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Coalition- patronage in flood -relief

The Vancouver Sun and other daily ‘papers sup-
porting the Coalition are featuring illustrated articles
in an effort to convince the public that the Johnson-
Anscomb government is engaged in a huge project
to avoid a repetition of last spring’s disastrous floods.

Gut in the Fraser Valley, residents of many
areas, particularly Queensborough where new dyking

work has not even been started, are disturbed by the
slowness of the work. Further, the government’s
methods of reimbursing those whose homes were
damaged by flood waters are rapidly creating an
open scandal.

Typical of the rank patronage in distribution of
flood relief is this instance at Port Kells. One woman,

creates scandal

a strong Coalition supporter, made application for
new floors to be laid in her home. The old floors
were fir, but she was offered new hardwood floors
throughout her house. Other applicants, with no such
political connections, were given new fir floors—but

were forced to pay the cost of finishing and sanding ;

them.

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, December 10, 1948

| Peace action urgent

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Apostle of peace
Touring United States and Cc

for peace, the Dean of Canterbury
in Vancouver last weekend. Over

teed to work unitedly for peace. BLAS ; as
“Red Dean” by the
This great church leader, labelled, po re-

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commercial press, told his audiences bills” v deep-rooted
Sponse to ee meetings on this continent shows the gs

_ adyerse propaganda by
desire of the people for peace, desis Rye ae
Powerful interests who seek war,

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In a number of cities where the’ a ee
ized peace movements are already if inn

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In a dynamic 20-hour visit, the Very Rey-
erend- Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury,
broke through the war propaganda barricades last
weekend to rouse thousands of Vancouverites with
“his impassioned plea for péace. < Sigs

“Millions of little children cried, ‘I want my
mammy’, in the war just ended, and their mothers
were dead,” he said. ‘‘That is war.

“T was the first Englishman to see the Oswie-
cim death camp—the piles of boots, spectacles, hair,
clothes. I saw a baby’s garment that had been
torn off as, with hundreds of naked mothers and
children, it was crammed into a building the size
of a tennis court.. The doors were slammed, the
darkness came, the gas was turned on, and twenty
minutes later two lines of corpses were laid out
to have their hair and gold teeth removed. That
happened to 24,000 a day. That is war.

The campaign conducted by Vancouver's
fightmg mayoralty candidate, Effie Jones, won
strong support at the polls on Wednesday, but
net enough to provide an effective challenge to both
\the multiple voting machine of the Non-Partisans
and the divisive,: red-baiting campaign of the CCF.

Once again, the right-wing leadership of the
CCF, taking a partisan, opportunist position, has
been instrumental in denying to citizens the pro-
gressive policies for which, in, a majority, they
voted.

The same CCF leadership which capitulated
to the BCElectric by voting in the legislature for
the Vancotver charter amendment that enabled the
BCElectric to get its 20-year franchise, has ‘also
sabotaged the fight for low fares. The fact is
inescapable that when the issue of the. franchise
was before the people in last year’s mayoralty

“Out of a blue sky came the bomb that killed
almost 100,000 men, women and. children at
Hiroshima in a minute. That is war.

“That is. what.the, next..war would be like—
God forbid that it should come. It would not
be just a push-button war.

“The masterly thesis of Professor P. M. S.

Blackett (Nobel Prize winner) shows it would take
400 atom bombs to do what our bombs did to

_ Germany—and our bombers did not break Ger-

man production or morale. Hiroshima’s product-

ive capacity remained 94 percent of normal. And
even if—as is not likely—the Soviet Union has
not the atomic bomb, any raiders we sent would
be met by swarms of defenders.

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_ Anti-unity stand of CCF
| elects Thompson mayor

election, Alsbury refused to run. “This year,
after Effie Jones had demonstrated that
she could command ‘Sufficient united progressive
support to beat the BCElectric’s Non-Partisan
nominee, Alsbury insisted. on running—on a_plat-
form that precluded any. possibility of unity.

As a result, Ald. Charles E. Thompson,

chairman of the council committee which has
steered through every concession demanded by the
ECElectric, is the new Non-Partisan mayor of
Vancouver, elected for a two-year term. In place of
the fighting stand against BCElectric domination of
civic politics citizens could have expected of Effie
Jones, they will now get little except promises of
Vancouver's “‘glorious future.”

Last year, when Effie Jones was the only

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