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photos by chuck stoody Administrators of university planning operations have discouraged quality work because of tight budgets. During recent repair work, the oak doors of the humanities building received two coats of varnish and now have a boltchy appearance. Painters feel that “possibly supervisors don’t listen to the guys who know the jobs.” In addition,’ students hired to paint Village I in an “experiment” are making seventy-five cents an hour.less than their union counterparts. Not being eligible’to join the union, CUPE local.158, because they are classified as casual labour, they are excluded from nearly all benefits.
:Painters resist new supervision by gord moore
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An unnecessary and uncomfortable working relationship appears to have developed between the university of Waterloo department of planning operations and the men they employ to maintain the campus. University painters, in the main, feel oppressed by and alienated from their supervisors. The situation as viewed by the employees is in response to a change in their’ supervisors’ management policy. All the university departments are feeling the financial pressures of a tight budget and the administrators of planning operations, as Shawn Sloan, director of planning operations, has stated, are ‘looking closely at this painting situation to see how efficiently we can get it done. We may feel (in the future) that we have looked at them too hard, but that has not been the idea.”
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This newer and harder stand on campus maintenance policy has been directed by David Hedley, the painters’ supervisor. Hedley came to the university about two months ago and ‘took over the supervision of the contract / section with a fairly firm hand.’ This policy has also been extended to the supervision of the campus painters who have recently found themselves ‘being spied upon’ by their supervisors. The painters feel the frequent number of checks, especially on their coffee breaks and at the end of the day just before 4 pm, is unnecessary. Sloan looks at this as a means of bringing up the ‘morale’ of the painters ; basically he believes they are going through a transition period, and will eventually adhere to the new management policy. When this occurs he believes that their supervisors will command more respect from them. But it is the use of this policy which primarily contributes to alienating the painters in their employee-administrator relationship. The painters belong to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (cupe) local 158, and intend to discuss this matter at their union meeting next Wednesday. As far as the painters’ jobs themselves are concerned, it is fair to say that the majority of these men are also becoming increasingly alienated from the work they do. They feel that some jobs are being done the cheapest and quickest way possible, and that some jobs will not stand up the length of time they should. . They have shown a clear concern for what’s going to happen in the years to come for what’s being done now. They wonder if the university ‘will have to go the whole bill (in the future) to do the job properly.’ An example here is the repair work recently done on the 500 dollar oak doors of the humanities building. Many of the painters, who felt the job was sloppy, have said the
doors should have been stripped, sanded, bleached,’ sealed, stained and varnished. Instead, they received two coats of varnish and now have a blotchy appearance; they will remain that way until they are stripped completely.’ In general, the painters simply feel that ‘possibly supervisors don’t listen to the guys who know the jobs.’ Out of the sixteen painters employed by the university this summer, eight of them are students. Within the physical resources group the students are classified as ‘casual labour’ and therefore are not eligible to join local 158, meaning they receive a uniform wage of two dollars and fifty cents per hour while the union painters, working alongside them, receive three dollars and twenty-five cents, and more, per hour. CUPE 158 is affiliated with Toronto CUPE employees and also belongs to- the District Council of Kitchener, making it the-only university union in Canada associated with outside unions.
Should the six month working period, defined in the contract, be changed to about two months, the student could receive better wages and benefits at an earlier time. As far as the painters as a whole is concerned, administrators must allow their employees to resume a high quality of work and give them a chance to do that without being so frequently ‘watched’ by distrusting supervisors.
In the contract between the union and the university there are two criteria which must be met before a campus painter is allowed to join the union: he must have worked at the university for at least a six month period and have worked more than 20 hours per week. Since the students are employed for the summer months only, they are not entitled to a higher wage and the proper benefits. ,Presently, these people do not receive sick pay, have no’ health insurance, are not eligible for unemployment insurance, and receive 2 per cent holiday pay as against the union’s 4 per cent. The most peculiar thing here, though, is that the university feels they are doing the students a favour by hiring them, even though they are hired as cheap.-labour. What we suggest is that the criteria for joining the union be carefully looked in this case; why should a student, who achieves a good level of production and quality in his work, be forced to wait six months before he can join the union to receive the wages and benefits due him? The hiring of the students for the summer is an experiment in which the university is ‘trying to provide students with an opportunity to find work.’ Unless there are some changes made in the wages and benefits they receive, the university can expect the present high turn over among student painters to continue. It can be expected that the students can do the painting job in village I for less, or at least the same cost, than was estimated last year when a crew of experienced painters was, to do the job. Sloan has said that ‘if I were a student I’d first be concerned with the (type of) work and then I’d be concerned with pay.’ But for a person receiving substantially lower wages and no benefits it would seem that a student cannot help but look at both the work and pay at the same time, especially when he works with union painters.
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of the Last year the university’s ’ “The terms ‘of reference are extremely political science department ex- commission broad,” says Qualter, “too broad perienced an extremely unsettled for the members to finish their job time. This was the major conqern before September.” In fact the that led the department’s chairof reference cover any man, professor Terry Qualter, to terms conceivable ,possibility for change call a royal commission to study in any part of the department’s the problem. The commission is now in structures, functions, make-up, and operation. operation; it is made up of four In general, the aim of the members and four faculty commission is Jo eventually students.
, But Qualter warned about certain stumbling blocks. It would be impossible, ’ for instance, to demand the dismissal of a professor who is under a contract or one who has tenure no matter how necessary that move would
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President Matthews has established a Special Committee to study the foreign student advising function on campus. The Terms of Reference of the Committee are: l To review and evaluate the existing advisory programme for foreign students. l To determine the needs of foreign students for assistance and advice now and over the next five years. l To make recommendations on any changes in the content and administration of the programme for foreign students that may be necessary or desirable. l To prepare a report on or before September 30, 1972. With the resignation of Mrs. Beausoleil, the incumbent foreign student advisor in the Graduate
Studies Office, the future of the Foreign Student Office itself will be an immediate concern of the Committee. However, the Committee expects its. study will include areas of concern to foreign students which may not come within the purview of the present foreign student advising office. The Committee is most anxious to receive the observations and opinions of all those concerned and it hopes many groups and individuals will submit written briefs to it or arrange to meet with the) Committee to discuss these matters. Address written briefs, or requests to meet with the Committee, to the chairman, D.P. Robertson, Modern Languages, room 208, extension 3323.
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staff, parents or otherwise, to have a say in the operation of the centre. Criticisms and defenses aside, a group was set up in March to start a co-operative day care centre. For the summer, the group was loaned a lounge in St. Jerome’s and has been given a 1,500 dollar grant from the federation to cover initial expenses. The centre can accomodate 80 children with a full time staff of three, not including volunteers. Pees range from 50 dollars a month for full time children to 50 cents an hour for babysitting. Married student’s day care has an enrolment of 56 and charges 85 dollars per month.
