MAYOR MUIR TROUNCED IN NANAIMO Labor candidates poll strong vote A feature of the civic and muni- cipal elections held throughout British Columbia on Thursday and Saturday last week was the strong vote polled by labor and progres- sive candidates in the four cities and one municipality contested. In New Wetsminster, Hugh Clark running for city council on a joint ratepayers’ slate, was again run- ner-up, polling 764 votes. © In Port Alberni, two progressive candidates both won considerable support, C. M. Tassie polling 449 and W. L. Harris 350 votes for city council. Runar Nase, making his first bid for city couricil in Alberni, polled 223 votes as a trade union candi- date, tying with Malcolm MacKen- zie for runner-up. In North Vancouver, Damen Eisenman, again running for al- derman as a labor candidate, drew 541 votes. - Labor-hating Mayor George Muir was roundly defeated in Nanaimo by Ald. Earle C. Westwood, to whom labor supporters threw a decisive portion of the 1200 votes that gave him victory. Muir got 973 votes. Candidates of the Municipal Im- provement Association, contesting council and school board seats in Burnaby, rolled up record votes in the municipal election last Satur- day but failed to take either a council or school board seat. In an upset election, the CCF council- lor W. R. Beamish defeated Non- Partisan Reeve G. A. Morrison and two other CCF candidates, F. A. Armstrong and G., A. Isherwood EAST END 3 TA XI UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 24-Hour Service Vancouver Fully Insured 8il E. Hastings RAAB MII TT BAH sss XMAS GREETINGS! eral government. ing the session, Outside the house and unwelcome in thee extreme to the government steamroller, the complacency of members and government and break through the parliamentary insulation from the country’s grave problems. Fred McGregor, or the country-wide storm of protest against rent increases. took ¢ouncil seats formerly held by the NPA. Following is the complete vote of Burnaby: Reeye W. R. Beamish (CCF), 4680; Reeve G. A. Morrison (NPA) 3721. ‘Council (first élected) : Councillor C. W. MacSorley (N- PA), 3556; F. A, Armstrong (CCF) 3544; Cowncillor W. F. Phillips (NPA), 3398; George A. Isherwood (CCF), 3190; Council-’ lor J. P. Gartlan (NPA), 3139; C. E. Curran (CCF), 2483; F. G. Jackson (CCF), 2395; Harry Ball (MITA), 2204; Coiuncillor Walter Morton (NPA), 2198; John Greene (MIA), 1337; William Turner (MIA), 1248; Wilf Starling (Ind.) 1180. School Board (first two elected): W. E. Grieve (NPA), 3824; Gor-’ don Ramsay (NPA), 2810; James Massey (CCF), 2516; Mrs. S. Tracy (CCF) 2449; Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson (MIA), 2408; Mrs. Cathe- rine Marsh (MIA), 1439. four : HUGH, CLARK Runner-up in the Royut City 4 population. organizations and public spokes- men went on record as decrying the Dresden yote, They included both houses of labor in Ontario, the As- sociation for Civil Liberties, church groups, and the Canadian Jewish Congress. The latter body, through Rabbi Feinberg, said a vote on ra- cial discrimination is “like voting for or against theft.” “The jimcrow practice of three local pesbanrants which refused to Quebec tenants show way * By MARK FRANK to force issue before gov't OTTAWA ;What started out to be the dullest session on Faicccke Hill in many years suddenly broke into a rash of front-page items in its closing weeks. Chief reason for the anticipated tneventful session was ca to be the sve hclining majority of the Lib: Two striking developments dur- both generated did much to shake up They were the resignation of chief administrat- of Combines legislation, and Both of these events did more to open the eyes of a beguiled elector- ate as to the true nature of the Lib- eral government as an agency of monopoly and any recent Parliament Hill happen- by ings. landlordism, than Together the Tory-CCF opposi- It soon became apparent, however, that the Liberal government was not to ; haves things all its own way despite its ““comfortable majority.” \ x from - \ Pall Mall Cafe 366. W. Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C. ¥ HMAEMENENE: tion mumbers only a mere 52 mem- bers in a 262.member House, but their demagogic espousals of popu- lar grievances cast them in, the light of champions of the people’s interests against the monopolies, despite their small numbers. Coldwell and the chastened CCF group sitting glumly at the end of the chamber, and Drew, the colonel who heads a bare platoon of Tories, 264 E Hastings St. HOME FANCY SAUSAGES “All Types of Slavic and European Sausages’ OUT OF TOWN ORDERS SENT C.O.D. eo era: Prop. — Wm. and Ed. Polowy HEARTIEST GREETINGS TO ALL! > t TA. 3613. PACIFIC 9588 Jack Cooney, Mgr. FERRY MEAT MARKET 119 EAST HASTINGS VANCOUVER, B.C. FREE DELIVERY. Supplying Fishing Boats Our Specialty Nite Calls GL. 1740L test against the ‘undemocratic gov- ernment” and “autocracy” towards the end of the session. But, of course, on all vital issues, as, for example, voting of the biggest peacetime expenditures for war preparations under the Atlantic past, CCF, Tories and Liberals vot- €d as one man. Speaking in best recruiting style as though the cold war had suddenly become hot, Major Cold-_ well declared