Continued

Jones

in Vancouver's crowded east
end, where sewers, street light-
ing, roads, sidewalks, parks and
playgrounds are solely needed,
“The needs of youth are also
neglected. Provision should be
made for the opening of youth
centres, gymnasiums and swim-
ming pools. But our city coun-
cil does nothing.

“To get action, progressive cit-
izens must use their votes this
coming Wednesday to end the

into city hall.
“A new city council would have
to abandon the Tammany Hall
type of politics now followed by
the NPA, and speak out on broad
issues affecting all (Canadians, in-
cluding citizens of Vancouver.
“The future of Vancouver as
Canada’s great Pacific Coast city
depends on ending the war in
Korea, restoring peace in the Paci-
fic and establishing trade with
China and other countries of Asia.
“With one of the world’s best
harbors, Vancouver could win a
place among the great ports of
the world if peace was restored.
But U.S. policy forces a continu-
‘ance of the war in Korea and the
collapse of our foreign trade. A
result of this policy, which un-
fortunately the Canadian govern-
ment supports, is that Vancouver
is not expanding as,a shipbuilding
and seaport centre, and thousands
of our workers face unemploy-
ment because of the market crisis
developing in the lumber and fish-
ing industries.
“Ag an alderman I will work
_ for peace and friendship between
the peoples of the Pacific, and
' for development of Vancouver as
a great commercial centre for
trade with all countries.”

Trustee wins
ninth term
in Toronto

TORONTO
Mrs. Edna Ryerson, progressive
trustee, again topped the polls in
Ward 5 with 6,000 votes to win her
ninth term as member of the board
of education during Toronto civic
elections on Monday this week.
“The overall lower vote included
a large section of workers and pro-
fressive voters who did not regis-
ter their views at the polls, result-
_ing in a drop in the vote polled by
Stewart Smith, candidate for Board
of Control from 31,525 last year to
19,035 this year, larger than the
general decline in the voting.
Aldermanic candidate Norman
Freed in Ward 4 came third, with
two to be elected, with 3,156;
Charles Sims in Ward 5 polled 3,-
692. Hector MacArthur, running
for the first time gathered a 2,174
vote in Ward 6.

‘For school board: Robert M.
Laxer in Ward 4 received 2,791; Bill
Repka 2,058 in Ward 6; and Mrs.
Margaret (Peggy) Reeves, 2,003 in
Ward 2. Both Repka and Mrs.
Reeves were making their first bid
for civie office.

‘Progressive
school board
candidates

NPA’s rule and bring fresh faces

ELGIN RUDDELL .

How to cast your

ballots

On December 10 Vancouver vot-
ers got to the polls to elect a mayor,
four aldermen, five school trustees
and four parks board members.
With the “spouse vote” in effect for
the first time this year,-more peo-
ple will cast ballots than in any
previous civic election.

Since 1936 the ‘‘Non-Partisan As-
ssociation’—a coalition of Liberal
and Tory politicians—has dominat-
ed the political life of Vancouver.
The result has been one of the most
inefficient and corrupt administra-
tions ever inflicted upon any Can-
adian city.

On such issues as housing, transit
service and rates, telephone charges
and taxation, the present NPA-do-
minated council stands condemned.
The road forward to civic progress
will remain blocked until the voters
turn the Liberal and Tory NPA pol-
iticians out of city hall.

“How best can I mark my bal-
lot in order to put as end to NPA
rule?” is the question that pro-
‘gressive Vancouver voters are ask-
ing. The answer is, first, to vote
for no NPA-endorsed candidates;
secondly, to select and vote for
those anti-NPA candidates. who
have done the most ‘consistent
work in exposing the present ad-
ministration and who have been
active in the struggle for peo-
ple’s welfare.

In the mayoralty race this year,
none of the four candidates has
official NPA backing.

‘Mayor Fred Hume was elected
two years ago as an independent,
defeating the NPA-endorsed Mafor
Charles Thompson. But in the past
two years Hume has done little on
behalf of the people of this city.

Tom Alsbury, the CCF nominee,
has done nothing all year on such

‘ |issues as housing, telephone and

transit rates. He was busy, how-
ever, in union-wrecking activities
directed against the city’s outside
workers.

Everett Irwin, former NPA chair-
man of parks board, opened his
drive for the mayoralty by taking

‘a reactionary position in opposition

to the Little Mountain housing pro-

ject.

Alderman Archie Proctor, elected
to council as an independent after
the NPA removed him from its
slate two years ago, has had a chec-
quered career in council. In recent

Delinquency
school issue,
says Blumes

Dr. Joseph Blumes, independent
school board candidate in the civic
elections December 10, this week
took issue with the claim that par-
ents are mostly to blame for juven-
ile delinquency.

