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BCE NEW YEAR RESOLVE:
‘SOAK THE PUBLIC AGAIN’

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BCElectric made known its New Year resolu-
tion on Monday this week when company officials
stated that 65 percent of domestic power customers
would have to pay up to $1 more in light bills
within two weeks. A. E. Grauer, BCE president,

has asked Public Utilities Commission to ratify the
the demanded increase by January 14.

BCE’s “soak the public” resolve will raise company revenues
eight percent. It will cover all areas served by the monopoly:
Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Victoria and parts of Van-
couver Island.

Last March the BCE hoisted residential electric rates by
11 percent and five months later bepsted commercial and in-
dustrial rates five percent. The company also has an application
before the PUC requesting an increase in its rate of return from
5.3 to 7.5 percent. Still Grauer and his associates aren’t satisfied.

Higher wages won by BCE workers (members of the In-
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) in negotiations
last fall is the reason given by Grauer for seeking more revenue
at this time. His argument falls flat when rising productivity of
the workers is considered.

In a submission regarding wages presented a few months
ago, the IBEW brief revealed that since 1939 kilowatt hours sold
had more than trebled from 453,200,000 KWH in 1939 to 1,392,-
000,000 in 1950, while during the same period union records show-
ed an increase of only 20 percent in the number of employees.
“This means that the company obtains two and one-half times

Continued on back page — See BCER

‘vielance flares in B.C. -

hall attacked, people beaten

A pattern of fascist gangster-
ism against the labor movement
was woven in Vancouver last
week when a series of DP-type
acts of violence were committed

and threats that “you haven't
seen the last of us” were made
in the presence of city police
who. intervened.

As 7 am, Christmas Day,

Yankees stall on POW exchange:
tig phoney figures on ‘missing’

; LONDON
mney and delay by Ameri-
the Yq articularly as revealed in
change _ is ae over ex-
ined 5 OW lists, are exam-
Londo, both Alan Winnington,
Pondent ally Worker corres-
Paris C. and’ Wilfrid Burchett,
ejp ts Olr correspondent, in
JOn, Spatches from Panmun-

Winn;
*nington writes:

ial the tent discussing ar-
Air p ae sion, American
at Nor aaa Turner sneer-

<orean-Chinese ef-

forts to get the conference going
ahead ‘by agreeing to rotation, to
discuss the POWs, to present a
real POW list, to inspection by
neutrals and the rest.

Across the conference table,
Turner boasted of the power of
the American Air Force to des-
troy what it pleases in North
Korea, and in effect claimed that
this gave the right to oversee
North Korea during the armis-
tice. The atmosphere went right
back to the days before the
American bombing raid on Kae-
song on August 22 which the

Americans used to stall the talks
for 60 days. Again they were
‘told that the North Korean- Chi-
nese side would never permit in-
terference in the internal affairs
of Korea.

On the POWs, the Americans
are performing an extraordinary
series of gyrations owing to the
fact that the figures and partic-
ulars given ‘by the North Korean-
Chinese side utterly disprove the

By the simple device of leaving
American atrocity propaganda

Continued on back page.
See POW’s

John Dubno, provincial organ-

izer of the Association of United
Ukrainian Canadians, was
knocked down and beaten after
an assailant entered his home.
Police who arrived at the scene
claimed the attacker was under
the influence of “dope.” Earlier
in the week Dubno’s. wife had
received a phone enquiring
‘Is this the residence of John
Dubno?”

kicked in the face, ribs and

stomach and later had to be
taken to General Hospital
where 11 stitches were required
to close a deep gash in his
throat.

Police arrived at the scene
and took the names of the as-
Sailants, who continued to utter
threats of violence against Mor-
gan and others present.

Three of the attackers will
appear in city police court to
face charges of assault with in-
tent to commit grievous bodily
harm

Shortly before Christmas two
attempts were made during the
night to break into the home of
Nigel Morgan, Labor-Progres-
sive party provincial. leader.

On Néw Year’s eve a Polish
DP, enraged by a peace slogan
hung on a wall at the Ukrain-
ian hall, started a melee which
could ‘have led to serious trou-
ble. Again on the night of Jan-
uary 3, at 3 a.m., five windows
in the AUUC hall were broken
with empty whisky bottles. En-
trance was forced to the hall
but the appearance of city gar-

, Continued on back page.
See DP’s

Following a dance jn Hast
ings Auditorium on December
27, Nat Sherlock, a young B.C.
logger, was brutally beaten by
six newly-arrived ‘immigrants
while about to leave the hall
in company with Morgan, his
wife, and several other persons.
In the fracas Morgan was kick-
ed in the thigh, Sherlock was
knocked to the sidewalk and
stunned by a blow on the head.
While semi-conscious he was

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