—

Machine tax
removal hit
in Burnaby

, Reaffirming its brief presented
the Burnaby municipal council
On March 16, which strongly
Poeted the new amendments
i the Municipal Act by the prov-
Neial government, removing the
Powers of the municipal council
a levy a machinery tax, and its
€placement with a business tax,
Pa cipal Affairs Committee
© Burnaby Communist Party
again placed its position before
© council on Sept. 28.

The Communist delegation est-
fished before council that the

Moval of the machinery tax
a deprived Burnaby of approx-
py $450,000 in annual rev-
ae and while council could
levy a business tax there
i Te provincial amendment lim-
ations on that “right”.

The end result would be that
18 concerns like Standard Oil,
Sntinental Can, Trans-Mountain
fa etc., stood to gain substan-
tax reductions as a result of

© Municipal Act amendment,
oa small business and the
a home-~-owner would be
a ae with the heaviest share
aa € tax load. Residential tax
°SSments are already faced

a 5.5 mill increase this
Year

The Communist Party Munici-
i Affairs delegation pointed out
Council “that the large cor-~
arations and industrial concerns
ore @ position to absorb more
ea tax load... and that there
t be no further tax increases
nc Sidential properties in
em, ing the deficit incurred by
Oval of the machinery tax.”

A Burnaby Chamber of Com-
Roe representation to the mun-
Pal council advocated “recov-
oe of the loss on machinery
: Tevenue by a general mill
a Merease, designed to boost
eae load on the small busi-
Man and homeowners,

THE ‘BIG STEAL’

Soviets place

WEALTH

big order

for B.C. sawmill plant

Canadian Sumner Iron Works
in Vancouver has announced that
one of the largest sawmill ma-
chinery orders ever to be placed
in Western Canada has just been
negotiated with the Soviet Union.

The $3 million sawmill which
will be erected in the vicinity
of Bratsk, U.S.S.R., will be one
of the world’s largest and most
completely mechanized. Sawing
lines will include mechanized
whole log hydraulic debarker,
carriage andbandmill, edger, re-
saw and trimmer, as wellas con-
veying equipment, hogs, chip-
pers, screens and auxiliary ma-
chinery.

The equipment is engineered
by the Black Clawson-Interna-
tional, Although this is the first
large package of Black Clawson
sawmill equipment, the firm has
been a major supplier of paper
machines as well as pulping and
stock preparation equipment to
the expanding pulp and paper
industry of the Soviet Union,

The international firm, through

its London office, has already
provided two complete newsprint
machines for a new mill in Kon-
dopoga and three pulp mill pro-
jects have been equipped with
the firm’s Pandia continuous di-
gester.

The new sawmill is expected
to go into production late in 1966
or early 1967. The Soviet Union
specifically requested that the
equipment be built by the Van-
couver firm.

In a press release last week
the Canada Sumner Iron Works
announced that it will expand its
manufacturing facilities in order
to cope with increased sales of
equipment, “The recently spe-
cified Sumner sawmill equipment
package by the Soviet Union lum-
ber industry is one of the prin-
cipal reasons for the expansion.”

This latest deal underlines
once again the great possibilities
for trade between Canada and
the Soviet Union, and the advant-
ages it can bring to the country’s
economy.

Civic democracy attacked
by action of NPA council

ing eouver City Councilisaim-
— hold elections every two
S, instead of annually, if it
c Set approval of the provincial
Sislature. This decision’ was
El last Tuesday when council
ed to seek an amendment

the City Charter.

na rocates of the scheme argue
$49 this would save the taxpayers
4 1000 a year in election expens-

Dent also decided to put a
ete before the electors in
of meee calling for the addition
ing ie aldermen to council, bring-
ible € total to 12, This is poss-
but ee thin the present charter
quires a two thirds approval
Voters,

AS lliam Stewart, Vancouver

tary of the Communist Par-

‘Saeaee the action of council

' Chensible and challenged it

e 4 the proposal for biennial
ns to the voters,

Sq

&
eet council is doing, behind
Cit acks of the people of this
in ws, cutting civic democracy
leipay Stewart charged, “Mun-
De Bolitics is very close to the
€ and annual electionsallow

‘yoters to run a close check on
civic government. The cost of
$40,000 when takenagainsta total
city budget of $67.5 million is
very small indeed—.007 percent.

