. to create, tN | me | all Darscreund : ui QW a INVER g pled i Gear tas NFS) LN PENS FRIDAY JULY 3, 1953 Continued BCTEL Vv International Automatic Electric (a U.S. corporation). V Phillips Electric Works Ltd. of Brockville, Ontario. V Automatic Electric Com- pany of Chicago, Ill. V Associated Telephone and Telegraph Company (a U.S. cor- poration). In his affidavit Zlotnik charges that prices paid by BCTelephone for its supplies and equipment are excessive, thus requiring sub- seribers for telephone service in the Vancouver area to pay higher prices than they should. Evidence given at a recent hearing on telephone rates be- fore the Board of Transport Com- missioners disclosed that BCT buys virtually all its supplies and equipment through Canadian (B.C.) Telephones and Supplies Ltd., which is wholly owned by Anglo-Canadian Telephone Com- pany. The ramifications proceed: @ Canadian (B.C.) Telephone buys as agents for BCT all the supplies and equipment from Automatic Electric (Canada) Ltd., which in turn acquires the same from Phillips Electrical Works | Iitd., the manufacturer. “@ Both Automatic Electric and Phillips are wholly owned subsidiaries of Theodore . Gary and Company, which also owns Canadian Syndicate Inc. @ Canadian Syndicate owns 200,000 shares: deferred stock of Anglo-Canadian Telephone Com- pany. @ Anglo-Canadian owns a controlling interest in BCTele- phone. @- Value of supplies and equipment purchased by BCT from Automatic Electric in 1952 was $6,542,995.32. Ziotnik charges that this setup has a four-fold effect: 1. The operating expenses of BCT are increased. 2. The cost of BCT’s fixed as- sets are high. 3. The rate base upon which rates chargeable by BCT to sub- seribers are founded is larger than it ought to be. 4. Profits are funnelled from a regulated company, BCT, into an unregulated company, name- ly Phillips Electrical Works Ltd. Minister admits Soviet restraint LONDON Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd admitted in the British House of Commons last week that Soviet authorities in Berlin, in the cir- cumstances, had acted with “a considerable amount of re- straint’ — a statement that an- gered right wing Labor MP’s who are even more hostile to the Soviet Union than the Tory min- ister himself. But another Labor MP. S. O. Davies, challenged Lioyd’s denial that the riots had been provoked by the West, pointing to public admissions that “Nazis pa agents - provocateurs from the Western Zone of Berlin have been bribed to join, and to help disturbances in the Eastern Zone.” V ancouver candidates MAURICE RUSH Vancouver East ERNEST LAWRIE Vancouver Centre SID ZLOTNIK Vancouver Burrard The Labor-Progressive party is contesting five of the six Van- couver federal seats, it was an- nounced this week by LPP fed- eral election campaign headquar- ters in B.C. Candidates already nominated are: Maurice Rush (Vancouver -East), Mrs. Mona Morgan (Vancouver - Kingsway), Ernest Lawrie (Vancouver Cen- tre) and Sid Zlotnik (Vancouver Burrard), Prenarations, are now being made to nominate a candi- date in Vancouver South, leaving only Vancouver Quadra uncon- tested. Liberals afraid of | debate on policies, Buck tells Garson “Tt is evident that the Liberal party leadership is afraid to debate the basic aims upon which Canada’s national policy should be established,’ Tim Buck, LPP national leader, wrote to Justice Minister Stuart Garson on June 18. He was replying to a lettef to him by Garson on June 15 in which the minister tried to whitewash the electioneering RCMP pamphlet: Law and Order in Canadian Democracy. A Buck charged that the RCMP pamphlet was published at public cost, on electio eve. to serve Liberal party in- terests. His June, 18 letter to Garson emphasized: ‘Despite the belabored efforts of your letter to dispel what ob- viously will be more and more a source of embarrassment to the government, the fact remains that you as a Liberal cabinet member, defend the amazing ef- frontery of a policeman in slan- dering the policies of a recogniz- ed political party on the eve of an election campaign during which your policies will be sub- jected to public examination. "This is nothing short of a brazen use of the police powers of the state to advance the in- terests of a political party .. . right out of the book of Senator McCarthy.” - Buck predicted the people ‘would repudiate such practises. Garson requests letter published TORONTO © On June 15 Justice Minister Stuart Garson wrote to the edi- tor of the Canadian Tribune here asking that his reply to Tim Buck’s letter be printed’in its entirety in the Canadian Tribune —hut he forgot to