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Deer Lake
‘Fouled By
‘Sewage

| BURNAY, B.C. — Burnaby
Municipal Council is still press-
ing for a proper sewerage dis-
posal system for Deer Lake
= despite a report from Dr. Stuart
Murray, Vancouver Health Of-
ficer, that the lake compares

S respect.

“The lake is absolutely unfit
for bathing,” Councillor Harry
Ball told the People this weel:.
“The lake is a receptacle for
Pall of the sewerage from the
\Oakalla prison farm, and the
Iplace is absolutely unsafe for
either children or adults due to
‘the fouling of the water. We
shall ask for a further analy-
psis.”

‘The council thas set up a
"committee to investigate a re-
eguest to build auto camps in
ithe niunicipality.

“Since these camps are in-
vitably used as permanent
‘residences in these times,” said
Ball, “we feel that a careful
investigation iS necessary be-
‘fore permision is granted.”

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JAMES MacPHERSON:
His party made a good showing

Miners Greet
LaborVeteran

ROSSLAND, B. ©
“The province of British
Columbia was the first place
in North America to have

a law passed enforcing the
eight hour day,’. James
Robinson, CIO organizer

and father of Reid Robin-
son, International president
of the Internation Union of
Mine Mill and Smelter Work-
ers, stated in an interesting ad-
dress at an open air HASSE in
Rossland last week.

“The miners, through their
efforts in the militant Western
Federation of Miners were suc-
cessful in bringing about the
eight-hour day,” he said. “The
working people of the Kooten-
ays Have been endowed with the
rich heritage of the WEM and
will carry on this tradition as
defenders of democracy.

“™he members of Local 480

have big tasks ahead,” Robinson
eontinued, “by preparing for a
postwar Canada with shorter
work day and work week.

“We should elect the right
people to our legislative halls
to enact social legislation that
will guarantee a full life to the
people of this Dominion.”

Robinson, who was recording
secretary of the first local of
the Western Federation of Min-
ers formed at Ymir, spoke of
his earlier experiences in Can-
ada as a construction worker on
the railroad in Saskatchewan,
which at that time was still the
Northwest Territorities. Later
he worked as a longshoreman at
Victoria, and a seaman on boats
between Vancouver, Victoria
and- Seattle.

Praising the oldtimers for the
solid foundation they had laid
for the WEM by their bitter
struggles in the early nineties
Mayor John Gordon of Rossland,
chairman of the meeting, point-
ed out that the present power-
ful loeals of the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers had developed from the
early struggles of the WEM.

“Seventy five percent of the
workers in CMS plants are
members of the IUMMSW,” he
said.

Split Vote Loses Crows Nest for Labor

Alberta LPP Makes Strong First Bid

EDMONTON—Maintaining their anti-old line party tradition in provincial politics
and routing from all but three seats the remnants of the once strong provincial Liberal

and Conservative parties combined in the Independent ticket.

Alberta's voters this week

returned the Social Credit government of Premier E. C. Manning to office with 44 certain

and 51 probable seats in the 57-seat legislature.

Opposition parties won only six seats,

three going to the Independents, two to the CCF and one to a Veteran’s candidate,
W. J. Williams, who took one of the five Edmonton seats.

The Labor-Progressive Party,
making its first major bid in
any province since its formation
last year, failed to elect any of
its 30 candidates, although in
the Pincher-Crows Nest con-
stituency, Mayor Enoch Wil-
liams, running as a Labor-Unity
candidate with LPP support,
was defeated by E. O. Duke, his
Social Credit opponent, only

through the intervention of a
CGF candidate.

Insistence of the CCF in
nominating Rey. W. H. Irwin
split the labor yote so- that
while Irwin trailed the field
with 948 votes on the last
available count, these yotes.
east for Williams, who polled
1821 votes on the same count,
would have given him a com-
fortable margin over Duke’s
2190 votes.

Elsewhere, the vote cast for
Labor - Progressive candidates
reflected strong support for the
party’s policies. In Edmonton,
James MacPherson, LPP provin-
cial leader, was eliminated only
on the 11th count of ballots un-
der Alberta’s proportional rep-
resentation system of voting,
and in Drumbeller, Thomas
Mackie ran second to PO. Gor-
don Taylor, Social Credit, his
695 yotes givine. him a slim lead
over Alfred Thryso, CCF, with

655 votes. Taylor polled 2212
votes.
constituencies where —

Other

New Veterans
Seek Support

Hd leary, president, and
John Turner, secretary, were
elected as delegates to the fifth
annual convention of the Canad-
jan Congress of Labor when
delegates to Vancouver Labor
Council met this week.

Seeking the support of labor,
Hric Martin, provincial presi-
dent of the New Veterans
branch of the Canadian Legion,
outlined” the New Veterans’
postwar rehabilitation program
and gained a pledge of full co-
operation from the meeting.

Reporting: the stand taken by
the Indutrial Reconstruction
and Social Development Coun-

cil on housing and evictions,
Organizer Ted Ward announced
that following a mass meeting
planned for this” week to dis-
cuss the situation, a delegation,
headed by Jack Henderson, pro-
vineial president of the Canad-
ian legion, would confer with
Vancouver City Council, Mon-
day, August 14. 3

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the LPP showed considerable
steength were:

Athabaska (Gordon Lee, S€,
2069; J. BK. Ball, CCF, 1269; C.
J.McKenzie, LPP, 477—50 of
61 polls);

Edson; formerly held by An-
gus Morrison, Labor, who did
not seek reelection CNorman
Willmore, SC, 2471: W. H.
Dixon, -CCF, 1236; George
Brownlow, LPP, 578—44 of 45
polls) ;

Redwater (J. M. Popil, SC,
2214; Michael Hyduk, LPP,
891; ; C. West, CCE, 70—40
of 42 polls) ;

St. Paul (J. W. Beaudry,
SC, 1706; J. A. Beauregard,
CCF, 1317; Dan Gamache,
LPP, 663—43 of 59 polls):

Vegreyille (Michael Pon-
ich, SC, 1816; W G. Porayko,
CCE, 1273; Peter Tymechuk,
LPP, 569);

Willingdon (William Tomyn,
SC; 1769; 1. L. Kotash, CCF,
1306; William Yusep, LPP,
868).

While Alberta’s voters deci-
Sively rejected the MIndepend-
ents—Hon. Solon H. Low de-
feated James H. Walker, leader
of the Independents in Warner
—and reduced their 15 seats in
the last legislature to three, they
also failed to elect a strong
group of labor representatives

‘to influence the Social Credit

government’s policies.

In the last legislature Elmer
E. Roper, CCF provincial leader,

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elected in a byelection and again
returned in his Edmonton con-
stituency, held one seat and An-
gus Morrison sat for Edson as a
Labor member. The next les-
islature wall have two CGF mem-
bers, Roper and PO. A. Liese-
mer, elected from one of the
five Calgary seats.

M. J. Coldwell, CCE national
leader, in a press statement is-
sued this week attributed defeat
of all but two of his party’s 57
candidates in Alberta to “the
daily press, which four years
ago united the Miberals and
Conservatives into the so-called
Independent party; the Social
Gredit Party and the old Gom-
munist Party, under its new
name, Labor-Progressive Party,
cee all combined to stop the

More accurately he should-

have looked for the failure of

his party’s appeal to the vot-

ers. of Alberta—an appeal
backed by the personal entry
into the campaign of Premier
T. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan
—in the narrow, anti-unity po-
licies, lavishly smeared with
demagogic promises, propound-
ed by CCE candidates from
every platform.

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