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HEARS DOUGLAS, PHILLIPS

Labor Day at Parksville, B.C.
drew one thousand people who
came for the festivities of the
annual labor day picnic and to
hear Tommy Douglas, NDP MP
for Cowichan, together with Jack
Phillips, provincial organizer of
the Communist Party, offer
labor day messages for working
people.

Douglas, in paying tribute to
the early pioneers of the trade
union movement, called for a

- Strengthening of the labor
movement to meet today’s
needs. He pointed out that many
of the key problems facing
organized labor, problems of
inflation, unemployment and
housing, can only be dealt with
effectively by political action. He
advanced his party’s demand for
a two price system on products
sold on both the export and home
markets, with an export tax to
strengthen the economy.
Throughout his speech he
stressed the theme that the
products of labor should serve to
enrich the life of the working
people and not to provide super
profits for big business.

In his first speech as provin-
cial organizer for the Communist
Party, Phillips pointed out that
the present situation can be
traced to the early post war
period when all parties in
Parliament supported con-
tinentalism. “Only the Com-
munist Party,’”’ Phillips said,
“warned that the policy of

the strongest public support.

At a time when multiple demands (and needs) of
almost every public service are pressing upon
government bodies to do something in the way of
financial subsidy, and the needs of the people, both
worker and farmer, are immediate and urgent, the
rejection of this high-priced sporting event was at once
timely, wise and considerate. Which comes first — the
needs of the people or the racketeering of a horde of

sport tycoons?

Olympic swindle.

The rejection by the NDP government of the
Garibaldi-Whistler Winter Olympics project merits

Naturally the news media other similar agencies,
including the so called Olympics committees, are all
het up about the government rejection and are staging
mass campaigns designed to force the government to
change its position, and subsidize this sporting ex-
travaganza — at the taxpayers expense, but not for his
benefit. Parroting the NDP ‘“‘as a government of the
people”’ these sport promoters clamor that the NDP doesn’t sto
government should “now legislate for the people”
(meaning themselves) and cancel its rejection of the

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEN

making Canada a junior partner
of American imperialism would
have disastrous economic

results for Canadians.

“Tt is no-secret,” said Phillips,
turning his attention to the NDP,”’
that there are fundamental
differences between us. The
NDP had no ultimate aim other
than reform while the aim of the
Communist Party is socialism.
Nevertheless hundreds of
thousands of people who support
the NDP do so because they have
consciously rejected the parties
of big business.” Phillips called
for unity of the trade union
movement, the NDP, the
Communist Party, farmers and
other democratic forces to fight
back the policies of monopoly
capital.

Drawing attention to the sharp
drift to the right in the last
federal election, Phillips said,
“We cannot be happy over a
Situation in which the NDP lost
100,000 votes in B.C., as com-
pared with the provincial
election of 1972, and lost nine out
of eleven federal seats. . It
should be obvious that big money
in this province is going all out to

refurbish and rejuvenate the

Socred party with a view to it
forming the next provincial
government. That would be a
great tragedy.

“We: need policies that will
strengthen the position of the
people in relation to the

WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE FELLAH,
YOU'RE NOT THE PRIME MINISTER YOU KNOW.

tracted and assured

For the sporting t¢ coons it i
featherbed DPE

Island labor picnic draws 1000

monopolies,” Phillips said. He
called for the phasing out of the
five percent sales tax, removal
of the school tax from the family
home and farm, and
nationalization of BG.
Telephone, as promised in the
NDP election platform.

He left a sombre reminder that
September 11 will mark the first
anniversary of the fascist coup in
Chile. His appeal for solidarity
actions in support of democratic
Chile drew a responsive chord
from BC’s largest labor picnic.

“Recycle

worth expanding

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Early this year City Council -

embarked on two recycling
projects. One was the establish-
ment of a Recycling Depot at the
city’s Manitoba Work Yards.
Here, paper, glass, plastics and
aluminium are separated from
the garbage. The other project
was a four month program of
paper collection (mainly
newspapers) in four selected
areas of the city.

Both ‘programs have done
quite well. Citizen response has
been good. But both have small
deficits, caused, in part, by the
drastic drop in the price of used
paper — from $16 to $5 a ton.

