Women meet
with cabinet

VICTORIA, B.C.

Measures to combat * ‘the misery of unemployment which

is spreading once again” were

proposed to Premier W. A. C.

Bennett and the provincial cabinet Friday last week by a
large women’s delegation representing 11 organizations from

Vancouver, New Westminster,
A brief, submitted by B.C. coun-
cil of Congress of Canadian Wo-
men and presented by CCW secre-
tary Mrs. Jean Waugh, called for:
@ Huge province-building pro-
jects to develop our indus-
tries to provide jobs on a
long-term basis.
Extension of the good begin-
nings in developing a large
scale program of public
works; highways, bridges,
wharves, etc.
Provincial government coop-
_ eration with federal and mun-
icipal ‘authorities in encour-
aging subsidized low-rental
housing and slum clearance
programs.

@ Protection of industry and

Consider public gas
first, says council

Vancouver Labor Council un-
animously passed a_ resolution
Tuesday this week calling upon
the provincial government “to
table the agreement on the na-
tural gas pipeline until the possi-
bility of a publicly owned natural
gas pipeline and public distribu-
tion of natural gas is fully investi-
gated.”

The resolution also expressed
labor's opposition “to any pro-
posal for a government subsidy or
underwriting of bonds for the pro-
motion of a private monopoly.”

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@® Development of world trade.
The brief also dealt with hos-
pitalization and health, secure old
age, extended education, drug ad-
diction and trafficking. +

“Citizens pay for hospitalization
through the sales tax, but this
does not yet guarantee a bed when
the need arises,” the brief point-
ed out. “In the event of an epi.
demic or catastrophe, it would be
impossible to care for people in
the present overcrowded hospitals.

“We urge the decentralization of
hospital units. Vancouver could
be better served and at less cost
by smaller units than the Vancou-
ver General Hospital. -

“It may be asked why the new
500-bed addition at VGH was. al-
lowed against professional advice
and widespread opinion of public
bodies. According to the medical
profession, convalescent and less
severe cases could be cared for at
as low a cost as $3,000 per bed.

“On the other hand, better
equipped, larger hospitals are
needed in such centres as Nanai-
mo, Powell River and the Fraser
Valley.

“We urge also that special hos-
pital provision be made for chronic
and incurable patients. Due to
chronic illness of one of its mem-
bers, a family could use all its
savings and incur a lifelong debt.”

Reviewing the alarming increase
in drug addiction and trafficking
in narcotics, particularly among
young people, the brief urged “a
public enquiry into the whole mat-
rer,’ j
Organizations represented were:
Congress of Canadian Women of
Vancouver, Nanaimo and Victoria;
Civic Workers Union auxiliary;
Marine Workers auxiliary; Shore-
workers, UFAWU; Longshore,
men’s auxiliary, New Westminster;
Association of United Ukrainian |
Canadians; Russian Federation;|
Vancouver local Fishermen’s Union
auxiliary; Nanaimo local Fisher-
men’s Union auxiliary.

‘Victory for democracy i in Montreal’

MONTREAL

-Removal last week of Lieut.
John “Scarface” Boyezum, head of
this city’s notorious “anti-subver-
sive squad,’ is described by the
Montreal Civil Liberties Union as
a signal victory for democracy in
Montreal.” Boyezum was removed
after 25 years as the so-called
“brains” of the anti-labor squad.
He was transferred to a regular

police station in east end Tetreaut-
ville.

Paul Normandin, CLU secretary,
said the removal of Boyczum at
the request of labor organizations
“should presage a new era for
civil rights in this city. It is a
triumph of the people of Mon-
treal over the Padlock Law.”

(The Civil Liberties Union
challenging the validity of the
Padlock Law in a test case which
will come before the Supreme
Court of Canada this year.)

In congratulating Mayor John

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‘Red squad’ head back on n beat

_ JEAN DRAPEAU

Drapeau and the city executive
for the action, Normandin urged
that they carry it through to a
“logical conclusion” and_ grant
“full democracy” in Montreal by
disbanding the anti-subversive
squad.

Normandin asked that the city

also lift the ban on leafiet distri
bution. The trade union move-
ment, he said, has had to pay
thousands of dollars in fines be-
cause of a city bylaw which denies
the right to distribute handbills
in Montreal. The CLU has writ-

councillors urging repeal of this
bylaw.

,Columnist “Fitz”
treal Gazette described Boyczum’s
removal as a ‘“Communist~ vic-
tory.”

But full credit for drawing Boy-
ezum’s fangs goes in the maifi to
the labor movement—to Montreal
Central. Council of the National

Syndicates who blasted the
“odious” thought control, anti

to City Council; to Montreal Labor
Council (CCL) which two weeks
ago demanded complete abolition
of the entire strikebreaking crew
and to the Civil Liberties Union
which is sparking. a Canada-wide

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Urge Burnaby seek —
municipal gas parley -

BURNABY, B.C.
A conference of Lower Main-
land municipalities to work out a

joint policy on a publicly-owned ;

natural gas distribution system
was urged upon Burnaby Munici-
pal Council Monday this week by
Harold Pritchett, speaking for the
Burnaby constituency committee of
the Labor-Progressive party.

Pritchett congratulated council
for appointing a special committee
to study the distribution of natural
gas but felt that quick action
should be taken “before the mono-
polies move in.”

He drew attention to the fact
that such a proposal was already
before the Vancouver City Council
utilities committee, and said that |
Burnaby, the largest municipality ;
in the province, should support it.

“Gas must not become another
oil deal,” ‘said Pritchett. “The

bulk of our oil is exported to the
United States and with it, jobs
for Canadian workers. Peace River
gas, like our other natural re-

‘sources, should be kept in Canada

for the benefit of Canadians.”

Recent press reports indicate
that pipeline work is scheduled to
begin early in July, employing
about 300 workers.
to be completed late in 1956.

“Since no charter has been grant-
ed by the provincial government
to any company to handle the dis,
tribution of natural gas, I urge you
to give your earliest consideration
to the proposal that a conference
of Lower Mainland municipalities
be held at once,” concluded Prit-
| chett.

The proposal was referred to

the special committee for consid-
eration.

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