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War expenditures steal

_ 17.2c of every dollar

MILLER, FISHER PUSH SCHEME

light this week when the scheme,

Miller and Alex Fisher.

The aldermen want to do away
with the city’s elected park board
and replace it with a permanent,
appointed commission.

Abolition of the park board may
become a major issue in the forth-
coming civic election on December
14, as several Non-Partisan strate-
gists at city hall favor holding a
plebiscite on the question. They
think that the present dominant
position of the NPA in civic affairs
ensures the success of: their
scheme atithe polls this year.
Front men for the _ business
groups favoring the plan, Aldermen
Miller: and Fisher “went on record”
Tuesday as favoring the change.
They were forced to take their
stand when the park board com-
missioners sent a letter demand-
ing that aldermen disassociate
themselves from rumors of a plot
to scuttle the elected board.
Other aldermen, refusing to take
a position on the contentious issue,
let it be known, however, that if
“any 12sponsible organization” were
to request a plebiscite, they would
not be loath to comply.

Lay judges to hear

s .
all criminal cases
—BUDAPEST
Hungarian workers will act as
lay judges in all criminal cases
that come to the country’s courts
after November 1, under a new
regulation providing for “people’s
direct adminstration of justice.”
The institution of: lay judges,
who must be working people and
cannot be members of groups de-
riving income from ‘any source
other than their own labor, was
introduced soon after the ‘war in
courts trying war criminals: and
economic offenders. It has now
been extended to all criminal cases
without exception. The lay judges
will be called to duty in rotation
from panel lists.

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‘Downtown groups’
seek board abolition

A move to restrict democratic nights of citizens apd to tighten
the Non-Partisan Association’s grip on Vancouver city hall came to

hatched in back rooms by NPA

strategists, was given its first public airing by Aldermen George C.

.

SIU approves
cut tn crews

Continuing their shameful cam-
paign to undercut wages and work-
ing conditions won after years of
organization and struggle by- the
Canadian Seamen’s Union, the Sea-
farers’ International Union (AFL)
this week announced a drastic re-
duction in the manning scale on
deepsea freighters.

Hal Banks, SIU president, said
that vessels of the Park type on
Atlantic and Pacific runs can drop

six men from their crews, under
the new SIU scale.
SIU scabs in the recent CSU

strike cleared the road for this
slash in personnel by sailing under-
manned ships last summer,

Operators on both coasts, quick
to take advantage of this situation,
have been’ whittling down crews
on all vessels by two, three and
four! men. Now the SIU has made
it official, and actually invites ship-
owners to lay off additional men.

In an unprecedented statement
for an alleged union leader, Banks
attempted to apologize for his cap-
itulation to the bosses by claiming
that “during the war years the
CSU blackjacked deepsea owners
into keeping unnecessary men on
crews.”

After more than’ six months on
the picket line, the CSU ended its
strike against east coast operators
last week—a strike that was lost
because of government interven-
tion, betrayal of the CSU by lead-
ers of the Trades and Labor Con-
~gress, and the scabbing role of the
SIU. -

Czech union backs
U.S. steel strikers

-\ —PRAGUE

The [Union of Workers in the
Metal Industry of Czechoslovakia
has informed CIO President Philip
Murray of its “sympathy and soli-
darity with the steel workers of
America in their struggle for social
security.” It has also offered the
strikers “any assistance they may
require.”

The UWMI action was taken
after the World Federation of
Trade Unions, from which the CIO
has withdrawn, urged all mem-
ber metal unions to support their
U.S. fellow workers in every way
possible.

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OTTAWA

A total of $447,000,000 will have been spent for arms and military affairs in the year. 1949-50
when March 31, 1950, rolls around, according to up-to-date figures released here.
These are based on estimated expenditures by the department of national defense.
down as follows: $375,000,000 in cash; $63,000,000 in current authority, not yet allocated; and

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$9,000,000 in supplementary estim-
ates.

In other terms it means that
17.2 cents out of every dollar col-
lected in tax revenues will be
used for war purposes, or 17.2
percent of total revenues of $2,320
million expected in the current
fiscal year. bs
A report tabled in Commons gives
startling comparative figures show-
ing huge increases in military ex-
penditures compared to 1939-40
when the Second World War began.
In that year expenditures were
$125,679,888. In 1948-49, a year of
peace, they were $268,731,347. And
for 1949-50 they are expected to be
$447,000,000.

The defense department is spend-
ing the second largest amount in
the current year! of any government
department. One reporter notes: “It
is really big busine8s and its pur-
chases through the Canadian Com-
mercial Corporation emphasize just
how big this business is. Baye

“In 1948-49, the defense depart-
ment spent $145,000,000 through the
Commercial Corporation alone and
this involved placing more than 65,-

000 contracts from airplanes to
photographic supplies. During this
fiscal year, defense contracts are
already close to the $150,000,000
mark. Of course they include the
$30,000, order for 100 F-86 jets
and the $30,000,000 for new ¢.aval
vessels.” '

In the light of the
be made out of war weapons and
military supplies, the anxiety being
expiessed both by Prime Minister
St. Laurent in his Troy address and
Defense Minister Brooke Claxton’s
talk in New York City.

