“Ready?” Valtman in The Hartford Times (U.S. UE NEWS SERVICE - “Is it now we-start.goose-stepping.or after we get-in the Common Market?” Eccles. in- the London Daily Worker 4 ‘Make Canada neutral’-VOW The second annual meeting of the Voice of Women, held recently at the University of Mont- real, has called on the gov- ernment to remove Bo- marc bases from Canadian soil and _ said Canada should become a member of the neutral bloc of nations. Delegates also levelled criticism at the govern- ment’s fallout shelter pro- gram, in particular cer- tain government publica- tions. The women decided to ask the Canadian govern- ment to support the pro- “posal of the neutral na- tions at the UN, “based on the findings of the seis- mological institute in Up- psala, Sweden,” asking for immediate ending of nu- East and West were rep- resented by 51 women from 17 countries, in addi- tion to some 300 delegates from Canada and the U.S. The meeting formed the Voice of Women Interna- tional, thus setting on its feet a world movement of women for peace. Mrs. Helen Tucker, for- mer president of VOW, was elected chairman of the international liaison committee. This commit- tee will work for the pas- sage of a resolution, pre- sented to the UN at its last session by India, Ne- pal, Ghana and Afghani- stan, calling for the pro- clamation of a year of co- operation for world peace. The liaison committee will be composed of wo- men from three areas of the world — capitalist, so- Cont'd from pg.. 3 The effect of this would be to make liable for taxation those small holdings where the value of the land ranged below two thousand dollars. ® Requested the Provincial Government to bring muni- cipal electrical workers un- der the terms of compulsory arbitration now applying to police and firemen. (Coun- cillor Hicks of Burnaby was the sole voice opposed to this measure). © Supported a_ resolution calling on the B.C. parole board to discriminate against any “Sons of Freedom Douk- hobor” prisoners coming up for parole by refusing to let them resettle in the Grank Forks-Kootenay area. The passage of this resolution, which took place after vigi- lantee-type speeches by offi- cials from the Kootenay area was punctuated by a fire- works exhibition in a garb- ‘age can by some Chamber of Commerce type from _ the area. This demonstration was is line with the level of the debate and the garbage can looked like a good place for the resolution. ® In the very next breath the delegates rejected out of hand a fine resolution sent in by Victoria calling for an amendment to the Federal Criminal Code so as to make the sale of salicious litera- ture and_ printed matter amongst juveniles an offense against the Statute. CIVIC FINANCES As was predicted the main attention of the convention centred around the question of municipal finances and the Murison Report, prepared by Major General C. A. P. Mur- ison for the UBCM, under the supervision of its Finance Policy Committee. The report of the execu- tive Committee on Provin- cial Municipal Financial Re- Jations submitted to the con- vention was basically a con- densation of the Murison Re- port. It must be said that it leaves more than a _ little lacking. The report itself was tilt- ed to put the convention on record for an increase in the present sales tax. This was put straight by the delegates CARTOON COMMENTS ON ECM | Civic crisis aired by amending that proposal as previously reported. However, the most glaring inadequacy of the report, and the convention as a whole, was the manner in which it tres:ed the home- owner tax Accordisg io the Murison report, anc ine UBCM con- vention, tie Home - owner grant is discriminatory in that it onlv benefits one par- ticular group of homeowners. discrimiuates against renters, real estate interests, business and industry. In respect to renters it must be pointed out that. houses to rent must compete with houses to sell and any action that tends to pull down the cost of house own- ership, including a reduction in taxes, must result in the long haul in a reduction in rents. So far as real estate, busi- ness and industry is concern- ed, what the report says is true although the wording is deceptive. It does not dis- criminate against these inter- ests, it helps somewhat to offsét the discriminatory sit- uation which now prevails wherein this section of the community escapes its share of the tax load at the expense of the overburdened home- owner. Removal of certain rev- enues from the municinali- ties by the provincial govern- ment, such as the per capita grant, which Bennett has an- nounced he will do when he increases the Home - owner Grant to $100 from the pre- sent $50, will no doubt force municipalities to raise the mill rate to recoup this lost revenue. This will result in an across the board tax in- crease. However, the net effect will be to shift the tax load unto business, in- dustry and real estate con- cerns in so far as they will share in the additional costs but will not be in receipt of the Home-Owner grant. In simple terms each homeowner will receive an additional $50 rebate in taxes but as a result of the increas- ed mill rate necessary to raise the revenue lost to the city he would receive a tax increase of somewhere around the average Of Thus leaving him on average $28 to the good. Business, indust©y ™ real estate on the other hal will receive an increase their tax bill. © No wonder there was 5” a howl went up at the © vention. Pity that the wor ers were not well enough re resented to have brought real issue out on the It must be said howe¥ that there are smaller mu icipalities where there is business or industry to § of and where the @ value of homes is such the additional fifty grant will not apply 12) in many if not most | and where the over all ¥ will be an increase 11 for perhaps most owners It is likely that Be will move to overcome discrepancy before the posal is introduced final he draws much of his port from these areas- It would seem to thi server that labor, while a cognizing that the owner Grant is a for political bribery bY S' Credit, should nonetheles Be cept it for the ! effect it has on reli the homeowner from onerous burden of muni financing and concentrate attention on insisting — the per-capita grants rem in effect and that the PYO” cial government undet™ at least 70% of the cost education. i This would seem 4 % reasonable program finding common cause the Royalite Oil Compa ste Canadian Bank of Comme and the B.C. Telephone as some so called frie? labor seemed well 4 do in Kamloops. HEAR DR. J. ENDICOT! Report on WORLD PEACE CONGRESS Sun., Sept. 30 — 8 1 ELK’S HALT, CLOVERDAL e- Everyone Welcom me Ss ily 5 0” Wm. KASHTA SPEAK ON- PROSPERITY vs. AUSTERITY — ENTERTAINMENT THE PEOPLE CAN DECIDE HEAR: Hastings Auditorium 828 HASTINGS ST. EAST | SUNDAY, SEPT. 23rd, 8P.M. LABOR sEcneTAN, COMMUNIST PART” QUESTION PERIO? AUSPICES VAN. CITY C’TTEE—C.P.C.. ROOM 506 FORD BLDG cialist and neutralist.