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EDITORIAL

Bring the boys home

FTER negotiations since last July, the U.S. military has finally
agreed to a line of demarcation which, if the other Sete
be agreed upon, will become the line of an Armistice by the Christmas
ae ae tiations is told and
When the full story of the Korean war nego ae See
the conspiracy of silence by the press broken, as it will be, ies e my ‘
be shocked and disgusted at the provocations, stallings an ou
sabotage which the U.S. command in Korea committed to prevent an
armistice at the 38th parallel. Sal
The Pacific Tribune is one of the few: papers om ane Bt
have told part of this story. The rest of the press willing Mi accep
—and defended—the propaganda of the U.S. war machine. ‘ee
The thing to do now is to arouse public opinion, ie a ae ot
the Korean war, to make sure that no new pinnae ‘ie i oe
way of peace in Korea by Christmas. That would sie a ri ae a
of the bigger questions—a five power peace pact, fot EE
banning of the atomic bomb—all of which are sane on * ce s
the United Nations because the peace movement the wor p
them. there.
Bring the Canadian troops in Korea home by Christmas. End
the war in Korea, and put a stop te intervention. : ree
Labor organizations, progressive people she aoe mele
Prime Minister St. Laurent by telegram and ae abe ; oy
ernment’s influence to prevent any break-down ua neu i as
hew -provocation, and order the Canadian troops home

may be with their families ‘in the New Year.

‘Save the park’
campaign hits

Standard Oil deal

BURNABY, B.C.
1 hall at Edmonds as the

5 ; in the municipa eae ;
Bay none “ival COF and Non-Partisan groups are straining their

x il interests. The immed-
; ieues with monopoly oil
Rietae, ts enethos dhe huge Standard Oil Company shall be allowed

S Park for
to buy 72 acres of waterfront land eee ees Te anvalnuen entail
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with its present refinery. ae e jai for

The actual issue is far bigger. It a Pag SIC Mie way

building a. 693-mile oil pipeline from Alberta tintee mnaby.” The

of the Yellowhead pass “to a proposed terminal | which seven oil

Plan for construction of the $82 million Rene pre py Peemlor
Companies will participate, was announc :

Byron Johnson,

ry . . ; tel ,
Residents of North Burnaby, the district most immediately

affected, do not share “Boss” Johnson’s enthusiasm has SuseA ce
development as “the biggest thing HAE DRA EYER ae

ipeli a development. They are
ape bauer ee Os a sprawling oil industry in

t populous residential areas,
eee ch as devastated Galves-
RNABY

°pposed to’ any plan that will esta

‘the centre of two of the district’s:

With all the potential danger of a disaster aah.
Continued on back page — See

MRS. EFFIE JONES

ELGIN RUDDELL

Meyer scandal
ires ex-POW

Reports from Germany telling
how Nazi war criminal Kurt
Meyer is “romping at home with
his children” while supposedly
serving a life sentence in prison
prompted Maurice Rush, inde-
pendent parks board candidate
in Vancouver’s civic elections, to
write an angry letter to Prime
Minister St. Laurent this week,

A veteran of the second world
war and former prisoner-of-war
who had a first-hand taste of
Nazi brutality, Rush condemned

’ St. Laurent for allowing Meyer

to be transferred from a Can-
adian jail to one in Germany,
and added: “This arch-criminal
and murderer of 19 Canadian-pris-
oners- of-war should have ‘been
executed long ago for his crimes.”

Non-Partisan Association members of Vancouver City Council
were thrown into momentary confusion this week when Elgin Ruddell,
independent aldermanic candidate, proposed that the city ask the pro-
vincial government ‘to reopen the question of public ‘ownership of

BCElectric.

Appearing before the NPA aldermen to discuss BCElectric’s plea
for higher profits, now being heard by Public Utilities Commission,

Ruddell said:

“Citizens are demanding to know why electricity costs more here
than in any other large city in Canada.
“The most obvious reason for high costs in Vancouver is the

monopoly set-up.

- heavy load of interest and income tax resulting from the BCE private-

“Quebec Hydro and Ontario Hydro can sell electricity at half

the BCE rates, because they are

publicly owned and can borrow”

money on the credit of their pro-
vincial governments.

“I propose that rather than

‘allow the BCElectric to add an-

other $6,000,000 to its financial
charges at this time, the provincial
government be asked to re-open

the question of public ownership
of the BCE.”

Alderman Anna Sprott, acting
as chairman in Mayor Hume's
absence, looked’ flustered and
sought help from other Non-Par-
tisan Association colleagues. It
was quickly suggested that Rud-
dell put his proposal in writing
and submit it at a later date—
after the December 12 civic elec-
tions were safely over.

Commenting on the BCElec-
tric’s application, another inde-
pendent candidate for council,
Effie Jones, charged that the utili-
ty Company was displaying
“shameless greed’’ in asking for
the right to take another $14
million out of the pockets of B.C.
citizens after having been granted
two increases in each of its ser-
vices in the last four years.

The popular progressive civic
leader called for public owner-

ship of BCER to stop “‘the pres-

. ent steal.”

“ThesPublic Utilities Commis-
sion, that rubber stamp for the
BCElectric, has granted every re-
quest of the company until now,”
she said. ‘There is grave danger
that they will do so again. Pro-
tests should be sent to the pro-
vincial cabinet asking that body
to end this merry-go-round of ex-
tortion by taking over the com-
pany.

“Resolutions should be sent to
city council. urging it to use its
authority as the official represen-

tative of almost: half-the~citizens
of B.C. to join the demand that
the provincial government take
measures at once to introduce pub-
lic ownership. Certainly the credit
of the provincial government jis
strong enough to secure the money
for expansion of the BCE. system
at low rates of interest and without

placing the burden on the con-
sumers.””

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Good work, PT press builders!
Forthe fourth week in a row; sub-
scriptions and renewals passed the
100 mark. City press clubs ac-
counted for 60, provincial points
sent in 50 for a grand total of

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Readers are beginning to tahe
advantage of our special sub of-
fer (see page two) and we hope
many more supporters will do so.
Winning three new friends for the
Pacific Tribune ai a cost of only
$/ is a buck well spent.

Leading press clubs for the
week were: Nanaimo, 14; Trail,
8; West End, 7; Victoria, 4; Nor-
quay, 4; Forest Products, 4; Vic-
tory Sauare, 4; Britannia Beach,
3; Moberley, 3; Building Trades,
3.

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