Ratepayers endorse Rankin,
Mrs. McKenzie for council

Harry Rankin, well known city

Wyer, and Mrs, Alice McKenzie

Ve announced that they will run
4S independent candidates for

Mcouver City Council, Both

Ve the endorsation of the Cen-
tral Council of Ratepayers, of
Which Rankin is president,

In announcing their candidacy,
th Rankin and Mrs, KeKenzie
Charged the present city council
ls dominated by real estate int-
*rests and stated the taxpayer
Msmt a chance as long as the

NPA, remains in control of
t body,

Rankin has been a serious con-

Me

HARRY RANKIN

tendér” for many years and sev-
ones

eral times has come close to

being elected,

Both candiates will run on a
popular platform which includes:

* A four-point program to cut
taxes, consisting of a $2,000
exemption on residential prop-
erty, making big business payits
fair share of taxes, negotiating
bigger grants from senior gov-
ernments and cutting out all gifts
of city land — such as the Coal
Harbor scheme, the coliseum

deal with the Toronto Smythes,
and so on,

pic.

MRS. ALICE McKENZIE

CARRY BRITANNIA FIGHT
TO PROVINCIAL CABINET

A delegation from Mine Mill
ll shortly be going to Victoria

is Meet with the provincial cab-
Net in an effort to resolve the

op, veek old strike at Britannia
4ch mine, owned by Anaconda,

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A P.m. last Tuesday, at which
{NS were finalized for the sess-
in Victoria,

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°Vincial leader Ray Perrault
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ca f, president of Anaconda (lo-
= €d in New York) asking if the
son any would agree to some
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There are still a limited number of tickets available:

ELECTION BANQUET

Featuring

JOSEPH ZUKEN

Plus Concert Artists & Folk Singers

SAT. NOV. 21, 6:30 p.m.

Dogwood Dining Room — B.C. Bldg. — PNE
ADMISSION $5.00
Tickets available at: ‘PT’ Office, Co-op Book Store and

Sponsored by: Vancouver C’ttee, Communist Party

there was no word of any answer
having arvived. from either
Brincxearhoff or any one else
in New York,

The Britannia Strike Enter-
tainment Committee has organiz-
ed a Hootenanny for Friday, Nov-
ember 13, at 8 p,m, in the union
hall, Leading folk artists from
Vancouver including Tommy
Hawken, The Milestones and
others will donate their services
and talents to aid families of the
striking workers,

The “hoot” will take place in
the union hall at Britannia despite
an attempt last week by the com-
pany to padlock the building.

from Winnipeg

Phone MU 4-1451

* Introduction of the ward sys-
tem,

* A 20-year plan to develop
the city. “Zoning must serve the
city, not a fewprivate interests,”

* Clearing the slums and
building low rental housing, Only
pressure from real estate int-
erests is holding up these pro-
jects,

* Free transit passes to sen-
ior citizens,

* No bus fare increase, A new
approach, based on lower fares
with faster and better service,
is needed to solve the transit
crisis,

* Keep world famous Stanley
Park out of the clutches of the

real estate sharks and freeway
promoters,

Oct. revolution
marked by

two functions

Twin events last Sunday, Nov-
ember 8, marked the 47th anniv-
ersary of the Great October Rev-
olution, The first was a banquet
in New Westminster and the sec-
ond a film showing in Vancouver,

Well over 200 guests from
Surrey, New Westminster and the
Fraser Valley attended the ban-
quet in the Dreamland Hall to
hear P,T, Editor Tom McEwen,
a recent visitor to the Soviet
Union, speak on the accomplish-
ments recorded by the workers
of the world’s first socialist
state,

McEwen told his listeners that
everywhere he went in the Soviet
Union, peace was the predominat-
ing theme and everybody he met
urged him to convey this longing
for peace to the Canadian people,

*

Approximately 250 people ga-
thered on Sunday evening to view
the historical revolutionary film
«Chapayev” and hear an address
by prominent Vancouver trade
union leader Jack Phillips,

