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Vishinsky greets Mme. Pandit

Mme. Viiaya Lakshmi Pandit, president of the United Nations,
was the guest of honor at a United Nations Correspondents Associa-
tion dinner recently. Shown greeting her is Andrei Vishinsky of

the Soviet Union.

‘Transit services
can be restored’

“Transit service can be restor-
ed by timely action now,” Effie
Jones declared this week in an-
nouncing that she will lead a dele-
gation of Civic Reform Associa-
tion members to council’s civic
utilities committee this coming
Monday at 10 a.m.

“The B.C. Electric expected to

Rights Bill
aim of LDR

A League for Democratic
Rights pamphlet containing a
draft Declaration of the Rights
of Canadians has been mailed to
every union local in British Col-
umbia, secretary Jack Phillips of
the Vancouver LDR branch said
this week.

“Parliament opens November
12 and the LDR will simultan-
eously distribute thousands of
copies of a new pamphlet, It’s
Still a Crime, to arouse Cana-
dians to the need to fight for and
extend our democratic rights,”
said Phillips.

Meeting in Montreal recently,
the LDR national executive
agreed that the new parliament,
as one of its first major acts,
should adopt a Declaration of
Rights and, at the same time, set
up a special parliamentary com-

~ mittee to draft a Bill of Rights

to be incorporated in the con-
stitution as soon as possible.

The meeting also agreed that
the amendments to the clauses
affecting civil liberties in Bill 93
(the proposed revision of the
Criminal Code) recommended by
the House of Commons’ Special
Committee last. May, were inade-
quate and unsatisfactory.

put this over without opposition,
encouraged by the servile attitude
of the NPA-dominated council.
However, the commuting public is
up in arms, and wherever action
has been taken to oppose the com-
pany’s new reduced schedules, im-
provements have been won. I am
appealing to all ratepayer, trade
union, and other organizations to
make representations to the civic
utilities committee next Monday
morning at city hall.”

"The franchise agreement with
the company calls for ‘adequate’
service. It is high time aldermen
were compelled to enforce this
clause.”

“The BCER has used the excuse
that it must reduce service on
some lines because it is losing
mony. But the company has been
permitted extra profits on its elec-
tric power rates to ‘compensate’
for so-called losses on its trans-
portation system.

“The company appears to want
jam on both sides. This is clear
from the figures for 1952 opera-
tions. The net profit before taxes
and bond interest was $15,988,000.
With interest deducted it was still
over $12,300,000, and with taxes
taken off it was over $9,800,000,
including the refundable portion
of its taxes.

“The company’s policy is ob-
viously to extract every last cent
from the public, at the same time
reducing service to gthe lowest
point it believes it can get away
with. It has ‘only been able to
do this so successfully because of
the complicity of the city coun-
cil!

“Had there been even one alder-
man with the people’s interests
at heart, the B.C. Electric would
not have been in a position to car-
ry through its latest cut-backs in
service.”

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strike against the order for th
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Martin Carter, chairman of the British Guiana Peace Committee; B. Tachmansing il

eir indefinite imprisonment without trial signe
or of British Guiana, last week. The five are: ‘
King, minister of works and communications; Rory Westmaas, PPP vicerchailm {

Adjodha Singh, both members of the House of Assembly.

Continued

STRIKE

pay hike before holding the gov-
ernment-supervised strike vote.

Existing contract between the
two unions and the companies
ealls for 10 days notice before
terminating the current agree-
ment.

At the present time there are
close to 8,000 IWA workers on
strike in the sawmills of the In-
terior. If the pulp and paper
workers strike it will see more
B.C. workers manning picket lines
than at any time since last year’s
Coast lumber tie-up.

A mass rally in support of strik-
ing woodworkers in this province
and the 7,000 Northern Ontario
and Quebec miners was held
Thursday this week at Pender
Auditorium, under sponsorship of
B.C. Federation of Labor and
Vancouver Labor Council (CCL).

Some 300 members of United
Packinghouse Workers Union, Lo-
cal 249 (CIO-CCL), employed at
Burns and Company, Vancouver,
were locked out by the company
last week for refusing to work
until a demoted worker was re-
instated.

The company obtained an in-
junction three days later, which
forbids picketing at the plant.
Unions are protesting this use of
the courts against the workers.

Continued

BIG FIVE

Correcting some of his previous
fulminations against Russian “ex-
pansionist aims,” Churchill ad-
mitted that “I do not find it un-
reasonable or dangerous to con-
clude that internal prosperity,
rather than external conquest, is
not only the deep desire of the
Russian peoples but also the long
interest of their rulers.”

Churchill remarked that the
rapid development of atomic and
hydrogen weapons of total des-
truction may in the end “bring
an utterly unforseeable security
to mankind,’ because “when the
advance of destructive weapons
enables everyone to kill every-
one, no one will want to kill any-
body at all.”

The, 78-year-old British leader
said that he still favored a meet-
ing of the Big Three Western
heads of. state with Soviet Pre-
mier Georgi Malenkov, but was
quite willing to “bide his time”
before insisting on such a con-
ference.

The Queen opened parliament
by reading the Speech from the
Throne, in which the Churchill
government solemnly pledged to
use the vast resources of the
Commonwealth “in the fight for
a lasting peace.”

barbed wire at Atkinson airfield
here.

Despite police raids and threats
to outlaw the People’s Progressive
party, Dr. Lachmansingh, minister
of health and housing in the oust-
ed government, declared here last
week that nothing would break
the morale of striking Guianese
sugar workers.

“Sugar workers have been shot
before on 12 occasions and are
familiar with the harsh hand of
British rule with big business
backing.

“The present situation of non-
cooperation is their only weapon
and it will be used indefinitely.

“One of the detained men,
Ajodha Singh, vice-president of
the union, was a victimized sugar
worker before winning a seat.
The persecution was not new to
him.” :

LONDON

Dr. Cheddi Jagan, deposed pre-
mier of British Guiana, told an
audience of Cambridge University
undergraduates last week, “Now
our case rests with the British
people. They must decide wheth-
er democracy is to survive in
British Guiana.”

Throughout Britain, protest
against the Churchill govern-
ment’s action in removing the Peo-
ple’s Progressive government of
British Guiana from office con-
tinues to mount.

Last week, Glasgow’s Lord Pro-
vost, Thomas A. Kerr, added his
voice to the protest as-one of the
signatories to a letter declaring:

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