Oppose

treaty,

unions urged

British Columbia Peace Council is calling upon all trade
unions in the province to make ‘representations to Ottawa
against ratification of the Paris agreements to rearm West

Germany.

In a letter sent this week to all union locals, Roy Gardner,

MRS. DOROTHY LYNAS

Named on North Shore

Dorothy Lynas, school boied
candidate on the North Shore, is
working “to improve the educa-
tional standards and facilities
for our children.” She believes
that to meet increased educa-
tional costs, a federal-provincial
conference to establish a more
equitable basis of taxation is
necessary.

Exports to USSR up

OTTAWA
Canada’s exports to -the Soviet
Union totalled $4,600,000 in the
first nine months of 1954, com
pared with a mere $466 worth
shipped in the similar 1953 period.
Products shipped included barley,
eattle hides, canned meats and
sulphite pulp.

Selling: the PT
Don’t miss
la renewal
Dear Keader:

December sub renewals and all
outstanding renewals for the year
are now in the hands of our press
clubs. Our aim is to pick up
every renewal before January 1,
1955.

PT work can be combined with
election tasks during the next few
days. Certainly
winning a read-
er means win-
ning one or
more votes for
progressive can-
didates.

North Van-
couver is the
provincial Club
of the Month
for November,
with 24 subs; city Club of the
Month is Kitsilano, with 20 subs.

A meetings of all Vancouver
press club directors will be held
at 9 East Hastings on December 14
to discuss circulation problems.
Prizes will be presented to the
top clubs in the recent drive. Win-
ners are South Burnaby, Pt. Grey
and Philip Halperin.

_ Prizes have already been mailed
to the leading provincial press
clubs — Cumberland, Sointula and

‘|a similar ceremony,

Victoria.
Rita Whyte

Peace Council chairman, states:

’ When parliament reopens in
January, the government intends
to ratify the Paris and London
agreement$ for the rearmament of
West Germany.

These plans call for a West
German armed force of 500,000
men, equipped with 8,000 tanks
and 1,500 aircraft. The armored
divisions of this new army will

.|}thus have twice the fire-power of

the Hitler panzer divisions of
World War II. :
This armed force is five times
the size of that to which Germany
was limited following World War
I. It is almost twice the size of

the army Hitler demanded — and}.

got — in the thirties.

It should also be noted that
there is nothing in the Paris and
London agreements to prevent this
new German army and air force
from being equipped with all the
weapons of mass destruction, in-
cluding chemical, biological, at-
omic and hydrogen weapons.

We submit that the rebirth of
German militarism, the creation of
a German army led by Nazi mur-
derers such as Kurt Meyer and
armed by Rhur industrialists such
as Krupp, is a serious threat to
world peace, a threat to the secur-
ity of Canada. And, as Colin Cam-
eron, MP, has said, it is “. . . the
betrayal of everything two genera-
tions of young Canadians fought
for.”

We urge your union to make
representations to the government,
demanding that plans to rearm
Germany be abandoned in favor
of East-West negotiations to re-
unify: Germany in a peaceful man-
ner.

Comic-burning hit
by city librarian

Victoria Junior Chamber of
Commerce, living in a city where
the question of book-burning i: a
sensitive subject, has anophed

plans for the public burning of
crime, horror and love comic
books. But Jaycees in Vancouver

are determined to go ahead with
despite a
blunt letter from Librarian E. S.
Robinson that he wanted no part
of any burning of comic books.
Mayor Hume has consented to
touch off the bonfire. ,

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HORACE WAINWRIGHT

Makes first bid

Making his first bid for civic
office in the civic elections De-
cember 8 is Horace (Bud) Wain-
wright, independent candidate
for school board. An electrician
by trade, Wainwright believes
that the school. board should
have stronger labor repesenta-
tion, particularly from the build-
ing industries which do the con-
struction work and whose ex-
Perience would be valuable to
the big job of school building
which has to be done to meet
expanding school rolls.

; ;
Wide support for
ee | : . : :

Effie’s platform

Chief planks in Effie Jones’ al-
dermanic platform, which has been
widely distributed’
city this week, are lower transit
fares and public ownership of the
B.C. Electric. ;

Mrs. Jones, in the course of her

campaign, has won growing sup-|

port for these and other demands,
including a shakeup in the police
department, and a Police Commis-
sion of five, with the mayor and
two elected commissioners as
members.

She also called for lower taxes
on homes, the bringing of Peace
River gas to Vancouver to open a
new era of economic developmeni,
and expansion of the city’s harbor.

through the|

LDR marks

anniversary

Vancouver branch of the League
for Democratic Rights will mark
the sixth anniversary of the United
Nations’ Universal Declaration of
Human Rights by two events this
coming week,

A banquet honoring Harold
Dean, well known local lawyer
who has made an outstanding con-

{tribution to civil liberties, will be

held Sunday, December 5: Special

'} guest is Nick Evdokimoff, Doukho-
'| bor sentenced to 14 years in prison

following a burning in the West
Kootenays who was later aquitted
at a second trial after the LDR
had taken an interest in his ease.
Dean represented Evdokimoff at
the second trial.

On Friday, December 40, a con-
cert will be held at the Russian
People’s Home, 600 Campbell Ave-

nue, featuring the Vancouver Little}
‘Folk Singers.

Those desiring further informa-
tion about these two events are
asked to phone PA, 5831.

DR. JOSEPH BLUMES

Contests school board

_ Dr. Joseph Blumes, Vancou-
ver dentist who has polled’ im-
presssive votes for several years
in the school board race, is again
contesting a seat this year as an
independent candidate. He is re-
cognized as one of the chief
threats to continued NPA do-
mination of the board. — ;

payers Association.

| der.

WILLIAM J. DOUGLAS

Unionist in field

William J. Douglas, an execu:
tive member of the Marine
Workers and _ Boilermakers
Union, is a new entry in the
parks board race. in Vancou-
ver’s civic elections, December
8. Douglas, 40, is a war vet-
eran with overseas service and
is a member of Canadian Legion
Branch 179. Extremely active
in community affairs in Grand-
view, where he has lived for the
past eight years, he is recording
secretary of Grandview Rate-

—_——

Housewife seeks
seat in Burnaby

BURNABY, B.C.

Mrs. Coral Cameron, a North
Burnaby housewife, has- entered
the contest for school board in the
Burnaby municipal elections, fol-
lowing disqualification of Alex
Kucher this week. Kucher with-
drew when informed that his prop-
erty qualifications were not in Or-
He was nine days short of
the necessary six months require
to qualify. is

William Turner, independent
council candidate, termed disquali-
fication of Kucher Ses ie lig and
undemocratic.”

Mrs. Cameron. is running . for
school trustee because she feels
that a woman’s voice is needed on
school board.

“The teachers’ demand ‘for 2
technical school should be met as
soon as possible,” she said. “I
also feel that a conference of par-
ents should be held to lay plans
for the opening of a municipally-
sponsored kindergarten.”

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COMING EVENTS—CITY.
DEC. OPEN FORUM — Hear

Maurice Rush, alder-
manic, candidate, speak on “The
Future of Vancouver” at Mount
Pleasant Community Hall, 125

East Seventh Avenue, Sunday,
Dec. 5, at 8 p.m.

DEC 10 —/ Vancouver Branch,

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VANCOUVER FOLK SINGERS in
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Assisted by Other Artists. Friday,
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