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Will it build GOOD - WILL aid BETTER -TRIENDSHIPS? — ° _ total cancerned?, Political Commentary CASE FOR UNITY ‘the jeneral election of August 30, 1972 brought an NDP” govern. iment (o-- -power In British Columbia for the first lime in the province’s-history: This election, which saw the Social Credit, Liberal and Progressive Conservative Parties each fielding . an entire slate of candidates against (he NDP, resulted in the Joss of fully 22 ridings 10 lhe New Democratic Party because of a split vote, ~ «Since thal day, British Columbian polities have taken a radical swing to (he left thalis unprecedented in North America. The NDP government apparently believes that the business communily is. guilly of “ripping-off the people”, and that the NDP has been elected to redress years of wrongs committed by the previous government, .: The majority of British Columbians believe in a free society and ihe general principles of a private-enterprise system. Ap- proximaitley 61 percent of the voters in 1972 vated for parties that represented this thinking. In spite of this, the NDP have announced that they have been given a “mandate hy the people" to turn British Columbla into a secialist state. The Socialist - NDP government brought down 181 pieces of legislation in the first chree sillings of the legislature under their control, Much of this legisiation has been devoted toward placing enormous sums of money and discretionary powers in the hands of NDP cabinet ministers and appointees. . Jn spile of increased public resistance and eriticism, (he NDP : goverument has bought into or taken outright contro! of 17 com paules (as of January 31). In addition, the NDP has entered into insurance, forestry, fish canning, pulp and paper, agriculture and poultry farming, and has begua alfecting changes in the ad- minlgtration af education, hospitals, and social'services. The . government has entered heavily into purchase and control of land and has now entered into (he housing industry. It Is important to note that, allhongh government expenditures in these areas have, in mos! cases, not increased substantlally, government control has ‘become almost absolute.3 is recognized more and more today by _ freedom-loving People in British Columbia that the ion It ao It is also * Weciety: The present situation, ‘however. with three enoealtten . parties, dées not allow the voter to cast meaningtal vole, and have ‘thal vote coual.. . Fhe Majority Movement posilion, which is that the formation of a " uniled opposition is absolutely essential to assure the election of a : foverament representative of the majority, is accepted almost unanimously throughout British Columbia. . ‘the major objections to the formation of a unified opposition . gone from, firstly, supporters of the NDP party, and secondly, irom ranking efficials in the opposition parties who feel that their ‘persona | positions would be erreded or undermined by joining together whih members and supporters of the other parties. . Historically, wherever (he majority of volers have cul off from effeetive representation within their parliamentary system, an extta-parliamentary force has arisen to Initiate and encourage the formation of a ne w entity. For example, In 1810, after a ‘Labour Parly (Seeialis) victory in Australia occured by the nan- socialist vote spliting among 13 parties, Sir Rohert Menzies brought these 1) disparate groups together and formed the Liberal Parly of Australia - which swept to victory in the General Election of-1446,, Closer to home, when (he Liberal - Conservailve coalition : begun breaking down between 149 and 1952 in British Columbia, . the Secial Credit League, a populist movement, formed, and b drawing upon members of the electorate of all political per-_ suasions, brought ina yovernment that lasted for 20 years. «The commen bond in both these movements was the feeling that it was iecessary to band together in the face of a commen enemy. In both cases, the unified oppesitian was successful in defeating the socialist parles, «li is worthwhile lo note that in Sweden, G0 to 70 ‘percent of the pepalar vote has been unti-socialist for two decades, bul because this vole has been splil among several private-enterprise parties,, Sweden has had a minority socialist gavernmentall that time. _ In Canada, political experts are already predicting 12 years to 20 yours wf socialist government in British Columbia, unless the non- socialist: parties unify, and refrain from running competing - ‘ + eanadida ten. REASONS - AGAINST UNITY wll he obstacles, or objections, to forming a united opposition ‘are quite basic aad have been given wide publicity. They are found & exantining the nature of our political system and the historical precedents for the present