Council has now decided to
continue the paper collections in
the four areas and to keep up the
Recycling Depot at the Manitoba
Yards until at least February,
1975.

The recycling program could,
I believe, be made into a paying
business. It requires better
organization which depends
upon gaining more experience.
We need to build or buy the
Specialized equipment needed
for collecting refuse for
recycling purposes. Citizen
cooperation ~could be improved.
And the city could end or, at
least, lessen the “pirating” by
private paper collectors of paper
placed out for city collection.

But even if the recycling

Labor rejects Olympics

The B.C. Federation of Labor
announced last week that it has
begun a campaign of support for
the provincial government in its
decision to withhold. en-
dorsement of the Winter
Olympics application.

The NDP government recently
turned down the Olympics
Committee bid for the Whistler
Mountain area for the 1976
Olympics. The decision evoked
considerable protest, primarily
from the land developers who
would stand to profit from the
venture.

The Federation’s executive
council voted unanimously to
support actively the decision of
the provincial government “to
put the interests of the taxpayers
ahead of the interests of a few:

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We sincerely trust that the NDP government will
stick to its guns in this decision and move ahead
progressively with its provincial-wide plans for a
number of recreational projects. And when and if
world Olympic events should co
sometime in the future, a new code
sport should be written and approve

The late Connie Smyth of Toronto’s Maple Leaf

me to Vancouver
of what constitutes

or more accurately,
who have managed

developers who expect to make a
fortune from the facilities which
would have to be established to
accommodate the Winter
Olympics.

__ ‘We agree completely with the
government’s view,”’ Federation
‘Secretary Len Guy stated, ‘“‘that
the millions of dollars of public
money required for the Winter
Olympics scheme would be
better spent developing
recreational facilities for all
British Columbians.

“We are also concerned about
the potential damage to the
environment from the proposed
development. In the next few
weeks, we will carry out a
Program to acquaint working
people with the facts through
pamphlets, newspaper ad-
vertisements and other means.”’

Gardens died while serving sentence for defraud
that institution of several hundred thousand dolla! 1 Tag
“great sportsman’? indeed. ;
’ Some police magistrates who mumble ye Lea!
deterrent to others” obviously didn’t deter Map rs int0
manager Claude Ballard from getting his rea
the sport till for a few extra thousand also. Mr. “a
was So enamored with our Canadian prison syste 16
home away from home”, he described it in °
fusive newspaper article. Probably an encourae™ feat
to other sporting tycoons that they had nothing
at the prospect of such preferred class hooseé

of endeavour, second to none. But the Predili
corruption of the big money disease eats into 1% ©, no
like termites in an oaken wall. Among the py
on your life, although that is where some ee
place the blame. Among the ‘producers’;

heeled promoters, managers, propagandists, ©
dressed sauve hooligans; definitely. That's

look if any clean-up is to happen,

Meantime the NDP has performed ee
service to the people by saying no to the
Whistler schemes for a ‘‘sporting’’ gouge-

project

project couldn’t pay its own Way,
I'd still bein favour of contin’
and expanding it. :
To me, the staggering amo!
of resources wasted by %
society is nothing less tha
shameful. In some _ resoure
short countries it would
termed criminal. Think of all 4
resources wasted in fa
packaging and in new desig
and new models for what”
essentially the same produ
Think of the enormous amount
paper, plastics, glass and mel@ ;
thrown into garbage cans evely "|
week. Add to this the refuse front”
stores and factories and the tota
begins to boggle the imagination
Doesn’t it seem rather Se
seless to dump all these US
products into a bog in Richmo?
when they could be recycled 4?
used over again? ,
None of ane resources, bet
wasted on such a lavish s¢# od
today, tis inexhaustible. If
have too much, there are m0
than enough resource PO,
countries that would be hapPY
share them with us. uld
That’s why I think we sho
recycle anything and every And
that can be used over again. ofa
because private enterprise is ™
interested, the city should
dertake it. Sure, some busin®,
interests such as mining ands :
who profit from using be
resources up fast, may 0J
But this is one case where ul
overall good of society ee:
certainly take precedence °
the profit-itch of a few.

NOTICE

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from staff vacations, the fu 0
article on the lumber crisis W™
appear in this issue _ wil
previously announced. qi
however, appear in a subs ‘
issue. In next week’s issue "i
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