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How Liberty distorted

interview with Tim Buck
Pages 9-10

Petrov affair compared
with Zinoviev Letter

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Effie Jones demands
cabinet hear appeals

“The provincial cabinet’s decision to refe
BC. Electric fare increase to the Court of AP
trawl from under its own responsibility,
Jones, veteran civic campaigner.

‘hot to hold.

“On October 1 the cabinet an-
‘Ounced it would hear an appeal
°N October 14, the following day
't withdrew this announcement.

Ow it has decided to pass the

Uck to the Court of Appeal, in
Spite of the fact that municipali-

Gov't ‘evasive’
declares Morgan

‘ The Labor - Progressive party
'9ined most municipalities op-
Posed to higher transit fares this
reek in condemning the prov-
‘cial cabinets decision to refer
Us appeal against the B.C. Elec-
'C to the Court of Appeals.
c Ina telegram to Premier W. A.
- Bennett, Nigel Morgan, LPP
Heal leader, hit the cab-
ha S “evasive action” and de-
‘Shs that it rescind the order
hold a public hearing.

r appeals against the
peal is an attempt to
» in the opinion of Mrs. Effie

“Apparently this potato is too

ties and public organizations, who
had two courses open to them, all
decided to appeal to the cabinet
directly rather than to the Court

of Appeal.

“They did this because what is”

involved is a matter of important
public policy which is the re-
sponsibility of the cabinet, not of
the courts. Appeals to the courts

involve intricate and expensive

rocedures. :
a public is demanding that
the cabinet itself hear the appeal,
‘and that the hearing be open. The
cabinet has thus arbitrarily over-
ridden the clearly expressed pub-
lic will. ;
“1 appeal to all public organiza-
tions and individuals to ‘ask the
net to proceed with its orig-

cabi
inal decision to itself hear the
appeal, and fo \suspend the in-

crease until the appeals have
been finally decided.

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CAMPAIG
ED BY
LLEY

ACKED

By SID ZLOTNIK

“We Canadians can build our own gas pipeline from the
Peace River to Vancouver .. . we have the resources, we have the
men, we have the skill. We don’t need the Yankees to build
it for us, and to funnel our resources out of the country. Let
us build it ourselves in our own interests to provide new indus-
tries, and cheap fuel for our homes and farms. . .’ This stirring
call to action boomed over the loudspeaker of the lead car in the
big Labor-Progressive motorcade which wound its way through
the Fraser Valley last Saturday.

The striking cavalcade of 15 cars and a decorated truck
caused a flurry of interest in Haney, Mission, Abbotsford, Chil-
liwack and other Valley communities. ‘The truck bore a huge
sign with a map depicting the
route of the projected pipeline,
and slogans, “Start The B.C. Gas
Pipeline Now,” and “Canadian
Gas From Coast To Coast.” Each
of the cars flew a Canadian flag
to symbolize the idea of Canadian
ownership and control of the
pipeline, and carried painted ban-
ners entitled, “Build The B.C. Gas
Pipeline As Part Of An All-Cana-
dian Line,” “B.C. Gas Means B.C.
Growth,” “Cheap Fuel For Our
Homes and Farms,” ete. etc.

_ Tenth convention of the B.C,-
Yukon section of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party opens this Friday
evening in Pender Auditorium
here, and continues through Sat-
urday and Sunday.

Maurice Rush, LPP city secre-
tary, will welcome delegates at
the opening session, and Leslie
Morris, the party's national or-

In each larger centre the caval-
cade stopped for a few minutes
while a leaflet entitled, “Build

the Fraser Valley with B.C. Gas”
was distributed on the main
streets, and , delegations inter-
viewed the mayor or municipal
representatives in Chilliwack and
Abbotsford.

In Mission a woman came up
to the sound truck, “I hope you
are going to see this fight through
to the finish,” she said? In Ab-
botsford an unemployed worker
just laid off commented, “That’s
the stuff, yours is the only party
that’s doing anything to prevent
a depression.”

In Abbotsford the chairman of
the village board of commis-
sioners expressed his approval
of the aims of the motor-
cade and promised to support the
proposals advanced when they
come before the board.

Everywhere the colorful pro-

Continued on back page
See VALLEY

LPP meets this weekend

ganizer, will bring greetings from
the LPP national executive. Nigel
Morgan, provincial leader, will
give the main report.

Morris will address the conven-
tion at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. More
than 150 delegates from many
parts of the province will attend
the parley,