the names of their

Dear Mrs. Jones:

Doorbell

ringing

key job---Jones

Effie Jones’ whirlwind campaign for mayor doesn’t de-
pend on lavish advertising and a “slush fund” to get votes.

It is a grass-roots campaign,
ing upon the participation of
to win the votes of thousands who
are in sympathy with her program
of civic reform.

Members of the “Committee of
1,000 Citizens for Effie Jones” are
hard-working, voluntary canvassers
and office workers, inspired by a
desire to see a drastic change at
city hall. Their number is con-
stantly growing,

“It’s like .a chain-reaction,” ex-
plained one doorbell pusher. “You
go out canvassing for Effie, and
everywhere people want to know
what they can do to help. So we

_ give them copies of Effie’s peti- |,

tion against high fares, they get
friends and
neighbors, and before you know
it everybody in the block is doing
something.” | ;

Politicos and. pundits who a
month ago were inclined to think
Effie’s chances were on the down-
grade following the entry of CCF-
er Tom Alsbury (“the Non-Parti-
sans’ Secret Weapon’) into the
mayoralty race, today acknowledge
that the tide has turned and a
huge popular vote may well sweep
Effie Jones to victory.

“In a straight contest between
Charlie Thompson and Effie
Jones, our candidate would lose,”
explained one Non-Partisan stra-
tegist in a private conversation.
“Therefore, our tactic will be to
build up Alsbury as a threat to
us. He isn’t, but if we can con.
vince the people that he is, it
will split Effie’s vote and keep
us in power another two years.
“You might calj Alsbury ‘our sec-
ond-string candidate. The more

skimpily financed but depend-
hundreds of active supporters

we attack him and keep him in
the public eye; the more it helps
us. You can always fool some of
the people some of the time.
That’s smart politics.”

“Smart” politics often back-fire,

however, Effie’s campaign among.
the people is winning a wide re-
sponse. Her radio audience is esti-
mated at 100,000 nightly, and her
‘give ‘em hell” attacks on the Non-
Partisan and BCER crowd are seed
sown in fertile ground. The people
of Vancouver are tired of the Old
Gang and want a change.
“In the final analysis, elections
are decided by people, not by polit-
ical machines,’ says Effie Jones.
“I am depending on the people who
go out, rain or shine, and ring
doorbells. They bring my program
to, the voters, and my _ support
grows from day to day. I have the
weapon of truth on my side, and
this is a weapon the Non-Partisan,
BCER crowd cannot use.

“I expect misreporting in the
daily press will reach a new low in
this campaign. Because reaction is
bankrupt, has no program, cannot
deal with the vital issues facing the
people, it will probably descend
to Red-baiting, political mud-sling-
ing, and so on,

“As opposed to this slander cam-
paign, I will continue to hammer
away at the feed for action to solve
the social and economic needs of
the people. I am confident that un-
| ited political action can defeat the
| Old Gang politicians, unmask their
| stooges in the ranks Of labor, and
|elect me to the mayor’s chair on
| December 8th.”

Overflow mailbag

Dear Mrs. Jones:

Noticing your ad in the personal
column I am taking this opportun-
ity of wishing you the very best

of luck in the coming election and

hope to see you as our new mayor.
(Miss) F, I. B. (Woodland Dr.)
* * x”
Dear Mrs, Jones:
Congratulations on your running
for mayor. May all success be

yours: from one Welshman to an-

other. |
(Mrs.) A. D. (East Pender St.)
* *« *

My family, husband and I would
like to know more about your plan
to reduce street car fares... .

(Mrs.) A. M. (South Burnaby)
: * * * -
Dear Mrs. Jones:

I am all for you as mayor, and
lower fares. I think Vancouver
needs a woman in harness_rather
than a man.

L. B. (Dieppe Drive)

Dear Mrs. Jones:

I appreciate your offer as I am
unemployed and it would help me
get around in my search for a job.

A. S. (E. 20th Ave.)
* bla *

Dear Mrs. Jones:

. . . Enclosed is signed ‘petition,
to which the travelling public must
agree, The loss of street car passes
does create a handicap on sales-
men ...I do not agree with the
BCER that the abuse of passes
amounted to any great amount.
The number of passes bought and
abused as against the price of
tickets at that time of 4 for 25 cents
was negligible . . . Best of luck,
and may you poll three times the
vote you need. - A.W. (Haro St.

pate * * be

Dear Mrs, Jones: . 2

Iagree with you that fares should
come down. What can be done?
Lots of luck to you in your cam-
paign for mayor.

