Civie election campaigns

in- many
B.C. municipalities and cities. Voting in Vancouver is
Dec. 14. In centres covered by the Municipal Act voting
will be on Dec. 8. The Pacific Tribune will each week
present issues of these campaigns as explained by. can-
didates themselves.

are under way

John Dubno, Vancouver

John Dubno, | independent
candidate for council in Van-
couver, said this week if elect-
€d he will:

@ Oppose further taxation
to the homeowner

governments

financial

centre

of the children and

this

ti 1e needs

youth of area.

Walter Tickson, Nanaimo

“A new policy is needed
that wiil: shift the tax load
from the shoulders of the
homeowner to where it. be-
longs — on profits and high
i said Walter Tickson,

¢ old logger

running for

BEN announced

CHISTE,

| government

@ Against the sale of Van-
iver’s International Airport.
® For strengthening th ro
hip: of the city council
civ departments in-
of “rubber stamp”
cy now in operation.
Dubno is one of the leading
spokesmen in the Slavic com-
ity in Vancouver. He. -is|
incial secretary of the As-
of United Ukrainian|
and has made an}

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the

sociation
Canadians

he outstanding contribution to the}

work of ethnic groups in the}

city. He served 31% years of|
active service overseas during |
the last war:

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Nanaimo council. |

In a seven point program |}
announced this week Tickson
listed as his first plank the
need for “city council to wage
a campaign demanding the|
federal government end
senseless and dangerous arms

the }

race and use part of that
money to pay for the entire |

of elementary education.” |
This, said Tickson, would end
taxes on homes.

school

ii

Also urged in the program
are replacement.of the out-
dated business tax with a busi-
ness tax based on the volume}
of business; that the provincial
return to the mun-

| icipalities the money collected}

| from
vehicle

| payers
| planning

road- taxes on andj

licenses.

gas

Tickson urges that an end/|
put to waste of the tax-
money through poor|
and engineering in
street construction, sewer and

be

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| water pipe laying. He urges

this week he will be an inde-

pendent candidate for coun-|

cil in Langley municipality.

; include

A well-known labor figure in}

the Fraser Valley, Chiste is
1st Vice President of the

the local.

that the practise of contract-|
ing out work be abolished.

Other planks in the program
the demand that city)
council stop paying out tax-|
payers dollars to the Chamber |
of Commerce; that all infor-|

7 rT | tion on sale of city property
aK edie Sani AWwy ™3 y pr

Ft. Langley local, ( ae Ul be available to the public, and
and has been endorsed by) that the giveaway of resources

to U.S. monopolies be halted.

| eration
| will be 50 years of age on
| November 27. He has been

| portant
| elections.”

| organized

The crisis in the Congo

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pete

This latest move, which was

carried by a 53-24 vote with
19 abstentions, was the result
of pressure by the U.S. and
colonialist powers. in the U.N.

The debate in the General
Assembly lasted many days
and was marked by sharp de-

LOUIS SAILLANT, General

| Secretary of the World Fed-

of Trade Unions,

jin the General Secretary’s

post for 15 years and was
one of the founders of the

| world trade union body. His
| birthday will be celebrated

by unionists all the

world.

over

'NEISH FIGHTS FOR

JOBS, TAX RELIEF

Elgin “Scotty” Neish, inde-
pendent candidate for council
in Victoria hit out this week
at the Chamber of Commerce
for stating “there are no im-
issues in this year’s

Pointing to a recent claim
by Conservative MP, A. D. Mc-
Phillips, that there are no un-
employed in Victoria, Neish
said, ‘If he refuses to face the
stark facts of unemployment,
labor must bring
them sharply to his attention.
I certainly intend to do so.”

Neish said the most import-
ant issues of all are jobs and
tax relief for homeowners. He
said senior governments can no
longer be allowed to unload
their responsibilities on to the
municipalities.

1go crisis
. forces vote in

ion headed by Joseph Kasavubu.

deepens as

was deepened Tuesday by a U.N. decision to seat the dele-

nunciation of U.N: policy by
representatives of African and
Asian neutral states. The
NATO powers forced through
their decision only with the

votes of French colonial pos-

Meanwhile, it is reliably re-
ported that Belgian colonial-
ists have been returning to
the Congo at the rate of 100
a day.

Heart of :the Congo crisis is.

sessions voting for the resolu-| the rejection by the NATO

tion. powers and the U.N. of: the

legitimate - government. and

Meanwhile, in the Congo; Premier, voted into office in
this week, the Belgian-U.S. | the last election.

stooge, Col. Mobutu, paraded
his NATO-equipped armed
forces and moved to establish
a military dictatorship in the
Congo. Early this week Mo-
butu’s troops attacked the
Ghana embassy and, after
considerable violence, forced
the withdrawal of Ghana
diplomatic personnel from
the Congo.

‘Hazel Anna Wolf
hearing on Dec. 5

SEATTLE, Washington —A
scheduled hearing before the
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in the. deportation case of Ha-
zel Anna Wolf has been post-
poned to the week of Dec. 5,

Similar action is likely to|-
ely 10] it was learned here.

follow against other countries
taking part in the U.N. opera-
tion such as Guinea, Egypt
and India, who favor restora-

Her deportation was stop-
ped at the eleventh hour last
June to enable her to chal-

tion of parliament’s powers|lenge the constitutionality of
and elected Premier Lumum-! the law that would exile her
ba. for life from her family.

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UOSP.0. hits Nazi element

The United Jewish Peoples; loss of forty million lives,
Order of Vancouver has writ-| amongst them six million of
ten Prime Minister Diefenba-j| our sisters and brothers.”
ker demanding that immedi- The letter charges that the

ate steps be taken to stop the | immigration policy of the
spread of nazi and anti-sem-| Federal government allows
etic movements in Canada. easy entry into Canada of

Pointing to the recent ex: | these elements.
posure of nazi-fascist groups’ The UJPO has also sent 2
on CBC television, the UJPO| message to the CBC express

warns that “Hitler° was also| ing appreciation of their ex
considered a crackpot and!|pose recently of Nazi ele-
lunatic fringe — at a horrible | ments in Canada.

Opposition in France to stationing of West German trooP>
is gaining strength. Photo shows participants in a meet”
ing in Paris of French ex-Resistanee fighters and form®

inmates in Nazi concentration camps (wearing striped
clothes) called to protest the government’s decision.

November 25, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page ®

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