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i i + line outside the West
indomitable Effie Jones leads a picker ec cair ah eae std

Georgia Street offices of the Public Utili
Sommissioners’ prejudiced actions.

Effie Jones will be
alderman candidate

2 te this week
Effie Jones, veteran civic campaigner, opine ne
that she will definitely be a candidate’ tor

rthcoming Vancouver civic election. Toul baa

~ “TI have been asked by many proaenae her state-
‘andidate in this civic election, sesmerniti to carry forward
Ment. ‘I consider it my public resp n a greater Canada.”

the fight to make Vancouver a great city !
‘T particularly feel that I have “nthe forth-

4 responsibility. to the public to date for alderman in t e
Ntin inst the B.C. : 3
Electric. heen ae fran- Commenting sl eiaaake ieee
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"gS the term of the next city Civic Reform SP f Effie Jonés
council. I want to be on. that ahs cate heel ee beyond

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_ ‘hip of the transit system. I will, Peron Seay
> therefore definitely. be a candi- paign is ‘This time put Effie in’.

coming election.”

BC. ELECTRIC

“FALSIFIED

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“I charge the Public Utilities Commission with having deliberately falsified the
figures on B.C. Electric wage rates,’’ Effie Jones said this week. “The commission man-
ufactured evidence to show that wages had increased by $2,340,000 in the last two
years when all along it had the BCE statements from the public hearings showing that

the wage bill went up only $70,000 in four years.”

Mrs. Jones spoke at a large public protest rally that went
unanimously on record in favor of restoring that 12y2-cent
fare, firing the PUC and setting up a provincial commission
to investigate the advantages of public ownership.

Earlier the veteran campaigner against the B.C: Electric
led a picket line dutside hearings being held in Vancouver by
the PUC, but commission members failed to put in an appear-
ance. pee
Hearings before the provincial cabinet seemed certain as
the public furore over the fare boost continued to mount even
after three weeks. All the municipalities concerned, Vancou-
ver, North Vancouver, New Westminster and Burnaby, have

either decided on formal appeals
or are in the process of coming

.to a decision.

. With public pressure on the
Social Credit government increas-
ing, Premier W. A. C. Bennett
was attempting to placate the op-
position with statements that ap-
peals would be heard, without
committing himself on the firing
of the PUC and rescinding of the
boost.
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