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PEOPLE

DR. JAMES

ENDICOTT

A SERIES OF
PUBLIC MEETINGS

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the legislature by amendment

100 percent.

Companies benefitting . from
‘this action will include most of
the pulp mills of the province,
the biggest copper producers,
and the huge Kimberley plant
of the Consolidated Mining and
Smelting.

In parts of the province, where
there is no municipality the prov-
incial government collects taxes
both for school and general pur-
poses. In the past, taxes have been
levied on 100 percent of the value
of both land and improvements,
and a machinery tax has been col-
lected.

By contrast, many municipali-
ties like Vancouver levy taxes on
only 50 percent of the value of im-
provements. This means a “hid-
den exemption” for big property
owners who have valuable build-
ings — industrial plants or office
skyscrapers. They pay on a smal-
ler proportion of the total value
of land and improvements than the
small home owner who’ has a low
value house on his lot.

Progressive candidates for muni-
cipal office have campaigned for
years against this favoritism to
big business.

Stewart hits public

VANCOUVER

Friday, March 25—
8 P.M,
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‘statement on dispute

’ Marine Workers’ delegate Bill
Stewart charged at Vancouver
Labor Council (CCL) this week that
spokesmen for Electrical Trades
Union have been making public
statements against his union in
reference to the ETU strike situa-
tion at Burrard Dry Dock, despite

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a decision of the last council meet-
ing to discuss the situation in clos-
ed session. ~

Seven unions in the shipyard
are now back at work, and ETU
charges against Marine Workers
are now being discussed by the
CCL executive in Ottawa.

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To some extent the

Tax Act amendment
aids big companies

Another Bennett government give-away to some of the
biggest industrialists in the province is being slipped through

to the “Taxation Act.”

Pulp mills, mines and smelters lying in unorganized ter-
ritory outside municipal boundaries will have taxes levied on
only 75 percent of the value of their improvements instead of

situation is corrected by the new
school formula raising the taxable
percentage to 75 percent for school
purposes. Many municipalities
will now bring the percentage for
general purposes into line.

The effect in rural areas is far
different. Now the big industries
will pay taxes on only three-quar-
ters of the value of their buildings
and machinery. This is a big re-
duction in the rate of their taxa-
tion, a reduction made bigger by
the cut in the .local share of
school costs in rural areas from
eight to seven mills.

Women’s Day speaker

Mrs. Mona Morgan (above)
will be guest speaker at an In-
ternational Women’s Day Con-
cert. in Pender Auditorium this
coming Sunday, March 13, at 8
p.m. Featured on the program
will be Russian and Chinese
dances, and choral numbers.

committee

Resignation of CCF members
Arthur Turney Leo Nimsick and
William Moore and Liberal mem-
ber Art Laing followed their pro-
test earlier in the session when
the Socreds rammed through a
decision to appoint an additional
Socred member to the sub-com-
mittee, giving the government
party a majority.

Recommendation of the Socred

majority was to increase the
number of seats in the legisla-

House redistribution

blows up

VICTORIA, B.C.

The legislature’s sub-committee on redistribution blew up this
week after a heated debate in the House. CCF and Liberal members
resigned from the sub-committee, charging that recommendations.
brought in by the Socred majority ignored the work of the sub-
committee in. two sessions and reduced its deliberations to a “farce.”

ture from 48 to 52 by making
Burnaby, North Vancouver and

multiple seat pattern of Van-

Peace River into two constitu-

encies.

Premier Bennett
been assailed in the House for
having promised, in a _ public
speech, to give additional repre-
sentation to Peace River, a Socred
stronghold.

has already

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Assesment
increases
worry OAPs

BURNABY, B.C.
North Burnaby branch of the
Old Age Pensioners’ Association

Municipal Act to free senior citi-
zens of the “intolerable” result
of assessment equalization regu
lations which went into effect this

year.

“The new assessment. in some
cases doubled the valuation of
pensioner’s property,” said Mrs.
Flora Scott, secretary of the OAP
branch. “We would like to see
assessments on pensioners’ Prop"
erties pegged at the 1949 level.”

will take the matter up with the
provincial government, and local
groups will discuss their plight
with municipal councils.

In Victoria this week, opposition
‘spokesmen in the legislature €*
pressed fears that higher assess
ments resulting from the equaliza-
tion program will deprive old age
pensioners of their provincial cost
of living bonus and free drugs and
medical treatment

getting the bonus, five percent of
the value of their house and lan
is considered income. New and
higher assessments mean that this
amount can go above the maximum
allowed. As a result the pensioner
would lose his full or partial bonus
and, equally important, lose the
free medical treatment.

Premier W. A. C. Bennett aS .
| sured the House that the govern-
| ment would not allow the act to
apply to present bonus recipi-
|
|

ents but failed to give assurance
that the new assessments would
not apply to new applicants.

Income limits for the means
test are set under the federal act
governing old age pensions and
/it seems likely that many apply-
ing for the $15 a month provil-
cial bonus will in future be pre-
vented from getting it because 0
the higher assessments on theil
homes.

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