WARD Two

, Labor     Election  

 

 

vol. 1, No. 1

 

, October 12th, 1954

TKARDASHDEMANDS JOB ACTION

TO SAVE   WINNIPE:G,’S   FUTURE

Winnipeg Loses Gas Utility
“A $12,000,000 Give-='Away”

”A $12 million give-away.” is
how W. G. Gilbey, candidate for
alderman in Word Two, describes
_the deal on the former Winnipeg
lectric gas utility. A Winnipeg‘
Tribune editorial of last month
stated: ‘

The wrong-headed group.-
lywh/a.--fought against Plan C
must feel especjallygsick when
they turn to the financial
pages and see what is hap-

»pening to the gas utility
stock‘. . Winnipeg could
     

pony  llstoleki"anId**‘*barre
for $l million. Shares in the
company” are now selling at
i234. This means that the
market places a value of
$l2,l25,000 on the com-
pany thatiWinnipeg could
have bought two years ago
for $1 million——the company ‘
one talkative alderman called
a "pile 'of junk.” Some junk.

,What the Tribune didn't tell its
readers _ was that one. Alderman,

Hand only one-l-'-——Jacob Penner of

the Labor Election Committee-—
movedna motion. calling for the

_ city to buy the gas utility at $1-

_,mill.io,n' in order to distributeegas
to consumers at cost. A

But Alderman Penner’s motion
didn't even get a seconder. The
‘CCF aldermen remained silent.
The CEC aldermen sneered-

What a disgrace! Just think———
CCF silence and CEC opposition
aost'Winnipeg $11’ million. A
shameful mishandling of your
interests!

The._Labar Election Committee
 says that it iststill not too late

-to change the situation. Council

can apply tothe Legislature for?

a charter to set up its own gas

.. Gilbey  

 

A  w. G.n_EY

distributing company. This must
be done—.-—NOW!-—-so that ‘when
the natural ‘gas pipeiine is open
next year Winnipeg users will be
able to get gas at cost and not be
profit gauged. ’ 

The building of’ such  dis-

tributing company will also mean E

jobs for hundredsof Winnipeggers

g now facing a stark winter of un-

employment.

’.’The voters can change the
present disgraceful situation by
manges in Council,” stated Gil-

bey. ”Defeat those whose actions

cost Winnipeg $1], million. Elect
Aldermen who you know by the
record will fight for public gas

distribution at cost.”

”: .un¢i:Ie  as’ "‘iayl$fFs. ariieeeese 

‘including People’_s

VVurkers nf

Ward Two Vote’-

. for new industries here instead of

Labour

In the last few weeks fear of

mass unemployment has grown in
Winnipeg. 200 were-layed off at
the Vulcan lron Works. The CNR
pattern and moulders’ shop is
closing down in’ Transcana. The

Co-‘op’ Farmglmplement plant fail—_ f
- ed to re-open as scheduled._ L:ay-
. -offs in other industries are on the
-increase. The situation is defin-

itely, serious. A

Last week, W. A. Kardash,

Labor it Election Gommittee candi-

date -for Mayor, stated that it was
clear that the fight for jobs is the
key’ issue in this civic“bat,t_le. E

”~lt is shameful that nothing is
$0 or  bye  

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mas-s unemployment '.t‘hreaEte,ns,”
he said. ’’How‘ can they remain
silent when the very livelihood of
thousands is invloved?” . . '

Speaking out against a return
to the Hungry Thirties, he pointed
out that the crisis need not take
place. ‘ T '

”Jobs can be maintained if we
start trading with all c'ountries
who are willing to trade with us——-
China. Jobs
can be created if we undertake
aprogram of building hospitals,
schools, bridges, low-rental homes
by using funds now being “used
t'o put gunsinto the hands of the
same Nazis who murdered Cana-

dian boys."

Kardash called for the conven- ,
.ing of a jobs conference to in-

clude representatives of labor,
industry, the provincial and fed-_,
eral governments.’ Such a confer-
ence would consider: a) A program
of needed public works, and b)
how tolsee to it that the rich
resources of Manitoba are used

being plundered by Americanvcorn
poratians. A

  w. A. KARDASHA  
”The time has come,” he stated,
”when the ‘working people of Win-

nipeg must throw, out the big
business clique in council arid put

[in new people with new -policies..

The _ number one issue is jobs-—
and that deserves your number one
vote!” ‘

Condemned Schools‘
Menace Student Health

, Six years after the “Reavis "re-
port stated that l4 city schools
should be condemned, five ‘out of

-"the six -of them in Word Two are

still in use. 1
Calling foriirnmediate action to
replace the Somerset, Wellington,
Pinkham, John M. King and ls-
bister sch'ools,, Roland Penner.
Labor ~Election Committee Ward

‘2 School Board candidate, stated

that these schools were a menace
to‘ students’ health. ’

”Not ‘only are they a menace‘

to their health/fie he added, ”but

pupils in these ancient schools are ‘

being unfairly handicapped. with
inadequate facilities. Citizens of
Ward ’.l'>wo have a ri‘ght”to demand
action" on this question.’-’*

On October 27th, a vote for
Roland Penner is a vote for action
to provide decent modern schools
for"our children. i A