Is this prelude to more € Dunbar, Forty-Ninth and Arbutus “feeder” route and Din Electrical proposal to cut its transit service on lish evening service was labelled this week as the thin Be of.a wedge to reduce bus service in the working ss areas of the city by Effie Jones, president of Civic orm Association. nf the B.C. Electric is al- Wed to cut service in the Wmbar area, where many fople own cars, it will not long before it applies for (ilar cuts in the East End,” Edicted Mrs. Jones. # When the company’s 2,300 jIV€rs won a much-needed Pee increase last month, ,Dlic Opposition to a pro- ysed fare increase forced the je. Electric to announce that fWould not seek an increase ¢ bus fares, : #Now, just a few weeks get; the company asks per- gesion to cut service in one area, as a prelude to cutting service in areas where work- ers depend mainly on buses tc get to and from work.” The B.C. Electric feeder route runs from Dunbar and Forty-First, along Dunbar to Marine Drive, to Forty-Ninth Avenue to the intersection of Arbutus and Forty-Ninth. At. present there is a 20- minute service all day and a half-hourly ‘service from 6.30 p.m. to 12.40 am. The BCER proposes a 30-minute service until 7 p.m. and no service at all in the evenings. ‘ontinued from page I 1 CHINESE TRADE § with China. Britain re- fetly sold 100 tractors on a 81 order, although tractors y° SUpposed to be on the em- me list. Only Canada and * US. are still sticking j idly to the embargo policy.” yy bat could we sell to Chi- me 6 asked. Mainly items for heavy iustry,” said Johnson. Chi- 4 is going through a period rapid industrialization. fere is a huge market for Ficultural equipment and justrial machinery. They i also anxious to buy news- int, lumber, chemicals, 48S and anti-biotics. ‘On our side, we could buy i: China silks, essential MS, tea, rugs, bristles, brush- ® glass and many other Ims.” sPohnson left Vancouver last Y and flew to Hong Kong, elich he found overcrowded §1 suffering from an acute sing shortage. “Wealth + Poverty exist side by side,” ® said. “The streets were a. Swarming with beg- 5.” Mie travelled from Hong & to Canton by train. Of- , #ls of the China National p Port Export Corporation - as his hosts, and he was or . > to visit many parts of the and see numerous con- Ction projects. pin contrast to Hong Kong, dW no beggars in Canton,” g* Johnson. “There was tile luxury, but also no pov- Lo il Was most impressed by ne treatment of children. s ere seemed to be a kinder- = every couple of blocks, almost every child carried Ts S and pencils. The cam- yeen against illiteracy is ob- igiusly In full swing, and 5 many older people are f@S to school, learning to See “autification of the cit} @ band in hand with fitial development. A pro- F a plant one million trees erway, and has the di- ment, trade unions and co- operative officials, as well as school children and the gener- al population. For example, one of my hosts told me he had pledged to plant two trees, water and take care of them until their healthy growth was. assured.” From. Canton the Canadian trader flew to Peking where he spent several weeks mak- ing business contacts and ex- ploring avenues for future trade. “I saw theusands of work- ers digging a canal outside the eity, carrying dirt in primitive bamboo baskets. That very morning I had been negotiat- equiping a deal for ex- cavating, équipment. I could not help but think what it would do to hasten construc- tion and lighten the manual labor. “I watched a new blacktop road being built, and saw the cecasional steam roller, but inore often than not four men * with a big stone block would be tamping the surface down. Canada could supply all kinds of equipment to facilitate such construction work.” Johnson paid a short visit to Shanghai, inspected a mod- erp factory turning out tex- tiles which are traded to Egypt for cotton and to Bur- ma for rice. Every skilled Chinese machinist had two or tnree apprentices around his machine, learning how to op- erate it. “When they ~buy foreign machinery, they will have technicians capable of handl- ing the machines,’ he. said, explaining that the apprent- iceship training was general throughout all key industries. Johnson, 39, was raised in Edmonton, but has lived in Jancouver for 24 years. A former machinist himself , (employed at various times at Britannica Mine, Boeing Air- craft and Vivian Engine Works), he is married and the father of four children, three i Participation of govern- boys and a girl. pi! service cuts ? Did U.S. order bar on Manitoba MLA? WINNIPEG Charges that the U.S. military had ordered a member of the Manitoba legislature barred from an official visit to military installations in northern Manitoba were levelled last week. William A. Kardash, for over a decade LPP member for Winnipeg North, said the action taken against himself was ‘‘an act of political discrimination’’ and that it was clear to him from evi- dence “that the order was made upon the insistence of U.S. military representatives on the Joint Council.” Sharp condemnation of the order was made by Progressive Conservative and CCF MLAs. Don Swailes, CCF whip, said, “The whole thing is ridiculous. I would not be a bit surprised if Bud Jobin (minister of mines and natural resources) was behind the whole thing. Reports are that George Weaver, Liberal MP _ for Churchill, initiated the bar to- gether with the provincial sovernment as a pre-election stunt. Kardish said the action was ‘an insult to the high office of elected public representatives.” Jn a wire to Defense Minister Ralph Campney, he declared: “T protest this scandalous act and urge its immediate can- cellation. This ruling makes a mockery of elected repre- sentatives. Request explana- Correction A dropped line in our front page story last week, “Barker- ville no ‘ghost’ town,” reversed the meaning of a paragraph, which should have read: “The meeting (miners’ meeting at SBarkerville 85 years ago) demanded that British Columbia join the Canadian Confederation -in- stead of the United States as certain interests wanted.” WILLIAM KARDASH tion of unjustifiable discrimin- atory act.” Barring of the LPP member recalled the recent degrading behavior of Canadian author- ities in requiring a group of Canadian newsmen visiting northern radar stations to pre- sent themselves before U.S. military men in New York for security screening. Kardash, who left Winnipeg with other MLAs this week on the eight-day tour, said: “I hope there will be such a public outery against outside dictation that will put a stop to this subversion of our demo- cratic rights and outside inter- ference in Canadian affairs.” August 3, 1956 — Continued CANADIAN ready been raised in the House of Commons. Answering a question put by Conservative MP George Hees, External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson said that Canadian of- ficials in New York are prob- ing the incident. Babich said questioning by U.S. officials began aboard the Ile de France, which rescued him from the Atlantic. “Ts this the sort of treatment a Canadian gets in a country screaming for freedom and human dignity?” he said angri- ly. “As soon as U.S. immigration officials came aboard the Ile de France they started ques- tioning me. Had I ever been a Communist? Had I or did I now belong to any Communist party? How long had I been in Europe? “T denied that I had ever be- longed to any Communist or- ganization and told them I had been in Italy and France for 15 months on a business trip.” Babich, a Toronto movie dealer, “said the U.S. officials then searched him, making him turn out his pockets and feel- ing his sea-soaked clothes. He was searched again by the FBI in New York, held under guard and questioned again before being released. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 9 es