Gowns past four years has been able to do: : A search of the records con- firmed the ugly fact Dhe robes, and the more befitting cocked hat, really did belong to Senator Me- Geer, who seems to feel that he will need them to impress the Senate, all his other efforts having failed. He had paid $527 for them out of his own pocket—in hard eash, not baby bonds. This posed a challenge to the mayor, and he has never been one to evade a chalienge, at least, not as long as he can pass the buck to the provincial and federal gov- ernments. This was one issue on which he could not pass the buck, unless it was to the Senate, and it was doubtful if the members of that august body would stay in session long encugh to accept it. So the mayor had to do something and thereby forfeit his claim to having held the chief magistrate’s office without accomplishing any- thing longer than any other mayor siiice the Non-Partisan Associa- tion took over the city hall. Mustering all his dignity, Mayor Cornett ennounced quite firmly that he woule net wear the robes again. Privately, most citizens agreed with him. The thought of the mayor going: to ceremonial functions improper- ly dressed so moved former Taieut— G@evernor Eric W. Hamber that -he arranged without further to-do to present another robe and hat to the city. Senator McGeer’s comment on this, not without its calculated appeal to those citizens who still believe that two wrongs will set the city right, was: ‘Tm pglad amber is doing something for the city. He’s col- lected enough interest from it.” But, as Eigin Ruddell, civic re- form candidate for the aldermanic byelection, succinctly opined, “The battle of the robes is only a cloak.’ So it was. - t * x * This week Mayor Cornett found himself with still more serious difficulties on his hands. Appar- ently Attorney-General Gordon Wismer had been ordering the police to raid gambling dens with- out asking his permission. It was all right, of course, to arrest trade unionists on the picket line, but this was going too far. It was a violation of the city charter and therefore an infringement of democratic rights. What was more, the Vancouver Sun charged “that a protection fund netting around $50,000 a month was provided by the vari- cus (gambling) joints.” And, as every one who is any one knows, you just don’t talk about such things in the best Won-Partisan circles. You don’t even talk akout them in high Liberal circles (un- less you are sure the doors are closed) without good reasons. § q GREETINGS to ; Pacific Tribune « - « 4FOM .. - DR. W. J. CURRY Style Value Quality Always at the Home of UNION MADE ; CLOTHING — and Friendly Service Established For 4 Over 40 Years Phone PAc. 3645 45 KE. Hastings — Vancouver 2 PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 8 ee ~~ Tt seemed likely that Attorney— General Wismer, a good Liberal, had at least one good reason. A civic election, with a lively three ‘or four-cornered contest for the mayoralty, was in the offing and the raid was politically embarras- sing for Mayor Cornett, a good Conservative. Besides, the joint was in Attorney-General Wismer’s own Vancouver Center constitu- ency. In the meantime, it is believed at Non'- Partisan headquarters that everything in the city is lovely. The housing problem has been solved (by the simple expedi- ent of forcing people to crowd into already overcrowded quar- ters) and the BCE lectric has been promised another 20-year lease on life (if the cars and tracks hold out that long). True, civic services are falling apart and Pender and Main streets haven’t been paved for 30 years, but no one need worry seriously about that. In another 30 /years wel all be using heli- copters and the cows can be turned out to pasture between the tracks (thereby solving the coun- cil’< difficulty of what to do about the increased price of milk). Why should the people of South Van- couver worry about sewers? Yeu can’t get plumbing: outside the black market, anyway. And if taxes are higher, you should be glad to pay for the privilege GE keeping politics ou: of the city Gail. The most important thing is that the ‘nayer has a new robe and on this solid accomplishment the WNon-Partisans will try once again to knock their opponents into a cocked hat. Public forum Wigel Morgan, provincial leader of the LPP, will address a public Brief fit men was in the provinces o Alberta and Saskatchewan, where the superior nutritional standard of rural families was no doub prices . . . which we believe will create an undue hardship on wage earners in the low-wage brackets.” The women’s auxiliar- ies of the IWA, through their £ s t t = Fotor organization in many industrial he decisive actor. centers, have initiated a signa- Thus, in summary, the increas- ture campaign. ed price of milk through elim- dnation of the subsidy means: @ An increase in the cost of In face of the popular protest movement and the alarm ex pressed by farmers over the pros- pective cut in milk consumption— when the price of milk was in- ivi i il rise th livang: his wall sas chrouel ereased last June by two cents increased prices to consumers f0r| ij sales dropped five percent— milk, butter, cheese and other| observers here believe that the dairy products. @ Financial losses to farmers. Removal of the subsidy and th inereased cost to the consume is of no benefit to the farme who received nothing in addition to present earnings, as the creased consumer price sidy. Indeed, the farmer will b worse off as the demand for hi product will inevitably decrease. @ Lower per capita milk con- sumption. As already pointed out even now 15 percent below minimum heaith -Or private body Should dare to trifie with the health of the people of milk consumption is standards.. No .government this country. The labor movement of British Columbia calls upon the provin- cial government to accept its re- sponsibility for the health of the people of this province. We urge, therefore, provincial government take subsidy. The health and living standards of the people of British Columbia must be protected. in- merely replaces the amount of the sub- that the im- mediate steps to restore the milk government can be forced to re- consider its stand. The argument advanced by the Saskatchewan IPP executive in reply to the Douglas government's contention that it could not afford e€ rT r Shearer to represent BRC VANCOUVER — Attending the 19th convention of the Brother- hood of Railway Carmen of Am- erica, Sam Shearer, delegate from Local 58, BRC, has been elected by the convention to rep- resent the Grand Lodge BRC in all AFI, conventions for the next four years. e Ss Milk to assume milk , subsidy costs applies with even greater point to B.C. : “A government that_earms over $6,000,000 a year in liquor profits eannot say that $200,000 to spend cn a matter which is so vital to the health of our children as the milk subsidy,” the LPP declared. The government of British Col- umbia in 1945 made $8,000,000 in liquor profits. Premier Hart does not argue that his government eannot afford to subsidize milk He makes* it obvious that he doesn’t want to because it would Set a precedent. 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