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-

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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

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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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