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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1954

BCE ahead 5-1

on wage boosts

“B.C. Electric operations in the last seven years have received
five dollars in price increases for every dollar they have paid out in
wage increases,” said Emil Bjarnason, ieading trade union economist
and official of the Civic Reform Association, commenting on the

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company’s claims in its submission to Vancouver City Council.

Nominated

Gwyn Walters, young logger of
_Notch Hill, was named by accla-
mation to contest Salmon Arm
constituency in the next provin-
cial elections at a public meeting
last Saturday night at the interior
centre. Nige! Morgan, LPP pro-
yvincial leader, who addressed the
nominating conference said Wal-
ters was the first of 40 candidates
the Labor-Progressive party in.

tends to nominate in the next.

faw weeks.

‘The BCER’s case for its need .

for increased revenue was based
chiefly, according to Bjarnason
on two points: :

© The cost of recent wage in-

creases granted to the Street

Railwaymn’s Union.

® Attraction of extra money
for the capital expansion pro-
gram.

The ‘increases in rates in seven
years have amounted to $25 mil-
lion dollars and the total wage
bill increased by only $4.5 mil-
lion. ; ‘

“By cutting service and con-
verting to oneman vehicles, they
have kept wage costs down,” the
economist said. ¥ :

On the alleged need for more
revenue to attract investors, he
pointed to the widely-publicized
deal in which officers of the com-
pany were given $135,000 in stock
options. »

“Last December the market
price of that stock was $16, now
it is selling on the open: market
for $22. The investors are bid-
cing the shares up,” he said. “In
other words, more money is. being
offered than the company is ask-
ing, even at the present rate of
return.”

On the stock-option deal itself,
he remarked that the company
had deprived itself of an extra
$6 a share by “cutting a melon”
for its favored few. :

Last chance to get on
voters list Aug. 9-21

Vancouver residents, your last
chance to get on the new city
* voters’ list wi:l be from Monday,

August 9, to Saturday, August 21
at City Hall. ‘

This year ‘everyone in Vancou-
ver who is a Canadian citizen, 21
years of age and has lived in the
city since the first of January is
eligible to vote.

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City hall will be open for vot-
ers who want to register from
830 am. to 5 p.m., Monday to
Friday dugjng the two weeks. In
addition it will be open all day
Saturday, August 14, and August
21 and may be also open until
9 p.m. on the last three days,
Thursday, August 19, Friday, Aug-
ust 20 and Saturday, August 21,
it the rush of registrations is big
enough. ’

Enumerators have already gone
from door-to-door earlier in the
year getting names for the voters
list:

You can check whether your
name is already on the list, simp-
ly by phoning EM. 1313 and ask-
ing for ‘Voters’ Lists.”

if your name is not on the list,
you must go in person to city hall
and register.

Remember that closing date,
Saturday, August 21 — it’s your
last chance to make sure that you
have a vote in December!

Labor picnic contestants

Some of the contestants in the popularity contest at the United Labor Picnic here August 8a
first row, left to right, Mae Wainwright, Joey Forbes, Catherine. Phillips, Riva Pike, Sylvia L
Dagmar Nissila; second row, Jean Waugh, Joanne Scott; back row, Brenda Keeley, Carole Lawrie,

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ahti,
Kay

Kahadikon, Rolly Weinstein, Ruth Wennerlow, Olive Anderson, Margaret Bobb, Ruth Dean and Jo

Rutka. Not shown in Picture are Agnes Jackson, Lena Lipsey, and two contestants identified only 3°
Camille and “Mr. Kitsilano.” (See picnic story on Pave 7). : ;

‘Let’s go it alone’ says

union on gas pipeline |

_ The drive in British Columbia for a ‘‘go it alone’ policy in building a gas
line is strongly supported by Division 101 of the Street Railwaymen’s Union.

pipe’
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the U.S. Federal Power Commission refused to grant a permit to Westcoast Transm

sion to’ export natural gas

of the first unions to call for an all

Their stand has been taken up
by a number of other unions and

public bodies. The Labor-Pro-
gressive party is now spearhead-
ing a campaign to build a public-
ly-owned pipeline to the Greater
Vancouver area.

“There is an important lesson
to be learned on the ‘Go It Alone’
approach,” says Hi-Lites, Division
101’s monthly bulletin. “For 25
years the St. Lawrence Seaway
Project had been held up by
the U.S. Congress, but the, mo-
ment that Canada decided to

‘go it alone’ the U.S. brasshats .

and politicians couldn’t get into

Continued

BCER

Spokesmen for the No Fare In-
crease Commiitee report that the
next meeting of the organization
will be. this Friday, July 23, at
8 p.m. at 339 West Pender, and
invite the attendance of all inter-
ested citizens. : ;

&

Don’t Forget
_ Paul Robeson
At Peace Arch Park

Sunday August 1
2:30 P.M.

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to the Pacific Northwest, the on

Canadian pipeline.

Street Railwaymen wet

omy demands trade, and ey
means jobs. More jobs ™° og

more money in the pockels

working and farming peoPl® pr0-
Also high on the union pout
gram is the fight for a seve?™
day. : rate
“The seven-hour days iS 3 Lage
tical, realizable goal. 10°
it, all that is required is £0 yt
unions, AFL, CCL, Catholic *
dicates and Independents !

the act fast enough to extract
the big profits they have their
greedy eyes on. :

“The gas pipeline will give a
needed lift to dozens of small
communities in the interior, be-
cause in its wake will come new
industries using this power not
to speak of big increases in popu-
ation and cheaper fuel for all of
us;

Big problems still remain: un-

solved, savs the union publica-
fon in comment on this year’s
successful wage negotiations.
: “The big question of markets
+or our B.C. produce, lumber,
mining, fishing, fruit and agricul-
tural products has not even been
explored,” it remarks.

“The very nature of our econ-

“The big technologicat t, i
that have been brought spur ef
creased production with tio
people justifies the intr
‘of the seven-hour day now anor?
answer to full employments | nget
Icisure time, better an
living.”

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