Voli. Cc No. 44 Waneouver, British Columbia Friday, December 20,- 1946 Five Cents to conclude According to reports made this week by John Turner and Elgin Ruddell, unsuccessful Civic Reform candidates, the €ouncil’s transportation com- inittee is endeavoring to evade a popular yote by rushing the agreement through and ob- taining enabling legislation from the legislature’ at its Spring session. This week Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (TLC) expressed growing }PUblic concern over the city council’s secret deals by de- Mmanding that the proposed BCER AGREE eS With the B.C. Electric’s lavishly embroidered id for a 20-year franchise repudiated by popular vote in Greater Victoria and Burnaby last weelc<. there are indications that Vancouver : City Council is trying its own 20-year agreement with the transit monopoly without submitting it to a plebiscite. franchise be submitted to a referendum vote. It is expect- ed that Vancouver lWLabor Council (CCL) will take a Similar stand. In plebiscites submitted during last week’s municipal elections, Burnaby voted 4,178 to 3,778 against the BCElec- tric franchise, with a vote of |=: 5,638 to 2,221 authorizing the council to explore the possi- bilities of establishing a mu- nicipal bus system. Victoria City voted against the franchise 3,227 to 3,107. PLL LEADED! BLE BEB) BEBE ABI BOBOLAEB| Season’s greetings from LPP leader to be one of momentous decisions. To all LPP members and supporters: “The year 1947 is going : In the struggles of the past year im- portant gains have been registered by progressive forces everywhere. But our people’s postwar aims have yet to be realized. f Canadian monopolists in line with other reactionary forces of world imperialism are intensifying their drive to destroy Big Three unity, under- mine the newly formed people’s governments, defeat the colonial peoples’ struggle for freedom and deny labors rights and standards. In this new year, therefore, let us renew and carry through our pledge to work for greater unity of progressive forces around common needs. ahis is the way, to anew year of victories, —" —=—s —NIGEL MORGAN. LLLP ABB ABE ABELL DBP. American foreign policy as recently stated by its _ self-styled _world-saviors has little of the spirit~—~~ of Santa Claus. Financial aid, food and other essentials of life will only be extended to those countries who ac- cept dollar diplomacy without question. Food By Nations that all Franco ouster tion recommending recall their ambassa from Madrid. Can fact that M. J. Col Ganadian delegation to ernment revealed this week with Spanish leaders in € center with a view hold office until ele to form Progress! a vote of 34 to 6 the United ada abstained from vo dwell, CCF leader, the UN. The Assembly adopted a resolu- member nations immediately dors and diplomatic representatives ting despite the is a member of the British Labor gov- that it has been negotiating wile ‘from right center to left ing an interim government to ctions can be held. = ves ga in in municipal vote — " Re-election of LPP Councillor Harry Ball in Burnaby despite strenuous efforts to unseat him and the surprising defeat of Mayor Tom Uphill, Labor MLA, in Fernie highlighted last week’s civic and municipal election through- out the province. ‘In Burnaby and the Fraser Valley municipalities of Surrey and Langley progressives held most of their council and school board positions and scored a notable gain in the election of Mrs. Mayme MacDonald to Lang- ley School. Board. But on Vancouver Island, in Saanich where Councillor Robert Noble went down to defeat and in Port Alberni where Al- derman Jack Harris and Walter Yates lost by a scant few votes, labor lost three council seats. Following is a summary of election results in cities and municipalities where labor, labor-endorsed and independ- ent progressive candidates contested council, school and parks board, and police com- mission seats. BURNABY : Councillor Harry Ball (LPP) was re-elected in Ward 7 over three opponents. Ball polled 264 votes to 198 for G A. Hardy (Non-Partisan), 175 for James Ryan (independent) and 105 for N. EF. Hatherly (CCE). In Ward 4, Ewen M. Strachan, in his first bid for office as an LPP candi- date, ran third of five candidates, polling 246 votes to the 353 votes obtained by Malcolm F. Green, successful candidate, who also campaigned for a ~municipal bus system. Election of the CCE’s Mrs Flor- ence Cormack and re-election of LPP-endorsed Mrs. Elizabeth Wil- son to two of the three seats up for election gave progressives a majority of three of the five school board seats. Mrs. Cormack polled 3,541 votes and Mrs. Wil- son 3,031. A second ILPP-endorsed candidate, Alfred Bingham, polled 2,182 votes. : NEW WESTMINSTER : Hugh Clark, who received the endorsation of all major Royal City trade unions, failed to win a eouncil seat but doubled his pre- vious vote in 1943 with 1,021 votes. SURREY In face of a well-organized campaign by the reactionary Sur- rey Property Owners’ Association to oust all progressives from municipal office, agreement on Candidates between the WPP and the CCE enabled Councillor Ben Shepherd to win acclamation in Ward 2, although IWA-endorsed Ted Hansen lost to Councillor J. W.