For some time controversy has existed regarding the Married Student’s Day Care Centre situated in the married student’s apartments. Parents, in some cases, have! pulled their children out of the centre, some, of them using the new service at St. Jerome’s and others sending them to other places in the city. For the most part, criticisms aimed at the married student’s centre, have been based on the communications problem. People who have left the centre have claimed that they weren’t being informed about what their children were or were not doing all day. For instance, one mother complained that children were being. used in a psychology experiment without prior notice to the parents. The disenchanted parents claim that they were not welcome to participate inany part of the operation of the day care centre and have been told that they could go elsewhere when they have registered complaints. All of these and other bad feelings towards the centre, they feel, arise from the fact that the’ system used is not formally designed to be co-operative. The maintenance and policy forming of the centre, the former clients claim, doesn’t rely on the use of collective decision-making. Such criticisms, however, are not valid according to married student’s Day Care Centre manager, Jack Sterken, and director Jean Course. They suggested that the, reason for the lack of communication between the parents and the-workers is because the parents often do not take the initiative to question or take part. Sterken mentioned that many parents use the centre as a dropping place for eight hours a day, and added that people he knows who have criticized the centre have either been totally disassociated from it for a long time or have never been actively involved with it. Sterken felt that one of the problems regarding involvement was that many parents who have taken part in the programme expect to get credit for it on their fees. When this becomes impossible, interest wanes. Sterken defended the centre’s philosophy, by which parents aren’t officially involved in the running of the centre, by saying that many aren’t interested in taking a part, but simply want a place to put their children. Jean Course added that parents were always welcome to become involved. They both feel that the centre is providing a For the sake of provincial sanction the stimulating educational setting for children. group has hired a professional who plans the According to Pauline Parisier, one of the general schedule for the day. But this does members of the St. Jerome’s coop, the of the group and system there is not one simply to allow . not effect the flexibility parents can drop in to either take part in‘a parents to put in time and get a fee cut, but planned programme, or suggest something to enable everyone concerned, be they paid ,
else to do. Meetings, perhaps because of the small size of the group (there are only 14 children enrolled now) are informal and can encourage more participation. The programme, like the other centre, is based on a play-learn technique which incorporates as many learning games as possible, to keep children’s attention. Like, everything else it is very flexible and in, dividual oriented. There are other co-operative day care centres in Kitchener-Waterloo, some of which are operating quite successfully. But there is always the possible problem that a centre may not be able to keep parent’s,
support over a long period of time. Such may be the case with the co-op at St. Jerome’s when classes start in the fall. Another problem, of great importance to both groups, is money. The Married Student’s group has accumulated about
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i8,om dollars in the university’s accounts’ receivable. A. Headlam, comptroller for the# administration, said that the centre will be kept on with the present borrowing privileges for another year at which time improvement should be shown. Still, Sterken said that the centre is still losing money, though he expects both enrolment and income to rise in the fall. There has already been one raise in fees to 85 dollars. Headlam has suggested that fees be raised again for those parents of infants, a group in the centre, which he claims costs more money than other age groups. As for the St. Jerome’s position, the group not only has very little money, but is going to need another place for a centre as of September. St. Michael’s church on university avenue has been tried, but is too small. Amalgamation of the two centres has entered discussions but feelings are very strong in the St. Jerome’s coop against a non-co-operative system and against the married student’s coop specifically . At present the group hopes to drum up some support from the administration by preparing briefs about the centre and collecting favourable statements from various professors. However, Pauline Parisier set out her expectations when she said that Burt Mathews told her the administration isn’t interested in another day care centre on campus, and will continue on as before with day care policy. The end result of the day care situation on campus seems to lie in the hands of the administration ; the federation is financially ineffective in this case. According to federation vice-president David Robertson, it must decide “what the function of the university should be”. He questioned why the university couldn’t build a centre or centres for day care when, just Wednesday the sod was turned for a 5 million dollar optometry building. Certainly, if the administration feels that it is its responsibility to sink money into food services and a student services building, the position of responsibility it has for day care should be obvious. At the moment, the administration is undertaking to gain similar status as a municipality for the university, as far as day care is concerned. This would enable any day care centre or prospective day care centre on campus to acquire 80 per cent of the cost of operation, maintenance and renovation from the province. Negotiations are currently at the level of the Council of Ontario Universities. This matter will take time. Meanwhile, the two day care centres, which are university parents only workable solution to finding adequate supervision for their children, remain with uncertain futures.
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,Senate discusses grading, courses, math facdty by krista tomory the chevron
Faculty of mathematics name change, grading, and the future of integrated studies was discussed at the u of w senate meeting last thursday. The senate committee on the structure of IS presented an interim report containing an operational guideline which will be followed for th.e time being, until a final decision is made by the senate sometime next’ fall. Members J. Leech (physics) and Charlotte Fischer (app. anal. >and computer science) moved that marks handed out automatically, or arrived at .by self-evaluation, be marked as such on the transcript. The ensuing discussion brought out the recommendation that selfevaluation courses not be counted towards a degree. University president Burt Matthews, chairman of the meeting, pointed out that this would be unfair to students and
recommended that the number of such courses be limited within the degree requirements.
Integrated Studies
No change in the present marking policy was made at this meeting, however this issue will arise again, and students should check with their respective departments before they sign up for a course that is known to beself -evaluated.
“Integrated Studies is designed to enable students to generate their own programmes, and assumes that students come to university to draw on the total academic resources of the university... We hope that diverse subjects will be in joined fresh, strange, stimulating relationships.”
A Ph.D. programme for human relations was blocked by senate, mainly due to fear of provincial rebuttal. With university financing being such a sore spot at this time, it may be a difficult task to make the university affairs department see that the “new” human relations Ph.D. programme would be just an old psychology programme with a new name. Finally, a change of name for the faculty of mathematics, to the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences was voted down. Senate will not meet again until the fall.
The Senate Committee on the Structure of Integrated Studies presented an interim report containing a blueprint for the structure and an operational guideline for IS. They suggest two seperate, parallel structures-one dealing with academic matters pertaining to degrees, the other with the ongoing operations of the program, linked by an admissions committee. The academic board would be composed of six faculty and one delegate from the Operations Committee. The operations committee would
consist of an elected body of five undergraduates from the programme, and include in addition the administrative assistant and no more than two or three academic advisors. With regards to examination, they say that the formal oral examination is not necessarily to be standard. “In many cases the Board may feel that a more extensive, more leisurely and more thorough review of a candidate’s work is to be preferred.” Also, all past work by the student will be considered and reviewed. Only work done within the spheres of the university would qualify for the degree. “The Board can be tied firmly yet flexibly to the areas currently taught at university, knowing that those areas are constantly enlarging and + changing.” And on non-degree areas of study, “Learning to walk and to talk, learning to make love or to cook, or to face death; all may be profound and demanding learning experiences, but as. such are not
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degree worthy. Death rituals may be of. interest to historians and cultural anthropologists, and speech therapy a proper paramedical discipline. It is the study of experience and the applications of study to experience rather than the experience itself that the board ‘must look to. It cannot commit the university to proferring indiscriminate degrees for ubiquitous learning experience.” The report stresses that, although it is understood that not all the programmes will be degree worthy, all should consist of some serious and concerned inquiry and/or creative endeavour .. Admissions are to be made by a joint committee of the academic board and operations committee convened by the administrative assistant-two from the board, two from operations committee. ’ Candidates must submit two letters of reference, academic transcripts and personal letters indicating reasons for their wishing to enter the programme, and proposed plans of study.
