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\ time of representatives
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Ryincial government to hear
‘ther submission on the
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© he previous two council dele-
fons were
ised grant and received a
Fiter-proposal of special Jegis-
bn to enable the city to in-

mse taxation. This has met
opposition from the city
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fh rate of 52.4 mills, one of
highest municipal rates on
continent, is a heavy enough
ilen on Vancouver taxpayers.

Fene came when various sug-
Eions for increased tax on |
ness undertakings were moot-
moy Mayor Cornett and some
armen. These ranged from a
pible-license’” on larger busi- |
Fes to a special tax based on

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efuse City Request

Stalemate Was apparently reached this week in the battle
as Vancouver City Council and the Provincial Govern-

-demand for special $500, 000 grant to
sieve the impasse reached?in city finances.

asSess-
Opposition

rental value,

of to any of these schemes was voic-

led by groups representine- the

pot city council, was stopped | Board of Trade, Canadian Manu-
Bits tracks by refusal of the | facturers’

| business interests.

So-called “compromise” of
|sending a third delegation was
|then agreed upon by council aft-
ter hearing the representations
of this opposition. No informa-
tion was available at press time
|as to what would be the next
Step as a result of the govern-
ments refusal to hear the dele-
gation.

Need for more revenue by the
city became evident this year
when estimates for 1945 expendi-

/roposal of business men to in-| tur es showed that the city would

be some $800,000 short after set-
ting the highest tax rate avail-
able to it under the powers given

to it by the provincial govern-
| ment.

Basis for the claim for an in-
creased grant is that the city
has not been adequately recom-
pensed for sacrifices it made in
favor of the provincial govern-
ment during ‘the depression
years, and that it has not re-
ceived a proportionate share
of recent increased provincial
revenues. It is estimated
that at least half of such rey-

enues originated in Vancouver. In
|addition the city is saddled with

the antiquated tax structure bas-
ed on real property, which bears
no realistic relation to the most
equitable method of taxing—the
ability to pay.

Association and other |

called to establish the new

AIDS SPANISH REFUGESBS

Genevieve Tabouis,
French journalist, was principal
speaker at a meeting of the wo-

men’s division of the Jomt Anti-
Fascist Refugee Committee,
which has launched a drive for

aid to 100,000 Spanish republi-
can refugees in France.

Youth Meeting
Convenes In East

With delegates present from
all parts of Canada, plans for
formation of a Federation of De-
mocratic Youth will be decided
upon at a two-day meeting in
Teronto this weekend. Malcolm
Young, chairman of the National
Initiative Committee, will open
the meeting with the report, ‘“To-
ward a Future of Opportunity
Our Challenge to Action.”

Following: discussion of the re-
port. a youth action program
wil ke adopted, based on pro-
posals for jobs and rehabilita-
tion; physical fitness, citizenship
rights and responsibilities, edu-
cation and the participation of
young people in the coming’ cru-
cial elections.

The meeting will also estab-
lish an interim organization to
earry forward the work of build-
ing the federation, co-ordinate
activities and act as a national
yoice for local federations until
a constituent convention, to be
probably held in the fall, can be
or-

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1945 — Page 7

Continued from Page 1

Oppose Unity

isolationist stand temporarily re-
Vived last year’s Halifax “inci-
dent” and government spokesmen
repeated their firm stand against
the Halifax-Smuts proposals for
Empire exclusiveness.

While praising the unity of the

Big Three, CCF spokesmen con-
scentrated their

attack on the
world security plans in demands
that the new set-up follow the
pattern of the League of Nations
with all states having equal sta-
tus and the business of keeping:
the peace being frustrated by end-
less technicalities and tallfests.
Credit members have
Simply denounced all steps to-
wards world collaboration a& a
“conspiracy”. of “international
finance.”

Social

Sharply condemning what he
termed “too much emphasis on
reservations and alterations,”
Bred Rose stressed that Canada’s
greatness at the Conference
would not be measured by posi-
tion or rank in relation to other
powers but “in the action
our delegation.”

“This house must decide and
state frankly,” he asserted,
“which thing it places first in
the struggle for a world secur-
ity organization: the question
of hierarchy and the exact
place Canada is going to occupy,
or the question of how) Canada
ean contribute most to the es-
tablishment of a world seeur-
ity organization.”

Calling for the same confi-

dence, in peace as in war, in the
leadership of the great powers,
he said that the great fundamen-

of

tal difference between the inef-
fectual League of Nations and
the proposed new body lay “‘pre-
cisely in the fact that whereas
| the League attempted to operate
| without the par-
ticipation of all the greatest pow-
ers, including the Soviet Union
and the United States, and in
fact at its outset bore the im-
primt of the exclusion of the So-
viet Union—it is now possible,
in the midst of the war against
Nazism, to give lasting perman-
ence in organized form to the all-
inclusive unity of the freedom-
levine peoples, great and small.”

Simultaneous

Rose also urged that Canada
demonstrate the new spirit of
the times and give a lead to other
nations by including in her dele-
gation representatives of organ-
ized labor, preferably from the
two Congresses.

. He demanded that the delega-
tion be unanimous in expressing
the desire of the Canadian peo-
ple for durable peace and for
prosperity, based on that peace.

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