has hoisted their- taxes from one
to -six hundred percent, giving
nothing in return.

The farmers, meeting with Dr.
Weir in Legion Hall on August 21,
scored the unjustness of the school
tax proportion that had. been
placed upon rural areas. They

scorned as ‘picayune’ the promises
of ‘relief’ made by Premier Hart
back in June. They lambasted
the ‘wait and see’ apologies hand-
ed out by cabinet ministers in
recent weeks. They expressed
strong doubts of government ‘sin-
cerity,’ and told Dr. Weir that,

Farmers score gov't on school
tax, demand legislature meet

KAMLOOPS, B.C.—Dr. G. M. Weir, provincial minister of education, sat through a
four-hour session here with some 100 representatives of the B.C. Beef Growers Associa-
tion, B.C, Federation of Agriculture, Vancouver Island Ratepayers Association and other
farmers’ organizations, and heard them rip apart his government’s school tax policy which

“the government is losing friends
—and fast.”

Provincial Assessor W. Turn-
bull was howled down by the au-
dience when he tried to explain
that “assessors simply levied taxes
for the amount of education money
requisioned by the school boards.”
The farmers also made it clear
that they did not intend to be
side-tracked in their efforts for
tax readjustments by having to
wait for the report of a six-man
commission set up by the Coali-
tion «to inquire into the’ school

tax issue.

Said Dr, G. M. Weir:

Sentinel’:

meeting are “not all bull.”

tax;

to paying an unjust proportion.

ernment; | am only one member of the cabinet.”
Said the farmers, as reported by ‘Kamloops

JACK KOSTER of Clinton: In the last election I drove 100
miles to vote for Louis LeBourdais (Liberal MLA for Cariboo) and
then drove 100 miles back to my cow-camp to pick up a bunch of
eattle at four in the morning. Now I wouldn’t drive across the
stree: to vote for my brother or sister if they were supporting the
government that put out these (pointing to 141 tax-bills for his B.C.
Cattle Company). Many landowners were sold out in the depres-
sion days for taxes a lot less than these God-awful levies .. .
You're a mighty. pretty talker, Dr.. Weir, but... .

HARRY MARRIOTT of Big Bar: One of the members of Clin-
ton Cattlemen’s Association said last night, “Unless these school-
taxes are changed I would vote for a yellow dog with a red rag
round its neck before I would vote for the present government.
It’s 2 fool policy to stab your friends, Dr. Weir.

©. H. PITTS of Ashcroft: The whole range population of the
Cariboo believes it has been “sold down the river.”

A. D. CLELLAND of Saltair: I hope Dr. Weir’s promises to this

I. P. WILSON of Kamloops: A lot of us have lost a lot of faith
in the government. We're tired of getting the “run-around.”

L. P. GUICHON of Quilchena: Everybody should pay school
the land should not be saddled: ;

WRIAN K. deP. CHANCE of Douglas Lake: Low revenue-pro-
ducing land can’t carry more than: a two-mfll school levy.

W. T. CAMERON representing B.C. Fruit Growers Association:
Our membership, of 3800 is entirely behind the B.C. Beef Cattle
Growers Association’s submission for the relief of the land.

. RUPERT DUCK of Holmwood: Why should one segment of
the population be singled out for a school tax?

«A. D. CLELLAND: The Vancouver Island Ratepayers Associa-
tion gives its entire support to ‘the B.C. Beef Cattle Growers Asso-
ciation’s representations regarding school tax.

P. E. FRENCH of Vernon: The B.C. Federation of Agriculture,
of which I am president, is right behind the cattlemen’s brief. The
rural people don’t object to paying school tax but they do object

“1 can't commit the gov-

Jining the disastrous effects of the

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A Treat,on Sunday—
Film and Forum every Sunday,
8 p.m. West End Hall, 1332
Davie. St. Everybody welcome.
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Dance—
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Social— ss
Welcoming delegates to St.
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.

They demanded that the cabi-
net set a deadline of November 30
for delivery of the commhission’s
findings, otherwise . . . and there
was a lot of political dynamite
in that ‘otherwise’ for the Coali-
tion government.

Last June, at the annual meet-
ing of the B.C. Beef Growers As-
sociation, the cattlemen submitted
an extensive detailed brief to the
Hart-Anscomb government, out-

new school tax policies in rural
areas, proposing a new basis of
taxation and advocating that the
largest percentage of education
costs be met out of consolidated
revenue.

