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T ‘ —Jack Phillips photo
enants picketing Wall & Redekop offices.

Wall & Redekop rental
sige exposed by facts

Atay,

in . : :
fndj ie Crease in rental revenue per suite for the 6 month period

lary 31, 1971, compared to the corresponding period a year

This j

S :

hy the ae fantastic extent of the exploitation of tenants revealed
sy ation itself in its Interim Report to the Shareholders

April 3, 1971

AVERAGE RENTAL REVENUE PER SUITE

Jul
Y31/69— Jan 31/70 July 31/70 — Jan 31/71
$114.48 $161.54

Details fr

fvod om the Wall & Redekop report are as follows. In the

reve 80, fon umber of suites at the beginning was 997 and at the
beg ue Was 24 average during the period of 1029. Total rental
Blnnin wi 8.286. In the second period the number of suites at the
bene 1152, at the end 1224, for an average of 1188. Total
And stil tyne 8151, 492.
iho el dena landlord wants more.
¢ Te need. ave called a halt. Before any more rents at all are
sted Negoti S tobe a meeting of Wall & Redekop with the duly
aire committee of Wall & Redekop Tenants and the
wes Council. A collective agreement, at reasonable
to be signed— the sooner the better.

AL APA
RIMENT OPERATING COSTS PER SUITE FOR FRAME BUILDINGS, 1970

Buildings 2-5 years Buildings 8-42 years

Taxes (248 suites ) (161 suites )
Repai $ 188 $ 150
sretane Maintenance 78 135
ic! -Gas a #
eae hee 21
Cah neous 18 a
Wat Sion 18 18
re & Scavenging 12 3
Lie Tance ;
Cense a io
Total. — —
R Soure 521 579
N Bx
asi Tren e Estate Board of Greater Vancouver — ‘Real
There ommitna nr oPolitan Vancouver,” published by Statistical
Se fj ee
Wer. gur
mie the Poe the landlords themselves show that on the
Ace cipal a MONTHLY OPERATING COSTS are $45.33, of
Hayy ntta tax in AXes ane 32.1%, the largest item by far. :
Year : ati creases from year to year are available from City
Suite "9 the next, No trick at all to determine what they are from one
Th » and to express any increase in monthly terms per
- lot. © tab) :
lop ge at elow shows that for 12 Wall & Redekop blocks
be €s the average increase in taxes per suite per month

™Mpa
aye’ St this ear’ © 1969 was SIXTY-SIX CENTS.

Coy Be 0 OUpration is attempting to jack up rents this year by an
“tl acte 0 TEEN DOLLARS per month. It is time that City
Protect the interests of tenants.
WALL & REDEKOP OWNED OR OPERATED APARTMENTS

Aq Municipal Increase In Taxes

2a tes Sui Taxes Paid Annual Per Suite ~

lbs Ving mes 1970 1969 Total Per Month
In, West tt, 8 $3,982.42 $3,870.98 $111.44 51¢
lng yest ath 3 8,672.23 8,445.30 226.93 «89
Gp vestig, {4 11,811.52 11,300.21 511.31 97
be ath 45 12.071.19 11,561.87. 509.32 94
Ugg th ee? 5,941.86 5,689.25 252.61 — 84
8055 west 13th 42 10,062.08 9,942.06 _—:120.02 24
| Rag y°St 6th 38 11,289.76 10,980.58 309.18 68
15 Wek Av is 27,745.81 26,700.62 1,045.19 82
Bers cSt 13) 32 8,669.94 8524.16 ‘145.78 38
lbp tench $2 «12,055.18 11,786.30 268.88 52
“sam 3 15,942.36 15,434.08 508.28 59
Tota) “Sd 8,595.62 8,420.62 175.00 45
528 =

$4,183.94

ACT AGAINST U.S. CONTROL

High school students taking
up vital issues affecting them

BY A PARENT
Many of the students in senior

secondary schools a few years -

back became cynics early in the
game. They chose either to opt
out of the political and social
scene, or to actively oppose the
power structure with confronta-
tion tactics, ‘‘power to the
people’ sloganeering, and a
fuddle-duddle to everything
approach.

There are some signs that the
1971 high school student is
somewhat more mature in his
outlook. Perhaps the constant
reminders that confrontations
lead to nothing more tangible
than a cracked skull and a jail
term has had something to do
with it. On the other hand, high
school teachers are attempting
at long last to give their students
a sense of involvement; an
approach that encourages,
rather than discourages him or
her to fight for change through
means at their disposal, and
such means are available.

