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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951

PHONE YOUR PROTESTS

WEST 2248.)

Ald. J. D. Cornett,
7745-L..

KE. 3144.

DE. 0623-Y.

council.

Fight electricity hike

If you are opposed to BCElectric’s scheme to in-
crease electrical rates and want city council to rescind
its “take no action” motion at its next meeting on
Monday, then lodge your protest by writing, phoning
or visiting your civic representatives, listed below:

Mayor Fred Hume, city hall, 453 West 12th, FA. 2711.
(Residence, 940 Younettee Dr., West Vancouver,

Ald. R. K, Gervin, 4208 Rupert, DE. 3504R. (Busi-
ness, 307 W. Broadway, FA. 4343.)

Ald. G. G. B. Showler, 2655 Turner; HA. 5327.
(Business, 307 W. Broadway, FA. 8716.)

Ald. G. C. Miller, 4470 Pine Crescent, CH. 6632.
(Business, 524 Hornby, PA. 3254.) pags

Ald. A. F..Proctor,. 5795 Victoria Dr., FR.
(Business, 5795 Victoria Dr., KR. 1918.) .

176 W. King Edward,. FA.
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(Ald. A, W. Fisher, 1903 W. 36th Ave., KE. 3538-L.
(Business, 675 W. Hastings, PA. 9164.)
Ald, Anna °E. Sprott, 3351 S. W. Marine Dr.,
(Business, 812 Robson, MA, 3038.) #
Ald. H. D. Wilson, 175 E. 15th Ave., FA. 0162-L.
(Business, 445 W. 2nd Ave., FA. 9291.)
Ronald Thompson, city clerk, $935 Boundary Rd.,

The mayor has power to call a special meeting
—of city council at any time.
majority vote to rescind’ any previous decision of

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It requires a two-thirds

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Council wilts

on rate Issue

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Visits to Mayor. Hume and eight aldermen by angry citizens—arous: —
ed by city council’s failure to oppose BCElectric’s request for a power rate

increase—might force the delinquent

passing motion of last Mondy when they meet ‘again at 2 p.m. this coming

Monday, March 12.

- Hundreds of indignant. taxpayers are phoning city hall daily, protesting council’s
shameful action and telling aldermen to “bend an ear” and listen to the voice of the

people who elected them.

to‘express their opinions, in person.
fight back against the BCE scheme,

the battle to Public Utilities Commission in Victoria.
Council members gave an example of spineless buck-passing last week when the

question of the proposed BCE
light rate increase was introduc-
ed. The company asked the city
not to oppose the new profit-grab,
and Ald. R. K. Gervin (who,
along with Ald. Showler, com-
prises Non-Partisan Association’s
“labor twins” in Office) found the
key to dodging the issue by movy-
ing that council “take no action”
on BCH’s request.

From 8.30 a.m. last Monday un-
til the question came up in coun-
cil, hundreds of citizens had be-
seiged city hall with phone calls
to the mayor, aldermen and city
clerk, demanding that they
strongly oppose the BCE demand.

So many people phoned that

some employees in the city clerk’s

cffice become curt and rude in
answering the calls, further in-

World Peace Council

asks 5-power pact

BERLIN

A world-wide campaign around the demand for a Pact of Peace among the five great

powers was launched by the World P
In an “appeal signed by 108 council members,
Peace Congress chairman, the council demanded “conclusion of a Pact of Peace between —

eace Council at its recent session here.
including Dr. James Endicott, Canadian

the five great.powers — the United States of America, the Soviet Union, the; Chinese
People’s Republic, Great Britain and Franc.”

(At Toronto, Canadian Peace
Congress officials said the de-
mand: would give further im-
petus to participation in the
National Assembly to Save
Peace to be held in that city”
April 7-8.) < :

Text or council's “Appeal for
Conclusion of the Pact. of Peace”
follows: : - :

In ‘response to strivings of mil-
lions of people in the whole world,
whatever their opinion of reasons
which give rise to the danger of
the world war; for the sake of -
consolidating peace and guaran-
teeing the international security:

We demand the conclusion of
‘Pact or Peace between five, great
powers — the United States of

. America, the Soviet Union, the

Chinese People’s Republic,» Great
Britain and France.

We shall rebard refusal of the
government of any of great pow-
ers to meet for the purpose of
oncluding Pact of Peace as the
‘evidence of aggressive designs of

this government,
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Hastings Bakeries
mA. 3244

SCANDINAVIAN PRODUCTS
A SPECIALTY

We urge all peace-loving coun-
tries to support demand for the
conclusion of, Pact of Peace open
to all states. :

We affix ‘our signatures to this
appeal and call upon all the peo-
ple of good will and all organiza-
tions striving for consolidation of
peace to sign it.

This appeal is signed by 108
members of council and 57 repre-
sentatives of the different coun-
tries -specially invited to attend
the session of the council.