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Dear jane, Remember when the film night flowed so close to us. I told you that i saw your face setting for the first time. Well I’ve been searching f& the same emotion ever $ince. Went to the movies agahi last night. I wanted to see a film of epic proportions so I turned in at the first exaggerated billboard. It was an american movie. Films are dreams, visionary and em0 tional, very rarely _ intellectual. Sure I’m ‘able to intellectualize about movies I’ve seen but the remains are only images. Nicholas and alexandra was a very refreshing rainfall. As you know I always carelessly identify with a character in the dream. ‘Dustin hoffman in STRAW DOGS and malcolm m’dowell in CLOCKWORK ORANGE pickpocketed my spirit but .left me frustrated. Our
c&&may be crumbling but to be Enough, enough, I scream. You a man does one have to kill? And are probably wondering why I why so explicit on the screen? I enjoyed the movie. The death of a don’t know. culture or individuals does not Intellectually?, NICHOLAS AND have to be brutal and bloody. ALEXANDRA was another big Nicholas and his family’s death t&me Yankee ice-cream exhad the impact of a tear shattravaganza. There were no heroes, tering. Nicholas the sad poet or villains and every party i-n- making mistakes he cannot really volved was provided with a . be held responsible for . Beneath justifiable rationale for their acthe historical surface runs the tions. We’ve talked of those cliche energy of a man losing himself, camera shots, and of course they faced with others who take life too were all there. The continuity and seriously. His domineering wife editing just wasn’t, especially in eventually learns to find strength the first half of the picture. . in his quiet despair. That was nice.. , The acting was superbly I shall judge and label powerfully simple. Godammit jane it was just mediocre i suppose, with the characters Nicholas and a movie and that’s all. Alexandra given better than average ‘treatment. Rasputin had Did you really mean it when you the eyes i expected -but the en- said our colours changed when the trancement of the mad monk was day began. I don’t erijoy walking in non-existent. Ordered and ex- the rain anymore. Love, mart c roberts pected are two good words.
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Art should not be cultish, tially one vital entity, each although it very often becomes ret a i n ing characteristics cultured. Pure art is a realization significant to the organism, that is given its most accessible , The stage: a wire fence, ten presentation. Godspell, the dangling light bulbs, two carpenters horses, and three planks. A musical ‘adaptation of the gospel according to St. Mathew, tranbronx backyard perhaps? -Above scends this description. ‘It will be stage left: piano, and organ; right: performed virtually every week bass, guitar, and. drums. during the summer at the Royal Socrates, Nietzsche, Sartre,, Alex in Toronto. DaVinci, Aquinas, Luther, Gibbon, the and Buckminister Fuller are stage John-Michael Tebelak, creator, has been blessed with a centre. We recognize them by the pure strain of creative energy. He names on their sweatshirts. One by is the possessor of a spontaneous one, intense babble, building, and free swinging imagination that building, grating; simultaneously, is remarkable accurate and finally overbearing. disciplined. Analogy follows A previously unnoticed body analogy, metaphors multiply, stirring in the corner. Goat horn language flares and grcjws large sounds. Jesus it’s St. John the with meaning-and then grows baptist coming out of the audience ! small again-but decisively, Philosophers vacate the stage storming t6 the The musical & basically a form back of the of storybook theatre. The ten theatre. Jesus underwearman dresses himself in a superman tmembers of the cast are essenv
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shirt with loudly striped jeans and running shoes. The rest of the cast returns to their embryo in clown costumes and immediately proceed to paint each others faces. The characteristic parables and stories from St. Mathew are then acted out in pantomimes, songs, dances, and even ventriloquist acts. Innocence, energy, enthusiasm, and contrasting shades of irreverance. Jesus and John perform the old soft shoe routine complete with canes. The lazy prodigal son is actually a greaser sha-na-na style. The good Samaritan is mimicked on a pole placed between two players with moving fingers filling the character roles. The sporadic . improvisations by the entire cast keeps one captivated at all times. Judas tenderly places his arms around one of the girls, then casually reaches behind to scratch his crotch. They are a very tightly knit group. There is love on stage. These people mean what they say. Musical magical madness, but not profanity, there’s just too much joy oozing into the audience. It’s impossible to single out any individual as outstanding (they all are), but I’m in love with Gilda Radner (and not just with her squeaky voice and pigtails either 1. The music encompasses rock, folk, and gospel tr’ends. “Day by day” and “By my side” are particularly entrancing. Both begin as gentle catchy folk numbers but . culminate beautifully in a full chorus of harmonies. The remaining ten songs are solid and musically sound. There are some shaky solo efforts but raw energy and vibrant choral arrangements overcome and carry successfully. The last ten minutes of the slhow, although overplayed, still haunt me. John the Baptist is transformed into the character of Judas. Jesus is betrayed as the disciples drop into a troubled sleep. A man is alone facing his inevitable destiny. The music, usually lilting melodies now grates as organ and guitar explode in feverous rhythms. The disciples are awake now. They struggle up the wire fence seemingly trying to reach the- band. Jesus is crucified on a coke box, arms tied to the fence. In the ultimate truth, which is death, life is reaffirmed. The tragic clown returns to his friends for the “celebration of life finale.”
, WEHER A theatrical event of conThe irony is, of course, that the siderable distinction takes place at company was founded in the late Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre during 1700’s by a St. Petersberg the week June 26-July 1, when the and performs a aristocrat, stars and Corps de Ballet from the repertoire consisting primarily of Bolshoi will present six evening works by such Romantic comperformances. Starring Maiia posers as Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Maria Liepa, and and Adam. In pre-1917 Russian Plisetskaya, Nikolai Fadayechev, the company literature, in fact, writers of will number 100 and will perform - anarchist sympathies often used works ranging from “Swan Lake, the Bolshoi Theatre (of which the Act II” to “The Little Humpbacked ballet company is but a part) as a Horse.” symbol of the decadence of bourgeois society. Mikhail ArtIn the ephemeral world of zibashev’s short story “Sheveriof” critical opinion, the Bolshoi has is one such example. consistently enjoyed the reputation Driven to a dramatic, nihilistic of being one of the world’s finest act by police harassment, dance companies. Supported by Sheveriof purchases a pistol and generous grqnts, nestled in a fires indiscriminately into the society which follows its fortunes crowd at the opera. Wounded and with an avidity North Americans dying, he observes the following: reserve for their favorite sports A fat gentleman was being carried teams, the Bolshoi has become an along whose coat-tails, drenched in exportable cultural resource in the blood, trailed along the carpet. A international hot war of artistic lady in a low-necked dress of paleexchange, a tangible proof of the blue, whose wax-like face had U.S.S.R.‘s success in building a fallen forward on her bosom, was multi-faceted socialist state. supported by the attendants. In the
On the Transition to Socialism, Paul M. Sweezy and Charles Bettelheim, Monthly Review Press, 122 pages, $1.95.
