Alderman William Ra- thie, NPA candidate for Mayor of Vancouver, * Makes no bones about the act that he has big busi- ss connections. He is an Open advocate of follow- wing policies of austerity at * the municipal level. Some of the background of Rathie was published the “Union organ of * the Vancouver Civic Out- Side Workers union. In a front-page article headed “We Won’t Cry In Our Beer,” the bulletin stated: “Now that Mr. Rathie is a candidate for mayor, it is good to refresh our- Selves on what transpired in 1960. The following Quotes from the Vancou- ver Sun and Province are Most informative: Sun, July 18, 1960 — ‘An official of the Civic Outside Workers’ union Claimed today an alder- Man stands to gain finan- Cially if Vancouver enters into a proposed sanitary fill plan. ‘Jack Phillips . .. was attacking Ald. Bill Rathie, One of four principals in- terested in the scheme. ‘Rathie said Phillips was just rumor-mongering. ‘Vancouver Disposal Company has asked Co- Quitlam municipal counci! for lease and purchase of Portions of a 200-foot ra- Vine that would be filled With garbage, reclaimed ” @ park or golf course. ‘Behind Vancouver Dis- bosal Company are A. I. Smith of Smithrite Build- ; ing Maintenance Co., Ken Calder of Merchants Car- & lage Co., and Rathie, chair- ® Man of the board of Trans- €o Trucklines Lid.’ (Em- Phasis by Newsbulletin.) “Sun, August 2, 1960 — local and national sanc- tion for doing business With the city. * ‘Mayor Alsbury says he * Sees nothing wrong with it and neither does George S. Mooney, executive di- Tector of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and unicipalities.’ ‘ Sun., August 6, 1960 — Persons who accept res- Ponsibility of elected of- fice must be above sus- Picion in any business dealings with the City, Mayor Alsbury said today. ‘The Mayor was com- -Menting on a Sun editorial Criticizing a proposed con- tract between the city and 4 garbage disposal firm in Which . . . Rathie has an ; , % Ndian Comm Ina Seneral secretary of the an Communist Party, E. M. S. Ass’n. of United Ukrainian Canadians Presents A NIGHT OF LAUGHTER Sat., Dec. 22 At 8 p.m. 05 EAST PENDER ST. Adm. 75c eeeteSiece 0 © u's -eresefocerorerorerececerereTerererececeseseses* ae, Bill Rathi Austerity Plumper and eventually turned into . —2Ceeds to ‘Ukr. Word.’ ““T expressed byself bad- ly in my previous state- ment because I talked only =: of the legal aspects,” the : mayor said. RS ‘Province, Augusi 9Y, 1960 —’ . Rathie said Monday he will make a full report to city council on his connection with a firm that has submitted a garbage disposal deal to the city.’ Election activity on the North Shore is centered this year in the District of North Vancouver, the large horse-shoe shaped area surrounding the City of North Vancouver. Two features account for this. First, there is a reeveship race in the District and second, there is a $13 million sewer by-law in the District. Like all other areas in British Columbia the North Shore is faced with a crushing taxation burden on homeowners. This is the real issue in the campaign, and the only force which is actively cam- - paigning on it is the labor move- ment. . The North Vancouver Labor Elections Committee, a sub-com- mittee of the Vancouver Labor Council is running two candidates for Council in the District and one for council in the city. In the District the candidates are Johnny Puff, woodworker, and Nick Podovinnikoff, carpen- ter. The lone city labor nominee is Russell McKibbon, wood- worker. BILL RATHIE Behind this sauve facade lies the character of Big Business. If elected, Van- couver citizens can expect little relief from high taxes and austerity at the civic level. In his campaign thus far, Rathie has stated that he favors a policy of belt-tightening. ‘Province, August 10, 1960 —’ Alderman William Rathie Tuesday severed his connections with a firm that has submitted a gar- bage disposal deal to the city council. « | | Rathie controls 51 percent of Transco Truck- lines, one of four interests Adenauer move —Strauss axed Herr Franz-Josef Strauss, West German Defence Minister and one of the leading spokesmen for German militarists ‘and other revanchist ele- ments, has been made a sacrificial goat by Chan- cellor Konrad Adenauer. The aged chancellor, facing the worst crisis to hit his regime