Lawyer ridicules

Says shares going up

“What the PUC claims to be ‘inadvertence and stress of

night dishonesty,’’ declared Mrs. Effie Jones to.an applauding audience of 600 citizens on Wed- Nesday. The angry protest gathering at Pender Auditorium, chaired by Senior Citizens’ presi- dent George Edwards, passed a resolution unanimously calling for dismissal of the three com-

Missioners,

BCE,

time’ is nothing less than down-

Harry Rankin, president of : Grandview Ratepayers and well- known city lawyer, ridiculed the B.C. Electric's plea of poverty. “B.C. Electric stock,” he said, “Which in December was selling af about $17 a share is now at

, $25.“ He called for restoration

Of the 1214-cent fare.

“Since 1948 there have been "ighteen increases in transit, light, ‘nd as rates,” said Maurice Buck of the Superannuated Federai Civil Servants. The meeting enthusiast- leally endorsed his proposal that the provincial government set up 4 commission to investigate the]. advantages of public ownership.

quarters here this week. Chosen. t

Political crisis stirs

St. Pierre-Miquelon QUEBEC. CITY

The 5,500 inhabitants of France’s Sole remaining North American Possessions, the island colony of St. Pierre and Miquelon, 12 miles South of Newfoundland, are in the Midst of a governmental crisis Caused by the French govern- MNent’s reappointing of a governor Who doubled municipal trade taxes and tripled port charges, Irenee Davier. Davier’s taxes hit at the tourist trade, a main source of in- Come for the colony.

Thirty of the 45 members of gen- ral and municipal councils and the board of trade have resigned M protest and a delegation has left for Paris to appeal to the French government for Davier’s Tecal],

DAVE DANIELSON nominated in Delta

Rescind fare boost

Speaking for the women’s com- Mittee of the Labor-Progressive Party, Mrs. Jean Bird has sent a Protest to the Bennett government

JACK HIGGIN

LPP nominates two | provincial candidates

. The Labor-Progressive party has placed two more candidates in the field in readiness for the next provincial election, bringing to three the number already named, it was announced by LPP head-

his week were Jack Higgin of Cumberland, who will be

| were Adolf Pothorn, Island LPP

.|in Cowichan - Newcastle,

Urging immediate rescinding of

; i i Comox the recent fare increase. candidate for een \

the party standard bearer in Comox constituency, and Dave Danielson of Langley, who will run in Delta. Glyn Walters was previously entered in the field for the Salmon Arm Constituency he contested in the 1953 election.

Higgin was nominated at a meet- ing of party:supporters in the Up- per Island city of Cumberland, while Danielson was the choice of a meeting in the Willoughby Hall, Langley. : :

In accepting nomination Higgin told his audience that ‘the unem- ployment situation will assume serious proportions in the near future unless government policies are charged.”

Also addressing the meeting

organizer, and W. S, E. Morrison, LPP candidate in the last federal elections for Comox-Alberni.

Danielson pledged to the Lang- ley meeting that he would strive to be a “people’s tribune” speak- ing out on all the urgent issues and working for united action with all people and groups, regardless of political affiliation.

LPP provincial organizer Ali Dewhurst told the gathering “The decision to place our candidates in the field now is based on the vital need for public spokesmen who speak out boldly for B.C.”

The LPP will hold further nom- ination meetings in the coming week as a part of the drive to place a minimum of 40 candidates in the field for the next provincial elec- tion. “The meetings will be held North Vancouver, New Westminster and

Alberni.

Darshan Singh suffers stroke in India

Former B.C. organizer stricken

‘Darshan Singh Sangha, widely{ The letter to his friends here

known for his activities in the} states: - abor movement during the several.

“Darshan Singh has been strick-

Years ihe lived in this province, has

Suffered a stroke and is seriously ll, according to a letter received €re from India.

The letter was written to friends:

‘a Darshan Singh, who forwarded a Tanslation to the Pacific Tribune.

. Coming to Canada as a student M 1939, Darshan Singh took an active part in the trade union Movement and for a time served 8S an organizer for the Interna- tional Woodworkers union on Van- Couver Island. He joined » the “abor-Progressive party and was & member of its provincial com- Mittee, :

In 1947, on completion of his 00k, Rise of the New Asia, he re- Urned to his native India, where € became an organizer for the Communist party.

en by a stroke. For a few days his condition was very serious and he could not speak. His legs are still paralyzed and his heart is very weak.”

Stating that people had. gone from village to village collecting money to provide hospital and nursing Cc continued:

“At first we took him to Amrit- sar Hospital, but on the advice of:

doctors we had to remove him to a remote place where only his wife, close friends and -doctors could see him. People for whom he has worked diligently ‘and selflessly came by the hundreds to see him at the hospital, so great was their

are for him, the letter

concern for his recovery.”

Pickets at Massey - Harris

miles despite drenching rain.

Close to 3,000 striking Massey-Harris farm implement work- ers in Toronto have served notice that they do not intend to allow their United Auto Workers union contract to be torn up in face of the company’s “determination to exploit the unemployment situ- ation to the fullest,” in the words of UAW director George Burt. Here pickets are shown patrolling buildings stretched out over two

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Monreal’s first labor mayor.” Announcing his acceptance of the Civic Reform Committee’s nom- ination last week, Camille Dionne, a former member of the AFL Car- penters union and for many years a worker in Quebec lumber camps and mines, said last week: “Montreal needs an honest ad- ministration. Too long has. our city been run by a small clique for its own gain. Too long has the good name of Montreal been dragged through the mud of vice probes and held up to ridicule for our transportation mess. “Montrealers want a subway, a concert hall, a sports arena, decent parks and playgrounds, and want

Lthem designed and built by Cana-

dians, not by so-called American experts. Montrealers want a demo- cratic city council run by Mon- trealers, not by Duplessis. . “Montrealers want lower taxa- tion, and I pledge not to allow the enforcemnt of the increased

longer go on taxing its people for the improvements that have be- come a necessity. Our city is en-

Morgan to speak over CKWX on fare boost

Nigel Morgan, provincial leader of the Labor-Progressive party, will be on the air this Friday, Sep- tember 24, at 7.10 p.m., in’a five- minute broadcast over CKWX stating his party’s position on the fare increase granted the B.C. Electric in Vancouver, North Van- couver, Burnaby and New West- minster, and presenting LPP de- mands for dismissal of the Public Utilities Commission, rescinding of the fare increase and taking over of the B.C. Electric by the

DARSHAN SINGH SANGHA

’

province.

A. war veteran, long active in the labor movement, is the corrupt old-line political machine in the country’s largest city. by entering the mayoralty contest in Montreal with the enthusiastic sup- © port of a Civic Reform Committee whose aim is:

Labor man contests Montreal mayoralty

MONTREAL challenging

“Camille Dionne—

assessment roll. Montreal can no}

titled to a greater share of the taxes already paid by our citizens into the coffers of the provincial and federal governments.

“Montreal needs civic reform! That is why I am proud to be the standard bearer of the Civie Reform Committee for the office - of mayor.”

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