Vancouver East

Homer Stevens

Homer Stevens has played a promin-
ent role in the B.C. labor movement for
twenty years. He was a commercial
fisherman from his early youth until
1946 when he became a full time or-
ganizer for the United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union.In 1948 he was
elected General Secretary-Treasurer of
the Union and has been re-elected annu-
ally since that time. :

Stevens has a wide knowledge of
B.C. politics, particularly in regard to
the use of our natural resources and the
development of secondary industry. He
is married with three sons and one
daughter.

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Victoria

Ernie Knott

Born in Nanaimo 45 years ago, he
has worked in the wood-working indus-
try for many years. He was in the Cana-
dian Armed Forces and served with the
R.C.A.F.

Ernie Knott has a long record of
trade union activity. He is a former
vice-president of Local 1-80 of the In-
ternational Woodworkers of America,
and former secretary of the Nanaimo
joint labor council.

He has been a consistent advocate
on Vancouver Island for the develop-
ment of secoddary industry and the
proper utilization of our natural re-
sources.

North Van-Seymour

Maurice.Rush

Break big business control-

Oust the Bennett government!

COMMUNIST ELECTION PLATFORM HIGHLIGHTS

Resources sellout

The Bennett government is the dedicated
servant of the powerful foreign and Canadian
monopolies, A half dozen giant lumber com-
panies control our major resource, In 1965
they were granted timber licences equal to
twice the size of Nova Scotia, Natural gas
exports to the U,S, are being doubled and
eventually tripled. . . The export of raw or
semi-processed materials to the U.S. and
Japan have sharply increased without a
proportionate increase in production of fin-
ished products. With this increase went po-
tential jobs and. our economic development
has been distorted by the surrender of our
resources, Now Socred ministers are ad-
vocating a further sellout with a B,C,-U.S,
“customs union,’’

Anti-labor record

Since the last election the Socred-big busi-
ness alliance dgainst labor has repeatedly
taken steps to smash trade unions, Injunctions,
arrests, imprisonments, and police provoca-
tion on picket lines has become the order of
the day.

People’s welfare

Provincial spending on health, welfare and

Maurice Rush is a veteran of B.C.
labor and political affairs since his work
as a youth leader in the 1930's. °

During World War Two he served
overseas with the Canadian Scottish
and was a prisoner of war.

A resident of North Vancouver for
the past 7 years he was a candidate in
the last provincial election. Married,
with a sixteen-year-old daughter, Rush
is now Associate Editor of the Pacific
Tribune..

right to expect a better deal,

Communist program

education is hopelessly inadequate, Municipal
taxes are at a crushing level for the average
taxpayer, The tax take from the people grows
while the big corporations exploiting our
resources pay a very small share of pro-
vincial revenues. The people of B,C, have a

* PUBLIC CONTROL OF NATURAL RE-
SOURCES, Return timber and pulp licences
and natural gas and oil reserves to public

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Shuswap

control, Establish Crown corporations with
the government participating in the process-
ing of lumber and petroleum resources,
Public control of resources is the first step
towards a new economic policy to create
processing industries in B,C, This would pro-

Orville Mowers

Orville Mowers is 28 years of age,
was born in Ontario, and has lived at
Notch Hill for the past 18 years.

He is a logger and is most critical of
the action of the government that has
placed the timber resources in the
hands of giant monopolies, resulting in
the virtual destruction of small logging
operators. :

Mr. Mowers pledges to fight for the
return of these resources to the pople
of British Columbia.

vide a future for our young people.

Surrey

Vancouver Centre

* EXTEND DEMOCRACY — BRING THE
MONOPOLIES UNDER DEMOCRATIC CON-
TROL, Give labor full voice in planning and
determining the benefits of automation. Eli-
minate restrictive anti-labor legislation and
injunctions, Guarantee all workers, including
government employees and teachers, the full
rights of collective bargaining. B,C, Tele-
phone and auto insurance companies should
be the first to be nationalized. Press for
provincial-federal action against price
spirals and establish a Prices Review Board
to protect consumers,

%& FOR AN ADEQUATE FARM INCOME,
Guarantee farm prices that cover the cost
of production and a reasonable return on
labor and investment. Low interest loans,
crop insurance, more aid for irrigation and
drainage, Government payment for full cost
of frost kill of plants and trees.

x HIGHER ALLOCATIONS FOR HEALTH,
HOSPITALS, AMBULANCES AND WELFARE
SERVICES, Provide universal comprehensive
free coverage under B,C, Medical Services
Plan integrated with the federal medicare
plan.

4f AID FOR EDUCATION, Make more funds
available to the local school boards for
Capital construction, teachers’ salaries and
auxiliary services, Take steps to end the
teacher shortage and reduce the size of
classes, Larger grants for universities and
colleges with an immediate cut back in student
fees, Build more technical and vocational
schools,

4% NEW TAXATION DEAL, Repeal the 5%
Sales Tax, Institure the principle of “taxa-
tion based on ability to pay.” Heavier taxes
on the resources-consuming industries, Tax
relief for municipal taxpayers from the major
costs of education, hospitals, freeways,
bridges and welfare,

%& PEACE, U,S, action in Vietnam isharm-
ful to B.C, The Legislature must demand an
end to Ottawa’s support for the U.S, actions
in Vietnam and urge adherence to the 1954
Geneva Accord.

Jean McLaren

James Beynon

Jean McLaren, 39 years of age, is
married with four children. In 1959-60
she was the president of a P.T.A. and
a delegate to the Vancouver Parent-
Teacher Council.

She is currently a member of the
Technical and Office Workers Union,
and is most interested in the effects
that automation will have in her field of
work. In the peace movement her efforts
have gained her recognition and re-
spect.

Jim Beynon is twenty years old and
of Native Indian and Canadian-
Ukrainian parentage.

Joined the Young Communist League
at the age of thirteen and later became
its provincial leader. He has worked as
a shoreworker in the fishing industry,
but now is a shipyard worker and a
member of the Marine Workers and
Boilermakers’ Industrial Union.

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