remier Douglas in B.C. Visit returned -- with- litical vengeance ; Prem} ‘ : | femier T. C. “Tommy” Douglas of Saskatchewan this Week ; ‘etrned Premier W. A. C. Bennett’s visit to the Ire 4 : : : and Province during the recent Saskatchewan elections ls aor Social Credit premier isn’t too happy about it. bi Pou ge (2.8 crowd of 200 F than 699 - John and to more } Lougla Jn Dawson Creek, * like > Mpped into Bennett J Ana aa tackling Goliath: Ss Ost of the stones in his Gaspar aSsails A Gaspee rd farmer Frank Delis LPP. candidate for Elta ’ lion ue 0 grows over a mil- ’ Year Sty plants each had some Taser Valley farms, ism for Sharp words of crit- >ocred farm policies Ae a | While Ba nce of any worth- Statement that be forthcoming ee farmers because a Bute not as severe Bowers fered by the berry | dainymen: Poor consolation to eo Under poe are about to PAUetion costs’. of tising pro- * Costs” Gaspar said. no ‘ ( af 7 * vould theip y f ad : thousand Y more than $800 Worth of hay has had tin from the U.S. € government is © do ‘ : somethin er op > “here is a grave genie Van, a Serious sh Uy, Sortage on the Stateg. & milk shed,” he men ..., te many € brands © Hub .. | Ask CREDIT. pclitical slingshot found their mark. : “The issue in this B. C. elec- tion,” he said, “is whether the people who toil in the fields, in the forests, in the factories, in offices and on the farms, tke people who labor with their hearts and their hands, shall elect a government which will legislate in their interest or for those vested interests who seek a government which will savor them and give them special privileges.” (This week Fred McMahon, president of West Coast Trans- mission Pipeline Company, lauded Bennett as the man who had “passed the necessary legislation sa we could go to work.” Bennett beamed and replied that he was pleased to hear the big oil and gas oper- ator “saying the nice things he does about the govern- ment.’’) “Premier Bennett doesn’t knew how to get money out of a gold mine,” said Douglas. “Tf B. C. charged royalties the way Saskatchewan does, the province would get enough from timber and minerals alone to pay all hospital bills, cancel the sales tax and put money in the bank besides.” Douglas flung some figures round. Saskatchewan obtained rev- enue of $4,290,000 from forest | production valued at $51,000,- 000 in the four-year period ending in 1955, while B.C. revenue was $74,000,000 from production worth $1,900,000,000 in the same period. “At Saskatchewan’s rate of return B. C. would have netted $160,000,000 over the four years,” Douglas said. He had other figures of in- terest to consumers. “Residential natural gas rates average 66 cents per thousand cubic feet in Saskat- chewan, compared to $1.16 in Vancouver. “As for car insurance, a Kegina motorist can get pro- tection for $52 that costs a Vancouver motorist $164,10. “Pm not blaming. the insur- ance companies. If I were rid- ing on someone else’s back, I wouldn't get off and walk either,’ he said. And on telephones: “For a 300-mile call we pay $1.35, you pay $1.85. We still have nickel telephones.” Coming back to natural re- sources, Douglas claimed that Saskatchewan got a return of $24 million from a $216 million mineral output, while B.C. cotiected only $14 million out of $663 miliion output. “For oil and minerals we keep Crown reserves,” the Saskatchewan. premier €X- plained. “We lease these. For some. we get 89 percent royalties.” Stevenson urges change in A-pol icy NEW YORK Adlai E.. Stevenson urged last week that the U.S. “take new and imaginative steps that might lead to worldwide nuclear disarmament.” In the first major speech making a ban on atomic weapons a 1956 campaign issue, Stevenson charged President Eisenhower with failing to dispel the “nightmare” of a nuclear arms race. Stevenson, arriving in Knox- ville, Tenn., for a conference with ‘Dixie Democratic lead- ers, told 2,000 persons at the airport that the U.S. is not “measuring up to the chal- lenge of the atom’s potenti- alities.” “Jet us remember that only « few years ago splitting the atom seemed as difficult as disarming seems today,” he said, “We did not then and we must not now throw up our hands in the face of difficulties and let this deadly race run its ghastly course,” the candi- date said. “yet