Interviewed this week by of the Burnaby Municipal ed confidence that their council and school board would receive a backing from the electorate on December 13. Councillor Harry Ball, candi- date for Reeve has piled up an imposing record of service to the people of Burnaby during his years as councillor. A staunch contender that the people have the means and the ability to run their own affairs, he has led the fight for municipal own- ership of transportation. A veter- an trade unionist and member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, Ball be- lieves that the tracks of Burna- by progress should be cleared of monopolistic . obstacles and open to the mandates of people. For aldermanic candidates the Municipal Improvements Com- mittee have endorsed Gertrude L. Brigden, J. E. Ted Callander, John Greene, Ewan M. Strachan and Fraser A. Wilson. These people are well known in Burna- by for their long years of effort in. community work, Parent- Teacher organization, health and education. : Gertrude L. Brigden has cham- pioned the cause of the Old Age pensioners for years, Serv- ed on ratepayers’ organizations, and vigorously fought for the under-privileged. jt t RINNE IRENE MEINEM va ¥ Send your friends . es ¢ XMAS GREETINGS Y Through the Pages of a UTHE . Pacific Tribune A Special Xmas Issue Is Being Prepared COMPLIMENTARY GREETINGS $1.50 $3.00 $5.00 = STANTON Vancouver Office 501 Holden Building 16 East Hastings ‘Street Progressive group in Burnaby civic race Improvement Committee express- choice of candidates for reeve, the Pacific Tribune, members responsive Ted Gallender is one of Burn- aby’s native sons, a progressive trade unionist, and has taken an active part in all community affairs. Dr. Jehn Greene has _ served on numerous civic bodies in Sas- katchewan before moving to Burnaby ten years ago. Before he became a doctor he was 2 steel worker for seven years and a member of the AFL in De- troit. Such a combination of ex- perience offers 2 valuable contri- bution to Burnaby civic progress.’ Ewen M. Strachan is first and foremost a trade unionist, and one who has dedicated years of effort to community and munici- pal progress, Fraser A. Wilson, vice-presi- dent of the Vancouver Labor Council and past president of the Vancouver Newspaper Guild No. 1 has a versatile ability to place Burnaby’s civic problems in clear perspective. His work in the trade union field gives him all the qualities needed for efficient municipal leadership. For school trustees the Burn- aby Municipal Improvements Committee have nominated Eliza- beth Brewer and Catherine Marsh. Elizabeth Brewer is a member of the Burnaby School Board and municipal representative to the B.C. Community Centre As- sociation, and Metropolitan Health Center. Mrs. Brewer has been an ardent community worker and PTA member for over 10 years. Her re-election on the basis of her record is assured. Catherine Marsh is 32 mem- ber of the Capitol] Hill PTA and the Burnaby Hospital Associa- tion. In all community work she is a well-known figure. ; The candidature ee Harry Ball and Fraser son was endorsed by this week's meet- ing of the Vancouver Labor Council. : f Burnaby electors are urged to vote for these independent can- didates on December 18, thus as- suring to Burnaby @ strong peo- ple’s leadership for municipal. progress ee BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, Marine 5746 ; rr & MUNRO . NOTARIES Nanaimo Office - Room 2, Palace Building Skinner Street : 1780: 2 We pick up your shoes today MacDONALD SHOE RENEW 1190 Victoria Drive Now offers new sup an new tomorrow 2 Phone HAstings 5387 today and x ps All Work Guaranteed er 24-hour service d bring them back to you like t no extra cost. have your shoes tomorrow. Fora Good Suit or Overcoat come to the OLD ESTABLISHED RELIABLE FIRM REGENT 324 West Hastings Street bs TAILORS “EVERY GARMENT STRI Dislodged Editor, Pacific Tribune: Never was living accommode- tion in Vancouver so scarce as it is today. People needing shel- ter’ are well nigh frantic in their efforts to obtain this human ne- cessity, and it borders on the criminal to dispossess tenants of their accommodation for busi- ness. expansion. In the 1000-block, Melville St., one can see the wreckers at their deadly work. Already two good, serviceable houses have been razed, with a large rooming house next on the list. All three properties, known as 1025, 1042, and 1044, Melville St., were recently acquired by the Bowell McDonald Motor Co. More than forty people, includ- ing veterans, old-age pensioners, sick people and families, have either been dispossessed, or are in the process of being disposs- essed of their living quarters by this firm’s expansionist program. People’s shelter versus machine space is a serious problem for many in Vancouver and some- thing should be done to halt the destruction of precious accommo- dation during this critical period. The manner in which many of these tenants have been dis- possessed, and how some permits to demolish houses are granted leaves much to be desired. It is well understood that in property deals of this nature scant con- sideration is given tenants. By hook or by crook they must be dislodged, and the issuing of what proved to be illegal notices was the method used to clear tenants from 1044 and 1042 Melville St. All tenants at 1044 and a num- ber at 1042 accepted these no- tices at face value and took their leave. Those remaining at 1042 decided to lodge their notices with the Rental Control Board. In due course the Board prose- cuted, and on November 56 the landlord was fined for “illegally demanding that tenants vacate their premises.” 1044 was thus emptied of its tenants and kept empty for thirty days so that a permit for its demolition could be lawfully is- sued. On November 28 tenants at 1042 were notified that on and after January 1, 1948, all ser- vices, heat, light, water, etc., would be discontinued. ‘Discussions with Rental Con- tro! Board, Emergency Shelter, and other authorities to have these services continued on Jan- uary 1-have to date been fruit- less. The tenants will leave no stone unturned to have the ser- vices continued, and support from any quarter would be much ap- preciated. W. BROOKE. 