' GED ON RANSIT FARE HIKE ‘Cancel increase’ demand growing wealth in hydro power the B.C. Hydro Commis- we a JUNE 19, 1964. ~25, NO. 25 —@"10¢ a Saturday carcade to urge end of war in Vietnam Bete B.C. Peace Council will sponsor a carcade on ay, J une 27th, to urge an end to the war in Viet- and to rid Canada of nuclear arms. conte ats, Will assemble at the Brentwood shopping fa ilingdon and Lougheed Highway in North 19 on y at 9:30 a.m. and the carcade will move off at le pee cars will travel to New Westminster, Whal- leafier neley and Cloverdale. The public will be handed force 8 calling for withdrawal of United States armed om Southeast Asia and signatures will be Cted on a petition. “Olle, Ye Another leaflet will be distributed calling for the ~ ©val of nuclear warheads from Canadian soil. Cade of peace supporters are invited to join the car- iy e uther information can be obtained by phoning Gardner at CY 9-5298. Jagan hits arrests Y British soldiers The Oe Bemier of British Guiana, teeta di Jagan, this week pro- tes, “8Ainst the weekend ar- Sene “arried out under emer- bij, POWers suddenly assumed andy, Titish GovernorSir Rich- last Saturday, tained , . . deprived of his con- stitutional rights without any charges being made against him,’’ Dr, Jagan Troops and police were this week searching for more people on Governor Luyt’s detention list, Or My. 288an said the detention othe, meet’ Premier and four wise Se ofthe Legislative ; the Res a ‘gross violation 1 in g Ndamental rights laid a 3 Bs Constitution,’? Among 2 tro Tested in swoops by Bri- atte ae and police onSaturday reg. ? Legislative Assembly wing “Ntatives of Dr, Jagan’s be, People’s Progressive r, and one Opposition Mem- The Governor acted under em- ergency powers from an Order in Council of the British govern- ment, These powers enable the Governor to act without - or against ~ the advice ofthe elected government, headed by Premier Jagan, — Blasting the action of the Col- onial Office and Colonial Secre- tary Duncan Sandys, the British Daily Worker said editorially on Monday that what they have done is ‘‘to tear the Constitution to bits. trample it underfoot and kick it down the drain,’’ It said the ‘*whole business stinks,’’ and charged that ‘‘they are acting on behalf of wealthy, reactionary, s " a meres leaves the P,P,P, * Som. itY in the Assembly, tio per vers say that the Nt, he British governor is Sun As t to a prorogation of Semb Dp ly, _ yested interests, and responding th, * J to pressure from the U,S, to stop Te aan, s - p We 2 pee ee another socialist regime arising of, ho tat Bae Georgetown meeting ition executive, said the Rit Bree. 2 violation ofthe The editorial demands that mets 2 peo ration ofHuman ‘the arrested people should be Ith * ES United Nations, to set free and further arrests Th ain is a signatory,’* should stop. The emergency Ref p should be ended and full powers Tina. ©mty Premier M Dy ley Boe remier Mr. given to Dr, Jagan’s government 2b, Rae tc scheirman of the to run a fully independent count- Spirited off and de- py?" in that area, beside Cuba,” declared,, Despite B.C.’s vast sion announced this wee toria will be boosted to fares in all Canada. Thus consumers in highest transit fares but also the highest k that bus fares in Greater Vancouver and Vic- 25c for asingle ride making them the highest B.C. will be paying not only the electricity rates in the nation unless strong public protests forces the government fo retreat. “The announcement from B,C, Hydro for a sweeping hike in bus fares for all transit users was immediately met by strong pro- tests from most municipalities affected, Many civic officials condemned the increase as UN- justified and pointed to the pro- fits being made by B.C. Hydro from power sales, Many civic officials said that if the hike goes into effect there should be a sub- stantial reduction in power rates to the public, ‘ Demanding that the bus fare hike should be immediately can- celled, William Stewart, Vancou- ver secretary. of the Communist Party, charged in a press state- ment that, ‘‘a 10¢ increase in bus fares would be a disaster for Vancouver,’ He said it would add more than $1 a week to the transportation costs of workers using buses, Drawing attention to the con- sequences of such an increase ‘for Vancouver, Stewart said*‘the 66% fare hike will spell disaster to the plans now being discussed to rejuvinate downtown Vancou- ver, Housewives and people on fixed incomes will be much more inclined to shop in their neigh- borhood area when faced with such exhorbitant fares, The above picture was taken by an AP cameraman at the moment President Kennedy was shot. It was re- printedinthe May 30th, edition of the National Guardian with the question: ‘‘Is the man at the ex- treme left of the doorway Lee Oswald? If so, who ‘‘Have they calculated the ad- ditional traffic which willbe gen- erated as a result of people shun- ning high fare buses and the tremendous costs which will be thrust on to the city to accomodate more automobile traffic,’’ Stew- art said ‘flower not higher fare are needed with more adequate service to encourage people to leave their cars at home.” Hitting out against the policy of the provincial government - Stewart said that ‘‘Vancouver power users have never got the promised benefits from Premier Bennett following provincial takeover of the B,C, Electric, If he thinks he is going to pocket the profits from power distribu- tion and pass on the losses of the transit system tothe Vancou- ver public he needs to be shown otherwise,”’ United action urged The Communist Party city se- cretary urged that the **eovern- ment be met with a flood of pro- test from all sources which alone can force it to retreat from its arrogant position,” In a letter to the Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday night, NDP provincial leader Robert - Strachan blasted the increase, He charged that the Socred goy- Is the man in circle Lee Harvey Oswald? fired from the building’s sixth floor? The photo and ernment was playing politics with profits from B.C, Hydro and urged that all services be taken together inorder to best serve the interests on the public, Stra- chan said earlier that if necess- ary he will appear before the Pub- lic Utilities Commission to op- pose the increase, The Vancouver Labor Council Tuesday asked its Legislative Committee to meet with the Amalgamated Transit Union to institute a program of action, Speaking in the discussion Boil- ermaker’s Union delegate Wil- liam Stewart urged that the B.C, Federation of Labor call a con- ference of PTA’s, old age pen- sioners groups, and others, to work out a program of united ac- tion to block the fare hike. The PT has learned that anum- ber of PTA’s in Vancouver have already protested the increase, pointing to the harmful affect it will have on transportation for children, ’ On Tuesday the provincial cab- inet passed an Order-in-Council authorizing the Public Utilities Commission to hold hearings at which those opposing the’ fare boost would be permitted to app- ear, Strong protests are expect- ed from many groups when the hearings take place, close-ups showing a striking resemblance to Oswald were published in the New York Herald Tribune. The FBI claims the man is Billy Lovelady, but they have refused permission to anyone to publish his picture.