CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Dec, 22, 1966

‘CASTLEGAR NEWS

dred and Forty-Seven
un awed by infl and unbribed by gain”

“Here tot the press the people's rights

Two Wrongs Never Make a Right

Premier Bennett should discharge the
present royal commission investigating the
electronic bugging of the Pulp and Paper
Workers of Canada convention if the royal
commissioner in charge of it goey ahead
with his announced intention of playing in
public the tape recordings made of bugged

“conv fons in the V ver hotel in
which the convention was held.

In ing the isk t’ of
the royal commission on Nov. 9, Premier

Bennett said his government “ig determin- -

ed to protect the rights of privacy of all
citizens of the province” and the order set-

all legal counsel present but with the press
(and therefore the public) excluded.

It would thus appear that even the
International union has. some principles—
belated, to be sure—about the importance
of individual and group privacy in our
society.

In r ding that the
sioner hear the tapes in public, Murray said
there were two fundamental legal princi-
ples involved. The first was that there are
no laws at present giving a person a right
to privacy and therefore the commission
was being asked to apply some rules to the

ting up the made rep d re-
“ferences to the importance of privacy and
the apparent unwarranted invasions of the
privacy of Castlegar union leader Lloyd
Craig, and of his unton. ; .
it is apparent to us from a reading of
the order ‘setting up the commission —
“even if it is not apparent to the royal com-
issioner—that the invasion of privacy of
@ deceased: B.C. ‘resident and of a labor
organization of this province is the major
concern of the government order’ and not
union rivalry except insofar as the rivalry
related to an interference with privacy.
As we see it, the commission was set

p t that might come into force in the
future; and that the inquiry is being car-
ried out under the Public Inquiries Act and

‘therefore the matters before the inquiry

should’ be brought out and aired in full
view of the public. :

This is ridiculous. It appears,a contra-
diction to us to investigate an invasion of
privacy and in the course of that investi-
gation té make even more public the pri-
vate discussions which were electronically

\ jppéd‘on ‘and’ tap ded

The alleged far left-wing connection
of some of the CP&PWC members has been

ioned during the course of the past

up b one labor org: vaded
the privacy of another labor organization
in order to obtain information about the
latter group. The provincial government
was shocked by this and felt that no group
or individuals should be privy to private
conversations and discussions carried on
by other groups or individuals. Now the
royal commissioner intends to widen. the
circle of those with information about the
CP&PWC union’s activities from a couple
of private investigators and a rival union
Jeader to the public at large.

In view of this, we must agree com-
pletely with CP&PWC counsel John Laxton
who, after he told the commission that his
union’s decision to object to the playing of
the tapes was reached after a great deal
of soul- hii ted that he be-
lieved the hearing of the tapes would a-
mount to an invasion of privacy by the
commission itself.

Mr. Laxton said to listen publicly to the
tapes would be tantamount to finding that
the purpose of the inquiry was simply to
inquire into a dispute between the two
unions. He continued: “Tt would be denying
the validity of the premise on which the
inquiry is based—that the invasion of pri-
vacy is improper .. . It would be tanta-
‘mount to prejudicing one of the very ques-
tions you have to decide—whether or not
eavesdropping by electronic devices should
‘be tolerated in our society.”

few weeks and there are probably some
people who feel that the tapes should be
heard to either confirm this matter or lay
it to rest. To them we say that democracy
is superior to a totalitarian system simply
because it doesn’t resort to using some of
the techniques employed by Iron Curtain
countries. If there are Communists in the
CP&PWC union, let’s uncover them in
other ways, not by justifying invasions of
privacy that are most certainly " morally
wrong, Mr. Murray, if not legally wrong.

Our view on this matter is. that bug-
ging is wrong and that playing the tapes
in public is just compounding a morally of-
fensive act.

The commissioner should also consid-
er the fact that innocent people can be

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Me sof Parliament
and Canadian newspaper pub-
lishers, including Columbian
publisher R. D. Taylor, were
passengers on the Air Canada
inaugural and were guests of
Aeroflot .in Russia. The follow-
ing article is the first of three
Mr. Taylor will write for Cas-
tlegar News readers on his ex-
periences in Russia.)

By R. D. TAYLOR
Publisher of The Columbian
Newspapers

In the past two weeks I
saw Russia’s three most mod-
ern cities: Moscow, Kiev and
Leningrad.
Within minutes of landing
at Sheremetyevo, Moscow's
newest airport, we had been
photographed ne Russian Tv

hurt by the playing of the tapes t
of. any idle chatter made during private
conversations in’ hotel rooms that was
picked up by the International’s:hired bug-
ging equipment. ao

t

ant
newspapers, sed by armed
+ papers, ‘Pas ve a8

and sur! guar

and genially toasted with cog-

hac and Vodka in-the name of.

interaaniongl peace and friend-
ip.

