Voters in all B,C, cities, towns
and municipalities are preparing
for civic election day which falls
on Wednesday, December 8 in
Vancouver and Saturday, Decem-
ber 11 in all other places,

This year, there are a number
of progressive and labor candi-
dates in the field, There arealso
increasing signs that a grass
roots coalition of forces repre-
Senting labor, the New Demo-

cratic Party, ratepayers groups

and other progressive elements
is steadily growing.

As a service to its readers
all over B.C, the PT is publish-
ing the following brief resume of
some of the issues in various
localities, some of the candi-.
dates running, and some of the
growing trends to unity,

Vancouver

The Vancouver & District
Labor Council has endorsed a
Slate of four candidates for alder-
man in Vancouver as being worthy
of labor support, The four include

HARRY RANKIN
‘Harry Rankin, Halford Wilson,
Ed Sweeney and George Wain-
born,

Council made no recommenda-
tion in the school and parks
board races,

In the parks contest, independ-
ent candidate Dusty Greenwell
has accused Vancouver City

-Council of playing footsie with

the CPR over the development
of Langara Park,

Greenwell charged the Coun-
cil only intends to acquire part
of Langara, at inflated prices,
and leave the rest to subdivision
for real estate,

Council has allowed the CPR
to literally squat on some of the
most valuable land in the city
which it grabbed from the people
during the railway swindles. The
railway octopus has paid taxes

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DUSTY GREENWELL
on this
rates and now wants to sell it
to the city at the highest possible
price,

He called on the city to zone
the land as park land, expro-
priate it and then pay the CPR;
for it according to its assessed
value—just as it would do with
any homeowner whose property
the city happened to require,

On the airport moneys plebis-
cite, Greenwell is urging voters
to vote in favor of using the
airport fund to purchase Langara,

Burnaby

The labor supported BCA is
facing a challenge this year from
a group of candidates supported
by big business interests,

The incumbent Reeve Allan’
Emmott and four council candi-
dates Andrew Blair, James Daily,
Russell Hicks and George McLean
have all been endorsed by the
Vancouver & District Labor

~ Council and the labor movement

as a whole is united behind a
campaign to ensure their election,

Surrey

Due to the initiative taken by
Vancouver Labor Council, there
is a full labor slate united behind
a progressive program contesting

HARRY BALL

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to help

land at ridiculously low :

each one of the five openings on
Surrey Municipal Council,

The labor council called to-
gether all unions in the area,
ratepayers groups, the NDP clubs
and the Surrey Municipal Reform
Committee, After this all-em-
bracing meeting the groups then
decided upon the following alder-
manic candidates:

Harry Ball, prominent rail-
road trade unionist and executive

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member of the Surrey Reform .

Committee; Floyd Hamilton,
former school board member;
Dick Miller, former Councillor
at Sunnyside; incumbent Coun-

* .cillor Len Shepherd, long time

CCF MLA; incumbent Councillor
Jack Smith,

The unity conference also put
forward one candidate for school

FLOYD HAMILTO

board, He is Bob McLaren, who
is an executive member of the
Surrey Reform Committee, Pros-
pects for good gains in Surrey

appear high,

Kamloops |

Mrs, Celia McInnes is a labor
candidate for Kamloops City
Council, Mrs. McInnes has de-
voted many years to the service
of working people, Sheis atpres-
ent secretary of the Kamloops &
District Labor Council,

Trail

A strong candidate for the
Mayor’s chair is Buddy De Vito,
who .was) Bert Herridge’s cam-
paigh managér in the Nov, 8
federal election.

De Vito was analderman in
Trail for many years and is a
former City Clerk of Grand
Forks, B.C, He is also a former
organizer for the Mine Mill union
and remains a member of the
union to this day,

Nanaimo

Walter Tickson, prominent
member of the IWA who has cam-
paigned in previous municipal

WALTER TICKSON

elections, is again in the running

for a seat on Nanaimo City Coun-
cil, Residents of Nanaimo will
remember Ticksou’s role in pre-
venting a real estate steal of the
old hospital last year,

This year Tickson’s program
again includes a plank to convert
the old hospital into a Chronic
Care Centre, whichis badly need-
ed in the hub city on the Island,

Also included in his program
are important points like mak-
ing big business (and in particu-
lar, the CPR) pay its rightful
share of the tax load, and amal-
gamation of outlying districts
with the city to stop businesses
moving out to the outskirts of
town and thus avoiding tax bills
while enjoying services,

Coquitlam

A new grouping of labor- NDP-

ratepayer forces centred around:

Mark Rose has made its appear-
ance in this locality and is run-
ning three candidates for Coun-
cil,

Civic elections in key B.C. points

In addition to Rose, who was
the NDP candidate in the Fraser
Valley constituency last Nov, 8,
they are trying to elect Bob
Roy and Dr. Kay to Council,

Pt. Alberni:

George McKnight, active mem-
ber of the IWA and aldermanic
candidate in previous Port Al-
berni elections, is making a
terrific impact on voters with
his determined bid to rid the
Alberni Valley of air pollution,

McKnight has long taken the
position that- fallout from the
mills costs the people of the
Albernis thousands of dollars
a year in health, car and house
paint deterioration, and discom-
fort and nuisance, All of these
disadvantages can be overcome,
he points out, by forcing the
profitable industries located
there, to instal anti-pollution
devices,

As a result of the strong cam-
paign waged by McKnight on this
key issue, provincial Health Min-
ister Eric Martin has announced
a study of the area will be started
early next year. Martin madethe
disclosure ina letter to McKnight,

The study would be designed
to find out the connection between
a disproportionately high rate
of respiratory ailments in the
Alberni Valley and air pollution
from the pulp mills operating
there,

GEORGE McKNIGHT

WHY NOT A TAKEOVER?

Car insurance climbs again

In a display of arrogance
matched only by oil monopolies

* the. All Canada Insurance Fed-

eration, representing all major
insurance companies, has an-
nounced that car insurance rates
will once again go up,

The latest increase is for 10
percent and makes the third hike
in less than a year, Net result
will be that motorists in B.C,
will be paying about 45 percent
more for their car insurance
as of January 1 than they were
last January 1,

Rates went up an average of
20 percent in January of 1965
and a further 10 percent this
summer, Because each new hike
compounds the total, the latest
rake off of 10 percent will bring
the combined effect up to ap-
proximately the 45 percent
bracket,

And all this while actual in-
surance coverage remains a
mockery.

The companies claim (every
time they up the ante) that they
are forced into, doing this be-
cause they have to pay out more
in ‘‘claims’’ all the time,

But ask any motorist who has
ever had an accident and he'll
tell you his premium was jacked
up immediately, The net result
in nine out of ten cases is that
the motorist winds up paying for
the alleged ‘‘claim’’ out of his
own pocket,

Phone any insurance adjuster
and tell him you want to make
a claim on your insurance policy,
He’ll promptly advise you that if
it’s nothing serious (that is to
say, unless it’s a couple of hun-
dred dollars) to forget about it
and pay it out of your own
pocket,

Either way, the customer is
wrong; the insurance monopolies
right, «

Insurance? Sounds more like
a legalized protection racket,

The people of B.C, will have
to start clamoring for govern-
ment action at the coming session
of the Provincial Legislature,
There’s one quick, sure way to
postpone any further premium
boosts: simply take over the
insurance industry and have the
government run it,

Unfortunately, the provincial
government, so quick to sound off
about ‘‘the public interest’’ dur-
ing labor disputes, has shown
little inclination to come to the
aid of the suffering public in this
case,

Interesting Film

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DEC. 5th—2 p.m.

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