P. M. (Pendrell St.)

‘SUBJECT
CONDITIONS
ON BACK

The “Committee of 1,000

COMMITTEE OF
cise FOR
Citizens’ for Effie Jones”

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iS PLANK N°10N
EFFIE JONES’ PLATFORM

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carried’

out a “blitz” on Vancouver recently when they distributed 15,000
“passes” advocating return of weekly car and bus passes. The
ecards were distributed to street car and bus passengers. “Condi-
tions” on the back stressed the need to put Effie ,Jones in the
mayor’s chair as a prerequisite to winning back lower fares

and passes.

HUIS
How you can help

Perhaps you are wondering
what YOU can do to help elect
Effie Jones on December 8. Here
are a few things:

You can make a financial con-
tribution. Money is politics. Effie
has no money to finance her
campaign except the donations
you give.

You ean write in for an Effie
Jones’ petition against high fares
(or clip the petition from this
paper) and contact all your
friends and neighbors for signa-
tures.

You can scrutineer on election
day, or work outside, helping to
pull out the progressive vote. Re-
member that people of all poli-
tical parties are opposed to the
domination of the BCER.

Send your donations, register
for election work and secure peti-
tion forms NOW. The address is:
Effie Jones, Election Headquar-
ters, 3389 West Pender Street.

TOA PA

Vancouver must
abolish slums

Slums are a luxury that no mod-
ern community can afford, yet all
too little is being done to secure
better housing for our Vancouver
citizens. Especially desperate is
the plight of our veterans.

Everyone recognizes that the
housing problem can only be solved
through the cogperation of our
three levels of government—muni-
cipal, provincial and federal.

Yet when citizens approach their
elected representatives, at what-
ever level, the old game of buck-
Passing begins, The city blames the
province, the province blames the
federal government,. the federal
authorities blame the province or
municipality. It’s like a shell game
at the circus—and the public are
the suckers.

There are organizations ard
people who are working hard to do
away with slums in our city. Such
organizations, for example, as the
Vancouver Housing Association,
which correctly points out that the
only far-sighted solution of our
housing problem lies in -the provi-
sion. of an adequate proportion of
low and moderate rental housing;
through additional veterans’ hous-
ing; and through the development,
of a subsidized low rental housing
program on a national scale.

A vote for Effie Jones is a vote
to abolish slums and build low
rental homes. Mrs. Jones is a
strong supporter of every organi-
zation which seeks to end the
housing crisis, and as mayor she
will be in a position to take action
and put these plans into effect.

Alsbury helps
Non-Partisans

Entry of right-wing CCFer Tom
Alsbury into the mayoralty contest
is heavenly manna to the. Non-
Partisans, They know that he can-
not seriously threaten them, but
they count on him to split the
labor vote and save them from de-
feat at the hands of Effie Jones.

Right-wing CCFers are also
aware that their candidate isn’t
running to win. “Tom won’t be
elected of course,’ one leading
CCFer told an enquirer, “but he’ll
get enough votes to keep Effie
Jones out of the mayor’s chair.”

Many rank-and-file members of
the CCF condemn this spite policy,
and one of them wrote Effie: “I’ve
been a member of the CCF for six
years, and always voted as I was
told. But this year I’m voting for
you, Mrs. Jones, I realize you are
the only progressive candidate who
can defeat the Non-Partisans, and
I cannot condone the tactic which
led to the nomination of Alsbury.”

Says Effie: “I am sorry the CCF
saw fit to resurrect Tom Alsbury
as a spite candidate, but I feel
sure that the maiority of progres-
sives, including CCFers, will reject
this feeble attempt to split the lab-
or vote, and cast their ballots for

me on election day.’

MAKE SURE THIS TIME.

Every week youngsters

That’s a nasty name.

Some unthinking people call
every boy who breaks a window or
joins a street corner gang a “juven-
ile delinquent’—and certain court
magistrates seem to hold the same
opinion, The only soluticn, accord-
ing to these people, is to sentence
the young offenders to a term in
reformatory.

in many cases.a_ reformatory
term does not reform; in fact, all
too often it helps to develop young
criminals,

What causes ‘juvenile delin-
quency”? Can we find a cure?

