Page Two THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE x SS Sas See November 4, 1938 Probe Of © REDISTRIBUTION BILL TO AFFECT MANY RIDINGS Liberals Plan To Merge Nanaimo And Islands, Create Alberni and Oak Bay Constituencies VICTORIA, BC, Nov. 3.— The governments Redistribu- tion Bill, at first expected to affect the boundaries of only a few provincial constituencies, is certain to give rise to consid- erable debate now that the full extent of the proposed changes is known. The lengthy report by George M. Phillips, registrar of voters in Wancouver, filed on Monday by Premier Pattullo, affects half the eonustituencies in the province and members of both CCE and Con- servative parties are now scrutin-— izing the proposed changes with justified suspicion. Conservatives are opposing the merging of the Islands with INa- maimo and creation of a new con- stituency of Oak Bay. They claim this latter move will cut the Con- servative vote in Victoria by half. A select standing of committee ef eleven members has already been named to consider redefini— fion of electoral boundaries on the basis of Phillips’ report. Phillips’ report however, while suggesting recreation of the old Alberni riding, proposes mierging ef the Islands and the Nanaimo section of the present Alberni- Wanaimo riding to form a new Wanaimo-tIsiands riding, to which will be added Gabriola anda Waldez Islands, now in Coywichan- Wewecastie constituency. The report also suggests a new seat at Oak Bay, compensation for the change to be made by cutting Victoria’s present representation in the House from four members to three. Other proposed alterations on Wancouver Island include extension ef Comox riding south by the ad- dition of new territory and the in- corporation in Saanich constitu-— ency of North Saanich, now in Cowichan-Neweastle riding. Recommendations affecting other provincial eonstituencies, with Phillips’ comment, are: BURNABY—To lose rural sec- tion to Dewdney. “The municipality of Burnaby is an urban community ¢0 which has been added, in the previous distribution, an extensive rural territory. The people in this rural area have no common inter- est with the people of Burnaby municipality and it is suggested as advisable that Burnaby munici- pality be made into a constituency without any rural affiliations, and the rural part be attached to the present constituency of Dewdney, wwhere it formerly belonged. The population of Burnaby municipality is quite large enough to justify a separate seat.” Sitting member for Burnaby is E. BH. Winch (CCF). CARTBOO—To lose a small area immediately south of Frince George to Fort George and the Taseko Lake region, immediately west of Bridge River, to Lillooet. Sitting member for Cariboo is Louis Lebourdais (Lib.). DEWDNEY—To lose Hope and districts to Yale. “The district con- taining Hope and its environs is historically and geographically a part of Yale and should be taken out of Dewdney.” Sitting member for Dewdney is D. W. Strachan (Lib.). FORT GEORGE—To get a small area from Cariboo and lose Vaile- mount and Albreda polls to Kam- loops. Sitting member for Fort George is H. G T. Perry (Esib.)- GRAND FORKS-GREENWOOD —To lose an area at the north end ef the constituencly bordering the Edgewood-Vernon road to North Okanagan. Sitting member for Grand Forks-Greenwood is E. C. Henniger (Lib.). KAMILOOPS—Boundary to be extended eastward to centre line of Adams Lake, this line to follow the Adams River to the point where it joins the present boundary of Salmon Arm and Kamloops. Amother piece of territory immedi- ately east of the city of Kamloops to be transferred from Salmon Arm to Kamloops. The new boun- dary to be immediately east of Monte Creek. Valemount and Al- breda would be taken over from Prince George. Sitting member for Kamloops is R. MH. Carson (Lib.)- KASLO-SLOGAN — Trout Lake and Arrowhead to be transferred to Revelstoke and a small section in the south to Roseland-Trail. The section to be transferred to Ross- Jand-Trail “is cut off from the rest of the constituency and peo- ple do not travel in that direction.” Sittine member for ieasloSlocan is G. S. Leary (£1b.): Lilmoomr—tro get Taseko Lake region from Cariboo and lose the TLytten-Sspences Bridge district to Wale. ABE towns of Spences Bridge and Lytton transact their pusicess southward and have very little common interest in the con- stituency of Lillooet.” Sitting mem- ber for Lillooet is George M. Mur- ray (b.)- MACKENZIE — To get Howe Sound islands from Worth VYVancou- Feels tek bl ashes Pattullo Provincial Polic See COLIN CAMERON islands in Howe Sound should be transferred to Mackenzie, owing to the desirability of making North Vancouver an urban constituency.” Sitting member for Mackenzie is J. M. Bryan (Lib.)- NELSON-CRESTON Robsow and district to be transferred to Robson Farmers’ Institute, who point out that Trail is their market town and that they have very little interest in the constituency of IWelson-Creson.’’ Rossland-Trail al- so to get another area, including the town of Erie from IWNelson- Creston. Sitting member for WNel- son-Greston is Prank Putnam (Lib.). NORTH OKANAGAN—To get a small area from Grand Forks- Greenwood. Sitting member for Worth Okanagan is Dr. K CGC. Mac- Donald (CGib). WORTH VANCOUVER—To lose Howe Sound islands to Mackenzie. “Tt is believed that North Vancou- ver, owing to its geographical posi- tion and its community of interest, should be made a purely urban riding and that the islands in Howe Sound should be transierred to Mackenzie. It is true that north of the urean portion there wiil be some territory, but this is so moun- tainous that it is uninhabited and it does not therefore appear desir-— from Smithers to Takla Lake will make Takla Lake territory tribu- tary to the town of Smithers “and it is therefore thought desirable that the country through which the road is being built should be attached to the constituency of Skeena.”’ Sitting member for Omi- neca is Mark Connelly (Lib-.). PRINCE RUPERT—To get a coast area lying between Mackenzie and Prince Rupert electoral dis- tricts from Skeena. Sitting mem-— ber for Prince Rupert is Premier T. D. Pattullo. REVELSTOKE —To get back Trout Lake and Arrowhead areas formerly included in Revelstoke eonstituency. Sitting member for Revelstoke is Harry Johnson (Lib). ROSSLAND-TRAIL—To get an area in the south of Kaslo-Slocan riding and Robson and Erie from Welson-Creston. Sitting member for Rossland-Trail is R. R. Burns (Lib:). SALMON ARM—To lose some territory to Kamloops by changing of the Adams Lake boundary and other territory to Revelstoke by enlargement of the boundaries of that constitunecy. Sitting member for Salmon Arm is Rolph Bruhn (Cons.). SKEENA—To get Takla Lake area from Q©Omineca and a coast area from Prince Rupert. Sitting member for Skeena is E. T. Kenny (Lib.). VANCOUVER-BURRARD — To get two blocks now in Vancouver East. Sitting members for Van- couver-Burrard are Mrs. H. D. Smith and J. H. Forrester. VANCOUVER-CENTRE — “No change in boundaries of this con- stituency seems desirable. It has probably reached its peak as far aS population is concerned, almost all of the inhabitants now being apartment and rooming— louse dwellers.” Sitting members for Vancouver Centre are Gordon Wismer and HWred Crone (Lib.)- VANCOUVER EAST—To 1ose two blocks to WVancouver-Burrard and a strip between Knight Road and Fraser avenue to Yancouwver-— Point Greys “The population of Vancouver East is largely com- posed of working-class people with common interests in life and about the same standard of living. On the west side of the constituency between Knight Road and Fraser avenue it is believed advisable to transfer a strip to WVancouver— Point Grey because Fraser avenue is a business Street and has a com-— mercial population on each side with identical interests.” Sitting members for Vancouver East are Dr. Lyle Telford and Harold Wineh (CCF). VANCOUVER POINT GREY— To get the Knight Road-Praser avenue area from Vancouver East. rp eee SS aa prce. residential: area Rossland-trail. “This is desired by fF able to change the northern boun-j; dary’ Sitting member ror North Vancouver is Mrs. D. G Steeves (CCF). OMINECA—To lose an area in the Takla Lake-Smithers district, because construction of a road, c LEN SHEPHERD DEMANDS AID FOR FARMERS Wasteful Distribution System Costs Dairy Farmers $50,000, Says CCF Member VICTORIA, BC, Nov. 3. — Sixteen years ago a Fraser Val- ley farmer could pay his farm taxes with eight cans of milk— in 1938 he needed 50 cans of milk to pay the same taxes. With this fact as his point of comparison, Len Shepherd (CCF, Delta), stirred legislative members this a=vweek when he demanded aid for British Columbia’s farmers. Responsible for this situation was “an unholy triangle of no mar- kets, low relief and rising taxes’’ which were steadily beating down living standards, Shepherd pointed out, emphasizing the immediate need for government action in the agricultural field. “Income of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Ltd., averages 48 million dollars yearly,” he declared, ‘‘and this is almost as much as the total in- come of the province’s 26,000 far- mers. Surely that is not fair.’ Reduction in agricultural mar-— kets could be seen in shrinking consumption, he asserted. “Bacon and eggs have almost been driven from the brealxfast tables of the country, and egg consumption has dropped by 3:0 million dozen,”’-he remarked. High charges imposed by the BC Bleetrie for rural pole line exten- sions were also attacked by the speaker as he brought the public utility question into the debate for the first time. “In neighboring Washington State the Puget Sound Power and Light Company charges $800 a muie for such extensions,” Shepherd stated, “while the BC BPlectric enarges $1510 per mile although they are only valued at $110 a mile for taxation purposes.” Returning to his original state- ments, he declared it cost more in some cases to deliver a quart of milk in Vancouver