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Appeal to voters to turn out
to the polls in Vancouver’s
February 1 civic by-election to
elect labor aldermanic candi-
date Victor Forster was made
this week by Effie Jones in a
Statement distributed to thous-
ands of homes.

The statement held that “the
Seat left ‘vacant by the death
of Alderman Birt Showler
Should rightly go to a represen-
tative of organized labor other-
Wise trade unions will be denied
& voice in deciding policies at
city hall.”

Speaking on behalf of the
Civie Reform Association, Mrs.
Jones said: “The CRA fully
backs Vic Forster because of the
Reed for better government and

Charge

‘exporting

Labor urges turnout
at polls February I
to elect Vic Forster

because of the need to elect
someone to council who will
oppose NPA big business poli-
cies.” ;

™ Survey of the tax struc-
ture for a more equitable dis-
tribution of the tax load.

v Redevelopment of depres-
sed areas.

Better deal from provin-
cial government on highways,
and other services to lighten
tax burden on Vancouver citi-
zens,

v Initiate steps towards ser-
vices being on a metropolitan
basis such as planning, fire pro-
tection, parks, sewers, etc.

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See FORSTER

Bennett
jobs’

VICTORIA, B.C.

~ “When you export power, you export jobs’’ Robert
Strachan (CCE, Cae eNeweactle) told Premier W.
. C, Bennett this week, in a verbal exchange which ended
with the premier leaving the legislature until Strachan had
finished his speech, a slashing attack on government policies

Peace delegation
to visit Victoria;
sendoff planned

Twenty-six men and women
from Vancouver and the lower
mainland will sail for Victoria
this Sunday midnight to urge
the legislature to call upon the
‘anadian government to inten-
Sify its efforts to achieve the
abolition of atomic weapons,
2nd general disarmament.

A public send-off at the CPR
Pier, at 11 p.m, Sunday, is plan-
ned. A youth song group and a
ctowd of well-wishers is expect-
to see the delegation leave.

€ invite all who favor the
Abolition of atomic weapons to
come to the pier and demon-
Strate their support of the dele-
Sation,” said Ray Gardner,
chairman of B.C. Peace Council.

In Victoria, the delegation
will be strengthened by many

€ncouver Island residents as
Well as by two delegates from

€ Marine Workers’ Union who
are flying from Vancouver.
resolution of the kind
Sought by the delegation has
already been adopted unani-
Mously by the Saskatchewan
legislature.

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all down the line.

Strachan raised Bennett’s ire
when he stripped away the false
front of “Social Credit pros-
perity and debt . reduction”
earlier in his speech, and ac-
cused the government of giving
the people “a Roman circus” in
place of reasonable actions.

“The premier speaks of a
healthy political climate,” said
Strachan scornfully. “But the
people* of B.C. are not happy
to see their natural resources
given away to U.S. industrial-
ists. Had the Kaiser Dam deal
gone through, B.C. would have
given away $18,000,000 worth of
power for a mere $2,000,000.

“You don’t know what you
are talking about,” countered
Bennett. “Are you opposed to
jobs?” ;

“Don’t talk to me about being
opposed to jobs,” said Strachan.
“Listen, mister, when you ex-
port power you export jobs. You
are chasing out the young men
of this province, forcing them
across the border to get jobs.”

Leo Nimsick (CCF, Cran-
brook) made a strong plea for
development of hydro power
by B.C. Power Commission,
which “has done a good job to

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See POWER

CUT THE FARCE

ng Mulligan
back to probe

This week it was revealed that ex- Vancouver Police Chief Walter Mulligan,
key figure in the continuing police probe, is now in the United States as a landed im-
migrant and has no intention of returning to give testimony before the Tupper Com-
mission inquiring into charges of corruption and maladministration in the Vancouver

police force.

EX-CHIEF MULLIGAN |
Bring him back.

The explanation offered that RCMP officers tried but
were unable to serve Mulligan with a subpoena is uncon-
vincing. Mulligan could only have obtained the necessary
documents to leave this country with the knowledge and
consent of government officials. The fact-that he submitted

to routine examination at Vancouver police headquarters

to obtain the document required by U.S. immigration auth-
orities showing he had ‘no “‘criminal record’’ is’ only one
indication that his intentions were clear to anyone desiring
to hold up his departure.

Serious accusations of having received bribes and abused
his authority have been made against Mulligan. The public
has the right to know whether they are true or false. The
fact that Mulligan refuses to testify only heightens public
suspicion.

- Unless Mulligan, the central figure, testifies, the Tup-
per Commission becomes a farce and it will be that much
more difficult to re-establish public confidence in Vancouver
police administration.

Mulligan must be brought back to face the probe.

[See Tom McEwen’s review of the police probe on page 7]

Leslie Morris comments:

the war is the necessary art.

and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.”
That statement by John Foster Dulles, secretary of

state in the Eisenhower cabinet, was published in the Janu-

ary 16 isue of Life magazine.
When Dulles was asked about
it later he reaffirmed his dec-
laration in the-face of. bitter
and world-wide criticism, some
of it in the U.S. senate and
plenty of it in Britain and Wes-
tern Europe. é

This evil ge-
nius of Ameri-
imperial-
in the
inter-
boasted

: in three
: world crises —

use the atomic bomb, that is,
to touch off world war.

Dulles article shows|
gov’t policy danger| Sty charges

“The ability to get to the verge without getting into
... We walked to the brink

-Gargrave urges |
commission probe

VICTORIA, B.c.

A plea to Lands and Forests
minister R. E. Sommers to drop
his slander suit against Van-
couver lawyer David; Sturdy
and let a royal commission
probe the charges was made in

He said that in April, 1954,
two U.S. aircraft carriers en-
tered Chinese waters with
atomic weapons aboard.

He openly implies that the .

British and French hald~ “let
him down” during the Geneva
conference that brought about
an armistice in Indo China. He
Dulles, wanted to send U.S.
British and French armies into
Indo China, and use atomic
bombs.

And this is the man, the
veteran lawyer for the Nazi
interests and symbol of all that

is criminal and irresponsible in

foreign affairs, whose leader-

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See MORRIS

LPP presents health insurance submission

TEXT ON PAGE 10

the legislature this week by.
Tony Gargrave (CCF, Macken-
zie). Sommers kept his eyes
down and shuffled through
Some papers, ignoring the CCF
member, j

“What should a government
do in the case of a charge of

bribery against a member?”

asked Gargrave. “There is only
one possible thing to do when
a minister falls by the wayside
—immediately hold an’ investi-
gation before a body in which
the public has confidence, a
royal commission.

“Could not the honorable
minister of lands and forests
withdraw his private suit
against Mr. Sturdy, and allow
the attorney-general or the pre-
mier to place the whole matter
before a royal commission, with
instructions and authority to get
to the bottom of the whole busi-
ness?” .

(See earlier story on page 6.)

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