8 - Friday, Ogfober 11,.1985 - North Shore News

Fighting for political purity

SO THERE is to be a new socialist party in
North Vancouver City, one that blushes under the
title of Community Electors Association.

Its founder is none other
‘than Bill Bell, well known to
North Shore News students
of school affairs. And peep-
ing out from behind him we
see other fighters for politi-
cal purity.

Donna Stewart, for in-
stance, a wheel in the North
Shore Women’s Centre and
one of my most fervent ad-
mirers; plus Barbara Sharp,
Trudy Galpin and Bob
Davis, a trio unknown to me
and possibly to everyone
else.

When the news broke that
this dim new comet was in
the local sky, it reminded me
that local politcal parties all
too frequently hide their
light under a bushel, so that
new residents have to spend
years figuring out what they
stand for.

What did the North
Shore’s late NoVVA stand
for, a puzzled newcomer

might have asked? And
TAGG!? Was it something
to do with wrestling? How
about the Burnaby Voters
Association, and did Bur-
naby voters really need an
association? Is COPE some
kind of tool?

JET
get this
straight

by
Doug Collins
Sa:

It is disappointing that the
Community Electors
Association fights shy of
announcing its aims in its
name. After all, socialists
and other heavy breathers
for change are usually eager
to sound their trumpets as

It's Canadian way

From Page 4

*: Nope. It’s: the Canadian
way, after. all. And. that’s
just live in industrial society.
Maybe it’s . revenge. . for
Mommy and Daddy having
sent us off to school in the
first place, instead of letting

us stay at home, where we
knew we belonged.

Sure, we are all freer than
ever. We can cope with filial
responsibilities and obliga-
tions by throwing money at
them. But there is a little bit
less love in our world, for all
that.

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loudly as possible, Candy
Mountain being just round
the corner.

The CEA could have call-
ed itself the Socialist Ad-
vance Party, or SAP. All
saps would then have been
alerted. As it is, the
whispered word and the
cupped hand must convey
the message, and mystery is
compounded by Bell’s claim
that the CEA isn't a political
party at ail.

It is an ‘‘amalgamation of
basically progressive peo-
ple...”’ who feel that the
present North Van City
council lacks ‘‘far-sighted
vision’.

Hardly the kind of stuff
likely to bring saps to the

barricades in any numbers,
if you ask me.

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While we're on the subject
of advances on the socialist
front let's take a look at
what is happening in the jol-
ly old Vancouver City Sav-
ings Credit Union.

it was captured some
moons ago by Bob Williams,
Darlene Marzari and David
Levi.

Williams, you may recall,
is the guy who wanted to na-
tionalize MacMillan Bloedel;
Levi is the son of Norman,
the health minister in the
NDP government who
sported that nine-foot desk,
and Marzari, a COPER at

heart.
When the Vancity elec-
tions took place, you

couldn’t tell from the blurbs
what any of them stood for.
Left-wingers and right-
wingers alike all stood for
good things. It was even
worse than the NoVVA,
BVA and CEA stuff.
Shortly after the forces of
furtivism took over, Vanci-
‘ty’s membership in the
Fraser Institute went out the
window. And now the credit
union plans to dump in-
vestments in companies hav-
ing anything to do with
South Africa and weapons
industries.
, That doesn’t

suit Pro-

UBC, who is organizing @
resistance movement. It
doesn't suit me, either. |
have no objection at all to
being Merchant of Death,
provided the money’s good.
And it is the responsibility of
Vancity to get what it can
for its members, not run
around bleating about puri-
ty.

‘ Cohn points out that
Williams and Co. have no
objections to firms doing
business with the USSR, the
human human rights record
of which is far worse than
South Africa’s. He’s asking
for support, and can be

reached at 3938 West 13th
V6R

Avenue,
272.

Vancouver,

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