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Elect Jones, Ruddell

FREE CITY HALL FROM
DOMINATION OF BCER’

EFFIE JONES

“Citizens of Vancouver who are tired of playing
Santa Claus to the BCElectric should turn thumbs
down on Non-Partisan candidates at the polls next
Wednesday when electing four aldermen to the 1950
city council,” says Effie Jones, Civic Reform alder-
manic candidate.

’ The three key issues in the civic elections, ac-
cording to Mrs. Jones, are:
1. Public ownership of the BCElectric.
2. Action to hold the line on rents.

3. A public works program to ease the jobless
situation. ;

“The Non-Partisan stooges who sit on the pres-
ent council will do nothing to solve these problems,”
declares Mrs. Jones. “Their actions in the past prove
them to be willing tools of the BCElectric; their
Non-Partisan label is adopted solely to conceal their
Tory and Liberal connections. Let’s turn this Old
Gang out and elect progressives who will -act on
behalf of the people.

“First job facing the new council will be immed-
iate action to take over the BCElectric and operate
jt as a public service. Toronto has shown that a
city-owned transit system can function more efficiently
than a private monopoly, and introduce lower fares.
Vancouver citizens who are fed up with paying a
dime a ride can change this situation by voting out
the NPA and electing Civic Reform and other pro-
gressive candidates.

‘Job Number Two is holding the line on rents.
There’s been nothing but buck-passing at city hall on
this, issue. A good civic government must function
to aid and protect its citizens. The federal rent
order must be cancelled. The city council must

lead the fight to force Ottawa to reverse its heart-
less order allowing a further rental boost.

“The third main problem which must be solved
is the unemployment crisis. More and more workers
in our city are without jobs:and a public works pro-
gram must be started dt once to help take up the
slack. The present council twiddles its thumbs and
does nothing. Elgin Ruddell and I will press for a
local works program and ask citizens to help us in
forcing senior governments to begin provincial and
federal works projects.”

There is no mayoralty contest this year, and
NPA strategists are obviously hoping that public
apathy will make it easier for them to elect their can-
didates by using a tramed “machine vote”. Only a
turnout of workers and progressives to the polls can
defeat this scheme.

Twenty-eight candidates are contesting |1 civic
offices. There are four vacancies on city council,
three on park board and: four on school board,

Aldermanic candidates are:

CRA—Mrs. Effie Jones, Elgin Ruddell.
NPA—R. K. Gervin, Alex Fisher, Halford

Wilson, Mrs. Anna Sprott.

CCF—Colin Cameron, William Cameron,

George Holm; Mrs. Laura Jamieson.

Ind.—Peter McAllister, Albert Dunn, Everett
(Poll Tax) Crowley.

A total of 133,485 Vancouver citizens are
eligible to vote. Thousands of tenants were left
off the lists this year despite the fact that they have
the necessary qualifications to entitle them to vote.

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CRIMES UNSOLV

Terming Non-Partisan alder-
men “a bunch of adult delin-
quents who pilfer the peoples
pockets every day in the
year,” Civic Reform aldermar
nic candidate Elgin Ruddell
on the eve of Vancouver elec-
tions called for “a real shake-
up and house-cleaning at city
hall.”

“Our present city fathers
mumble away about juvenile
delinquency but do nothing to
solve the unemployment and
housing crises which directly
contribute to the growth of
juvenile delinquency,” ‘Says
Ruddell.

“Failure to solve a long list
of local crimes, including sev~
eral murders, by City polic®,

is another factor which en-
courages the growth of crime
in our city. If Mulligan’s men
were put to work maintaim-
ing law and order, protecting
citizens from sex maniacs, hit
and-run drivers and holdup
men instead of glorified tax

collectors, walking the streets:

with pieces of chalk in hand
to trap the unwary motorist
who overparks by five min-
utes, we would see an imme-
diate improvement in the
crime situation here.

“Bumbling Mayor Thompson
and his NPA henchmen on
council ‘are the reaj delin-
quents, It’s time we turned.
them out and gave our city
a sound, progressive adminis-
tration. ‘This can only be
t

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ED—POLICE USED AS ‘GLORIFIED TAX COLLECTORS’ “y

Non-Partisans /adult delinquents’-Ruddell

done if citizens flock to the
polls next Wednesday and
cast their votes against the
NPA aldermanic I gin Atal

“No doubt about/it the NPA
dominated council has made

a mess of things in our City.

Non-Partisans messed up the
transit’ situation and deliver-
ed us into the hands of the
BCElectric, which squeezed
every last cent it can ‘out of
us. They made a mess of the
rental and housing situation.
They made a mess of the car
lot deal, the sewer contract,
and the unemployment crisis.

“Vancouver is one of the
fastest growing cities in Ca-
nada, It is a stromg union
city; and its citizens are pro-
gressive. But our future

prosperity is jeopardized be-
cause we have allowed this
gang of unscrupulous NPA
politicians to seize the reins of
power and dominate our lives.
Like evil old men of the sea
they force us to carry them
on our backs. They line their
pockets while we suffer, Tax-
€s go up, transit fares go up,
crime imcreases, the housing
situation gets worse, jobless
lines grow. All these ‘bless-
ings’ are the result of cor-
rupt NPA rule. :

“On Wednesday,, December
14, let’s go to the polls and
throw out these political para-
sites! Elect Effie Jones and
myself as a step in the direc-
tion of winning a new deal
at City Hall.”

ELGIN RUDDELL

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