BCA CANDIDATES. Putting up a strong fight for new civic policies
centering on anti-pollution action, the candidates of the Burnaby civic
group are widely representative of community, ratepayer, labor and
other groups in the strongly labor municipality. : ~ :

Above photos show BCA aldermanic candidates filing their
Nomination papers last week for the election on Dec. 12. Top photo,
Council candidates from left, are John Motiuk, Tom Constable, Mayor
Robert Prittie of the BCA who is not up for election this year, Hazel
UEstrange and Fraser Wilson. Lower photo: shows School Board candi-
dates, from left, Orest Moysiuk, Beth Chobotuck, Mayor Robert Prittie,

Gnd Maurits Mann.

BCA outlines pollution stand

Speaking at a SPEC sponsored
election meeting last week,
Burnaby Citizens Association,
(BCA). aldermanic candidates
dealt in a\practical way with
Pollution problems which are of
Serious. concern, to Burnaby
People.

Fraser Wilson advocated the
Use of electric rail trans-
Portation for rapid transit; Tom
Constable stressed the need to
extend work’ on Burnaby Lake
and keep it intact as a park for
the pleasure of the people.

~ He said BCA would require oil
refineries that do not have
adequate sulphur extraction
apparatus to install such

equipment or improve what they
have. He promised they would
bring in controls with which
industry must comply or risk
being closed.

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Hazel L’Estrange_ said
pollution of the air and water and
from noise had been around
Burnaby longer than some of the
present aldermen on council.
BCA is pledged to action, and a
beginning would be a city-
financed independent survey of
all facets of the problem.

John Motiuk stated BCA was
committed to proper planning to
ensure that no more industry is
zoned near residential areas. He
said secondary and tertiary

Interest runs high in civic

High taxes and general
dissatisfaction with municipal
planning and big business favor-
atism has stimulated public
interest in municipal elections
and brought a significant drop in
acclamations for mayor and
council.

This year only 11 of 28 mayoral
vacancies went by acclamation;
31 out of 290 aldermanic posts,
although 80 of our 170 school
trusteeships were still returned
unopposed.

In sharp contrast to previous
years, in only two positions
(where no nominations were
received) will the Provincial
government be able to name its
man.

In addition to the 12 COPE and
18 NDP candidates in Van
couver (both of which have the
official endorsation of the Van-
couver Labor Council) there are
some twenty-one nominations
filed in other cities and towns
with ratepayer and labor and
progressive backing.

Among those being supported
by ratepayer, labor and pro-—
grssive groups are: Alberni:
Mark Ivacich, runner-up in last
years aldermanic contest, and
accountant Goerge Dunbar,
former alderman who lose out
last year in a tight fight for

- mayor:

In Ashcroft, Charles Winslow,

and in Chase Omar Paquette and

Coquitlam school board, Eunice
Parker. In Kamloops, union
leader. Bill Ferguson is running
for school board, and in Kent,
Bloyd “‘Bert’’ Nisson is running
for. council.

sewage treatment plants, with
federal and provincial financial
help, must be initiated.

The BCA candidate include in

their program more equitable
tax distribution. Education,

hospital, rapid transit and
welfare must be financed from
general revenues of Ottawa and
Victoria.

The school board candidates
advocate the community use of
schools; improved programs for
children with learning diffi-
culties;. more money for
education from the provincial
government and that Douglas
College be financed by the pro-
vincial government.

Labor Council calls for
support of COPE-NDP slate

The Vancouver and District Labor Council is
taking an active part in the December 9 civic
election by mailing out a slate card to every
home in the City of Vancouver, of which there .

are 144,000.

The slate cards say: ‘For a properly planned
city, low cost housing, rapid transit, equitable
tax structure, strong pollution controls . .
Vancouver and District Labor Council urges
every citizen to support the following progres-

Sive candidates. / .”’

’ For Mayor: Anthony Gargrave (NDP).

For Aldermen: Robert Douglas (NDP);
Ronald Gomez (COPE): Norman Levi (NDP),
Muriel Pandia (COPE); Harry Rankin
(COPE): John Stanton (NDP): Paul Sabatino
(COPE): Hilda Thomas (NDP): Dr. Harry Win-
rob (NDR4wBruce Yorke (CORE). -»

For School Board: Margaret Chunn (COPE);
Roger Howard (NDP): Kenneth McAllister

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pel (NDP).