situation, - Firstly, of course, the type of men drawn te party polities ace hy nalure highly egotistical and not given to compromising their hard- won positions, Also, elected representatives feel a lremerous- *- yexsponsibllily to the people who elected them and to the partles ailer whose banners they run, ‘ ‘secondly, in the case of the Liberal and Progressive Conservative > Publics, there are stroug influences brought to bear un them from thelr federal leaders to maintain as ‘high a public’ presence as possible. Ilis very diffiuell for life-long members, supporters, and representalives of these two parties to ignor ihe Pressure [ram Olu wa. i eihirdly, the Soclai Credit Party, though they dropped from 38 _ Healy to fin the August, 1972 election, has a large base of support - _ throtghout the province - a support that was bullt up during 20 years ies power. [Cis diffieull for Social Credit Party members to ‘ylew this targe public following and net somhow feel thal they are still overwhelmingly popular in British Columbia. +: 1 «The specific objections raised against forming a united op- pusltion are not espectally valld when examined from a standpoint _ of the facts which are available tous, Lel us consider each of lhem Jn turk, . The Social Credit Party tlaims that they came Tirst or second In 2 oul of s5rldings andthe . 55 ridings-aud, therefore, the Social Credit Party ig ‘the natural * choice to defeat Ihe NDP." _. The factu are, however, that the NDP, accordisy to the 1968 and Tr) Federal Election Results and the 1949 and 1972 Provincial Blection Results,‘have a hard-core support of 32 percent of 35 “percent ‘of the popular vate, The NDP won (6 ridings in the laut Provinctal election with over 50 percent ofthe popular vote, while whining in att additional 22 ridlags with between 32 percent and 49.5 percent of the popular vote. Because the remaining vote was split - three ways, Uhese percentages were sufficient for them to win these ridings and give them a total of 38 seals, -- .. The Socreds, on the othe r hand, won only 2.ridings with 50 per- cenl or better of the popular vote, received 8 total at only 31 percent NDP came first or second [n 46 out of , of the vole provinee-wide, and actually dropped 2a percent ‘in one of thelr (wo ridings in the first by-election to be held there: (South - Okanagan - Social Credit: 1972 - 50,2 percent; 1972. by-election perceal, a decline of 20 percent, ..A second Sacred argument is that ‘the non-socialist majority * should unite behind the official opposition In each province where a split vole has alluwed a NDP victory, This ignores the fact that this type of “unily"’ has never taken place in any one of these provinces, hecause people who have the right of free choice wlll occasionally vote fay something new, bul very rarely will vole for a party simply - because lis claimed that “they are the official oppositions: id Ce. gs Saskatchewan and Maniloba) . The people of British Columbia may follow the same course'as ihe peuple of Quebec wha, three elections aga, elected the Union Nationale to power, defeated them two electloris ago, reducing them to. the “‘uflicial apposition,” aud then in 1973 failed to elect a slagle member. *..Theve may or may nol he a parallel between the iwo situations “credit is constituted dwindiing into obscurity afler a resounding “defeat is a very real one,, . A popular Liberal Party argument agains! a unitied ‘opposition i is * thal, if B.C. were reduced lo a two-party system, the Soclalsists would be in power half the time because “the government of the day is always defeated eventually.” . However, in a mature pelitical system, where there ate lwo parles for the voter (o choose between, and where he may register his displeasure with one by voling decisively for the other, neither party can afford to go lo extremes in it's policles. Both are forced to moderate their positions and slay close to.the center of popular sentiment where the majorily of voters are tobe found. And whichever party is elected, ILiseleleted bya ‘majority of the _volers. . This objection also eye the issue thal there is already a highly © unpopular minorlly socialist government in power. The majority of voters want this government ta be defealed ai Lhe next general eleelion, and replaced with one whose philosophies aré.moreinHne - : with teasoriableness, ; moderatton: . and: ithe, ae ee _Bhilosophys iAnother oft-repented ‘objection to forming a twoparty syniem. * the claim that if British Columblaus, ‘of; the private fren philosophy, did not haye al least two partles to choose hetweén, they would register. (heir displeasure by voting NDP, Doesn't this imply, by extension, that If sociahat. voters did not also have two parties to choose from, they would vole free-enlerprine? This objection allempts Lo obscure the fact tha