NEW WESTMINSTER PARENTS JOIN FIGHT. Photo shows
Some of the 200 parents who gathered at city hall last
Monday to urge council to protest the fare increase. Par-
ents held the meeting shown above in the city hall to

plan further action, including the sending of a delegation
to Victoria when the Legislature op
city council backed the parent's protest.

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—Fisherman photo

Roll back transit fares
public demands of Hydro

Cont'd from pg. 1
hasn’t torgotten the last such
Similar movement over B,C,
Hospital Insurance which toppled
the old Tory-Liberal coalition
in 1952 and brought the present
administration to power,”

“The students have shown what
Can be done,” he stated, “The
task now is to keep Hydro on the
Yun, and by extending the move-
Ment, forcing the issue before
the Legislature and compelling
a2 cutback to last year’s transit
fares,”

The demand for a cutback in
fares to their original level was

LABOR
Cont'd from pg. 1
no information on the amount,

Among other business coming
before the VLC wasa memofrom
the B,C. Federation of labor
Calling attention to the list of
Publications being printed by the
Strike-bound Mitchell Press.
Eighteen publications were list-
ed, with eight of these promoting
the views and policies of big
Monopoly in B,C,, with the big

lumber interests most promin-
ent,

also voiced by Burnaby Reeve
Emmett at a meeting in Capitol
Hill hall, Burnaby, Tuesday night,
Attended by 75 students from all
Burnaby schools, the Burnaby
council, Gordon Dowding, MLA
and NDP national leader T, C,
Douglas, Emmett said he sup-
ported “the full demand for re-
turn to the original fares,”

Other protest actions which
highlighted the fare fight this
week were:

® The Central Vancouver Par-
ent-Teacher Council, atits meet-
ing Monday night, sent wires to
Educational Minister Peterson,

Premier Bennett and PUC head’

Gordon Shrum, protesting the
increase and asking that fares

be returned totheir former levels -

pending a further study of Hydro
problems,

The influential Parent-Teach-
er group announced Tuesday
through its president, Mrs, Elsie
May, “We are not dissolving our
bus fare committee yet,” The
meeting Monday set up a com-
mittee of 13 to mobilize support
behind a petition opposing the
increases, (The petition is re-
printed on page 3.)

@ In New Westminster Monday

night 200 parents met with city
council to hear protests against
high fares, The parents held a
meeting following their inter-
view with council and decided to
launch a petition, The meeting
also agreed to send a delegation
to Victoria when the Legislature
opens, (See photo above,)

@ in Victoria, Oak Bay Liberal
MLA Alan Macfarlane urged the
government to suspend the in-
crease until a study can be made,
He said B,C, Hydro is making
large profits and that “these
monies came from the people of
B,C, and should be used for the
people,”

@iIn Vancouver the Commun-
ist Party is this week widely
circulating a leaflet dealing with
the present fare increase,

The leaflet also urges Van-
couver city council to immedi-
ately seek agreement with Lower
Mainland municipalities for a
Metropolitan Transit System,

It asks that the cabinet pre-
pare legislation to be introduced
at the coming session of the
Legislature to establish aGreat-
er Vancouver Utility District to
distribute power and gas and
operate the transit system,

Fascism rears ugly head again

Draw all the stands together
and an ugly picture emerges,
the picture of a resurgent
Fascism with its “hate” litera-
ture and poison finding a ready

entry into Canadian minds and
homes,

While Ottawa authorities as-
Sue the nation that U.S, Nazi
feuhrer” Lincoln Rockwell is
“not permitted” entry to Canada,
Rockwell not only gets in, but
is widely featured on Canadian
radio and T.V, stations. Monday
of this week Rockwell is “feat-
ured” on Radio Station CKNW,
with a big build-up advertisement
in the Sun edition of January 9.