«Tet there be no mistake about
it: civic democracy and civic
government arein serious danger
in Vancouver. This action of

MARTIN LUTHER KING, U.S. Negro

leader, has won the Nobel Peace
Prize for 1964. His award is seen as
a gesture of world support of the
Negro people in the U.S.

council is part of a longer range
objective, freely espoused by
Mayor Rathie, to lengthen the
terms of office of aldermen to
four years,

«It is also connected with the
campaign presently being spear-
headed by Alderman Lipp, but
supported by the majority of
council members, to turn the
public sector of civic administra-
tion over to private enterprise,”

Commenting ontheproposed
plebiscite for two additional al-
dermen, Stewart expressed the
opinion that people would support
the proposal because they fav-
ored anything that would broaden
the democratic base in Van-
couver. However, he added “this
is really sugar coating for the
bitter pill and should not obscure
the vision of the voters,

«The very pressure which
forced them to consider increas-
ing the council by two members
can defeat their two year elec-
tion scheme, The democratic
movement in the city should de-
luge council with protests de-
manding that the matter be sub-
mitted to voters in December,”
Stewart concluded.

Toronto printers face
brutality from police

Police brutality has been in-
jected into the drawn-out battle
between the Toronto T ypographi-
cal Union and the publishers of
the city’s three daily newspapers,

During picketing of an inde-
pendent print shop accused of
setting advertisements for the
dailies, police manhandled union
pickets, arrested five men, hand-
cuffed and fingerprinted them like
criminals involved in a serious
crime,

The union, protesting unneces-
sary police force and roughness,
has pledged that police violence
will not halt picketing. “If neces-
sary our men will be arrested
and charged,” declared Balfour
Mackenzie, a member of the
union’s publicity committee,

The first man arrested was
Bruce MacMurchy, a former
RCAF man who flew 50 combat
missions during theSecond World
War,

Asked if the union had experi-
enced previous police brutality,
Mackenzie replied that “Our re-
lations with the police have been
extremely good, But the police
seem to have now become pro-
gressively aggressive,”

On Oct, 6, the union picketed
the North Toronto Herald, also
accused ,of setting ads for the
dailies,

“The police tried to provoke
us there too,” said Mackenzie,

_ “But we didn’t take the bait,”

Ontario labor fighting
against injunctions too

By BRUCE MAGNUSON

NORTH BAY — “We in the
trade union movement are pre-
pared to work with any other
group in the community in search
of solutions to our diverse prob-
lems to which there are no simple
solutions,” Dave Archer, presi-
dent of the Ontario Federation
of Labor told nearly 900 dele-
gates in convention here Oct. 5.

“Those who advocate easy sol-
utions are either kidding them-
selves or being dishonest,” he
stated. “We in the labor move-
ment would not be so naive as
to pretend that we have all the
answers, nor would we be so
foolish as to shut our eyes to
change if we were convinced that
such change would benefit the
whole community.

Archer demanded effective
consultation withmanagement

Greet Morris

The national executive of the
Communist Party last week
greeted Leslie Morris, national
leader of the party, on the occa-
sion of his 60th birthday, which
was October 10.

‘The birthday message said,
“Your life has been devoted to
the cause of peace, democracy
and socialism and to the building
of a strong consciousness in the
working class of thehistoric role
it must play in transforming

concerning changed conditions of
employment not covered by a
collective agreement, recogni-
tion of labor's rights, and an end
to the “residual ‘rights’* theory
of management with freedom for
workers to resort to whatever
means they deem necessary to
counter management without be-
ing branded lawbreakers. He in-
cluded also a demand for a change
in the “no strike” legislation,

Other points raised by Archer
included abolition of injunctions
as a strike-breaking tool of the
employers, a warning to labor
not to shut its eyes to the emer-
gence of the Goldwater forces in
the U.S.

Archer’s speech set the tone
for a new departure in policy,
including a declaration of war
on poverty by this, the most
progressive and militant O.F.L,
convention in many years,

on birthday

society, Your talents and leader-
ship have played an important
role in this process,”

Wishing him “all the best,”
the greeting says, “We know how
unhappy you are that your ilness>
has made it necessary for you to
take it easy for a little while,
But we also know that before too
long you will be back on the job
together with us and the entire
party to continue the grand
struggle to victory,”

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