Vancouver, Victoria city councils to press gov't for price controls Pressed by representative delegations, councils. in British Columbia’s two largest cities this week placed themselves on record as urging the federal government to reimpose price controls, In Vancouver, a delegation from the B.C. Housewives Consumer Association, headed 5 Non-Partisans in Victoria | by Mrs. Freda Adams and ac- companied by Elgin Ruddell, Civic Reform aldermanio candi- date, persuaded aldermen to set up a committee which wilt draft a resolution to. the federal govern- ment for submission to the coun- cit based on the delegation’s de- mand for: 1. Rolling back prices. to the level of January, 1946; 2. Restora- tion of subsidies on butter, milk, feed, wheat, ftour, cotton and other essential eommodities; 3. Maintenance of rental controls; 4 Abolition of the federat sales | raising of the Excess; tax and to replace the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and to inctude. “gen- wine representation” from house- wives, farmers and other con- sumers. “In Victoria, similar demamds. presented by a delegation head- ed by Mrs. J. Wasuita and Mrs. en WEA classes start December 8 . Fall and winter classes sPponsor- ed by the Workers’ Educational Association will start December 8 in Pender Auditorium here, it is announced. : Courses, each -to run six weeks, include a. Camera Club, led by Peter Varley, Radio Production and Drama, in which such Van- eouver radio writers as Fred Wil- mot and Doug Nixon will partici- pate, and Painting for Fun, a workshop course directed by Dor- othy Willis and Margaret Donald. Featured course will be that on trade union affairs, It will em- brace labor legislation, with John Stanton as instructor, economics, for trade unionists, led by Bert Marcuse, and inclide an eight- week leadership class for shop stewards and others. In‘ addition, Yvonne Firkins, di- rector of Vancouver Little Theatre, has offered to conduct a theater workshop course, starting in. Jan- ~Those wishing to register for or obtain information on any of the courses are asked to. get in touch with Claude Donald by calling at 339. West ‘Pender or phoning TAt- tow 1715. ZENITH CAFE 105 EK. Hastings Vancouver | fails to provide cheap, Although their choice fo Mayoralty support for Effie Jones and El- gin Ruddell. ; A leading Liberal in Hastings East informed the Civic Reform Committee that he would vote for Mrs. Jones because -he knew she meant what. she said when she promised to end civic discrim- ination against his district. Motorists, irked by the ‘installa- tion of parking meters which cannot solve the city’s parking problem so long as the council adequate all-day parking downtown, have heard Effie Jones describe meters as “a racket which mulcts the public of nickels in fees and dol- lars: in fines” and promised her their support. But Effie Jones greatest as- set in her campaign for the mayoralty is her own long re- cord of fighting for the people’s interests. That’s why community leaders in Vancouver South, who personally know what she has done in her own community, area working indefatigably to give her a majority on election Men who have since married and established their families in modest homes, many of them veterans, but who counted them- selves among the homeless single unemployed Effie Jones helped to feed and defend a decade ago, are now supporting her campaign to defend their interests as citi- zens. & Dominating all the issues in the campaign is the- central pro- test against the increased fare. The daily papers have been mak- ing’ much of the supposed confu- sion created by the two principle contenders for the mayoralty both being named Jones, although the Civic Reform Committee has re- duced the issue and the distinc- tion to a single slogan: “Elect Effie ‘Low Fare’ Jones and de- feat Charles ‘High Fare’ Jones.” But to thousands of citizens who have parted “temporarily” with the 10-cent fare there is no confusion between the two. They know that the council has promised not to oppose the BC- Electric’s application. They know that unless Effie Jones is. elected to carry on the fight from the mayor’s office the increase will be permanent. : Every dime dropped. into a street car box is’ reminding citi- zens of the distinction between the contending Jones and the slo- gan, coined by some unknown supporter, now going around the | city is: “When you say Jones—say Effie.” And that’s what thous- ands of people are going to say: at the polls next Wednesday. 207 West Hastings - FUR RANCHERS, TRAPPERS and TRADERS SHIP ALL YOUR RAW FURS TO : Jack I. St., Vancouver, ‘B.C. I PAY TOP MARKET PRICES —_ Louis PROMPT RETURNS JOHNSON -@8 West Cordova Street - - HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS ‘AND WORK BOOTS HAND- MADE 'S BOOTS wilt under labor’s attacks VICTORIA, B.C. — Faced with sharp criticism from labor, the newly-organized Victoria Non-Partisan League failed last week to complete a civic slate. the mayoralty, sitting Mayor Percy E. George, will apparently be returned by acclamation, the. Non-Partisans could only name six other candidates, three for the five council seats and three for school board and police com-, mission. At a public anti-Non-Partisan rally in Broad Street Auditorium on Thursday last week, Ben Sced, vice-president of Victoria ‘Labor Council, condemned the WNon- Partisan set-up, pointing out that the Non-Partisans allowed neither the press nor the public to their meetings. ‘ “This group is exactly like a limited company,” he charged. “It is seeking incorporation and is run by a board of directors.” Following ‘the rally, Alex Mit- chell, president of Victoria Labor Council, told the. Pacific Tribune: “Our campaign to preserve: citi- zens’ democratic rights against machine politics of the type they have in Vancouver is meeting with considerable success.’ This was tacitly confirmed by R. H. B. Ker, president of the Non-Partisan League, who ad- mitted that a ‘substantial mum- ber” of prospective candidates refused to accept Non-Partisan nomination. Slate announced by Civic Reform Elgin Ruddell heads the list of Vancouver aldermanic candidates endorsed by the Civic Reform Com- mittee here this week. Other aldermanic candidates sup- ported by the CRC are Magnus Ilia- son, eLaura Jamieson and Arthur Turner, all nominated by the CCF. Announcing its suport of these candidates for the four council vacancies, John Stanton, CRC president, stated: “Vancouver now has an oppor- tunity to elect a city council which will back Effie’ Jones in her fight for low fares. The four candidates endorsed by our committee are those best suited to carry forward this fight.” For Purity and Quality BUY HASTINGS BREAD CAKES & PASTRIES HASTINGS + Qe “BAKERY » 146 Hastings Street E. Branches at ‘4068 E, Hastings and 4191 Main St. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947 CORINNE FISHER who has been re-elected president of the International Woodwork- ers’ Federated Auxiliaries, Othor officers are Kay Rogers, vi president; Anne Maroni, secre- tary; Lina Nurmi, treasurer. Lillian Godfrey of Lake Cowichan is a trustee. ; LPP moves in Saanich test . VICTORIA. B.C, — Decision to set up a Saanich constituency com- mittee and to “do everything we can to bring about the defeat of the Coalition candidate’ in the byelection necessitated by the ap- pointment of Norman Whittaker to the Supreme Court, was made by the Greater Victoria Commit- tee of the Labor-Progressive Party meeting in the capital last week- end. In a press statement issued fol- lowing the meeting, Bruce Mickle- burgh, secretary of the LPP Great- er Victoria Committee, said: “The Saanich byelection will be quite a factor in determining the amendment of Bill 39 to conform with labor’s demands. It will also influence the popular demand that the government remove the main burden of school taxation from the land and place it, not on. the work- ing people through a sales tax, but on the big business interests that ave now endeavoring to —evade their responsibility by supporting agitation for the sales tax.” Liberals rivals for the Coalition nomination in a Liberal seat long held by the late Hon. Wells Gray. The Conservatives look upon Johnson as a “safe” man, a power in B.C. business circles and cut close to their own pattern. A di- rector of B.C. Power Corporation, president and managing director of Evans, Coleman and Johnson Brothers, Johnson can be expected to reflect Anscomb’s own “get tough with labor” views, the Con- servatives feel. ; Johnson’s chief selling point for both fearful Liberals and ambi- tious Conservatives may well be that he is more acceptable to the Coalition—and that means the Tories. . oak What makes Johnson more ac- ceptable to the Conservatives, however, also makes him less de- sireable to those Liberals who feel that the increasing impress .of highly unpopular Tory policies, such as Bill 39, upon a govern- ment_in which a Liberal premier must accept the responsibility for carrying them out, is narrowing popular support for their party. “Liberals are being harmed by earrying public support for Tory reaction,” Arthur Laing, president of the B.C. Young Liberal Asso- ciation, told students at the UBC this week. bee Consciousness of this need to regain for the Liberals the pub- lic support they have lost is also reflected this week in the Van- couver Sun’s biographical sketch of Johnson, which states: “Up against the handicap of business success in modern poli- tics, he is telling the rank and file that he is a ‘Liberal Social- ist, which may meéan that he favors more generous social ser- vices within the Liberal Party free enterprise’ framework. He also promises to give up his many company directorships if he is chosen leader.” 27a tei ee In that one sentence you have the essence of what the Liberals hope to accomplish at this ‘con- vention, trying to put a new “liberal” if nét “socialist” face on the government in which they. are still a majority, ‘and: up against the problem that the Con- servatives and many Liberal: mem- bers of the legislature are all in favor of a new face so long as the old policies are left essentially unchanged. ’ 2 Whatever the outcome, labor dare not relax its campaign to wipe the obnoxious features of Bill 39 off the statute books. Pow- erful interests will be working inside the Liberal convention and the Coalition to keep them there. “ge CHT a aM eg ia erie i acme LI Delivered Free c.0.D. Phone: PAcific 1384 empties Please have them 25c¢ ‘per dozen paid for for the driver when he makes his deliveries 1385. 1386. 1387 ready . 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