We refer to the private jud
that delegates may have passed on each
other or on the union’s present and propos-
ed leadership. In addition, some off-color
stories might have been told and while
they might have sounded alright over a
bottle of beer in a hotel room, they won't
sound right in a court room and shouldn’t
be heard there. : fe

It is our considered opinion that royal
issi R. A. Sargerit should recon-

. Even 1 for the Int tional
‘pulp and Sulphite Workers Union did. not
suggest that ine tapes be played befere

public. The-International asked only that.

“they be played with the commissioner and

sider his decision between-now and Jan. 3
and ponder carefully whether or not two

of Ci and
western. propaganda : and : be-
cause of Russia’s recent achis-

direct

quick to introduce party-line
propaganda into their tours of
monuments. and: museums ie
the Czarist past with

elr deg.

‘
Puy ‘our shoes, suits: or the
shirt cf our back for exorbi-

it sums.

In a country where the av-
erage wage is 80 to 120 a month
it's -d to understand the’ re-
latively high prices set by the
state.

In the cold evenings long
queues dominated the streets

Few Barbers Now Shave :

The Shelbine (Mo.) Democrat
So many barbers, at least out here in the country, have
signs “No Shave,” that ‘we thought it, and the massage which
comes with hot towels, blackhead squeeze, etc., were things of
those long gone, good old days. But we learned last: week that
“Skeet” Ridgeway still gives his customers anything they could
get back in those good old days when:he started How-

- Average Wage $80-$120 a Month

of small shops waiting to buy
bread at Prt a loaf, milk at

or seperate
ch item and:

As a journalist seeing Rus-
sia on the 49th anniversary of
Marx-Lenin revolution to Com-

wish that I could

cade.

Asa Canadian I was glad
that I was:able to come home
and frightened by the know-
ledge that the same leaders of
the d Soviet Union of

ever, his prices have kept up. with the times. “Skeet”

when he would give a’shave for 10 cents anda haircut for 20
cents. A lot of men justified their. going to a barber for;a shave
by claiming their whiskers were too tough for home cutting.
“Skeet” says the electric and safety razor has stopped that be-
lief, but he did not-add that the $1.25 he now charges for a
shave may also soften up those whiskers at home.

vements in science and spaceI

had many misconceptions about
this awesome nation that, with-
out doubt, were shared by the
other members of our: group
and peal i previous tourists.
future’ tourists

wrongs make a right. They never have be- “girls to

fore, and they don’t new.

Dance Houses Were ‘Hot Beds of Pollution’

: Dance houses in Victoria
: about adsot vice and pollution”
« ©! he
according to Rev. Spbraim Ev-

to go.
o Bue er nine di in
that were ‘“impossiple to:

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ONE MAN’S OPINION a
Old People Decided Fluoridation’ Matter

“tis not surprising’ that Nel- «en to the wall.

son citizens voted against fluori- -
MS dation. This is ian “old,” old
im city. with a great number of old.
people’ who are set in their. ways
and‘ want. no change and noth-

the ‘smaller

|, ng new. ate

gard themselves as model citizens
which, in: many ways, they are. But they are ©
also wrapped up entirely in’ themselves and
suffer from that kind of selfishness peculiar
to old age. Ip particular many of them are.not
Kindly ‘disposed towards ‘children and would
not be concerned about their welfare.

These people, while perhaps not in the

majority, are a determining factor in any civic

are the diz-
ectors” of international: Com-
munism and seek’ to

thelr (System on the whole

‘wor!

As a human I felt pity for
brainwashed people who want
no pity.

By F. B, Pearce

The regional district concept is a. recog-
nition of ‘this modern trend. It'seeks to bring
in : Bstriy

ito” an’

where their combination will bring greater
welent ot pear with resultinely greater hane-
to

* \The adverse North Shore vote completely
killed: any future co-operation. It: gave notice -
‘that Willow Point was going to look after its
own selfish interests and we ‘find the same
spirit in ‘Kinnaird where the village chairman
is flatly against joining a municipality which
* will contain Castlegar.

Ce eee

‘As with Willow Point and the North Shore
it is that

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the minority.
yee ‘Today I applied for an exchange tea-
Lx eae I ching job, for one year, in the United
Kingdom. 1 must be out of my mind, but I did.
Daughter Kim is all for it. With the adventurous
spirit of the young, and their complete lack of partici-
pation in all the work involved, she glows at the pros-
Peet ater all, England is the land of the Beatles, the
Rolling Stones and the highest miniskirts. i

Re ~wasa brother
of Rev. James Evans who had
taken christianity to the Indi-
ans of Rupert’s-Land. Ephraim
was following an example set

y Makes Application fo

He became general super.
intendent of‘ Wesleyan ions
of the colonies of Vancouver
Island and ‘Col
and he built the first Method
Church ‘in Victoria. His first
meéetings had been in a po!
barracks, °°

When “the Hudsoa's~ 3:
Co. donated the: land,
went to work and raised pub-
Vicfinds and had a eburel

would seat 600 completed
in a year. Under direction
other ministers of his church
set up missions at Hope and
Yale and travelled the roads

erywhere. The

He died in June 1892 at the
age of 89, at London, Ont.

