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VANCOUVER

*5-YEAR PLAN

@ We believe that the 5-Year Plan to go to
the voters on Wednesday, September 29,
is worthy of your support. It is a bread and
butter program, without frills. The emphasis
is on sewers, waterworks, roads, curbing,
parks and other essentials. If the plan is
rejected, the necessary work will have to
be done at a later date — at a higher cost.

® We know that it was the voters east of Cam-
bie who defeated the 5-Year Plan placed be-
fore the electors last December. There were
too many plebiscites before the people. The
voters were suspicious of the Coliseum deal
and many linked the 5-Year Plan with the
Coliseum and costly freeway plans. So they

This time there is no downtown Coliseum to
vote on and no proposal for freeways.

The east side of Vancouver (east of Cambie)
will get a fair share of all the improvements
to our city that will result from the 5-Year

This is not an election. Last December many
voters on the east side voted. against the
5-Year Plan because they associated it with
certain candidates. This time the 5-Year Plan
stands on its own. We submit it is a good
plan for Vancouver and should be supported

MAKE SURE

Vote Yes bd
WED., SEPT.29

VANCOUVER CIVIC EMPLOYEES UNION

Students’ union to campaign
for abolition of all fees

LENNOXVILLE, QUE, — The
Canadian Union of Students is
launching a top priority cam-
paign to abolish all tuition fees
at universities. This was one of
the major decisions of the 29th
Congress of the CUS, represent-
ing over 120,000 students at 44
universities and technical
schools, which met at Lennox-
ville from Aug. 29 to Sept, 4.

Delegates agreed that the
most important resolution was
one calling for the adoption ofthe
principle of universal accessi-
bility to post-secondary educa~-
tion and the removal of all

social and financial barriers to
education.

As part of the campaign to—
abolish tuition fees the CUS will
sponsor a. “National Students’
Day” before the next general
election, Its aim is to draw pub--
lic attention to the problems

‘of post-secondary education and

bring pressure on the political
parties,

The CUS Congress also re-
affirmed its aim of student in-
volvement in international affairs
and declared Vietnam to be its
first priority for action in this
field,

PROTEST PARADE

IN_CITY

‘Speak out against German|
troops on Canadian soil’ |

“Speak out against training of
German troops in Canada!” urged
a leaflet given out to hundreds
of passers-by during the supper
hour Friday as about 60 men and
women marched before the Ger-
man Consulate in downtown Van-
couver with placards protesting
the bringing of German troops to
Camp Shilo, Manitoba,

The Vancouver demonstration,
organized by the B,C, Peace
Council, was one of many held
in the major Canadian cities Fri-
day night.

For most Vancouver citizens
who saw the demonstration this
was the first time they were made
aware that such an agreement has
been reached between Bonn and
Ottawa, The Vancouver press has
not given any coverage to the
story, although eastern news-
papers like the Toronto. Star
carried the story as far back as
the middle of August,

Although police were on hand
in an attempt at intimidation, the
demonstrators attracted wide at-
tention during the busy hour be-
tween 5 and 6 p.m.

The demonstrators carried
slogans which read: “B,C, Peace
Council protests German troops
on Canadian Soil!” German
Weapons Test at Shilo—German
militarism in Canada—threat to
world peace,”

Unity of public employees |
key issue at CU

Vancouver’s 1,500 Outside -
Civic Workers this week ex-
tended fraternal greetings to
delegates arriving in the city
to attend the second national
convention of the Canadian Union
of Public Employees (CUPE),
meeting in the Hotel Vancouver,
September 20-23, ;

The convention of CUPE will
be the second one since the mer-
ger of the National Union of Pub=-.
lic Employees and the National
Union of Public Service Em-
ployees, The merger united some
80,000 Canadian trade unionists
into one organization which has
been ‘experiencing some difficul-
ties in @onsolidating its ranks,

In greeting CUPE, Jack Phil-
lips, editor of The Outside Civic
Workers Union Bulletin, said that
CUPE can be apowerful force for
progressive policies in the labor
movement,

‘«We know that, likeus, you are
concerned with the danger of nu-
clear annihilation. We also know
that you are searching for the
solution to such key problems as
automation as it will affect the
public service, contracting-out,
labor unity, the development of
our natural resources to create
the maximum of employment in
Canada, social security, the role
of French Canada in the Cana-
dian state and Canadian autonomy
for organized labor,

*“*These problems demand a
clear and forthright position from

The leaflet handed tothe public
said that “It would be a crimin-
al act for Canada to encourage
West German militarism by al-
lowing troops of that country to
perform maneuvers and test
weapons on Canadian soil.”

It added: “Hitler is dead, but
West German militarism is not,
Thousands of Canadians were
killed by the Nazi war machine
in World War II, And today there
are many former Nazis in the
West German government and
army, The name has changed,
but the wolf that hides in the
sheep’s clothing is as much a
menace to the peace of the world
as it was in 1939,”

Urging Canadians to speak out :
strongly against Ottawa’s agree"
ment to the pact to bring Germa?
troops to Canada, the leaflet
urged citizens to send the fol-
lowing message to Prime Minis-
ter Lester B, Pearson:

“As a Canadian who has not
forgotten the terrible suffering.
inflicted by the German military
machine from Dunkirk to Stalin-
grad, I appeal to you to cancel
the agreement for the testing of
West German military equipme®?
and the training of West Germam
military personnel at CampShilo,

”
Manitoba,

ance,

tion, health and welfare costs,

Five-Year Plan,

‘Back Five-Year Plan’

Vancouver voters should support the $32.2 million
Five-Year Plan on September 29, stated William Stewart 0M
behalf of the Vancouver Communist Party,

While it is true that the plan will result in an increase 1?
the average Vancouver tax of $10 over the five-year period,
and while it is true that the plan fails to make sufficient Pro"
vision for low rent and medium rent housing and slum cleat-
nevertheless the proposals contained in the plan are min-
imum requirements for the maintenance and improvement 0
the cultural and physical facilities of Vancouver, ;

The fact that such necessary improvements are continually
charged against the homeowner is a reflection of the unfail
distribution of the civic tax load, and at the same time the rec
fusal of senior governments to pay their full share of educa-

The people should turn out on September 29 and
Then they should turn out in full force 1
December to kick the NPA out of city hall and elect a council
which will see that homeowner taxes are reduced and big pusi-
ness and real estate made to pay its way.

pass the

oe

“Tt is no secret that you have
many internal problems to grap-
ple with, connected with the con-
solidation of the national union,
With so many local and regional
differences in wages and work-
ing conditions, with local, re-
gional and provincial contracts,
and with each province laying
down its own labor laws, con-
solidation can be a very difficult
process,

‘In this connection, you are

Canadian labor and we are look- #&

ing forward to your decisions,

PE parley

also concerned with the problem

September 17, 1965—PACIFIC TRIB

yy
of regional bargaining, i0 orde

to make the maximum 6 ¢
negotiations, Permit us to bol
to your attention that there ©
be no regional bargaining |
Montreal, Toronto or Vancow |
without unity extending bee a
the local organizations * |
Canadian Union of Public a 7
ployees. During our success
strike in 1964, we had g0 ip
port from CUPE at all levels .
British Columbia, Therefor®
do believe that unity at the D2,
gaining table is quite possible» ;
Phillips said,

UNE—Pae