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WINNING POSTER. Above is the winning poster in the PT’s
disarmament contest. It was submitted by Reg. Walters of Sorrento.
Because of the colors used in the poster it does not reproduce well in
black and white. Congratulations to the winner and thanks to those

who entered the contest.

Children’s committee
sends 43rd shipment

The 43rd shipment of clothing
and medical supplies collected by
the Children’s. Committee of
Canadian Aid for Vietnam
Civilians was sent to Vietnam May
18 on board the Soviet freighter
_ M/V “AI. Voyoykov” which will
transport it without charge.

The shipment, consisting of
clothing, blankets, toys, school
supplies, bandages, eye glasses as
well as other goods with a com-
bined value of $21,570 is intended
primarily for the Red Cross of the
Provisional Revolutionary
Government. The remainder will
be divided between North Vietnam
and refugee children in Laos.

While many assume _ that
hostilities have ceased in Vietnam
and aid no longer required, the
committee pointed out that ‘‘while
there is an uneasy peace in the
North, the people in the South
- eontinue to live under precarious
conditions of violence.

“Thousands who, during the
United States bombing - and
defoliation missions, lived un-
derground, many of them maimed
and wounded, must still undergo
further suffering and are now in
desperate need of medical and
hospital care.”

The Canadian Aid for Vietnam
Civilians, now into its ninth year of
operation, is still continuing to
accept contributions for aid to
Vietnam.

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CPR's False Creek
plan ‘unacceptable

By HARRY RANKIN

The two key questions involved
in Marathon Realty’s plans for the
development of its 95 acres on the
north shore of False Creek are:

(1) Will housing projects do
anything to alleviate the current
acute housing shortage? and

(2) What will the city get out of
itif and when it rezones these lands
from industrial to comprehensive
and thereby greatly increases their
value? >

Marathon’s submission to City
Council on April 9 contains no
indication that any housing will be
built for the people who need it the
most — those in the low and
moderate income groups.

The CPR plans to build only what
it calls ‘‘market-oriented”’
housing, a euphemistic term that
really means high priced housing
for which it can and will charge all
that the market can bear.

Very little family type housing
(which is also in short supply in
this city) will be provided. The
CPR’s first phase of housing
construction calls for 4480 units to
house 7900 people which means
that most units will be for single
people or for couples.

No provisions are made for day

care centres or for senior citizen

housing.

A substantial part of its
development will be aimed, not at
providing services for the people in
the area, but in attracting non-

residents through such projects as
a waterfront tourist hotel,
cabarets, etc.”

The city’s guidelines for the
redevelopment of the False Creek
area call for extensive park space.
But the CPR is very vague on what
it.will do in this respect. At the
same time it is trying to convince
council to form a three acre ar-
tificial lake by dyking off a section
of False Creek.

Although the city’s guidelines
call for a seawall all the way
around False Creek and a con-
tinuous walkway all the way
around too, the CPR hasn’t plans
for either of these on its property.

Understandably the CPR says
nothing in its brief to city council
about the bonanza it will receive
when its lands are rezoned from
industrial to comprehensive. -

At present, the CPR’s 150 acres
on False Creek are assessed at
about $23,000 an acre, or about
$4,000 for a large sized lot. When
this land is rezoned the value of
these lots will zoom to far above
$100,000 a lot, perhaps three or four
times that amount. This means
that by rezoning, city council will
be handing the CPR a gift of
anywhere from $55 million to $220
million.

I have always maintained that
the increased value of land brought
about by rezoning should accrue to
the city. This value was not created
by the owners or developers, but by

Student society voices
support for SFU unions

With strike action by 13 unions
pending at Simon _ Fraser
University following unsuccessful
negotiations with the ad-
ministration, the Simon Fraser
Student Society, in a statement
issued last week, voiced their
support for the unions involved.

The statement, addressed to the
students, read as follows:

“After serious deliberations with
the bargaining agents of the 13
unions considering strike action at
Simon Fraser we feel that the
struggle of these unions with the
administration must be supported
by the Student Society- During
inflationary times that we face

‘today the interests of the student

and the worker have not been
closer since the post-war years.

“The urgency that moved the
rank and file to demand a cost of
living clause in their contracts is
indicative of an inflationary trend
that has virtually nullified gains
made by the average worker in
1973. To both students and workers
this means a shaky future.

