Effie Jones, independent

' Candidate for alderman, fired

the opening shot of her cam-
Paign this week when she dis-
Closed that although assess-

Ments for residential proper-

ties are expected to go up by
10 percent in Vancouver, no
Merease is expected for. com-

| Mercial property in the down-
town area.

She made this charge in a
€tter sent to Vancouver City
Council on Wednesday.

Mrs. Jones pointed out that

_ While there was no increase in
i the mill rate in 1956, home-
| Wners paid heavier taxes as
| “OMpared with 1955 because

of a sharp 'ncrease in the as-
Sessed values.
dn her letter she drew at-

tention to the fact that taxes

doubled in Vancouver between

— 1945 and 1955, yet Vancouver

ae

Can't solve financial crisis by
piling on taxes, declares Effie

fell behind by $45 million
worth of essential improve-
ments and services. She fur-
ther stated that if this trend
continues, the deficit in es-
sential improvements and ser-
vices will be $125 million by
1981.

“Tt must be quite clear,” she
said, “that Vancouver, like
many other municipalities, is
faced with a financial crisis of
acute proportions. The solu-
tion to this problem cannot
be found by continuing to pile
new taxes on already heavily
overtaxed homes.”

Mrs. Jones offered three
proposa’s to meet the situa-

1 City council should press
for a federal-provincial-
municipal conference to
discuss the crisis in muni-
cipal financing. The coun-

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cil to attend such a confer-
ence and to press for
changes that would make
larger revenues available
to municipal governments.

2 Commercial and industri-
al property to be taxed
on the basis of 100 per-
cent of assessed value of
land and 75 percent of im-
provements, in place of
the present formula of
100 percent on land and

50 percent on improve-
ments.

(Mrs. Jones contends
that it is unfair to tax

commercial and industrial
property on the same
basis as residential prop-
erty. She claims that the
change she advocates
would make it possible to
cut taxes on homes, in
1957.)

Council to reject any pro-
posal to exempt the down-
town business _ district
from any general increase
in assessments.

ee)

Mrs. Jones told the council
that in her estimation, such
an exemption could only lead
to further burdens for the
homeowners.

CCF blames
propaganda

COURTENAY, B.C.
U.S. radio and balloon propa-

ganda helped to incite the
counter-revolution in Hun-
gary, in the view of Comox

constituency CCF.

The resolution, to be sent to
the national executive states:

Whereas the present unhap-
py condition of the Hungarian
people is partially due to the
incessant radio and free bal-
loon propaganda of the United
States and allied nations, and,

Whereas the CCF will not
support an armed conflict that
will lead to a world war-to aid
the internal revolt of any
country;

Therefore be it resolved that
this CCF Comox constituency
executive suggests to the na-
tional executive of the CCF
that they take steps to urge
upon the Canadian govern-
ment the necessity of imme-

diate action being taken by ’

the Canadian United Nations
representative that, the United
Nations set up a committee to
study and make recommenda-
tions to the United Nations
Assembly as to the actions of
individual nations in regards
to international propaganda.

\

Ratepayers demand
city ward system

Vancouver ratepayers want a return of the ward
system and an investigation into the salaries paid to mem-
bers of the board of administration.

These demands were adoped last week at a meeting
of the Vancouver Central Council of Ratepayers’ Asso-

ciations.

Mrs. Eve Burns-Miller was
critical of the salaries paid to
members of the board of ad-
ministration:

“According to our informa-
tion, the mayor receives $12,-
000 per year and a judge of the
Supreme Court $15,000 per an-
num. Two of the board mem-
bers receive $20,000 per year.
That’s pretty high.”

In advocating a return to the
ward system, the council de-
clared this would create a
greater interest in civic af-
fairs.

“Most of the NPA candi-
dates are from the west side

of Vancouver” Mrs. Burns-
Miller said. “Ratepayers on
the east side have no one to
go to with complaints or sug-
gestions.

The council also hit at the
B.C. Electric and struck off a
committee to investigate the
lack of public transportation.
The Public Utilities Commis-
sion was branded as being “al-
most non-existent’.

Officers elected were:

President, Dr. Stephen Hal-
om; vice-president, Harry
Rankin; second vice-president,
George F. Moul; secretary-
treasurer, Mrs. Eve Burns-
Miller.

Death takes pioneer
woman labor leader

One of British Columbia's outstanding labor women,
Mrs. Susan Lane Clark, died in Vancouver Holy Family
Hospital on Monday this week, following a long illness.

A resident of Vancouver for over 50 years, Susan
Lane Clark was an active member of the old Socialist

Party of Canada, the short-
lived Federated Labor Party
of the twenties, and from the
time it was founded in 1932,
a member of the CCF. For a
number of years she served
Vancouver as a park commis-
sioner.

In the early years of the
century she took an active
part in the suffragette move-
ment and in other women’s
organizations fighting for el-
ectoral and social equality.
She also played an active part
in the promotion of mothers’
pension and minimum wage
legislation, and in all issues af-
fecting the well being of wom-
en workers.

During the Hungry Thirties
her name was linked with the

struggles of the unemployed
against the’ Bennett and Pat-
tullo governments’ policies.

One of her greatest qualities
was her consistent struggle for
the broadest unity of the la-
bor and progressive move-
ment~around common issues.
By her death the CCF has lost
one of its finest members and
organized labor in B.C. a
staunch fighter.

She is survived by two sons,
Milton and Foster, both of
Vancouver, five grandchild-
ren, and four sisters resident
in the U.S.

Funeral services were held

from Chapman’s Funeral
Chapel on _ Thursday _ this
week.

Vancouver 4, B.C.

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