during debate on war estimates that “side by side with arming our forces we must maintain our industrial and econ- omic strength, for in the final an, alysis it is upon our industrial and economic strength that vic- tory or defeat will depend.” War has not even been declared and Coldwell is thumping the drum for “victory”. Nothing could be more expres- sive of Coldwell’s demagogy than his brief statement that “we sup- port the estimates presented by the government” and “we support thes defense proposals”, after a lengthy speech on Defense Minister Brooke Claxton’s monumental war budget. How nice it would be, sighed Cold- well, if the government would only use the $91,000,000 it was spending on construction alone for the arm- ed forces, to build homes for the people. But owing to the “graye” international situation the CCF must support the expenditures. _ Coldwell was excelled only by his lieutenant Clarence Gillis, who literally drooled over “plain honest Mike” Pearson. He told Pearson he should not have told — the truth about the Soviet Union | during the Second World War be- cause now his external affairs de- partment was busily telling the opposite stovy, and it was all very confusing for the people. While the realities of the Atlan- tic pact may not have struck home to the majority of people, certainly the sensational] disclosures on the suppressed McGregor report and the order authorizing rental in. | creases have stripped the halo of respectability off corporation law- yers like Douglas Abbott and Louis St. Laurent, holding the highest of- fices in ‘our country. Behind Tory attacks on the Na- tional Film Board and the CBC in- ternational service and the claim that both needed “weeding-out” of “communists,” was the hand of pri- yate monopoly-backed film makers ‘J rd ’ like Crawley Films, Associated Screen News, Warner Brothers, who wanted a slice of movie-mak- ing profits in Canada. NFB prints made some $50,000 in U.S. circula- tion last year, nothing to be sniffed at. But most important, of course, is that under the excuse of “screen- ing,” the entire NFB and CBC ap. paratus is being made over ito an instrument for war. Indeed the sensitivity ot Claxton ‘personnel is that he is dealing with ing of war films. One such instance in recent times was shelving of a film script on the Atlantic pact, painting it as a “peace” measure. it on for production purposes. The best answer 40 this year’s session was seen in the magnificent demonstration of Quebec tenants on Parliament Hill. When Abbott gation, “Apparently what we have said makes no sense to you; and it appears to us that what you have said makes no sense to us,” he was clearly stating the class nature of the government. lar fight on the rental issue should be taken to heart by the entire trade union movement as a lesson to be memorized, per- mediate reforms, It is that the St. _ Laurent government is a big busi. ness government: yield truly popular concessions only when forced to do so by massive public protest. and politi- cal action> — r on the score of giving work to NFB ||. many artistic and creative workers |: who abhor war and resist the mak- Nobody in the NFB wanted to take (was told by the leader of the dele- His appeal to carry on a popu- Mmanently in the struggle for im- |. which will a Labor urged to protest jimcrow vote at Dresden TORONTO Widespread indignation has been aroused by the action of Dresden. Ontario, citizens in voting down a bylaw which would have compelled local restaurants to serve Negroes. who compose 20 percent of the town’s A call to translate that indignation into action through a storm of protest came immediately from the LPP national executive and L.abor-Progressive mefnbers of the Ontario legislature. - Simultaneously a vast number a serve Negroes precipitated the plebiscite which has now resulted in this victory for racial discrimin- ation,” the LPP statement said. “This ugly expression of racism cannot be tolerated by Canadians or by the Sovernment of Canada,” it continued. “Had the government of Ontario accepted the proposals of J. B. Salsberg, MPP, and A. A.\MacLeod, MPP, to put teeth into the present inadequate and unsatisfactory On- tario _anti-discrimination ‘law, .the plebiscite in. Dresden would not Shave been necessary and the res- taurants which provoked this issue long since would have been com- pelled to practice equal rights. “The LPP insists that the gov- ernment of Ontario act at once to prevent ‘discrimination against Ne- groes and other minority groups in Dresden or any other part of On- tario, and that it bring down legis_ lation at the coming session to wipe out this shame. : “It urges the federal government to enact a Bill of Rights to prevent discrimination of all kinds and to make it punishable by law. “Right now the LPP asks all la- bor and people’s organizations to wire Mayor Walter S. Weese of Dresden, Ontario, urging him and the town council to end discrimin- ation at once.” > Brother’s Bakery "Specializing in Sweet and Sour Rye Breads 342, E. HASTINGS s7T. ap PAs BMG a5 dF Coming — December 29 - 30 - 31 SOVIET FILM. FESTIVAL STATE TH EATRE REAR ME RANA AE G ompliments of the Season To. 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