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Wins free time

ILPP now has 18

candidates named

LPP CANDIDATES
NOMINATED

Vancouver East: Nigel Mor-
gan (Ballot A) and Harvey
Murphy (Ballot B).

Vancouver Centre: Miss Mary
Chomyn (Ballot A) and Wil-
liam Stewart (Ballot B).

Vancouver Burrard: Alan
Rankin (Ballot A) and J. A.
(Bert) Whyte (Ballot B).

North Vancouver:

arginson.

' Burnaby: William Turner.

New Westminster: Alfred
Dewhurst.

Delta: David Danielson.

Dewdney: Mrs. Frances Gil-
Stead,

Nelson-Creston: Thomas E.

oUntford.

Victoria: Mrs. Doris Blakey
and Archie McGugan.

Cowichan - Newcastle: Mrs.

Yrtle Bergren.

Nanaimo-The

face Tickson.

Alberni: Frank Bottner.

Comox: Jack Higgin.

With nomination during the
Past week of four more candi-
Cates to contest Vancouver seats

the forthcoming provincial
lection, the Labor-Progressive
Party has now completed its slate
three of the four multiple city
“onstiluencies and increased to

© number of its provincial
“Andidates in the field.

Th Vancouver Centre the LPP
has nominated William Stewart,
“eretary of the Marine Workers
Boilermakers Union, and
Miss Mary Chomyn who, at 22,
vy, the youngest woman candidate
Yet named by any party.

he LPP standard bearers in

Robert

HARVEY MURPHY
LPP, Vancouver East

Islands: Mrs.

‘Ncouver Burrard, nominated ‘ EWART
this Week, are Alan Rankin, WA WILLIAM cise a
WlWorker, and J. A. (Bert) LPPEvenegyy

Boe labor newspaperman.

e h are Second World War vet-
ees Rankin having served
jctseas with the Calgary High-
te rs and Whyte with the To-
*nto Scottish,
1 ige} Morgan, LPP provincial
Mi €r, and Harvey Murphy,
e-Mill regional director and
euonally “mown © labor leader,
L y° already been nominated as
g i Candidates in Vancouver
‘St,
iethe LPP now has candidates
Seate \ of the nine Vancouver
this ®nd( according to a report
andj Sek, is considering possible
Me dates to contest the three-
rian? Vancouver-Point Grey
Ing,

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picouver City Police com-

®Ined about the traffic jam,
ae the 10,000 citizens who at-
mated the great May Day de-
t °Nstration last Sunday af-
enj ©0n at Lumberman’s Arch

m0" every minute of it.
Y stoo t, soaking
Up th d and sa

to ap° SUNshine and listening

of the Speakers, (For story

‘tup, °Y Day march and rally,
"N to page 7).

be ; ; a

PROTEST.
ORCES GOV

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10 HOIST

Overwhelming public opinion
and the protest of almost the en-
tire Canadian labor movement
against anti-democratic sections
of Criminal Code Bill 93, coupl-
ed with the demand to delay of
its enactment, forced Prime Min-
ister St. Laurent to rise in Com-
mons May 1 and indicate that the
bill would be held over until
the next session—presumably a
new parliament.

A burning issue in a great
many constituencies, the Prime
Minister’s action was interpreted
as a pre-election move to get
Liberal MP’s and the govern-
ment out of a tight spot. In
Toronto Tim Buck, national LPP
leader, told a May Day rally that
St. Laurent’s announcement was
a “victory for democracy and the
people of Canada.”

An Ontario-Quebec regional
conference of League for Demo-
cratic Rights branches on May
3, heard Thomas C. Roberts, LDR
secretary, warn: “Bill 93 must
not be rushed through a half.

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