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NEWS ITEM: Subsidiaries of large Canadian corporations in South
Africa are paying African workers below recognized subsistence
levels, with the starting wage for some 52¢ a day. Among Canadian
companies exploiting African workers are: Alcan, Bata, Massey-Ferg-
uson Ltd., Sun Life Assurance of Canada, Ford of Canada.

Will False Creek development
be for ordinary people or rich?)

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

City Council is once again dis-
cussing the redevelopment of
False Creek with basic policy
decisions to be adopted soon.
Citizen groups should keep a
close watch to make sure that
this choice area is not developed
just to suit the downtown busi-
ness interests.

I have insisted right along, and
so has the Committee of
Progressive Electors (COPE)
that apartment housing in the
redeveloped areas should be
beamed to elderly citizens, and
to middle and lower income
groups, with emphasis on fam-
ily accommodation.

But City Councilisdefinitely
moving away from thatconcept.
This is madeclearinthereport
of the Special Council Com-
mittee re False Creek headed by
Alderman Hardwick. (The
report is titled ‘‘False Creek,
Policies and Actions, June
1973*").

The report is couched ina lot
of generalities about ‘‘life
style’’ and ‘‘quality of the

‘INDOCHINA STILL NEEDS

The Canadian Aid for Vietnam
Civilians committee will be con-
tinuing its work for some time
to come in response to urgent
appeals from areas all over de-
vastated Indochina.

Several new sponsors have
been added to the already ex-

tensive list of those who have con-

tributed to the committee’s
work for more than seven years
including David Archer, presi-
dent of the Ontario Federation
of Labor, Karen Sandford, NDP
MLA for Comox, Pierre Berton,

Professor T.L. Perry, M.D.,
Roderick Haig-Brown, C.P.
(Paddy) Neale, Max Ferguson
and Rosemary Brown, NDP
MLA for Burrard.

Committee chairman Alan In-
glis said that ‘‘the people of Indo-
china still need our help”’ and
pointed out that the Red Cross
Society of the DRV had re-
quested specifically 10,000 pre-
fabricated houses for homeless
families, the Red Cross Society
of the PRG had sent appeals for

OUR HELP’

a 250 bed university field hospi-
tal as well as medical supplies
and the Pahet Lao urgently
needed food and medicines.

In addition, the Indochina
Operational Group of the Inter-
national Committee of the Red
Cross has a continuing program
for aid to the more than 200,000
refugees families in the Republic
of Vietnam.

Todate, the CAVC hasraised
$230,515 on a cash target of
$250,000 and is-continuing its
appeals for aid.

environment,’’ but once you get
beyond these the real intent
becomes clear.

The consultants feel that False
Creek is more suited for ‘‘non-
families’? and the planning
staff doubts that ‘‘family life
style’? can be_ successful
because they doubt that families
will be there in large enough
numbers ‘‘to command the
facilities and create the environ-
ment necessary to support the
life style.”’

The report throws more cold
water on providing housing for
low and middle income groups
with the statement that ‘‘the
greater the emphasis on low and
middle income housing, the
lower the feasibility of imple-
mentation and the greater the
difficulty of realizing the
quality environment aspects.”’

And the committee stresses
the difficulties involved in finan-
cing the redevelopment through
Central Mortgage and Housing
if ‘‘Greateremphasisis placed
on non-market housing, on
ownership and on serving the

, middle and lower incomes.”’

Reduced to plain English,
what Alderman Hardwick’s
Special Committee is saying is
that housing in the redevel-
opment of False Creek should
serve mainly single people and
that apartments will be high
priced catering to upper income
groups. This is proposed for the
68 acres that the city owns as
well as adjacent privately
owned lands.

The report proposed a number
of alternatives for household

_mix ( the percentage of single

and family units) ranging from

MILLIONS DEMONSTRATE IN CHILE

No to fascism, civil war

SANTIAGO— The capital and
main cities of Chile were the
stage June 22 for the largest peo-
ple’s demonstrations in that
country’shistory. InSantiago,
Concepcion, Valparaiso, Anto-
fagasta, Magallanes, Arica,
Puerto Montt, the working class
was master of the streets:

“‘A long and impressive mass
demonstration, which took
more than six hours to pass a
given point,’’ wrote AFP,
““wound its way through the
centre of the capital, while
workers and _ employees,
responding to the call of the
government coalition parties,
staged a 24-hour strike inprotest
against the attempts of the right
to foment civil war.”’

POWER TO PEOPLE!

The CUT, Chile’s tradeunion
central, had also called a 24-hour
work stoppage in protest over
the 65-day-old strike at El Ten-
iente, Chile’s vast copper mine.
The strike by 3,000 of El Ten-
iente’s 10,000 workers, mostly
skilled technicians, called by
opposition trade union leaders,
has paralyzed operations and
has halted exports of this vital
metal.

