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face big issues

By WILLIAM TURNER
Ind., Candidate, Burnaby
The municipal election in Bur-
naby takes place at a time when

the threat of completedomination ~

of municipal politics by the Non-
Partisan Association is a very
real danger.

Presently controlling six out of
eight seats on the Burnaby coun-
cil and thereby a majority, the
effect of the NPA policy of ‘‘eco-
nomics’’ or retrenchments is to
shift the burden even more
from big-business to the home-
owner,

This situation has developed
because the opposition, and in
particular the labor movement,
has not projected a program
to-provide an alternative to unite
the voters in order to oust the
NPA and elect a progressive
municipal council,

The official labor endorsation
of the Burnaby Citizens Associa-
tion, and the Labor candidates
running under its banner, must
be pursued along the lines of
haVing them speak out forthright-
ly on those issues that are vital

“ to labor.

The record sales of Canadian
wheat to the Soviet Union, China,
Poland and Czechoslovakia, and
the movement of it through Can-
adian ports has brought into sharp
focus the inadequacy of our port,
facilities on the lower mainland.
Burnaby’s Burrard Inlet water-
frontage could be developed with
additional docks as part of a
Greater Vancouver Port Author-
ity, in which the Federal gov-
ernment could be pressed to
assist financially as part of a
public works program of docks:
and harbor development.

Similar public works could be
launched on the North Arm of
the Fraser River at Burnaby’s
southern boundary. In fact the

latter project was recommended
by the Town Planning Commis-
sion ten years ago. These pro-
jects, in view of the tremendous
possibilities for more and ex-
panding trade with the Socialist
countries, could meannew indus-
tries for Burnaby to stimulate
employment and also additional
municipal revenues.
* * *

How important new industries
in Burnaby can be to.the home-
owner is to be seen by the pre-

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sent imbalance of the property
tax structure wherein 61% of the
tax load is borne by the resi-
dential taxpayer and only 39% by
commerce and industry.

To reverse this inequality,
steps can be taken to encourage
industry to locate in the muni-
Cipality. In this direction pres-
sure could be applied on the
Provincial government to estab-
lish a Public Utility District on
the lower mainland in which
Burnaby would be a partner. The
wholesale outlets for gas and
electricity could be made avail-
able by the Provincial govern-

ment to the members of such

a utility. In return the member
municipalities could provide

-residential and commercial cus-

tomers with gas and electricity
on a retail basis,

In line with this is the need
for cheap publicly-owned power
through the development of the
Columbia as an All-Canadian hy-
dro-power project.

+ * *

Steps must be taken by the
Municipal Council to exert un-
ceasing pressure on the Federal
government to pay the full cost
of elementary education by div-
erting to the municipalities a
large slice of the $1.8 billion now!
being spent on armaments.

The Provincial government
should be called upon toincrease
the Homeowner Grant from the
present $70 to $100 in 1964.

There should be immediate
re-assessment based on true
market values of industrial land
and improvements. We must,
press the demand that the$6 mil-
lion assessed value of Provin-
cial and Federal government pro-
perties be taxed in line with
other properties, and hands off
the program of the Parks and
Recreation Commission.

Support for the $5 million
school by-law together with the
operation of kindergartens in
public schools is necessary. This
should be pressed for in Burn-
aby as part of the new school
building program,

In advancing this program as
an independent candidate for
Councillor on Dec. 5th I do so
in the belief that it will assist
in projecting a progressive al-
ternative to the big-business do-
mination of our Municipal Council
by the NPA.

‘Film Showing

“40 YEARS—
ARMENIAN
HISTORY’’
Dell Hotel, Whalley
Tues., Nov. 26 at 8 p.m.

Also
Review of Current Books.
Silver Collection
Auspices: Surrey Club, CPC

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Response grows to Cuba appeal

Material aid from the Cana-
dian people to beleaguered Cuba
is pouring in from all over the
country. In Vancouver, Alex
Storm, chairman ofthe Canadian-

Jim Hutton

Funeral services were held
for Jimmy Hutton on Tues-
day, November 12, 1963, in
Port Coquitlam. He died on
Friday, November 8th.

