| \/ PE. —_——EE ESS 1 Lo Peers re a so ee | ee net atiny Vol. 16 No. 49 S28 Authorised as second FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1957 lO¢ VANCOUVER, B.C. class mail by ~____ the Post Office Department, Ottawa lower electric rates ‘aim of Effie Jones Dal Grauer’s statement that B.C. Electric bills are higher ey When compared with the “few low cost hydro areas of this “patinent,”” is just so much rubbish, says Effie Jones, Indepen- : | | : ) fi i f {! fy ( é i) fl ¢ ’ i {| ) i } “ni aldermanic candidate in pic Elections. Bite fact is that for ordinary ; €ntial consumers the rate -8Neouver is higher than in nee which is one of the Cities that has no ac¢ess to . power whatever, “says * Jones. The cost of 300 on} Is $8.72 in Vancouver and Y $6.85 in Regina. thar tues further statement efle ydro prices are a direct Ction of the cost of de- op Ping the water resources adin, rivers is equally mis- §. If we compare the a R With Winnipeg’s Hydro ih yo that the capital cost bighen wouver is 50 percent the a than in Winnipeg but the ice of electricity is more toni. W1ce as high,” Mrs. Jones ntinued, big difference is in Winnipeg Hydro has its capital expendi- at of an average interest No 398 percent and it pays OD ‘Neome tax. B.C. Electric Dotig. Other hand demands a Neon, °f 6% percent and pays wy ~ ‘8X as well. F Be : 1953, the last year which available ely from gas and trans- fi ‘Darat 8ures are the December 11 Wancouver EFFIE JONES it, the interest, profit and in- come tax charged to electricity was more than $15,700,000 or four fifths of a cent per kwh. For the same year the Win- nipeg Hydro interest and profit amounted to- $1,600,000 or one- fifth of a cent per kwh.” It makes little difference, Mrs. Jones contends, whether we get our power from the Fraser, the Columbia or the Cheakamus, if the BCE con- See RANKIN Continued on back page ON OF NPA CHALLENGED BY LABOR “Entrance of three labor aldermanic candidates has set the heather on fire for a change at City Hall,” delegates attending \Tuesday’s meeting of Vancouver Labor Council were told by Bill Black, chairman of the VLC Political Education Committee. Campaign for the election of Charles Lamarche, Sam Jenkiis and Paddy Neale is now “in full cwing” and unionists will blanket the city with leaflets and posters this Saturday. “We are asking all trade unionists to turn out at the Labor Temple on Saturday to help with distribution of pro- grams and election material,” said Black. “It will be an all- day operation and we hope to have hundreds of volunteers who will contribute a couple of hours of their time.” Donations from local unions tc the VLC election committee already total $1,460 in cash, plus many pledges, and coun- cil is planning to contribute $1,000. “yne 650) accredited dele- gates to this council will re- ceive telegrams before Satur- day, appealing to them per- sonally to take part in the can- vass this weekend,” said VLC. president Lloyd Whalen. “The matter should be taken up with the entire membership of the trade union movement.” Getting out the vote on Dec-. ember 11 is one of the prime objectives of the campaign. In past years labor and pro- gressive candidates have often failed to be elected because only a small percentage of workers eligible to vote went to the polls. All signs point to a larger vote this year than last year’s post-war low of 25.5 percent, despite the fact that there is no mayorality contest. in addition to the serious challenge to Non - Partisan domination made by the three Vancouver Labor Council can- didates, the candidature of Effie Jones has won wide sup- port in labor ranks. Mrs. Jones, long known as “B.C. Electric Public Enemy Number One,” has endorsed labor’s program and is cam- paigning on a people’s pro- gram calling for unity of labor, ratepayers and progressives \to sweep away the NPA. Last year she polled close to 18,000 votes. Only opposition to the NPA in the school board contest is offered by Vancouver lawyer Harry Rankin, chairman of Grandview Community Cen- tre Association and vice-presi- dent of Central Council of Ratepayers. He is running as an independent. CHARLES LAMARCHE PADDY NEALE SAM JENKINS * The Pacific Tribune ad- vises its readers that the best way to end Non-Partisan Association domination of Van- couver is to vote for the three aldermanic candidates sponsor- ed by Vancouver Labor Council (Charles Lamarche Sam Jenkins and Paddy Neale) and for Effie Jones of Civic Reform Association, whose long record in the pro- gressive movement has entitl- ed her to the support of or- ganized labor. In the school board contest the Pacific Trib- une urges a vote for Harry Rankin, only candidate oppos- ing the NPA. Election day in- formation may be secured by phoning the Effie Jones EI- ection Headquarters, MArine 7631. Rankin opposes NPA in school hoard race Independent candidate Harry Rankin decided to enter the Vancouver school board race “because the Non-Partisan Association has lost the confidence of a large section of the el- ectorate.” The young lawyer, only candidate opposing the NPA in the December 11 elections, outlined his reasons for running and summed up his program in a press statement released this week. Rankin’s statement reads: “I have put my name for- ward as an independent can- didate for school board after some consideration of the whole question of election is- sues in Vancouver. “Tt seems to me that it would be wrong in principle to al- low the civic elections to go uncontested in this particular field especially believing as I do that the Non-Partisan As- sociation has lost the confi- dence of a large section of the electorate in Vancouver, and with no o’her official opposi- tion created to contest this el- ection vigorously, I have de- See JONES Continued on back page