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FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1958

Continued

PENSIONS

gether for negotiations on
Friday this week.
Longshoremen “hit the
bricks” Thursday last week
after the B.C. Shipping Fed-

B.C.
eration had reiterated its re-
fusal to meet the union’s de-
mand for wage increases and
an improved pension plan,
using low shipping rates as a
justification. But it was ap-
parent that the B.C. Shipping
Federation’s stand was dic-
tated by a national big busi-
ness policy to “hold the line”
on wages.

An important point in the
dispute is the B.C. Shipping
Federation’s refusal to con-
cede recognition of full years
of service in any new pension
plan. The federation wants
years of service, for pension
purposes, to be calculated
from age 35. This, the union
points out, would deprive
many of its members of up
to 15 years of s€rvice.

"British MP

at two meets

Harold Davies, MP, mem-
ber of the “Victory for Social-
ism” group in -the British
Labor party, will speak in
Pender Auditorium here this
Thursday, Augus: 28, 8 p.m.

With him on the platform
will be Vincent Hallinan, San
Francisco lawyer who was the
Progressive Party’s presiden-
tial candidate in the 1952 US.
elections.

Davies, author of two re-
cent pamphlets, Death Stands
at Attention and Oil Is In-
flammable, will take as his
topic, “Peace and the Middle
East.” Hallinan’s topic will be
“Socialist Regroupment in the
US.”

The Vancouver meeting is
sponsored. by a number of
prminent CCF members and
trade unionists.

This Friday, August 29, 8
p.m., Davies and Hallinan will
speak in K.P. Hall, Victoria.

Vice - chairman

Hear Dr. James Endicott

of Peace, Chairman Canadian
Peace Congress

Report On
CONGRESS .FOR DISARMAMENT and
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION
(Held at STOCKHOLM, July 16-22, 1958)
and
FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE
AGAINST A and H BOMBS and for
DISARMAMENT

(Held at Tokyo, Aug. 6-18, 1958)

FRIDAY, SEPT. 5 at 8 p.m.
PENDER AUDITORIUM .

339 WEST PENDER STREET,
VANCOUVER

Auspices: B.C. Peace Council *

World Council

% Not a token withdrawal of U.S. Marines, as shown here in Lebanon,, but complete wi
drawal of U.S. and British forces from Lebanon and Jordan is the overwhelming demand

the Asian and African countries as well as the socialist countries. Backed by the Ara
sponsored resolution unanimously endorsed by the UN General Assembly last week;
secretary general Dag Hammarskjold is now in the Middle East charged with the task

effecting the Anglo-American withdrawal.

City council bows to pressure,
will oppose fare boost for BCE

a city
Opposition to a bus fare boost gained powerful support this week as Vancouve H
Council bowed to public pressure and voted to oppose the B.C. Electric application W

comes before the Public Utilities Commission.

Vancouver thus joins with other bodies, Vancouver Labor Council and Civic Reform

ciation in opposing the BCE in its bid for a 15-cent fare.

Also gaining strong support
this week is the demand that
the PUC hearing set to open
Tuesday, September 2, 11 a.m.
at the Court House be post-
poned.

Greater Victoria municipali-
ties have voted to ask the PUC
to delay the hearing for two
months. Earlier, Burnaby
Municipal Council passed a
similar. resolution asking for
postponement until present
negotiations for sale of the
transit company were con-
cluded.

In a statement to the Pa-
cific Tribune this week, Effie
Jones, Civic Reform president,
charged that if the hearing
goes ahead as scheduled “all
the cards will be stacked
against the public.” She said
the PUC had already made
up its mind to grant an in-
crease and quoted a letter she
received from the PUC which
said the PUC “considers that

the applicant utility

has produced figures which
appear to show that the exist-
ing rates are not adequate.’

This statement, said Mrs.
Jones, “is further proof of
my charge last week that the
commission’s proposal to mu-
nicipalities that they subsidize
the transit company showed
the intent of the PUC to
grant the increase.”

Following announcement that
negotiations to sell the transit
system may be concluded in
60 days, Mrs. Jones addressed
another strong appeal to the
PUC to postpone the hearing.

Meanwhile,, public support
for public ownership of the
utility company is growing.

Victoria municpalities are
studying the possibility of a
publicly-owned bus _ system.
Members of Greater Vancou-
ver city and municipal coun‘
cils have also expressed
strong sentiments favoring

(BCE) public ownership.
August 29, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P

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ed any settlement of t é
month plumbers’ dispY ja?
rejecting the 26-cent mde
deal proposed by the ex’
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voted by a large major of
accept the Goldenberé mem
mission’s majority res? ee
dation to the governme?”
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sion’s majority recom
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minority position of the” ii
representative on the
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