ICA. (Justice Bird wants all per-
sonnel of conciliation boards to be
chosen by the Labor Relations
Board; that the chairman alone
will determine what kind of evi-
dence will be admitted, and that
no wage awards made by such
boards shall be retroactive). The
TLC action is symptomatic of the
wave of protest that has come
from the ranks of labor since the
Bird repressive proposals were
made.

Two other major issues carried
unanimously upon TLC executive
recommendation. The right of
school teachers to hold public of-
fice, and the demand that the B.C.
Law Society issue a clearcut state-
Ment of the reasons why the
Benchers rejected the application
of UBC student Gordon Martin to
the bar, and for that body to pro-
vide the right of appeal.

The Union of B.C. Municipalities ,
at a recent session had declared
that school teachers ‘were unfit to
hold public office.” Into this un-
democratic classification. 4

Delegate Jean Robertson of the
Hospital Employees’ Union said
. that if teachers are unfit to hold
public office, “how can they be fit
to mould the minds of future gen-
erations?” Delegate William Rigby,
UFAWU declared the “right to hold
office is associated with the right
to vote, and must be accorded
school teachers and all other public
employees.”

Following the report and discus-
sion on the TLC's action in support
of the B.C, Property Owners’ asso-
ciation, onthe B.C. Electric Bound-
ary Road power-line project, all
TLC affiliates were urged to write
the Public Utilities Commission de-
Manding a new hearing on the
B.C. Electric’s application to erect
steel towers on Boundary Road
properties.

A TLC delegation will also ac-

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Meets last Friday of every month

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TLC rejects-Bird’s
anti-labor proposals

On the recommendation of its executive the Vancouver
Trades and Labor Council at its regular session Tuesday of
this week, unanimously voted down Mr. Justice H. I. Bird’s
3-point program for limiting the rights of labor under the

company the BCPOA’s delegation
to Victoria to place the matter be-
fore the government. The Council
decided to take no action on the
BCPOA'‘s request that all unions
cease crossing the property own-
ers’ picket line, and declined to
join with the BCOPA proposed ap-
plication for an injunction to halt
B.C. Electric operations.

Delegate Tom Parkin of the
UFAWU declared that the TLC
should join in the application for
an injunction, since it was gener-
ally known that the B.C. Electric
in making its application before
the PUC had misrepresented the
case. Parkin also pointed up the
fact that when the representatives
of bodies other than the B.C,, Elec-
tric had sought to present their
views to the PUC that they had not

For 30 minutes the rally was on
the air over Station CKWX, and
thousands of Vancouver citizens
heard Mrs. Jones pledge to end
BCER rule at the city hall when
she occupies the mayor’s chair aft-
er December 8.

_ Reading a statement which she

had been refused permission to
present. at the Public Utilities
Commission hearings in August,
Mrs. Jones gave figures proving
that a reduction on the cost of
money in the past few years al-
lows BCER some $2,000,000 year-
ly excess profit.

“The BCER, with a battery of
financial and legal experts, had
nine months to prepare their brief,”
she said, “I had only nine days to
prepare my reply. Yet they were
afraid that if I presented my
figures. the truth about their hid-
den profits would be exposed.” ~
“Appealing for free street car
rides for eold age pensioners, Mrs.
Jones said:

“These old folk who helped to
build) Vancouver are now living -
in a state of semi starvation on
the miserable pittance doled out
to them by an ungrateful gov-
ernment. They certainly deserve
better treatment than this—plus

been given a fair hearing.

any little extras that a city ad-

Jones rally

ministration can grant them.
The city of Calgary, for instance,
gave their senicr citizens the
right to travel free on street cars
during non-rush hours—just one
week before the BCER increased

Vancouver tares and withdrew
the weekly passes,

“There's every reason to believe
that once we kick out BCER poli-
ticians from our city hall, a pro-
gressive mayor and council could
win the privilege of free street car
passes for the old folk.”

Effie Jones’ election headquar-
ters are located in the Pender
Auditorium, 339 West Pender.

Bazaar postponed

Labor's Xmas Bazaar which
was reported in the Pacific Trib-
une to be held on December 15,
16 and 17, has been postponed
till some time in tke spring, it
was announced by the Bazaar
Committee.

Due to the fact that there are
a number, of important cam-
paigns planned for the same
time, it was felt by the commit-
tee that holding the bazaar at
the later time in the year would
be much more practical.

Boundary

residents -
sue BCER

Suing" for damages, plus and in-
junction to halt the erection of
BCElectric powerline transmission
towers on Boundary Road, six resi
dent property owners have launch-
ed Supreme Court actions against
the BCElectric and the Bridge
River Power companies for un-
stated damages.

Represented by H. R. Bray,
K.C., are Frank Walsh, Alfred
Hicks, G. Zambonia, Sadie Mce-
Ivor, Jeanne Brake and B. Sparks.

Property owners claim that aside
for the danger involved by the
proximijy of these high-tendion
towers, that they “obstruct access
and light’ in the many homes
affected. Boundary Road residents
also charge that while the Public
Utilities Commission was “sitting”
on the BCElectrie opplication for
the erection of these towers, the
work was already under way, and
that iresident organizations and
other public bodies were not given
the opportunity of a satisfactory
hearing before the PUC.

The

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Labour Organization

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