val hhh ™Go if alone on pipeline ‘into h ae | eit j verte a, adel, ! Wa tf titly Werte Tl eis haan Wy Hh Wile, Wi Hi) Wh %, 4 Afi, Boom in construction would mean boom in jobs Page 2 eee \British Empire Games fever grips Vancouver Page 10 Signatures flood in On anti-BCE petition Sid Aaa of .canvassers will stand on Po aches, factories and mills, or throu ain centres served by the B- “‘toughout the coming two weeks to rac street corners, cover parks trudge from door to door in Cc. Electric this Saturday and k up thousands of names on etiti 5 Itions opposing any boost in fares. 5 pbearheading the anti- BCE ire its Greater Vancouver is Elected ffie Jones who has been ss head of the newly-formed a Increase Committee.” etm of private citizens in Detitin are circulating a similar fares m against a boost in bus 4 in the capital city. She a Jones ‘has reported that Sons pleased with the warm re- Ter be to the first canvass with nigh etition and has called for a ang effort to get more names. ‘only aeons of names are the the a ing that’s going to stop Beles and it’s up to the ro? she~said, in appealing Si More volunteers to collect es: a\ 8 hh Jones asked those willing the Pan to call at her office in ids nder Auditorium, 339 West 3831 ao to phone her at PA. Mailed air forms can be € petition campaign ‘swung fight ra) gear after the successful ties en compel the Public Utili- ly Snags ata to postpone the July 5 hearings scheduled for in 220 in Vancouver and July 29 Ictoria. that gr with a storm of protest @ 6 e early date didn’t give pie ton to the company’s ar ation time to prepare their ents the PUC backed down ang ¢ set fhe dates ahead to August in vy; “3 Victoria and August 9 i Vancouver. Mrs. Jones this week with vice-president of crease Committe for postponemen members of the Commission. They met with Chairman Percy George and Commission member D. K. Penfeld. “we felt that they had already made up their minds to grant the company’s request,” Mrs. Jones told the Pacific Tribune, “but they did not like the idea of the petition.” Strong press flew to Victoria George Edwards, the No Fare In- e, to lay the case t directly before Public Utilities ure for a delay in the hearings came from the labor movement. Amons the unions protesting the attempt to rush consideration of the company’s application were Vancouver Fire- fighters, Pulp and Sulphite, Mar- ine Workers, Canadian Communi- cations Association, Vancouver Outside Civic: Workers, Jewelry Workers, Fur and Leather, Mine- Mill, West Coast Seamen’s union and Fishermei’s union. Telegrams were also sent by she chief job. stewards at Bur- rard Drydock and Western Bridge for their membership. Other protests came from the Vancouver and Victoria commit- tees of the Labor-Progressive party. Continued on back page See BCER Afte r more than seven years of war, during which France admittedly lost at Geneva. The historic agreements were si j gned just before dawn Wednesday thi only sine hours and 50 minutes after the Tuesday midnight ee as ek premier Pierre Mendes-France has set for peace or his resignation casei us ae France the people breathed a great sigh of relief because the “di - ad ended. And in all countries of the world the hearts of th eer people lifted in the hope that peace in Indochina will pave the way oe aes ce in Asia and the world. Voicing the thoughts of 475 millions of Chinese Biieebs — and the desi esires ; tri Ss Pr 1 A i Gg i i i in issuing a call for a pan-Asian security bloc to safeguard the collective Bias of Asi =) . a: “It is my firm belief that, once collective security is established in certain areas of Asia, gradual expansion of such areas of peace will be possible, thereby leading to the consolidation of the peace and security of the whole world. “All participating states of the Geneva conference should joiht- ly assume obligations to provide collective guarantees for the peace of the three Indochina states so as to free these states com any threat of force of out- side intervention.” Chou’s statement, made during an interview with Morgan Phil- lips, secretary of the British Labor party, was broadcast over the BBC. The Indochina settlement was reached in Geneva while U.S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles sulked in Paris. Peace in Indochina is a shattering blow to Dulles’ plans ior spreading war. Gen. Georges Delteil of France and Gen. Ta Wuang Buu of the Viet Minh signed armistice agree- ments covering Viet Nam and Loas. Cambodia, the third Indo- vhina state, signed a few hours later. The agreement laid a partition across the 42-mile-wide waist of Viet Nam at the 17th parallel of latitude. The French have been given 300 days to move out of the big northern cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. Civilians on either side will have one year to move to the other side if they desire. A three-power armistice com-. mission, headed by India and in- cluding Canada and Poland, has been proposed to supervise the carrying out of the terms agreed upon. Dotted line shows the iti i ‘ partition line decided u t eeeutenialia a pected parallel, it ait saraa dere beige 2 . e Frenc i pre HP ave been given 300 days to get out