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TISAN FUNDS?

What contributions have city gambling interests made to Non-Partisan campaign funds? This is the question being asked in the wake of the charges of graft and corrup- tion in the Vancouver police department now being investigated by the Tupper Commission.

Allegations that at least two city gamblers have been substantial contributors to Non-Partisan campaign funds are given substance by evidence now reluctantly brought

Cooperation pledged

by Soviet

scientists

By PETER FRYER

LONDON

Prof. A. V. Topchiev, general secretary of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, electrified a gathering of scientists from 24 countries in London last week when he gave a twofold pledge on behalf of Soviet scientists.

In a remarkable speech—a speeth that Lord Beveridge

praised “with all my heart’ for

its “magnificence and its tone”’—

Topchiev declared:

@ That Soviet scientists would in future take part in any measures aimed at removing the threat of military use of atomic energy.

@ That Soviet scientists made no secret of their achieve- ments in the sphere of thee peaceful use of atomic energy —and wished to share these

achievements widely with the scientists of other coun- tries.

‘As a token of this second pledge, Topchiev handed to the conference, for distribution to the delegates, 20 copies of the five-volume report of the pro- ceedings of last month’s session of the Soviet Academy of Sciences where 80 reports were made on the peaceful use of atomic energy in the USSR.

Topchiev was speaking on the following resolution, moved by Bertrand Russell, the British phi- losopher:

New Oftawa-Toronto negotiations -under way

“Since in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and since such weap- ons threaten the continued exist- ence of civilized life, and pos- sibly even mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge pub- licly, that their purposes cannot be furthered by world war.

“Consequently we urge the im- mediate examination of the im- plications of recent scientific de- velopments for humanity as a whole and the promotion of peace- ful-means for the settlement of all matters of international dis- pute.”

Topchiev said Soviet scien- tists fully shared the desire of the organizers of the conference —the World Association of Par- liamentarians for World Govern- ment—to secure elimination of war between states as a means of settling international prob- lems.

There was a stir throughoout

Continued on back page See SCIENTISTS

National campaign can save gas pipeline

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Scoreedian public opinion has as Mevee Signal victory. Roused NOunce, etore by Ottawa’s an- Rive eat that it planned to Natur D uilding the all-Canadian * Simija, as pipeline—a project %f Ca, 7, effect to construction

ada’s first transcontinental

railway — Canadians directed flood of protests to Ottawa. Popular indignation, resolutions of the major labor conventions, the outstanding recent “march on Ottawa” by the mayors and alder- men of 40 Northern and North- West Ontario municipalities, the campaign of the Labor-Progres-

sive party, have all compelled Prime Minister St. Laurent and Trade Minister C. D. Howe to back down.

Almost written off as a lost cause, the issue of “the longest pipeline in the world” has been Cramatically reopened.

Negotiations are now underway

on a new plan whereby the fed- eral government and the Ontario provincial government will joint- ly finance and build the section of the 2,200-mile pipeline between Winnipeg and northern Ontario. All Canada would benefit if the Continued on back page See PIPELINE

to light revealing the struggle for control of the city’s lucrative gambling and bookmaking racket and the desire of gambling in- terests to curry favor with those in power.

The Non-Partisan administra- tion, which is actually a Liberal- Conservative civic coalition dom- inated- by big business interests, has ‘held power at Vancouver City Hall for nearly two decades.

In that time it has suffered only one major. defeat, when Dr. Lyle Telford won the mayoralty in 1938. But on several occa- sions it has faced strong chal- lenges. They have come both from groups representing other big business interests, whose successful candidates were ab- orbed into the Non-Partian ma- chine, and spokesmen for citi- zens’ interests like Effie Jones, who could neither be absorbed nor silenced.

In every campaign, and partic- ularly in those years when it has felt its continued domination of civic politics to. be threatened, the Non-Partisan Association has spent money lavishly to re-elect its candidates.

Where did the money come from?

_A large part of it came from big ‘business interests whose poli- cles were being carried on to the council floor by Non-Partisan

»aldermen.

There were others who had every reason to fear reform-mind- ed candidates. They were the gambling and bookmaking inter- ests which have continued to flourish under Non-Partisan ad- ministration.

‘What part have they played to “Keep Politics out of Vancouver City Hall” — the cynical Non- Partisan slogan.

That’s a question citizens are asking. They cannot expect a satisfactory answer from the Non- Partisans. But it’s part of a growing conviction that civie re- form and Non-Partisan adminis- tration are incompatible. To ob- tain the first they must get rid of the second.

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