Police shake-up Labor men saw in Hill’g ap- pointment a further indication that the police shake-up is moti- vated by political considerations, with an accelerating increase in the number of unemployed and anticipated labor struggles a prime factor. To secure Hill’s appointment, the attorney-general’s department and Mayor McGeer had to resort to the subterfuge of appointing him an honorary deputy police magis- trate. The appointment threw a revealing light on McGeer’s recent proposal that the city charter be amended to widen the range of eligibility for the police commis- sion, since it indicated that Mc- Geer had new appointments in mind when he made the- proposal although the repercussions from his police shake-up necessitated a resort to the method used to appoint Hill. + Vancouver City Council, sitting as the police Committee, this week calied upon Mayor McGeer to ex- plain the reasons for the projected police shake-up, on which Police Chief McNeill has deferred action until the mayor, now undergoing a medical check-up in St. Paul’s Hospital, calls a meeting of the police commission. Council de- cided to ‘invite’ the police com- TT | AERO VENETIAN BLIND CO. LTD. 369 W. Broadway Fhir. 2482 e METAL SLATS 2 WEEKS DEL. COLORED TAPES FREE ESTIMATES TLLLLL Lil Loar The ingredient that adds ZEST to the reading of your daily newspaper is ENJOYMENT. You'll find it in good measure when you join the new thousands now turning to the West‘s most Interesting Newspaper ! Vancouver Phone MArine 1161 for Daily Home Delivery ee ee a te | PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 8 missien to meet with it and ex- plain the police reorganization. Acknowledging that the coun- cil lacks power to compel the police commission, a provincially- appointed body, to appear before it, Ald Charles Thompson stated: “We pay the bills. We are elected by the people who will be affected by any loss of ser- vice caused by the reorganiza- tion, The police commission, after all, is not an _ elected body.” Aid Thompson. also voiced. sharp criticism of changes made in the police commission. “We learn that Magistrate Ma- theson has resigned and _ the reason was not his health. “The security we are supposed to have under this police com- mission set-up is that we are vesting the management of the department in established and recognized people of authority. “But what has actually happen- ed is that, when the magistrate resigned, we went out and got someone who was not a magis- trate and made him a magistrate. “What safeguard have we against this thing? I’m not sug- gesting that we try to control the commission, but we should have the type of law which doesn’t allow that kind of thing to occur.” 2 To this Ald. J. D. Cornett added the complaint that the police commission set-up did not allow the council to ask questions. Labor in their support of the Police Fed- eral Association’s request, placed before Mayor McGeer in a let- ter, that before any police officers are demoted or dismissed the men affected be given an opportunity to state their case before the police commission, WM. GREEN and C. EK. LOUIE Est. 1904 : Real Estate, Insurance, Notary Income Tax Forms Prepared 525 MAIN STREET TAtiow 1036 NO. 16— SECTION 86 LAND ACT - Notice of intention to apply to lease Land in Range 3, Coast District, “Land’ Recording District of Vancouver, and situate at Eu- cott Bay, B.C. Take notice that Turney W. Phil- lips, 3327 Sussex Avenue, Burnaby, B.C.—occupation Fishermah, and Robert M. Baldwin, 4236 Grange Street, Burnaby, B.C. —occupation ex Police Officer, intend to apply for a, lease of the following des- cribed foreshore commencing at the South West corner of lot 5, Range 3, Coast district, being a point on high water mark of Eu- cott Bay, thence Northerly, West- erly and South Westerly along said high water mark to the point where the South boundary of lot 10 intersects said high water. mark, thence . Kast 1.5 chains, thence North Easterly 52 chains, thence East 6 chains, thence Southerly 87 chains more or less, to a point 1.5 chains West of the Southwest corner of said Lot 5, thence Hast 1.5 chains to the Point of Commencement. leaders were outspoken. Spanish refugee asks safe asylum Fernando Abargues, the fifth Spanish stowaway to es- cape Franco’s terror, is await- ing permission from Canadian Immigration authorities here to enter Mexico. Abargues, a 20-year old Asturian, stowed away on the Panamanian steamer Utahan and arrived in Vancouver last Christ- mas. Earlier last December four oth- er Spaniards had arrived here as stowaways. Application has been made by The Spanish Refugee Appeal Committee and the Van- couver Labor