I see no sign that President Eisenhower and his associates are either able or determined to stop it, he charged. Stevenson said that in the decade since’ the Baruch atomic plan was drawn up, the hydrogen bomb has been developed and “the nightmare cf a nuclear arms race has be- come a reality.” Churchmen and _ laymen elike have “implored us to Zace up to our moral respon- sibility to halt it,” he said. “But we, great America, who bear a_ special responsibility in this matter because . we dropped the first and only atomic bomb, have failed to become the first to take new and imaginative steps that might lead. to world-wide nu- clear disarmament,” Steven- son said. “Only this week, the presi- dent casually announced from California that the Soviets have exploded another gigan- ADLAI STEVENSON tic nuclear weapon,” Steven- son said. The presidential nominee said the Eisenhower adminis- tration’s record on peacetime uses of atomic energy is “no better.” “It has become increasing- ly apparent that, under the Hisenhower administration’s go-slow policies, we are lag- ging seriously in the develop- ment of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,” he said. Stevenson said private in- dustry “is not going to do the job because at present it can- not make a profit by doing it.” “But at the same time,” he said, “selfish interest must not be permitted to prevent the government from doing the job. And the policies of these interests have “become Disgruntled Socreds runasindependents The seventh disgruntled So- cred running as an independ- ent against Bennett nominees entered the fight in Varfcou- ver-Burrard riding just before nominations closed Wednesday this week when long-time So- cial Crediter WwW. Glen Todd filed papers. The six others are MLA George Tomlinson and Stan Wilcox in North Vancouver; Mrs. Margaret “Ma” Murray in Peace River North; Ald. J. Lewis Sangster in New West- minster; Ernest Allistone 1n Point Grey, and Ed Brewster in Nanaimo-The Islands. Todd accused Premier Beén-. nett of trying to destroy the Social Credit party by “bring- ing Tory and Liberal friends into high office.” Blasting the appointment of Attorney-General Robert Bon- ner, Todd claimed that “if Bennett had told the 1952 So- cial Credit caucus he planned to. appoint an active Conserv- ative to be attorney-general, and another old friend, Einar Gunderson, from the Liberal party to be finance minister, the caucus would have reject- ed Bennett and chosen another leader.” Thousands of Social Credit members are quitting the par- ty in disgust, said Todd, and Socred membership today is less than one-fifth of the 60,000 reported by Premier Bennett in 1953. SEPTEMBER 7, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5 the policies of the Eisenhower administration as you know so well down here in the TVA country, or should I say the Dixon-Yates country?” LPP takes to air in election The Labor-Progressive par- ty will “take to the air” in the time remaining before the September 19 provincial elec- tion to. reach people in urban and rural areas with its polit- ical proposals. Broadcasts over station CKWX (980 ke) at 7:05 p.m. are: September 11, Jack Phillips and Jack Gillett, “Why Labor Opposes the Bennett Govern- ment.” September 12, Nigel Morgan, “Stop the Export of Our Jobs.” September 13, Jack Gillett, “Public Ownership of Power and Gas.” September 14, Mona Mor- gan, Nigel Morgan, “A Mess- age to Old Age Pensioners.” September 15, Nigel Mor- gan in a final election appeal. Other scheduled broadcasts throughout the province in- clude these: Port Alberni, CJAV, Sep- tember 7, 6:40 p.m. Nanaimo, CHUB, September 8, 7:48 p.m.; September 15, 7:48 p.m. Vernon, CJIB, September 11. Prince George, CKPG, Sep- tember 13, 7:45 p.m.; Septem- ber 15, 8 p.m. Kamloops, CFJC, Septem- ber 15, 8 p.m. Trail, CJAT, September 15, 9:05 p.m. Victoria, CKDA, September 10, 6:35 p.m.; September 11, 6:54 a.m.; September 13, 6:35 p.m.; September 14, 6:35 p.m. In Vancouver the LPP will hold a final election rally, en- livened by a concert program, at Pender Auditorium on Sun- day, September 16 at 8 p.m., where all the LPP candidates in Greater Vancouver will be introduced. P ROOFING REPAIRS Duroid, Tar and Gravel Gutters and Downpipes Reasonable NICK BITZ AL. 4141 sy