send a copy. Replying to Garson, editor Charles Sims wrote: “If you send me a copy of it 1 will publish it in its entirety, provided that you, as a leader of the Liberal party, will under- take to see to it that the Toronto Daily Star and other national newspapérs supporting the Lib- eral party will also-publish the - letter sent to the Chief Electoral Officer and yourself on May 27, 1953, by Mr. Buck, in its entire- ty! True to its concept of “free- dom of the press,” the capitalist press suppressed Buck’s letter exposing the RCMP’s pro-Liberal pamphlet although every editor received a copy of the letter. Slander pretext tor barring Buck. MONTREAL The RCMP pamphlet defended by Justice. Minister Garson in his letter to Tim Buck, LPP na- tional leader, was used in Mon- treal to prevent Buck from speak- ing in a public school. The Montreal Gazette of June 23 reported the incident: “Permission for the LPP to hold a rally in Van Horne school tonight has been withdrawn. “Ww. E. Dunton, chairman of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, announced last night that the board did not re- cognize the LPP as an election party because of the recent RCMP report... .” : Teamsters scab on — Wholesale strikers at Slade, Stewart _ Grim-faced CIO Retail, Wholesale strikers continued poundin& picket lines. at Slade and Stewart this week, and also threw a picket line around the offices of AFL Teamsters’ Union across the road from the Labor Temple on West Broadway as a protest against membel® of that union—led by Alderman Birt Showler, who sits.on Vancouvel City Council as a Non-Partisan “labor” representative — who drove their trucks through ware- house picket lines last weekend. “Showler’s teamster’s scabbed during the Province strike, and now they are scabbing again,” commented one picket bitterly. CCL Vancouver Labor Council officials have asked for a joint executive meeting with the AFL Trades and Labor Council to dis- cuss what action should be taken against the teamsters. ‘ Meanwhile R. D. Atkinson, Showler’s right hand man and secretary of the Truck Drivers and Helpers Union which broke the picket line, held a_ secret meeting with ‘tha bosses at Slade and Stewart. Last Thursday a truck that crashed through picket lines with a four-ton load was stopped in. Burnaby and most of its load Protest CBC merging of national holidays | TORONTO Demand that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation change its announced schedule in order " to fittingly mark Canada Day on July 1 and not “merge” it with the U.S. July 4 holiday. was made last week in a wire sent to A. D. Dunton, CBC , chairman, by the Labor-Progressive party’s national cultural commission. The current CBC Times fea- tures an announcement that the CBC. has scheduled a_ special ‘Dominion Day - Independence Day” program on July 3 mainly of addresses from the U.S. am- bassador to Canada and the: Can- adian ambassador to the USS. Program listings fail to show any 38 days left before August 10 PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 3, 1953 — PAGE hh | 1 a oe , special CBC program July 3 se TORONTO removed. The driver of the truck Lawrence Warkentin, locked him self in the cab and took dow? car license numbers. Checkin? numbers, Burnaby RCMP report ed this week that four motor questioned were found to have - been just passing by at the tim® No arrests have been made. _— Other happenings on the trade union front: Ae @ Workers at six Bucker field’s feed plants are on strike to win .a 15-cent hourly Pay boost. It is the first strike ™ the 34 years of the firm’s opel™ _ tion. ; \ ae @ Strike of 173 civic employ” ees in Saanich has ended in # impressive victory, with agre@ ment that wage rates would Pe brought up to the Victoria scale Similar gains were made by Me 37-member office staff. special Canada Day program vi cept a half hour for children 2) a “Portrait of Canada,” an hour? rehash of CBC commentaries — over the past year. © ists nothing on Canada Day. P In its wire to Dunton. the LP : cultural commission declared* “We strongly protest the CBU policy of minimizing Canada D: celebration on July 1 in favor ® marking the U.S. July 4 holiday as announced by the CBC We are astounded that radio and TV French and © , lish networks are not devotin® major program time to cele tion of our national holiday- dae we are shocked that the propos to merge Canada Day with” 1 celebration. | There’s enue Yankee flag waving on Canad i stations now without addinS ~ — sult to injury.. re “The people of the U.S. se justly proud of their indePe a: dence celebrations as Canadiay are of theirs and the CBC 1s fa