LPP candidate A director of the Wynndel Fruit Cooperative, Tom Mount- ford, is LPP candidate for Nel- son-Creston. He first contest- ed this seat 20 years ago as a United Front farmer-labor can- didate in the 1933 provincial election. Committee sponsoring celebration. International Children’s Day, sponsored by .a , representative committee of 10 organizations and groups, will be celebrated this year on. Sunday, May 31 at 2 p.m. at the Swedish Community Hall, 1320 Hastings Street. The program will include a col- orful demonstration of interna- tional culture in which children of many national origins will take part. A little Negro girl will sing Chinese songs; there will be Spanish and Ukrainian dances: and a tableau, “We Are All Can- * adian Children” will be perform: ed. A Junior Choir will also make its debut. Following the concert, refresh- ments will be served to both par- ents and children. Mrs. Agnes Good of the Con- gress of Canadian Women will speak on the origin of Interna- tional Children’s Day and the “Rights of Children.” All parents and children are cordially invited to attend. There will be a silver collection to cover expenses. East, to a meeting of 1,000 old Old Age Pension Association, in afternoon this week. Morgan continued, “because the for a senior citizen. “For the year ending March 1952, the average cost of maintain- ing a person in our provincial jails was $5 per day. But the amount paid by the government. to maintain one elderly citizen on pension was only $1.66 per day. So it is, in fact, worse than a crime-to grow old in B.C.” In his speech to the old age pensioners (which drew applause and caused a section of the audi- ence to begin singing For He‘s a Jolly Good Fellow until quieted by the chairman) Morgan repeated facts which he had given in a radio broadcast the previous ev- ening. At the conclusion of his talk he outlined the LPP propos- als for making life better for old age pensioners and read the LPP “Charter for Senior Citizens.” Under present conditions our older citizens are forced to lead “a life of aimlessness, of futility,” said the LPP leader. “And these are the men. and women who have made. this great province of ours what it is today—built the railroads and bridges, cut the timber, mined the coal and ore, built the homes and streets,” continued Morgan. “These are the men and women who have raised and educated their families, and thereby en- riched our province. “Too old now to get work, and unable to get a decent standard of life, they are unable even to take part in the social and cul- tural lifé of the community. ,What a crime that those who have built so much should be left with so little! It shouldn’t be! And what is more, by the right kind of action in this election, it will not be. “It is not this way because. it is our choice, or because nothing Away from B.C. June 9? Advance poll June 4-6 Advance polls for all B.C. voters who will be out of the province June 9, election day, will be held June 4, 5 and 6. For voters in Vancouver East, Centre, Burrard and Point Grey the poll will be located at the old Vancouver Art School, Cambie and Dunsmuir. Burnaby voters can east their advance poll downtown or at 4175 Kingsway. Registered voters who will be away from their own electoral district June 9 can vote anywhere in the province. The Electoral Act provides for these absentee voters by stating that “any voter whose name is on the list of _ voters for one electoral district and who is absent from that dis- trict on the day the poll is held, may obtain a special ballot paper for that district in any polling place of any other electoral dis- trict.” Runs: for Delta A hardrock miner for 20 years, and now a fisherman and chicken farmer, LPP candidate for Delta, Dave Danielson, is said Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, candidate in Vancouver “The Bennett government says it’s a crime,” ‘believe thousands of British Col- age pensioners, called by the B.C. Pender Auditorium on Wednesday present government spends more than three times as much to maintain a person in jail than it allows can be done. It is so only because the powers-that-be have made it. Pensions have been held down, while the cost-of-living has sky- rocketed. With every B.C. gov- ernment, right up to and including the Social Credit regime, welfare services have been callously ne- glected. They have been given a back seat to interest payments on bonds or to shameful squand- erings on war preparations. So what can we do? “TI can answer first by outlining what we must stop doing. We've got to stop supporting and voting for those government policies which create the conditions I have cited. We’ve got to stop putting warfare before people’s welfare. We've got to stop spending bil- lions for war, halt the wholesale giving away of our natural re- sources to U.S. corporations. Just imagine giving away a million- acre tract of rich forest land for