Effie Jones’ supporters dist

The cards,

fares and passes, ’

of the card reads.

“The present high fares are
still, by law, only allowed on
an interim basis, that is, as a
temporary measure. It is up to
YOU to see that they do not
become permanent.”

To publicize her campaign
against the BCER, Mrs. Jones
last week ‘placed two small ad-
vertisements in the personal
column of the daily papers, of-
fering free car tickets to the
first hundred people writing to
her on the fare issue.

The response was immediate.
A flood of mail arrived at her
slection headquarters, not only
asking for car tickets but offer-

The “Jones’ pass for
BCElectric cleanout

SBBIRGEAE Ne ONRTESE gahow sages (ms
ON BACK CITIZENS FOR Aff: ou wy

Vancouver was “blitzed” on Tuesday when 1,000

car and bus passengers urging the restoration of lower
fares and weekly BCER passes.

which at firsi| —
glance resemble the former car | ‘2S encouragement and support.
and bus passes, stress the need
to put Effie Jones in the mayor’s
chair on December 8, as a pre-
requisite to winning back lower

“On taking office, Mayor Ef-
fie Jones’ frst act will be to
free Vancouver city hall from
political domination of the Bri-
tish Columbia Electric Railway
and lead the fight to restore
street car fares to their former
level,” a message on the back

ese

iS PLANK N°1 ON

EFFIE JONES’ PLATFORM

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ributed 15,000 cards to street

“I am against the high rates
of the BCER and am also in-
terested in seeing someone
elected who will give them a run
for their money,’ read one ty-
Pical letter. “My husband and I
Own our own home and we
pledge our votes to you — but
also I would like to offer any
help I can give you. I can type,
ttc.”

Another supporter’ wrote:
“Here’s hoping you win on De-
cember 8. It is about time a wo--
man had a chance in this city.
Being a mother of two small
children and having to manage
on a small salary, it is hard
enough to manage without hav-
ing to pay such a high price for
transportation.”

Election day is now less than
a month away and Effie Jones’
campaign is in high gear. Can-
vassers are out ringing door-
bells, huge billboards are carry-
ing posters urging citizens to
vote for Jones, election meet-
ings and teas are hecoming more
numerous, and Effie’s radio list-
ening audience is now estimated
to he over the 75,000 mark night-

bomb, but that the atom will
Ryerson, national organizer

“The world stands on the brink
of such a development, which
will crumble the remaining econ-
omic strength of imperialism to
ashes.”

A thousand citizens attended the
rally to celebrate the 31st anni-
versary of the Soviet socialist revo-
lution.

' “When the owners of Canada
met in Vancouver,” stated Ryer-
son in commenting on the Cham-
ber of Commerce _ convention,
“their concern was not with high
prices, the housing shortage, or
declining living standards, but
with the ‘menace of communism.’
“What they are really after be-
came evident when they said,
‘Beware of social security as an
end in itself!

“The same day a plan was an-
nounced at Ottawa for the mili-
tary mobilization, down to the
last detail, of every “industrial
| enterprise in Canada. It was free-
ly admitted that the plan origin-
ated in the offices of the American
government,

be harnessed for
of the Labor-Pro

peaceful

Vancouver’s Hastings-Odeon Theater.

Warmongers fear use of atom for
peaceful socialist construction

“What our financial overlords fear most is not that the Soviet Union has the atomic

- socialist
gressive Party,

construction,’ Stanley
told a November 7 rally at

“We are beitfg asked to light
the Soviet Uniou. ‘inat country
lost 17,000,000 dead in tne war
against iascisni, wiin 76,000
towns and villages, destroyed. Are
we going to beiueve that country
is Just waiting to attack us’

“And are we going to swallow
the equally tantastic notion that
the United States, which lost less
dead in the war than she lost
in traffic accidents, and whose
monopolists made $87,000,000,000
in profits out of that war, is a dove
of peace waving a wand from the
end of which dangles an atomic
bomb?

“We have to look elsewhere for
the reason for the drive to war.
The crisis of the ‘30’s’ led to the
Jast war. Capitalism had destroyed
mountains of produce it could not
market at a profit—it then start-
ed to destroy people. Corporation
profits in Canada increased $400,-
000,000 last year, and we have
reached the point where the mono-

polists are turning to the mass de-

return from

“We were free to travel

of interference in Canada,” r

months with Canada’s Beaver Bri-
gade in Europe. They attended
the Warsaw youth conference and
took part in reconstruction work
in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hun-
gary.

ly.

Labor enters civic
race in many centres

Labor candidates are beginning to hit the field in lower

mainland municipalities.

Harry S. Ball has been nominated for councillor by the

Burnaby Municipal Improvem

Nova Scotia miners
back French strikers

—GLACE BAY NSS.

ent Association. Ball repre-
sented Ward 7 for several years
till wards were abolished, and nar-
rowly missed election as reeve last
year, He has been in the forefront
of.the fight against B.C. Electric
victimizing of the citizens of Bur-
naby.

The association is also backing

Striking French miners have
‘the complete support of the men
who work in Nova Scotia’s coal
pits, Dist. 18 Pres. Freeman Jen-
kins of the United Mine Workers
- announced here.

Jenkins, who said he agreed
with UMW Pres. John L. Lewis
that the French miners needed
U.S. economic aid in the form
of money for food not bullets,
likened the miners’ fight to re-
cent Canadian workers’ struggles.

“Coal miners the world over,”
he declared, “like those in the
maritime provinces, have so cften
gone through the same struggles
for a living wage that we well
understand French miners’ prob-
lems and offer them our complete
‘Sympathy and sincerest
final victory.”

