ali viund dip too, We were just. bout ready to hurl our old bodies ate the barricades. His talk was the last of the week- Windows On The Past series, dur-_ g Which we'd heard about what ~ life was like in various parts of the“: “world in the olden days. Placés. like (Scotland and: Northem B.C., and: msdal group : : months ‘ago; and imptéssed ¢ us all ‘the CAPSULE COM MENTS isa common : problem heating; lack of. f amid in; ies and” soaking i ins the: tub bath, and ‘use.a good 1 moisturiz- cream id daily. “men banding together to press for : work, as well as for better relief and lower rents. . The rest of the world was put on hold for Ben, who spent thé next awful years trying to change the - shape of things and getting his lumps for it. He was arrested over his activities in the hunger march on Edmonton in 1932, when 10,000 peo- ple were refused permission to - -., _ parade. Canada was in ferment. . Tim Buck made his name in these | years, plas : anning ‘and creating aud organizing. R.B. Bennet was the beleaguered . ” Prime Minister at the time, it was he who had to deal with men who took the freight train all across Canada — he’ stopped them in Regina. The riot that ensued ended in a- draw, bui as a result the iniquitous os “relief camps” were abolished, along’ with Section 98 of the then Criminal Code which had obliged all citizens ‘to prove their i innocence against any charge made by anyone against ‘them. Thank goodness. . There was similar ferment in the United States, and the action there had been to form unions to defend and expand their rights. Political par- ‘ties were also born as a consequence — the CCF was a direct result of the Depression, conceived in 1931, as was Social Credit, in ‘33. ‘The whole of Canada was affect- ed. Men left their homes in the Prairies and on the Eastern coast to |; come west looking for jobs. Ben sur- prised us by saying that most’of our shipbuilders in the early days were men from the prairies! . But you and I, who may not have ‘marched in a single demonstration, who may have simply taken it all as . what life was like, who didn’t expect : the luxury of university, we stili Scrape out every little bit of jam from the tin, always use up the * crusts, we tum out the lights when ‘we leave a rcom, we save the soap- 66 Ben thinks we seniors have to be alert to the erosion, now so subtle, taking the form of apparently random attacks on our | Medicare. and our. pension plans. PF bar ends and paper bags. . We still wear the scars of those * tough times. : Ben thinks we seniors ‘have to be alert to the erosion, now.so subtle, ‘taking the form of apparently ran- . We can't let the bastards get Us: dom attacks.on our Medicare and...’ , our pension plans. He points out the dangers in the transfer of the role of | sole supplier of medications to the :- pharmaceutical companies. :: : He wants us to realize that seven | billion dollars have been cut from social programs and the way health care is funded. He says it's now. called “block funding”, ‘which is a. mask for the fact that it has no pro- tection at all;'and can be diverted: “easily to road-building or airline minals, .: Our salvation lies in our ; bined strength, he says, but we.can’ just be in favor of such—~ we must unite visibly, work together. ;; There's already a Gray. Power Organization i in the Fraser. Valley. : & « P- ome lis sten to the sweet sounds of choi irs rs and wandering minstrels as you shop ‘and fashions, ts presses ‘and: hell Italian cookwear’ and. chi ewelry ai ani lingerie, - mistletoe and menswear, novels and nylons, or ornate e pens, quilts, t rings, shoeshine kits, ties, those you love aid don’t forget those in need:’ ’ Sponsor a a “Family “Hamper” of of our. Family Hamper Tree (with’a cash donation) at our Customer Service Desk..." "For more information: 985-6261 Free parking on the weekends, 2 hours free with validared ticker, weekdays.”