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be Nc educational grants to B.C. municipalities,
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: Pusuin Parable whole.

Uthae a obvious policy which favors rural as
ly Dave q Municipalities in its school grants, the Soc-
vel, : €monstrated capitalist policies at the lowest
’ that 4 : angling for political advantage in the rural
p dbe Bo mine control of the legislature at the ex-
As an © children’s education.

°Utcome of the provincial government’s re-

i — on Editorial Page 5)
| “phy guest speaker at

ty Day rally Sunday

Di, 2tvey M
th, Min : Urphy, vice-president of International Union of
bh eS “nd Smelter Workers (Canada) will be the fea-

Bij eKEr at Vancouver’ : E ibition Park
thy t Aa ancouvel s May Day rally at Exhibition Par
faving. .< this coming Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m. (day-
Othe, & time.)
SPeakers will include Maurice Rush, Vancouver LPP
secretary, and Andy Brogan,
chairman of the Marine Work-
ers Union unemployed com-
mittee. A speaker from the
CCF has also been invited.
Homer Stevens,  secretary~-
treasurer of. United Fisher-
men and Allied Workers
Union, will be chairman.

A highlight of the May Day
rally will be a program of
labor and folk songs presented
by the
f) . Singers.

Vancouver meee" y

A political storm is ga

school costs on to municipal taxpayers that promises to pr

By NIGEL MORGAN
thering force in the province over the unloading of increased
erent the Bennett government with

its biggest crisis since it took office six years ago.

Last March, Premier W.A.C- Bennett assured the legislature that no

municipality

would lose by his new school grant formula. Now events are proving his words false.

Seldom has the hostility
been so sharp, or the condem-
nation so unanimous over the
way the municipalities are
being treated by the provin-
cial adminis‘ration. The Ben-
nett government is under at-
{ack from all quarters — the
Union of B.C. Municipalities,
the B.C. School Trustees As-
sociation, the B.C. Federation
of Teachers, ratepayer and
parent-teacher groups, labor
and farmers, and the combined
political opposition including
the CCF and LPP.

@ An appeal to municipali-
ties to refuse to levy this
year’s school taxes has al-
ready been issued by the
reeve of Saanich, one of the
largest municipalities, who de-
clared he is prepared to go
to jail if necessary. “The time
has come when municipal
Jeaders must take drastic ac-
tion to forcibly impress on
our senior governments the
financial plight of the muni-

cipalities,” said Reeve Ash, as

he urged a “province - wide

revolt” to bring the Bennett
government to terms.

@ In the Okanagan, coun-
cils at Armstrong and Spal-
lumcheen have rejec‘ed school
board budgets because the
municipal shares are too big.

@ Powell River has flatly
refused the government’s new
apportionment of school costs.

Said Reeve Weaver: “The
government’s new formula
jumped Powell River. tax-

payers portion of school costs
by $183,000 this year. If Mr.
Bennett expects to remain in
office. the . government had
better reconsider its stand.
We're not going to pay that
increase, and we’re laying it
straight on the line.”

@ North Vancouver School

(Continued on back page)
See BENNETT

WCB acts too

late for Zucco

Mrs. Bea Zucco has started
court proceedings against the
three members of the Work-
men’s Board,
after an autopsy ‘report con-
firmed that her husband, Jack

Zucco, who died April 2 after
a long and fruitless struggle
to obtain a silicosis pension,
had “advanced silicosis.”

Compensation

She is claiming $12,800 to
cover her husband’s compen-
sation from 1949, when he
was taken ill.

A WCB spokesman said im-
mediately following the
autopsy report that the board

(Continued on page 6)
See ZUCCO

[How the school doliar is split|

NATO

PROGRAM

— VANCOUVER
TAX PANE RS!
SHARE
SCHOOL COSTS
: 1954 4B 3%
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PROVINCIAL GOV'T.
SHARE VANCOUVER
SCHOOL COSTS (99p)

958 61.11%

39.89 %

FORMER PART
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SHARE NOW FORCED
OM VAN CETY
TAY PAYERS

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