cur parllamentary system, was devised for, and works most" effectively. with, twa parties, not three. or four, or more, .Perhaps the least valid objection of ali toa unified ‘opposition i is that it would somehow “undemocratic” if people were limited in their choice to two parties, one of the right and one of the left, However, DEMOCRACY means simply, “Government By The Majority". Any parly or individual who advocates any system thal results in a minority government is nol advocating “DEMOCRACY.” A multl-party system such as now exists in B.C., and which ‘assures unrepresentative government, is NOT. a democratic system, . A common agrament, advanced by: all three parties, ‘Is that they cach have a different philesophy, and that the three philosophies ar nv compatible, and cannot be avited into one party with a common - sel of policies: and principles. This may’ very well be true in the minds at highly involved polilieal-party members and supporters, but is Is, unfortunately, not relevant in (he minds of eyes of the voting public, As. far as the vating public is. concerned, there is very litlle difference het ween the three parties, and itis this lack of differene: that causes a split vate al the polls, . Careful ‘analysis - of the 1972 Federal and Provincial election results indicates that there are, in B.C., approximately 455,000 svolers who have swung between the Social Credil, Liberal and Progressive Conservative Parties at different times. The only apparent philosophy common to this enormous voting block is that. - they areall vaters who are definelely opposed Lo NDP policies. CONCLUSIONS AND ' OBSERVATIONS § , ..One of the basic realilies of palltical parties and political power it British Columbla, and in Canada, is that voters rally behind and demonstrated qualities of the party leader more than for any other: reason. In Briish Columbia today, in (he eyes of the public, there is Ho ‘outstanding leader within any of the three opposition parties. Barring the emergence of a leader around whom the majority can rally and very soon, the ouly safe alternative is a unified opposition with an elfective team of eapable Individuals working logether for the overall good of the province, At effective polilical mavemeut neeeds credibility ‘and strong , personalidies, a clearly stated set of principles, and a distinct plan of action and involvement, Lacking (hese, as Is now the case, It is “our opinion thal uane of the opposition parties by themselves .can- penerate enough support to win » general election, «The conclusion. Is simple: There must be a unified oppssition stunning ope’ canadidate in each riding against the NDI’; and, this ‘nrust come about prior to the next general election, The alternative is clearly u pencration of Stale Socialism in British Columbia. * . Te mat be remembered that there is nothirg niore difficuitt to “plan, mare daubtful of success, nor more dangerous lo manage, than che creation of a new system, For the initiator has the enmity. of all whe would profil by (he preservation of (he old institulions atid merely lukewarn defenders in these who would gain by the new _ Niccolo Muchiavelli “THE: FOUR-WAY; CONFESSIONS OF AN AGING JOCK ‘By Bill Smiley, One of ‘these days I'm going to have to sit down: and have a little talk with myself, - Tt will go something like this: “Look, Bill. It’s time © you acknowledged that you'll never be in the British Consals competition for the curlingchampionship of Canada, : "Let's face the -fact that _ a great ‘competitive ‘spirit, ‘~ tremendous desire, and the heart of a lion are not enough. You also need some ‘skill and some muscles, . 1. Will i be BENEFICIAL “You curled in a local : bonspici last weekend. Won two, lost two. Nat bad. You're. a. fifty-percenter ‘in sport. But on Monday morning, .when you’ bent over'to lie your: shoe laces, you couldn't straighten up again. Somebody had shaved acknife in your back, just above the tail-bone: lf your wife wasn't pretty handy ‘at straightening * Ahings « out. -you'd-still be going’ around . on ‘all fours. “Why: don't yau forget that silly business af running | - up and: down a sheet of ice like a rabbit galloping side- ways, pounding the surface with a broom while $onie idiot’ yells, “Sweep! ” though you. were washing the dishes’ instead sweeping your guts out? “Why don’t you stop -blaming the ice for being too keen or too. heavy, when you know perfectly well it is you who is to9. Letters to the Editor — of "Bill Smiley heavy andnot keen endugh? “Why don't you- stop blaming the skip ‘ for not -" giving you the right ice, when you know full well you couldn't hit his broom with a front-end loader? “Why don't you give up the game, except for the safe position of critic behind the glass, where all the — really good shots are made? _“Why. don't you just go down to