Joh action urged by
Turner in Burnaby

William Turner, independent candidate for Burnaby coun-

cil announced this
to elect candidates

week that he will cooperate with labor
pledged to fight unemployment and high

taxes and press for public ownership of.the B.C. Electric.

Labor in Burnaby
nominated three official can-
didates for four seats to- be
filled on council. They are
John Higman, A. H. Hill, ‘and
R. A. Scott. Labor has also
nominated and endorsed for
school trustees in Burnaby,
Mrs. Eileen Dailly, Russell
Hicks and C. B. Gray.

Turner’s election committee
said Wednesday they will urge
voters to give their four votes
for council to the three labor
nominees and William Tur-
ner, whose long record of civic
action has won him wide sup-
port throughout Burnaby.

Announcing election plans,
the Turner Election Commit-
tee said that “for many years
Turner has been an outstand-
ing trade unionist in Burnaby,
active in municipal affairs and
civic politics. He has led many
campaigns around the people’s
needs and has appeared be-
for council on numerous oc-
casions to demand action on
these needs. He has been a

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WILLIAM TURNER

leading ‘figure in the rate-
payer movement and_ has
polled substantial votes in
civic elections. His election

will force action from council
“on the many pressing prob-
lems facing our municipality.”

CCF go-it-alone stand
endangers Trail result

“The go-it-alone attitude of
CCF leadership, expressed in
the Trail byelection by their
to take

real

failure the offensive
the

campaign — the government’s

on issues of this
record of corruption, Bennett’s
sabotage of publicly-owned
power, giveaways to Wenner-
Gren and the BCE,
fusal to press for recognition
and ‘trade with People’s China
other-
wise bright prospect,” Nigel
Morgan, LPP provincial lead-
er, said on his return from
Trail last week.

and re-

—is endangering

an

Government in B.C. stands
at a new low in terms of cor-
ruption and resources “give-
aways” and “genuine, all-in
labor and people’s unity” is
the only way to change this
disastrous course, said Morgan.

The Rossland-Trail LPP con-
stituency committee “is work-
ing hard to get these things
done,” said Morgan. “I ap-
peal to LPP clubs and sup-
porters to send contributions
for this campaign (leaflets,
broadcasts, newspaper adver-
tisements) .to the LPP con-
stituency committee head=
quarters at 1660 Columbia
Avenue, Trail, B.C.”

POWER PROBE

‘Scrap commission’
Morgan demands

“The Royal Commission set up by
this province is unsatisfactory both in its composition and its terms of reference,
be scrapped,” Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader,
cion probe which would whitewash the Socred government,
in the legislature, where the charges made by H. Lee Briggs, former head of the B.C. Power ~
-Commission, can be debated by the elected representatives of the people.”

(Three days after Briggs
made his charges, he was
fired from his job. The other
three members of the BCPC
have since resigned.)

(At. Victoria. College ~ on
Wednesday students hung
Premier Bennett in effigy
when he attempted to defend
his government’s record and
refute Briggs’ charges. At-
torney-General Robert Bon-
ner, who substituted for Ben-
net during the question period,
was hooted off the platform.
A day earlier the students had
given Briggs an enthusiastic
reception, clapping and cheer-
ing his statements.)

(H. Lee Briggs was applaud-
And cheered by UBC students
Wednesday when he addressed
a noon-hour meeting on the
campus.)

Nigel Morgan said the com-
position of the Royal Com-
mission is unsatisfactory “be-
cause its three members are
friends and supporters of the
Socred government.”

The LPP leader quoted from
a front-page editorial which
appeared in the November 22
issue of the Victoria Daily
Times:

“Dr. Gordon Shrum, the
chairman, is a Dean of the
UBC, whose Chancellor is
Dal Grauer of the B.C. Power
Corporation, one of the firms
Briggs has criticized. Dr.
Shrum is a longtime friend
of Attorney-General Bonner
and, indeed, made a trip to
Europe with him last year...

“John Dunsmuir, the second
member, is a lifelong friend
of W. C. Mainwaring of the
Wenner-Gren project, and a
co-director of the PNE with
Premier Bennett’s close friend
and confidant,. Einar Gunder-
son.

“The third member, W. M.
Anderson, is a wealthy char-
tered accountant whe came to
B.C. from Alberta during the
war years. He is, among many
diverse business activities, a
senior partner of the firm
which ‘served as auditor for
Cc. D. Schultz and Company,
of the recent bribery and
conspiracy hearings.”

Such a commission, said
Morgan, is “extremely un-
likely” to conduct the kind

of probe the public is de-
manding. Satisfaction can be
obtained by debating the
Briggs’ charges “freely and

openly” on the floor of the
legislature during the coming
session.

Addressing a UBC campus
meeting last Friday, Morgan
charged that “the Bennett
cabinet is conniving to give
the B.C. Electric-Wenner-Gren
consortium a virtual monopoly
over future power develop-
ment in this province, while
their appointees on the Pub-
lic Utilities Commission hand
them an official permit to
bleed the ratepayers and
transit riders white.”

Morgan commended H. Lee
Briggs for “the great public
service’ he performed in
drawing attention to the grave
power crisis that is develop-
ing.

‘If Premier Bennett is al-
lowed to get away with what
he proposes to give Wenner-

Gren — virtual control over
the northern half of this prov-
ince — it will make the rail-

road: steal of the last century
look like a Sunday school pic-
nic,’ Morgan told the stu-

You should apologize

Premier Bennett to investigate the power situation if

and should

said this week. “In place of a commis:
we need a-free and open debate

dents.

Premier Bennett, he con-
tinued; is “sabotaging the B.C.
Power Commission” and grant-
ing favors to the B.C. Elec-
tric.

“The. B.C. Power Commis-
sion has a superior record of
cheap rates and better -serv-
ice, in spite of being restrict-
ed to operating in the sparse-
ly populated areas, where
there is only one customer
every 16 miles on the average
while the BCE enjoys the
plum in the lower mainland
area where 70 percent of the
province’s population lives.”

Morgan called for establish-
ment of a province-wide, pub-
licly-owned power system 10

provide the cheapest possible '

light and heat for home and
industry.

“B.C’s development has
reached the stage where such
a decision is essential, “he
said. “Bennett must be stop”
ped from tying our hands and
selling us short to grasping
monopoly interests.”

Briggs tells Grauer

“Something tells me you had
better make a public apology,”
H. Lee Briggs, former head of
the B.C. Power Commission,
wrote B.C. Electric head Dal

Grauer this week.

During the power contro-
versy Gauer has issued state-
to the press calling
Briggs “an engineer with lit-
tle experience” and an
competent executive,’ among

things. He also said

ments
ees

in-

other

Briggs’ statement “indicates
that he is in a state of emo”
tional disintegration.”

“Be careful, Dal,’ wrote
Briggs. “There are laws 1
deal with -libel and characte?
assassination. I think that #
great many of the people who
live in the Grauer Heart
land, particularly those wh?
were never favored with #
fraction. of the tremendous ad-
vantages you have had, wil
bet that those laws will b@
enforced even against a Un

versity Chancellor.”
—

VARSITY

The Inimitable

GALINA ULANOVA

in the Outstanding Russian Ballet Film

ROMEO & JULIET

starting

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