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Apsara FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1957 increase to keep up with living
: | costs. The government takes

everything it can get from us
but it leaves the big boys plen-
ty. Income tax exemptions
should be raised.

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the Post Office Department, Ottawa

The startling story suppressed by
the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Did atomic fallout
ill Nevada boy?

A, radioactive cloud extends for miles over Nevada. (See story on back page).

retail clerks and fishermen.
Teamster: Security begins

at home — in the home. If we

spent less on armaments we
might get more for ourselves.

I’d feel a lot more secure with

a decent old age pension ahead

of me. ;

Retail Clerk: Just around
the time you need the family
allowance most to help the
kids through school the gov-
ernment cuts it off. I think
family allowances should be
increased and the age extend-
ed to 18 as long as the kids
are in school.

Carpenter: It takes two in-
comes these days to keep a
family. The government could
certainly take some of the
strain. off by raising income
tax exemptions.

The burden of taxation im-
posed by the St. Laurent gov-
ernment. on working people
was
figures given by Maurice Rush,
opposing Liberal Defense Min-
ister Ralph Campney in Van-
couver Centre. The figures
showed that:

@ One third of the income of
the average family goes in
direct and indirect taxes to
federal, provincial and mu-
nicipal. governments.

@ Taxes in 1956 took 32.2 per-
cent of income as compar-
ed to 31.6 in peak war
years.

® Canadian participation in
NATO and the cold. war
arms race has cost $100 a
year for every man, wom-
an and child in the country
since 1951.

tax policies were most frequently raised.

. Among the trade unionists questioned were woodworkers, steelworkers. car-
penters, teamsters, printers,

Here are some typical ans-

Fishermen sponsor
all-cendidate meet

An all - party candidates’
meeting will be held Tuesday,
June 4, in the Hastings Au-
ditorium, 828 East Hastings at
8 p.m., sponsored by Vancouver
Fishermen and Shoreworkers
Local. executives.

Each party with candidates
in Vancouver ridings has been
invited to send a spokesman.

illustrated last week in.

ES TAKE THIRD
JF AVERAGE INCOME

The St. Laurent government’s failure to raise income tax exemptions,
to increase old age pensions and family allowances in proportion to increased
living costs — these appear as major election campaign issues to most working

In a sampling of opinion coriducted by the Pacific Tribune this week among
trade unionists, who were asked the question, ‘““What do you think is the most im-
portant issue in this election?’ these expressions of the Liberal government's

unequal

e

Rush called for a capital
gains tax and a surtax on cor-
poration profits, at the same
time urging higher income tax
exemptions for working people
in the lower brackets.

“The first $3,000 for married
men with dependents should
be exempt from income tax
as well as the first $2,000 for
Single men and women and
married women,” he said.

“There should also be a
$500 exemption for each de-
pendent child and $700 for
h dependent adult.”

RALPH

MAURICE RUSH

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