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Kitsilano. owners
win 1-year hoist
on rooming ban

Vancouver City Council split 4-4 but Mayor Fred Hume cast
the deciding ballot Tuesday afternoon this week to give the contentious
housekeeping accomodation ban a one-year hoist. More than 100

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homeowners and tenants from Kitsilano were present in No. | com-

mittee room to cheer the verdict.
A sharp move by wily old Alderman G. C. Miller almost cost the
irate homeowners the decision they desired. When the session began
Ald. Miller was elected chairman. .
Then Mayor Hume entered the
room and Miller attempted to
hand over the chair, but Hume
said “Carry on.” This gave the
mayor a vote and deprived Mil-
ler—a bitter opponent of the plan
to give the ban a hoist—of his,
except in the event of a tie vote.

Under constant heckling from
the audience, Ald. Miller threat-
ened to “leave the! chair” just
prior to the vote. “We want
Mayor Hume as chairman,” cried
some of the homeowners. Miller
“abdicated” forthwith and Hume
was forced to take over his duties.

When the vote on the amend-
ment to the motion ban—calling
for a one-year tabling of the is-
sue—was taken, Miller was able
to vote against it, splitting coun-
cil 44. (Had he been in the
chair and Hume in a position to
vote, the hoist move would have
carried immediately, 5-3.)

“You’ve fouled your own nest,”
Miller shouted at’ the audience.

“The mayor has the right to
cast the deciding vote,” corrected
the city clerk.

“TI am voting for the hoist,”
declared Hume, and the delega-
tion applauded loudly.

Prior to taking of the vote
council members engaged in acri-
monious debate on the issue, but
refused to allow any Kitsilano

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residents to voice their opinions

“You spoke your piece last
week,” Ald. Miller testily told
Mrs. Florence Dorland, president
oi the General Gordon Homeown-
ers AsSociation, and leader of the
community’s battle against the
housekeeping. ban.. But Mrs. Dor-
land and other members refused
to keep silent, and several times
Miller threatened to have the ser-
geant-at-arms remove individuals
from the room.

Supporting the homeowners
were Aldermen J. D. Cornett,
Halford Wilson, Birt Showler and
Anna Sprott. In favor of the ban
on housekeeping rooms
area were Aldermen A. W. Fisher,
G. C. Miller, A.
R. K. Gervin.

Ald. Fisher (who has announc-
ed he will not seek re-election)
was strongly in favor of the ban
being enforced. “The present
housekeeping rooms are illegal,”
he argued. “If we give the issue
a hoist, they'll still be operating
illegally. Are we going to have
town planning or not? Most of
these people here today are land-
lords who went into the house-

. keeping business illegally to make
money. They’re not concerned
with the welfare of tenants so
much as they are in making
profits from them.” »

“Tf the ban goes through and
is. enforced, 200 or 300 «families
will be turned out into the street,”

answered Ald. Cornett. “Are you
DRILLS prepared to find shelter for

fs them?”
already war tragedies, with many Mayor Hume, obviously in a

of them already suffering from
diseases of the nervous system. °

If these bomb drills afforded
the slightest possible protection
for the children we would be the
first to endorse them.

But they do not.

Mothers . . . fathers . .. these
are our children. The only hope
for light in a world of darkness.
Their days should be days of
laughter and tender happiness,

Mothers fathers . . . let
us keep this heritage of the
young inviolate: let us scotch
this iniquity in their midst.

mellow mood, tried to make every-
body happy. “We're here to do
the best we can for all,” he said,
waving his pipe affably in the
general direction of the delega-
tion. “Now, we all know the
shortage of housing existing in
our city, so I suggest we give the
matter a hoist for one year.”

Ald. Cornett made this an am-
endment to the motion and after
further heated debate and Mil-
ler’s calculated ruse, the vote was
finally taken and decided in favor
of Hume’s plan by his tie-split-
ting “aye.”

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Peace lobbyists see Ontario atemiex

Some of the 200 lobbyists who took part in the Ontario Lobby Commiittee For Peace and People’s

Welfare*are shown outside the Ontario parliament buildings in Toronto after they

had interviewed

Premier Leslie Frost and some 20 MPP’s,. (See story on page2.)

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obbies to city council,

provincial legislature

British Columbia Peace Council, backed by a mandate from 87,000 citizens who have signed the

World Peace Pact Petition, has announced plans for renewed effort to win a pact of peace among the
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five great powers.

