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pores, armed and directed by the U.S., bombing attacks on liberation
al sal) Indochina are being stepped up threatening resumption of full

© war despite Paris agreement: Photo shows liberation forces defen-
“ng themselves from bombing attacks.

BVA ALDERMEN IGNORE OPPOSITION

Refinery expansion passed -

While the members of Bur-
naby’s municipal council must
have been surprised at the crowd
of more than 1,000 people who
turned out to the public meeting
to discuss the proposed expan-
sion of Chevron’s Burnaby
refinery, most of them made it
clear early in the meeting that
they had no intention of listening
to the countless voices in opposi-
tion to Chevron and made it clear
also that they intended to serve
the interests of the giant oil com-
pany.

When the decision finally came -

to a vote in the early hours: of
Tuesday morning after a tense
five-and-a-half-hour — meeting.
only the Burnaby Citizens
Association members — in-
cluding mayor Tom Constable —
stood in opposition and voted to
deny Chevron’s application for
expansion.

Given the go-ahead. Chevron

“There are ominious signs cent statement by U.S. Defence
at the agreement hammered Secretary James Schlesinger
{ So painfully in Paris is in that Hanoi ‘‘should not count on™
Hous dan the U.S. not sending bombers to
the aid of South Vietnamese
troups should major fighting es-
calate.

The letter also notes that the
New York Times said recently
that U.S. Ambassador to Saigon,
Graham Martin, was seeking a $1

to

By FRED WILSON
Circulation Manager
1973 was a goed year for the ‘‘PT’’, a year in which our
Press made some modest, but nevertheless significant steps
per forward. Over all a year of hard work paid off in a 10% increase
_ ' circulation, that is in the total volume of papers leaving our
tat) Slice. Our subscription circulation climbed by 5%.
ae Next year of course, we will have te win more new readers
(han in 73 to maintain the same growth rate. The ebject theugh
5 Will be to boost that growth rate in 1974 and get it into line with
the real Possibilities that we have in B.C. to build a mass cir-
Culation for our paper.
Our editorial committee has set usa target of 150 new sub-
Scribers by April 15th. That's four months, from now until the
financial drive, to increase our sub circulation by another 5°.
As always, it will be up to our readership to determine if we
are to meet our objectives. Lets start today. Sell a new sub.

Come to the Annual Banquet
for the

Progressive Jewish Press

guest speaker:
JOE GERSHMAN, EDITOR
Sunday, Jan. 27 —6 P.M.
Van Peretz School Lounge
6184 Ash Street

full course dinner -

VISIT TO SOCIALIS T BULGARIA

Report and Color Slides

Hear

CORA and JACK PHILLIPS

- 4625 Sardis
(South Burnaby, between Halley & Baker,
North of Kingsway)
Saturday, January 26 — 8 P.M.

: Thieu bombing threaten Paris accord’

billion aid package which would
include new and more
sophisticated weaponry.

“Were this request to be met
this would constitute a direct
Violation of the Paris agreement
prohibiting the introduction of
new strategic weapons.” says the
Peace Council letter.

“We feel very strongly that the
situation is very threatening and
all too reminiscent of 1954 when
the U.S. first went into Vietnam
... . It is our opinion. that every
effort be mobolized to prevent a
repetition of the long and bloody
war that followed the breakdown
of the 1954 agreement.”

The letter urges that Canada’s
voice be heard on the side of
those who desire to see the Paris
agreement upheld and its
provisions strictly adhered to so
that the Vietnamese people can
rebuild their shattered country
and another danger spot to world
peace removed.

Mac-Pap thanks

The veterans of the Mackenzie
Papineau Battalion extend a vote
of thanks’to all who contributed
to making their Dec. 22 annual
social and dance the most
successful vet. It was marked by
the presence of veterans from
the Lincoln brigade on a visit
from the United States.

Winners of the raffle were: Ist
prize — Mrs. Elliss. North Bur-
naby. B.C.; 2nd prize — A Talbot,
Surrey B.C.: 3rd prize ~ E. Neal,
Vancouver; 4th prize — Nat
Sherlock. Vancouver; and 5th
prize — O. Halonen, Seattle.

In hospital

Two lifelong women supporters
and activists in the working class
and progressive movement, are
in Vancouver General Hospital.

