HUNDREDS SIGN PETITION TO OTTAWA

Fraserview veterans charge ‘duress’

Early this week almost 300 tenants of the Fraserview veterans housing project hed
signed a petition stating that “‘the rental increases on the lease forms sent to us were sigf
by us under duress, and that we feared we would be evicted if we did not sign them. We
request these leases be cancelled and a public hearing held.”

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CUSTOMS UNION DANGER

Secret talks with U.S.
menace fo independence

One of Canada’s best known
political writers, Peter Newman,
said last week in an article from
Ottawa that the outcome of cur-
-rent talks with the United States
over Canada’s car parts plan
“will do more than set the pat-
tern of our future trade rela-
tions with the U,S, It will test
the government’s determination
to guard the remainder of our
vanishing economic sovereignty,”

Referring to private diplomatic
talks in which Prime Minister
Pearson himself has taken part,
Newman writes:

“Behind closed-door negotiat-
ing rooms in Ottawa, officials of
both countries have desperately
been trying to salvage Industry
Minister Bud Drury’s car parts
export program, What will prob-
ably emerge from thesetalks will
be Washington’s approval of a
customs union between the two
countries, limited at the moment
to car exports, but easily ex-
pandable into other commodities,

“This approach, supported by
the Canadian negotiators as alast
chance to save the faltering Drury
plan, represents a step of enor-
mous significance in the eventual
breakdown of what has been an
axiom of Canadian eeonomic his-
tory: that the nation can only be
held together by the maintenance,

» however costly, of an east-west
trade pattern,

“The free-trade scheme in
automobiles and their parts would
channel this important commerce
into a north-south direction, and
when applied to other trade items,
could destroy the east-west back-
bone of Canada’s economy, first
fostered by the building of the
CPR and Sir John A, Macdon-
ald’s national policy,”

Pointing out that “Canadian”
car firms have been called in by
Canadian officials to help in the
secret talks, Newman points out
that “The men who speak for the
car firms are not really manu-
facturers representing Canadian

‘interests, but merely the Cana-

dian chiefs of American-owned
corporations,”

“Even if they wanted to,” writes
Newman, “they couldn’t agree to
any scheme which would hurt or.
even embarrass their parent
firms,”

The article by Newman con-
firms the charges often made by
the Pacific Tribune, that the so-
called policy of “integration” with
the U,S, is actually a policy of
abandoning Canadian indepen-
dence, It replaces the policy of
east-west development of thena-
tion by the policy of north-south
“integration,” which weakens
Canadian independence and
places Canada more firmly inthe
grip of U.S, monopolies,

Deterrent health fee
hit by Justice Hall

The chairman of the federal
royal commission on_ health
services, Mr, Justice Emmett
Hall, whose report and recom-
mendations for a national health
scheme were widely hailed, last
Friday threw a knockout punch
to those who would limit a na-
tional health plan with deterrent
fees,

Speaking before theSaskatche-
wan Hospital Association, Mr,
Justice Hall said that deterrent
fees for hospital and medical

pital unnecessarily and stayed
there too long, These same
people, he added, suggest the
abuse could be eliminated by a
nominal deterrent fee,

He told the meeting such rea-
soning was wrong, He said, “The
administrative costs of collect-
ing these patient charges (de-
terrent fees) are out of propor-
tion to the net realized, But the
real objection to them is that
whatever deterrent value they

The petition, sponsored by the
Fraserview Veterans Homeown-
ers and Tenants Association,
gave the answer to charges made
by Federal government officials
in Ottawa recently that most
Fraserview veterans accept the
increase, and that only a handful
are holding out,

Earlier the association, which
is fighting against upping of
rentals and sale price of the
homes, said that about 100 veter-
ans refused to sign the new
leases, They have been threatened
with eviction,

The petition is still circulating
and more veterans are expected
to sign by the end of this week,
Also being circulated by the As-
sociation is another petition

ROBERT STRACHAN, NDP provincial
leader, who last weekend called on
the B.C. government to intervene in
Britannia to prevent the shutdown of
the mine.

