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Foibles,
Fancies
And Facts

1944 Priorities:
“Dozen Beer Lost;

these companies for 1942, after.
requirements for operation and
depreciation are deducted, are
not only in excess of what the
eompanies can retain under the
Dominion tax laws, but are
actually in excess of what is
considered necessary for a fair
return.” Qn the basis of 1942
it revenues, a reduction in charges
Car also Burnt. to customers in some units of

_ Del Triggs, secretary of service is clearly indicated.
the Port Mann local UFFU, In aceordance with their
fan into some tough luck findings the Public Utilities
when he lost a dozen beer in Commission has ordered the
a fire recently. B.C. Electric to refrain from

“What made. it worse billing their customers for one

was that the carton was in month in the lower mainland
the trunk of Del’s car park- area and for two months in all
ed under a shingle shed at other areas served by the com-
the Gordon Road shingle pany. This action of the com-
mill. The mill burned down mission in itself proves the
and set fire to the 1938 Ford company has been overcharg-
deluxe coach, making it a ing its customers for electric
complete loss. No insurance light and power.

on the car and no sympathy
from the liquor board. Very _
tough luck indeed.”—_ltem
in “The Fisherman’ of Van-

HE question arises who is re-,
sponsible for the delay in any

CONVEE: e conerete measure to bring the
B.C. Electric and other power
Statesman resources under public owner-

ship. The main opponents of
the premier’s proposals are big
business and their Tory friends
in the Progressive Conservative
Party. :

This is to be expected. Big
business and particularly big
business which has its head-
quarters in Hastern Canada, is
opposed to the expansion of
public ownership in B.C. They
wish to see B.C. remain an un-
developed hinterland for the
extraction of raw material in
exchange for Eastern manufac-
tured goods. Their attitude is
understandable.

What is not so easily ex-
plained, however, is the atti-

“I wish I could burn this
into your minds and mem-
ories for the next 50 years
at least, and that is, the
human race this hour, this
day, this week, this year is
confronted by the gravest
crisis in all its experience
and that we who are here
on this scene of action at
this critical time have the re-
sponsibility of saying what
way the world is going for 50
years to come.’ — (US.
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull after the Dumbarton
Oaks. conference.)

Hydro-

Electric

ments of the BCElectric, de-
fending their policies. :
For instance the November
2 issue of the CCF News cart
ries an advertisement which
reads in part: “The future de-
velopment of hydro-electric
power in British Columbia is
assured. The pioneering, fore-
sight and sound administration
of the BCHlectric Railway Com-
pany has provided a foundation

- upon which the bright future

of this province may be safely
built.’

There you have it—not only
is the Conservative Party
blocking public ownership in
this province but the great
champions of public ownership,
the CCF, are rendering full as-
sistance to prevent public own-
ership being realized.

The only comment which
Harold Winch, provincial lead-
er of the CCF had to make on
Premier Hart’s proposals was
to childishly complain that the
premier was stealing the CCF’s
program.

I wish to appeal to all pub-
licly spirited citizens and or-
ganizations to realize the yital
importance of public ownership
of hydro to the provision of
jobs and security to postwar
B.C. and to make their voice
heard in the councils of both
municipal and provincial gov-
ernments in support of public
ownership and the taking over
of the BCElectric operations
immediately.

@

(Text of a broadcast deliy-
ered by Fersus McKean, pro-
vineial leader of the LPP,
over CJOR on November 13.)

PARK

Doesn’t Work any More

“Main campaign docu-
ment of the GOP (was) the
last-minute “Beware of
Communism” leaflet dis-
tributed in millions of cop-
ies. Any little dissimilarity
between it and Goebbels is
putely accidental.’— (Alan
Max in the New York Sun-
day Worker.)'

ry
Blitz Hits’ Fritz

“The Germans used to

adore blitzes in every form..

Bloated burghers, commer-
_cial councillors with bellies
*swollen with,beer and hearts
swollen with pride, they
wanted to hasten the clock of

history. These toads with
doctors’ degrees) the sc
thieves with their race

theories, these house-break-
_ing Nietszchéans, were evi-
dently . afraid
late at the “feast of heay-

enly dwellers.” They want-.

ed blitzes. Now they’ve got
them wholesale without ra-
tion coupons — enough
blitzes to drive them crazy.”
—(llya Ehrenburg on “The
Great Day.’’)

of arriving

tude of the CCF. The CCF
in British Columbia which
bases its whole program on
public ownership and poses
as the main champion of pub-
lic ownership, has not made a
single statement in support
of Premier Hart’s proposal to
take over the BCElectric. Not
only have they not supported
the proposal but during the
past several weeks the offi-
cial organ of the CCF in B.C.,
the CCF News has carried
three-quarter page advertise-

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by NATHAN STRAUS (Ryerson Press, ‘Toronto, }

Wes such an authority as Nathan Straus, former admin
tor of the United States Housing Authority, president ¢
Hillside Housing Corporation, member of the New York
Housing Authority and of the New York State Senate, make
flat-footed statement that private enterprise cannot by itself,
with the aid of partial tax-exemption, provide good housing
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