ee ae | Lift tax burden. | fromhomeowners says Harry Ball © s , pies sponsored by the Burnaby H Council this year. is dam Turner. € propose to assess industry a other revenue-produci g pro- pay) im, line with its ability: to mer b Said Harry Ball, a former 1947, Be Seyonuncs team 1942 to reve, en he resigned to run for as three-point tax reform calls assessing value of property to oc 75 percent on im- : for rate to the average home owner and small | pusiness man (as recommended in Goldenberg report on taxa- tion); increasing: te na by 100 percent Catherine Marshthe tax on public Utilities; and raising trade license ee On big business while lowering! €$ on small businesses.” Woatherine Marsh and Elizabeth ei ilson are backed by the Muni- Pal Improvement» Association for Schoo] hoard, Mrs. Wilson is a Well-known member of the Parent- €achers Association and was 4 School board member from 1945 to Mrs, Marsh is corresponding ‘ Secretary of the Capitol Hill PTA | HARRY BALL houlders of the homeowner is the main election Candidates 4 BURNABY, B.C. Tax reform to lift the burden of increasing taxation from the demand of ‘three can- jvunicipal Improvement Association Harry Ball, John Greene and are and president men’s Peace Two contentious voters. Action Committee. by-laws pital and a school. ing that “we Burnaby is 2 need” the 5 point out that senior are shirking their lity and forcing the additional money jects. urgently needed include: pany. : A program of road- side- present wu factory work repairs of residential streets . Opening of a nodern sewage disposal plant & ‘urn the cost of sewage year) into a means of through the ‘sale of by-products the plant. Transportation pressing concern dents and Ball, ner, if elected, alle for more frequent heavily populated areas; problems are bus service tral Burnaby; - and more | north-to-south service. Harry Ball, 16 votes last year, : an excellent chance to win 4 this year. of the Burnaby Wo- face Both are money by-laws i onstruction of a hos- dealing with ¢ Be aate need and must have more schools” and “a hospital for definite and ‘urgent progressive candidates governments full responsibi- citizens to vote for such pro- Other municipal improvements | Operation of a municipal gravel pit now leased to a private com- disposal elizabeth Wilson (a loss of $16,704 for garbage last revenue to Burnaby vresi- Greene and Tur- pledged to work extension of routes through South and Cen- direct a railroad worker, j missed election to council, by Weis and is conceded seat ' : : alderman Immediate postal delivery, a road planks in the election program of Runar Nase, candidate in the coming civic elections. Nase was nominated last week by, program. \ [Nase CMtels snbieieh Ic contest | ALBERNI; B.C. paving program and the construction of additional sidewalks are mam who is seeking an aldermanic seat as an independent’ labor Axel O. Johnson, local businessman and -prominent member of the CCF, and John G. Strum, a retired grocer who in former years sponsored a union woodworkers’ radio / Active in union work and com- munity circles for many years, Ru- nar Nase is assured wide support from many sources. Coming, to Alberni 12 years ago, Nase worked as a logger, was later employed at S| pridge building and for the past five years has been a carpenter, &nd holds the position of trustee in the Carpenters and Joiners Un- jon, local 513. Nase is president of the Scandi- navian Society, a strong and vigo- rous association here. » He has held that responsible post for two terms. Married, with one daughter, Nase at 46 is in the prime of life. He has for many years been an active member of the Alberni Rate Pay- ‘ers Association and is always. among the first to volunteer for work on community projects. — “My campaign is based on a few simple needs,” says Nase. “We want mail delivery, road paving and sidewalks. Alberni is growing and we need a progressive admini- stration to look ahead and plan’ progressive steps. RUNAR NASE ‘Rent boosts vital issue’ “The problem of rising rents is a big issue in this civic election campaign this year,” Effie Jones, Civic Reform aldermanic candi- date, said this week. “Nearly a quarter of a million Vancouver tenants will be hit by rent boosts, unless the federa) government res- cinds its order, or the provincial government follows Saskatchewan lead and takes over rent controls. “Our civic government, which is closest to the people, has a respon- sibility to protect its citizens from unjustified rental increases. The present Non-Partisan council can- not be expected to act on behalf of the people; that is why it is vitally important to send progressive al- dermen to city hall on December 14, \ . | “T have received several lette1's from old age pensioners, who tell me that they have a choice between. starving or eviction if the higher rents are allowed to come into ef- fect. There are thousands of other tenants in the same position as these senior citizens. “It is also true that many big landlords and real estate compa- nies are soaking the people too much for run-down flats and apartments even today, yet are pre- paring to boost rents sky-high. “What can be done? First, I would advise ‘every tenant to join a Tenants Association and prepare “I feel that a union represen- tative on council is needed. If elec- ‘ted, I will work to help our city ‘grow along progressive lines. /We need street delivery of mail at once. We need a paving program —our streets are a disgrace. The sidewalk situation is just as bad as the roads, and I will fight to recti- fy this and have new sidewalks built.” Harris seeks Port seat PORT ALBERNI, B.C. Another prominent Port Alberni citizen has thrown his hat into the ring to join Clarke Tassie in the “fixed assessment” fight. He is Walter Harris, a former alderman and a former police commissioner for Port Alberni, Harris is deter- mined that fhe people of Port Al- berni will elect aldermen pledged to ending a situation which de- pilives their city of thousands 0 dollars of taxable revenue. s of of in | Commenting