NATIONALIZATION BEST SOLUTION CPR roadblock to port’s growth AST ”, os cenit WILL YOU HELP VIETNAM? ee iat aera eeieiataiee ata Pon PPPS, ee ae’ arareeTeT eee ea aeons ae e Peis RRR , rine ert EeD This Child Needs Your Help ‘ How Can You Help? : You can help by supporting the objectives PPro? fa aaP Pa! of CANADIAN AID FOR VIETNAM CIVILIANS. ‘ sient Money for Medical Supplies The committee is campaignitg to raise $20,000 to be used to purchase medical sup- plies for Vietnamese civilians. Already (Feb- ruary 28), more than $2,000 has been raised : be R K Pale RS and sent to Vietnam. You can help by mak- RS ing a personal donation. You or your 8 organization are cordially invited to assist SS in this work of mercy. All money collected RS will be used to purchase drugs, bandages, surgical instruments and other medical supplies. LiL SAA EAAX Peis Thousands of civilians need this aid. Your contribution may save a life. SS ate PLEASE CLIP AND MAIL To: CANADIAN AID FOR VIETNAM CIVILIANS, S P.O. BOX #2543, VANCOUVER 3, B.C. s NAME renee ADDRESS re arere' ereer eae, DONATION ENCLOSED $ Above are portions of the brochure mailed out last week to large numbers of organizations and individuals in B.C. by the Canadian Aid to Vietnam Civilians. The PT is re- producing this appeal as its contribution to the campaign 3 to help raise $20,000 for medical aid. We urge our readers = to heed this appeal. scarey | nl : : = 3 oy " 4 Nl ou & x Sd = a ise SSS ROR SOS By BEN SWANKEY The CPR in the main stumbling block to the development of the port of Vancouver. This is the consensus of opinion of most people concerned with Vancouver's future as one of the. great ports of the world. The CPR claims title to choice waterfront property from Car- dero Street to Gore Avenue on the south side of Burrard Inlet. Its facilities in this area are old and often in ruins, Yet the CPR refuses to take any action to modernize them, Grant Deachman, Liberal MP -for Vancouver Quadra, speaking in the House of Commons on February 10, called the CPR’s facilities east of Coal Harbor ‘¢boatyard slums,” Alderman Bob Williams of Vancouver charged in City Council that the CPR was “the biggest slum lord in the nation.” He said the CPR was keeping False Creek a backwater waste- land, holding up ships in the har- | por for as much as 28 days, and maintaining extensive freight yards in the heart of the * city where they should never be, Higif™Bys Minister Phil Gag- lardi in the provincial legislature on February 8, suggested that Vancouver City Council tell the CPR that if it-doesn’t get on with the job of port development, the city should “get a bulldozer and move them out of the way.” The International Longshore- men’s and Warehousemen’s .Un- ion at its recent Canadian Area convention charged that “the dead hand of the CPR... is hind- ering port development.” One notable exception to the mounting wave of criticism of the CPR is Mayor Rathie of Van- couver, He called criticisms of the CPR completely irrespon- sible, and, playing politics, he blamed the provincial govern- ment for the failure to develop the port. Top CPR officials who visited Vancouver last month were ex- pected to reveal some develop- ‘ment plans, They didn’t come up with any, Instead, CPR presi- dent Robert” Emerson brushed off criticism with the remark that the “public of Canada never got a better deal’? than itdid from the CPR, “The corporate con- science of the CPR is absolutely clear,” he said, SHIPS IN WAITING. Photo shows some of the large freight- ers_anchored in Vancouver's harbor waiting to be serviced at dock facilities which are inadequate because of the bot- Available evidence would indi- cate that the CPR has some big deals cooking behind the scenes, One is a demand that the Na- tional Harbors Board give the CPR clear title to waterfront property it now claims, The original agreement some 80 years ago gave the CPR approx- imately 10 square miles ef what ‘is now the city of Vancouver; also a right of way in from Port Moody, The National Harbors Board dis- putes CPR claims that the grant included foreshore rights. 75 Years Ago Henry Abbott, general superintendent of the CPR, ‘wrote Vancouver City Council that the company would not bear the cost, or any part of the cost, of protecting its level crossings at city. streets, —Extract from New Adver- tiser, predecessor of TheSun, The CPR is also pressing to have a freeway built along the waterfront and a highway access to it, It expects to sell the air space above its railway tracks, and whatever land space is needed, at a handsome price, In addition to this the value of its waterfront properties would be greatly enhanced, This is where Mayor Rathie appears to fit in, He’s accepted the job of steering through the $145 million freeway at public expense to help the CPR, But even if these concessions were granted to the CPR, and they certainly shouldn’t be, there is still no guarantee that the CPR would then go ahead with port development, Jack Davis, Coast Capilano Liberal MP, said in the House of Commons that “the CPR has a very large multi-million dollar real estate development in mind for the downtown area of the port of Vancouver, involving downtown Vancouver right along the oldest section of the water- March 18, 1966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8 — front for a distance of up to a mile, To call for port development is not to deny improvements al- ready in the making. What is still lacking is a long range overall port development plan based on the potential growth of this port, Included in such a plan should be new piers, docks, loading and unloading facilities for both gen- eral and bulk cargo, adequate space for parking and truck traffic, modern warehouses, additional grain elevators and an up-to-date passenger terminal. The waterfront badly needs a continuous wide road running parallel to it and next to it from Coast Harbor to Second Narrows Bridge. More overpass access roads are needed, It has also been proposed that fish docks and canneries on Bur- rard Inlet be moved to another location, perhaps False Creek, since fish boats do not require the same draft as deep sea ships. No comprehensive plan for port development should fail to take into account the provision of modern facilities for fishing — still one of our basic industries. There is little likelihoodofany — good plan for port development coming into being as long as the CPR is allowed to squat on the waterfront, The only realistic course, as has been proposed both in the provincial legislature and House of Commons, would be for Ottawa to expropriate CPR waterfront properties, In fact, there is a growing demand across Canada — that the- whole CPR be na- tionalized. If bold action is taken, Van- couver, which now handles 26 percent of Canada’s export trade, can look forward to an even greater volume in the future, '—THE FISHERMAN tleneck created by the CPR. Ships often have to wait for days before being loaded or unloaded. —Jack Phillips photo