City canvass August 11 CCW seeking higher Family Allowances To test public opinion and en- list support in‘a nation-wide cam- | Paign for increased Family Al- lowances, Vancouver chapters of the Congress of Canadian Women Will conduct a canvass of various city areas this coming Monday, August 11, it was announced this Week. The announcement asked ‘Volunteers for the canvass to get : in touch with Mrs. Agnes Jackson, . CCW secretary, at 318 East 38th ; J—o you have dny children under 16 years of age? Yesicos3 ——-Would you favor an increase in Family Allowances now? The cost of food is about double what it was when Family Allowances were begun. Yee 25% 3—Have you made a practice of earmarking Family Allowance cheques for some specific costs or benefits for the children, e@.g., milk, clothing, education, etc.? Children born since 1945 4—Members of Parliament at Ottawa recently have been calling for increased Family Allowances. By how much do you think Family Allowances should be increased? Dollars Double 5—Would you agree with giving Family Allowances for children up to 18 years of age who are not earning? . Yes. Avenue—phone Fraser 9033, Results of the canvass will be tabulated and discussed at an afternoon tea meeting of CCW members to be held Wednesday, Agust 18, 2 p.m., at 1527 Hast aa || TR 1 LPP nails ‘force, violence’ charges as FBI provocation TORONTO The St. Laurent government’s instantaneous acceptance of an FBI report on Communism which falsely alleges that Communists “advocate violence,’’ was termed ‘“‘a further example of the servility of Ottawa towards Washington” in a statement issued by the Labor- If so, have you cut down such items? 15th Avenue, Following is the questionnaire now being circulation by CCW chapters in Vancouver, Nanaimo S =e and other cities: PEGGY KENNEDY Miss Burrard \ & No ‘ No Give examples. By 50% ANNE LEDENIUK Miss East End Vie for honors mane Peggy Kennedy, Miss Burrard (top), and Anne Ledeniuk, Miss East End (bottom), are two of the Vancouver girls who Money for guns - but none for city sewers Vancouver City Council this week turned thumbs down on a Tequest from residents of the Point Grey ‘‘polio swamp’ area for immediate construction of sewers in the area. aldermen were saying ‘“‘No’’ to the health plea British Columbia’s fourth death from polio this year was recorded in Vancouver, while the number of polio cases jumped to 42, “Ofir ditches are pestilence- Tidden,” said the Jeader of the delegation, engineering supervisor Gerald Heffernan of Vancouver Rolling Mills. Arguing that ‘you Can’t price the health of children in dollars and, cents,” Heffernan urged the installation of a $26,- 900 pumping station as a tempor- ary expedient. ‘We haven't got the money,” Was the answer given by Alder- Man J, D. Cornett and echoed by other council members. Council has spent all the 1952 Sewage budget and $200,000 of Next year’s to install sewers in the Sixteenth and Camosun area, the delegation was told. Ald. Cornett maintained that there are “at least five areas in sath worse condition” than the Polio swamp” district. The delegation remained un- “onvinced. “We might as well Tush our sewage straight into the ditches,» said Heffernan. ele z Tht a ; ZENITH CAF 105 E. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. UNION HOUSE are competing for the title of Miss B.C. Labor and a first- prize award of a beautiful cedar ‘chest at the United Labor Pic- nic in Confederation Park, Aug- ust 16. Other contestants are Doreen Thomas, Miss Hastings East; Carole (Kelley) Lawrie, Miss South Vancouver; Barbara Stewart, Miss North Vancouver; Ruth Turner, Miss Burnaby and Brenda Keely, Miss Shipyard Worker. At the same time as V ancouver Civic voters list closes on August 21 tration time in half and holding it during the holiday season, the Non Partisan Association clique at city hall evidently hopes to prevent many citizens from voting in December. Tenants, thousands of whom are missed by canvassers every year, should phone city hall and eheck to see if their names are on the list. Persons eligible to vote whose names have been omitted from the list must visit the city clerk's office at city hall before August 21 and apply to have their names added. Do you want to vote in Van- couver civic elections next De- cember? If so — and every progressive citizen eligible to cast a ballot should exercise that right—you'd better make sure your name is on the voters list. The list is open this year ’ from August 1 to 21—three weeks instead of the usual six. Spouses are entitled to a vote this year for the first time, and }. this should mean the addition of from 40,000 to 50,000 