ce ERA ded

former mayor, John Gordon, wh

“prominent in TWA women’s aux-

With labor
centers throughout th
in determining the c

the Endorsation of Local

Elsewhere in the Province
BA

MELA for Fernie, is heading i Mayor Tom Uphill, Labor

labor slate. In Rossland, a
© 18 a member of Local 480,
is expected to enter
Gr’s -Support. eorge
| shop Steward for Local 4g0, eae
an William Cunning-
is Seeking re-election.

Mine, Mill and Smelter Wreorker

ham, prominent
Both are running with labor support. :
On Vancouver Island, Alderman’ Walter Yates

ber of the TWA, Loren Jordan and George Harris are all

council. In the village municipality
ef Cowichan Lake, Ralph Godfrey
iS running for village commis-
sioner and Mrs. Edna Brown,

Floyd Hamilton, school board
chairman standing for re-election,
are running in Surrey. Two mem-
bers of the United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union are also
Candidates in the Fraser Valley,
Councilor Jack Treliving seeking
re-election to Langley Council and
Alex Eyton seeking re-election to
Surrey School Board.

iliaries, 1S a candidate for sehool
beard. ;

in Lower Mainland miunicipali-
ties, two DWA leaders, Ted Han-
Sen, candidate for council,

and

In Vancouver, A. T. Alsbury,

Labor play tiv le in civic electi
: independent candidates contesting council and school boad seats in nearly all. major
© Province, British Columbia’s trade union and Progressive move ment this year
Umpoesition of civic and municipal government.
abor councils, as has John Turner, Civic Reform candidate for alderman.

1-118, International Woodworkers of Ame
ns tn his bid for a council seat.

is taking an active part

CCF nominee for mayor, has
In Victoria, Ben Sced is standing
rica, and in Westminster, Hugh Clark has

for Surrey

America, and vice-president. of its
Royal City sub-local, which is
endorsing his candidacy for coun-
eil. f-

Hansen is advocating as part
of his election «program.

@ A long-range road hard-
Surfacing program.

@ Establishment of a munici-
pal bus system to serve the fast-
rowing north end of the munici-
pality. :

ANNA T. LOWERY

i sit f chi nain issue i
SS & a ; a larged to seven, three progressive |.
Ee 5 candidates, Floyd Hamilton, Alex
| L g | Hyton and Mrs. Anna T. Lowery,

BURNABY, B.C. — Establishment of a municipally-
owned bus system in Burnaby has become a major issue in
this year’s municipal election, with two LPP candidates for
council, Harry Ball in Ward 7 and Ewen M. Strachan in
Ward 4, taking a leading part in the campaign.

Ball, a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers and Firemen, has represented Ward 7 for the past
three years and, despite the entry of two other candidates
in an attempt to split the progressive vote three ways in a
four-cornered contest, it is expected that he will again head

the poll for the ward. — ae :
During the past few months his strong Opposition in
the council to giving the BCElectric a 20-year transportation
iranchise and his insistent demand that the council establish
its own bus system has enabled
community and other groups to
organize a strong campaign in
support of his proposals. :

Strachan, a newcomer in
Burnaby municipal politics al-
though long a resident of_ the
municipality, is also condiuct-
ing his campaign around the
transportation issue, pointing
out that the BC Electric fran-
chise favored by some members
of the present council will ac-
tually increase fares for people
in Ward 4 without giving them
any great improvement in ser-
vice.

“For years the people of Burn-
aby, have been agitating for bet-
ter transportation,” he declares,
“and now that the municipality is
building up and transportation
becomes a more profitable under-
taking, the BC Blectric is sud-
denly anxious to provide it.