1042 Melville St. Vancouver, B.C. Style Value Quality Always at the Home of UNION MADE CLOTHING — and Friendly Service ‘Established For Over 40 Years > b&w. Hastings — Vancouver Phone PAc, 3645 Weaver rhapsody Editor, Pacific Tribune: Seldom, if ever, have I read a more scurrilous letter emanat- ing from the brain of a so-called socialist than that written by George Weaver and published in CCF News, November 13, 1947. His statements and inferences are worthy of the most dyed-in- the-wool tory. He revives the story of 14 mil- lion slaves in the camps of Si- beris, which appears in a book by David J. Dallin, one time official in Kerensky’s govern- ment, who later became a fas- cist writer in the USA. He left Russia in 1921 for Germany, leaving there for Po- land in 1935, and from there to USA in 1940. He never returned to Russia.) ; He was therefore never in a position to provide evidence eith- er for or against. The same applied to Max East- man, another propagator. of the story. Eastman left Russia in 1926 and has never been back. Weaver refers to Germany as “another socialist country” where unemployment was abolished as in Russia, and where prostitu- tion ‘was disappearing” as “it had disappeared in Russia for the same reason. He says Russia pays interest upon borrowed money and interest “comes from sur- plus value and is created by the . workers.” He neglects to state that the “surplus value” in the case of Russia is reabsorbed as it were by the people as a whole who are no longer at the mercy of an exploiting capitalist class, In Germany, on the contrary, the capitalist class still remained at the top under the Hitler re- gime and the workers were de- prived of all democratic rights. Weaver concludes by saying that the “two courses of. capital- ism are ... the exploitation of workers by means of the wages system, and the appropriation of the surplus values thus created. Whether the appropriation is done by private individuals . or by a state mechanism makes no difference to the exploited vic- TINS What is happening jn Britain today is an example of the vic- tims being exploited by a “state mechanism” in the form of a labor government which is. s0 frequently extolled by our CCF friends and recognized as a counterpart of themselves. A. CHEVERTON.. Toonerville victims Editor, Pacific Tribune: The non-partisans are good at keeping communal politics out of the City Hall, but monopoly poli- tics find easy ingress. It would be impossible to find more de- grading duplicity than in the manoeuvring to increase’ the street car fares, The Toonerville torture chambers grindingly roll again, with the non-partisans add- ing insult ‘to injury by allowing the fares to be increased to ten cents. Handicapped persons will suffer as a result of the aboli- tion of weekly passes. In some cases the terrible rac- ket of Toonerville traction play a Devil’s symphony on the deli- cate fabric of the nervous system of these people. Sometimes they can only stand the jerking and jolting, the thunderous’ rumble and door slamming for two’ or three blocks, then’ havé to alight — and board another car going in the same direction, hoping it will be easier on their nerves. =? For health and. other reasons some people who travel from one end of the town to the other each day stay in the downtown sec- tion for approximately an hour morning and evening. These buy weekly passes because the stop- over allowed on transfers does not allow them to make the journey to and from their des- tination on two tickets. To meet such cases, a stopover of an hour on transfers should be al- lowed. : In the interests of public health an efficient and comfortable pas- senger transit system is . needed The Toonerville. tanks now on the streets create such tension in people that they are becom- ing victims of toonerville tremens. Vancouver. 5 tial ‘Buckwheats’ to. beat the atom! . vegetables. White Rock. crimination are seeing a new Velma McClain was refused ad- mittance to the Port Alice Hos- pital operated. by the B.C. Pulp and Paper Co., and had to cross the Island by car to give birth to her baby in the kitchen of the Port Hardy Hotel. : The reason that she was not admitted to the hosvital was that she was a native Indian. 3 Her husband saw the Port Alice doctor October 6, announced: the baby was expected .November 3, and that he didn’t want to take his wife ‘too far from Coal Har- bour because premature birth once before. Referred to hospital superinten- dent Peter MacGhee, McClain ployees.” This, MacClain pointed CTLY UNION MADE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1947 at that moment there were non- she had had aj/- was told, “We only service em-. out,. was contradicted by the fact that Indian mother refused = admittance to hospital — Advocates of provincial legislation outlawing racial ‘dis- urgency in the need for such laws as a result of recent events on Vancouver Island. It \ has been reliably reported to the’ Tribune here that Mrs. employees in the hospital from Port . Hardy,. Coal Harbor and_ Quatsino. Later MacGhee° is. re- ported to have. said, ‘It’s just like a house that you own—if you don’t want somebody in you don’t have to ask them.” ©: | It is being recalled that this is only one of a long series of similar instances: of discrimina- tion in this area, including the case of ‘a sick baby which was refused admittance to the Bist in April and died the next Nig ; North island residents have long felt the need of ‘a govern- ment hospital at Port Hardy. Coupled with this is the need for provincial. anti-racist laws which would prevent companies being able to enforce such violations of the ethics of the medical pro- fession. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5