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Alderman Harry Rankin told a
rally of 300 unemployed gathered
in the courthouse square last
Wednesday they should organize
on a- political basis to put
pressure on the three levels of
government.

He said the situation needs a
deep change. The natural
resources of this province are
being exported at the cost of
thousands of jobs, and being
bought back as manufactured
items. The building of a
Canadian deep-sea fleet would
help to alleviate unemployment.

Signs carried by some of the
demonstrators put forward the
same message. ‘‘Canadian ships
mean Canadian Jobs’’, and ‘‘Why
not Canadian ships to carry
Canadian products?’’ were
among the more meaningful
slogans on the plethera of signs
at the affair.

Bob Clair of the IWA pointed to
a large banner reading
‘Vancouver, I Love You’’,
plastered to the side of the
CEMP (Block 42) building now
in construction.

‘‘No wonder Eatons and
CEMP love Vancouver’’, he said
at the beginning of his talk, ‘‘the

FISHERIES

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Minister Davis admitted last
week that the Soviet Union under-
stands the need for conser-
vation. ‘‘Their policy is no high
seas fishing of salmon,” he said.

The August 21 issue of “The
Fisherman”’ points out in an edi-
torial that ‘‘the realities are that
the salmon fisheries produced in
the streams of Canada and the
U.S. ... . are threatened by
Japanese and South Korean high
seas operations — not the
operations of Soviet fishing
fleets which voluntarily abstain
from taking salmon.”’

“The Fisherman’’ editorial
calls for a new North Pacific
fisheries treaty instead of asking
the Soviet Union to join in the
present “‘outmoded treaty
written in the frozen context of
the U.S. cold war objective to
exclude the Soviet Union.”

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FRIDAY, SEPTEMB

city fathers gave them that land
at giveaway prices!”’

Clair said there was good land

owned by the city in the south-

east corner of Vancouver which
should be used for a public
housing program, providing
work and accommodation for
the people. Speaking of welfare
rates, he charged that Canadians
on low incomes are being robbed
of their human dignity.

This statement was amplified
by Emily Huestis, a representa-
tive of the Unemployed Citizens’
Welfare Improvement Council
which sponsored the meeting.

She said people on welfare
were near the desperation point..
She blamed the high unemploy-
ment rate on businessmen whose
motto was profits rather than
people, and condemned the
policy of selling out natural
resources to foreign nations,
leaving few secondary industries
for jobs for our own people.

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Marilynne Glick, speaking for
unemployed youth, demanded
‘‘meaningful’’ jobs for young
people. She said women and
youth were amongst the most
oppressed section of the popu-
lation for they were the last
hired and the first fired.

A representative of the
Women’s Caucus called
attention to the fact that a
number of striking women at the
Hoskens wholesale, owned by
Cunningham Drugs, needed the
support of the public in their
struggle for union recognition.

Following the meeting a
delegation attempted to
interview Welfare Minister
Gaglardi and to present a brief.
However, he had left his office in
charge of two policemen.

Later, he said he had gone to
lunch with ‘some businessmen.
regarding employment
prospects’, and that “nobody
among the demonstrators had
asked for an appointment with
me.”

One theme that did come
through loud and clear during the
demonstration was a demand
for his (Gaglardi’s) resignation.

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Time running out to get
on city’s voting list

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Are you on the voters’ list for
the December 9th _ civic
elections?

If you have property in your
name, you will automatically be
put on the list. If you are a
tenant, or if you do not own
property jointly with your
husband or wife, your name
should have been added to the
list as‘a result of an enumeration
carried through earlier this
year.

However, it is possible that
your name could have been
missed. Perhaps you were out
when the enumerator called, or
you may have been in the
process of moving. Bruce Yorke,
secretary of the Vancouver
Tenants Council, estimates that
8,000 to 10,000 tenants are not on
the voters’ list. 3

To be eligible to vote, you have
to be a British subject, 19 years
of age or over and resident in
the city since January 1, 1970.

You find out if you’re on the
voters list by phoning City Hall.
The number is 873-7011.

If you are not on the list and
are entitled to be on, there are
several ways in which you may
still have your name added,
provided you take action before
September 21st.

_ 1. Call at the Civic Voters
List Office at the south east

corner of Yukon and Broadway.
This office is open Monday to
Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

2. Call at a Free Legal Aid
Centre. They have four offices
open from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
where law students can swear
you in, Mondays — Pender
YWCA, 375 East: Pender;
Tuesdays — Kits United Church
(basement) 1824 Larch;

Wednesdays — 1144 Commercial
Drive; Thursdays — Action
Centre, 5783 Victoria Drive (at
4lst).