Council to the min- ister of mines and resources for a stay of deportation while Abar- gues awaits permission to enter Mexico. “We shall demand at our meet- ing next week that McGeer either put up or shut up,” John Turner, secretary of Vancouver Labor Council (CCL), stated. “If the mayor has any definite charges to make against any members of the police force, then the public has a right to know what they are. The whole matter should be brought out into the open.” Vancouver Trades and Labor ~ouncil (TLC); on recommen- dation of its executive, this week approved a resolution de- manding that police officers af- fected by the proposed reorgan- ization be given a full public hearing before any demotions or dismissals are made. Memo One interesting revelation is that a U.S. mapping plane flying over Spain was driven off by a Franco pilot in a German Messer- schmidt fighter. This was un- doubtedly an embarrassing situ- ation but no protest was made to Franco. Tito and the Russians got it hot from the State Depart- ment and U.S. press, though, for doing the same thing—seeing that no unauthorized planes fooled s{around over their territory, Style Value Quality Always at the Home of UNION MADE CLOTHING — and Friendly Service Established For Over 40 Years rHE — Hus! Phone PAc. 8645 > 45 E. Hastings — Vancouver REGENT Suit or Overcoat come to the OLD ESTABLISHED RELIABLE FIRM * $24 West Hastings Street e TAILORS . EVERY GARMENT STRICTLY UNION MADE [ership that may come into Newsies denied union recognition by Charges of discrimination papers against newsvendors selling the Vancouver Sun and News-Herald were brought before delegates to last Tuesday’s meeting of the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. Newsvendors who sell these papers on the city’s street corners have been denied union recognition by Sun and News-Herald management it was revealed. These organized newsvendors, who have stood by the striking printers at the Daily Province by refusing to handle that paper, have also suffered mistreatment in daily bundle grants by the Province’s two competitors, As a result the -vendors have - lost nearly $10,000 in wages during the last seven months. - Victoria transit @ Any plan so drawn up be framed that it can be ad- vantageously fitted into any overall scheme of public own- operation along the lines pro- posed by the Gilman report. The meeting set up a> Trans- portation Action Committee on a representative basis to lead a city-wide fight for a public tran- sit system, and adopted a CCF- introduced brief dealing with the need for an overall publicly-own- ed system of power and transit. While three days earlier the press here had headlined Ald Dig- gon’s claims that public transit was certain to.lose money, no re- porters from the capital’s two dailies attended the conference to hear the stinging rebuttal of this assertion and the Victoria Times on Monday falsely head- lined a story to the effect that the gathering had demanded a renewal of negotiations with the BCER. To Ald. Diggon’s repeated asset- tions that a public system would lose $238,000 annually with a 5c fare, $156,000 annually with a 6c fare, and $140,000 with a 7c fare, Robert Mezger on behalf of Vic- toria Labor Council replied with the charge that Diggon had com- puted his expenses on the basis of existing equipment, “which no- body wants to ride anyway,” and that a modern bus system would cost less than $75,000 a year tu maintain. “For years now the BCER has had no franchise,” Mezger said. “This is the ideal time for the” city to get the equipment from the bus companies, pay for it on a mileage basis, and acquire our Own system for good. What the people spend in fares and the city in initial expenses would and should be represented in a splen- did system with equipment we could be proud of.” - Attempts of Ald. Diggon, Ma- yor George, and Professor Farr to prove that public ownership would be losing proposition while the BCER could make transportation pay were roundly attacked by Councillor Harry Ball of Burn- aby, who received an _ ovation from the delegates. “West Vancouver’s own sys- tem runs in competition with the BCER, is ordered by the Public Utilities Commission to leave terminals five minutes after BCER buses, paid $26,000 in tolls, has a population of 9,500 to serye in hilly territory, runs a closed-door operation in- to the city, and still made a net profit of $16,000 last year,” Ball stated. “I am confident Victoria, Burnaby, or any place else can do just as well on a bigger scale.” — “There’s sO much money to be lost in this business,” he said, re- ferring to Ald. 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