A37 - Wednesday, April 4, 1984 - North Shore News

Vickers
led NDP
t least In
applause

HOW TO organize the NDP and attract new voters
in the next provincial election were the main topics

at an NDP leadership forum in North Vancouver
Saturday.

was his work as party presi-

dent that helped lead the
NDP to victory in 1972.

‘*The job sult remains to

be done that Grace McCarthy
did from 1972 to 1975,”’ he

A crowd of 200 at Queen
Mary community school
heard from the six can-

didates, each hoping tO  gaig
replace provincial NDP Lea, in a folksy speech, : a : SO .
leader Dave Barrett when he — caid: ‘*This discussion has to ~ : SAWS

leaves provincial politics.
And if applause was any
indication of who will lead

EWS photo Stuart Davis
A SAILBOAT motors in under the Second Narrows bridge in the late afternoon sun, back from a day on the briny. It will
likely be a while now, before such sights become common again.

be about us, about our party
and where we're going in the
80s and the 90s.’’

the NDP, the edge would go
to Victoria lawyer David
Vickers who challenged the
crowd of party supporters to
defeat ‘‘\his government
which knows the price of
everything and the value of
nothing.’

Dismissing criticism of his

When people asked
NDPers how they will pay for
social services, Lea said,
*‘We must answer that.’”’

Stressing that Britush Col-
umbia 1s in the middle of an
economic revolution which is
creating severe economic
dislocation, Lea said the par-

STONG’S SAVER

role as a lawyer in earlier
labor disputes, such as the
one at Lenkurt” Electric,
Vickers said the NDP must
reassert ifs commitment to
the unemployed and the han.
dicapped and create
economic policies that
“protect the natural and
human environment”’

His speech was interrupted
several times by an uniden-
tified man who shouted, “So
what happened?’ and
“Right on, brother.” pro-
mpung the next speaker,
Margaret Birrell, to say al the
opening of her address ‘1
think we should give a round
of applause to a guy who
takes his politics very serious
Iv °° The man left, after mak
ing a few more loud remarks

Besides Vickers and Bir
ccll) other speakers ime luded
Dave Stuprh Graham lea Common concerns fo. all
Bob Skelly and Bill King. all the candidates? The fear that
MI As the radiaal right as better
organiecd, better funded and
has access tO power that the

ty ‘‘must come up with new
solutions’’.

Birrell claimed the party's
decisi§n making was in ‘‘a
few elitist hands’” and has
lost touch with its grass roots
support. She also said the
Strategy of appealing to

The Name of our Game is SAVE!

Liberal voters has failed ~ ,
Skelly called for ‘‘new ’ 4
pohcies that are relevant to a ; eg 4

the problems of today We , 4
need a new party to develop a

new momentum ."’

Quoung NDP figurehead
Tommy Douglas's call for
“an economy that serves the
people, not the other way
around,’ Skelly said

resource development in the
province must be redirected

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