strongly protest your recent an-
nouncement in the legislature
that the Social Credit govern-
ment will give no consideration
to the Vancouver School Board
request that 50 percent of school
construction costs be borne by
the provincial government.

“Vancouver’s school building |.

program is predicated on the
pledge from your governmemnt
that it would meet 50 percent of
school construction costs. The at-
tempt of your government to;
back out of this pledge would
saddle Vancouver taxpayers with
an additional $2,125,000 in the
current school building program.

“I should like to draw’ your
attention to the fact that in the
recent Vancouver Centre by-
election, Premier Bennettt pro-
mised relief for Vancouver tax-

' payers and said that Vancouver

could expect at least $1,000,000
in additional assistance from the
provincial government.

“Your announcement in the
legislature indicates that Pre-
mier Bennett’s statement was
sheer election demogogy and
Was intended only to influence
the Vancouver-Centre vote.
This is the only conclusion
citizens can draw from your
repudiation of WVancouver’s
claim to a 50 percent share for
school costs.

“Your statement again indi-
cates that the policy being pur-
sued by the.Social Credit gov-
ernment is to shift the public
debt on municipalities so that
the provincial government could
claim credit for cutting B.C.’s
debt. .

“I draw to your attenion that
Vancouver's tax levy has doubled
in the Jast ten years and civic
debt has grown by leaps and
bounds. Your announcement in
the legislature will further the
financial crisis facing Vancouver.

dies at 73

Death of Frank Jones in
Shaughnessy Military Hospital
on Monday this week severed a
life-long partnership in the pro-
gressive movement that began
during the First World War when
he met and married a Welsh

school teacher, Effie Jones, vet-
eran Vancouver civic leader.

Frank Jones who was 73 years
of age, left his native Wales
for Canada in 1903 and returned
as a member of the Canadian
Expeditionary Forces during the
First World War.

An electrical worker by trade,
he worked first for the B.C. Elec-
tric and held membership in the
International Brotherhood of

’ Electrical Workers for 24 years.

He was an employee of the B.C.
Telephone Company for 32 years
and was a life member of the
Telephone Pioneers of America.

He is survived by his wife,
one daughter, Mrs. Margaret
Auld, and one grand-daughter

Elgin Ruddell, Civic Reform
vice-president, spoke at funeral
services held in Glenhaven
Memorial Chapel on Wednesday.

i Rush demands gov't
honor election pledge

Demand that the provincial government pay the full 50 percent of Vancouver
school construction costs as the first step toward bringing relief to overtaxed homeowners
has been made by Vancouver LPP secretary Maurice Rush.

In a letter to Education Minister Ray Williston last week, Rush said:
“On behalf of the Greater Vancouver Committee of the Labor-Progressive party I

“Rather than heap addition-
al burdens on the already over-
taxed homeowners the Labor-
Progressive party maintains
that the policy of senior gov-
ernments should be in the
other direction — namely, to
give greater financial aid to

municipalities for education
and other services.

“We strongly urge reconsider-
ation of your statement. We ask
that as a first step toward aiding
Vancouver that the 50 percent
share of school construction costs
be restored.”

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TUPPER REPORT

general such

cases?

contemplate in

No convincing evidence was
placed on* the Tupper Commis-
sion record to establish the cause
of one‘suicide and one attempted
suicide by senior police officers.
Such evidence is vitally essen-
tial to police morale and integri-
ty, and to restore public confi-
dence (a valuable asset) in police
administration and law enforce-
ment. In this respect, Attorney—
General Robert Bonner should
fill in these important gaps left
by his commission.

The Tupper Commission’s in-
terim report settled nothing be-
tween an NPA-dominated city
council and the police commis-
sion on the issue of police organ-
ization and costs.

The Vancouver Sun editorial of
January 30 describes these NPA
aldermen as regarding the com-
mission’s report as “so much
waste paper,” and concludes with
the observation that “it is re-
grettable that Royal Commission-
er Tupper was content to leave
the situation to the ebb and flow
of civic politics.”

Since that opinion is wide-
ly shared, what recommendations
has Attorney-General Bonner for
breaking through this status quo
of NPA civic maladministration?

(On Monday this week Bert
Price, Social Credit MLA for
Vancouver-Burrard, raised in the
legislature the need of the pro-
vincial government to “do some-
thing” which would put an end
to NPA rule in Vancouver.)

