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MPLOYED

Peace march
planned in city

Vancouver branch of the
pacifist Fellowship of Re-
conciliation has announced it
will stage a peace march in
Stanley Park on Sunday,
June 8.

The march is intended as
a demonstration of protest
against continued manufacture
and testing of nuclear wea-
pons. and to arouse public
opinion against the threat of
nuclear war.

According to a plan of ac-
tion outlined by Mrs. Mildred
Fahrni, Vancouver branch
president, to the Stanley Park
CCF Club’s public forum last
Sunday, the group intends to
picket warships participating
in Vancouver’s centennial
celebrations and to stage pub-
lic burnings of war toys.

The group’s aim, according
to Mrs. Fahrni, is “to stir
people to express themselves
publicly in demonstrations
and outdoor meetings against
testing of bombs and bomb
manufacturing,”

B.C. TELEPHONE GIVES
POOREST SERVICES
AT HIGHEST CHARGE’

By BERT WHYTE

Civic Reform Association threw B.C. Telephone bigwigs into a minor panic Tuesday
when economist Emil Bjarnason presented an exhaustive CRA brief charging that quality of

service “does not warrant the prices now paid, let alone higher rates,’
of the Board of Transport Commissioners hearing
hefty boost in telephone rates.

The Civic Reform Associa-
tion’s brief made these points:

@ Rates now charged by
B.C. Telephone are unreason-
ably high when measured by
comparison with those of tele-
phone companies operating in
other large cities of Western
Canada.

@ Quality of service does
not warrant the prices now
paid, let alone higher rates.

Senator J. W. deB. Farris,
company counsel, made a fee-
ble attempt to cross-examine
Bjarnason, then gave up with
the remark that “there will be
a statement prepared by the
company after we have exam-
ined the brief.”

On the first day of the hear-
ing B.C. Tel executives and
economists had deliberately ig-
nored a plea made on behalf
of some 75,000 B.C. pension-
ers by G. W. Norman, vice-
chairman of Federated Legis-
lative Committee, Elder Citi-
zens Associations. They listen-
ed coldly to Norman’s appeal,
dismissed him without cross-
examination.

“We feel that the telephone

today is a home necessity and
not a luxury, and to impose
any further expense upon our
elderly people on fixed in-
comes would be a grave in-

’

at the second session

into B.C. Telephone’s application for a

justice,” Norman told the hear-
ing.
Deploring the tendency to-
Continued on back page
See B.C. TELEPHONE

Half - million march
against de Gaulle

PARIS—The fate of France hangs in the balance. as this
is written. And the decisions of the Socialist party may well

determine that balance.

On Wednesday this week half a million people carrying

banners proclaiming ‘Vive
“Fascism shall not pass” pa-
raded through the streets of
Paris in one of the most im-
pressive and orderly demon-
strations the capital has ever
seen. They were drawn from
the ranks of all parties from
Communist. to Catholic, and
with them marched three for-
mer premiers, Pierre Mendes-
France, Edouard Daladier and
Paul Ramadier.

It was the answer of the
French ‘working people to
General de Gaulle—and it was

Do you remember this?

Republique” and chanting

unmistakable.

Now President Rene Coty
has told the National Assem-
bly that de Gaulle is the coun-
try’s “only hope” and said that
if the general is not accepted,
he will resign.

Coty’s resignation would
place the responsibility of con-
stitutional leadership in the
hands of Andre le Troquer,
Socialist speaker of the as-
sembly.

(Continued on page 6)
SEE FRANCE

% This picture was taken in 1935, in the depth of the Hungry Thirties. H shows unem-

ployed men lined up outside First United Church at H
ground stands the late Rev. Andrew Roddan, who thundered his
over the air. The lines are not yet as long, but

astings and Gore. In the fore-

protest from the pulpit and

a similar picture could be taken today.

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