Susie Brown, widow of George
Brown, who was well-known in
trade union circles and was a
leader of the longshoremen’s un-
ion during the 1935 strike, is ill
and entered General Hospital
recently.

Ethel Clarke, who is known to
many of our readers, also recent-
ly entered General Hospital.

The editor and staff of the PT
extend warmest wishes to these
two excellent comrades and
sends along the best wishes of
our readers.

intends to increase its output
from 24,000 barrels per day to 45,-
000 on land that extends for
several blocks along the Burrard
Inlet waterfront at the north end
of Willingdon in Burnaby.

The fear now, and one that was
voiced by virtually every
organization opposing the expan-
sion application, is that all the oil
refineries located on Burrard
Inlet will also consider expansion
and despoil what for many years
has been and continues to be a
populous, residential area.

The performance of aldermen
Lewarne. Mercier. McLean,
Lawson, Stusiak and Emmott —
all members of the Burnaby
Voters Association with the ex-
ception of Emmott who is
nominally independent — did
nothing to allay. people's fears
and in fact indicated that the
same facile arguments and the
same decision would be
presented in the event of further
applications.

Dozens of organizations and in-
dividuals including the Com-
mittee of Concerned Citizens. the
Burnaby Teachers Association,
SPEC. Burrard Inlet Parks Com-

mittee. the Burnaby committee -

of the Communist Party and
others were on hand to present
briefs to council and despite the
fact that Chevron had sought to
Stack the meeting with its

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employees many of whom were
wearing lapel buttons paid for by
Chevron, most of those in the
audience clearly opposed
Chevron’s application.

Several groups emphasized the
implications of any decision to
allow the refinery to expand and
urged that council refer the
matter to the provincial govern-
ment for consideration and for a
decision made in line with a full
study of energy needs in the
province and relocation of the
refineries in more suitable areas.

Hugh Cooper, speaking for the
Burrard Inlet Parks Committee
cited the remarks of former.
mavor Bob Prittie who, in 1971,
said that *‘as population grows.
refineries will ultimately have to
be removed from Burrard Inlet.”

“We believe that time has
come.” Cooper stated.

The Communist Party along
with other groups noted the com-
pany's references to the energy
crisis as a reason for expansion

- and charged that “‘this oil com-
pany is seeking to capitalize on
an energy shortage that the oil in-
dustry itself has created.”

The submission also stated that
the. energy situation in Canada
“makes even more imperative
the need for the establishment of
a national energy policy and the
creation of a National Petroleum

See REFINERY pg. 12

Tribute to William Arland

A tribute to the memory of

~William Arland, who passed

away Wednesday. Jan. 9. was
made at a memorial gathering in
Surrey last Sunday afternoon by
Osmo Lahti, speaking on behalf
of the provincial executive of the
Communist Party.

“Bill Arland will always be
remembered as a devoted Com-
munist and militant worker,”
said Lahti in tracing his life-long
devotion to the working class
movement and his involvement
in many working class struggles
in B.C., Canada, and Britain.

Born in Chapleau, Ontario in
1909. Bill joined the progressive
movement in Montreal during
the depression years and soon
becamse dedicated to the
socialist cause. He worked as a
miner in Blairmore, Alberta,
where he was chairman of the
Miners Grievance Committee
and on the local executive.

In 1947 he left the mines and
went to work as a seaman, first
on the Great Lakes and then on
deep-sea vessels. He took an ac-
tive part in the Canadian
Seamen's Union and in the fight
against the shipowner-

government plot to smash the
CSU.

Later. in 1949, he was promi-
nent as a leader in the 1949 Lon-
don Seamen's Strike. While in
England he met and married
Josephine Hand, who was his life-
long companion and was herself
an active participant in the work-
ing class movement.

The Arlands came to Toronto
in 1949 and moved to Vancouver
in 1956, where they were both
soon involved in the working
class movement. Bill served for
a while as West End constituency
organizer of the Communist Par-
ty.

Following a serious operation in
1961 the Arlands moved to Jarvis
Inlet and later to New West-
minster. Bill was 64 years of age
when cancer took his life.

Lahti expressed deepest sym-
pathy on behalf of the B.C. Com-

munist Party to his wife Jo, and —

children Pauline, Shirley, Dave
and Robert.

Contributions have beer
received by the Pacific Tribune
for a William Arland Memoria]
Fund totalling $150 at press time.

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