Hilland will contest Maple Ridge council HANEY, B.C. Charging that the municipality of Maple Ridge is fast approaching a crisis in its steadily increasing tax burden, Carl Hilland announced this week ‘that he will seek a council seat In the coming December elections. “In 1953 ratepayers voted to spend $420,000 on a new s Senior High School to replace the one burned down a few years before,” said Hilland. “In 1954 they voted another $365,000 for:a new Junior High School; and also voted for a mil- lion dollar hospital. “Tn all cases the municipality has to pay half the cost. On the Schools the provincial government Will pay the other half, and on _. the hospital the provincial gov- €rnment will pay only a paltry $60,000. - : “School operating costs have Mcreased steadily. The munici- Pality is also faced with increased Spending for new roads, sewers and water mains made necessary by the rapid growth of popula- tion,» - t “More parks and playgrounds are needed. No suitable play- Stounds are yet available at Al- bion and Webster’s Corners. The Municipality should act at once © secure a playground at Web- Ster’s Corners before the real €state sharks grab it all for new Omes for the employees in the new. provincial government cor- Tectional institute being built . there, * “The Social Credit govern- Ment’s new tax plan has not Sliven the relief needed from this overwhelming tax burden. “The meeting of the Big Four at Geneva has shown that it is Possible to reach an agreement on disarmament. The money sav- €d by disarmament could be used for welcome relief to municipali- Pett CARL HILLAND ties. Only 20 percent of the $2 billion now spent by Canada on arms would pay the entire cost of primary education. “I also believe that consider- able revenue could be obtained from a publicly-owned natural gas distribution system, which would at the same time pro- ‘vide cheaper gas for consumers. The _ provincial government should aid the municipalities | by building the main natural gas pipeline from Huntingdon to Vancouver.” There are three seats to be fill- ed on Maple Ridge council this year, as well as two seats on the school board and two on the parks board. BUCK TELLS CITY RALLY: _ This is what Tim Buck, LPP national leader, told a packed meeting’ at Pender Auditorium here Friday last week as he con- cluded a 10-day visit to the pro- vince during which he attended the LPP provincial convention here and addressed meetings in Victoria and New Westminster. Elaborating his point, Buck said: ; “We don’t say that U.S. indus- | tries cannot come here, build their plants and export their goods as Canadian manufactured products. The decisive question is where the power is developed, in Canada or in the U.S., for that is where industry will follow. The issue is nothing less than the industrial future of our country.’ The LPP leader presented this as the alternative to what he termed “St. Laurent’s disastrous policy of integration.” He pointed out that since the St. Laurent government had embarked on its policy of integration, trade with Britain, which once approximated trade with the U.S., had declined to 15 percent ‘of the country’s total trade. There had been a similar drastic decline in trade with countries of the Commonwealth. But trade with the U.S., which increasingly involved the export of raw materials had risen to 72 percent of total trade. “The significant point,’ he said, “is that the percentage of our total national product made _UFAWU wins increase In new herring pact Most of the herring fleet was expected to be on the fishing grounds late this week, = _ishermen’s Association. The new contract pays $12.8712 a ton or $1.03 per man ee following signing of a price pact by United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union with per ton for reduction herring and $16 or $1.28 per man per ‘ton for herring u sed for canning, salting, etc. ies a . d é Building trades get e : nr behind slum cleanup These prices represent an in- Crease of $1.62% or 13 cents per Man per ton over prices paid ast year for reduction herring 8nd an increase of 58 cents or 4% ' Cents per man per ton for can- _. Ming and salting. _ Cludes’a fleet limitation program _. which the Fisheries Associa- tion has agreed to limit its fleet ‘to 78 boats for the season. _ Additional 15 vessels will be op- _ €tated by two small companies, Not members of the Fisheries ~4ssociation, and the Prince Rup- €rt Fishermen’s Cooperative. _ Thus, the total fleet fishing her- . ‘ing for reduction purposes will be held down to 93 boats. _, “This is not as good as hav- ing a minimum guarantee,” said _ UFAWU secretary Homer Stev- ~€ns. “However, we will give it 4 try for this year to test wheth- - €r it will have the effect of put- ting a basic floor under our mem- _ Sers’ earnings. t at it prevents overcrowding in @ given fishery, fleet limitation _ Should stabilize earnings and sim- _ Ultaneously hold down the landed Ost of the fish.” . ? The final agreement also in-| An} To the extent The 25,000-member Building Trades Council (AFL-TLC) is throwing its full weight behind a campaign inaugurated by Vancouver Housing Association ‘to rid Vancouver of its crime-breeding slum areas and A, VLC report emphasizes that the next five years will provide the city with its best opportunity “since the war to tackle slum clearance. ss : Building Trades Council , is conducting a survey of its own and expects to have a report ready within a month for sub- mission to federal Works Minis- ter Robert Winters. The program advanced by Van- couver Housing Association