The book,
Sandy Denny first appeared with Fairport Convention several years back bringing the original version of “Who Knows Where The Time Goes”, a song made famous by With Fotheringay Judy Collins. her style matured into a tasteful brand of folk with electric backing and lyrics well worth listening to. The North Star Grassmen and The Ravens (A&M SP4317) is a con-
tinuation in this vein. However, freed from a group format, the style is more recognizably her own. Most of the musicians were in one of the earlier groups mentioned and are familiar with Sandy’s music. The backing is very capably performed and at no time threatens to overpower the singing or lyrics: Eight of the eleven songs are originals, making this the personal expression of an artist who has spent time learning how to project her talents. A fine late-at-night album, especially for the folkie crowd (who don’t mind a beat as well). Burgers (Grunt FTR-1004) is the third record to come from Hot Tuna, a splinter group of the Jefferson Airplane. However, if were put off by the YOU carelessness and ineptitude of Kantner’s Blows Against The Empire don’t let it get in your way. Cassidy and Kaukonen are definitely the musicians of the
Airplane and, with the addition of Papa John Creach’s fine fiddlin’, we’re treated to a remarkable handling of material that is a cross between west coast psychedelic and*white blues. The album includes an interesting version of “Keep On Trucking” as well as some original material. However, in the final analysis, it doesn’t matter what they’re playing. When they lay into those instruments it just sparkles. The Wheat Lies Low (Daybreak DR2000) by Larry Grace has some fine good-time music on it that can lift -your spirits in a matter of seconds. While the more serious efforts couldn’t be termed poetic, they are simple and effective stories and statements that generally come across well in front instrumental of adequate background. While “I Love” lost me in a pastiche of generalities and it is luckily not platitudes, representative. The story of is an all-to-real por“Compton” trayal of what the best of intentions leave you with if there is no understanding of the world in which you live. Look Up From Your Troubles attempts to provide the impetus for facing another day in the finest blues tradition, while not of that idiom. Another folk presentation that’s well worth tuning in to. -ian
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is a collection of articles which first appeared in Monthly Review, beginning in Nov. 1967. The first part of the book is a debate between Sweezy (an editor of Monthly Review) and Bettelheim (a French Marxist) on the nature of the society which develops after the collapse of capitalism and before the clear emergence of communism. In the second segment there are two editorial Articles. written by Sweezy, Leo Huberman, and HaYry Magdoff and a lecture %y Sweezy . In the ar title . entitled, “Czechoslovakia, Capitalism and Socialism”, Sweezy posits that the Soviet Union (and other Warsaw Pact states) invaded Czechoslovakia in Aug. 1968 for two principle reasons: one, the Soviet leaders feared that the Dubcek regime was a threat to their personal interests ; two, the new government encroached upon the interests of the ruling stratum which they represent. Sweezy argues that the Novotny regime was removed easily because the Czechoslovak people were eager to get “out of prison”, in effect, to see the repression come to a hasty end. Consequently, the Soviet leaders realized that their positiohs were being undermined, for the people of the U.S.S.R. are also oppressed, therefore they wodd be amenable to a change in regimes. Furthermore, the Dubcek-Sik reforms which aimed at strengthening “market socialism”, signified to the dynamic duo of Brezhnev and Kosygin, that Czechoslovakia would be attracted to the powerful Western markets, thereby, loosening the foundations of the East European bloc. Although Bettelheim concurs with much of what Sweezy has stated concerning the Czech. crisis, he raps Sweezy on the knuckles for “ideological obscurantism”. Bettelheim points out in his opening remarks that market’ relations are really secondary to the political factor Socialism,
when discussing the transition to socialism. The author, who argues incisively, condemns the Soviet leadership as being “the instrument of this new bourgeoisie” which has displaced the proletariat in all of Eastern Europe. Stressing this point, Bettelheim writes that Sweezy, in criticizing the USSR, misses the essential characteristic of socialism, that being the existence of the domination of the proletariat. In his reply, Sweezy rejects Bettelheim’s criticism that he treats only surface phenomena and not the location of power and its uses by stating that the new ruling class have the “real power over the means of production, which is the essence of the ownership concept.. . . ” Sweezy introduces into his argument the pladmarket contradiction which he asserts to be the fundamental one in the transitional phase of socialism. To him, those who favour a planned economy are on the side of the worker, while those who opt for the market and its concomitant ideology, also favour the capitalist road. destroys Bettelheim quickly Sweezy’s formulation by stating that the plan/market contradiction is only the consequence of the real contradiction in the socialist transformation, that being the domination/non-domination of producers over the conditions and results of their creative activity. He writes, “Fundamentally, the is advance toward socialism nothing other than the increasing domination by the immediate producers over their conditions of existence and therefore, in the first instance, over their means of production. and their products.” At this juncture in the exchange of views, Sweezy concedes that the plan/ market dichotomy is confusing and should be removed from the discussion. Bettelheim makes some extremely provocative remarks with reference to proletarian ideology, the working class party and the proletarian state. Although Marxism-Leninism exists as a proletarian theory, a party which embodies this ideology as its praxis is not perforce limited to the’ working class. He states friday
tresses of her auburn hair, a white lily drooped on its broken stalk.... his ( Sheveriof’s) eyes were riveted on the broken lily, and on the soft bosom all dabbled with blood.