Tuesday next week another ad-
vertisement announced that Dr.
Fred Schwartz of California will
hold an “Anti-Communist” rally
in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre,
Herr Schwartz is a founder and

advocate of the notorious ultra-
rightist John Birch Society, which
hailed Barry Goldwater as the
epitome of “good government”
and the H-bomb, This person is
being sponsored by the “Full
Gospel Ministerial Association,”

’ This week too the Pacific Tri-
bune received a “Statement to the
Canadian Press” signed by one
Helmut F. Dieskau, “Command-
er, Union of Fascists, Canada,”
Herr Helmut does some gloating
on the West German “twenty-
year statute of limitations be-
coming effective” which will al-
low the dregs of Hitler fascism
to crawl out of their holes. With
these “thousands of German pat-
riots” as Herr Helmut describes
them, full scale war on the
“blood-thirsty Jews” ispromised
for 1965,

Herr Helmut outlines some of
his program for 1965:

“The Canadian section of the
World Union of National Social-
ists, along with ‘Canadian Ac-
tion’, the ‘National Anti-Jewish
Party’, the ‘Natural Order, the
‘Canada Youth Corps’ and the
Deutches Kampfen Gemeinschaft’
have formed a Union of Fascists
in Canada and joined their ef-
forts to launch this year in Can-
ada a tremendous unprecedented
campaign, including physical at-
tacks against pacifists, Jews and
Communists,

*During the past year we have
been placing nocturnal telephone
calls in the Toronto and Montreal
areas to Jewish homes, We intend
to step-up this activity in 1965”.
This foul piece of fascist litera-
ture closes with the slogan in
caps: “Bombs auf Israel,”

SALES TAX PLAN HIT

‘VICTORIA MUST AID
B.C. MUNICIPALITIES’

By WILLIAM E. STEWART

Vancouver city council finds it-
self in an extremely critical si-
tuation, In spite of its electoral
victory on December 8, it has no
mandate from the people,

Council’s basic proposals for
the development of the city were
rejected by the voters. The five
year plan and the coliseum, both
of which summed up the over-
all approach of the NPA to dev-
elopment in Vancouver, were re-
jected and council is now faced
with a number of acute prob-
lems and no money to spend on
their solution,

Mayor Rathie, who has an un-
controllable penchant for putting
his foot in his mouth, proposed
to resolve this problem by seek-
ing provincial permission to ins-
titute a civic sales tax. This pro-
posal was met with a barrage of

January 11 marked the 150th anni-
versary of the birth of Canada’s first
prime minister and one of the chief
architects of Confederation, Sir John
A. Macdonald. The event was offici-
ally celebrated this year for the first
time in Canada’s history.

opposition, including opposition
from his own council,

The local morning paper
answered the proposal of Rathie
very well when it stated editor-
ially that if Mr, Rathie had made
this proposal as part of his elec-
tion campaign he would not now
be the mayor of Vancouver,

Aside from the obvious contra-
diction of instituting a sales tax
in Vancouver that was not com-
mon to other municipalities, this
is just another way of soaking the
homeowner and renter for mount-
ing municipal costs.

.While it is true that the mayor
raised the whole matter of prov-
incial responsibility for increas-
ing municipal costs in his in-
augural address he weakened his
entire case by suggesting that the
matter could be resolved by a
civic sales tax,

The crisis of municipal financ-
ing can only be seriously met by
both the Federal and Provincial
governments assuming a more
substantial share of municipal
costs. Vancouver City Council, .
in concert with other munici-
palities, should insist that the
coming session of the B,C. Leg-
islature increase the per-capita
grants to the municipalities; ac-
cept a larger share of education
costs and bring the Homeowner
Grant up to $150 by 1967,

It is around such demands as
these that Vancouver could rally
support from the people and other
municipal councils. Mayor Rathie
should be told to stop messing .
around with diabolical plots to
sneak the money from the people
in the form of municipal sales
taxes and to place the emphasis
where it needs to be, on more
assistance from senior govern-
ments,

PETITION

Roll Back

stitutions of learning.

To Hon. W. A. C. Bennett, Premier
Hon. Leslie Peterson, Minister of Education,
Doctor G. Shrum, Co-chairman, B.C. Hydro.

The undersigned believe that recent bus fare increases
work a hardship on all full-time students at all public in-

Underlying this fare increase is a transit crisis which
only the provincial government can solve.

We therefore ask immediate restoration of student bus
fares to their December 31, 1964 level pending full investi-
gagtion of transit problem and solution of same.

(The above petition was adopted Monday night by Vancouver Central
Parent-Teacher Council which has asked the School Board to allow it to be
circulated in schools and among parents. We urge our readers to support it.
All petitions must be returned to Mrs. E. May, Pres., Vancouver Council, PTA,
1508 E. 63rd Ave., before January 28).

Bus Fares

ADDRESS

January 15, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3