the stricken prairies. immediate session of Canada’s new parliament. To wait for the sched- uled November. meeting may be too late. Here are some of the harsh facts which face not only the farmers, but the entire nation: @ 95 million bushels of last year’s wheat crop are still stored on prairie farms. Why? Because practically every prairie wheat ele- vator is plugged. Because, as the DBS Wheat Review reports Can- ada had 404.6 million bushels of wheat for sale‘ this July as com- pared to 260.1 million a year ago. @ Our farmers are now har- vesting a bumper 1953 wheat crop estimated at 604 million bushels — 574 million of it on the prairies. This means that our country will have about a thousand. million bushels of wheat to sell this year! Prairie farmers work overtime harvesting record-breaking grain ‘crops. By CHARLES SIMS Canada moving into dangerous wheat crisis as made-in-U.S. policy strangles export trade Canada is moving into the most dangerous wheat crisis since the plighted days of the Hungry Thirties when farmers got 32 cents a bushel, exports shrank to 86.6 million bushels, and Bennett buggies crossed It is a crisis shaping up which, if not headed off by immediate government action, heralds crippling disaster for the whole of the Canadian economy. Its gravity demands that the government should call an @ ~ At the most 160 million bush- els will go to the domestic market |which means Canada has about 840 /million bushels of wheat to export. @ Workers in the grain eleva- ‘tors at the Lakehead, in Montreal ‘and on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are being laid off. Why? Be- cause Canada has lost the British wheat market, Our wheat sales to |the world are shrinking. The ter- }minal elevators are plugged. | @ The US. is harvesting a crop lof 1.2 billion bushels of wheat and lhas a carryover of 575 million ‘bushels. With a U.S. domestic mar- /ket of 700 million bushels Wash- ‘ington is looking for export mar- |kets for over a billion bushels of wheat. Indicative of Yankee thrust for markets is the fact that in the | past weeks export wheat prices on the Chicago grain exchange have been slashed by 15 cents a bushel, LABOR DAY GREETINGS from 3 AINI & JOHN YLINEN INGRID & TOM MICHELSON SOINTULA, B.C. 1 Lonsdale Avenue — x Labor Day Greetings from the SUGAR BOWL CAFE North Vancouver b “Shipyard Workers Favorite Eating Spot” —\ N. 2835 of REGENT A LABOR DAY GREETINGS from THE UNION WORKERS CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHES 324 West Hastings St. ‘ the TAILORS Vancouver 3, B.C. away below the IWA ceiling. But U.S. farmers are subsidized, being guaranteed $2.20 a bushel, The U.S. is going to cut Canada out of every wheat sale it can. There is a way out of this crisis, the way proposed by the Labor- Progressive Party during the fed- eral election. The demand must be that parliament break out of the bonds of the U.S.-Canadian treaty of Economic Integration of 1948 which is a noose strangling Cana- dian export trade and our econ- omy. Readily-available markets for at least 500 million bushels of Canadian wheat can be secured in Britain, India, Pakistan, other Commonwealth countries, in Asia, Africa, Europe and South ' America provided our national wheat policy includes selling wheat for sterling and barter agreements. The Liberal Party policy decrees that every bushel of Canadian wheat exported must be: paid for in U.S. dollars. This anti-national, suicidal travesty of a wheat policy must be done away with. Break with this Made-in-U.S. policy and we can sell every bushel of wheat Canada can export. This means strengthening the fight to Put Canada First. CUTLERY. AT ITS BEST At 64 W. Hastings St. POCKET KNIVES KITCHEN KNIVES _BONING KNIVES “ HAIRCUTTING SHEARS TAILOR SHEARS HOUSEHOLD SHEARS B.C. BARBER SUPPLY & SUNDRIES LTD. efforts to end: the killing of man by “This Labor Day we can truly re- joice in the knowledge that the possibilities for world peace are a reality. Now with the armistice in Korea everyone sees that agree- ment is possible. “Working men and women in Canada and throughout the world have recognized for a very long time that they were the ones who paid most dearly in time of war. We paid with our lives and we paid through high taxes and lowered liv- ing standards. These are reasons why the trade union movements have been traditionally on record for peace, : “On this Labor Day, 1953 when we see the first fruits of our efforts to end the killing of man by man, when it is clearly possible to put an end to ‘cold war’ as well as ‘hot war,’ we call upon Canadian work- ers to redouble their efforts to work for peace. “Why? Because with a world at peace there is practically no limits-to possibilities for work and an increasingly higher standard of living in our bountiful Canada. “Real world trade between Can- ada, the Commonwealth and all other countries is the one sure way to provide jobs for all and prevent unnecessary lay-offs of our broth- ers. We have the ability and raw materials to produce many things that could make life easier and bet- ter for our brothers who are in need in many other countries. For us in turn peace and trade repre- sent the necessary ingredients for jobs instead of unemployment, low- ‘Step up peace work Labor Day appeal — of peace Congre “On-this: Labor Day, 1953, when we see the first fruits of out \s Ss TORONTO — man, we call on Canadian worke to redouble their efforts to work for peace,” said a Labor Day message — released this week by Canadian Peace Congress under the signature — of Ross Russell, chairman of the Congress’ national labor committeé. Text of the statement follows: higher taxes, social security instead of atom bombs, lower prices greater purchasing power for Woh ers and farmers who produce grow man’s needs.” ae LPP hits BCE service cuts . VICTORIA; ag A call for an open heariné y the Public Utilities Commissio® in. fore any of the proposed culs bus service are permitted wa’ oe sued by the Victoria Labor-Prog™ sive party this week. ple of Victoria to call a halt te vicious spiral of increase and reduced service,” Sali Blakey, LPP spokesman. fe In letters to the municipal oO cils of the greater Victorl@ the LPP is asking civic repre atives to oppose any cuts 1” vice. ip “If the proposed drastic cuts schedule go through, the patto and the BCElectric will need beds vis not benches at the bus stoPS: ~ Blakey continued, nate “Year after year the puts confronted with so-called 9°" which are nothing more t ei attempt by the BCER to pass 9 of the travelling public the © buying out their competitors: de’ “In spite of the howls ° ov! ficit’? the company has never ; pins any intentions of relinguis nt ér taxes instead of consistently their aieiameine ; TYPEWRITER SALES MA. 7759 Sales and Service To All Makes of Typewriters Rebuilt Machines from $35.00 up 534 WEST PENDER ST. & SERVICE CO. 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