PANIGEL
MORGAN

LPp

candidate

for
A lberni

“T heard Nigel Morgan speak
at Beaver Creek this week,” de
clares a farmer, “and I liked
what he had to say. He’s the only
candidate that seems to have a
practical program, so I’m going
to vote for him and -I hope he
makes it.”

“The Coalition imposed the
sales tax; the CCF Say they
couldn’t get along without it; Ni-
gel Morgan is fighting to repeal
it. That's all I have to say,” states
an old age pensioner,

e.

The old line politicians know
only one way to fight an elec-
tion battle. What was good
enough for their fathers is good’
enough for them. They take to

the hustings and shake the moth.

balls off their patented rubber
stamp speeches, promises, bro-
mides, cliches. They point with
pride, view with alarm, yield to
mo man. They assert that their
ears are on the ground, their
eyes on the future, they will stand
or fall on their records. The fate

roadblock the old line politicians
set up before the undecided voter.

The answer is, plenty.

“The very first thing I will do
if I am élected,” says Morgan,
“will be to move a bill repealing
the special exemption privileges
enjoyed by the big lumber and
Sawmill .companies here, which
permits them to evade millions
of dollars in assessments. Take
away these privileges which the
Coalition handed to the compan-
ies, and their taxes will go up.
while the taxes of’ citizens will
go down.”

e

Nigel Morgan’s election com-
mittee is planning to step up all
electioneering work between now
and June 15. Doorbell pushers
will be out every night, talking
to undecided voters, seeking to
win their support for a fighting
candidate who will champion
their interests every day of the
year, and not just during election
periods.

Morgan himself is working tire-

BERT WHYTE’s on-the-spot report of
the liveliest election campaign in B.C.

How they —

see if in.
Alberni

PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

IGEL MORGAN, LPP provincial leader and candidate in Alberni riding, can be elected on
June 15 IF his campaign workers step up the tempo of their canvassing and win over a large body of
undecided Voters on the basis of their representative’s sound platform of reforms. This is the ‘personal
7 hclusion I arrived at following a busy weekend spent in Alberni

lee Viewed 100 citizens and
pone their opinion on Morgan’s
t resale and their estimate of
: Chances of e€ach candidate in
four-man electoral race.

oo talked to Morgan and his
Paign manager, Alf Dew-

hu

énaa? and both expressed consid-
Talis: °ptimism, coupled with a
sifiea tion of the need for inten-
days, Work during the next ten
eae voters have not yet

© up their minds,” comment-
Win a Morgan. “Our job is to
. ee Support and I believe
day es €tween now and election

the basis of hard work

Acqua;
s ‘Quaint them with our pro-

bas Possibilities are good,”

+ Dewhurst,” and the pic-

f 1 brighten even more as

fina) eat plans for a whirlwind

battle —v@ into operation, The

ang 7 7 Alberni is wide open

; °Xcaly Am confident we have an
ent chance to send Nigel

; © legislature.”

pyle

Wit aS four-way fight in Alberni,

do the Coalition vote split right
oftiai the middle. Tom Christie,
meee Coalition Candidate, out-

vered sitting member Jim
ba He Capture the nomination,
peng et 1s running as an “In-
ition, Supporter of the Coal-
Christie, ee cut heavily into

7

ta, ne Cor nominee, Jack Whit-
hopes : Virtually unknown, : but
Vote , ° Corral the usual CCF
ant. _ Cash in on the strong
tiding alition sentiment in the

ae

Bressive Campaigning on an

ti anti-Coalition reform
Sales 4.” demanding repeal of the
~ Nactment of fair la-

Goor-to-dooy canvassing to ~

bor legislation, a provincial bill
of rights, provincial credits for
extension of trade and peaceful
solutions of international dis-

, putes,

In the 1945 elections there were
6034 registered voters, but the
total vote cast was only 4026.
James Mowat (Coalition) was
elected with 2135 votes; Tom Bar-
nett (CCF)) polled 1258; and Alf
Dewhurst (LPP) 559.

This year the total registration

* has jumped to 10,589, an increase -

of 4284, or more than the total
vote cast in the 1945 , election.
Assuming a total vote of 7000 on
June 15, the winner will probably
have to poll between 2500. and
3000 votes.

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At the foot of Argyle street the
motor vessel Uchuck No. 2, which
plies between here and Uclulet,
Port Albion and Ecoole, is berth-
ed at the long narrow wharf
which juts into Alberni canal.

