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People can defeat bus
hike, says Effie Jones

“The people of Greater Vancouver can defeat the B.C.
Electric’s latest demand for bus fare increases, provided we all
work together,” Effie Jones, president of Civic Reform Associa-

tion, said this week. She

indicated

that the CRA would

immediately begin a campaign to “hold the line” on bus fares.

First shot in the campaign,
said Mrs. Jones, would be
publication and distribution of
thousands of leaflets opposing
the proposed fare hike.

B.C. Electric has already
applied to the Public Utilities
‘Commission for increases
ranging from two cents in Van-

couver, Victoria and New
Westminster to three cents in
Burnaby and Richmond. It
also wants to eliminate “‘slack”
tickets and increase children’s
and students’ fares.

PUC will hold a public hear-
ing sometime in August.

Women march against
threat of world war

Ten women members of the Labor-Progressive party
paraded in the Burnaby shopping area outside Simpsons-Sears
and neighborhood stores Friday evening last week, carrying
hand-painted posters and placards with slogans such as, “Keep

Canada Out of Middle East War,” “We Don’t Want War,”

and “Hands Off Lebanon and
Jordan.”

While the women. paraded,
eight men distributed an LPP
leaflet headed, “Stop This
War; Demand Withdrawal of
U.S. and British Troops.”

Great interest was evinced
in the demonstration which
was viewed by hundreds of
motorists on Kingsway as
well as by thousands of Fri-
day night shoppers. Drivers
honked their horns and waved
support and some called out,
“Good for you!”

The LPP leaflet condemned
foreign exploitation and domi-
nation of the Arab peoples.

“The people of the Middle
East,” it said, “have had more
than enough of foreign oil
profiteers who have extracted
fortunes from their country,

leaving them poor, hungry
and oppressed.”
Canadians were urged to

write Prime Minister Diefen-
baker asking that Canada de-
mand the withdrawal of U.S.
and British troops from Le-
banon and Jordan.

North flies to Japan
to attend peace meet

Sponsored by a committee of Fishermen and shoreworkers
and the B.C. Peace Council, Fisherman editor George North left
Vancouver this week aboard a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane
for Japan to attend a peace conference.

His plans include participa-
tion in the major anti-nuclear
bomb meetings and demon-
strations highlighting Hiro-
shima Day, August 6; Naga-
saki Day, August 9; the Japan.

GEORGE NORTH

Conference Against Atomic
and Hydrogen Bombs, August
12 to 15; and the World Con-
ference Against Atomic and
Hydrogen Bombs, August 15
to 20.

In addition, North will try
to see as much of the fishing
industry as possible, including

the returning Japa-
nese mothership fleet and
shore - based salmon _ opera-
tions.

The Fisherman editor will
send regular dispatches to his
paper during his visit and
will report to the industry on
his return.

An ardent amateur photog-
rapher, North plans to take
press pictures and slides, the
former for labor papers and
the latter to be used to il-
lustrate talks he will give
to trade union and peace
groups.

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‘Canada in path of atomic wot
Tim Buck warns Toronto rall

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By CAMILLE DIONNE of

OTTAWA — Some 40 members and supportet? = ii
Quebec organization of the Labor-Progressive patty ee p
the U.S. Embassy here for an hour and a half on hu

dian troops, he said.

The meeting endorsed giving
widest circulation to a “Get
On With the Summit Meeting”
statement issued by the Labor-
Progressive party’s national
executive. The statement was
sent to Prime Minister Diefen-
baker by the meeting.

Buck warned that the march
to war had only been momen-
tarily halted but that the
danger of war in the Middle
East had not been abolished.

He noted that throughout
the discussions about a summit
meeting, there had been a con-
stant build-up of intervention-
ist forces in the Middle East,
with some 50,000 foreign troops
now in Lebanon and Jordan
and the U.S. Sixth Fleet of 147
ships of all types, including
four of the world’s largest
plane carriers, cruising in the
area.

Dulles, he said, was hurrying ,

from capital to capital seeking
to patch up the discredited
Baghdad Pact, while Eisen-
hower conducted a delaying
action on summit talks.
Canadian policy appeared to
be keeping time with Eisen-
hower instead of striking out
vigorously for an end to

manoeuvring and the need for |

quick assembling of a top level
meeting.

‘ast week.

Posters carried by paraders
said: “Withdraw U.S. Troops
from Lebanon;”’ “Quebec ap-
puie les peulpes Arabes con-
tre Vimperialisme;”’ ‘“Sortez
du Liban;” “A Bas L’Imperial-
isme Yankee;” “Summit Talks
Now!”; “Stop Drift to a Third
World. War.”

Three members of the dele-
gation headed by Camille
Dionne, secretary of the Que-
bec LPP, delivered a letter
addressed to Presidnt Eisen-
hower. They were received by
James McDevitt, chief of ad-
ministration at the embassy.

The letter said, in part:

“We are appealing to you
to withdraw your troops from
Lebanon, and to take action
now to end the danger of a
nuclear war...

“Tt is the feeling of the
people of our province that

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