The cattlemen unanimously ad-
opted a resolution demanding a
special session of the legislature
to deal with the issue. Text of the
resolution, again endorsed at the
Kamloops meeting, follows:

WHEREAS this meeting is unani-
mously of the opinion that the
school taxes as levied under the
presert act are inequitable and
create great injustice in the
rural school districts:

BE IT RESOLVED we protest to
the government against this un-
just, unfair, undemocratic, in-
equitable and overburdening tax
levied against farmlands under
the school act, and suggest the
government amend the act to
provide for the payment of the
actual basic cost of education
out of the original five-mill levy
and general revenue or, in the
alternative, that a retail sales
tax be levied to cover the actual
basic cost of education. The
government is also hereby asked
to include in the ‘basic cost’
the maintenance of dormitories
and the salaries of. supervision;
and also to pay toward the cost

of establishing of dormitories.
This association also hereby
calls for a special session of
the legislature to consider these
suggestions, and any others they
may have, before the end of
August 1947, and to amend the
act accordingly.

New prices hike
announced by PB

A recent announcement by
the Prices Board indicates a
price hoist on a whole series
of canned and bottled foods in
the near future. All tomato
products, sauces, corn, pears,
peaches are now ‘decontrolled.’

When the new ‘pack’ of
canned foods appear on _ the
shelves sharp price increases
are likely, since the packers
and wholesalers are already
talking about the ‘umavoidabil-
ity of price increases due to
higher labor costs.’

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Hungarian vote gives
big lead to Communists

BUDAPEST—Final and official results of last Sunday's

parliamentary election demonstrated a sharp political turm
to the left which placed the Communist Party as the largest

political party in Hungary.

In the second free election in
nearly three decades (Hungary
was under the Horthy dictator-
ship between the two world wars
and held its first free election
in November, 1945) close’ to
6,000,000. citizens flocked to the
polls to cast their ballots for one
of 10 political parties seeking
office.

Final returns showed the Con:
munjsts leading with over one
million votes, followed by the
Democratic peoples, Smallholders,
Social Democrat and Hungarian
Independence parties.

The Smallholders, party of the
discredited renegade Ferenc
Nagy, held the largest number of
seats in the coalition government,
but lost ground sharply last Sun-
day. Nagy’s treachery in conspir-
ing with foreign powers against
his own people had a deterior-
ating effect on the Smallholders
and cost them tens of thousands
of votes.

Elections were held quietly in
most places, although three Com-
munists were murdered in one
locality. A full investigation will
be conducted to determine if the
slayings were linked with the
election.

Charges and counter-charges. of
“repeat” voting were hurled by
all political parties. It appears
that if multiple voting did occur,
it did not involve more than
20,000 votes and could not have
affected the result in the slight-
est degree.

Today’s returns were announced
as official and final, though of-
ficials said it was possible that
a few out-of-the-way hamlets
might still remain to be heard
from.

In the November, 1945,. election
the Communist Party won 17
percent of the parliamentary
seats with a total vote of 765,000.
This time they won’ 18 percent
with a total vote of 1,082,597.

The Smallholders, who won 51
percent of the seats in the last
election, dropped to slightly ove!
12 percent this time. ;

The last government, which
remains in office until a new one
is formed, has ministers from
four parties: Communist, Small-
holders, Social Democrat and
National Peasant.

American “observers” who havé
been active in trying to foment
discord among the _ oppositio®
parties, are now mooting the ide
that non-Communist government
ministers should resign in PIO
test against the growing streM
of the Communist Party. They
express alarm at the fact that
more than one of every §
Hungarian citizens voted the
Communist ticket yesterday, 4°
pite American and other foreis?
pressure on the internal affairs
of Hungary. Charges of “fraud
and “Communist trickery” emal

ate from this group.

How they voted

*Communists ........ 1,082,597
Democratic Peoples 805,450
*Smallholders ....... 7,
*Social Democrat .... 732178
Hungarian Independ
Once hoe des 718,198
*National Peasant 435,170
Independent Hupr
garian Party 256,396
Radical Party ...... 93,278
Christian Women’s
Gam: rics See 67, sie
Citizens Democratic 48:05
Motalir st. cco e a eae 996,186
nm re

If the present coalitio 62
mains, it will have a total of t ‘
of the 420 seats in Parliame?
or 50.2 percent. ¢ nt

*Members of the pres?
coalition government.

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Rail workers

refuse to

move cars for Swift's

TORONTO—The strike

of 4,000 Swift Canadian a

ers was still in effect this week in six plants in as

cities across the Dominion.

At the Toronto plant Tuesday, members of the

adian Brotherhood of Railway
Employees (CCL), supported the
striking CIO packinghouse , work-
ers by refusing to re-route two
freight cars in the Swift yards.

Gordon Monday, assistant sup-
erintendant of the Swift plant,
was refused. admission through
picket. lines yesterday morning
when he arrived on the scene via
taxicab. The strikers say that Mr.
Monday usually comes to the plant
on 4 streetcar and that yesterday’s
‘experiment’ was an- attempt “to
provoke an incident.”

The strike, which was touched
off when the company locked-out
150 employees at its New West-
minster, B.C., plant and “suspend-
ed” 12 in Toronto, was preceded
by a breakdown in wage negotia-
tions some 10 days ago.

At the Swift’s New Westminster
plant the picket line remains solid

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