“If all the lies, distortions and
slanders about the Russian Revo-
lution (and the Soviet Union) which
have been published in the Cana-
dian press were printed ona con-
tinuous ticker tape, that tape
would encircle the earth many
times,” Phillips declared,

Referring to the Soviet people,
he stated: “True, they are not
perfect, Perfection in society
and inhuman beings is not achiev-
ed by one, swift act of revolution,
But with all of its imperfections,
the socialist society in the Soviet
Union is more humane, greater
and nobler than that which it
replaced,

Phillips called for increased
trade between Canada and the
Soviet Union and a stepped-up
program of exchange delegations
from all- walks of life, “Let us
exchange commodities and deia-
gations — not bombs,” he said,

Mrs, Mar, Legebokoffactedas
Mistress of Caramenies. :

British trade exhibition
in Peking biggest ever

PEKING: The president of the
British Board of Trade, Douglas
Jay, last week opened the British
Industrial exhibition here, de-
scribed as a shop window for
British goods,

The exhibition is the biggest
ever held by a western country
in the Chinese People’s Republic,
with 230 British firms display-
ing mainly capital goods, ma-
chinery and scientific equipment
for industry and agriculture,

In opening the exhibition Jay
said: “It is an earnest of the
supreme importance her Majes-
ty’s Government attaches to a
reinvigorated British export
drive and not least to expansion
of trade with China that one ofthe
Prime Minister’s first decisions
was one that enables me to be
here today.”

Calling for mutual benefits
from a fruitful exchange ofideas,
Jay said: “The more we exchange
both goods and ideas the better
will be the hope of peaceful co-
existence between our countries,”

Spokesman for the Chinese
trade council said in reply: “We
are willing to work together with
our British friends to liquidate

all obstacles so as to expand
Chinese-British trade,”

Included among the exhibits
were cranes, buses, agricultural
vehicles, and electronics and
radar units,

France extends
credit to USSR

PARIS: France and the Soviet
Union last week signed a new
trade. agreement under which
France will, for the first time,
extend seven-year credits for
Soviet purchases of capital goods,

France has guaranteed the
seven - year credits despite
American and West German op-
position, and increased her pur-
chases of Soviet crude oil.

Under the agreement, the
Soviet Union will purchase capital
goods, including complete chemi-
cals, fertilizers, synthetic rub-
ber and paper pulp and petro-
chemical plants worth about $750
million over the next five years,

France will guarantee seven-
year credits for more than 50
per cent of the orders for capital
goods after delivery,

Labor Gov’t urged to act
on disarmament, peace

“There will be general wel-
come for Mr, Wilson’s refusal
to’ be intimidated by Tory bluster
into abandoning progressive
measures in his government’s
program,” said a front page edi-
torial in the British Daily Worker
this week,

The editorial said: “The way
ahead for Labor is to intoduce
measures clearly breaking with
the Tory past, This is the yard-
stick by which it will be judged,
Everyone, not only the pensioners
and others depending on benefits,
will be glad to hear that the gov-
ernment will ‘immediately’ make
an increase in payments, ,. .”

The editorial also welcomed
the abolition of prescription
charges, restoration of rent con-
trol, measures to improve edu-
cational opportunities, “These

and other steps forward will gain
public support,” it said,

“So will the intention of re-
nationalizing the iron and steel
industry, . . . Whatever else the
steel trade does, there is little
competition within an industry
largely in the hands of a few
giant concerns,” adds the edit-
orial,

Turning to other domestic and
foreign policy matters the editor-
ial says that “A cut in military
spending would provide cash to
pay for higher pensions and other
measures of social reform, The
forecasts, however, are that the
government intends to get the

cash to meet the cost ofthe high-
er pensions by raising the amount
we pay in weekly insurance con-
tributions,”

East and West Berliners meet for the first time in ten months at the Friedrich-
strasse Station recently as a result of the new visiting agreement. An agreement
reached between the German Democratic Republic and West Berlin and Bonn has

‘brought down the berriers and close to one million passes have been issued.

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