Campaigning in the Toronto
elections was in the’ home
stretch this week with numerous
all-candidate meetings and other
activity.
Phyllis Clarke, candidate for
Board of Control, issued a spe-
cial appeal to the residents in
the Sussex St..area where a
lively’ meeting called by the
Planning Board discussed pro-
‘posals for future development
in the area.

Drawing attention to the fact
that the plan envisages highrise
apartments and: town houses
obviously not designed for fami-
lies, she proposed instead that
there be a plan for new housing
built by the city and rented at
cost and cooperative housing to
allow the present residents in
the area to continue to live there.

* Mrs. Clarke pointed out if the.
provincial government - would
take over the costs of educa-
tion, health, welfare and justice,
which could be paid for by reve-
nue from corporation income tax
and a capital gains tax, the pos-
sibility would then exist for the
city to really tackle the housing
question.

ing in Ward 5, Mrs. Clarke re-
iterated her proposals on free
transit.

“I now have the past presi-
dent of the Toronto Real Estate
Board on my side,” she said. She
quoted from a recent speech by
G. Warren Heenan to a meeting

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your income —
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Speaking to an electors’ meet- .

PHYLLIS CLARKE

in. Cleveland, as follows:

“Urban public transit should
be free and financed by general
federal, provincial and munici-
pal tax funds in the same man-
er as education and roads are
financed. The Toronto Transit
System now collects close to 300
million fares per year, or about
$60 million.

“We would only have to give
up three or four miles of ex-
pressway to subsidize this
amount. Not only that, but much
needed assessment Would not be
lost by expropriation and demo-
lition of properties along ex-
pressway routes.

“Also downtown parking lots,
valued at up to $200 per square
foot, could become building
sites and provide additional tax
revenue, and there is no telling
how many lives would be spared
through the reduction of auto-
mobile exhausts and traffic ac-
cidents. Right now a car occu-
pies $30,000 to $40,000 worth of
land while its owner is at work
— one-third of the whole down-
town area is devoted to the au-
tomobile.” -

Mrs. Clarke adds that imme-
diately the old age pensioners
could get to ride free and the
new council could then initiate
the steps necessary to make

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transit a department of govern-
ment, and not a business, with
costs paid out of general reve-
nue.

Campaigning for a seat on the
Board of Education in York,
Oscar Kogan, speaking at a
meeting in Ward 2 raised the
need of five-cent fares for stu-
dents. In his area quite a num-
ber of students live so far from
the school that they have to pay
double fares.

He is also proposing that if
elected he will campaign for a
change in the tax system so
that the provincial government
takes over the cost of education.
Pending this, Kogan calls for
the ending of education tax on
the homes of old age pensioners.

In Ward 5, aldermanic candi-
date Charles Weir has been re-
minding audiences of the work
of the Tax Reform Committee,
of which he is chairman, in the
fight to change the tax system
and have the provincial govern-
ment assume the cost of educa-
tion, health, welfare and justice.

Weir is also warning Ward 5
homeowners that there is a pro-
posal on foot to do away with
the graded partial tax exemp-
tion of homes, which has exist-
ed in. Toronto since 1921. He
says this will affect 90 percent
of the homes in Ward 5, all of
which will get a tax increase,

over and above general in-
creases.
Mrs. Alice Maigis, running

for school board in the same
ward, has been calling for a
wide program of nursery and
day care centres. “The women
in Ward 5 are working mothers,”
she says, “and we need better
facilities to help us in the care
of our children.”

Mrs. Maigis is also concerned
about the problem of teaching
new Canadians, of which so
many are in her ward. She has
raised the question of the need
to extend the program by which
children are given special les-
sons in English in order to help
them in all their school work.

In North York, Jack Sweet,
aldermanic candidate in Ward
1, is finding a strong response
from the voters to his proposals
to change the situation in which
the property tax must cover
costs of education.

The problem, according to
Sweet; is accentuated in North
York because, as one of the
fastest growing areas in Metro
Toronto, its need for new
schools, teachers, equipment has

put tremendous pressure on the -

homeowners.

The experience all around
Metro at election meetings is
that, with some exceptions of
course, the interest is greater,
the questioning fiercer, younger
people are coming out in greater
numbers and there is greater
concern than those that are
elected for the next three years
will do the job right.

The hope is that this will be
reflected in a higher turnout at
the polls and after the election

in increased participation in or- ’
ganized activity on the issues.

before Toronto.

Want strict laws
to end pollution

Hamilton Board of Control
candidate Harry Hunter has
called for strictly enforced laws
to clean the air and water.

Recent revelations that the
Dominion Foundries and Steel
Ltd. was dumping tank truck
loads of acid into Hamilton Bay
has resulted in an investigation
by the anti-pollution committee
of the city council.

An eyewitness to the incident
had told his story to Alderman
William Powell who broke it at
a meeting of the works
committee.

The man told Powell that he
had watched the tank truck
dump its cargo and in trying to
take a sample had burned his
hands and found white spots
developing on his jacket.

This man says the truck driv-
er radioed to the Dofasco secur-
ity guard who came, confiscated
his sample, seized the camera
he was carrying and destroyed
the film.

While the company protested
that it was working very closely
with the Ontario Water  Re-

. sources Commission on control-
ling water pollution, a report of
that body in April of this year
had disclosed that the amount
of suspended solids dumped
into the bay by Dofasco had
risen from 82.5 tons in 1963 to
146 tons in 1965.

City Engineer W. A: Wheten
has deplored the lack of commu-
nication and cooperation being
received from industry.

“It appears people in the big

industries don’t recognize th
city of Hamilton. The people #)
Stelco and Dofasco ,know 4!
about ‘our bylaws and we Still
don’t get any cooperation,”
said.
Commenting on the. situatio™)
Keith L. Murphy, a professor f
engineering at McMaster Un!
versity, has charged that 1
often industry first thinks ab0
making profits and then wortié)
about pollution problems. ee
Hunter has drawn attention)
also to the confusion that exists)
in present provincial legislatio™
He points to the recent confel
ence on pollution-that was helé
in Montreal at which it was dif
closed that although the Ost
ario Water Resources Commis
sion is empowered to prosecul®)
municipal and industrial violat
ors of the Clean Water Act, thé
in practice they rarely do so. |
Hunter stressed that the edt")
cation program being underta¥|
en by the OWRC was not enous!" if
“The water and air are pollute
because it would cost money |
prevent pollution. This woul?)
mean lower profits. The stall
ling revelation at Dofasco show”)
this up most clearly,” he said =
Aldermanic candidate De
Stewart has also taken up i)
question in his campaign.
“Ward 4 residents have Pf
duced the wealth. Ward 4 h®)
the biggest industries and Di
gest profits,” he says. “It ||
time industry paid its share a
clean the water and air t
have. polluted.’

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