No, what she’d like to pick up in England is a Car-
naby St. wardrobe and a Liverpoole accent, so. that she
couJd knock the local kids dead when she comes home.
The “mod” look of Carnaby is bad enough, but the
dialect of the Liverpudlian is surely the ugliest in the
world, outside the pure Hottentot.

What she doesn’t picture, and I haven't the heart
to tell her, is the truth. If the deal goes through, a year
from now she'll be wading through the fog in Little
Muddling, or climbing the cliffs on the the Isle of Mull, '
complete with rubber boots, raincoats and sou'’wester,
approximately 3,000 social miles from the England and
London’s West End. - 3

My wife blows hot and cold. One week, when things
are 1 around here, she's fairly keen.

England, as the song says, swings like a P
do. That's for Kimbo.

She'd like nothing better than to spend a year
abroad. Not acquiring a broad education. Never! She
Jooks upon’ education ag small ‘boys do upon washing:
the squarest and: most useless tuing foisted on the
young by stupid, loving parents. 5

She sees a snug cottage, with vines and a cozy fireplace,
shining brass, and an English garden out back. She en-
visages a jaunt into London every weekend for piano
lessons, concerts, lunch and the theatre.

_ The next week she’s been talking to someone who.
has just spent a year there and was half-frozen for ‘12

essary
western world. Among other
things; U.S.Sah buy
from Canada, cars from
and eggs from Finland.
pa Taal ‘was celebrating the l
anniversary of its Jastre- thy with le in *
oe eee ee et age nand y with modern thought, if indeed they un-
huge portraits of Lenin and
.other Soviet leaders -were ev-
hi decorations
of the miners into the interior. © provided color to the drab and
uniformly: old: buildings:
Our Intourist guides were

rate pubs and tell her how easy it was to lose your girl

in the fog or blackout unless you clung to her. Some-

how these descriptive gems don’t fan her ardor for the
p. zi

old pubs I'd like to re-visit. But they’ve C -
ed into‘raucous road-houses that serve martinis instead
of half-and-half, and the waitresses aro insolent , pups
instead of buxom barmaids who called you “Luv” or
_*Ducks.” IESG Rees YES Ch ete

As‘I said, no one in his right mind wants to spend
a year in the U.K. I know I'll come home either.riddled.
with rheumatism, or in a wooden box with a sheen of
fog on it.

‘on the
u North Shore with the regional district’ election
where the residents of Willow Point — ‘who
are mostly old and respectable — voted down
the plan to purchase the North Shore hall.

It has always been my opinion that pro-
gress_often hi

those who voted against the purchase are a
brake on progress ang entirely out of gympa-

derstand it.
wok ke
This is the day of large units, the Garfield
Weston food empire and. the huge industrial
mergers of the U.S.'and elsewhere. Inevitably
the ‘smaller undertakings are absorbed or driv-

They were a determining factor on the -

vale ten has to: wait until some people die
‘and this seems to me to be a good example for

plays
a large part in the opposition to amalgamation.
It is formented by the older residents and
their opposition was centered largely on_ costs.
Mr. Green of Willow Point made much of the
fact that it would cost taxpayers $3.56 a year,’
a picayune sum, and was willing to throttle the
mp Bons and hope of the North Shore for that,
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It’can ‘agree with Mr. Loeblich that the 20 mill

tate shoyld rule its thinking or. if can merge

with Castlegar and make ’a larger and more
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{Hf.it does not join with its neighbors then

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months. Or she says flatly: “If you think Fm going to
leave my home, d piano n
and all my friends to go and live in some cold, clammy
dump among a Jot of strangers, etc, etc.” 25%,
Sometimes she wavers and asks me what England
js really like. The trouble is, I haven't. been there for
over 20 years. About all I can do is describe some first-

“ ‘And there are a few old girlfriends Td like to re-
visit: But.a friend of mine ‘did this last year, taking his
wife along.. Somehow, he.said, there was a lack of rap-
port. And they were all so old. And, ‘even worse, they
thought he was old. : f
/ And-J sure as heck don’t. want to go and stand on’
dilapi ir-d an

id think of: the

some

old days. Old runways are for the birds who make much

better landings on them than I ever did. :
No, what: sparks my desire to go away for a.year

is none of these. It is the thought of spending the whole

of Centennial Year_in Canada.

-. Now, I love this Jand.-But the idea of an entire year
of ‘having’ Expo rammed down my throat, of watching
municipalities solemnly enip the ribbon at such sparkling

as:the new public lavatories, or the

And it isn't sentiment. Admittedly, there are 2 few
bly chan:

new parking Jot; makes me‘ want to throw up. i:
And. what: better..place,to do that than the UK,
where I must.admit I have done it before, on a number
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