“Our campaign will not conclude until the five great powers have actually signed a peace pacts
states a press release issued by the Council’s executive.

“That world public opinion, given organized expression by the petition campaign in all countries
is already bemg felt on a governmental level, is proved by the fact that both the Conservatives and the

Labor party are making the ques-
tion of an East-West meeting an
election issue.

“Our task in British Columbia,
is ‘to take the whole idea of a
pact of peace (as opposed to the
false slogan of peace by force)
into the very ranks of thé people
and into the heart of public life.

- “When this idea has been fully
discussed and understood by the
people, we will achieve more than
discussion on a governmental
level. We will achieve a pact of
peace.” :

On Tuesday, October 16 at 2
p.m. a delegation from Vancouver
Peace Assembly will appear be-
fore city council to ask endorsa-
tion of the principle of a pact of
peace among the five great pow-
ers. é ;

The council is also laying plans
to give full support to the great
national peace trek to Ottawa on
November 11. British Columbia
MP’s are being interviewed by
delegations of citizens to ask

them to support the peace pact

proposals.

A provincial peace mission will
also be sent to Victoria this fall
to place the petition before mem-
bers of the legislature. Plans
are being made to interview

’ MLA’s in their constituencies be-

fore they leave for Victoria.
The council also plans a series
of leaflets explaining the idea of

a peace pact to special groups of

citizens. One leaflet will be ad-
dressed particularly to organized
workers, pointing out that the
only solution to the hardships of
inflation, caused by rearmament,
is a pact of peace. :

Another, addressed: particularly
to mothers of school age children,
will explain that the only defense
against the atom bomb is peace,
and that atomic drills in the
schools can only serve to create
tension in children. —

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Gov't may appeal |
Dillane sentence —

Attorney-General Gordon Wismer promised this week that he 3
would make a decision “in the very near future” regarding sentence pass@
on John Joseph Dillane, who was fined $250 and kept three hours 12
jail by Mr. Justice A. M. Manson after being found guilty of man
slaughter in the skidroad death of a Polish logger, Stanley Deren.

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Wismer made his promise to /— ; :

a delegation from the B.C. a 5 %

branch of the Canadian Polish arine or ers a
win support in

He further added that
“every effort will be made to pun-
B.C, Federation of Labor and
Greater Vancouver and Lowe

ish illegal discrimination.” (Deren

was knocked te the pavement by
Mainland Labor Council (CCL)
this week inserted large advel

Dillane after the latter had in-
terrupted a ‘conversation the Pol-
tisements in daily papers nets
urging all trade unions to ‘de-

ish worker was having with a

woman companion to demand, ,

“Why don’t you speak English?”)

On Saturday last week Col.

fend the 40-hour week” and throw
full support behind the Marin’
Workers and Boilermakers Union ‘

in its struggle against wood

Eric Pepler, deputy attorney-gen-

eral, met with a protest delega-
boatyard operators and Labor R&
lations Board.on this issue. ee

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tion of ‘Vancouver and Victoria
Slavs and promised he would re-
commend an appeal against the
sentence. The Slav committee
ealled Manson’s judgment “shame-
ful and unprecedented” and said
Dillane’s sentence “should be at
least three years.”

In a letter to Wismer the Can-
adian Slav Committee declared.
that “the trial judge was‘remiss
in his duties and showed rare
-solicitude.”

While the Canadian Polish Con-
‘gress delegation asked the gov-
ernment “to protect the right of
the Canadian citizens or Canadian
immigrants to express themselves
in a way and in a language they
feel fit” it also indulged in some
red-baiting by arguing that “the
Communist press in Warsaw is
using the Deren case as a basis
for attacking British justice.”

The Marine Workers were 9°
certified by the LRB in 10 woode?
boatyards because their member
refused to work overtime exceP’
in cases of emergency. GN

“An illegal lock-out is still ine
effect today against the um

at Celtic Shipyards, Nelson Broth, a

ers and the Vancouver Shipya™
said the ad.

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Trouble flared on the pick?
line at Celtic Shipyards last Wer
when Local 506 members tried oe
crash a Marine Workers pick® ve
line. One picketer was knoc® |.
down and injured by a car. Late
fin injunction forced the unit
to withdraw its picket line,
on Tuesday this week wives
‘union members took their pl@

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 5, 1951 — PAGE °