City needs less Lip (p) By JACK PHILLIPS It’s no secret that the most popular member of Vancouver City Council is not Alderman Lipp. To the senior administra- tors, his name is synonymous with interference, To the civic employees in every branch, heis a cross they bear most unwilling- ay. Early this year h@made a flying trip to West Germany, visiting 17 cities in so many days,. Inter- viewed on his return, he said what he saw would encourage him to increase his efforts to put city work out on contract, In the same interview hecriti- cized the strike settlement be- tween Council and the Outside Workers ’ Union, Later, he re- turned to this criticism in his column in the weekly Highland Echo, He claimed that such a strike would never have taken place in Germany, because civic employees there “are proud to be part of the city,” This slur on the character and loyalty of Van- couver’s civic employees did. little to boost his popularity, Lipp was born inSaskatchewan, where his grandparents settled when they came from Alsace- Lorraine, He has the controlling interest in two jewelery stores but devotes most of his time to selling real estate and making himself unpopular as an alder- man, While the Board of Adminis- tration and the senior officials are not, and should not be, above criticism, they have been un- fairly criticised by Lipp. He has branded the Board as “an empire- building bureaucracy” and called’ for its abolition, He claims that if civic employees worked con- scientiously, staff could be cut drastically, At the root of his criticism is a desire for the city to do less work with civic em- ployees and more through con- tractors, Lipp is not alone on City Council in this connection, but he is the most obvious and. the most vulgar in pressing his case, Recently, Council had a pro- posal to purchase two vibrating compactors at a total cost of $6,332.04, Lipp opposed the prop- osition on the basis that this was not the lowest bid, When he was informed that the low bidder had cancelled his bid because of Council’s delay in making a de- cision, Lipp voted against his own motion, Aldermen Alsbury .and Emery were left holding the bag for the negative minority, Still more recently, acontract- or appealed to Council to reopen the bidding for a water works job awarded to the City Engineer because he (the contractor) had incorrectly read thecallfor bids, The mayor and seven aldermen voted not to reopen the bidding, on the basis that it would estab- lish a very bad precedent to do otherwise, Lipp, the remaining council member present, re- quested to be recorded as voting against the motion, Lipp’s call for the division of British Columbia into two prov- inces appears to be a bad joke, a publicity gag, This has wonhim a title: The Clown Prince of Lippenstein, The Non-Partisan Association put him on their slate in 1962 because he lived in the east end, He has very little in common with the Grandview and Hastings East communities, where the NDP Speaker distorts facts Cont'd. from pg. 2 Chinese government finds non- sensical), The Soviet officials, he said, were “embarrassed” by this point and were hard put to explain it. Such a statement does not correspond with the position of the Soviet Communist Party as illustrated by their 20th Con- gress, and the statement of the meeting of 81 Communist and Workers’ Parties in November 1960, *,.. Today in a number of capitalist countries the working class, headed by its vanguard has the opportunity, given a united working class and popular front or other workable forms of agreement and political co-oper- ation between the different part- ies and public organizations, to unite a majority of the people, win state power without civil war and ensure the transfer of the basic means of production to the hands of the people.” (81-Party Statement), This statement was signed by the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, It corresponds also with the program of the Canadian Communist Party (“The Road to Socialism in Canada”) which says in part... “The his- toric world transition from imp- erialism to socialism is the chief characteristic of our times - and mighty forces are compelling the people of the shrinking imperial- ist world to take to the path of socialism, Because of the steady weakening of the imperialist camp and the growth of socially progressive forces, the condi- tions for socialist victories are increasingly favorable.” One can only wonder as to the real reason for this particular discussion, and the real reason why the Canada-China Friend- ship Association sponsored it. Every honest person, inter- ested in socialism, welcomes most warmly the encouraging picture of present-day China given by Green in the first part of this talk, just as they approve the stated aims and objectives of the C.C.F.A.. which include friendship between our people; diplomatic recognition by Can- ada of the People’s Republic of China; the right of China to take her place in the United Nations; more trade between our count- ries; cultural, educational and other exchanges etc. etc. ~ Very disturbing, however, were the distortion of facts, and the obvious effort by the speaker and the chairman ‘to influence ‘the audience, in a most partisan manner on the side of China, and against the rest of the world Communist movement inthe cur- rent ideological dispute. This hardly fits in with the aims and objectives indicated above, lEnjoy Good; Home-Cooked Meals at Jennie’s Cafe ‘335 Main St. :@ Modern equipment @ Dining room service WILLIAM TURNER, well-known Burn- aby community worker, has announc- ed he will be a candidate for council- lor in the forthcoming civic election. Turner led the fight this past year against abolition of the machinery tax and a defence of homeowners and small businessmen. He is now heading a petition asking for free passes for pensioners. Last year Turner polled 2,- 393 votes. City CP to meet The crisis facing the city of Vancouver and surrounding municipalities and what steps need to be taken to meet the crisis will be fully aired by Greater Vancouver Clubs of the Communist Party, meeting in convention this coming weekend, October 24-25, The keynote address willbe delivered by city secretary William Stewart, Also expect- ed to be given major consid- eration will be the forthcoming civic elections and the need for building a united alternative to civic big business control, draws a big vote provincially and federally, He barely made it in 1962, as the low man to be elected, Wheth- .er or not the NPA will endorse him again is questionable, be- cause of his unpopularity with fellow council members and his tendency to shoot from the lip, If the working class people ofthe east end are to be represented on City Council, a change is in order, What is required is more progressive policies and less lip! MASS QUEBEC STAY-AWAY ANSWER TO QUEEN'S VISI Writing from Montreal, Sam Walsh, Quebec Communist Party leader, said last week, following the Queen’s visit to Canada, that the visit “was a colossal and dangerous political blunder by Prime Minister Pearson and Premier Lesage, “It demonstrated how serious- ly they underestimated the de- termination of the French-Cana- dian nation to change the relation- ship radically between the English and French Canadian nations, “Nothing could conceal from the eyes of the world that the people of Quebec regarded this visit as a brazen effort to con- vince them that Confederation should continue with only minor adjustments, They rejected this message decisively by their mas-. Sive non-participation, “That was the most striking expression of the feelings of the people of Quebec, much more so than the several hundred amo the demonstrators who tried to channel national feelings into the demand for separation, “At a time when the French Canadian nation is demanding the right to self-determination, which demands a wholly -neW constitution, it is inopportune 40 arrange a visit for the Queen 10 mark the 100th anniversary of 4 constitution regarded—and cor rectly so—as the judicial em bodiment of the refusal to recos- nize that the French Canadians in Quebec are a nation and con sequently fully entitled sovereignty, “This should prove beyond any doubt that the crafty palliatives of ‘co-operative federalism,’ so be" loved of Pearson and Lesage, any other similar device design! to maintain the status quo chains the two nations with only minor adjustments, has already been rejected by the masses % Quebecois. ... 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