Suffice it to say that this aspect of Russian history is not represented in the Bolshoi’s current repertoire. Displays of idle erudition aside, however, there is no doubt that the Bolshoi, and particularly prima ballerina Maria Plisetskaya, is an extraordinarily fine classical ballet company. Plisetskaya Dances, a film which documents her versions of several standard roles, is myI only previous encounter with her, but her grace and dynamism were so impressive there that I certainly look forward to seeing her in person. For balletomanes, then, a must see; but proponents of an ideologically “revolutionary” dance will have to wait for the first Canadian tour of the Peking Ballet. Perhaps we could trade them even-up for the RCMP Musical Ride.... _ -pad
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unequivocally that the proletarian nature of a revolution depends more upon the dominance of Marxism-Leninism and “the party”, than upon the numerical strength of the proletariat. He corroborates his thesis by writing that the class character of a party’s practice is reflected in its relations with the masses, in its internal dynamics and in its relations with the state apparatus. In the transition to socialism, the state must remain subordinate to the proletarian party while in turn, the party must be an “instrument of the power of the masses.” In the second part of the book, Sweezy and Huberman make some devastating criticisms of the Soviet Union. They write that the ,October Revolution helped universalize Marxism and that the USSR played a major role in obliterating the fascist move for global power, but the Soviet Union along the road to is not “well communism” as its leaders assert. The USSR suffers from the malaise of a powerful and insensitive bureaucracy and the viciousness of stratification in terms of income, status, privilege, ad infinitum. The writers go on to say that the repoliticization of the masses and a radical change in leadership, two prerequisites for putting the Soviet Union back on the road to socialism, will not be The system of forthcoming. material (“private”) incentives as opposed to that of moral (“collective”) incentives will continue in the USSR, thereby solidifying its gross inequalities. Sweezy, in the final selection of the book, concludes that the core problem of building a socialist society is “to enable people to take over and to arrange not only their productive activity but their whole lives with a view to satisfying their truly human needs.” For those who are intensely interested in the theoretical problems associated with the transition to socialism, for those who are intent on gaining other interpretations on such phenomena as the Czechoslovakian crisis, and the Polish workers’ protest of Dec. 1970, and for those who want some worthwhile literature, read the book. 23 june
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A nine man relay team including three members from the u of w bettered the kecognized world record time for continuous running on the weekerid of june JO-11. Nigel Strothand, Kipchoge Sumner and Pat Reid helped the Ontario Place Athletic Club overturn the record held by Lorrain County Roadrunners from Ohio. ~ ~The Ontario Place team competed in the McMaster University race (ofie,of a number of relays held during the national twenty four hour relay weekend). The team broke the Lorraine record of 246 miles, 1616 yards in.24 hours (set in 1971) by completing 267 miles, 1644 yards in. one day. The race was run on a 440 yard track with team members alternating one mile jaunts...giving about 40 minutes rest between runs. If a team member drops out he cannot start again. The team continues without him. The Ontario ‘Place team lost runners at the 108, 196 and 240 mile marks. Three more runners dropped out in the last ten miles. Pat Reid remained to the end, passing the Lorraine record on the 987th lap. d Kevin Case carried the baton on the last mile to establish the new *record.
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The Uniwat cricket club travels to Woodstock on July 8th to meet the Woodstock cricket club. Catch uniwat in practice Wednesdays and fridays at 6:30 on Columbia Field. The second annual “open mixed two ball foursome” will be held on Thursday, june 29th at Foxwood. All interested should contact Peter Hopkins at Extension 3532 for rules, times and entry fee information. Civil 4A and 4A Jocks remain undefeated in ball-hockey play tq dat.e. Monday, last place St. Pauls takes on third place Erb St. Ballers at 8 : 00 with a possible upset in the making. In soccer last week: 2B Chem Eng 1, the Limers 0; Professionals 4, St. Jeromes 0; Math and 4A Mech Eng. drew O-O; Bang-Gotchas 1, Chinese Students 0. Professionals and 2B Chem Eng share first place with Bang-Gotchas and Limers right behind in second and third respectively. In basketball: Chevron Dribblers 44, Bulls 39; Scrotes 43, Stompers 36; Math 31, 1B Drafters 30; Jocks 34, Hymen 49. Scrotes and Exasterbators share top spot with Kin 4A Jocks in second and Village Stompers in third. In Softball: Bob Kienzly of the Soft-Ball team in League C recorded the first no hitter of the season striking out 11 CA’s on the way to a 7-l * decision. The Graduate Gremlins, complaining of no competition in the ‘gquash league, have withdrawn from the league after three successive 510 victories. Unless the remaining three ‘teams can convince the Gremlins to return, the league may have lost its growth potential. In touch football: last place B’s defeated Msagro’s Maulers 19-17; first place Underdogs 13, Mucket Farmers 0; Scrotes 18, Floaters 6; Floaters 7, B’s’ 0; Underdogs 30, Scrotes 6; Msagro’s Maulers 13, Farmers 0. A fast moving Women’s Slow Pitch league is attracting attention as the gals run through 8 and 9 innings within the stated hour limit. Sunshine errors cost them a 17-13 defeat at the hands of the Wonders !ast week. Co-ed slowpitch players are reminded that games scheduled for July 3rd have been re-scheduled for July 10th due to the holiday weekend. ,Othertiise. nlav continues as set for June 26th.
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A typesetting error in the article, tronic surveillance is integrated 3. For an outline of how such “A Situational Report of Surwith certain maser, laser, or iraser telepathy system might work, veillance and Control in Modern systems, - possibly capable of refer to Yaffee, Robert. Then. an Democratic Society” (Chevron; heating a pot of coffee -to a boil unpublished paper. (Waterloo ; June 16, 1972), written by Robert from a distance of 1000 miles (4) June 1971). pp. l-8. Yaffee, requires the following with the pinpoint accuracy of a 4.Brotherton, Manfred. Lasers and corrective addition. laser-guided “smart” bomb As regards the subject of suqMasers. (McGraw Hill, 1964). p. released from a fighter-bomber 172. veillance, some of the improved travelling at supersonic speedapplications may be discerned in then the kinds of electronically of some of techniques of personnel tracking induced biologically and or 5.For an enumeration the adverse effects observed as and eavesdropping. No longer is it psychologically possible effects produced in human beings by necessary for persons to pursue Two U of W students have been selected to try out for the Canadian are multitudinous. radio frequency electromagnetic their human quarry by foot. In National Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams in camps scheduled in That electronic stimulation of energy, refer to Yaffee, Robert. 1965, a short article in The ‘New _the’brain, neural network, or other ‘Courtney, B.C. Then. pp. l-8. For a further York Times reported that a vitally Yonna Luypaert, a second year student, will attend the tryouts from sensitive parts of the consideration of some of thecompact, lightweight radar unit, July 1 to July 12. Luypaert was one of eighteen players selected to human organism is believed to be biological and bio-chemical side with 3 radial sweep of nine miles attend the women’s camp. The only other Ontario entry is Patricia capable of producing certain , effects of radio frequency distance, had been developed Tatham of Kitchener. previously observed effects. Some electromagnetic energy, refer to specifically for the purpose of Twelve girls will be selected to make up the Canadian Team which is of those effects are instantaneous “Frequency the Spectrum tracking vehicles or personnel. (1) scheduled to participate in tournaments in Italy from July 16 to July heart attack, loss of consciousness, Chart”, copywritten by the Space More recently, forms of anti28. There is a possibility that the team may play in Trieste in the first involuntary movement of muscles, Division of North Am,erican personnel radar have allegedly I general week in August and in China from August 14 to September 3. hypothyroidism, Rockwell in c. 1968, obtainable been installed with a view toward Tom Kieswetter, the four-year veteran of the Basketball Warriors, psychological demotiviation, from the Institute of Electrical guarding the borders of certain is just winding up his stay in Courtney. He’ll try for the Men’s national paralysis of the will, enervation, and Electronics Engineers in countries. (2) team until June 29 along with a number of other Ontario entrees inand an assortment of skin New York, New York, U.S.A. In addition to developments in ‘eluding Mike. Moser, a native of Kitchener who is presently with aberrations. (5) tracking persons, &ere have also Brown University. It might be possible for the 6.An allusion ,to the actual practical been advances in the surveillance Jaan Laaoiste, after a brilliant career at Waterloo, was somehow beneficial effects to be induced as use of such kinds of thought of personal deliberation. With the overlooked during selection for the National Camp and has enrolled in well. In either the case of adverse control equipment may be found use of integrated systems of the College of Education in Toronto. It’s a tough break for Laaniste or beneficial effect, the radio - in Lifton, Robert Jay. “Thought forms of radar radiometry, and an even tougher one for the National team. frequency electromagnetic energy Reform of Chinese Inspectroscopy, computerized is felt by the targeted personnel as tellec tuals. ” Journal of Social translation units, coded transconditioning or almost untraceable Issues. Vol. 13. No. 2. 