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“Ah, Chateau Margaux, 1952!”

Call in the cops

W hen any issue of major importance crops up, as it in-
evitably must when it has reached crisis proportions,
a hidebound Establishment invariably relies on two main
stratagems as its first line of defense: do nothing about it,
and/or generate as much public confusion as possible. If that
doesn’t produce the desired result— call in the cops.

In the field of higher education that is precisely what is
happening on an evergrowing magnitude, at home here in B.C.,
across Canada, and indeed on a world scale.

The current happenings at Simon Fraser University, the

- UBC, Victoria and elsewhere, serve to underscore the basic
questions at issue: the right of young Canadians to an
‘education; to have a decisive voice in determining policies
regarding what that education shall be, and the overall
democratization of university administration, policy, program,
and financing.

The response of the Establishment to the SFU student sit-in
occupation of the Administration Building — when all other
avenues of protest and redress had been closed to these
students to present their just grievances and demands was
very typical — call in the cops. Result: criminal charges

against 114 young Canadians, and which — if not withdrawn— its successor, the Mine-Mill, and return to Canada in 1942 to give will live to regret your

means that these young people start out on life’s highway with now the great Steelworkers his services in the organization decision.”

a criminal record attached to their academic degree — should Union, said: of workers for Canada’s war Then, “his heart ceased to

they ever manage to get that far. “TI speak out this day and in effort. beat’’, and VLC delegates
The ‘law’ behind which a class-encrusted Establishment this place of the brother who has _—As a founding member of the became silent as a_ valiant

can hide its smug face and hypocritical cant, while the real left us, of this wonderful father Steelworkers Union in Western brother crossed the ‘Great

pressing problems presented by the SFU students and and husband, and fighter for his Canada, Corry Campbell had to Divide’.

confronting thousands of other students remain unsolved and
worse confounded.

There are others of course who try to brush off all student
protests and demands by insisting that all such demonstrations
are the work of a very small minority of Hippies, Yippies,
Communist agitators or what have you, and if all these were
thrown in jail the problem would go away.

Dr. Kenneth Hare, president of UBC_Administration in a
recent address to the UBC student body torpedoed all such
stupidities by urging ‘‘the people of this province to wake up to
the situation we arein. . . and face the grim reality behind the
smokescreen of noise’’.

UBC President Hare made clear that the cost of urgently
needed construction now, and long overdue is not less than $25-
million, while the need to keep pace with student enrollment
during the next five years, from its present 20,232 to a
minimum of 34,371 will not be less than $60-million.

President Hare didn’t say so but he surely emphasized what
SFU and other student bodies have been saying in ever growing
volume; viz, that the Bennett government meets this chronic
Situation like a pious Socred monk handing out ‘‘alms to the

poor’ — in amounts just enough to starve on, while close- eS Sires. é d : are, including Mayor Camp-
mouthed university administrations fight tooth and nail against Council is about to give a nice apartments, shopping centre, hell.
student representation or encroachment upon their privileged little Xmas present of $12 million marina, etc.).. Such rezoning

class positions, which enables them to operate our institutions
of higher learning like a Stock Exchange, with the student and
the arts and sciences all restricted to the profit of the few.

It is time indeed that the ‘‘people of this province did wake
up”, and put an end to the criminal negligence of this
provincial government which is making a howling farce out of
our universities— and ‘‘criminals’’ out of our student sons and
daughters.

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‘FIRST VICTIM OF BILL 33’

Hundreds at final tribute
to Corry Campbell memory

Funeral services were held
last Saturday in the
International Woodworkers of
America (IWA) Hall in
Vancouver as a final tribute to
the memory of veteran union
builder and Communist, Corry
Campbell 58, who passed away
suddenly on December 3 from a
heart attack while attending the

unionists. and others heard
Steelworkers Union Local 3302,
President Nick Smith express
his union’s “‘thanks and gratitude
for Corray Campbell’s long
years of unflinching devotion and
work”’ on behalf of its members
whom the deceased had served

in many capacities; executive _ :

board member, delegate to the
VLC, and negotiating committee

member for many years, often

under very difficult conditions.
Following renditions of ‘‘Joe
Hill” and the ‘Commonwealth
of Toil’’ by soloist Mrs. Olafson
of Richmond, songs which truly
epitomized the life work of
Corray Campbell, veteran trade
union leader Harvey Murphy,
whose personality reflects the
traditions of three great unions
now become one, the old
Western. Federation of miners,

fellowman. People forget,” said
Murphy, “‘that the conditions we
now have someone had to fight
for, and are no gift from any
government.

