f i Linked up in space. © Fire by-law crackdown on slumlords demanded The Downtown’ Eastside had pleaded to Fire Chief Konig Residents Association has that sprinkler installations were promised Vancouver City Council, being idled by the construction the Fire Department and city _ strike, Erikson labelled the appeal slumlords that prosecutions to the fullest extent of the law will be in order if any lives are lost due to the extension of fire by-law provisions for skid row hotels. The Eastside Residents’ took their case to city council last Tuesday charging city council with violation of the law and demanding that hotels that have not yet complied with the fire by-laws be prosecuted. The action follows a statement by Fire Chief Konig in the Van- couver Province that enforcement of the by-laws, effective by law July 1, would be extended until October 1 of this year. The by-laws had barely come into effect, when on the night of July 2, fire ravaged the Murray Hotel in downtown Vancouver sending nine victims to hospital. The Murray was not equipped with sprinkler systems as the by-laws “blatantly untrue’. As it turned out, no hotels were picketed by construction workers as the strike affected new construction only. In a_ previously released statement, DERA charged the - reprieve as a “‘capitulation”’ on the part of council. DERA said that, “Fire Chief Konig, City Council and the slumlords have got to understand that we are not going to sacrifice human life for profits. Fire Chief Konig and his reprieve till October 1, will make the City of Vancouver, the Fire Chief and the slumlord liable in the event of a fatal fire in a hotel that has not complied with the by-law.” 3 DERA has also charged both the provincial government and city council with negligence for their handling of the historic Carnegie Library at Main and Hastings in Vancouver. While city council is advertising the building for sale or require. lease, DERA.is proposing that the DERA president Bruce Eriksen provincial government buy the pointed out to city council that building as rental accommodation hotel owners had seven full months _ for health, fire and LCB inspectors to comply with the by-laws but as well as for a branch library as simply refused to do anything until there is not presently one in the the last minute. While hotel owners area. couple more days and it will be all over. The political Aspelibinders will ease their strained vocal chords and their “promising” for a brief spell and the composition of Canada’s 30th Parliament will have been born. In his current Rank-&-File Activist of Saskatchewan, editor Bill Beeching poses a simple question: “It makes you wonder why the MPs running for re-election didn’t fight in the House for what they’re promising now’’? It sure does! Boe What the final outcome is still anybody’s guess, but one thing is as sure as death and taxes, viz, the corporate monopolies, the belly robbers, the financial plunderbund, the ‘‘ripoff”’ artists, etc., and so forth, will have nothing to fear from any or all of the chief contenders. That is; of course, unless there is a big block of fighting Communists elected, which is not very likely at this point in time.’ : Stripped of all its pretended fervor, gush, braggadocio, wild promises and alleged differences, the disparity between a Stanfield and a Trudeau is exactly nil as we have stated time and again. Nor is the difference between a Lewis or Caouette of any substantial or fundamental scope. From these too the “ripoff” phalange can ac- PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1974—PAGE 2 By ALD. HARRY RANKIN The joint city-federal waterfront - planning study group has come up with its third report, this time called Stage 3-Concept Plan, for the development of the area bet- ween Stanley Park and Main Street. It calls its plan, ‘“‘a com- posite plan based on the ‘city by the sea’ and ‘recreation’ concepts favored at the end of Stage 2”. It doesn’t explain who “‘favored”’ these concepts at the end of Stage 2, but this is obvious from the list of recommendations put forward. : These include: e@A_ residential-commercial complex providing for a population of 30,000 in 20 years, 10,000 of whom will be permanent residents, the remainder employed in hotels, offices and tourist attractions. e A 200-foot green strip along the waterfront. e A fish market, a longtime pet plan of Alderman Setty Pendakur and the developers for whom he speaks. e The relocation of the CPR train and truck ferries. e The use of Pier B.C. for restaurants, shopping malls, hotels. e The creation of two artificial man-made island parks by means of filling in the harbor, one to be known as Burrard Island Park and the other as Gastown Park. It is a developer’s plan brought in by developer-oriented planners. The Vancouver branch of the Canada-USSR Association has branded the publicity given to the “defection’’ of Soviet ballet artist Mikhail Barichnikov a calculated attempt to interfere with the im- provement of relations between Canada and the Soviet Union. In a statement released last week, the Association said that Canada itself has suffered greatly by training her talented young people in arts, sports and science, “only to have them whisked away to Hollywood or New York or some other place where somebody will dangle large amounts of money in front of them, much to the detriment of Canada.” The Association said that this is It is no people’s plan by any stretch of the imagination. ~ The tourist attractions, hotels, restaurants and apartments will cater to the wealthy. Their prices will put them beyond the reach of most citizens. The CPR, the biggest developer on the waterfront, is getting what it wants. It may have to scale down the height of a few of its hotels and towers, but not that much. In direct contradiction to its previously announced guidelines which provided for substantial ‘public park space, the parks will now be built out in the water, leaving the land area free for the developers. The proposal of the Longshoremen’s Union and the Vancouver and District Labor Council that the section from Pier A to the waterfront be reserved for port facilities, has been completely ignored. ; To top it off is the remark-about rezoning. As many of you know, I and the Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE) and the trade union movement have long been saying that when land is rezoned upward, say from industrial to comprehensive by City Council, the increased values brought about by rezoning should go to the city, City waterfront scheme would favor developers therefore automatically benef public. First, we get what we a second, the developer takes mS, maintenance; a cost fat Pi weighing many other : siderations.”’ gel Summed up, it still means ye t | nothing and the developer 8° allmne report is now supposed oe up for public discussion. Whe discussion period (less tf weeks) is over, the joi provincial waterfront plan study group and/or City Oe Standing Committee on Wate will recommend a plan Council. What that mendation will be can be P It wil quite accurately right now- watt be whatever the developers "| and the people be damned. ate However, City Council doe have to accept the A f} mendations of this commitlé and enough citizens speak a plat | demand that the waterfrom centre around the declar ensuring that “this w@ becomes an attraction of benefit to all va Residents’’, perhaps some © can still be made. aa This present plan will brite fabulous profits to | create impossible traffic PP of for the downtown areas, nif +N not to the developer. : st The report evades this issue by population, and intrude é orft0! the following piece of doubletalk. ther on the limited Wee tt “Whatever value is derived space needed for future the rezoning, will development. Can.-USSR Society hits attempts to disrupt friendly relations the privilege of Canadians, ‘“‘to Canada, this apparently be turn their back on their nativeland headline news. We 4! ba and the country which gave them confident that the loss of 0” iJ the training and the ability to dancer to the Soviet Union | develop and to perform or to work cause any great difficulty “s in some other country, who may even of a temporary 14 mu pay them more money’, but indeed will it add tae mn nevertheless when Canadians do Canadian ballet, as it an go abroad, “no attempt is made to thanone person to make t make it look as if they were difference.” 4 defecting or to make it look like “The main aim of nt 8 Canada is a terrible place merely publicity,”’ the staten re wit! a because these people seek greener cluded “‘is to try to inter™® | igns | f only to a small segment omnes c mie ye! no! e 4 w 1 pastures elsewhere. “However what seems to apply to Canadians,’’ the statement continues, ‘does not apply to Soviet people, and when a Soviet ballet dancer like Mikhail Barichnikov chooses to stay in a the improvement of. rel eae between our two countries: isi | quite confident that oe only | ching of these relations W: et of a temporary nature * ch pa | steady improvement W? que | been taking place will | unabated.” commodate itself with ease. Thus the 30th Parliament of - Canada, whatever its composition is not likely to change anything, and least of all for the better, Monopoly has poured in millions to finance -“election 74” on the TV, press and other sources of the media, and “in due course’, as the old Liberal spook consultant Mackenzie King used to say, monopoly will call the tune, and the ‘‘promisers’’ will dance to it. Thirty times since Confederation ‘“‘we the people’’ have been “had”’ and the unfinished revolution of 1837 remains unfinished. In affairs of state we have insisted on the preservation of a ‘‘loyal opposition” to act as a “‘balance wheel”’ between a Trudeau and a Stanfield or vice versa, with sundry other offshoots of the same tribe sandwiched in between. The end result has been to regard a “Joyal opposition” as the equivalent of “change”’, and only later wake up to the reality that both are a grand illusion which has cost the people dearly. Who in hell ever heard of a genuine Socialist state having or pretending to have a “loyal op- position”? Loyal to whom — the people, or a monopoly- dominated Establishment? One would reasonably think that after 30 such experiences (with all modern trimmings added), that we would come awake. Every vote for the candidate of the Communist Party of Canada is a vote for Socialism, for Peace, for human security, well being and dignity in a dog-eat-dog society upon which monopoly cannibalism fattened like a mon- strous leech. 1 3 un! - ‘aggregations, is. that the day after the election oie com plugged so strongly in his day for Socialism at PB Every vote for the candidate of the Communi: f marks the awakening of the citizen to the reali maki and history; an end to his habitual “lost” vote, M2 ih? count for all the things the millions of “Jost ee cor | Trudeaus-Stanfields et all have cost him 5 | federation. ist pat Every vote for the candidate of the Commun poi means that YOU want to do something about etc inflation, homes, “ripoffs’’, monopoly robbery, f just talk about it. ee out Another important fact of life, which sin& He Communist Party from all other 8fOU ici and we know that we’ve got more of the sate ee munist Party and candidates will be in there p usual, indeed harder than ever, to win thos? matic needs they raised during ‘‘election 74’ - ' eh promises, pledges and empty froth of the P pasi¢ spellbinders have gone with the wind, pas mails fundamental needs of the people will still p fore? solved, and to all intents and purposes quickly, ; “How do you know which side to cheer inte Mr. Slumkey of his bosom friend Mr. Pickwic™ £ been cheering himself red in the face at an ge je election rally. ‘‘Simple,” replied the irreP! a” Pickwick, “always cheer with the biggest cY° promises most and does the least. 1 wh Dickens must have foreseen “election 74 decency.