“Tt has been stated that it is not
the purpose of the strike to impede

Students from travelling to and

from school. Union leadership has_
also asked that students continue
to come to campus and all facilities
operated by the Student Society

remain open in their normal duties
of assisting the students.

“This will be carried out by the
Society with the exception that the
S.F.S.S. Executive Council has
requested that the food and
beverage facilities of the U.C.B.
remain closed for the duration of
the strike as evidence of our
sympathy for the striking em-
ployees.

“The best action that students
can take to end the strike is to
advise their friends not to accept
scab job offers from the ad-
ministration and to co-operate with
the Student Society and union

leadership for the duration of the
strike.”

Del White,

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TOM
McEWEN

I! was May Day in the year 1936. The march had been a
flong one, from the old Georgia Viaduct to Lumberman’s
Arch in beautiful Stanley Park. The official count of the
marchers was approximately, ten to twelve thousand

while the May Day demonstration in the Park was ~

probably twice that number. Had the local press media
not been confined to two editions it would probably have
had marchers, sidewalk spectators-and park audience
reduced to “five hundred” or less before it sorted out “all
the news that’s fit to print’’.

At the opening of the Park programme the chairman

made a special announcement :—

“Brothers and Sisters, we have a brother in this
audience who is leaving today for Spain to join the
Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International
Brigade to fight fascism. For obvious reasons we cannot
give his name, but we can give him a rousing goodbye, our
solidarity with the cause for which he fights, and a happy
return to Canada’’. :

A thunderous cheer broke out from the assembled
audience, drowning out the rest of the chairman’s

remarks, its echo rolling out over the First Narrows like a

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1974—PAGE 2

hurricane. Even before it died ‘down that brother was
quietly making his way out of Stanley Park on a long
march that would take him to the blood-soaked olive fields

of Republican Spain.

His name was Ronald (Ronnie) Liversedge ‘of
Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island, who ended his long

march on another May Day of 1974 at the age of 74 years, ~

his body broken from long illness and the scars of war but
his spirit undaunted “‘right on to the end of the road”’.

The life and times of Ronnie Liversedge were the
pattern of the ‘lost generation” of youth he so well
represented in the era of the Hungry Thirties: a
generation for which the democracy it had fought to
“save” in World War I couldn’t even provide the
elementary right to a job or a decent livelihood, a right
demanded by millions in the capitalist world, so well
epitomized by the slogan demand of ‘work and wages”
When Ronnie himself emigrated to Canada from Britain
in 1926, his body already scarred by the shrapnel of Ypres
the “box-car pullman” for Canada’s jobless in search of
non-existent jobs was already beginning to roll from
coast-to-coast, with “no-help-wanted” and “keep-away-
from-here” signs posted all along the route, mute
testimony of an Establishmertt’s moral political
bankruptcy. Billions for war, but as the Liberal wing of an
entrenched Establishment put it, “not a five cent piece”’
to ease the hunger of an unemployed worker, while the
Tory wing of the same Establishment aimed to “cure”
joblessness with Hitler-pattern ‘Relief’ slave camps

It was therefore inevitable that a man of the Liver-

would not be trying to ‘“‘cure’’ inflation by to

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generation of his day. Organizing, agitating, er?
instilling that elementary knowledge that in u” ok pa
strength; the strength required to make ocracy tt
governments at all levels realize that dem ith dere
meant the right to a job at a wage consistent
livelihood and human dignity. ont of
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ployment in this generation, that capitaliS” | unl
ments have not yet learned the lesson 0 |
Thirties’ so well posed by Ronnie Liversedee z
Recollections of the On-To-Ottawa Trek. If the,

unemployment, or threatening a freeze 07 wages”
monopoly greed. . ‘ned fi
Ronnie came back from the blood-starn ho
Spain, not victorious against the murderin? wa
Fascism, but as a member of those survivi)
who upheld the honour of Canada against
non-intervention, committed by a Libera
in conspiracy with their kind to provide
clear field against Spanish democracy,
months later was to engulf the world.

From Ypres to the Ebro, to the On-T0- ottaye
a long and difficult march Ronnie, but ac comifb
it our world is a better place to live; 2" just
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and your imperishable example emblaz
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