1957. p. 13. mission and reception, memory injury or murder. Thus, scientific If you’re interested and want storage units, and central data There are ten places reserved and technological advance seems banks, it is believed that not only for intercollegiate athletes who more details, contact Carl Totzke to have made thought control a private communication but also wish to apply for participation in at Ex. 2474. real possibility. (6) unspoken lhought may be inthe Olympic Youth Camp in tercepted. Needless to say, what conjunction with the 1972 Olympics has thus been received may be 1. Gilbert, John (MP, Broadview). at Munich, Germany. 1700 youths Dear Sir; Etobicoke will be hosting the relayed by transmission as well. House of Commons Debates: from around the world will parPacific Conference Track and (3) These operations may be Regarding the. letter I wrote ticipate in the camp and attempts Official Report. May 2, 1972. p. Field Championship meet next conducted without the targeted which appeared in last week,‘s are being made to gain financial 1823. personnel ever being made aware issue (Dare strike), the opinion assistance from the Secretary of summer. The borough is presently “Battlefield Radar System Can expressed is solely my own. In no State to aid the Canadian con- making plans to install an 8,000 of the ongoing process. Spot a Person at 9 Miles”. New seat stadium to accomodate the As regards the -subject of bioway does it reflect any official tingent. However, at the moment, York Times. March 21, 1965. p. there is electronic control, Gazette policy on this issue. Please participants will be expected to event. F9. Etobicoke has also made ap- evidence that sophistocated understand that only personal meet part of the costs of the “Israel 2. Beecher, William. opinion was stated. for the 1974 Canadian techniques of personnel tracking program, estimated at $520.00 in plication Summer Games and the new and eavesdropping have been Building Prototype for a Jet Thank You. travel and accomadation per Fighter-Bomber.” New York Mark Vincer with conditioning or athlete for the August 6 to Sep- facilities could give the borough a combined Times. September 15, 1971. p. 3. Gazette Assistant good shot at this event. * weapons systems. If such elecEditor tember 15 program.
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feedback Honeywell responds We were disappointed to see the back page of your June 2 issue devoted to a distorted and inaccurate account of Honeywell’s role as a supplier of weapons to the United States Department of Defense. It was particularly disheartening in view of the fact that we have attempted to keep the lines of communication open between the university community and the company. And yet, as far as I am aware, nobody from the chevron approached Honeywell \to check the facts of the story in question or to obtain a statement of the company’s position. While Honeywell Limited,‘ the Canadian affiliate of the international firm, does not produce military hardware, I believe we have a responsibility, in cases such as this& at least draw attention to the U.S. company’s stand. The enclosed statement was issued by Honeywell Inc. earlier this year. I feel this statement, which was available to you on request, would have enabled you to give a more balanced and factual report on a far from simple issue. p.b. hindmarch director of public relations honeywell controls limited (Canada)
The following is an excerpt from the above-mentioned statement: “So long as a military or defense establishment of some sort is needed, the ultimate decision as to types and quantities of weapons to be available and used must be the responsibility of the Department of Defense, monitored by the national administration and Congress as representatives of all the people. It is essential for the survival of our democracy that corporations carry out public policies declared by elected representatives of the people.” Honeywell Controls Limited is a little upset about the b/ack page of the June 2 issue. Mr. Hinmarch, PR director for 1Honeywell’s Canada branch likes to think that the material run under a Honeywell Kills head was chosen arbitrarily, though LNS news service, of which the chevron ii a member, has done extensive coverage on Honeywell’s contribution to war munitions, and of the groups organized ‘to oppose that , prod’uction. The Chevron has also read many of Honeywell’s own statements. The statement sent with this Jetter is merely a reiteration of Honeywell’s attempt to exempt itself for responsibility for what a its munition, produce is used for. IHoneywell declares that it is “essential for the survival of our democracy that corporations carry out public policies...by elected representatives of the people,” especially when th,ey make 236.6 million dollars out of it. The Honeywell statement calls war “wasteful” and “has been on the record for a number of years as wanting the (Vietnam) war - ended as quickly as possible” but doesn’t think that producing the weapons to perpetuate it is a contradiction. They take the
stance that they are “fighting for freedom ,” and shove all the responsibility for their actions on to the Defense Department in the name of democracy. For Honeywel I it seems that democracy begins and ends on election day, and after that the cor_poration must just follow orders, with no regard for the potentially criminal level of the demand. ’ Honeywell also tries to defend its production of anti-personnel, weapons by saying they are used. only for military targets, although that the it is well-known Americans have been notorious for classifying village population in after village population Vietnam as military targets, killing thousands of civilians in an’ attempt to destroy the enemy who may or may not be among them. And Honeywell provides them with the weaponry designed specifically to kill people, not to destroy buildings or military installations. And it assumes that because the courts of the US don’t view such production as criminal it is, per se, not. In view of the government’s role in ordering such production, it’s a legalistically safe assumption to \ make. No one forgave the Nazis when they said they were just following In * fact it was the orders. Americans who demanded prosecution, being on the righteous end of the stick. -the letti tor
A classic case A reading of the article in your paper (~0113 No. 5 Fri. 9 June 1972) Megadeath - one million corpses, reveals a serious% misunderstanding of the importance to mankind as a whole, and to the ongoing struggle for progress, of the agreements reached at the recent summit meeting in Moscow’ of the leaders of the USSR and President Nixon. The article ignores completely the explicit attitude of the USSR to the struggles of the heroic people of Indochina for freedom from U.S. aggression and the right to determine their own futures. The article ignores completely the context in which the agreements were signed; specifically, in the context of the treaties signed between the GDR and the FRG on traffic, the agreements between the FRG and the USSR and Poland recognising the borders in Europe in practice at the end of World War II (remember that prior to this the FRG recognised only the borders agreed to at Munich ,during the reign of Hitler) and lastly the four power agreement on the status of West Berlin. * In addition to this the article ignores the context of the recent heavy defeats U.S. imperialism suffered in Bangladesh, and the positions it has lost with the election of the Popular Unity government in Chile. And most important it ignores the context of the changed balance of power in the world, where the -initiative in world events has moved decisively out of the hands of imperialism into the hands ‘of the forces of progress, namely the world socialist system, the
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working class in the developed capitalist countries and the national liberation movement and all those fighting for peace and progress. When viewed in this context, it is obvious that Nixon’s visit to Moscow and the agreementshe signed reflect a position of the reduced strength of U.S. imperialism. Nixon has been forced to recognise this reality. In the light of these argumknts and the belief we are sure you have, that your readers are entitled to the fullest possible information on a subject as vital as this we enclose the statement of our party on the results of the Summit meeting of the USSR-USA in Moscow which we urge you to publish along with this letter. t
