B.C. PATIENTS

British MP pleads
for Soviet vaccine

LONDON—A plea to the
British government to: make
special arrangements for the
import into Britain of a
Soviet vaccine for the treat-
ment of multiple sclerosis is
being made by John McKay,
. Labor MP for Wallsend.

Known as the Margolies-
Shubladze vaccine, it has been
used in the Soviet Union with
good results in the treatment
of early cases. Considerable
quantities of the vaccine, have
been exported to Belgium and
France.

McKay will ask the min-
ister of health on February
24 “if he is aware that the
medical authorities in this
country admit they can do
nothing to help those who suf-
fer from multiple sclerosis.”

A New Zealand firm of
pharmaceutical manufacturers
and importers has undertaken
to import supplies in bulk
beeause of favorable results
from its use on patients in
New Zealand, says McKay.

He asks the government to
arrange to import bulk sup-
plies of the vaccine for gen-
eral use in. Britain.

Six multiple sclerosis vic-
tims in Vancouver are being

treated with the Soviet vac-.
-cine,

the Pacific
learned this week.

Cost of the vaccine for a
complete series of treatments
is around $66 in Canadian
money. But where the first
shipments of vaccine came in-
to the country duty-free, the
Canadian government is now
reported to be imposing a
customs charge of $21, which
makes it more difficult for
persons crippled by the dis-
ease and unable to work to
obtain it.

Those patients approached
by the Pacific Tribune ali
reported they had experienced
considerable difficulty in get-
ting local doctors, to admin-
ister the vaccine, alihough
full clinical information ac-
companies all shipments.

Much of the difficulty is
attributed to officials of the
Multiple Sclerosis Society who
have constantly depreciated
the vaccine, contending that
it is of little proven value,
despite the volume of evid-
ence to the contrary.

Tribune

Youth first victims

of slump,

says SYL

VICTORIA, B.C.—“In a period of growing unemployment,

what will happen to this year’s high school and university

graduates? Because they lack seniority, youth are often the
first to be laid off. Because they have not worked long, their
unemployment insurance benefits soon run out. What then?”

This problem of unemploy-
ment as it affects young peo-
ple was raised in a Socialist
Youth League brief circulated
among members of the provin-
cial legislature. Some of the
remedies suggested:

@ Trade with the world.
China is an unexplored mar-

ket hungry for our lumber,
wheat and manufactured
goods.

@ Establish secondary  in-

dustries: in B.C.

@ Public works projects —
recreational facilities, roads.
low cost housing, trade schools
@ Demand the federal gov-
ernment institute free trades
training with full employment
insurance benefits for all
young people laid off work.
@ Demand the federal govern-
ment increase the amount of
unemployment insurance ben-
efits, extend insurance to all,
and extend benefits until such

time as employment is. ob-
tained.

The Socialist Youth League

‘brief also called for a Royal

Commission to probe juvenile
delinquency, and pointed out
that “atomic war, the hidden
death of radioactivity, brutal-
ity and sadism in motion pic-
tures, television and ‘comics’
is an environment not condu-
cive to the production of intel-
ligent, well balanced young
people.”

There is no one solution to
the prevention and successful
treatment of juvenile delin-

“quency, the brief contended.

The answer must be sought in
“many different facets of our
society.” <

Among the causes cited were
lack of recreation and sports
facilities, inadequate program
of apprenticeship training, and
lack of employment . oppor-
tunities for youth.

No evictions. or repossession

during jobless crisis, demands &

TORONTO — A sweeping program of action aimed at

been adopted by United El
With 750,000 unem

season not yet fully upon us,’ UE ou

mand for the products of our

Dealing first with the plight
of unemployed workers, UE
seeks immediate government
action “to increase unemploy-
ment insurance coverage for
all unemployed for the dura-
tion of their unemployment
at increased weekly benefits.”

The board also asked gov-
ernment for an “immediate
moratorium on mort gag es,
principal and interest, and
instalment debts. There should
be no evictions or reposses-
sions” during this jobless
crisis.

A positive government ap-
proach on the domestic scene,
said the union, demands the

Gaglardi may be next target :
in scandal-shaken government

VICTORIA, B.C—Philip Arthur Gaglardi,
highways, may find himself playing the key role
man. who says, “All I want to do is serve God,”
million during the last fiscal year,

was spent wisely and well.

