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Plebiscite
on Sunday
sports out

Vancouver City Council
-voted 6-2 against holding a
plebiscite on Sunday sports this
-December, at a meeting Wed-
nesday this week attended by
delegations favoring and op-
. posing loosening of the present
“blue laws.”

Prior to the meeting Effie
Jones, president of Civic Reform
Association, had written coun-
cil urging that the question be
submitted to the electorate in
the form of a plebiscite.

“On behalf of the CRA I
strongly urge city council to
place a plebiscite on Sunday
sports before the public this
coming December,” Mrs. Jones
wrote. “In our opinion this is
the only democratic way to de-
cide this issue.

“The CRA is in favor of mak-
ing available to the citizens
of Vancouver sports activities
during the afternoon hours of
Sunday. In our opinion the
working population of Van-
couver has at present very lim-
ited time on weekends to. take
part in such activities which
are important to their health
and well-being.”

Stating that “as far as we are
aware no one has so far ad-
vocated a wide-open Sunday.”
Mrs. Jones urged “that the
plebiscite be so worded as to
present the question fairly,”
endorsing the proposed plebis-
cite drawn up by the Sunday
Sports Committee.

The sports committee had
proposed that the plebiscite
read:

“Are you in favor of. pro-
fessional or amateur baseball,
softball, soccer, indoor bowl-
ing, basketball, roller skating,
curling, lacrosse, hockey and
football being played in the
City of Vancouver on Sundays,
with an admission .charge, be-
tween the hours of 1 p.m. to
© p.m.%. Yés or.no.”

Co-Op Bookstore
will celebrate
10th anniversary

Ten years ago the People’s
Cooperative Bookstore was
established in Vancouver with
the aim of “offering the best
selection of books in the city
to its customers.”

On October 21-22 the 10th
anniversary of the People’s Co-
operative Bookstore, 337 West
Pender, will be celebrated by
a two-day Book Festival and
a special sale in the Pender
Auditorium. The _ thriving
store is recognized as having
the best collection of books,
records and. art pieces in wes-
tern Canada.

An interesting program of

folk songs and readings has
been planned for Friday eve-

aing, while Saturday will be.

geared to the “small fry” with
a program of singing and danc-
ing performed by young chil-
dren.

An attractive door prize is
being offered — $15 worth of
books (of the winter’s choice).
There will also be a $5 con-
solation prize.

Buck to speak in city

Tim Buck, national leader of
the Labor-Progressive party,
will address a public meeting
in Pender Auditorium here on
November 4, it was announced
this week.

Continued

ATOMS .

arable land, we can turn raging

torrents into useful rivers, that
we can produce boundless pros-
perity where there is now in-
finite want—we ask the world
to undertake these tasks boldly,
creatively, energetically and to

JACOB POTOFSKY

remove from this world the
shadows which haunt and plague
us.”

The CIO leader described the
trade union merger as “a golden
epportunity to bring trade
unionism to millions of un-
organized workers..”

51,000 sign appeal

More than 51,000 British
Columbians have now signed
the World Appeal Against
Atomic War, B.C. Peace Coun-
cil announced: this week. Col-
lection of signatures continues
with a mass canvass this Satur-
day, October 15.

Effie Jones | in
civic arena agaill

Charging that a “Tammany-like political machine’ has fastened itself on the a
Effie Jones, veteran campaigner for civic reform, announced this week that she wi

a candidate for alderman in the Vancouver civic elections in December.
“T have decided to run for alderman because I am convinced Vancouver ne

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a change from the Non-Partisan Association which has dominated our city for over

years,” Mrs. Jones said in her
statement.

“The charge of corruption in
our police force is only one ex-
ample of what happens when
a ‘Tammany-like political ma-
chine fastens its hold on a city.
The public has every right to
know what is going on in other
civic departments. When elect-
ed I will see to it that the spot-

light is put on cleaning up cor-

ruption in our city.

“Big-business NPA control
at our city hall has meant
higher taxes — the highest in
our history — for homeowners.
Tax reform can bring tax re-
lief for homeowners and I in-
tend to fight to bring taxes
down.

“True to its record, the NPA
council this past year again
surrendered the interests of the
public to the B.C. Electric. It
failed to fight for a square deal
on natural gas, allowing the

. B.C. Electric monopoly to take

over this vital utility.

“It refused to take up the
fight to return $900,000 collect-
ed in bus fares which rightful-
ly belonged to the people.

“Tt has refused to submit.a
plebiscite on whether the pub-
lic favors taking over the B.C.
Electric, thus saddling Vancou-
ver with five more years of
this company’s domination.

‘Inaction on vital issues is
the main feature of the NPA
council. Lack of a civic audi-
torium and a modern sewage
disposal plan are examples of
this inaction.

“Public revulsion against the
NPA is rising. This is the year
the NPA can be kicked out.
Last year 20,000 people voted
for me in my fight against the
NPA and for civic reform. I
am sure that many more thous-
ands will vote for me this year
to enable me to get to city hall
to do the job which needs doing.

“As an aldermanic candidate
opposing the NPA, I strongly
urge labor, ratepayer and all
civic-spirited organizations to
unite to clean out the NPA in
December. I will stand pre-
pared at all times to cooperate
with anyone toward that end.”

Continued

TRADE

party secretary Nikita Krush-
chev at a country villa near
Yalta. :

The two Soviet leaders were
reported to have endorsed the
proposals discussed the previ-
ous week in Moscow, with a
few additions.

Pearson was accompanied to
Yalta by Canadian ambassador
John Watkins and George Ig-
natieff.

In addition to a trade agree-
ment likely developments in-
clude the early exchange of
parliamentary delegations be-
tween the two countries, and
an air line agreement for the
reciprocal use of polar regions
of each country.

Arms reduction:
urged on CCL —

By MARK FRANK

Reduction of the national arms budget was
in a resolution placed before the CCL convention
week by the Industrial Federation of Labor of Alberta.
same body called for a world-wide ban on A and H

The big United Auto Work-
ers Union Local 200 of Windsor
also called for a ban on atomic
weapons and in condemning
rearmament programs it was
joined by the B.C. Federation
of Labor.

A number of union bodies
urged recognition of the People’s
Republic of China, including
the United Steel Workers Local
1060 of Sydney, N.S. The same
local called on the CCL to heed
the appeal of world scientific
leaders on the dangers of
atomic weapons and “note with
approval the spirit in which
negotiations took place at the
Geneva conference.”

One resolution from the Sas-
katchewan retail workers union
called for a united neutral and
disarmed Germany.

All these resolutions on
foreign policy formed the
background for a CCL policy
statement which had not been
placed before the convention at
Pacific Tribune press time.

It was learned that the state-
ment “welcomed the relaxation
of world tension which has
followed the Austrian Treaty,
the Soviet-Yugoslav agreement,
the Geneva Conference and
other recent international
events.”

“What has happened in the
last year,” it continues, “is
proof that war is not inevit-
‘able and that negotiations are
neither useless nor a sign of
weakness.”

The declaration endotses the
British Trade Union Congress
call to “the trade union move-
ment in all countries to urge
upon their respective govern-
ments the necessity for firm
international agreement on the
abolition of all stocks of atomic

and H-weapons and on the
. prohibition of the manufacture

‘and use of such weapons.” It
further .calls on all govern-

ments. to end all nuclear
weapon tests.
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