since he first assumed power 13 years ago, agreed to dis- miss his No. 1 man in the face of mounting criticism jn the Bonn parliament. The wave of criticism came to a head with Strauss’ dictatorial hand- ling of the Der Spiegel affair. All three are running on a platform of tax reform whose two main points are: (1) A $2,000 basic exemption on homes; (2) Application of the machinery tax for general purposes. - Dorothy Lynas, former school trustee is trying to recapture her position in the District School Board Race and is considered to have a good chance of election. She is running on a campaign exposing the proposed “‘merit”’ rating plan of the present board. This plan is a union busting de- vice, an anti-seniority scheme which would result in patronage. Mrs. Lynas in a leaflet to all homeowners raises the issue of taxation also and calls for an increase in the provincial govern- ment education grant to the municipalities from the overall 50 per cent to 60 per cent. She points out that a cutting in the federal arms budget in half would cover the entire cost of elemen- tary education in the country. If elected she will press the school board to energetically press for federal aid. SEWER BY-LAW The sewer réferendum is being used to aid the political fortunes of reeve Richard Hannesson. The - DOROTHY LYNAS . . former school trustee who announced this week she is run- ning again for school board. = HEAVY TAX BURDEN ON HOMES REAL ISSUE ON NORTH SHORE district, which has a low indus- trial tax base coupled with ex- ceptionally high costs for public works due to the mountainous terrain, is starved for adequate services —-sewers, water, drain- age, roads. No reeve has ever served two consecutive terms in office. aes Hannesson is engaged in a gigantic campaign of misrepre- sentation about the ‘cost of the proposed sewer by-law, which he claims to have authored. His op- ponent, ex-reeve Murdo Fraser has challenged him on_ the authorship, but at the same- time maintains that the full truth on the cost is being sup- pressed. Frazer, however, does not come all the way with the truth himself, and moreover he too supports the by-law. The actual facts are that the by-law if passed would result in an increase in taxes of $80-$90 per year for the first 5 years and then $55-$65 for an additional 20 years. The figure have been sup- plied by the district officials and represent the sum of neariy all the component parts of the pian. They do not include the cost of booking-up the sewers from the property line to the home, a cost which can go as high as $400. The outright deception and half truths that are being used chief- ly by Hannesson, arise from the fact that only certain segments of the costs are being. quoted thus leaving the general impxession that they are modest, which they are not. The position of the North Shore. ccmmittee of the Communist Party is, ‘‘Sewers yes, but not at this cost.’’ The committee advo- cates rejection of the by-law be- cause of the existing crushing taxation burden. It proposes a campaign to force the federal government to pick up half the total cost of the sewer program, an extension of the principle applying to the winter works program. in Vancouver Disposal Co a group that submitted a proposal to truck garbage from a central depot in the city to a sanitary-fill operation in Coquitlam. It would also control the sanitary-fill. = ‘His action Tuesda means that Transco has withdrawn from the group. He said the other interest would continue to pursue the proposal.’ (Em- phasis by Newsbulletin). Making the point that “the surest way to invite suspicion of being a Co0- kie-snitcher is to be seen hanging around an open cookie par,” the Newsbul- letin concludes by saying: “We submit that Rathie, a big businessman in his own right, represents big bus- iness on city council. . - If Rathie doesn’t make LU, in our beer!” unists Ss ‘Namboodiripad, was arrested at his party’s headquarters in Delhi ; on Thursday, November 22. That same week, Indian police arrested over 350 members of the Communist Party, among them one member of the Lower House of the Indian Parliament, 30 members of state legislatures and five former ministers of the Ker- ala state government. There were no immediate in- dications of what charges would > be laid to justify the mass ar- rests. : ~