Gaglardi is no penny-pinch-
er when it comes to personal
spending, either. His travel-
ling expenses for the 1956-57
fiscal year totalled $5,043, top-
ping all cabinet members.

(Labor Minister Lyle Wicks

spent $3,093,
Bennett $2,905).

But that’s only a beginning.
Two aircraft operated by Gag-
lardi’s department cost the
government some $70,000 in
the 1956-57 fiscal year. Ex-
penditures of $50,196 were
listed in the annual highways
report for “aircraft repairs”
and another item of $20,539
showed up under “aircraft
operation.”

and Premier

Gaglardi says one his planes

-needed new engines, and de-

fends the expenditures thusly:

“The plane was underpow-
ered. What good would-I be
to the department of high-
ways if I landed on a moun-
tain because of my poor
motors? What’s $50,000 in
comparison to a human life?
My human life?”

He also claims he’s saved
the government $10 million in

the past three years “because ©

I was able to get around.” The
Opposition will doubtless con-
sider this a debatable point,
although no one will deny
that Gaglardi does get around
—two speeding convictions

r)

launching and subsidizing of
a full-scale housing program
to build a needed half million
units at low prices and low
rental levels suited to incomes
of working families.
: Large scale public works,
including needed hospitals,
schools, and roads, the reduc-
tion of income taxes, increas-
ed social security measures
and the diverting of war
spending to peacetime uses
were other union proposals to
swing the nation’s pendulum
in the direction of full em-
ployment and security.

The board also called for

By BERT WHYTE

and a license suspension testi-
fy to that.

As minister of highways,
Gaglardi is paid $12,500 a
year, plus $5,000 sessional in-
demnity. .

He preaches every Sunday
in his evangelical temple in
Kamloops, on which $125,000
was recently spent on renova-
tions. And the dedication
ceremonies, attended by
Lieut.-Governor Ross and var-
ious business leaders who,
do business with Gaglardi's
department, were on a typic-
ally lavish scale.

‘Two years ago there was
a rash of resignations in
Gaglardi’s department. Last
year he boasted in the House
that things were running
smoothly again, and derided
“the crepe hangers who. tried
to ‘insinuate that it was be-
cause of difficulty with the
(highway) minister that these
engineers were leaving.”

Said Gaglardi in the House
on February 26, 1957:

‘This coming year we will
place our greatest amount of
effort on the Trans-Canada
Highway, the reason being
that we are coming to a place
where we must of necessity
have all construction let by
1958 so as to meet the closing
date of 1960. This we are
determined to do.”

4 |)
providing jobs and security
ectrical Workers’ executive board here. k

ployed in the first week of the new year and “the so-called

E outlined a 3-point program to stimulate an “expat
skills and thus increased employment.”

the government’s high-flying minist,

in the next Socred financial scanda g

is head of a department. which spent *

and the Opposition wants to know if this huge 4
‘

‘Highway has proceeded a

February 7, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PA

“eliminating U.S. dictation
Canadian development = ?
the encouragement by 5° af
ment of expanding S¢0?" y
industries and reduciNé
flood of finished U.S: §
hitting our market.” — inf

Calling for the ‘break,
the U.S. stranglehold att
foreign trade policlayg
board asked the govern ny
“take up the challenge ;,
vast markets of China @™
USSR by sending trade ™
sions to those counties
providing credits a” ned
change facilities wher
ed.”

But it is common
edge that in the past ye
work on the ‘rrans-O

slowly than anticipated:

CCF Opposition {/eade
bert Strachan has a 2
of questions on the
paper addressed to the
ister of highways. He ™
to know about bids 0
construction of the
Canada Highway b etW
Cheam Creek and_ the ie
Bridges; if bids were
more than once; if Ss
were the bids rejectedi ‘y
which firm was award

tender?

Strachan also wants inf
mation about dealings W"”.
construction company ? sf
as the Hiway (or Hight
Construction Company i? ~
and 1957; if this company »
work on the - Trans-Ca™
through the Fraser Cam
above Hope; and has the!)
been completed accordiné |
final plans and specificat!?

Liberal Archie Gibbs ®
has some questions for Ge
lardi relating to the Stew
Cassiar Highway. "

All in all, it looks as th?
Highways Minister P nil’
Gaglardi will have a 1).
time of it before this ses
ends.

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