RUSSIAN NATIONAL HOCKEY TEAM. Photo shows the
Soviet Union’s hockey team in a practice game before
_ leaving for their tour of Canada, U.S.A. and Finland. The
team) ended their Canadian tour this week with a game

in Trail, B.C. Wednesday night. Their skill and teamwork

Postpone transit increase
urged in public protests

The B,C, Provincial Executive
of the Communist Party called
this week for immediate action to
compel the B,C, cabinet to post-
Pone implimentation of the bus
fare hike, ‘‘The very future of
Public transit inthe Greater Van-
_couver and Victoria areas is at
Stake,’’ Provincial: Leader, Nigel
Morgan warned,

‘The fare hike scheduled to
take effect January first will be
ruinous as far as the eleven
affected municipalities are con-
cerned,”’

It will not only create severe
hardship for many. of those who

POPE PAUL VI, in his Christmas mes-
Sage this week, urged warld leaders
to stop the arms race and devote part
of the funds saved for a fight on
Poverty. He called for "patient negoti-
ations” to avoid war.

have depended on the buses, If
it goes into effect, it will also
mean a tremendous boost in civic
taxes to build freeways and
bridges, and provide the street
widening and parking lots neces-
sary to accommodate the turn to
private auto transportation,”’

Morgan said, *‘The increase
will not solve the problem either,
because a fare hike means adrop
in passengers carried;. further
service cuts which in turn mean
further revenue losses and of
course to complete the vicious
circle, still further fare in-
creases,’’

‘¢It would be cheaper to sub-
sidize public transit that pro-
vide the hundreds of millions in-
volved in providing for private
auto traffic and parking, Destruc-
tion of our public transit system
will be under way ifthis fare hike
is allowed,”’

‘Premier Bennett’s initial
position of refusing to hear the
appeal against the P,U,C, ruling
of the eleven municipalities ef-
fected, and his statement that he
‘does not even wantto discuss the
matter’ was an act of unparalleled
arrogance,’ he charged, ‘‘And
to say (as he does now) we'll
welcome discussion, but only
after I return from my Okana-

.gan vacation January 11th, ele-

ven days after the increase has
been in effect, is meaningless,

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months or a year?

real, tangible way.

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has won acclaim from hockey circles in Canada. Up to
game time in Trail, they had won all their games except
one, which was a tie.
_ 1965 World Hockey Championships on March 14.

Canada will meet Russia in the

ETS Sor

NIGEL MORGAN, B.C. Communist
Party leader, who this week called for
strong protest to halt the destruction
of the public transit system.

‘Obviously Premier Bennett is
interested in one thing only, and
that’s getting his fare increase,
We must act now if we want to
halt the destruction of our public
transit system,’’ concluded Mor-
gan,

Premier Bennett’s refusal to
meet with the civic representa-
tives aroused wide protest, This
week the North Vancouver city
council, in a unanimous vote,
instructed the civic transporta-
tion committee to send a blist-
ering protest to the P,U.C, over
the tansit increase due to come
into effect Jan, 1,

LABOR ROUNDUP
Autoworkers
IBEW wins

The strike of 23,500 members
of the United Auto Workers in
five Eastern Canadian centres,
employed by General Motors, has
been successfully concluded,
Many observers feel gains won by
Canadian auto workers are com-
paratively better than those ach-
ieved recently in the U.S,

Included in the new 3-year
contract are 34 cent an hour wage
increases for skilled workers
and 24 cents for unskilled em-
ployees, These are supplement-
ed by better sickness and acci-
dent coverage, improved widows
pensions, longer vacations, a
fully paid drug plan, and other
fringe benefits,

A major victory was achieved
in the new pension set-up, Under
the new terms, workers with 30
years of service will receive
$255 a month at age 62, This
compares with $238 a month at
65 years of age, under the old
agreement,

The strike had laste@ two
weeks,

Approximately 50 Neon elec-
tricians, members of Local 1-
213 of the International Brother-
hood of Electrical Workers, will
go on a 38 hour work week on
April 1, 1967. The shortened
week is part of a new 5-year
agreement signed between the
union and operators,

Under the pact, which will run
from Oct, 9, 1964 to Oct. 8,

-1969, wages will bo up by $1,35

an hour, Another major conces-
sion won is a three week vaca-
tion schedule for everybody on
the payroll—regardless of seni-
ority.

end strike,
shorter week

The vacation extension comes
into force at the same time as
the 38 hour week,

Members of District 18, Un-
ited Mine Workers of America,
have voted 80 percent in favor of
strike to back up demands on
operators on Southern Alberta
operators in Southern Alberta
and the Crows Nest Pass, B,C,

The union, representing 1,200
miners in the district, is demand-
in a $2.00 a day wage increase
over base rates of $16.15 for
skilled miners and $15,27 for un-
skilled men,

The men had earlier rejected
a conciliation award of 55 cents
next year, Union officers are
hopeful negotiations can be re-
opened, but are preparing for
strike action.

Vancouver’s Outside Workers
union has written City Council,
urging ‘‘all possible steps’? be
taken to prevent layoffs of civic
workers as a result of the de-
feat of the 5-year plan in vot-
ing on Dec, 9,

The union gave three reasons
for opposing layoffs, Firstly, they
would mean hardships for the
workers involved, Secondly, work
forces which have been built up
and become efficient over marfy
years would be dispersed, And
thirdly, there is sufficient money
on hand for 1965 to operate with-
outinstituting layoffs,

The union urged placing a
‘realistic, well defined’’ plan be-
tore ratepayers in good time in
1965,

Repeat China TV film

The 700 Million, CBC’s excellent 90-minute feature on
New China, will be repeated coast to coast on Dec, 30. It was
made during an extended visit to China by a three-man CBC
crew and produced in Toronto by Pat Watson,

The film roams widely through present-day China, from
city to country; from singing and acting grade-schoolers to
traditional Chinese “boxing” exercises; the whole refreshingly
(almost entirely) free of cold-war cliches,

The photography deserves special praise, Despite occa-
sional shadows, halations and related technical problems,
virtually unavoidable in this sort of quick location shooting, it
is exceedingly effective and often astonishingly beautifu,

The 700 Million is as objective and broad-ranging an
insight into China today as has come this way in many a moon,
invite the neighbors in and make an evening of it!

What’s new? Another coup

Attempts of U.S, imperialism
to foist various political-military
regimes upon the people of South
Vietnam were once again exposed
to public ridicule when the latest
in a series of coups took place
on the weekend of December 20,

The hopelessness of the U.S,

position in Vietnam was high- _

lighted by news reports that Am-
erica’s czar Maxwell Taylor was
ae displeased’”’ by the latest coup—
engineered by yet another ‘*group
of army officers,”

Taylor's displeasure appeared
to stem from the fact he was not
¢6in’? on the latest power play,

although news reports discreetly
neglected to mention the role
played by the CIA in this latest
example of U.S,-style‘‘freedom’”

SELL THOSE TRIBS!

for Vietnam,

This would not be the first time
official U.S, agencies were caught
with their preparations down
while the CIA played games of
its own choosing under terms to
its own liking,

The latest shakeup may have
disturbed Taylor and other gov-
ernment. circles (as well as the
paid and kept Western news me-
dia) but chances are good it
caused scarcely a ripple in Viet-
nam itself, Latest figures show
the National Liberation Front is
in control of more than two-
thirds of the country, with U,S,
influence restricted primarily tc
the area surrounding Saigon,

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