a

iil

Lid,

Commission advised

BCTel to prepare
dime pay phones

Exposure of BCTelephone Company's accounting methods and a

sharp exchange between

thes commissioners and Sid Zlotnik of the

Civic Reform _ Association highlighted closing hours of the public
hearing conducted by the Board of Transport Commissioners here into

the

company’s application for a rate increase Wednesday.

G. W. Ross, chartered accountant, examined by Alfred Bull, QC,
acting for the province and 66. municipalities, cited evidence to show

the company was padding its operating expenses.

Sub score
too low
this week

In the first two months of this
year 368 subs have come into this
office. We can do better than.
that. Last week the sub total was

=. (35

_Leading press clubs for the
week: Advance, 4; Nanaimo, 4;,
Grassy Plains, 3; North Van-
couver, 3; Electrical, 2; Kitsi-
Jano, 2; Point Grey, 2; Nelson,
2; Prince Rupert, 2.

Every press club has a yearly
sub target, and some clubs show
a real desire to reach their ob-
jectives ahead of time. Good
clubs in this respect include South
Burnaby, Kitsilano, Electrical and
Victory Square.

During the drive for $17,500 in,
cash, let’s increase the flow of
subs and renewals; too! :

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Fickets $1 .00

Over $300,000 of
interest incurred in capital con-
struction was charged ‘to the op-

erating expense instead of being
capitalized, Ross charged.

Sid Zlotnik, challenged by the
commissioners on the statement:
that the company had received as-
surances before making the cost-
ly investment into apparatus for

the changeover from five cents to |

10 cents on pay phones, was told
that the Commission had advised
the company in 1950 and 1951 to
prepare for such a change.

“But the ‘public did not
know,” replied Zlotnik. “It
turns out then that there was
no behind-the-door assurances,
but the commission itself en-
couraged the company to go
ahead. This. demonstrates the
whole evil system of interim
hearings; the public in ‘Vancou-
ver had no opportunity to make
representations or debate the
question of the 10-cent toll.”

Zlotnik presented a brief for
the Civic Reform Association op-

‘posing the interim increase as

well as the proposed increase.

“The net profit of the company
in 1951 increased 90 percent over
1948 and 53 percent over 1950,”
he said. “The subscribers are
being burdened with the heavy
income taxes levied against the
company, some two million dol-
lars, and are confronted with one.
rate increase after another.”

“A group of foreign investors
who live a long way from the
scene of the company’s operations

is squeezing the public,” he con- |.

tinued. “The insatiable appetite
of the company’ for profits is
forcing’ the subscribers to con-
sider the question of public own-
ership.”

In conclusion Zlotnik reminded:
the commissioners of the fate of
the provincial Coalition govern-
ment and its unpopular Public
Utilities Commission.

TED HARRIS

Painters’ and Paperhangers’
Supplies:
Sunworthy Wallpaper
reg. 45¢ — Now 19c a roll
757 E. HASTINGS HA, 2973

Hits back

Speaking to UBC
last -week, Dorothy
(above),

students
Davies
who directed Erskine
Caldwell’s Tobacco Road for
Avon Theafre and was one of
seven persons convicted in Van-
couver police court of taking -

part in an obscene perform-
ance, charged that Tobacco
Road was attacked because it
depicted sex in a poverty strick-
en setting and not sex against
a well-to-do baékground. She
said she had produced other
plays which, compared to To-
bacco Road, were even more
questionable, but they had not
been challenged because they
dealt with “people who were
well off.” |

Women’s Day
tea Sunday"

Mrs. Sheila Young of North
Vancouver, a delegate to the re-
cent Vienna Congress of the Peo-

ples for Peace, will be the guest
speaker at an International Wo-
men’s Day reception and tea this
coming Sunday, March 8, at 2 p.m.
in Pender Auditorium canteen.
“This is the forty-third anni-
versary of Interflational Women’s
Day, which is being celebrated in
all countries of the world,” said

the Vancouver committee which
is arranging the affair.

Mrs. Kay Edwards, chairman of:

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. Jeffery said he could appreci-
ate the dangers of loose wording
in the bill and blamed the scope
of the original draft on “the civil
servants who prepared it.” He
declared his support for the brief
submitted by the Canadian Con-
gress of Labor recently.

H. O. White, MP, (PC-Middie-
sex East) met the delegation a
day earlier and agreed that the
most offensive sections of the
bill were patterned on repres-
sive legislation of the U.S.
which “we want no part of in
Canada.”

He believed there was a good
chance of changing the worst sec-
tions and declared that the Liber-
als had tried to sneak it through
before the Canadian people were

| aware how terrible a bill it really

was. : :
-In Ottawa the 1,200-member

Curb on rights in
Bill 93. prepared —

at U.S. instigation

TORONTO

Opposition to passage of Bill 93, the proposed revision of the
Criminal Code now before a parliamentary committee, is reported
‘from: many Ontario cities this week as the campaign for elimination
of anti-democratic clauses continues to gain support.

In London, Alex Jeffery, Liberal MP, told a delegation headed by
LPP federal candidate Al Campbell: “Even though ‘I am a member of
the government which proposes this bill, I agree it is too far-reaching.”

Workers, called for a rejection of
those sections of Bill 93 which are
“detrimental to the interests of
organized labor” in’a resolution.
condemning the undemocratic
sections of Bill 93. Mrs. Esther’
Rogers, secretary of the Lakehead.
Civil Rights Union, alerted citiz-
ens on the bill with a radio ad-
dress. Distribution of 2,700
copies of the LDR pamphlet, It’s *
a’ Crime has also taken place.

Treason and sedition sections
of the bill are “still not beyond
criticism,” the Ottawa Evening
Citizen deciared in: a recent
editorial. It aimed its fire par-
ticularly at Sections 46, 50 and
62. The editorial quoted a Sat-
urday Night comment on May 3,
1952, that “these amendments
were drafted very hastily on the
urgent instigation of the United

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MAR CHAMPION PAGEANT
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p.m. Concert, Jazz Session. Fun
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MAR. WITH THE WEST
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MAR.. RECEPTION FOR
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