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TO CLARIFY MY STAND by alex burke I

To some of the students of U.P.E..I. I would like to clar- ify an issue which has been bothering me ofr several days. I have been approach- ed by two members of the students council and was asked to justify by slice of the Education: Budget.

I have no slice, so to speak, of the money that is being presented to the Tenant’s As- sociation. The money is to be used for meetings, transpor- tation, and literature; not my personal use. This m o n e y could be used as your contri- bution toward the cause that I am fighting for.

If the majority of students do not want to participate, then I refuse to accept your offering, on behalf of the poverty -stricken people of our community.

I did not ask for your sup- port; many, and I mean many, students instead con- tacted me regarding how the students could help me in fighting poverty; by typing, distributing literature, and assisting in meetings by get- ting and‘ running films and in other ways.

POVERTY COMMITTEE

The meeting called Novem- ber 27, 1969 is for the pur- pose of getting support. By this I mean to submit a brief to the premier, and to the mayor regarding the poverty of Charlottetown. This does not mean that we are forget- ting the rest of the Island but only that we are starting

here. Later we will move to different place through the Island to instigate (so to speak) a solution. I have been studying the poverty situa- tion for two years on the Is- land and have lived through for 10 years, but I will not go into my history at this time.

Our biggest problem is rent control and believe me the rent race on the Island is outrages. I am sure that many landlords and landlad- ies, (not to forget the law- yers and mortgage compan— ies) who control and] handle much renting throughout the Island are ready to shout that our rent is not too high. Let them leave their Ivory Tow- ers and live in some of the rat infested, cockroaches and bed—bug infested apartmen houses on the Island. Then they would be prepared to do something They are commit- ting the biggest sin allowing this to go, on.

If you give us your support and are willing to get involv- ed and help, this is what you must do. Fight with me, not against me to show the gov- ernment of P.E.I. that you intend to aid’ in the stopping of poverty. Here is our plan. We Will set up a fund in the Bank of Montreal to be called the Poverty Fund. The money which is placed in this ac- count will not be used to feed or clothe, but to be used to purchase property and con- struct apartments —— n o t Bachelor or one bedrooms— but three and four bedroom apartments. The first step will be to approach the Gov- ernment to purchase a said building indicated and to sell this to us for the sum, of one dollar. Then we will ask con- tractors, plumbers, electric-

ians and carpenters to help

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. I.

donate time and remodel the sit in the minimum amount of time. The government will be asked not to tax the land and the tenants Will pay the sum of $50 which will go to the Poverty Fund. If the

Government want to help.

then let this be their contri- bution. Once we have this done we will approach the City Council and the Mayor

and ask them to match the V

amount the government paid for the said building to re- model ‘into apartments. The Poverty Fund will be used for the upkeep and heating for these complexes and also to purchase other areas for the same purpose.

Once this is accomplished we will move to other areas for money for the Poverty Fund. These other areas are clubs andl organizations which. want to help stop poverty with ideas donations to the Poverty Fund.

For individual support a person can do the following. He can attend the meetings, answer all literature that he receives, advise his friends what it is all about, and take an active, NOT PASSIVE part in the organization. The address for more information and for volunteers against poverty is A. Burke c/o 1A Chestnut St, Charlottetown,

P.E.I. ——A. A. Burke

TO THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON

POVERTY

Poverty is a terrible thing, we all agree, but what do we do about this terrible thing. Sure we send out welfare

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cheques, but do the poor really want this ? M a y b e some do but I think the ma- jority of the poor people would rather have guidance and learn how to do things properly then be given money. We think the welfare cheque solves everything. But because the people can not handle money, it soon disap- pears quickly and the people are stranded again.

lSO the poor really want Ottawa officials to be in their homes making a survey of everything. I don’t really Would you like it if there were a couple of welladressed, well paid offic- ials at your home looking everything over carefully?

And what about the jails? The men from‘Ottawa come down and make a. survey of the jails. They say the con- ditions of the jails are ter- rible, but do they do any- thing about it? I don’t think there is too much done about it though.

— Twelve-year-old Student

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HEART OF THE ADMINIS- TRATION (if it has one):

Oh woe is me! What a splitting migraine headache!

The heavy hand of the Ad- ministration has struck a hard blow against the stud- ent body by setting a dead,- line of December 10‘ for all full-credit examinations.

Af ter having completed five tests within the past three weeks, I ‘find on con- sulting my work schedule that I have seven examina- tions and a term paper to be completed by December 10.

In View of this heavy bur— den, which I’m sure is shared by all students of UPEI, I suggest that a portion of the exams should be held after Christmas — or later. Be- cause the announcement has been made so close to the ac- tual deadline, I feel that it is highly impractical and quite impossible to sufficiently pre- pare for these examinations.

Perhaps the progress re- ports required by the Admin- istration could be derived from half—term tests, or else submitted a f t e r Christmas. May I suggest that before the Administration In a k e s any more such crackipot de- cisions, it take into account the heavy work load of the students.

—A Forced College Bookworm

NOVEMBER 28, 1969 Dear Sir:

You quotedl me, in the is- sue of November 21st, as say- ing that I thought that the R.C.M.P. were “totally justi- fied in investigating narco— tics. . . .” Since this state- ment has been misunderstood by several people, I should like to make my position clear

I believe that all members of the University are also citizens, and that as such they have no special claim to freedom from the laws of the country. As long as certain

' narcotics are illegal, I think

that the R.C.M.P. is as justi- fied in investigating their use by members of the Univer- sity as in investigating their use by any other citizens.

Members of the University have the same rights as any- one else to attempt to change laws which they think are wrong. I do not believe that they have any special sanc- tion to disobey the law as it now stands. ’

Yours sincerely, R. J. Baker, Resident.

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