names to the list. By cutting regis- HA. 6570 Stylized Permanents and Hairshaping by Paul's Beauty Salon 2511 E. Hastings St. opp. Forst’s (Upstairs) PENDER AUDITORIUM (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone PA. 9481 STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN ’ Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries SUITE 515 FORD BUILDING 198 E. HASTINGS (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) ‘ MARINE 5746 Progressive party here this week. Text of the statement continues: Hiding behind anonymity and exploiting his official ‘privilege’ against court actions for slander, a ‘spokesman’ for the government echoes FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover and informs Douglas How of the Canadian Press that the Canadian Communists also are a party of “violence’ and are engaging in deception when they demand the restoration of the supremacy of parliament. This outburst by a Liberal hack .may have been hastened by the LIPP’s announce- men last week that it is contest- ing 70-80 seats in the coming fed- eral election, : : To round out this new flurry of Ottawa pronouncements, the re- exposed labor spy, John Leopold, (Esselwein) has given. an opport- unity to him and his superiors in the department of justice to make ignorant and malicious press al- legations against the Labor-Pro- gressive party and the patriotic Canadians who make up _ that party, Leopold’s comments upon the leadership of Tim Buck are as false as the remarks of any spy whose labors for his superiors de- pend upon his ability to misrepre- sent the facts, He and his super- iors know how the spy and inform- er are hated by the Canadian peo- ple and his sudden emergence in the public press will only serve to remind Canadians of the _ stool- pigeon activities in which the St. Laurent government and _ the RCMP have to engage in order to prop up their abject Yankee poligy. The LPP’s new program is sell- ing in thousands of copies and is being widely discussed in pro- gressive ranks. The Canadian peo- ple, confronted with the sell-out of their country to the United States and the subordination of Canadian armed forces. to Yan- kee commanders, will exercise their democratic rights to make up their own political minds with- out benefit of spies like Leopold or the bureaucrats of the depart- ment of justice. It is a scandalous farce that the very people who have subvert- ed the supremacy of parliament and made of our country a pawn in Yankee hands, should try to hide their shame by these ignor- ant and malicious police-spy slan- ders, : tirement from the RCMP of the} Sun smear attack on rights hit Vancouver branch of _ the League for Democratic Rights is® preparing a public reply to a Van- couver Sun editorial of August 2 advocating that Communists be excluded from enjoying the same rights as other Canadian citizens, LDR chairman Fred Collins told the Pacific Tribune this week. The editorial said, in part: ’“Any man who trusts a Com- munist, who demands for him the ‘same rights and the same toler- ance as we are prepared to give to ordinary, decent’ Canadians who believe in those freedoms and rights is a deluded fool.’’ “The bigoted opinions express- ed by the Sun editoria] writer are in line with the reactionary pro- posals contained in Bill H-8,” said Collins. ‘“‘They jeopardize the basic freedoms and rights of the indi- vidual won by peoples’ struggles for democracy down through the years. Our local LDR executive is studying the Sun editorial and will draft a public. reply to it, warning Canadian people against such attempts to destroy their basic civil rights.” LPP scores swearing-in Socred govt Meeting in Vancouver last weekend to review the recent pro- vincial election, the B.C. provin- cial committee of the Labor-Pro- gressive party adopted a resolu- tion protesting Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Wallace’s swearing-in of a Social Credit administration while Vancouver Burrard and Point Grey seats were still in dispute before the courts, with party standings in the legislature de- pendent on the outcome. Urging an immediate cut in Hospital Insurance premiums, the LPP issued a sharp warning against the proposal to put BCHIS on a so-called voluntary basis. © Whet—be tried to onl you ¢ Sat het ce me? Choags seer tore, ag bem ead wy THE ~—AOESIOL 45 E. Hastings: The HUB has sold ; _ Union-Made Men’s Wear i and extended friendly ser- vice for over 50 years. —=—0>0—————0 00 F000 The LONG and the SHORT of it is... Vancouver, B.C. orn 1001050 OMIOE IOEIOCE fo) fe} — fo) — (e) PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 8, 1952 — PAGE 7