“In the Hungry 3u’s countless
thousands were put away by the
government of the day into relief
camps at 20-cents a day. Corray
Campbell went into those camps

and organized the Relief Camp .

regular session of the Vancouver behalf of his fellow

& D | TO g | A L and District Labor Council steelworkers, Corry Campbell
(VLC). went to the night session of the

A packed hall of trade VLC because Bill 33 and its

S. CORRY CAMPBELL

Workers Union, to win the right
to work, to food, and the right of
dignity to tens of thousands of
dispossessed jobless workers. It
wasn’t an easy job, and only
Communists went into those
camp areas to do it.”’
From the Relief ‘Camp
marches to the ist Canadian
Overseas Division to stem the
tide of Hitler fascism was for
Corry Campbell all in the line of
duty to his fellowmen, and his

face the menace of ‘‘cold war’’
in his own union that he had
helped found, under the terms of
the notorious Taft-Hartley Bill
which prohibited a Communist
from holding office. But that did
not prevent a man of Corry’s
character from continued
service to his fellow union
members, and in the Funeral
Ritual read by Harvey Murphy

“thousands of other trade

at the conclusion of his tribute to
the life and work ‘of Corry
Campbell: ‘‘His heart has
ceased to beat, but thou goest not
like a quarry slave at night, but
as a brother whose last appeal
spoke out for the unity, integrity
and dignity of labor.”’

On December 3, after a long
hard day of negotiations on

“‘mediation’’ appointees from
the ranks of labor— to Corry and

unionists was an act of treason to
labor by these appointees — was
on the agenda.

In his speech to VLC
delegates, the last his voice was
to be heard, Corry Campbell
scored the half-hearted
opposition labor and the BCFL
put up. He appealed to the
delegates to compel an all-out
conference of the BCFL
designed to put up a real fight
against this Socred clamp-down
on labor’s right of free collective
bargaining and the right to
strike. Turning to one of these
Socred mediation appointees
Campbell declared: ‘‘The labor
movement in B.C. is not ready to
balance old friendships with acts
of a traitorous nature, and you

Corry Campbell is survived by
his loving wife Mary Campbell,
one daughter Mary Rebecca
Thomen, and two grandchildren,
Amber and Corry, as well as a
number of close relatives in
Vancouver, the city where Corry
was born, and where he died. As
a brother trade unionist
described it, ‘‘the first victim of
Bill 33”’.

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By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Zoning is what makes
millionaires in Vancouver.
By means of rezoning City

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Last week Mayor Campbell
called a rush ‘‘secret’”’ meeting
of City Council on 24 hours

notice. I was unable to attend .

because of a previous out-of-
town commitment. The same
applied to other aldermen with
the result that the mayor
couldn’t get a quorum and no
decisions could be made. But
news of what went on at this so-
called secret meeting was
leaked out to the press shortly
after.

Apparently a deal is about to
be made with the CPR. The city
wants the 62 acre Old
Shaughnessy golf course owned
by the CPR and valued at $3
million for a botanical garden. In
exchange the CPR will be given
85.5 acres of land on the south

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lion gift

There’s a catch to it, however.
City Council must also agree to
rezone this False Creek land
from an industrial area to a
comprehensive area (permitting

would automatically boost the
value of the 85.5 acres from $3
million to $15 million, It’s the
same as giving the CPR a $12
million gift. Surely this is the
biggest give-away in Vancou-

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ver’s recent history. No alder-
man with an ounce of civic
conscience could possibly go
along with it — and yet some

For years I have campaigned
to redevelop False Creek into an
apartment and recreation area
for the citizens of Vancouver.
Council always turned it down.

- See RANKIN, pg. 12

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