of food by 1983. f E
“Preserving our farm land mus)
be regarded as essential to
present and future economy of B-")
Preserving our farm land must &)
regarded as essential to protec A
and improving our quality of lifé*)

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“principle that the Greater

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prime minister Trudeau on where best to hide in this vast |
land lest someone should mistake him for a deranged P -

Now the immigration minister announces that head
‘bag Igor Gouzenko, who helped the Churchill-Trumé
King regimes to launch the years of cold war agains

the
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tthe turnof the century and even before, the immigrant
to Canada, whether from Europe or elsewhere, got little

of a welcome and less of any kind of aid from, the
Establishment of the day. True, his arrival by the

thousands was a favorite topic for political hacks to rant
about, but that was all. ;
Canada needed him for work, real work; to open up a

x vast virgin land and turn it into a veritable world granary.
_ To produce food in abundance, even if he had to exist on a’

diet of gophers and jackrabbits himself; to lay ribbons of
steel from coast to coast, to build cities, hew great forests
and dig mines to produce incalculable wealth — for others
to fatten on. eae

Having robbed the real Native Canadian blind and
consigned him and his people to an apartheidized
reservation, and only referred to him as a “no good In-
dian,” our immigration policies of the day introduced a

new language in our culture. It taught us to refer to the -

Italian immigrant as a ‘“‘Wop,”’ the Slavigimmigrant.as a
“Galician” or ‘“‘Bohunk,”’ to the English immigrant as a
“Bronco,” the Pole as a ‘‘Polack,’’ the Chinese. as a
“Chink’’ and so forth. All these derogatory words and

more were a direct product of our immigration laws. As

for welfare aid to the starved immigrant and his family,

‘such an idea was strictly taboo. We weren’t going to
coddle the immigrant, so for all it was “root hog or die,’’*

and his.status made him a ready-made candidate on all
three counts.

Our immigration customs in those halcyon days weren’t
usually considered racist or chauvinistic. But the rail

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 6, 1975—Page 2

immigrants from landing in Vancouver one year, but that
is all forgotten now.

Today things are different. Today our government
pundits, presumably running an immigration depart-
ment, produce Green Papers, White Papers, papers
galore — as if to emphasize their discriminatory,
chauvinist and racist outlook to the nth degree. Of course,
they mask their views behind smug and respectable
announcements as befits an Establishment dedicated to-a
democracy geared to a substantial bank account.

Immigration “ministerial discretion’ (a polite way of
saying the minister does whatever the hell he wants) has

_ paid little attention to problems of unemployment while

opening Canada’s doors to immigrants . and adding

tremendously to Canada’s job-seeking potential.

Now the minister is again applying his discretion — not
by designing an immigration policy that is universally
applied to all peoples but one that applies discriminatory,
racist quotas.

And as always, the minister is being highly
discretionary in expressing his ministerial preference for
the fascist scum of the Hitlerite gutters of Europe. The
richer and rottener the better.

Nazi killers, wanted by the governments of their
homeland to stand trial for their heinous crimes against
humanity, readily receive landed immigrant status is
Canada and a warm Establishment welcome — and often
a substantial pension to boot. :

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, recently exiled from the Soviet
Union for his treason, is now granted immigrant status in
Canada and has reportedly already had a tete-a-tete with

socialist world, can now take his head out of the bag

£0 to work. Gouzy has been on a steady monthly salary

many years for his meritorious work and is now
monthly pension — tax free, of course — of some
per month. That’s almost 10 timés more than all th wp
migrant pensioners get for a lifetime spent buildiné e
this country. ' BG
The prize package of the lot, however, i yan |
migration department decision to grant General Dan da: |
Quang of Saigon from landed immigrant status in Cane a
Well trained by his U.S. advisors from the Pentaéi 4 |
Quang specialized in drug sales, brothels and graft aS
corruption of every sort. Immigration minister A” this |
under some heat for granting immigrant status tO ne}
crook, laments in response: “I didn’t know where ~~
would go ... what country would receive him?” _ pis}
We have a suggestion. Send him to the U.S. to join
kindred souls in the Ford-Kissinger circle. But get ye
hell out of Canada — and take the racist green paper 4 -
with him!

Editor - MAURICE RUSH

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