8 - Sunday, Febuary 10, 1985 - North Shore News

Climbing into Commie beds

But what is of greater in-
terest than the regular ham-
mer and sickle kissers is, as I
say, the horde of happy
fellow travellers.

Margaret Mitchell, for in-

Vancouver last week was instructive. Given a
clear choice between a communist and a
democrat, the citizenry chose the communist.

Comrade Bruce Yorke

Ts municipal by-election that took place in

One was that the. com-
munists and their friends
never give up; another was
that the right wing would
rather suck beer than wark,

and the third was that cam-
paign money was no object 10
the unions, who know that
Yorke and his cronies on
council will grind their axe

for them while sticking the
cost to the taxpayers.

We always have to pay for
our mistakes, and | hope
Vancouver has to pay plenty.

therefore re-joins the other
COPE comrades in rulling
Canada’s third largest city,
happily assisted by Mr. Push
Me and Puli You, the city’s
affable mayor,

‘If you are an advanced
thinker, like most of the
writers on the Vancouver
dailies, you will brush off this
development as being of no
consequence. It’s somehow
bad form to dwell on such
stuff. All the same, it is not
so long since no sseif-
respecting Jabor ‘man or
socialist would be seen in bed
with. a’ commie. So a
metamorphosis has taken
place. Now, they line up to
shriek their allegiance. Which
leads’ .one .to. ask whether
there's any difference bet-
_ween-the supporters and the

/ man‘himself.,

“Perhaps “you ‘noticed - the
large: pro-Yorke ads that‘ap-

vince:on the-eve.of the elec-
tion.” They Contained about
220 names. of: fellow-
travellers who wanted to pro-
claim their love - for: the

. candidate.

There were, of course some

_ who'are commies pure “and

simple: Thus:-Mr. Maurice

Rush was oni parade, he being

thi leader: of the B.C, Com-
y

walk like a duck®” cl

North Shore

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Main Branch 555 Burrard Street, 662-2162

get this
straight

“by

| Doug Collins

peared in the Sun and*Pro- .

club he belonged to then. To-
day, do not expect Harry to
protest about Russian rule in
Afghanistan, or Poland, or
anything like that. And
‘anything. Harry says, gets
good. play in the Pacific
Tribune.

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stance, the people’s NDP
tribune for East Vancouver.

Arthur Kube, he. of the
B.C. Federation of Labor.

Larry Kuehn, the former
boss of the B.C. Teachers
Federation.

Pauline Weinstein, she of
the Vancouver School Baord.

Roy Gautier, the building
trades gent.

Plus a host of feather-
brained churchmen, lawyers,
and academics, all of whom,
according to the ad, believed
Yorke’s election was ‘“‘vital to
the democratic process.’*

Why have the. commies
become so popular? if there
were a self-proclaimed Nazi
tunning for election, no one
would. touch. him, and
anyone who did would right-
ly be tarred with the same
brush. Yet communism has
caused more misery on this |
earth than any other per-’
verted faith.

The answer has to be that
‘they see communism as O.K.
Or not'such a bad thing that
they can’t run with it.

More immediately, there
were three reasons for yon
result:

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