(NDP): Paul Mitchell (COPE); Nigel Nixon
(NDP): Russell. Pedersen (COPE); Jake Rem-

For Parks Board: James Atkins (NDP);

Stephen Brown (NDP); Donald Greenwell

. the (COPE).

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years ago.

(COPE); Edward Leong (COPE); Roy Lowther
(NDP): Sidney Shelton (COPE); Karl Zuker

When nominations closed Wednesday, Nov. 25,

a record 105 candidates had filed nominations to
_ fill 27 positions. To be elected are the mayor, 10
aldermen, nine school trustees and seven park
board members. | $ :

A record 267,116 persons are registered to
vote. This includes both homeowners and
tenants. This is the first election in which 19-year- _
olds -have-the-right to vote, ‘whith partly accounts ”
for about 10,000 more registered voters than two

fight for education research,

In Burnaby, which also comes
under the provincial municipal
charter, voting will be, as with
all other municipalities (outside
of Vancouver) on Saturday,
Dec. 12. ;

Candidates in Burnaby receiv-
ing wide labor, ratepayer and
progressive support are: Tom
Constable, Hazel L’Estrange,
John Motiuk (young lawyer and
Tenant’s Council activist), and
veteran Fraser Wilson, for
council. Burnaby school board
candidates are Beth Chebituck
(a PTA leader), incumbent
Maurits Mann and teacher Orest
Moysiuk.

In Lake Cowichan, Archie
Greenwell is running for council,
and Robert Godfrey for school
board. In North Vancouver
District, veteran school trustee
Dorothy Lynas is up for re-
election, and in. Prince George,
Mrs. Lettie Omerod is running
for civic office.

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WILF LENNOX, independent
aldermanic candidate in Surrey
was given support by the New
Westminster and District Labor
Council last week. HARRY BALL,
who is given a good chance of
election in Surrey as an inde-
pendent for council, was also
endorsed by the labor body. Both
candidates have been life-long
trade unionists.

elections all over B.C.

Considerable interest on the
lower mainland is centred on a
sharp contest in Surrey, where
retired railroader and Old Age
Pension leader Harry Ball and
telegrapher Wilf Lennox, who
together with John Smith, candi-
date for Surrey school board,
were endorsed by the New West-
minster Labor Council recently.

TENANTS

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that this action was in direct
contravention to the Landlord
and Tenant Act.

The Act states: ‘‘No landlord,
his servant or agent shall impose
any special restrictions on
access to the rented premises by
candidates or their authorized
representatives for election to
the House of Commons, the legis-

lative assembly, any office in a
municipal government or
school board, for the purpose of
canvassing or distributing
election material.”

Yorke said he will make a test
case through courts, for the sake
not only of the organization he
represents, but on behalf of their
civic groups taking part in the
election. He made it clear that
tenants are not. second-class -
citizens, but are entitled to every
right enjoyed by property
owners.

The obstacles put in the way to
winning of tenants’ democratic
rights by the big-business NPA
and the landlords points up the
falsehood of the mayor’s ‘“‘law
and order” cry. The landlords
are breaking the law because
they are afraid of the tenants
vote.

The people of Vancouver will
have an opportunity this coming
Wednesday, when they go to the ~
polls, to clean out the big
business and real estate gang
who have controlled city hall for
too many years.

School finance formula

key issue in
- Eunice Parker, 39, and mother
to three boys, is taking up the
cudgels for a better deal for
education by running for a school
board seat in Coquitlam. She has
been involved for many years in
parent-teacher associations,
and is now serving her third
term as president of Alderson
Parents Auxiliary.

Her program is based on the
needs of a community where
shift classes have long been the
order of the day. She states the
new school finance formula (Bill
86) has tightened the financial
strait-jacket on school con-
struction with the result that
overcrowding exists.

Centennial High school,
designed to hold 1800 students
has over 2,000 enrolled, and plans
to build a new high school in Port
Moody -have been halted by the
provincial government.

Her program calls for more
money allocated from the pro-
vincial government to keep
local taxes down; gymnasiums
and libraries in every school; the
reduction of class size and

. provision for safety for children

on busy streets to include cross-

walk lights and adult patrols..;,

where necessary. :
Mrs. Parker is carrying on the

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Coquitlam

Coquitlam elections will be
held on December 12. Anyone
who wishes to assist in Eunice
Parker’s campaign should call
936-4467 or 939-0245.

teaching aids, and special:
consideration for special
classes as well as the involve-
ment of the public with the
school board for a better deal for
education. :

EUNICE“PARKER. “fonnifig’ for

school board in Coquitlam.

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