At the services, the speak-
er pointed out that ‘‘Jimmy
was a good co-worker in the
struggle for a better world
in which mankind would be as-
sured of peace, happiness and
the prospects for man to hold
his head up high with con-
fidence in the present and
hope in the future.

**Jimmy turned his hand to
many things to earn a living
and it was this experience in
life that led him to the trade
union and socialist movements
as an active participant.

**He often mentioned that a
social system such as ours
that breeds insecurity, is quite
insensitive to the needs and
feelings of people. It was the
pressures and tensions re-
sulting from this that finally
overwhelmed Jimmy Hutton.

‘We deeply grieve with his
wife, Doreen, his parents and
family at this loss.’’

Cuban Fiendship Committee,
reports that $789 has been sent
to the Cuban ambassador to date.

The national executive of the
Congress of Canadian Women an-
nounces that in respnse to its
Cuban Disaster appeal over $800
has been sent in from chapters
and friends, with pledges of more
to come, %

And in Toronto, the Canada-
Cuba Friendship Committee has

stated that, so far, more than
$3,600 has been turned over to
Cuban authorities to help the
storm shattered economy of the
gallant island.

Collections are still going on
across the nation. B.C. readers —
who. have not yet made their —
contribution are urged to mail it
in immediately to the Canada-
Cuba Friendship Committee, 138 —
E. Cordova St., Vancouver.

CP Vancouver

The Greater Vancouver Con-
-vention of the Communist Party
of Canada will be held this com-
ing Saturday and Sunday, Novem-
ber 23 and 24, inthe Fishermen’s
Hall, 138 E. Cordova St.

In a recent press release the
party states that this convention
will be meeting in the midst
of great new victories for the
peace forces of the world—the
Signing of the Moscow test ban
treaty, the easing of tensions
on a number of cold war fronts,
the big wheat agreements between
Canada and the socialist coun-
tries,

The release points out that all
the above developments are vic-.
tories for the policy of peace-
ful coexistence and open up new
opportunities for the accomplish-
ment of total world disarmament
and socialism.

The convention discussions _

convention.

will take place in the light of
these new possibilities and chal-
lenges. It will also take placeim-
mediately following the CPC Na-
tional Committee meeting in Tor-
onto, where the discussion was
directed to a very searching
examination of party organiza-
tion, with new plans and ideas |
being projected toward theappli- |
cation of the party’s program and
new ways of building the party
in this favorable situation.

American Boston cream pie
sold in Britain, is neither pie,
contains no cream nor comes
from Boston, says Mr, J. A. O’-
Keefe chief officer of Middlesex |
Public Control Department.

‘‘Instant tea?’ ads were mis- _
leading because in consisting of —
50% soluble solids of tea and
50% malto dextrin, it just wasn’t
tea,

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BUSINESS PERSONALS:

FOR RENT

DON’T do your Xmas shopping’
now! Wait for Annual Pt. Grey
Bazaar November 380. Pottery,
plants, toys, preserves, etc:
4590 West 3rd, 1 p.m. on.

SATURDAY, NOV. 30, 8 p,m.
4865 TRIUMPH, (Delta and
Empire Dr.), N. Burnaby.
LABOR POETS WORKSHOP—

SPECIAL EVENING IN AID OF

CUBA. _ :

A VANCOUVER POET VISITS
CUBA — FILM BY ROGER
PRENTICE (guest speaker),
Poems - Songs - Music - Re-
freshments. Proceeds to Hur-
ricane Relief Fund,

FOR SALE

FOR SALE Farm fresh
GARDEN PRODUCE — Veg-
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‘PRESCRIPTION EYEGLASSES —
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$5.95 Additional, SEAL OPTI-
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‘November 22, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P.

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