“Tf we are foolish enough to
give the BC Electric the 20-year
franchise it wants, we may be
sure that profitable operation and
not service to the people or de-
velopment of new

will be the main consideration.
By providing our own municipal
tran$portation we shall | be in a
better position to obtain service
where it is needed and to govern
Cur Owe a eoae candidates for
school board are Mrs. Elizabeth
Wilson, energetic community

ecomraunities |:

@ Opening of negotiations with
other municipalities with a view
to having senior governments em-
bark on a water scheme to serve
the Fraser Walley. : :

Hor the school board, now en-

all members of the present board,
have announced their intention of
standing for re-election. Hamilton,
who has been board chairman for
the past two years, is an inter-
national organizer for the IWz.A,

worker, now completing
her first two-year term as 4
trustee, and Alfred Bingham,
who has been associated with

labor and community organiza- | and Eyton is a member of the
Hions in Burnaby since he came | United Fishermen and Allied
te the municipality from Win- | Workers’ Union.

nipeg in 1919. Im Winnipeg he |— Another ~progressive candidate

was a member of the Reta
Clerks’ Union and a delegate to
Winnipeg Trades and Labor
Council.

week is William C. Byatt, of
Crescent. He is contesting a seat
on Surrey Police Commission.

Royal City unions in
fight to elect Clark

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.—Supported by all major
trade unions in the Royal City, including the International
Woodworkers and the International Longshoremen and

Warehousemen, Hugh Clark, former president of Local 180

£ of United Packinghouse Workers
& = of America, this week entered the
Civie election campaign as Labor
candidate for alderman.

Scottish-born, Husn Clark has
lived in the Sapperton district for
many years and is- widely known
in trade union and veterans’ ore-
anizations. He is a veteran of
both world wars and a one-time
president of the Army, Navy and
Airforce Veterans Association
here.

The big vote he polled in his
first bid for council in 1943 indi_
cates that he will be a strong
candidate in a city where ergan-
ized labor has established a tra-
qition of participation in civic
affairs.

New Westminster, with its
thousands of sawmill workers
organized into one of the Inter-
national Woodworkers’ biggest lo-
cals, looks upon itself as a labor
town, yet labor has no direct rep-
resentation on the Liberal-con-
trolled city council.

HUGH CLARK

PRAIRIE, B.C.
poth well known
municipality
work and

LANGELY
Two women,
throughout Langley,
for their community
poth long identified with DEOST es
sive organizations, will be candi-

dates for municipal office this

year.
They are Mrs. Helen Din-

woodie, who will stand for coun-

J] in Ward 4, and Mrs. Mayme

M recently elected dis-

MacDonald,

ELIZABETH WILSON
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3

Women contesting Langley council, beard seats

lished during his first term of
office.

trict president of Parent-Teacher
Associations in Langley, who is
contesting the school board seat

patos With Tangley’s school bylaw

SBS came close to winning last approved by voters earlier this
year- year and the first section of the
in Ward i, Councillor Jack jlong range hard-surfacing pro-
freliving, member of the Unit |sram now being completed, lum-
ed Fishermen and Allied Work | ber priorities for schools and es-
ers’ Union and a veteran of the |sential housing has become a
labor movement, is expected to |major issue in the election cam-

be returned to the council on
the fine record he has estab-

worker, who is now completing
paign.

CLOVERDALE, B.C.—Surrey’s Ward 1,
sented for many years by Tom Binnie,
a labor representative again in 33-year old Ted Hansen, first
vice-president of Local 1-357, International Woodworkers of

‘who announced his candidacy this |

IWA leader candidate

il
ably repre-
is expected to return

TED HANSEN -

Labor supporting
farm nominees

MISSION, 8B.C-—labor is
ing a hand in this year’s elec-
tion in Mission municipality
through Local 1-367 of the Int-
ernational Woodworkers of Am-
erica. The union is supporting
two candidates, both farmers and
both associated with the trade
union movement.

€. S. Mills, making his first
bid for municipal office as a
candidate for reeve, is a former
recording secretary of MWLocal
1-367.

A veteran of the First World
War, he is prominent in the Mis-_
Sion branch of the Canadian TLe-
gion and is widely known for his
work in veteran’s affairs.

#or Mission Municipal Coun-
cil the union is endorsing an-
Other veteran, James Terris.
Himself a former member of
the United Mline- Workers of
America, Derris now has three
sons and a danghier in the
international Woodworkers of
America.

PRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946

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