” ey CANNOT EVOLUTION OF THE PRESIDENCY Tew A Lie!” J PARKS BOARD RIP-OFF HIT City should take over Four Seasons property | By ALD. HARRY RANKIN It took the citizens of Van- couver three years to defeat the Four Seasons hotel-apartment complex which would have ruined the entrance to Stanley Park and created an impossible traffic bottleneck. (Andit took six years before that to defeat the several other schemes start- ing with Webb & Knapp in 1962). Now it looks as if we will have to fight the battle all over again. According to press reports, Dawson Developments, a real estate company, has bought the 14 acre site from the Four Sea- sons people. It seems that the company has already held dis- cussions with our waterfront committee headed by Ald- erman Setty Pendakur. All of which can’t help creating the suspicion thatsome DEMAND ISRAEL CARRY OUT UN RESOLUTION ON MIDDLE EAST The World Peace Council, in an appeal over the signature of its secretary general Romesh Chandra, has called for organiza- tions around the world to send messages to the Security Council of the U.N. on the Middle East crisis. The appeal says that the escalation of tension in the Middle East is an increasing threat to world peace and security. ‘‘This grave situation is- amereresult of the expansionist policy of Israel and its refusal to withdraw. from the Arab territories occupied after the June 1967 aggression.” The Israeli government has refused to implement the Security Council’s resolution 242 and other resolutions taken by the U.N. General Assembly. Debate opened last week at the United Nations on the Middle East crisis and is expected to continue for a number of weeks. Many top governmentofficials from the Arab states are attend- ing the session. The World Peace Council is calling for messages to the presi- dent of the Security Council which will urge the following action: to impose sanctions, including expulsion from the United Nations organization, in order to compel Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories and implement the Security Council and’ U.N. General Assembly resolutions. deal has already been cooked up in the back rooms. I can’t imagine Dawson Developments spending $6 million without some advance assurance that it would be profitable for them. And deals made would have to be with both the TEAM major- ity on Council and Ottawa, which has still not given the last leases onsome waterfront lots needed to consolidate the parcel of land. The whole thing has had an unsavory record right from the beginning when a former cabinet minister was a promi- nent figure in the company securing the water lot leases from Ottawa. The way to end this matter once and for all in the public interest is for the city toacquire this property and develop the major portion of it as a suitable entrance to Stanley Park with facilities appropriate for that purpose including park space, restaurants and other -attractions. This is what we should press for now, before any more deals are made behind closed doors. * kK One of the main reasons the citizens of Vancouver retired the N.P.A. last year was be- cause of its sell-outs to de- TOP SECRET There’s much ado in Watergate In the land of Uncle Sam. But that deceit is second rate To lies on Vietnam. —John Wainscott, Victoria his column salutes the memory of a brilliant work- ing class journalist and columnist, Mel Colby of Toronto. Mel as he was known to readers of the Communist and progressive press across Canada andin Britain. through the media of the Daily Worker (now the Morning Star) was one of Canada’s rare talented writers whose rich satire was a stimulant to working class consciousness required for the victory of Socialism. Humorous always, but also deadly serious. Now his voice and his pen are silent, a victim of cancer in his 61st year. For many years Mel was a regular columnist of the Clarion, later the Canadian Tribune, on the fighting Mine-Mill Union press of the 60’s, and the British Communist press. In all, his rapier-like satire and ridicule of the socalled ‘‘better class”’ invariably reduced their greatness to absurdity, andsocial system built on monopoly exploitation to ridicule and con- tempt. For writers of Mel’s stature, ridicule and satire directed against the bourgeoisie were potent weapons in the daily struggle for progress and socialism and he used them as a master craftsman. This columnist salutes the memory of Mel Colby and extends our sympathy and condolences to his lifelong com- panion, comrade and wife, Eve Colby. For countless thousands of workers the promise of a better world has been enriched because he lived with, and for them. Farewell dear Comrade and friend. ** * It was good news abit latetobesure, justabout20 years late, but as the old saw goes, ‘‘better late than never.” The ‘‘great’’ man has finally stepped down from Socred leadership, from his Kelowna constituency, from politics in general, ifnot altogether. He has finally got the ‘‘message’’ that British Columbia no longer needs or wants him, a message which should have been clear enoughin August of 1972. But some egos are hard to penetrate. Having never mastered the Douglas theory of Social Credit, (few ever did except potential condidates for the bug house) Bennett set about inventing his own theory, which, translated into life in B.C. meant that ‘‘tohim that hath, more shall be given’’ while to him that ‘‘hath not, even that shall be taken away.’’ Under this simplified Bennett theory of Socredia, big business monopoly in Canada and the USA fared very well, since they gota great bulk of the peoples’ richresources for next to nothing. Some even for nothing. For which unborn generations will still have to pay. And from the ‘‘Party of the Little Man”’ which Socredia dubbed itself in earlier days,the people, workers, small business, professionals, etc, and etc, gotitintheneck. . .withdivine approval via Bennett’s direct hot-line plug-in with Jehovah. That line was obviously dis- connected in August of 1972. Ina belated realization that he is now little morethana nostalgic has-been our ex-‘‘Prime Minister”’ has still the contentious question on whom to bestow the mantle of leader- ship: an ex-attorney general,.as ex-minister of welfare, as ex- minister-without-portfolio but well gifted-with-the gab, or what have you. Moreover, according to our ‘‘democratic system of govern- ment’’ the Opposition and Party leader should always bean elected MLA, and who is to assure him (or her) a safe seat in the August house? Not the Liberals or Tories, who aremuchto busy trying to finagle seats (and stipends) for themselves. Both old-line parties can and do unite in opposition to labor’s goals. sometimeswith extreme doubletalk and/or violence, but never to providea parliamentary safe seat fora fellow Social Creditor, no matter how ‘‘deserving.’” Thus in any bye-election in Kelowna constituency no Socred candidate can hope or expect it be uncontested. Not even an emergency repair jobon the Bennett-Jehovah hot-line plug-in could bring about such a ‘‘Miracle.”’ As the government of the Province of B.C. the NDP is obliged, in keeping with its election commitments, to contest the Okanagan seat; as a party dedicated to peace, progress and socialism, the Communist Party is obliged to raise the banner of Socialism in the monopoly-ridden Okanagan. And in keeping with the “‘principles’’ of opportunism, chicanery, doubletalk, etc., plusalong and loyal service to big business, the Tories and Liberals will be among the ‘“‘also rans.’’ With a dismal wail about socialism Bennett harrangues and schemes. Buthisday has ended. Like a former Caesar, only the ‘ after.” . evil lives PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1973—PAGE 2 velopers. But our Parks Boaté (now TEAM dominated) hast” learned anything and is carry! on where the N.P.A. left off. The citizens of VancouWt | paid over $350,000 to puild Ht | Quarry House restaurant Queen Elizabeth Park, and to not including the value of i land. So-what did the Pal} Board do with it? it First of all the restaul@ serves meals at prices W only the wealthy can affor ($3.50 to $7.50) with no sit J orders. This pretty wel i cludes the great majority a citizens and leaves it a ye : dining place for the wealthy? tourists. This is the rankest™ of class discrimination.