a mere cent an acre a year and then pleading we can’t do anything for senior citizens and welfare cases. “We've got to reject with con- tempt the kind of politician who approves, spending $10,000 to maintain one Canadian soldier in Europe for a year, but who be- grudges spending a mere $600 a year to support one senior Can- adian citizen. “It’s not difficult to discover in this campaign those candidates eand parties who stand for contin- uation of such policies. does Social Credit stand? Have you heard Premier Bennett make any mention of the terrible plight of our senior citizens. You have not. Have you heard him speak out against the criminal expendi- tures for war, No,’ but his Social Credit colleagues in Ottawa have put their movement on record as firmly supporting the Liberals’ war program. “Will Arthur Laing and the Lib- erals bring about the necessary changes? That question answers itself. Laing has just come from Ottawa where he supported and voted for the Liberal policy of spending five million dollars a day for war—as did the Conserva- tives, Social Credit and CCF spokesmen. “Can the government of B.C. be left in the hands of parties and individuals who either refuse or are afraid to speak up for your welfare? I say we can’t leave the great problems of hu- man welfare in the hands of peo- ple who place war first. And I umbians will agree, and having agreed, will support and vote for the LPP and its candidates. contesting a working class riding. « Where |- party; charter Pensioners cheer as Morea reads senior citizens’ “Do you know that it is a crime to grow old in British Columbia?” The right to be useful; years. spectre of want. What charter proposes for an opportunity to obtain em | — ployment based on merit—not birthdays. The right to decent housing, suited to the needs of later The right to a fair share of the community’s recreational educational and medical facilities. The right to live independently and with dignity, and contribute to the stability of the family and community life—which they can well do. The right to happy years in later years—free from the The right to a cultured and creative life be paid by the B.C. government, as a first step towards a Nation- al Service Pension of $75 at 65 years of age to be paid out of* the federal treasury. The im- mediate provincial increase would only cost about $150 a month—but what a comfort. it would provide. : @ “A housing program that will provide decent homes in de- cent surroundings for every senior citizen. @ “Establishment of recrea- tion and community cenires which will give special attention to the needs of older people. @ “Change the term ‘Old Age Pension’ to the more fitting. and better suited designation of ‘National Service Pension.’ from? al homes. bargain. peace.” “Where’s the money o Just consider, spending more than five ™ i dollars a day on war preparatio®: Imagine what that would provit” in terms of increased social fare, free health and hospital erage, schools, community ce? healthful recreation and low- “Where do the parties stand on peace?” is to be the theme of an election meeting to be addressed by representatives of four parties Thursday, June 4, at 8 p.m. in Pender Auditorium. Speakers will be Stewart Cham- bers, Conservative candidate in Point Grey; Don Lanskail, vice- president, B.C. Liberal Associa- tion; Nigel Morgan, provincial leader of the Labor-Progressive and Stan Wilcox, Social Credit candidate, Vancouver East. _ Ray Gardner, secretary of B.C. Peace Council, which is sponsor= ing the meeting, will also speak. “We believe that peace is the central issue in the provincial election — as it obviously i¢ in every election — and so we invit- ed the parties to put their point- of-view forward on peace,” Gard- ner said. “The speakers have been asked to state their view of the proposal for a Five-Power peace pact and on the question of an immediate cease-fire in Korea.” CCF and Christian Democrat parties have declined the coun- cil’s invitation to speak on peace. Gardner said. Admission to the meeting is June June June June Canada ion | “Five thousand decent homé nit and dwelling units for es, zens could easily be provided we would be able to cut atl heavy burden of taxation 1 That’s a worthwhilé goal, you will agree. realizable goal if we in B.C. b® to turn our steps away from", road to war and tos the 10a — It’s also ? Parties will state views on peace at — Peace Council mee! “Here is what the Labor-Pro- | free. gressive party and its candidates | + : are fighting for: : STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN @ “An immediate increase in | = Barristers - Solicitors - Notaries _ gs old age pensions to $65 a |= SUITE 515 FORD BUILDING of B. as month at 65 years of age (with- - (Corner Main & Hastings Sts. + ae out the hated ‘means test’) to , ea oper ties eee PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 29, 1953 — —3 ate a tod is oy a the it