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|Effie Jones outlines
‘plan to expand city

. A. five-point plan to make Vancouver a great manufacturing and trade centre was outlined this |
ek by Effie Jones, aldermanic candidate in the civic elections December 9.

fh pointing to the recent layoffs at Vancouver Plywoods and other plants, Mrs. Jones emphasized
at “we can only defeat the threat of depression by bold leadership in expanding Vancouver and B.C.

Guise seeks voice for
labor in civic affairs

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‘The Non-Partisan Association represents only business groups,
‘In no way represents the interests of labor,” independent alder-

Ee candidate Donald Guise said last week in announcing that he
ould contest a council seat in the civic elections December 9.
Guise, business agent for Vancouver Civic Employees Union, .Out-

Fisherman
hominated

tn Victoria

The VICTORIA, B.C.
ere Bepoblem of growing num-
af unemployed here is being
Dresiq up by Elgin “Scotty” Neish,
j Unit of the Victoria local of
otk ited Fishermen and Allied
€fs Union and aldermanic

Candid ;
ate in . BES
elections the coming civic

iy
h aromething must be done to
retina threat of another depres-
? Cish said in accepting
cil hac sa last week. City coun-
Problem Snored the unemployment
Manager but has raised the city’s
9 S salary from $10,000 to
Cously he year” and has simultan-
Policy nounced a “hold the line”
€eg, nN wages of civic employ-
a .
aa Present administration also
hom, “°° Consideration for small

e : :
“Roy pee). Neish charged.
haye j.2mple, taxes on my house

the Ae boosted 50 percent in
been 10 years, yet nothing has
ne about introducing a
load ont ax to shift some of this
‘ity © those best able to carry

v1
aN labor candidate scored
beerbitent fares and entire-
1 'sfactory service of the
Rue buses.” The com-
away" ts been able to “get
NO one tth it because there is
ling 4 " the city council wil-
Welfare, aoe the people’s
e a ay Political scramble is in
test, iN in the mayoralty con-
heen . © candidates have already
Umber ominated — the largest
‘ ane this city’s history.
“use J he my hat in the ring be-
alder, Sas that at least one labor
Present Should sit in council to
. abor’s viewpoint,” said

Using
loa g

tie Jones gets
“iain letter boost

‘ ch. .

sion of ala letter urging the elec-
i is €rmanic candidate Effie
hese daye culating in the city
; . It reads:

Ones the year to elect Effie

Effie ancouy i

OR er City Council

Vi § fou <
: ee ‘ Sht for better bus ser-

e
T rates, lower taxes on

bug) igh

es Sher taxes on bi

ie Swinn _rental housing :
Effie po ™ing pool, ;

4s a plan fo
. x r large-scale
meetdary j e Port development,
Vide ty vcustry, and housi
: a ’ sing to
If You ag of new jobs.
Port Effi eve in these. things
ret this ] © Jones for alderman,
(3) » e er a i :
Nds. nd send it to five

side Workers’ has received the
endorsation of that union in his
bid for office.

“It is a credit to the under-
standing of our membership that
they should be enthusiastic about
having a representative of labor
in the city council,’ said Guise.
“This progressive attitude and un-
derstanding is what has carried

our union forward, through some
of the most difficult battles, to a
position of wide respect among all
workers in our city and province.
The union will be doing a good
thing, it will be fighting for the
interests of all labor, not only the
interests of our own membership.

“1 allowed my name to stand
only after the Trades and Labor
Council had refused to endorse
anyone. I, along with a number
of other trade unionists, feel that
labor should be represented on
city council. Labor can and must
have a voice in running the af-
fairs of our city.”

Folk Singers in Calgary

CALGARY

Clare Klein's rendition of Baby

Sitter drew laughter and applause

from an audience of 200 who at-

tended a sparkling performance by

Fagel Gartner’s UJPO Folk Sing-
ers here Wednesday last week.

“Mdustry.’ This will never be done as long as the Non-Partisan Association retains its grip on city hall,

she said. Her proposals are:

@ Make Vancouver Canada’s
Golden Gate to the Pacific and the
world by restoring British Com-
monwealth markets for lumber,
fish, grain and other products; est-
ablish trade with China and other
Pacific countries.

@ Expand port facilities; give
Vancouver representation on the
Harbor Board, now stagnating un-
der the exclusive direction of the
federal government,

@ Don’t let our airport suffer
the fate of our harbor. Reject
sale of the airport to the federal
government. Fight for a federal
capital grant to expand the air-
port.

@ Expand our shipbuilding in-
dustry. ;

@ Stop diverting crude oil to
the United States, and process our
oil through establishment of a
petroleum-chemical industry in the
Lower Mainland.

@ Push for expansion of the
steel industry in Greater Vancou-
ver, and for development of secon-
dary industries.

@ Build more homes for our
citizens. More action on subsidiz-
ed housing between the city, pro-
vinecial and federal governments.
(The fight around the Little Moun-
tain project shows that people’s
pressure can be effective.)

Other points in Mrs. Jones’ pro-
gram deal with tax reform, transit
service, civic improvements and in-
troduction of a new type ward sys-
tem.