From four starting points in
Santiago, more than a million

workers invaded the streets in
the centre of the city and the en-
trances to the presidential
palace.

Signs were everywhere, with
slogans ‘‘Bar the Road to
Fascismrand Civil War!,’’ and
‘‘Power to the People!”’

Other demonstrations took
place in the mainurbancentres:
200,000 people marched in Con-
ception; 40,000 in Valpariso, etc.
From the two ends of the coun-
try, ‘youth marches’’ began,
which are going to pass through
the length of Chile before meet-
ing in Santiago on July 5.

In Santiago, President Al-
lende spoke to the crowd in front
of the presidential palace. While
making a passionate appeal to
the Chilean people for vigi-
lance, discipline, and to defend
the legal government of the
country, hesaid that thisdemon-
stration was a reaffirmation of
the will of the Chilean people to
advance toward socialism.

EXTREME RIGHT

That morning, the Popular
Unity government took two
measures against theultras who
are attempting toignitea civil
war. They filed a charge against
the extreme right ‘National
Party,’ and demanded the

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1973—PAGE 2

Tom McEwen’s column was
waylaid in the mail this week. It
will re-appear in next week’s edi
tion.

arrest of several of its leaders
for illegal activities.

Popular Unity alsoordereda
six-day suspension from publica-
tion of the newspaper El Mer-
curio, which devoted a whole
page, under the heading, ‘‘Mr.
Allende has ceased to be the
constitutional president of

PRESIDENT ALLENDE

Chile,’’ toan advertisement of
the ‘‘National Party,’’ which
was a veritable call for sub-
version. ‘‘Noone,”’ it said, ‘‘is
obligated to respect a govern-
ment thathas ceased tobe legiti-
mate; nor should it be obeyed.”’

Last Aprila CIA agent, Cord
Mayer Jr., who was implicated
in the ITT plot to topple the
Allende government, revealed
that El Mercurio received
secret funds in 1964 to assist the
campaign of Eduard Frei, the
Christian Democrat presi-
dential candidate against
Allende at that time.

And a new political bombshell
was uncovered asa U.S. senate
sub-committee accussed top
Nixon government officials of
backing a 1970 CIA plot to under-
mine Chile’s economy.

It charged that the proposals
were made by the CIA’s under-
cover agent in Latin America,
William Broe, to the ITT vice-
president on Sept. 29, 1970.

The proposal was put forward
after the so-called Forty Com-
mittee of high-level admin-
istration officials — of which
presidential adviser Henry
Kissinger is chairman — had
discussed the political situa-
tion in Chile, the sub-committee
said.

‘created the board in Vanco

one with 4.6 percent for family
and 86.8 percent for single, toa |
other with 40 percent for family |
and 30 percent for single. The |
latter also provided that 10peh 7
cent each of the units be fa! |
elderly citizens, mature couples |
and young couples. :

I moved a motion that WE)
endorse the latter alternativt |
but Council wouldn’t go alome
with it and so it was left over! |
later consideration.

The report also proposed thret
alternative options as to |
come mix ranging to one thi |
for incomes below $9,600.00 J
one half. I supported acceP |
tance of the latter, butagain™ |
decision was made.

A big fight is shaping up 09
whole issue of who False Cre® |
is to be redeveloped for —! |
ordinary citizen or spe
higher income and busines
groups. Unless a lot of press
is exerted by citizen groups a
Council will move in the sa
way asthe NPA did for years?
similar developments. Se

Tenants seek |
legislation

Tenants will continue tose
provincial legislation eS i
lishing and giving power to mu -
cipal rent review boards old
ing the ruling by Supreme oF
judge Richard AndersondeC % :
ing invalid the by law wit
uvel:

The court ruled that the bylet
was an unlawful usurpatio?
the legislature’s authorit nd
create provincial courts Vat
the three members of the
couver board say that they"
make no rulings on thei! 7 i
until their legal status is ©
fied. B
For some time the
Tenants’ Organization tio!
sought provincial legis!@” 5
which wouldend jurisdicUr
confusion between the p!? Act
cial Landlord and Tenant: al
and the work of the municr
board and would take ee the
and tenant questions out ®
courts. -aatiol
B.C. Tenants’ OrgamiZ4 iat
president Bruce Yorke sch
‘‘we have been asking (Or
legislation in lobbies to the et?
lature and we will contin!

ress for it.”’
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CHAIN STORE
SUPER PROFITS

In 1972 the net profit lev,
of food corporations, 3
creased by an average? tte?
percent. The 1968 “Con |
Royal Commission 07 ij,.)
sumer Problems and al {
tion. charged retal) iin]
chains on the prairies 38.
‘““excessive profits”’ UP tan
percent above the Cam
average. - e

In a aaition: they chars
the grocery trade wit mer
sive advertising CS es
excess capacity in gee
They estimated cons peif
were paying 4 centS® for
consumer food dolla”
waste space in superms os!
and that there were @
twice as many super

outlets as needed. e