The World Peace Council has
noted failure of the United Na-
tions to reply to the appeal of
the Second World Peace Congress
as if the proposals made by the
representatives of hundreds of
millions of people with regard to
the maintenance of peace don’t
concern it. is

Since adoption of this appeal, the

“UN has continued to deceive the

hopes reposed in it by peoples and
sent to limit its resolution con-
demning China as “aggressor”.

It has sanctioned and covered
up with its authority systematic
destructions by ‘the American
armed forces of nearly a million
people — old folk, women and
children in Korea crushed , or
burned under ruins of their cities
and villages.

The World Peace Council re-
solves to send the delegation to
the UN composed of: Mr. Nenni
(Italy), Madam Isabelie Blum
(Belgium), Mrs. Davies (Great
Britain), Mrs. Jessie Street (Aus-

tralia), Mr. Dastier de la Vigerie.
(France), Mr. Tikhonov (USSR),,
- Mr. Wuyaotsung (Chinese Peo-

ple’s Republic), Mr, Hromadka
(Czechoslovakia), Mr. D’Arbous-
sier (Black Africa), Mr. Neruda
(Chile), Mr, Jara (Mexico),
Messrs. Paul Robeson and Up-
hause (USA) and Dr. Atal (In-
dia). ;

This delegation is authorized to
demand of the UN: -

1 That is shall consider the
.*. different points in the ap-
peal of the World Peace Congress
and different resolutions of the

_ World Peace Council and give its

opinion on them. ~~
gi) Return to the role assigned
* to. it' by the charter in
order to become the place for
agreements between the giovern-
ments and not the instrument of
any dominating group. A A
The present action ‘of the World
Peace Coun¢il will be supported
by hundreds of millions of men
and women who have the right to
watch vigilantly in order to see
that high international organs
don’t betray their mission of
maintaining peace

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censing overburdened taxpayers
who were exercising their right
to protest. Mayor Hume and
most of the aldermen fled from
their telephones and became “in-
accesible” for hours.

The report brought in by ex-
city engineer Charles Bracken-
ridge and endorsed by ex-corpor-
ation counsel D. E. McTaggart,
KC, declares firmly that a “pro-
posed increase in electrical rates
places, an unfair burden on the
residential customers in the Van-
couver area.”

City council asked for this re-
port. They paid for it. Then
they pigeonholed it, hoping that
the public would forget about its

As on many similiar issues in
the past, council on Monday said,
in effect: ‘““We’re riding with the
BOHlectric and tthe public be
damned!”

Letters, phone calls and delega-

tions to council between now and
this coming Monday could suc-

ceed in pressuring aldermen to .

reverse their stand, rescind the
“no action” resolution and» come
out in public opposition to the
power rate hike. os

Ad

Rallies against
conscription will
he held in city /

A number of public rallies
around the theme, “Savé Can-
adian youth from conscription,”
‘sponsored jointly by the Labor-
Progressive party and the Na-
tional Federation. of Labor Youth,
will be held in’ the Greater Van-
couver area on March 15 and 16,
it was announced here this week.

Maurice Rush, Second World
War veteran and LPP, provincial
labor secretary, and Steve Endi-
cott, provincial organizer for ‘the

- NFLY, will be the featured
. speakers at these rallies, which

will be held at, Norquay Com-
“munity Hall for the South Van-
couver area; Clinton Hall for the
Hastings East area; Moose Hall
for the West End; and in Burn-_

aby and North Vancouver. |

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PACIFIC TRIBU

Some people are calling at the private homes of aldermen

They are demanding that council reverse its stand,
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oppose any interim increase proposition and carry

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PREMIUMS

hard-earned ien-spot for the

“crime” of refusing to pay for
hospital service he had spent a
fruitless three months trying to get
for his wife.

‘city fathers’? to rescind their buck--

Casual and debonair as he at- .

tempted to be, Health Minister
Turnbull was well aware that the
hospital insurance premium hike
was creating. a specter’ on the
political horizon; that public opin-
ion, once aroused, could create 4
storm of anti-government senti-

ment, which, if channelized into_

organizational forms, could sweep
out the Coalition government at
the next provincial election,

For British Columbia’s people
are tired of being taxed and tax-
ed again until their pockets are
empty of all but loose change.
And the hospital insurance rack-
et—for when citizens are com-
pelled to pay for services which
cannot be provided when needed,
it is nothing more nor less than
a racket, a gigantic swindle—is
becoming a sore boil on the body
politic, a boil that is about due
sto burst.

Next Tuesday, March 13, 4
lobby organized by the Congress
of Canadian Women, will descend

4 o7 Victoria to question and de-

mand action from their elected
representatives on the hospital
insurance scandat.’ They'll seek
more hospital beds, better ser-
vice and lower premiums and woe
ibetide the politician who seeks to
duck the. issue, or escape respon-
sibility by murmuring soothing
platitudes.  " . is

In ignoring popular opinion and
raising hospital premiums, the
‘Coalition is handing the public 4
huge and bitter pill—but there
ig every indication that the pub-
lic ‘may refuse to swallow it.

LEO GENN: KIRK DOUGLAS
~~ uornt ONBL'S
_ “MOURNING BECOMES
_ ELECTRA”

MAST

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