calls for extension of NHA financing; extension of federal subsidies to non-profit societies providing housing for senior citizens;\ ex- tension of financial aid to co- operative ownership housing societies; removal of the. present ban on admission of families re- ceiving social assistance to public build thousands of new homes. housing projects; broadening of conditions under which federal grants may be made for slum clearance. : High rate of building-and lower volume of immigration : has caused a “marked easing”’ in the housing situation in recent months, says the VHA report. This gives the city a chance” to clean up slum .con- ditions, and at the same time pro- vide employment in the building trades to take up the slack which |is likely to result from the lessen- ed demand for new houses. This “golden chance” will only last a few years, says the VHA report, which predicts that the demand for housing will suddenly sky-rocket again at the end o !a certain period. : \ ‘Power is essence of our independence’ ‘Power is the essence of our national independence, of our industrial future. That is why we must develop our power resources within our own borders — not export them. If we do that, then industry must. come to where the power is. But if we let our power resources go to the U.S., then our future is reduced to that of a storer of water for the U.S. with all that is implied for our national. independence.”’ up of manufactured goods. is down from 42 to 38 percent. _ “Why, if this keeps up for 20 years we won’t be a manu- facturing nation at all. That is where integration is leading us.” How then, he asked, could this country take care of the future, and he answered, by world trade —“ag proposal the LPP has con- sistently made.” TIM BUCK “ Yndustry will follow power” One of the reasons Eisen- |of employment is being main- | tained.” Seg. tae | At the opening of his speech, ‘dealing with the Geneva Confer- ;ence, Buck commented that the ‘daily press had contrived to create |the impression that it had come ‘about because President Eisen- ‘hower had managed to convince |the Soviet government to discuss “peace. | | | | | But, he pointed out, a few years ago, in 1949, millions of people throughout the world signed a peace, petition and through the World Peace Coun- cil sent it to all governments. ~ Only the Soviet government had seen fit to reply to the effect that it would be glad to partici- pate in a Four-Power conference when it could be organized . _ “It was the will of the world’s peoples for peace that com- pelled the U.S. government to sit down at Geneva and discuss peace. It is not the Soviet Union but the United States that has changed its position.” Tracing world relations since \the war and the reasons for | President Truman’s abrupt ‘switch of President Roosevelt's |agreed upon policy of coopera- |tion with the Soviet Union in the |been greatly extended. . “golden. hower was anxious for the Big | post-war period, the LPP leader Four ‘meeting at Geneva, he said, | said: was the breakdown of the U. S. | Ad that tiie Gaoubt that ©5 organized trade boycott demon- people in the world understood strated by the growing trade be-. the reason for this policy switch. tween Western Europe and the, Now all can read it for them- countries in the socialist sector of | selves in President Truman's / memoirs.” Eastern Europe. The reason was U.S. possession of the atom bomb. Truman felt |that possession of the bomb | would enable the U.S. to domin- ate the world. ‘So the Truman Doctrine came into being. But the Truman Doctrine had Buck dealt at some length with ye succeeded a aay Ant: it had economic — prospects, warning jailed pS pikes Een ho that although there is a ‘Peland tae lined bythe’ Banden ata? aati de toyel of pROSPEU LY, sag Fo where the countries of fhe Prese hE Dige,, wath, Riehipro | Asia and Africa-took their stand duction and high prices, the price ; ee was being asain Weed py for peace with the.camp of peace. and_ socialism. . deliberate resort to inflationary | “The trade boycott is breaking down,” declared Buck. “Then why doesn’t Canada start doing business ? Why doesn’t Canada trade with China ?” ' x “ os es MeAaSUEES. | “Geneva marks the end of the “Do: you know that since the Truman Doctrine,” Buck asserted, adding: ; war the amount of money in. \ circulation has been increased by, “Jt will take time, but precisely five times?” he asked his audi- pecause the governments of the ence. “Not only that, the power great powers realize that none of the banks to loan money has of them has a monopoly of the ’ | atom and hydrogen. bombs and ~ ¢ that no one of them can hope to win a war by these bombs, and because the socialist sector of the : : | world has grown stronger despite Pointing to the enormous ex- the Truman Doctrine, the Western pansion of credit buying and the governments feel the necessity mounting total of money owed for for a policy of peaceful co- such purchases, particularly in | existence. . the auto industry, Buck asked: “This is inflation, whether i is done by circulation of money or by credit.” ‘ “And so,” he said amidst ap- plause, “do we. It is the com- “What happens if the people mon people who suffer in war cannot maintain their payments on the. cars they have bought and all the other things they are buy-| ticular. The working people ing on credit? And remember | l that the tremendous expansion of | e credit is the only way by which) better in peace, if peace the present relatively high level PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 11, 1955 — PAGE 7 ©