Both wanted U.S. industrialists
to ease up on their cornering of
the lucrative traffic in armaments
now possible under terms of the
Atlantic Pact rearmament pro-
gram. U.S. legislation bars. pur-
chase of Canadian arms.

big money to

Steelworkers on strike

United Steelworkers members wind around the Duquesne,
Pa., works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation to draw pay-
checks for work done befclze start of the U.S. strike on October 1.
Walkout of 16,000 workers in nine Aluminum Company of America
plants brought the total numbers of strikers to 496,000. ‘

Seek double ‘No’ vote |

in West Van plebiscite

—WEST VANCOUVER, B.C.

Citizens of West Vancouver, who have been under constant bom-
bardment from BCElectric propagandists to “‘sell out’ their publicly-
owned Blue Bus transit system to the BCE, go to the polls Saturday
to cast ballots in a plebiscite on the question.

There’s a joker in the deck, how-
ever, Fearing that a straight ‘for
or against” BCE ownership vote
would be lost, the monopoly huck-
sters on the council “advisory com-
mittee” are also putting forward a
bylaw asking for $100,000 to “mod-

Federation
program Is

Cultural,

Groups in the Federation aie the
youth section of the United Jewish
People’s Order, Russian - Canadian
Youth Club, Association of United
Ukrainian - Canadians, National
Federation of Labor Youth, and the

Finnish Cultural Atheltic Sports
Federation.

Larry Euler, NFLY, is secretary
of the Federation, and Tina Plax-
en, RCYC, is secretazty. Other
clubs and youth organizations are
invited to join in the Federation’s
activities,

A youth bowling léague, with
eight teams from the five affiliated
organizations, holds the sport spot-
light during the winter months.

Present standings of the teams
finds UJPO in first place, RCYC
No. 2 holding down second spot,
followed by AUUC No. 2, AUUC No.
1, NFLY No. 1, RCYC No. 1, NFLY
No, 2 and the FCASF.

League bowling takes place
every Monday evening at Abbott
Alleys. Some 40 bowlers participate,

ish of a 28-week schedule will re-
ceive a silver! cup. Top bowlers to
date are George’ Karcha, AUUC No.

and the winning team at the fin~

of youth
popular

social and sports activities among young people in
Vancouver received a boost recently when the Federation of Van-
couver Youth was established to coordinate work and develop fraternal
relations between several existing young people’s organizations.

1, and Allen Stokes, RCYC No, 1.
Sophia Krawchuk, RCYC No. 2,
and Nancy Tarisuik, AUUC No, 1,
lead the girls. :

Conroy proposes, .
Coldwell oppeses”

—OTTAWA
“IT am definitely opposed toa at-
tempts of trade unions to get em-
ployer pension gchemes for their
members,” CCF leader M. J. Cold-
well told students at Carleton Col-
lege recently. The statement came
as a surprise to those students who
had attended the CCL ‘convention
only a short time before and heard
Pat Conroy and other leading
CCF’ers condemn trade unionists
who said the same thing.

Coldwell went on to say that

he considered the proposed steel

pension scheme would encourage

“paternalism’ by the company.
But he failed to mention that in
some instances the schemes are
being used to distract attention
from the workers’ need for wage
increases.

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ernize” the Blue Bus system should -
the “sell-out” plan fail to cartty.

BCE strategists believe that most
voters will fall for the gag, and
accept their contention that “to
turn down the BCER offer means
you'll have to dig in your pockets
and raise $100,000 for Blue Bus mod-
ernization.”

It’s a lie.

West Vancouver citizens can turn
thumbs down ‘on both proposals;
vote a double “no”.

Blue Bus has made _ healthy
profits during the past four years,
can afford to buy new equipment
out of profits when it is needed,
and is in a sound financial po-
sition.

Net profit on Blue Bus opera-
tions after depreciation for the

years 1945-49 totals $40,441.02, Total —

depreciation was $75,288.64 during
this period, giving the publicly
owned company $115,729.66 available
for bus replacement.

BCElectric’s stooges argue that
such profits won’t last, that the
transit system may operate at a
loss in the future.

Why, then, is the BCElectric so
anxious to take over the system?
The “sell-out” crowd can’t an-
swer this question.

Fact is that BCElectric wants to
grab the. West Van transit system
in order to extend its policy of

binding all lower mainland munici- _

palities to long-term monopoly con-
trol. Once in contol, the next.
move of the company would be to
raise fares, ag it has done twice
in the past two years in the city
of Vancouver. | bi (

West Vancouver residents have
_an opportunity to’ block the
BCElectric scheme when they go
to the polls this Saturday, by
, voting “no” on both bylaws.

Wood

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