“Vancouver citizens should re-
ject any city manager plan, either
in open form or through a con-
cealed form, aS now proposed by
big business groups here,” she
stressed. ‘“We must give fairer
representation to all parts of the
city through introduction of a new

type ward system.”

Amy asks

Royal City

port development

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.

“Labor can lead in making New Westminster grow and prosper,”
said Jeff Amy, aldermanic candidate in the coming civic election, in
announcing his platform this week.

“Depression need not blight the future of our city,” the labor can-
didate continued. “City council should take up the fight for free world

trade by pressing Ottawa to accept
sterling for Canadian exports. The
leaders of our city should rally the
people behind this fight.

“Think what the great market
of China alone could mean to our
lumber and fishing industries and
our port. By increasing trade with
other countries New Westminster
can become a prosperous city in
which there is no employment.

“Our city can become & great
port. Every obstacle to the
building of the new federal
dock should be removed as soon
as possible. We should not have
to rely on the doubtful prospects
of dock facilities being provided
by the Annacis Island develop-
ment some time in the future.

The building of the dock would
provide jobs and the facilities
for trade in general cargo which

» is now being lost to our city.

“Only a high level bridge to
Lulu Island will adequately serve
the future of New Westminster. A
low level bridge for the conveni-
ence of the B.C. Electric will even-
tually bring about worse traffic
problems than has the Pattullo
bridge. It is mecessary that a
bridge over the North Arm pass
over the railway tracks and Colum-
bia Street at the foot of Twelfth.”

Jeff Amy, a native son of New
Westminster, served as an aircrew
member of the RCAF from April
1941 to December 1945. Employed
at Alaska Pine, he is secretary of
the plant IWA sub-local.

Amy is supported in his bid for
office by the Civic Labor Election
Committee. Secretary of the Com-

mittee is Robert Skelly of the
Street Railwaymen’s Union.

offs last spring.

Gert Whyte's

pees, like horse racing, was

once the Sport of Kings. Louis
XIV used to don tights and de-
light (?) the court with his
pirouettes and tours en Vair
(some 20 years before they were
invented). But Louis, alas, grew
fat. So it happened that one
night when he attempted what
later became known as a grand
jete (a leap in which the dancer
does the splits in the air) his
tights, which were too tight, split
also. The court laughed, Louis
grew livid with rage, and ballet
went out of favor in court circles.

The years passed, and “ballet,
like horse racing, became popular
with the masses. Anna Pavlova
used to dance between elephants
and acrobats at the old New York
Hippodrome — and Fanny Brice
convulsed musical comedy audi-
ences with her burlesque of
Pavlova’s Dying Swan.

Came the Second World War,
and our soldiers on leave in Lon-
den could go to the Beaver Club
and get free tickets for the

GEORGE CHENIER

Sadler’s Wells or the Windmill.
This writer always took the lat-
ter, preferring to admire 32 der-
rieres rather than 32 fouettes.

* * *

Saturday night last week I
started out to watch snooker
champion George Chenier play
challenger Leo Levitt at Marpole
Community Centre, when history

Elmer Lach of Montreal Canadiens hugs the Stanley Cup
in the Montreal dressing room after closing game of the play-
Canadiens are after another Stanley Cup this
season, and are currently leading the National Hockey League race.

SPORTLIGHT

(or fate) caught up with me. A
friend I met downtown wasn’t
feeling well, and handed me his
ticket to the ballet. It was worth
$2.35, and my Scottish blood wen
out over my male instinct, which
hitherto had protected me ‘against
all dancers except Lili St. Cyr

So I went to the ballet — prob-
ably the most reluctant of the
23,000 patrons who Saw: the Sad-
ler’s Wells company during their
week here.. And now what should
I write? That I was thrilled, daz-
zled and bewitched by its beauty?
Uneultured oaf that I am, I found
myself yawning, and quietly:
slipped out during the third per-
iod (no score) while Margot Fon-
teyn was doing some fancy hoof-
ing ina tiresome thing called

Homage to the Queen.”

As those Latins in Manhattan
Say, “De gustibus non est disput-
andum,” that is, there is no‘ dis-
puting about tastes.

; « a +.

_4 Suppose it takes 10
rigid training (or more) "te reshea
Out a good ballet dancer. It
takes twice that long: to become

an expert pool player. Plus a.

touch of genius to move i
¢ ve int
championship class. is

George Chenier’s effortless skill

with a cue is the end pro
years of bending ph ine
tables in hundreds of airless,
smoke-filled pool rooms. From
novice to shark to ion i
ESR tape champion is a

Chenier showed just how good
he is in the games I missed last
Saturday, when he recorded two
“centuries” in three games. Onee
Levitt scored eight points and
then watched the champ run up
111 before he missed. - Again in
another game _ the challenger
scored eight, then Chenier made
a run of 119.

. * +

Winnipeg Blue Bombers and
Hamilton Tiger-Cats clash this
coming Saturday in the year’s
grid classic, the Grey Cup game.
A western team is overdue for a
win, but then, so are the Tiger-
Cats, who lost the Big Four finals
three years in a row, only to see
the teams that eliminated them
go on to take the Grey Cup.

. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 27, 1953 — PAGE 11

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