my RUCE MICKLEBURGH Ui | ee fegiect of fity res — lesidents aif JOHNNY OTTEWELL » ORTH VANCOUVER ull. frer making your way i trails through the bush, foing in and out of Hdles and tripping over wen board walks on ill- ted streets, you miught e to the conclusion that @th Vancouver could well rd to embark on a pro- Hy S fa to pave its sidewalks | instal street lights. i was this civie neglect h prompted over 1200 ag: 14 to vote for abolition Hie commission form of gov- jent that has dominated ish Vaneouver for 11 years. yyiously a sleepy hollow lot become an industrial tropolis overnight. The ane shortage was not pe- @ 2 to North Vancouver %:, and the wartime housing mes have only eased the ition. — te housing problem has no mm > been solved in North Van- sr than it has in most other strial communities, nor has Suilding of the new West- ' School eliminated the @ srowded school problem. le transportation system at have been the pride of 2 other city in the nine- ‘ but it is the despair of '® ients today, for North Van- “@ =r street cars have a habit ‘] umping the track, catching | or blowing a fuse or two. * oe tk svertheless, the majority of i people of North Vancouver ‘They believe that with the [for a strone Canadian mer- MANt marine after the war part @eaeir thriving wartime ship- ling industry can be re- “e:d and part converted to MS\r purposes such as the build- lot boxears. hen they go to the polls to | their ballots in the first # election held since 1933 # will have these things in Hi. And it is hardly likely *, remembering the neglect @ivic services under the com- Hionership, they will incline Pilling ear to the blandish- ats of the Ratepayers Asso- son and other organizations s€ proposals for the city ager plan would perpetu- Commissioner Vance in of- jas the city manager. vine convincingly demon- ped their dissatisfaction ; the commissionership they Want a progressive civic directed by their own fed representatives. in th Vancouver citizens last ve in the future of their Skeena LPP Candidate Offers Program | Meet Your | Friends at the .. . Would Develop Northern B.C. Prediction that labor will make an important contribution in planning the postwar de- velopment of northern British Columbia was made by Bruce Mickleburgh, Labor-Progressive federal candidate for Skeena riding, who arrived in Vancou- ver this week after a three-week tour of his constituency. “Skeena riding is so large that it could swallow up all-of New Zealand, Ireland and Pa- lestine put together,” Mickle- burgh pointed out. “It has four great mountain ranges and four giant riyer systems. It has thousands of miles of sheltered coastline, waters teeming with fish, fertile valleys, rich de- posits of coal, iron ore, copper, tungsten, silver, gold, mercury and other minerals, and millions of potential horsepower of hydroelectric energy. “Yet,” he said, “this whole rich area is wellnigh empty of people. Add together the popu- lation of Ocean Falls, with its pulp and paper mill, the can- Charlottes, Prince Rupert it- self, and throw in the tiny clus- ters of population alone the northern line of the CNR, and you get a population of barely 50,000 im an area which could support a dozen cities of 50,000 and a rich and populous coun- tryside besides. “Thirty years ago, Prince Rupert was a boom town ex- pected to rival Vancouver, and the Bulkeley Valley ranked side by side with the Fraser Valley im men’s visions. Yet the boom fizzled out. The Grand Trunk Railway went bankrupt. The population of Prince Rupert shrank to 7,000 people. “The truth is that the area was strangled by the scarcity economy of pre-1939 days, by Hastern industrialists who blocked the way to Western de- velopment, by pre-war pander- ing to imperialist Japan which helped block the building of the Alaska Highway for many years, by local petty business ycoous, and by a vicious system of patronage which reached its heights in the poverty stricken days of the depression, when the people lived on root-crops and moosemeat and $6.40 a month relief. “But all this belongs to the past. Masses of troops and equipment have been rushed into the empty spaces which consti- tuted a gateway through which Japan could have marched to the heart of the continent. The Skeena Highway was rushed through. Airfields have been built. People~ have come to Skeena from all parts of Can- ada, and thousands will stay af- ter the war. And the people of Skeena are asking the world’s $64 question: After the war, what? Shall we go back to the old days, or shall we go for- ward ? “YT believe we shall go for- ward,’ said Mickleburgh. “In the postwar world of interna- tional cooperation, there is a place for the full development _ of northern B.C., standing as it does astride the new crossroads of world trade. For the first time there is a demand for everything this region can pro-- duce.” * ES 2k The 23-year-old Prince Ru- bert school teacher during his tour found great enthusiasm for the program of the labor-Pro- gressive Party among the peo- ple. Discontent with the work of the present Liberal member of parliament, Olaf Hansen, who “only appears in his constitu- ency just before an election,” and resentment at the campaign of the CCE candidate, Harry Archibald, who has ignored the issues of greatest importance to his electorate to concentrate his efforts on propagandizings against the LPP, is widespread, said Mickleburgh. “The people are impatient with a candidate like Archibald, who on the eve of invasion hints that the war against fascism is of secondary importance, and speaks of storm troops in Can- ada after the war,” he stated. “In rural areas I found that the people welcomed the LPP program for consolidation of Schools. I discovered 12 schools closed in Skeena, and children forced to study correspondence courses. The people are de- termined that such a situation must end.” neries dotting the coast, the ° logging camps of the Queen - At a meeting held in one of the closed down schools, in Danskin, Mickleburgh was eagerly -questioned about his ~ program until two o’clock in the morning, and made use of the still-standine blackboards to outline LPP’ policies. Whole families arrived at the meeting in farm wagons, and before they left the children were asleep on the floor. The parents of one child who had been deprived of school education were so en- thusiastie that they followed the example of many others present and became LPP members, and promised that their house- warming (they had been living on the back of a truck, and had just found living accommoda- tion) would take the form of a meeting of the new Labor-Pro- gressive Party club. 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