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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1956
VANCOUVER, B.C.

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ble industrial output -

said, agricultural output was
expected to be 35 percent

greater.

The second five-year plan
begins in 1957 and by its con-
clusion in 1962 China’s national
income is expected to be 50
percent higher than during

PEOPLE MUST FIGHT BACK’

SC win extends

giveaway peril

With the largest tax revenues in the province's history to underwrite its pro-
mises, the Bennett government rode the economic boom back to office on Wednes-
day this week, increasing ‘its standings in the new 52-seat legislature from 28 to 39.

Despite the gravity of' the charges levelled against it in the most turbulent

the period of the first five-
year plan.

e@ Pictures above show
(top left) a heavy machinery
plant in China, (top right) an
apartment building for indus-
trial workers, and (bottom)
workers in a Chinese textile
plant.

provincial election campaign of the past two decades —
wholesale giveaways of natural resources to both Cana-
dian and U.S. monopolies and accompanying corruption
centred around the Sommers case — Social Credit relied
on its big public works program to win it re-election.

Backed by lavish election spending, Premier W. A. C.
Bennett's political gamble paid off.

Neither the Liberals, with their promises ‘to restore
integrity to government,” nor the Conservatives, des
perately striving to regain a voice in the legislature, could
erase the memory of long years of Liberal-Conservative

Coalition government. The
voters remembered Coalition
inaction and spurned the
appeals of the two old-line
parties for Social Credit’s
promises as the party that
“sets things done.”

Liberal representation in
the legislature was cut from

four to two,

In the three-member Van-
couver-Point Grey riding
where in 1953 he won the third
seat on the transfer of ballots
after trailing Social Crediters
on the first count, Art Laing
again ran fourth. But in this
election, first to be held since
return to the old straight vote
system, there was no transfer
of ballots to retrieve his seat.

In Prince Rupert, Social
Credit defeated another form-
idable Jsiberal critic when
William H. Murray, a new-
comer, knocked out Bruce

Brown.
The Conservatives, whose

lature, Dr. Larry Giovando re-
pudiated them and sat as an
independent, failed to elect
one member. Their leader,
Deane Finlayson, lost his bid
for election in North Vancou-
ver, now a two-seat constit-
uency. And Nanaimo - The
Islands, which Giovando did
not contest, fell to Social
Credit.

Only the CCF, which will
have 10 seats in the new
legislature as compared to 14
in the old, held most of its
positions against the Social
Credit sweep. But several of
its strongholds fell to Social
Credit challengers and in
others Social Credit cut
heavily into its majority.

Robert Strachan, new CCF
leader, increased his majority
to return his Cowichan-New-
castle seat, which was re-
turning Socialists before the
First World War in the hey
day of the McBride Conserva-

lone member in the last legis-tive government.

Continued on back page — See FIGHT-BACK

Unions move against
profiteering prices

TORONTO

Launching of a government probe to curb “the profit-

eering aspect of the rise in the cost of living” was advo-
cated last week by the 25.000-member United Electrical

Workers Union.

In a letter to-Prime Minister St. Laurent, UE president

C. S. Jackson charged that“ex-
tensive profiteering by com-
panies at the expense of the
living standards of Canadian
consumers” was taking place.
Included with the letter was
the union’s documentary evi-
dence to back up the charge.

The union’s demand dove-
tailed with an earlier request

made by United Auto Work-
ers’ Union Local 195 of Wind-
sor seeking a similar investi-
gation. Canadian Labor Con-
gress officials have also indi-
cated their concern about ris-
ing prices and are currently
studing a plan of action -to
Continued on back page
—See PRICES