the recreation room at the curling club, and fight it out with Capt. Dalt Hudson for the undis- - puted © Russian '. Biltiard - Championship of the club? After all, you beat. him once, five years ago, when he was only, 72. , “And while we're having _ this agonizing appraisal, why don’t you da the same about your golf? A few years ago, when you were shoating in - the nineties, it is true that Jack Nicklaus and ‘Aric, - Palmer’ were trembling in — ' their boots. They knew a conier when they saw one, “But, as often happens to a: dark horse charging: for the big money, something happened, 1t-\.was bad énough having a ttick: shoulder and a trick knee. * But it was when you started pulling those trick shots - that you should have quit: ~ Requiem for a Little Chief - (or minutesofa caucus meating in which 18 cabinet ministers _aorae that the Urs? stone should be cast (a Frank Calder) Others, he is not the first - ere Have done their best to slake their thirst = If in the soft Victoria night, he too Transgressed, ‘tis nothing new. a More than he, if truth be told. : Have stood and sweated hat er cold, or through our. veins, in’ ice'a fire . Our fear contends with our desire, ’ Some of our nights we waste Others are not always chaste;’ We admit that at times we try : Ta drink the Province’ 5 brewers ary, So, we too with sin are fraught ° iy SUBWAY © = - Butnthe problem is that he's been ‘caught, For booze and women are seldom sinister ~ _Unlesg you are a Cabinet Minister. “2 AS E. Houseleader CLAC avoid the kind of unionism that Dear Sir:.. - Permil me to reply to a letter signed “an observer’, printed in this column on February 13, 1974, under the heading “Dirty works al the crossroads”, ‘The ‘writer accuses, the Christian Labour Associalion of all ‘. manner of backroom dealing, including collusion with Caacel - Management, conspiracy with - ‘the TDFU and by suggestion " everything short of bribing the mayor, The reason for CLAC’s frantic behaviour states . the writer, is the right to represent ‘workers at Canadian Cellulose, Wecan only surmise — that. _ the writers’ Intent Is to discredit _ and smear CLAC since it is obvious that no allempt was made fo learn the. facts from CLAC's executlve.: Instead, we are expected to accept a theory based on ifs and maybe leading lo wild charges and irrespon-. sible statements designed to create discord, _ doubt and - confusion. Our observer would do workers ‘a real favour were he wo explain how the- ‘WA would ‘ has brought Britain to its knees. Surely such alarge union as the [IWA; representing. 50,000 workers could come with a plan of altack on inflation: which could benefit all Canadians, ~ includin those on fixed incomes. Such a large group surely has the responsibility to enter into discussions with management in an attenipt to reduce monolony and boredom on the dob, nol to forget the need for a common atlack on the problems , of air and water pollution, shift work, alienation and a host of ather industrial ills. Ti seems to this writer that the IWA woulddo . well lo get on with the business of showing real concern for workers and not pick a yearly fight with a small Canadian union that is making an henest attempt to chart anew course. Il is to be hoped that workers at Cancel will. not be swayed by the propaganda bul. grasp the real issues at stake. “h fs ormer Pohta employes” - Basic Federal Pension Dear Editor:- ’ The Hon, Slanley H. Knowles, a friend to all Senior Citizens of ‘Canada; has already filed .a motion for the- forthcoming session of Parliament lo raise tha basic Pension lo $200 a month und to lower the pen- stunable age to 60, He urges all Canadians to hit the War Path for an all out attack on all our Members of Parliament,’ Tt Is not necessary to étress . che urgent need for a better deal for our Senior Citizens, the men’ and women who built Canada and made it all pessibie. It is a Call to Arras for all Canadians, : Mr, Editor - Thank you for: Unig generous space. ~ Sincerely, Otto Nordling othe French. in Ottawa,” i ‘WEDNESDAY, F FEBRUARY 2%, 1974 like the booming drives that _ used to go 100 yards straight up and 100 yards straight . down, twenty feet behind the tee. ' “Why don't you just play golf with your wife, whom you can beat handily if you remember to say, “Woops! ‘Don't lift your head! ", just ‘as she’s starling her swing.” ~ Yep, it’s pretty sad when you have to get down to _the concrete, and-discaver- it's. fresh-poured cement. But that’s- the way it. goes with us aging athletes, We -have only our shining memories to fall back on. > | was a pretty goad track .and field athlete, in the sprints and jumps. One year _ 1 was a cinch for the junior. championship. Everybody told me, So the night before with | some other guys, Stealing grapes. An over- zealous gardener chased us four miles, Next