3. Call at the Vancouver
Tenants Council office, at Room
600, 193 East Hastings. It’s open

Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00
p.m.

Or if you’re going to the PNE,
you can visit the Tenants Booth
in the Coliseum Building which
is open for registrations after —
6:00 p.m. each evening.

I urge all tenants to check and
make sure they are on the list.
Your vote may be decisive in de-
ciding who your next mayor,
aldermen, school trustees atl
parks board members will be. ~
You can use your ballot to elect
people who will serve the
interests and needs of
homeowners and tenants.

‘Tenants Have
Stake In Vote’

“Tt is mistakenly thought that
non-property owners (tenants)
have little at stake at City Hall.
That may have been the case
years ago, but it certainly if far
from the truth now,” says a
special circular put out by the
Vancouver Tenants Council.

The Council is urging tenants
to get on the voters list before
the deadline September 21. The
tenants circular says:

“Today civic governments
deal with scores of matters
which affect all citizens,
whether or not they directly own
property.

“It is the civic government
which has a great deal to do with
the handling of the elementary
and secondary school system, a
matter that vitally concerns
every parent.

“Every citizen, be he a tenant
or property owner, is involved in
what kind of a transportation
system we have, and especially
the need for its modernization.
This matter too, is mainly within
City Hall's jurisdiction.

And so it goes, whether it be
recreation facilities, social ser-
vices, public health or the
problems of young people. every
citizen is involved.

Finally, there is the matter
of taxes. Both tenants and
property owners pay taxes. The
only difference is that in the case
of property owners the taxes are
paid directly. whereas in the
case of tenants it comes out of
their rent money.

So, if you are a tenant you are
helping to pay the shot for civic
government and vou should
have something to say about

who it is that actually makes the
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all peace-loving humanity — and drives the war-makers to

ll roads lead to Moscow!”’ The saying is not new, but
as the years pass it becomes more and more a
confirmed truth. : :

The ebb and flow of the cold war may rise or fall at the
whim of this or that demented warhawk, seeking plausable
excuses for increased aggression and its resultant killing. But
heads of state, VIP’s, political leaders, and other important
personages continue an ever-increasing safari ‘‘behind the iron
curtain’ to see for themselves just what is doing and to get
some real honest-to-goodness advice, especially on the
fundamental issues of peace and peaceful co-existence.

Invariably they come back home with a fairly uniform
picture; that the Russians are just people like themselves, with
perhaps one basic difference; that nothing, but nothing is
solved by war and. the destruction of human and material
values, and that only peace assures the constructive and
creative potential of mankind for a peaceful and happy world.

The Russian people at least have paid a terrible price for
this knowledge over the past half century — a lesson many of
the dignitaries from the western world forget as they gaze and.
admire the visable creativeness of the Russian peoples.

One just cannot build Socialism with destructive
armaments, and it is becoming clearer to those who think
Capitalism the ‘“‘best-of-all- possible-worlds” if the social
system they espouse can last much longer, with war as its last
and only solution. It is probably accumulation of this last
uncertainty that spurs various Western VIP’s to a quick trip to
Mecca. : 3

There is another factor, one which hinges on the all-impor-
tant issue of peace also, which prompts many heads of state,
from the so-called Western world in particular, either to make
a surprise trip to Moscow, or contemplate taking one soon.
The fact isn’t lost upon some of these Western politicos, that in
the struggle for peace and the prevention of war, the USSR now
holds the initiative in world affairs, especially on issues
relating to peace!

This is very disturbing to Washington and the myriad
politics visiting there, soliciting Fehurer Nixon’s ‘‘advice”’ on
what to do, plus a new handful of ‘‘aid’’ in the form of
greenbacks — with of course, the customary instructions on
how it will be spent, etc. For such ‘“‘aid’’ the peace and heritage ©
of their own people are invariably bartered away, or placed in
hock to Wall Street.

It is also not uncommon when these imperialist scroungers
are in Washington, they may be (and are) encouraged to visit
Moscow, not*to act on behalf of peace, but to ‘‘sound out?’
Soviet opinion on this or that scheme they may have hatched
while in Washington. This sort of business generally comes
under the heading of “diplomacy,” a sort of a 20th century
version of the Ananias game. I suspect however, after a half-a-
century with this breed that the Soviets have long learned to
detect the specie at first sight.

Be all that as it may. it is not clearly obvious, and which
the hawks in ‘peace dove’ feathers can no longer hide, that
“all roads lead to Moscow’ and that the will for peace and
peaceful co-existence. and how it can be won. is now in Moscow
—not Washington.

In other words. the triumph of Socialism in the USSR now
assures bevond any doubt. the triumph of peace on a world
‘scale. This is the reality that provides an imperishable hope to

desperation... ‘ :
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