The young men and women
who are graduating from grade
12 classes this year are no more
enamored of the status quo than
were their predecessors. But
these young people are not quite
so prepared to make the
assumption they have no role to
play other than asa youth bloc in
opposition to the adult power
structure. ]

Two recent events which took
place in the Greater Vancouver
area seem to bear out this con-
tention. One event was the first
organized high school con-
ference held in B.C. which took
place in White Rock two weeks
ago. The second event is the
venture of a Burnaby Grade 12
class in preparing and dis-
tributing information to the
public regarding the takeover of
Canadian resources and
economy by U.S. interests.

In the latter case students who
are involved became interested
through their courses in

NIGEL MORGAN, provincial
leader of the Communist Party,
who was @ member of the
fraternal Canadian delegation
to the recent Soviet Communist
Party Congress will give an eye
a Se account of this historical

‘nq at a public meeting tn
atsaeee ‘ AUUC Hall, 805 E.

Vancouver s
Pender St., Thurs., May 20 at 8

p.m. J

economics and through a teacher
who evidently believes his
students are intelligent adults.
Concerned about the economic
takeover, they did something
about it.

First they drafted an infor-
mative leaflet which they dis-
tributed in certain sections of the
city. They are following it with a
petition which urges citizens to
protest to the federal govern-
ment this sellout of their
country.

The leaflet gives the figures on
the extent of foreign ownership
of Canadian industry. It reports
on the outflow of capital as
compared with new investment.
It points out there was a net
outflow from Canada of $1.1
billion between 1966-69.

‘‘Canada is one of the most
liberal countries in the world as
far as controls on foreign invest-
ment are concerned,’’ the
leaflet states. “‘Many countries
such as Brazil, Mexico, Japan
and Sweden have very stringent
controls on foreign investment

“This present level of foreign
ownership of the economy is
unsatisfactory for Canadians,
since major decisions affecting
our economic life are taken

outside the country.”
* OK OK

The high school conference in
White Rock was the culmination
of many months of planning by
the students council of
Semiahmoo Secondary school,
and according to delegates and
observers it was the beginning
of something which could prove
most valuable.

Students did not ‘“‘demand”’
anything during the sessions,
despite press reports. They
discussed through workshops
how the learning process could
be improved; how students could
become more involved and more
responsible for secondary
school curriculum and
processes.

The quality of education came
in for the most criticism and the
most discussion. The students
want more Canadian subjects;

they want French taught from
grades one to eight, with the
emphasis on French as spoken in
Quebec. This seems a sensible
suggestion, in view of the fact
that thousands of young people
must take summer courses in
the language for university
entrance because it is taught too
little and too late in elementary
grades.

The students at the conference
also suggested a student-
teacher board with the principal
as chairman to rule on matters
of school policy. One of the parti-
cipants said, ‘‘students have no
rights in schools, only priv
ileges.”’

This is not an earth-shaking

request. Teachers would do well

to give it serious consideration.

It is gratifying, at least to this
parent who has seen four off-
spring through high school in the
last decade, to see the mature
philosophy; the responsibility
for fighting for change along
with adults, which so sharply
differentiates this 1971 crop of
graduates from those of other
years. For too long teachers,
students and parents have fought
a separate, lonely battle for
progressive change.

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Rapid transit parley
to meet in Vancouver

As the Tribune went to press
Wednesday, plans were
complete for two important
meetings to deal with rapid
transit.

On Thursday of this week «a con-

ference will be held in Van-
cover City College which was
called by the Vancouver Labor
Council, the Vancouver Central
Council of Ratepayers, COPE
alderman Harry Rankin, and
the Vancouver Tenants Council.

The conference is scheduled to
elect an Ad Hoc committee to
commence a public campaign
for a rapid transit system, and at
the same time to oppose any and
all piecemeal attempts to intro-
duce freeways; to elect an execu-

tive of the committee, secure a
post office box number, and open
a bank account, and to set up
action committees around

specific projects. . .

Wednesday of this week a
public meeting to discuss the
proposed freeway link from high-
way 401 to Georgia Viaduct will
be held in Renfrew school. The
Renfrew Heights Community
Association are sponsoring the
affair because of public concern
over city plans to demolish 200
homes and part of a park in the
area. j

This move to demolish homes
and parks for freeways is part of
the threats posed by an Establish-
ment which would see freeways
tear up the city and its environs.
Citizens are incensed by this
backward approach.

On May 28 a three-levels of
government meeting (muni-
cipal, provincial and federa])
will be held in Vancouver to
discuss ‘‘cost-sharing’’ before
any. mass. transit study is even
made public! :

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY MAY. 14, 1971—PAGE-3