Morrison tells Jones union has spent thousands on conciliation Street railwaymen in Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster this week were holding firmly for their demands of a 20 cents an hour wage increase and the 40-hour week as civic officials, in conference with provincial cabinet ministers, made belated efforts to avert the strike which, under instruction from the membership of the Street Railwaymen’s Union will Mrs. Effie Jones to enter city aldermanic contest A veteran campaigner on civic issues, Mrs. Effie Jones, whose name has long been associated with the popular de- mand “both for a low-rent housing program and civic owner- ship of public utilities, has announced that she will be an independent candidate for Van- couver City Council this year. Explaining her decision to enter the aldermanic contest, Mrs. Jones said this week: “Dufing the past year I have seen the city council repeatedly grant concessions . to the BCElec- tric. “Last week, at nS meeting of the utilities committee of the city council under the chairmanship of Ald. Charles Thompson, I learned with amazement that: the council had failed to make any fepresen- tation against the . BCElectric’s plea for higher gas’ rates in: the hearings held by the Public’ Utilities Commission. : ; “This is. an invitation to. the Public - Utilities Cammission — to grant the- BCElectric’s request for higher” gas: rates. : “Many _members “i6f the com- munity associations in which I am active; particularly in South Van- uver, have been urging me to myself as a candidate. 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As the Pacific Tribune went to press, it was learned that union officials had rejected conciliation proposals placed before them at midnight hall on Wednesday with city, pro- vincial labor department and BCElectric officials. It is understood that at this meeting George Morrison, inter- national vice-president of the Street Railwaymen’s Union, pointed out that his organization had spent thousands of dollars presenting its case in conciliation proceedings. These proceedings, he said, had taken several ‘weeks. All the pertinent facts had been brought out in that time and further conciliation hearings could not be expected to accomp- lish anything more. Lloyd Easler, president of the union’s Division 101 here, stated this week that union members would consider “unfair” all those normally using street cars and buses who accept lifts in private cars during the strike and those - motorists who pick up other _than their usual passengers. “ce seams. 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Required by the recommenda- tions of the Goldenberg Report to place itself on record if it wanted to continue the ward sys- tem in effect since Burnaby re- gained its municipal self-govern- men, the council, by a majority, ‘decided earlier this year to abol- ish the ward system and _insti- tute the system of election at large followed by Vancouver and other cities. Candidates already endorsed by ——— the committee have pledged them- selves to work for a platform, main planks of which are:: @ Implementation of the plebis- cite adopted by a large major- ity of voters last year giving the council a mandate toe establish and acquire its own transportation system. Comple- mentary to this is the demand that the municipality’s road program shall conform to the public need. The committee charges that road work in the past year has favored the BCElectric. Establishment of a modern gar- bage disposal plant. 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