Let’s look at -Bob’s case. Bob is
14, and like any growing boy, full
of life and. always on the go. His
chief interests in life at the mo-
ment are boxing and baseball. He
also réads comic books by the
score, and often imagines himself
as a Superman, or a Super-sleuth,
or a Super-criminal.

Young Bob’s home. isn’t a pleas-
ant place to live; three small rooms
for a family of six. Bob hasn't
money to spend on shows or milk
shakes. He hasn’t the money to

.| join an organization like the YMCA.

There isn't a playground or swim-

*|ming pool near Bob’s home, or even

a lct to use as a ball diamond.

Yet. Bob must find some outlet
for his energies. So he gets to-
gether with other boys in. the
neighborhood, and they form a
“gang”. It starts off innocently
enough, until one night they smash
a few street corner lamps for ex-
citement. They aren’t caught. Be-
fore long one of the fellows snatch-
es a purse and treats the gang to
cigarettes and sodas. Another mem-
ber swipes a car one night, and
takes the boys for a ride, in style.

From here on the story is famili-
ar, and one day Bob and some of
his pals are facing a judge, and
hear themselves labelled “juvenile
delinquents,”

If Bob had a better home life;
if Bob’s neighborhood had a decent
playground and community centre,
I feel sure that Bob would never
have ended up where he did.

Who is to blame? I charge that
the blame for creating “juvenile

Parks, playgrounds
end ‘delinquency’

By EFFIE JONES

appear in juvenile court on

charges of purse snatching, car theft, etc., and the daily

pewspapers refer to them as “juvenile delinquents.”

delinquents” rests upon the should-
ers of our city administration,
whose floundering, inefficient mem-
bets have failed miserably in their
duties to our youth.

Vancouver needs better housing,
more parks and playgrounds, com-
munity centers and decent recrea-
tional facilities for our young folk.

When I am elected mayor I will
work to secure these things, and
I feel sure that the’ figures for
“juvenile delinquency” will show a
sharp drop.

New deal for
civic workers

The present Non-Partisan ad-
ministration at city hall has a
scheme worked out which will
prove to be anything but a square
deal for civic workers.

The mayors of Vancouver and
other B.C. municipalities propose
to have the Industrial Conciliation
Act changed in such a manner that
wage increases won by civic work- .
ers after» the budget had been
brought down, would not have to
be paid by the city that year.

The excuse for this chicanery
would be that wage increases
would force upward revision of
the budget, The city fathers pre-
tend this would be unthinkable,
though every civic administration
has on many occasions had to re-
vise budgets upwards for various
peasons.

Says Effie Jones, Civic Reform
candidate for mayor:

“We all know that living costs
keep climbing, and in order to try
and keep up with the soaring cost
of living, workers seek wage in-
creases. To put the civic workers
in a.special compartment, and say
that even when they win a wage
award, it cannot be paid, simply
because the budget has _ been
brought down—this is sheer trick-
ery!

“When I am elected mayor of
Vancouver I will not stand for such
anti-labor practices. I will repre-
sent the interests of all citizens,
and there will be no anti-labor
schemes,of this character allowed
to come into operation against the

interests of an important section
of our citizens, the civic workers.”

Alone and in agony, a man died
in an East Hastings hotel on Oc-
tober 14, while a frantic hotel-
keeper tried unsuccessfully for six
hours to persuade a Vancouver
hospital to allow the sufferer entry.

The man, Paul Olanek, ex-miner,
was suffering from silicosis. Police
failed to act when summoned, but
within a few moments after the
man died they sent an ambulance
to take the body to the morgue,

“I charge the present city coun-
cil with full responsibility for such

callous treatment of a dying human

City ‘guilty’ in death
of miner---Effie Jones

being,” said Mrs. Effie Jones in a
radio broadcast on October 19.

“Perhaps this man’s life could
not have been saved. I don’t know.
But' I do know his suffering could
have been. eased in his dying hours,
had he been taken to a hospital
and placed under medical care.

“When I am elected mayor I will
change this callous indifference to
the welfare of our workers and
ordinary citizens; I will order
police, health departments and hos-
pitals to place the needs of the
people first.”

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