“It is time the schools began to
play their proper role in helping to
cope with this problem,” Dr.
Blumes told election meetings call-
ed by Local Council of Women and
Grandview Ratepayers Association.

“It happens too often that chil-
dren who develop particular prob-
lems during school age grow up into
young people who find their way
into the courts. ;

“The very least that can be done,”
emphasized Dr. Blumes, “is to open
school gyms or auditoriums for
after-school recreation where prop-

er community centre and play-
ground facilities are lacking.”

Progressive vote can defeat

Tory - Liberal NPA coalition

weeks his progressive stand on the
Little Mountain issue and the Clar-
ence Clemens case won him con-
siderable labor support. On the
other hand, his advocacy of private
monopoly ownership |jof television
and opposition to CBC control
places him in the camp of reaction
on a basic issue affecting all Can-
adians.

Between all four mayoralty can-
didates, therefore, there is little to
choose.

Outstanding among the anti-NPA
aldermanic candidates is Mrs. Effie
Jones, an indefatigable champion of

‘the people, whose battles on such

issues as cheaper transit fares, low-
er telephone rates, housing, sewers,
parks and playgrounds have won
broad popular support. In addi-
tion to Mrs. Jones, the Pacific Trib-
une recommends that citizens vote
for three other anti-NPA_ candi-
dates.

Dr. Joseph Blumes, who has
put up a notable fight for milk
for school children, should head
the poll for school board on De-
cember 10 on the basis of his
record. Blumes, who is running
as an independent, deserves the
full support of all labor and pro-
gressive forces. Other anti-NPA
school board candidates are Rose-
mary Fergusson, Isabel Murphy,
Elgin Ruddell and Dave Rutka.

In order to defeat the present
NIPA Tory and Liberal parks board
members, the Pacific Tribune sug-
gests a vote for the CCF candidates
contesting the four seats.

Reaction can be defeated: Decem-
ber 10, if labor and progressive
voters will.turn out and cast their
ballots for these candidates. No-
thing should be left undone to bring

that vote out on Wednesday next.

.

stantly rising prices.

NANAIMO
Timber-r-r Dance

to the USA.

=—

less women and children.

_ THE PEOPLE WANT PEACE!

, The Canadian people are tired of war. They are tired of the wanton killing of defence-
They are tired of raising their sons and daughters to die on
foreign battlefields in order that munition makers may prosper.

The Canadian people are tired of increasingly heavy war taxes. They are tired of con-

They are tired of being continuously denied needed social reforms

because “there is no money.”

_ The Canadian people are tired of the overlording of the American supermen. They
: are tired of St. Laurent’s bartering of our country’s independence to the. U.S. monopolists
. for the illusion of a Yankee Dollar.

SOME POLITICIANS WANT WAR!

Last week, Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defense, ann d that the
Canadian government has granted the American army training facilities in Canada.

Last week all capitalist news agencies suppressed the details of a Soviet plan presented
to the UN for peace in Korea which contained a proposal for an immediate cease-fire.

LPP FIGHTS FOR THE PEOPLE!

The LPP campaigns day in and day out for an end to the war in Korea; for the ending
3 of aggression anywhere in the world.

The LPP campaigns day in and day out for an end to the bartering of our country’s
resources, our political freedom and national pride by

the St. Laurent government

The LPP has decided to strengthen the people’s fight for Peace and Freedom by
running a minimum of eighty candidates in the coming federal elections. At least
twelve of the seats to be contested will be in B.C. 2

YOUR DOLLARS WILL HELP

Election prcenr tens of Wes: of leaflets, scores of radio addresses, hundreds of

HAREWOOD HALL - NANAIMO
PREDAY, DECEMBER 12
Good Music — Dancing 9.30 p.m. to 2 a.m.

“Door Prize — Spot Dance — Novelty Prizes

i Admission: 75c Lunch Available Hastings, Vancouver, B.C.

Sponsored: Nanaimo Timber-r-r Committee ; : :
BS a a I I WI IP II I OE IOS PETE EIS IEA

a Sa *

posters and many meetings. And now is the time to bring the program of the Labor-
Progressive Party to the people. That is why the LPP is campaigning to raise $10,000
before the end of the year.

Will you help? Can you afford to give a day’s pay as your contribution to the people’s
fight for Peace and Freedom? Whatever you can give — GIVE IT NOW! Please
mail all contributions to the Labor-Progressive Party, 503 Ford Bldg., 193 East

BEERS YEE YEE ESE YORE YORE ERE VERE YORE VERE WERE LIE

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 5, 1952 — PAGE 7