which has been signed by about
300 homeowners, which*concurs
with the tenants’ views on rental
increases and would like to see
Mr, Arthur Laing’s pre-election
promise regarding sale terms
implemented,”

Meanwhile, a mass meeting
last Sunday in Bobolink Park
Community Hall, attended by 100
‘veterans, backed the action onthe
petition and accepted a proposal
made by Esquimalt MP George
Chatterton, :

The proposal would sell Fra-
serview homes with a govern-
ment - backed second mortgage

that would be discharged at H®
end of a set period of years.
idea, if accepted, would be Sil”
lar to the Veterans Land a
deals, and if the buyer retail
possession for ten years: :
government would write off i
second mortgage, This woul?
eliminate charges that homes
were being bought and sold mM
speculation, eg

Support for the fight of
Fraserview veterans is mou”
ing, and pressure is growile™
Ottawa for a public hearing 1
rentals and sale price of ho
built by Central Mortgage ie
Housing Corporation, ;

Stop Britannia shutdown,
Strachan urges Victoria

The Britannia strike of Mine-
Mill, now in its third month, is
~ solid as ever with the miners
determined to win a decent wage
contract, and to block the Ana-
conda Company’s threats to close
down this profitable mining oper=
ation upon which the life of a
B.C, community depends,

Following union representa-
tion to the provincial govern-
ment elicited the excuse that “no
legislation exists which would
give the government authority”
to prevent shutting down the mine,
the union wired the Pearson gov-
ernment, urging it to take action
to prevent the closing ‘down of
Britannia, The union wire also
asked for a “full investigation”
into the operation and threats of
the Anaconda Company, in what

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the union describes 45

_ wilful destruction of valuabl

‘mineral resources,” and ve
the company itself has admit :
“can be operated profitably.

Over the weekend provinel®
NDP leader Robert Strachan
expressed his solidarity witt ad}
Britannia miners and again
upon the provincial govern’
“to intervene and prevent a sh
down” by the company, :

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Meantime, as the union pick?”

line around the Anaconda OP’ |

tions holds tight, some 65 union :
in B,C, and across Canada? —
cording to.a union Strike Bullet
have demonstrated their 5°
arity with the striking unio?
financial donations ranging

five dollars to one thousand.

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U.S. MANUFACTURER ADMITS

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the influence of
war toys on children was the
subject of a spirited discus-
‘sion over a Vancouver radio
station, The New York manu-
facturer of the toys displayed
in theSimpsons-Sears Christ-

mas catalogues was contacted
by the station,

He openly made the shock-
ing admission that such toys
were created and “glamor-
ized” with the express pur-

‘War toys prepare kids for war’

pose of preparing children ff
the draft (U,S,), and thenatul”
al acceptance of war and ft
military life, y

Dr, Spock, recognized world
authority on children, was a5?
contacted by the station, an

he acknowledged the role ch”
dren’s play toys have in cO®”
ditioning the child’s mind.
deplored such toys as harm :
to the child and its relatiO®”
ships with other children. —

The Voice of Women, Wh?
have an active Committee
Children’s Toys, along Wi”
PTA’s, peace groups and many
individuals, have spoken out? |
this matter and urged people A
register their disappro’ é
with any store that advertise
or displays this type of me
chandise,

Perhaps the big challeng® q
now posed, since the 2
abashed admission of eas
manufacturer, is: to what @%7
tent are our lives and those °
our children manipulated 2
conditioned from infancy bi,
for those who would profi S|
from war?

might have, and there is no
evidence that they have any, is
that they would have a deterring
effect only on the poor,”

care insurance are a tax on the
poor and that there is nogreater
challenge to a free society than
to provide all the fruits of health
sciences without hindrances of
any kind,

The result of deterrent fees, >
he added, would be to permit
those who have money to be pre-
sented and welcomed in hospitals

ahead of those who lacked it,

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He pointed out that some per-
sons would lead one to think
health service costs climbed be-
cause thousands rushed to hos-

The above illustration is taken from the “Simpsons-Sears, Christmas
1964” catalogue.

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October 23, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P@