Looking up’ Argyle, which
climbs steeply for eight blocks.
levels off for two more, then runs
head-on into bush country, one
sees | beautiful, snow - capped
Mount Arrowsmith plunging its
rugged peaks into a fleecy white
cloud hanging motionless: in a
deep blue sky.

This is one of Port Alberni’s
main streets—the other being
busy Third Avenue, which cuts
across Argyle half way up (the
hill and runs north to Alberni.

It is Saturday afternoon, the
streets are crowded with people
—-weekend shoppers, mill work-
ers, loggers, farmers. A perfect
day’ to canvass people and ask
their opinion on the candidates
and their programs.

“Walking up Argyle. past the
vV.I. Coach Lines, across the CPR
tracks, past the Somass Hotel, TI

and Port Alberni, during which
begin stopping passers-by for
their comments.

“Who do you think will win the
election?” says a Bloedel worker.

“Well, I'll tell you. I think it’s a |

real close battle, and the vote
will be split four ways. The
IWA tells us to vote CCF. Some
will, and some won’t. Morgan will
get a good vote. I don’t know
just who will win—I haven’t made
up my mind who Fl vote for.”

“The Coalition is too strong,”
opines a poolroom philosopher.
“Now, mind you, I’d like to see
them get licked, they never done
much for) this community, but
you can’t change people. No, sir,
people never change. They don’t
know what’s good for them. They
will vote Coalition.”

Says a logger: “Morgan is my
choice. None of the rest of these
birds has anything to offer. Ni-
‘gel helped build our union; he
knows our problems; he’s always
been a good fighter for labor.”

Two women shoppers: “Isn’t it
terrible what they did to old Mr.
Mowat? Why, we’re Liberals and
we couldn’t. even’ get in to the

* Rominating convention. We hope

Mr. Mowat gets in.”

“This CCF fellow, Whittal, isn’t
much good,” remarks an old-time
resident. “Why, he was suspended
from the carpenters’ union once

for not paying hiS dues. I always —

vote CCF, but I wish they’d put
up a decent labor candidate. Mor-
gan? He’s a good man. I know

him. Still, I dunno, I’ve never ©

voted anything but CCF for a
long way back.”

“My patrons are mostly busi-
ness men,” says a barber. “They
are split between Mowat and
Christie.-I’m a diplomat, and I’m
not saying who I’m going to
vote for.

of this great province is hanging

lessly. No election job is too big:

in the balance; one must strike . or too small for him to tackle.

while the iron'is hot... . ;

People are fed up with this
unchanging bunkum. They want
a change, but many an honest
voter is still imprisoned by a

worked-out phrase: “If you vote

for an antiCoalition candidate
who may not be elected, you'll be
throwing: away your vote.”

The only way to lose a vote is
to throw it away on an unworthy

He is on the air twice a day, and
his broadacsts are winning a wide

audience. He attends public
meetings, explaining his program.
He jumps in his car and tours the
Side roads, talking to people and
posting up election placards on
trees,

This week he is travelling by

boat to speak to the voters at.
Uclulet; and by plane to visit

candidate. A vote for a Coalition Tassis, Zeballos and Kyuquot.

machine politician is surely a lost
vote, a wasted effort. A vote for
a progressive, fighting candidate
like Nigel Morgan in Alberni is
a vote put to good use.

“What can one LPP candidate
do in the legislature?” is another

.Elections are hard to predict,

and public opinion polls are not
necessarily accurate. as Dewey

foudn out last November. One

thing is certain; right up to elec-
tion day— and beyond— Nigel
Morgan will be in there fighting.

the descent into Alberni.

knocked over his outhouse.

among Valley residents.

the use of chemicals.

control measure.

Phew!

6¢ OU are now entering the beautiful Alberni valley,”
read a signboard as the Island Limited bus begins

The next moment a_ horrible stench fills the bus—a
stench that makes every passenger think Paul Bunyan has

This Father of All Smells emanates from the sulphite

plant near Alberni, and is a grievance of long standing

The Coalition eould—but won’t—force the company
to invest a few thousand dollars and minimize the stench by

Removing the Coalition from office in Alberni constitu-
ency will get rid of more than one bad odor, and Nigel
Morgan, the Labor-Progressive party’s hard-working pro-
vincial candidate, is determined that one of the first things
he'll attend to if he’s elected is this long over-due stench-

—ALBERNI, B.C.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 3, 1949 — PAGE 5

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