ee! ae es ae ‘ VOL. 18, NO. 47 ‘Phone MUtual 5-5288 . “ _ Authorized as second class mail by the Post O1tice Department, Ottawa. VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1959 10° independent. Dubno has done outstanding work in the Ukrainian Canad- jan community over a period of 30 years. He became a resi- dent of Vancouver in 1946, af- | fer serving four years over- | seas with the Canadian Army. _ An active fighter againsi all forms of discrimination, Dub- no says “We must understand more clearly and sincerely re- Spect ihe great diversity of _ heritage and culture. which is i the make-up of our citizens, so _ that we can influence Canada to truly become an indepen- 'dent and peace-advocating na- _tion.’” John Dubno seeking seat on city council John Dubno, provincial secretary of the Associa- tion of United Ukrainian Canadians in B.C., announced this week that he is seeking an aldermanic seat in Van- couver’s civic elections next month. He will run as an JOHN DUBNO Neish says shipyards can be kept humming VICTORIA, B.C. — “Unem- ployment in our shipyards can be solved to the extent that we replace military spending by ' spending on replacing our ob- 'solete weather ships, building coast guard vessels and a Can- adian merchant marine,” says independent aldermanic can- didate Elgin Neish. “The future developmient and well-being of our cities de- pends entirely on winning per- manent world peace, and mun- icipal representatives must speak up for it,” he continued. “Every one of Victoria’s problems is‘directly related to the need to end the cold war arms burden and to use our money from taxes for peace- ful purposes, such as educa- tional aid, hospitals, roads, and industrial development.” INGERS of confidence. Ed ‘Sims jumped to the microphone as soon as the motion to scuttle political ac- tion had been defeated and Jenkins as VLC. aldermanic candidate. Only a handful of diehard right-wingers oppos- ed this motion. Harold Thayer and other prominent CCF members, who had played an unsavory role as supporters of the right-wing faction opposing political ac- tion at the city level, immed- iately switched their tactics and began nominating other candidates for various posit- ions. But as these names had not previously been advanced hy local unions, they were re- ferred back to the political ed- ucation committee for further consideration. Most humiliated man on the platform was Angus McDonald chairman of the political edu- cation committee, who had confidently moved the motion “not to participate in Vancou- ver civic elections this year” after telling delegates that the November 13 meeting of his committee and VLC executive board members “decided not to endorse Sam Jenkins.” Opening the debate, Charles Stewart (Street Railwaymen) reminded delegates that Jen- kins had carried labor’s ban- ner in the civic field on prev- ious occasions and polled more than 22,000 votes last year. “We can have no confidence in CVA candidates — two of whom sought NPA support re- cently,” he said. ‘We must back real labor men, the kind we see in action on picket lin- es—people like Sam Jenkins.” Reg Bullock (Marine Work- ers) charged that the ‘“screen- ing committee” had rejected certain candidates because of “their personal political be- liefs”.and warned that “if this continues to be the criterion we are going to destroy the possibility of effective political action.” ; Sam Brown (Milk Drivers) and George Johnston (Meat Cutters) argued that as only one name’— that of Jenkins —had been advanced, labor Defeating by a vote moved. endorsation of Sam By BERT WHYTE JENKINS: — ROUTE! | | of 91 to 82 right-wing forces which sought to prevent labor from taking part in civic elections this year, Van- couver Labor Council delegates Tuesday night also reversed a pol-« itical education committee recommendation rejecting Sam Jenkins as an aldermanic candidate, and gave him an overwhelming vote SAM JENKINS should abstain from sponsor- ing candidates. Brown said he had made the motion in com-~ mittee not to endorse Jenkins. - When Fred McNeil (Long- shoremen) referred to the com- mittee as the “political action committee,” chairman Angus McDonald interjected to state it should be referred to as “‘the political education commit- tee.” “Very well,” shot back Mc- Neil, “I always knew there was no action in it.” Bill Arland © (Machinists, Auto Workers) charged © that “some people*only’ want candi- dates that suit them” and ad- vocated support for Jenkins. Art O’Keefe (IBEW) wanted to know “What makes Sammy run?” and. claimed. that Jen- kins had “slandered’ VLC of- ficers in Ship and .Shop.. the Marine Workers’ paper. ‘TI call it Slip and Slop,” he said. This remark brought a round of booing as he sat down. “Sam runs because he’s not afraid io run,” answered L. LeBourdais (Oil and Chemi- cal Workers). ““How about the 22,000 voters who supporied Jenkins last year at the polls? Is this little group (the politi- cal education committee) go- ing to have the right to ignore the wishes of these 22,000 voters?” ie “Sam Jenkins has been run- ning for five years,” said Bill Stewart (Marine Workers). “Last year he was one of the two candidates who increased their votes, polling nearly 22,500. The political education committee hasn’t been func- tioning, but Sam has.” VLC. president Lloyd Wha- len called for a vote. When a show of hands left him in doubt, he ordered a standing vote. The count showed the move to scuttle participation in 1959 civic elections had lost 91-82. : Other municipal election candidates backed by council were: Burnaby: Russell Hicks, John Higman, Bert Hill, James Dailey (for council), Courtenay Gray (for school board). Surrey: W. T. Wilson (for council). Endorsation of rate- payer candidate W. A. Fomich (for council). North Vancouver City: Cc. B. Keeley, J. L. LeBourdais (for council). Endorsation of Mrs. W. Henderson (for coun- cil). North Vancouver District: William Moore (for council). New Westminster: Robert Skelly (for council). : Angry delegates demanded to know why certain nomina- tions made by union locals had been rejected, but they receiv- ed little satisfaction from the political education committee chairman. Harry Rankin (above), who polled 23,600 votes last year, has announced that he will again run as an independent candidate for Vancouver school board in the coming civic ‘elections. oo RSA ins