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by Sam Russell

Page 9
Tom McEwen reports
from Soviet Union

Page 12

other government leaders will par-
tional day, October 1, fifth anni-

_ Mac Tse-tung, Chu Teh and
ticipate in celebrations on China’s nation
Versary of the Chinese People’s Republic.

China’s national day
to be marked in city

akers will be Ray Gardner of

members ot Spe
Council and

the , B.C. Peace
urice Rush of the Labor-Pro-

This
Vancouver’s Chinese community
will gather to observe the fifth

weekend,

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SENIOR

CITIZENS
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PENSION

A resolution requesting the federal government to ‘‘raise the basic pension to
$60 per month and thus remove from this country the stigma of having hundreds of
thousands of its senior citizens living in penury’’ was unanimously endorsed by dele-
gates attending the B.C. Senior Citizens’ Association convention here this week.

A rider to the resolution asked Ottawa ‘‘to give to disabled veterans the pen-
sion of $60 per month when they
come to pensionable age without
deducting any of the pension
from their disability allowance.”

Other resolutions dealing with

Steve Endicott will speak at
methods of exsng the economic WOYtR Convention in city

helped build Canada and now, in r By BERT WHYTE

enniversary of the founding of
the People’s Republic of China on
October 1, 1949.

The celebration will make
special note of the recently-end-
ed sessions of the first parliament
in Chinese history to be elected
by universal vote and the adop-
tion by it of ‘a new constitution
marking the consolidation of peo-
ple’s power and the beginning of
the building of socialism in China.

Opening the day’s festivities
will be a concert at the Russian
People’s Home, 600 Campbell
Avenue. It will feature dances,
Songs, and skits from China.

their golden years, face unneces-
sary hardships, called for:

@ Social Service departments
to supply free eyeglasses, den-
tures and hearing aids where
necessary to those receiving So-

gressive party.

A Chinese banquet at the Bam-
hoo Terrace, with Nigel Morgan,
LEP provincial leader, as guest
speaker, will wind up the day’s

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MLA signs fare petition too

NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.
North Shore Chapter of Congress of Canadian Women, in an
interview with George Tomlinson, MLA, presented a petition calling
for the rescinding of the recent fare increase aranted ithe B.C.
Electric, noting especially the boost in the price of children’s tickets.
Tomlinson said he would forward the petition to Victoria, added

his own name to it, and congratulated the CCW on its endeavor.
He also expressed the hope that the appeals against the fare

increase will be successful.

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cial Assistance or Social Security.

Since he left B.C. a little more
than two years ago to act as Can-
adian representative at the World
Federation of Democratic Youth,
with headquarters in Budapest,
Steve Endicott has visited 21
countries in Europe and Asia.

When Endicott arived in Van-
couver this week to attend the
National Federation of Labor
Youth provincial convention he
ticked off the countries he had
seen in his travels. Oddly enough, i

‘he never revisited China — the

Shortly after his return to Can-
ada last May, Endicott was elect-
ed national secretary of the Na-

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STEVE ENDICOTT

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