day, how. ever, with a tremendors burst of pride and speed, | managed to finish third in landing - ’ the track meet, L went oul . the 100 yards, fourth in - the 220, In the. days - when you didn’t have to be a big, stavering brute with haunches like hams, 1 was a'pretty fair . football - quarterback. And fT have a broken. hose Hon, W.S, King . Minister of Labour: Dear Sir: ‘Enclosed ig a copy “of a petition signed by all employees of Little Haugland and Kerr Lid." | Terrace and. District 2 > Forestry Employees : Union MLocal VLE ves hroughout this: time T.D.F.U. has‘‘asked constantly for a certification: yote, Also- the officer of the Labour Relations as (1) response to the call by the *Weslern Conference of the Cunfederation of Canadian Unions for your dismissal, you have slated publically that you are Not biased. Now we call on: OIL POLICY APPROVED | According to a Gallup Poll taken in early January, the majority of Canadians+ 7$%-_ approve of the federal gid vernment's recently announ- ced national oil policy. “ALBERTA ALIENATION" Prime .Minister- Trudeau said in an interview last week |- that Quebec is responding well to federalism now that many French Canadians are in top level jobs with public ‘corporations. and with the fe- deral government, In con- trast to the alienation in Al- berta, Quebec residents now realize they. have powerful voices in Ottawa.” . “Someone had to demons- . trate there could be a role for «said. “And then’.we had a backlash, people thinking : there was’ tao much French power-in Ottawa.” “| wish’ : + people "would work so hard in Alberta that AN! THAT'S SEMI-FINAL Company has stated that a vole- _is- the only way lo settle the question and the Investigating ‘Board has recommended a vote - yet this vole Has Not been -held:" he - Open Letter _ back fora “dime, and two rickety. knees lo prove qt 03 ‘In the: -yirtorce, © ee enjoyed, and: was’ good ul aly formation « Flying, Only. a trouble: was. that”. I> somes o ee times formated “with - the os - wrong people. “One day. Posse took off ina cloud of dust; spotted another Typhoon,’ my leader, and joined him in close formation. Rather... to m_ surprise, he ‘circled °° the airstrip and landed.:1 >>: did too, 1 climbed out and.’ walked over to askhim what” was wrong, Vd never secon” him. befare in my life, My”. ° squadron, was off ‘in. the, wild, blue yonder: some: where, one man short. T can’t help envying the: : kids of today. ‘They. can... ~ learn - golf .. and: .curling sports - they -can use. unt they're: decrepit, 5 while the "are young, When I was a. wid golf : was far the -rich “— people : . eaming ‘away up around -° $3,000 a year. My .only-, acquaintance’ with ‘golf ‘was : diving for balls into: the” -- river water hazard Into which - the lady: golfers pumped ball: -after - ball, We sold them: AS for. curling, that was tet a game played by eccentric: .° =," old gentlemen. onan, out door rink. But,. by” gally, the tich . and the eccentric old gentle- men didn’l go to the Pool Toom, and we did. _Maybe I started ‘too’ late. fo amount to anything on* the ice or the links,. but I'll take any of these other, old fogies an, on the Breen, _ felt cloth. ~ ae you to Prove that you ar biased by ordering a vote al: Little Haugland and Kerr Ltd.” as wag done between 1.W.A. and: U'P,LU, -and Rim Forest~ Products in Hazelton .. and. between 1.W.A. and P.P. W. Cin* the Nanaimo area. — ‘We, expect an immediate as response to this request. Thank. you. ne For the. Employees of | ‘Little Haugland and Kerr Ltd. Fred Berghauser Employee of Little Haugaid & Kerr Lid. .c, ce, Mr. Barrett , ss All MLA Ken Rowley C.0.U.- Vancouver Province Vancouver Sun Terrace Herald a Terrace-Kitimat. “News “Ad: verliser people would (start thinki BO that there is too..much-Al-” berta power in Ottawa, " ‘HOUSING STARTS U ” Housing starts in-cent “of 10,000 - population: : “and a over totalled’:°211,543. . 1973, up 2.2% from "306-984. us ‘starts registered i in 1972,°, Housing construction ¢ rose ~ - : in December as, 17,255 starts were. recorded in centres af * 10,000 population und over, : compared: with 14,106 -starts _ nada’ a in December WFQ ts OECD SURVEY. , The Toronto: Globe cand Mail reported -that a: recent OECD survey shows that Cy.’ will be its exports this year, but ‘its energy, strength. should . .pre- ‘vent any substantial deterio-' ration of the employment si- -tuation, Loos : TRADE MARKS LAW - ~ Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister. Herb ‘Gray © . . teleased a special study pro- : ‘posing revision to Canadian - trade marks legisletion on. patents, trade marks; copy” rights and industrial designs, The paper . recommends | ’ that’ the. trade mark system -* be flexible to meet the pre- sent needs-6£ Canadian’ busi: : Nessmen and that the system a promote the consumer's ins terests, a a