Even now, Jenkins pointed out,
Nova Scotia miners are seeking

a daily wage boost of $2.56. Such
an increase would raise the present
daily pay of $7.64 to $10.20, on a
par with wages paid in western

hope for |.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson for re-elec-
tion to the school board, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Brewer, a former trustee,

Hugh Clark, who pdlled a large
vote in 1947, will again run as a
labor candidate for alderman in
New Westminster, ©

The North Vancouver Civie La-
bor Federation has placed James
Hall and Damon Eisenman in the
field for alderman. The Federation
has collected 600 signatures on a
petition protesting curtailment of
the municipal ferry service.

’

Condemn rearmament

--GLASGOW.
A resolution condemning the Bri-
tish government’s rearmament pro-
posals and demanding immediate
barring of atomic weapons and
other arms of mass destruction has
been passed by the Glasgow Trade
Union Council, representing all or-

ganized labor in the area, .,

‘Canadian coal fields.

HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS

HAND

JOHNSON

63 West Cordova Street - - - - - - Phone MArine 7612

-MADE

‘S BOOTS

| Aen (UBC branch, Student Chris-

Delegates included Donala Green-
well (Island Labor Council), Dick

tian Movement), Gerry Kennedy
(woodworkers), Robin Denton (In-
ternational Union of Mine, Mill &
Smelter Workers), and Jackie Rob-
son (National Federation of Labor
Youth).. Arriving with them was
Norman Nerenberg, 1948 Beaver
Brigade Commander.

Six McGill students who were
part of the Brigade have been ban-
ned from the campus gn their re-
turn, Dean Fieldhouse telling them
they were too late to register. Their
own professors told them they were
satisfied the young people could
fulfill their académic requirements
with little trouble. A protest com-
mittee is circulating a petition on
behalf of the barred students,

At UBC, Dick Allen has been

| that the university has had a lot}

a

ay,

told he is “too late’ to register and

of trouble with late registrations.
At press time there was speculation
as to whether Grant Livingstone,
last year’s student council's presi-
dent, would be accepted on his re-
turn from the International Union
of Students Conference in Paris.

“RCMP plainclothesmen met us
at the dock in Halifax and check-
ed our belongings to the last sheet
of paper,’ Nerenberg reported.
“They were grossly insulting. When
they came upon a Canadian flag
one of them had the gall to say
we had the wrong kind of flag. I
told him I fought three and a
half years to defend it.

“Police stopped the songs of the
welcoming committee at the sta-
tion in Montreal and snatched their
banners.

and at no time were interfered with, but we’ve run

when they arrived at Vancouver’s CNR 5

Students benned on

Europe

wherever we liked in Europe
into plenty
eported B.C. youth delegates

tation after four

The delegates are speaking at a
Remembrance Day peace rally in
Vancouver's Pender Auditorium,
and will speak to organizations and
at public meetings throughout the
province.

It is*announced that speakers
can be obtained by contacting the

B.C. Committee of the NFLY at
339 W. Pender Street, Vancouver,
BiG.e i

,Struction of people again as their
only way to maintain such profits.

“it is No coimcidence tnat Jonn
Foster Duiles, Toreign polucy aa-
visor to MY. ‘“ruman ana wir. Wew-
ey, 1S a director or international
Nickel whose aiviaenas last year
went up 24% percent,

“The Marshall Flan and Taft-
Haruey act embody the offensive
to smash labor and grab Europe
and Asia.” <

“The old line Party governments
are showing their true character
in their embrace of Nazi collabor-
ators in Montreal, their move to get
next to Franco—and the shocking
banning in Vancouver of the anti-
fascist rilm, ‘Diary of a Nazi’.

“St. Laurent and Drew are
true to wali Street, not to Can-
ada and the top OCF leadership
are with them. The only party ©
which has remained a truly Can-

_ adian party is the LPP with its
policies of peace and independ-
ence tor our country, Today love
of Canada means hatred of mon-
optly profits and fight for the
rule of the majority not the min-
ority. And it is in Canada’s na-
tional interests to be a friendly
neighbor to the Socialist Soviet

Unicn,

“We must fight for 4 united
movement of resistance to war,
based on the labor movement, to
Save Canada and mankind.

“The Worid peace camp is
stronger than the war camp —
the victories in China confirm
this. From tiny Greece to the
mighty Soviet Union and the is-
lands of Indonesia the people can-
not be overwhelmed. The peace
can be saféguarded provided we
in North America act militantly
now.”

The audience *showed keen ap-
preciation of a musical tribute to
the Soviet peoples given by John
Goss, Gerhardt Olly, Nathalie Mi-
nunzie, Reg Dixon, Alan Ross and
Margaret Davies.

4. vesdlution was unanimously
passed demanding lifting of the .
ban on the anti-fascist film, “Diary
of a, Nazi.”

For human welfare

“This kind of thing makes us
realize how important it was to
go to Europe to help break the
grip of the thought-control artists
in Canada.

“The Brigade is pledged to work
unceasingly to bring our peace
message from Europe to youth

_Nurse Dorothy.

: Findlay,
package

of radioactive needles

}

B.C. Cancer Institute transfers a
to leaden insulator for protection

against the rays which emanate from radium, and whick will be

used to combat the dread d
The atomic warmongers
peacetime development,’ and

have
istic weapon of destruction.

lisease of cancer,
fear the use of nuclear energy for

transformed it into a monopol-

from coast to coast. We will work
towards youth assemblies in the
provinces, including B.C., to climax
with a national assembly and peace
lobby in Ottawa.

“Already the NELY js campaign-
ing under the slogan ‘Youth de-
mands $280,000,000 for peace—not
for war’.”

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