on Harris’ nomina- tion, Clarke Tassie declared: “No man can serve two masters. Raikes and Hastie have worked hard for their position in the mills. They are good servants of Bloedell, Stewart and Welsh and the Alber- * \ta Pacific Lumber Co. You cannot > ~NEW PAMPHLET EXPOSES BCER Just off the press, pamphlet issued’ by the umbia’s power and transit son and Bert Whyte, expose of the birth, of a modern transit octopus. Partisan politics, the timely It gives the Vancouver citizen daily, the factual lowdown on “The B. C. Electric and for public ownership of By comparison with other “The B. C. Electric and Pender Street. Make : BCElectric interests high thes : appealrance of this pamphlet in the midst of a municipal election campaign gi who you” is an h: d for this transit system dt? 3 You” is available in or single copies at the People’s Cooperative Books this pamphlet serve you "The BCElectric and You’ e .C. Electric and You” is a 16-page- Te epreE renee party. on British Col- monopoly. this pamphlet is political upbringing, Written by Emil Bjarna- a hard-hitting factual and grasping habits in the repertoire of Non- ves it a double value. the BCElectric shot who pays for a dime ride. is being taken and WHO owns it. ? as a Vancouver ership of civic transportation. able argument the BCElectric’s transportation system. _ ; largest cities, it shows WHO / At a bang-up celebration last Sa- bundle orders tore, 337 West to fight back. If there is no such association in the neighborhood, get together with other tenants and form one. 3 “Secondly, I would advise ten- ants to elect people to city council who will fight on their behalf and demand that governments hold the rent line. I am pledged to fight for this program if I am elected to council this year.” expect them to endanger all those years of hard and conscientious work by defying their employers, in serving the public interest. “The only fit and faithful serv- ants of the ratepayers must be un- fettered and independent of these two major corporations. Walter Harris and I offer ourselves for no other! purpose than to fight the fixed assessment.” ‘ i The Port Alberni citizens’ com- mittee backing the election of Tasse and Harris plan a mobiliz- ation on Saturday morning for citi- zens’ signatures calling for the abolition of the fixed assessment. Committee spokesmen expect a record turnout and response. CRA seeks volunteers “Only ten working days between new and the Vancouver civic elec- tions, December 14, and we need hundreds of volunteer distributors to put our election material into the hands of the people,” said a Civic Reform Association state- ment this week. “We appeal to all supporters of Effie Jones and Elgin Ruddell to come down to our elec- tion headquarters in the basement of the Ford Building, Main and Hastings, and help distribute leaf- turday night in Alberni, with over 200 guests present, Runar Nase an- nounced hig candidacy fox council- man for the “Old Town.” The gathering pledged “to elect him Ruddell hits NPA council sewer deal Elgin Ruddell, Civic Reform candidate for alderman, wrote to Vancouver city council this week supporting the policy of the Civic Employees Union regarding con- tracting of city works and demand- ing that all public works be done by the city engineer’s department where possible, and no contracts be let out except to firms employ- ing union labor. : “The Civic Refqrm Association goes even further than this,” said Ruddell in his letter. “Our primary concern is the safeguarding of the taxpayer’s dollar, and we take a strong stand against contracting any work whatsoever. There should be no private profit derived from city .work for any private firm. In future, council policy should conform to the position of ratepayers groups that ‘all city j work should be done by day labor’.” Ruddell’s communication follow- ed the issuing of an open letter by local 28, Civic Employees Union, dealing with city council’s accep- tance of a bid from Baynes Man- ning Limited for the installation of sewers in the South Granville area. The union's letter, directed to all trade unions, ratepayers gnoups, and the general public, said: “The city engineer’s department and three contracting firms also bid for the job. In all cases, their bids were higher than the one ac- cepted, with the city second low- . est. Does this mean, then, that the main consideration of the city was to give the job out to the low- est bidder? “On checking this fitm, we could discover Mo previous ex- perience in this type of street work in Vancouver. Further, on checking with the Building Trades Council we were inform- ed that they were paying their laborers 10 cents an hour less than the $1.15 agreed to. “The vate for ditch-diggers work- ing for the city of Vancouver, set in collective bargaining between the city and this union, is $1.13 per hour. This is exclusive of all benefits. We hold that it is not ethical for the city to agree to one standard of pay for its own work- men, and then give the work to a firm paying below that standard. “This contract is the first: sewer contract under the city’s 10-year plan. We maintain it should be the last. We share the opinion of many ratepayers groups and trade unions: that no_ profits should be made out of public works financed by the ratepayers’ money. “Our union maintains that all of the city’s public works. should be done by the city engineer’s depart- ment, except wherte this depart- ment lacks the trained personnel or equipment to do a specific job. In the case of sewer installation, no private firm can compete with the city engineer’s department in respect to trained personnel and experience, and they certainly have the equipment. “Our position is not a selfish craft or occupational one. We have the interests of our commu- nity at heart. As a trade union, we want good wages for our mem- bers. which is good for the com- Citizen in the fight for public owm - munity.” ' this first time out.” lets and other materials.” ‘ j : PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 2, 1949 — PAGE 7