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Thousands of names repeated,
wrongly placed on voters list

have moved to other coun-
tries. Most shocking fact, how-
ever, is the number of names
which appear several times on the
list. This is a form of “‘padding”’
which could lead to wholesale
corruption on voting day.

‘Orville Braaten, Labor Repre-
sentation Committee candidate in
Vancouver Centre, wrote Premier

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Byron Johnson this week demand-
ing that the election be postponed
pending a complete investigation
into the voters list. (Braaten’s
own name appears twice on the
list, his wife’s name three times,
and his election agent’s twice! )

“In the past two weeks I have
conducted an investigation and
find that the list in my constitu-
ency does not conform to the
actual situation,’ Braaten wrote
Premier Johnson, “AS an eX
ample, of 400 letters sent to resi-
dents in Vancouver Centre whose
names appear on the voters list,
over 80 were returned marked
‘Not Known Heer.’ Further, IT have
found names on the list of people
who died some years ago... -

“The discrepancy in Vancouver
Centre is merely an example of
what is happening all over the
province, and it is my opinion
that you, as premier of the prov-
ince, should immediately postpone
the election until the voters ‘list
has been completely revised, in or-
der to prevent the possibility of a
colossal fraud on the people of
British Columbia.”

Braaten will reveal further
evidence of padding of the
voters list at. a mass rally in
Pender Auditorium this coming
Sunday at 8 p.m. The meeting *
will be chaired by Jack Steven-
son, business agent for the
Carpenters Union.

Following Braaten’s exposure
of the wholesale ‘‘padding’’ of
the voters list, the Pacific Tribune
made a quick check in several
areas of the city. Here are sample
instances which indicate how
completely inaccurate the voters
list is:

Fifteen voters cards were sent
to 2034 Bayswater Street, but only
six residents at that address are
entitled to vote. Of the others,
one, William Anderson Sheekey,
has been living in Scotland for
the past three years; Gweneth
Blsie Sheekey moved away two
years ago and is listed again in
another polilng livision (No. 424,
Polling Division No. 141, “Bur-
rard); Harry and Lydia Evans
moved more than two years ago;
John and Mary Kosloski moved
two years: ago; Frances Jean
Haigen moved .two and one-half
years ago; Lexa May Fife moved
more than two years ago; and
Joseph Ossowski moved six
months ago. (Turn back to photo-
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ver-Burrard. )

Or take a Jook at Vancouver
East. A Mary Hellen Gallaher,
teacher, appears three times on
the voters list: as Mary Hellen
Gallaher, ,teacher, 5114 Ross
Street, No. 272, Poll 126; Mary
Hellen Gallaher, 5059 Prince Al-
bert, No. 125, Poll 128; and as
Ella Gallacher, 5114 Ross Street,
No. 270, Poll 126. : :

Douglas Jung (civil servant)
and Ruth Jung (clerk). are listed
as living at 5038 Sherbrook, al-
though they left that address at
least two years ago. But voting
cards arrived for them.

- Voting cards arrived, too, for
Allen and Florence Lyons, 1312
East 41st Avenue, though the
couple moved away a year ago.

There are at least 25,000 “er-
rors’? — and probably twice
that number — in the voters
list compiled by Liberal govern-
ment employees. These ‘‘dead’’
votes, if improperly used by live
voters, could easily, determine
the course of the election.

In a weak attempt to “explain”
the voters list scandal, Vancouver
Registrar of, Voters Harry Den-
nison this week admitted - that
“any one who didn’t notify us of
an-address change is bound to be
on two lists’ and argued that ‘‘our
primary job is to make certain no
qualified voter is left off the list.”

Trying to answer charges that
duplicated names could permit a
voting scandal, Dennison said his
office had a “‘foolproof’”’ system to
catch offenders, Persons voting
illegaly are liable to a fine of not
less than $200 and imprisonment
—with or without hard labor —
of not less than one year. But
old-line party political machines
in the past have never been de-
terred by such laws in their vote-
stealing operations,

Oust Duplessis

Quebec issue

MONTREAL
“Defeat Duplessis! Out with the
American trusts! Elect labor and
progressive representatives to the
Quebec iegislature!’’ In_ those
words, Gui Caron, provincial lead-
er of the Labor-Progressive party,
summarized the program which
will’be put forward by LPP candi-
dates in the forthcoming provin-
cial elections. Premier Duplessis
announced last week that Quebec
would'go to the polls July 16.
Speaking at the enthusiastic
pre-election conference held in
Montreal last week, Caron stated:
“The defeat of the Duplessis gov-
ernment is not a vague dream. It
is an immediate possibility.”
Attended by some 200 club dele-
gates, the conference chose four
LPP candidates: Gui Caron, prov-
incial leader, for the Montreal-St,
Louis constituency; Camille Dion-
ne, for Montreal-St. Marie; Mrs,
Jeannette Brunelle, for Montreal-
St. Jacques; Norman Nerenberg,
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veteran CCF member for Burnaby
and again a candidate in that con-
stituency, was one of the CCF
MLA’s in the last legislature who
signed the appeal for a five-power
peace pact,

CCF heads.
answered by

LPP letter

Maurice Rush and Steve Endi-
cott, LPP candidates for Vancou-
ver East, who recently wrote Har-
old Winch and Arthur Turner,
CCF candidates, offering to with-
draw their own names from the
ballot if the CCF standard bearers
would take a stand for peace, this
week ~seleased their reply to the
Winch-Turner letter.

“While we welcome their state-
ment that they stand for peace,
the letter of Mr. Winch and Mr.
Turner in the main defends the
present right-wing policy of the
CCF, which is one of support for
St. Laurent’s foriegn policy, and
which means giving support to the
Truman Doctrine, NATO and the
arths program,’ said Rush and
Endicott.

“We did not offer the CCF in
Viaancouver East a ‘deal’ as the
daily press reported. We merely
put forward a proposal which we
are certain ‘has the support of the
vast majority of people. We
simply asked the CCF candidates

{to take a stand for negotiations

between the major powers for a
pact for peace, for agreement on
arms reduction and for trade with
all countries.

“We said,” added Rush and
Enidcott, “that if they would take
a public stand on these questions
as did Premier Douglas of Sas-
katchewan, that we would with-
draw our names from the ballot
and do whatever we could among
our supporters to help elect them,

“How can any candidate who
claims to speak for labor fail to
take a stand on these issues which
today are at the heart of ‘all the
problems facing the people?”

Arrest of
Duclos hit.

TORONTO

“Profound indigation” at the
arrest of Jacques Duclos, French
Communist leader, is expressed i? .
a cable sent by the Labor-Progres
sive party, over signature of its
national leader, Tim Buck, to the
French government this week.

“American-inspired attempts a
silencing the patriotic opposition
of the French people to militariz
ation and fascism wil] not su¢-
ceed, Canadian workers express
their solidarity demanding i@-
mediate release of Duclos, Stil
and. other fighters for peace all
independence,” the cable stated

(In London last week, the Daily
Worker commented editoriallY
that nothing could more clearly
illustrate “how the American Wa!
policy is defended by the most '@
actionary elements. in all cou
‘tries’ than the arrest of Jacques
Ducls, ‘who .remained in Paris
during the war and organized Te
sistance work of the Communis
party” by Antoine Pinay, prese2’
French premier, who ‘was a mei
ber of the national council set 0?
with .the Nazis — Marshal P&
tain.’’)

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