john bizzell, chairman student committee communist party
For all of the prattle about ‘ignoring contexts’ you seem to be capable of disregarding a great deal yourself. While you seem happy to wax eloquent concerning the evils of U.S. imperialism throughout the world, you seem equally content to overlook tlie numerous instances of soviet social, economic, <.gltural and political imperialism throughout the last forty years. The position e-laborated in this letter is pinioned to a belief, both explicit and implicit, in the fundamental correctness and legitimacy of the soviet regime. It feeds contentedly on a verbatim acceptance of the official public rationale soviet bureaucrats employ to fudge over their machiavellianactions throughout the world. It will be obvious to those who have eyes to see that the continued dictatorship of the soviet ruling class has clearly forsaken
the effort to establish socialism in anything but verbal fashion. By aligning yourself uncritically with this tattered rhetorical shell you open yourself totally to the grotesque errors of doublethink. Consider more carefully the contradictions within one of your claims. \ “...the recent heavy defeats U.S. imperialism suffered in ,Bangladesh...“-who’s kidding who. The principal beneficiaries were American imperialism and its Indian compradors like Chandi. As revealed in the documents leaked from the Indian Army planning secretariat (see the Globe and Mail), the basic fear of the leadership in India was that a protracted guerilla war would develop for liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistan. This raised the spectre of a merging of the struggle of the East Bengalis (Bangladesh people) with the forces of social revolution in the West’ Bengal state of Jndia who have developed in recent years to the point where Chandi’s Congress suspended the popularly elected revolutionary government in the West Bengal, (shades of Pakistan and Bangladesh). US authorities waffled because they stood to gain both ways . The US made an initial statement favourdble to Bangladesh’s right to self-determination; however they later made a mild rebuke of India’s invading the real estate of a sovereign power, (the parallels with Vietnam were too great). Ultimately, american and soviet power interests ran together and against China. The regime in India was shored up, an unpopular regime in Pakistan was knuckled into line and yet another buffer state to contain China was created (which was the
original point of forming Pakistan in the future). Bhutto’s socialism for Bangladesh was short lived, to wit his recent reconciliation in the New York Times. Hence, the progressive forces of imperialism and revisionism celebrate with a kiss, cheek to cheek, in Moscow. SituatiGs like these would be laughable .but for the horrendous price the peoples of this world repeatedly paid for have respecting the soviet union’s right to international socialist hegemony. If contexts are what you deem necessary you would do well to steep yourself in the facts surt+ounding the Stalinist frustration of Chinese corn-! munism and his flirtation with Chiang; or again you might look closely at the role of the soviet dominated communists in the production of a fascist regime in Spain. More recently the Soviet Union has been prepared to buffer the failing belief in its purity by a goodly show of armed force, witness Hungary and.. Czechoslovakia.
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Laughable too would be your adherence to Russia as the culmination of world socialist development were it not for the rampant internal contradictions of that regime (full use of material incentives, religious problems, waves of protest from intellectual circles, use of mental institutions as a new and ‘socialist’ means of social control). What is most damning is that at no point in your letter do you attempt to refute the specific points made about the future development of the arms raceall of which is quite expected, since to face that head on would be to’ re-examine your ties with the soviet union and its agent, the Communist Party of Canada. -the
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its absolutely shocking to find that the fool who filled the masthead with such interesting chatter last week is unwilling or unable to do the same this time around. in the lurch perhaps a little information will suffice which leads us directly to goqd old max saltzman our local mp who continues to utilize his mailing budget to keep in touch with all the concerned constituents. the results of the latest questionnaire are out and to say the least are a little frightening (for those who thought the local citizenry was liberal). in-any event of those polled about the existing abortion laws an overpowering six percent felt abortions should be available on demand, twenty five percent wanted it to be the sole decison of the woman, thirteen pe’r cent would have taken it out of the criminal code, nine wanted it easier to get, while 47 per cent wanted it either’left as is or made harder...tiot a bad split on that one. however, fifty three percent wanted capital punishment back, eighty one per cent felt no qualms about wage and price controli and apparently most of those wanted both controlled equally tightly; well now that we’ve done our bit for ttie community, for Max and parliament hill, etc, perhaps we should ask ourselves just what the hell statistics prove in any event; since its far too late to pass on to that sort of thing now its time to announce thatwe were: brute Steele, doug ing, randy hannigan, len greenner, ian angus, melvin rotman, rona dropped in, paul stuewe, mart roberts twice, mike rohatynsky, renzo bernardini, the women’s collective (thanx to monna for the recipe), krista tomory, dudley Paul, bob yaffee, veg with beef, ellen tolmie, chuck stoody, hello to leo who owes us a review, terry moore, david cubberley, paul hartford, peter warrian, not to mention gord moore; apart from saying that we’ll see you in orillia this weekend and that there won’t be a chevron next friday there isn’t any more. joe bifflesplikk. I
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NDP executive paternalistic to wafflers Despite the protestations to the contrary by Ontario . President Gord Vichert, the current controversy in the NDP over the Waffle group is essentially a political purge. The phrasing of the request to disband as ‘not punitive’, ‘so long as they comply’, makes the position of the executive a case study in paternalistic overlordship. The Waffle did not fall from the sky, it arose as an opposition group within the very concrete political beast the New Democratic Party. Long before the bandwagon, of nationalism began to roll in its late Sixties and early Seventies trough, the Waffle posed the question of national independence for Canada in the context of a radical socialist reorganization of Canadian society. To these were, added a style and rhetoric of the New Left and student movements’ “power to the people”, and fists upraised-in a leadership convention of a parliamentary political party. In this light the family feud within the Party appears as a conflict of styles, an anti-authoritarian style of the Waffle vs. the old line paternalism of the old guard. If this be true then indeed there is little but a ‘difference of
degree’ between Jim Laxer and David Lewis, The style differences carry over into verbal forms with one side invoking ‘the Party’ and the other ‘the people’. However, most Party members and most of the people at large are outside of the debate. It remains largely a competition between elites vying for leadership and legitimacy. The largely unspoken point around which the hassle revolves is whether or not the presence of the Waffle hurts the NDP’s vote-getting ability. This indeed may be the real source of the timing of the purge, the organizational ritual of scape-goating to expunge the
pain of the poor showing ‘the NDP put up against Davis in the last Ontario election. The shaman’s rattle in this case is the shiboleth of vote counting. Something- obviously went wrong, therefore the barbarians from without should be made to confess their guilt; or, the Father must be slain. Both sides operate with a notion of politics as raffle: one marshals a line of political merchandise which one then trots out and auctions off to’ a passive public. It should be obvious that Trudeau and Davis are much the better at mass marketing of political wares. Rather than exorcism, the Party requires selfexamination. Delegate strength and resolutions should not be taken for power in the hands of the people. Mandatory checkloffs and bureaucratic legitimacy should not be taken as working class strength. Each leads to folly. Better that people should gather near Mariposa to talk about how most people really think about unions and how the court jester in Ottawa has no clothes. And, how you turn a political raffle into a people’s ~0-0~. / -peter warrian 8.
