Effie Jones to fight out parking

problem in mayoralty contest

When

the see Utilities
on B.C. Electric rates, one of the
and with a wild look dashed for the door.

By EFFIE JONES

“interested parties”
He returned

this performance was repeated hourly.

“I have to move my car as it’s
in a pay zone,” he explained.

My own car was parked fifteen
blocks away I had taken a
street car from there to the
courthouse.

Downtown Vancouver is filled
with what I call “55-minute jump-
ers’ because of the disgraceful
Parking policy of the Non-Parti-
San city council. (The 65-minute
jumpers are even worse).

Commission was holding its hearings in the courthouse
who sat next to me suddenly arose
shortly with

a calmer look but

For years tke B.C. Electric’s
propaganda organ, the Buzzer,
has urged motorists not to
bring their cars downtown but
to ride B.C. Electric instead.
It’s too tough to park, the Buz-
zer argues, It’s too tough, all
right, but the problem can be
solved if the city council would
get moving on implementing
the parking survey which cost

the taxpayers more than $12,000

SCHOOLS

Although West Vancouver is
building, there are eight classes
on double shift. Burnaby and
Vancouver have many classes in
the same fix. Surrey has three
entire junior-senior high schools
on double shift, and there are
double shifts in Langley and Chil-
liwack. \

Nanaimo elementary accomoda-
tion has been outmoded many
years. Although a new four-room
school has been built the con-
demned North Ward school is still
used, Ladysmith has the worst
high schoo] in the province, closely
followed by Prince Rupert’s Booth
school, Former chief schoo] in-
Spector H. B.. King called Prince
Rupert’s schools “a disgrace to
any civilized community.”

In Nanaimo pupils were form-
erly admitted to grade one if they
Were six years old by, January 81.
This date was shifted to Decem-
ber 31, then November 30, then
September 380. This means many
Pupils are almost seven before
they enter school. Such a condi-
tion prevails in other districts as
well, and compels parents who can

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afford it to send children to pri-
vate schools: often under religious
‘control. Such is the case with a
Catholic school in Nanaimo and
Adventist classes in Penticton.

Chief cause of the situation is
the growing backlog of
school needs that has accumulat-
ed for a generation. Succes-
sive old
used first depression and _ then
war as excuse for the kind of
niggardly financial deal that pre-
vented school districts from act-
ing. Schools already bursting at
the seams cannot handle the ris-
ing tide of primary children from
wartime marriages.

Pressure has compelled the
government to establish a policy
of meeting fifty percent of school
building costs but Straith now
complains that rising. building
costs should be allowed to slow
up construction.

It is true rising costs pose a
problem, but educational circles
are quick to point out that dam-
age to children’s health, minds
and attitudes through poor class-
room facilities can never be made
up once schiool years are past.

With record-breaking revenues
and huge sources of corporate
wealth untapped by. available
means of taxation, the govern-
ment is in a position to lay down
a bigger proportion of school
building costs, while simultane-
ously cutting those costs through
having the department iof public
works eliminate the contractor.

Parents view the situation as an

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emergency.

and which the B.C. Electric
would no doubt like to see bur-
ied for good. ’

Downtown Vancouver will be-
come a ‘business ghost-town ‘un-
less there is action. The whole
fiasco adds one more toll to the
Non-Partisan death-knell,

(Mrs, Jones, who is campaign-
ing for the mayoralty seat she
rightfully won last year, will ‘out-
line her solution to the parking
problem in next week’s Pacific
Tribune.)

Womens champion

Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson (above)
and fellow Burnaby school-trus-
tee Mrs Florence. Cormack
fought hard atthe B.C. School
Trustees Association against a
motion calling for firing of wo-
men teachers who get married.
“Discrimination,” charged Mrs.
Wilson, adding that there is al-
ready a shortage of 800 teach-
ers in’ the province. Although
the resolution carried it has no
legal effect and could not be
enacted since common ‘4aw prac-
tice recognizes such acts as mar-
riage as “in the public interest.’

Ontario bushworkers
win new wage contract

Better working conditions and a 10 percent wage increase

for

30,000 Ontario bushworkers

resulted this week from

negotiations between officials of the AFL, Lumber and Saw-

mill Workers. Union and
comprising the major section of
the province’s pulp and paper in-
dustry.

The union, indicating the grow-
ing postwar tendency of employ-
ers to whittle down employee
gains, said in its official press

statement that the negotiations
had been “the toughest and most

buttons to break or lose. And these wond:
ful, washable close-knit combed cottea
yarns need no ironing. Choice oft Brief
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TAXI

UNION DRIVERS
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HA. 0334

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Fully 24-Hour
Insured 5 Service

6138 East Hastings, Vancouver

representatives of 21

companies

protracted ever held.” Gains made
by the union were considerable.

They included an overall 10 per-
cent wage increase; the principle
of the eight-hour day with over-
time after those hours instead of
the present 48-hour week; free
tools for piece workers; a vaca-
tion with pay clause broadened to
take in thousands of additional
bushworkers; simplified grievance
procedure; voluntary checkoff; ex-
tension of the union agreement to
cover additional job classifications
and a more up-to-date seniority
clause. :

The industry was represented by
a committee of 36 representing 21
companies. The union committee
consisted of 20 members headed by)
Jack Quinn, Port Arthur, Bruce
Magnuson, Sudbury and A. Coop-
er, general’ union sis Saaclatmenes

68 West

HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS
HAND-MADE

JOHNSON’S

Cordova Street - - -

BOOTS

Phone MArine 1612

IWA

its slave ICA Act written to throw
the full power of the state be-
hind the destruction of such a
union as the IWA. Secondly, the
entire press and radio pulled out
all the stops in a character as-
sasination campaign against the
union leadership. Thirdly, the
boss had a much more potent ally
—the “White Bloc” inner - union
disrupters who put themselves
beyond the pale of honest union-
ism by rushing to the public press
and radio to smear and red-bait
the union leadership with all the
re-hashed mouthings of Bob Mor-
rison. Lending artificial strength
to the “White Bloc’ was the full
support of top bureaucrats in the
CCL and IWA International who
agreed with the boss that it was
time to upset the B.C. district.

With such allies the operators
practiced sustained provocation
for months aimed at provoking a
strike in which ICA machinery
could be used to jail district of-
ficers and install stooges.

The membership rejected 95

percent the provocative offers.
A strike vote was held in
readiness while the union car-
ried its case to a hot concilia-
tion in which the mask was
ripped off boss super profits and —
the employer spy racket. This
was backed by mounting bar-
gaining power as the union was
built to record strength and big
IWA locals opened a war to
clean out the “White Bloc.”
These were the factors that
compelled the favorable award.
The board recommended a flat
13 cents across the board, with
the average boost increased by 10
cent and 5 cent adjustments for
trainmen, shift differential boost-
ed 1 cent, plus contract increases.
All increases are retroactive 75
days from date of signing. No
recommendations were made on
the IWA’s union shop proposal or
the employer’s bonding demand.
The union retains the irrevocable
checkoff status. “Union security
depends upon a greater degree of
organization.”

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