than for the farmer to produce the milk and deliver it to the dairy. Present duplication of delivery costs the farmer of the Fraser Valley some $500,000 yearly. Warning against the proposed selective immigration scheme to bring severtal thousand British set- tlers to BC, the Delta member de- elared the sensible thing to do was to make the present population self-supporting before bringing in any more. eontaining a mixed population socially and in respect to material wealth. It returns three members to the legislature and is somewhat out of balance with the other Van- couver constituencies as far as the number of the voters per member is concerned. “Por this reason it is thought ad- visable to include a strip of Van- couver-East ... which would fair— ly well equalize the number of voters per member in the four Van- couver seats.’ Sitting members for Vancouver-Point Grey are Hon. G. M. Weir and Robert Wilkinson (luib.), and R. lL. Maitland (Cons,). YALE—To get the towns of Spences Bridge and Lytton from Lillooet and the town of Hope and districts from Dewdney. “The peo- ple of Hope and its surroundings have different pursuits fo the peo- ple of Dewdney, the latter being practically a farming community, while Hope is interested in mining and kindred pursuits. Sitting member for Yale is Dr. J. J. Ellis (Ziib.). ea Demanded By Cameron j|Assails Government For Condoning Attack On Blubber Bay Strikers Sabotage Not Proven ln Fire CCF Member Denies Jobless Inefficiency VECTORIA, BC, Nov. 3—Single unemployed. men who volun- teered to help fight the great Vancouver Island forest fire of last summer were strongly de- fended before the legislature this week by Colin Cameron, CCE member for Comox, who told members in a fighting speech there was “absolutely no evi- dence” that relief workers were responsible for alleged sabotage of firefighting equipment. . In launching his criticism of those who attempted to lay the blame for forestry department failures at the door of jobless firefighters, Cameron made par ticular reference to radio broad— casts given by Premier Pattullo during the height of the fire, in which the Premier “regretted” alleged sabotage and expressed hope that ‘fiends’ responsible would be punished for the out- rage. “The inference to the general public is obvious,” Cameron said. “There has been no evidence so far to incriminate single unem- ployed.” Referring to his own visits to the scene of the fire, the CCF member gave as his experience, based also on talks with forestry officials, that while some of the single jobless were unsuited “physically or psychologically” to the work, the majority had done a good job. “Then came the infamous sabotage charges,” he asserted. ‘Tt was said the workers cut thousands of feet of hose TI agreed if the unemployed were responsible we should get rid of them and ‘put them over the road.’ But I am still unable to uncover one jot or tittle of evi- dence to incriminate these men.” He pointed out that forestry of ficials had refused to produce one man who was said to be able to identify a hose-cutter. Referring to the actual out- break of the fire, Cameron re- peated charges made by officials of the International Woodwork ers’ Union to the effeet that “a certain logging company had left off fighting one blaze and had unaccountably started logging operations in another part of their claim in the dryest part of the summer.” We was referring here to the Bloedel, Stewart and Welch camp at Menzies Bay, where the fire originally got out of control. Scoby Nominated SAANICH, BC, Nov. 3 The candidacy of John R. Scoby, retired banker and president of Victoria Democratic Book Club, was an- nounced by Saanich Ward Three Ratepayers Association this week. activities, Cameron specitically 1. That an attempt was made by a scab, a Pacific Lime Company official and a police sergeant to provoke one of the strikers into an assault. 2. That a drunken orgy took place at Blubber Bay the Satur-— day before the riot and the Sun- day afterwards. 3. One of the striking famulies was marooned in their house 44 hours, the young son being at- tacked by scabs when he went to get food, appealing vainly to the police for aid. 4. A deliberate, unprovoked at- tack on picket lines by police bombs and batons, which chased strikers into a prepared ambush ef scabs who wore white arm bands to distinguish them. 5. That Sergeant LT. D. Suther— land first threatened, then tried to bribe a witness with an offer to issue him a license for a beer parlor. The GGE member, who was him- self a witness to some of the scenes deseribed, produced affidavits in the House to back all charges. Stung by Cameron's statements and quite apparently worried by the extent of the debate, Premier Pattullo. took the Hoor immediately after Gameron to declare that the government “would not admit charges Jaid justified a judicial en- quiry.” “ven if they are true,’ he said, “they can be corrected within the police department itself.” Later in his reply, the Premier