In studying the $50,000 re-
port of his commission, Attor-
ney-General Bonner’ should
keep Price’s suggestion in mind,
Since the Vancouver Non-Par-
tisan Association, through its
elected representatives, while
not mentioned in the Tupper
report, in the minds of the
public is primarily responsible .
for the sorry mess!

For $50,000 the taxpayers are
entitled to something more than
words. Senior police officers like
Deputy-chief Ambrose, Detec-
tives Horton, Lamont and others,
named in the course of the Tup-
per “hearings”—and promoted to
new police positions during the
same period — are entitled to
more than'a cursory whitewash
by a commission which closed
its hearings without having heard
the principal in the case, Walter
Mulligan.

If, as the Vancouver Sun con-
tends, ‘and most people are in
full agreement, the Tupper “in-
terim” report is just so much
“waste paper,” then Attorney-
General Bonner has a prime re-
sponsibility on his hands: to as-
semble the evidence gathered
(and still to be gathered) which
will give Vancouver police ad-

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DEADLINE FOR COMING EVENTS

ministration a clean bill of health
instead of a whitewash — and,
the public the assurance that its

*

COMMISSIONER TUPPER
$50,000 worth of “waste paper”

money is being spent to good
purpose.

To this end Attorney-General
Bonner has only one course—
to bring Mulligan back to give
evidence under oath, without
which’ the Tupper Commission
remains nothing more than a
costly farce, designed primarily
to hoodwink the public, and as
a cover-up for political manou-
vering and chicanery.

Week in the House

By BERT WHYTE °

Delegations force
issues on fo floor

}

CCF members have sniped at

VICTORIA, B.C. the Socred government’s policy

Struggle is the essence of
politics, but as the debate on the
Throne Speech droned into its
third week (Premier Bennett is
determined to end it this week
and get on with the budget) it
has become evident that many of
the vital issues facing the people
of B.C. won’t receive serious at-
tention unless public pressure
forces both government and
opposition members to deal with
them. rs

It is significant that some of

these key questions have already
been raised by delegations which
have lobbied the cabinet and
MLAs.
_ Monday this week a large peace
delegation scoured the corridors,
buttonholing Socred, CCF, Liberal
and independent members urging
support for the abolition of atomic
weapons and general disarma-
ment.

Last week a United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union dele-
gation raised the contentious
“fish and power” issue with the
cabinet, asking legislation to bar
hydro-electric development on
rivers rich in salmon ‘production.

A Vancouver League for
Democratic Rights lobby pressed
for civil rights legislation. Old
age pensioners asked for an in-
crease in their monthly pittances.
and so on.

This pressure from outside has
resulted in bringing these issues,
ignored in the Throne Speech,
into the House debate. Anyone
doubting the value of delegations
and petitions has only to sit in
the gallery for a day or two to
have such doubts abolished for-
ever. MLA’s are extremely sen-
sitive to public pressure, especial-
ly when it comes from voters in
their own ridings.

It must be said, however, that
the most important question of
all—the giveaway of British
Columbia’s natural resources to

of selling our future and indepen-
dence for the sake of a quick
buck for the treasury today, but
they have failed to go deeply into
the problem or advance a
rounded-out alternative. No plan
for the industrial development of
B.C. (as outlined in the LPP
brief presented to MLAs during
the last session) has been ad-
vanced by the CCF. Instead, CCF
speakers have in the main, con-

cluded their attacks on Socred
giveaways by demanding “a bet-_
ter deal.”

What is needed is not “‘better
deals” but new policies—policies
to safeguard the people’s heritage,
and to develop our natural re-
sources for the benefit of our
people, while protecting our in-
dependence and blocking foreign
domination, both economic and
political.

CCW secretary
on visit to city

Mrs. Marge Ferguson, national
secretary of the Congress of Can-
adian Women, now on a cross-
country tour, will arrive in Van-
couver on February 6, it was
announced this week.

During her stay here she has
been invited to present the views
of her organization on a national .
health plan for Canadians, con-
tained in a brief submitted to.
the Conference of Federal and
Provincial Ministers of Health.

A luncheon has been arranged
for Saturday, February 11, 12.30 >
p.m. in Pender Auditorium. Mrs.
Ferguson and Mrs. Mona Worth,

, B.C. delegate to the World Con-

U.S. trusts, and particularly the} gress of Mothers last summer,

giveaway of our

hydro and, will be guest speakers.

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