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Vol..6. No. 49 Vancouver, B.C., Friday, December 5, 1947 . <>" Five Cents

FARE PROTEST SWING
VOTE TO EFFIE JONE

‘Mayoralty bid gets

Throughout the city this week support for Effie Jones has been gathering a
strength that promises to sweep her into the mayor's office when the votes are

‘counted on December 10.

Popular indignation against the 10-cent increased

street car fare which went into effect this week has generated such a protest

that the campaign for low fares now threatens to smash the Non-Partisan

machine which has openly ignored the protest to identify itself with the

Passes may
- be restored

VICTORIA, 3B.C, — Assur-
ance that public hearings
will be held and representa-
tions from groups opposed
to the fare increase consid-
ered was given by Dr. W.
A. Carrothers, chairman of
the Public Utilities Commis-
sion, when he met with
@ representative Vancouver
delegation here this week.
‘ Carrothers told the dele-
gation, which included Mrs,
Effie Jones, Civic Reform
mayoralty candidate, that the
commission was now waiting
on the submission to be made
by Vancouver City Council.

A possible concession won
by the delegation was Car-
rothers’ indication that the
commission would reconsid-
er its order abolishing week-
ly passes. The delegation
urged that the passes be re-
stored because their with-
drawal was working hard-
ship on industrial and of-
fice workers,

BCElectric. Seldom in the city’s 60-odd years has any campaign aroused such

enthusiasm. After a decade of government by a privileged
clique which has arrogated to itself the right to select
office-holders, relying on a “solid” vote to put the stamp of
public approval on its selection, citizens now see an op-
portunity to rid themselves of the machine that has fast-
ened itself upon them. Many of them, like Mrs. Nancy
Nelson, a supporter in the West End who phones 10 people
a day from her sick bed, are bringing to the campaign an
enthusiasm and determination that the Civic Non-Partisan
Association, with all its professional organizers and finan-
cial resources, can never command,

Voters disgusted with CNPA

Support for Effie Jones, and her running mate in the
aldermanic contest, Elgin Ruddell, comes firstly from the
working people in the city’s neglected Hastings East and
Vancouver South districts. But the support inspired by
the fighting woman candidate’s challenge to the BCElectric
and the Non-Partisan machine is not confined to any one
zrea of the city nor to any one section of its people.

In Dunbar, school teachers and small businessmen, dis-
gusted with the Non-Partisans’ record, are campaigning
as vigorously as the fishermen and waterfront workers in
Hastings East who have not heard a voice raised in their
interest on the council for years.

A score.of grievances on which the Non-Partisans have
failed to act, despite their 10 years in office, are winning

(Continued on page 8 — See MAYORALTY)

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MES. EFFIE JONES

- By HAL GRIFFIN :

Who will succeed retiring
Premier John Hart as the
provincial leader of the Lib-

tainly, as premier of British
Columbia? This is the ques-
tion to determine which

vincial convention are being
lobbied and lined up as they
converge on Vancouver this
weekend for their three-day
meeting opening December
It is also a question in which
organized labor, having

‘Boss’ Johnson Tory favorite for Liberal leadership

Imost Cé€f-_ a8
eral Party and, a ~ rect bearing on labor’s de-

delegates to the Liberal pro-

waged a vigorous campaign
against Bill 39, has consid-

‘erable interest, for the fu-

ture government leadership
and line-up will have a di-

mand for -fair labor legisla-

tion.

The chief contenders for
the Liberal. leadership, At-
torney-General Gordon S&.
Wismer, member for Van-
couver Center, and. Byron
“Boss” Johnson, member
for New Westminster, have
both been busy during the

past few weeks organizing
delegates and supporters to
press their claims: The.Con-
servatives, who have - little
hope of being able to foist
their own choice for the
premiership, Finance Minis-
ter Herbert Anscomb, on
the Coalition caucus which
must follow the Liberal con-
vention, - have also been

busy. And it is apparent
that their discussions have
already had some _ influence
on the contest between the
two leading Liberals.

Finally, Liberal members But in the: last few weeks

of the House of Commons,
and particularly James. Sin-
clair, MP for North Vancon-
ver, who is reputed to be
luke-warm to the provincial
coalition, and Tom Reid, MP
for New Westminster, who
helped to put over “Boss”
Johnson as the Liberal
candidate in the New West-
minster . provincial — byelec-
tion in’ 1945, have also had
a hand in shaping the future.

Until recently the odds
were against Johnson and
few conceded him a chance.

Johnson has been stumping
in the Interior-and elsewhere
and has contrived to line up
sufficient. delegates to pre-
sent.a serious bid for the
leadership. is

It is an open secret that.
Johnson has the backing of
the Conservatives, just as he

had in the nominating con- °

vention at New Westminster
two years ago when Mayor
William Mott and former
mayor Fred Hume were his

(Continued on Page 8)
See LIBERALS