es

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ay Len Shepherd, former

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U.S. engineers “could not
believe the glacial till of the
St. Lawrence Valley called for
special techniques.”

Texan contractors were
selected to do- excavation.
Completely unfamiliar with
the earth formation, “after a
few months wrestling with this
tough, slippery, obdurate gla-
cial till some of the contractors
threw in their hands and others

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a FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1957

VANCOUVER, B.C.
Authorised as second class mail by
the Post Office Department, Ottawa

begged for a review of their
contracts.”
(The work was’ re-contract-
ed a higher price.) ;
The U.S. contractors did not
attempt to learn Canadian
Continued on back page
See SEAWAY

labor unity holds Burnaby seat

‘as

for CCF with larger majority

: ~ Last Monday’s triple byelection resulted in the retaining of two seats by the Socreds

hd one by the CCF, leaving the patty standings in the legislature unchanged, but the CCF
More to be cheerful over than the government.
Cer Grass roots unity between CCF and LPP members and supporters in Burnaby elected
3 can

didate Cedric Cox with a comfortable majority, despite an all-out drive by the Socreds

4 and Cariboo — the Sotial Credit vote dropped.

The byelections demonstrat-
seal in Conservative vot-
from, Tength — most of it taken
dline the Socreds — and a de-

é in Liberal support (in

‘Raby Liberal leader Art

= Roe finished a dead last).

: Delta, where the CCF
suggestions of

the © Teduced the gap between
tot CCF and Social Credit
*s. There — Peter Gidora,

Votes Candidate polled 219
mits CCF plurality in Bur-
igs? Was greater than in the
m.8eneral election, when
Greg 2 Dowding edged a So-
This tpPonent by 589 votes.
Over Ime Cox had a 2,153 lead
cred John Milne.
lear Laing’s crushing defeat
May polled only 2,264 votes —
fa, 28 an end to his. five-
Sta en as provincial Lib-
& poy ter. He lost his form-
Bene Nt Grey seat in last year’s
“mal election,
helg ©, Burnaby seat has been
Y the CCF since 1933,
the late Ernest Winch

was first elected. In 1956 it
was made a two-member rid-
ing.

Here are the voting figures:

CEDRIX COX

He held a traditional
stronghold for the CCF

DecaPture the seat left vacant by the death of E. E. Winch. But in all three ridings — Burnaby,

BURNABY

(157 out of 157 polls)
Cox (OCR) 4s Se 8,426
Milne (GG) se ce ee 6,273
Bamps sk Set 2,264
Black (RC). oo ee ees 3,599

DELTA

(71 out of 71.polls)
Gibson (SC) _________ 10,001
Shepherd .(CCF) _____ 8,343
Wolanski (Ind.) ___-_-__ 110
GidorayGaPP) se ae 219
Walson Ga)? ea 1,240
Brazer (PG). .- © Sse 5,278

CARIBOO

(47 out of 54 polls)
Speake... (S@)s° 20 2,350
Wasyliw (CGR) x= 603
Kohnke “Uys se ee 1,055
ngore ls tS C 24 Ou le Seem as 615

STANDINGS

(Unchanged, from
September, 1956, election)

Socal Credit cece soos 39
COOP Scan ee 10
iperal’s 7 a a 2
Tab OVes ee ee ie 1

Ota] eects 52

“Recommendations of the

TORONTO

The United States has bungled the construction of the ‘St. Lawrence seaway. The
shocking story is just beginning to come to light:

James M. Minifie writing from Washington for the Toronto Telegram reports that U.S.
inefficiency has increased the cost of the seaway by 65 percent.

Sloan report leaves

problems -unsolved

Royal Commission on Forestry,
while making limited conces-
sions to eliminate some of the
more obvious abuses of forest
administration, appear to fall
short of any decisive change
in the present basic policies,”
Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial
leader, told the Pacific Tribune
this week; “In this it reflects
some of the complexities of
public pressure for change
which forced the government
to establish the Sloan Com-
mission, It seems to contain
something for everyone, but
in the decisive matters of pol-
icy preliminary newspaper -
evaluations at least are dis-
appointing,’ he said.

“It’s good that the report has
come out against granting of
Forest Licences in perpetuity,
but it is disappointing that
bolder, more resolute steps are
not proposed, to. rectify a situ-
ation in which the biggest
spoils have already been given
away. Obviously what is need-
ed, once it is agreed that grants’
in perpetuity are wrong in
principle, is action to regain
for, the people of this province
full control of their valuable
forest reserves.

“The Labor - Progressive
party in its submission pro-
posed the establishment of
large public. working circles

CHIEF JUSTICE SLOAN

His report left major problems
unresolved

as a substitute for Forest Man-
agement Licenses. Practicabil-
ity of such a proposal is borne
out in the’ recommendation of
the Sloan Commission to re-
purchase the E. & N. land belt

on Vancouver Island.
“Everyone except the six big
monopoly concerns that have
carved up between themselves
75 percent of the forest acre-

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