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Watkins and Vichert, raffle’the NDP The outline for tomorrow’s NDP day to day party politics, fully committed Provincial Council meeting in Orillia was to the electoral program which was set at clearly sketched at an ‘informational’ the federal level. Watkins went so far as to maintain that the only difference between debate last weekend in Kitchener. The discussion, which took ‘place at the a Lewis and a Laxer was ‘one of degree’. The Waffle regarded party policy as a type Amalgamated Clothing and Garment Workers hall, featured ONDP President of ‘minimum program’ which it would publicly respect; Wafflers feel it is their Gordon Vichert and Melville Watkins of the Waffle. The speakers directed right to strive for a ‘maximum program’, in line with their beliefs, within the party themselves towards a recent executive sponsored motion which will determine the and through the normal democratic future of the Waffle within the party. channels. Watkins undertook to defend the Waffle, l Watkins disclaimed the charge that certain prominent Wafflers had shown against the executive charge that it had becom,e ‘a party within the party’, that it . public disrespect ‘for the trade union constituted an ‘official opposition’ and that movement as a whole. He admitted to a its policies were antagonistic to those of certain disrespect for the union leadership the party proper. He attempted a point by ,‘in some instances’. However Wafflers point refutation’ of the rationale behind recognized the necessity of labour within Vichert’s position. the NDP and Watkins pledged- to defend 0 The executive has maintained that the labour against the pressures to be placed Waffle’s program goes much further than on it in the seventies. He stated that ‘the that of the party. Watkins noted that the NDP must have a labour base, a union Waffle manifesto derives from the Regina base.’ However he was concerned to see Manifesto, the official statement of NDP considerable room left open for a debate principles. He called it a ‘pale pink’ over ‘the nature of that involvement with compared with the original manifesto, a labour’. document which calls for the ‘eradication Watkins felt’ that the party should look of capitalism in Canada’ and looks for a ‘middle of the road, a modus vivendi, toward the ‘ full’ public ownership of the if you will, a compromise’ for dealing-with means of production’. .the problem. The Waffle would counl ‘The executive has charged that the tenance any solution short of dissolution of Waffle has no commitment to electoral the group itself; however he felt politics. Watkins denied this but suggested ‘pessimistic about the possibility of a compromise’ in the face of the executive that Wafflers see the pressing need to supplement electoral activity with a good motion calling for the group to dissolve. After a conciliatory opening, in which he deal of extra-parliamentary work. 6 Again attempting to show the ultimate apologized for the ‘intemperate things’ harmony between the methods of both stated in the preamble to the exec motion, groups, Watkins outlined the Waffle’s Vichert went on to claim that the motion was a response to tensions within the party satisfaction at having passed a good deal of its policy at the last party convention. which demanded resolution. While it intended only to ‘set the basis for discussion’ He added that the Waffle was, in regard to
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there was in fact ‘no alternative to the recommendation presented’; further Vichert viewed it as ‘inevitable’, ‘right’, and ‘in keeping with the spirit of the party’, that the Waffle be required to disband. He recognized that both sides currently have ‘absolutely non-negotiable demands’ and argued that the Waffle should ‘disband its formal structure’. They had overstepped the legitimate bounds of internal opposition and had even ‘acquired some of the independent bureaucratic structures it criticizes within the party.’ Vichert felt the Waffle could continue its program in every regard except as a formal, name-bearing group. Having clarified his stance Vichert stated candidly that ‘we are now debating the size of the chunks that will be left’. In that regard he felt it less expensive to lose the Waffle than to lose theold guard. Again justifying. his position he suggested that the Waffle ‘no longer helps debate, it actively inhibits it’- because it continuously polarizes the questions facing the party. Vichert continually stressed the NDP’s ‘partnership with the labour movement’ as the basis of the party ; he noted that this is being damaged by the Waffle’s anti-union public statements. For Vichert, who calls himself an ‘isolated academic’, the trade union leadership forms his only contact with the labour movement and he trusts the guidance it gives him. Vichert noted, in kindly fashion that there would be no purge if the group would disband voluntarily. He felt the executive motion was ‘not punitive, not a purge’ but simply a ‘request’ ; the gist of this rather tortuous logic was that the request would remain a request ‘so long as they comply
with it’. He ended his comments on a rather vicious note with the saying that ‘a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds’; he went on to announce his hope that the Waffle would not prove stubborn and would modify their stand. When the debate was opened to the floor for general discussion it became fairly evident that majority opinion favoured neither side. This situation, coupled with the fact that a number of other riding associations have censored the executive for its actions, would seem to indicate that the old guard seriously overestimated the support it would find. Watkins was op timistic that at least a third of all riding association members were Wafflers and felt that the executive motion would not find an overwhelming majority at the Provincial Council meeting. Perhaps the most telling moment was a late afternoon exchange between Vicherl and Watkins concerning the so-called ‘necessity’ of the executive motion at this time. Watkins managed to get Vichert tc admit that neither the unions nor the riding associations had demanded that this motion be put on the floor. In this light Vichert’s concern over the state of the party seems to reflect the interests of a small group of party higher ups, rather than reflecting a more widespread ant lower echelon concern. While a number of NDP members rest to propose compromise measures foi dealing with the situation, it appears thal the initial executive motion calling foi abolition will have to be voted upon befort any secondary strategy can be con tempiated. -david
cubberley