partly agreed that mistakes might have been made. “In such a large organization it is quite possible for one individual to make a mistake—but it doesn’t require a judicial enquiry to straighten that out,’ he remarked. WINCH FILES EVIDENCE Golin Cameron’s charges were strengthened earlier in the debate with filing of affidavits by Harold Winch, CGF member for Vancou- yer East, showing that the provin- cial police had recruited scab labor for the company; that a striker had been fined without appearing before a magistrate; that a magis- trate appeared intoxicated on the bench hearing charges against strikers; and that a BC police patrol boat had moved barges for the Pacific Lime Company. The affidavits were sworn to by John Stanton, attorney for the Interna- tional Woodworkers of America, which is conducting the strike. Elaborating on the affidavits, Winch declared that Major Sut ton, government agent at Powelil River, had informed Stanton that Sergeant TFT. D. Sutherland had been active in recruiting scabs for the company. The sergeant lad come to H. J. Bradbury, re- lief investigator, and asked to have ten Powell River relief re- cipients sent to Blubber Bay to work Another affidavit from _ VICTORIA, BC, Nov. 3.—The Blubber Bay strike, already one of the biggest issues facing British Columbia trade unionists, became also one of the major issues facing the present ses— sion of the legislature as leading CCF members pressed the cabinet for an investigation into the strike during debates this week. Leading the attack on government policy in handling of incidents in the five-months-old struggle, Colin Cameron, CCF member for Comox, forced Premier Pattullo into an unwilling explanation” of the government’s position after charging provincial police with drunkenness attempted bribery and brutality. : Tracing the whole history of the Blubber Bay struggs Cameron referred to “deliberate and unprovoked attacks by police, in which men were driven into a prepared ambush of scabs, unloading of whisky at Blub- ber Bay before the major riot of last month, police and scabs under the influence of liquor and strikers beaten after arrest.” “Since the government of British Columbia has not yet seen fit to act in this situation, ’'m calling for action from this leg- islature,’ the Comox member declared. “We have here evi- dence upon evidence, and affidavit upon affidavit that In- spector T. D. Sutherland has corrupted the administration of justice in that district, and we have got to have him removed. If the government fails to act in this matter, it will be to the undying shame of this legislature.” Bolstering his demands for a government probe into police le and outlining the activities of police, charged: Frederick Imglis of Gibson’s Landing set out similar evidence against Sutherland. CHARGES STATED An affidavit by Frank Hendersorm of Blubber Bay stated he was ar— rested on June 26 while seated on the sovernment road. Taken before ©. S. Peele and P. B. Jones, com— pany officials who were asked by police if they wanted to prosecute, Peele assented and Henderson was taken to Powell River jail, though noe charge was laid. “Three hours later,” stated Hen- derson in his affidavit, “Peele came to me and suggested that I plead guilty to a charge of tres- passing. On assenting to this £ was released.’ Still another affidavit by Mary Gardiner, housewife, stated that on July 21 the police boat PML 3 tied up alongside a scow at the Pacific Lime Company's wharf and moved it from one side of the dock to the other. While Premier Pattullo’s reply to these charges was supposedly intended to close further debate on the matter, observers believe the question far from closed, and cer— tain to be reopened when the House discusses possible amend— ments to the Industrial Concilia- tion and Arbitration Act (Bill 94), infractions of which played 2 major part in bringing about the Blubber Bay strike last June 2- GOV'T VIOLATED OWN LAW - WINCH VICTORIA, BC, Nov. 3—By its failure to put health insurance into operation the provincial govern— ment has violated its own law. This charge was made in the House this week by Harold Winch (CGE, Vancouver East), when he assailed the government for ignor— ing the overwhelming mandate given by voters in the plebiscite conducted last year. When the original Act was passed, Winch said, it was subject to proclamation to bring it into force. ater an order-in-council was passed rescinding it because the medical profession had failed to agree on the plan. aia Wineh declared, “the Health Imsurance Act has since been incorporated in the reyised statutes of the province, with the procismation clause omitted. Therefore. by the lieutenant-gov— ernor’s proclamation bringing alk revised statutes into force, the Health Insurance Act was brought into operation.”’ Premier Pattullo declined to comment or indicate when the Act would be enforced by the govern— ment. SEMI-DISPLAY CLASSIFIED MT. 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