Miners vote 416 to 29

for copper

With contract negotiations

Copper Mountain local of the

Mill and Smelter Workers have voted 416 to 29 for strike

action to bring the American

Copper miners at Britannia
have already won a peaceful
settlement embracing a $10 daily
wage plus four copper bonuses of
25 cents each, increased shift dif-
ferentials, and the MSA medical
scheme with the company shar-

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Oldtime Dancing
To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra
@very Wednesday and Saturday
Hastings Auditorium
Phone HAstings 1248
Moderate Rental Rates
‘‘or socials, weddings, meetings

Russian People’s Home—
available for meetings, weddings
and banquets at reasonable rates.
600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087.

Dance, Clinton Hai!—
2605 East Pender. Dance every

Saturday night. Modern and
Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra.
Hall is available for rent,
MAstings 3277. |

BUSENESS PERSONALS

General Insurance—
Anywhere in B.C.
LAURIE NOWRY

706-16 E. Hastings St.
TA. 3833 o

ASH BROS. CARTAGE

516 West Seventh Ave.

General Cartage
FA. 0242 FA. 0469

SALLY BOWES—
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Room 20, 9 East Hastings:
MA. 9965.

MEETINGS

Swedish-Finnish Workers Club
meets last Friday of every month
at 7.30 p.m. in Clinton Hall.

mine strike

deadlocked, members of the
International Union of Mine,

Grarfby Consolidated to terms.

ing expenses, Miners voted 349 to
18 to accept,

Payoff on the war scare has come
to base metal mines, Latest New
York price for zine is 21% cents a
pound, which will add an extra $6,-
000,000 to Consolidated Mining and
Smelting Company’s last annual
profit of $37,000,000. Miners’ return
consists in reduced Jiving stand-
ards through inflated prices,

Mine-Mill’s international presi-
dent John Clark has now been ban-
ned by the St. Laurent government
from entering Canada.

Mine-Mill ‘regional director Har-
vey Murphy is visiting gold camps
at Bralorne, Pioneer and Wells.

Publicity Director,

By THOS. C. ROBERTS

“Who can buy the food we produce.” ‘That problem

Western Canada since the thirties.
products will soon be a 5

markets for farm
UFC Secretary, today.

@ “Here are a few Samples of
the signs I have in mind,” he con-
tinued: On October 23 The Finan-
cial Post reported that Sir Andrew
Jones, head of the U.K. food mis-
sion in Canada,
plans drastic cuts in her imports
of foodstuffs from Canada. This
only serves to emphasize what Sir
Stafford Cripps indicated a few
weeks earlier. The fact that the
United Kingdom is éxtremely short

of dollars taken together with the

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STACKED DECK AGAINST LABOR AND FARMERS

Rummage Sale— :
Do your Xmas cleaning early.
Clothing and other <erticles want-
ed for Rummage Sale, to be
held on December 10, 1 p.m.,,
Arcadia Hall. Auspices Fairview
Club. Bring your contributions
to 855 W. 8th, or phone FA. 3459R

or FA. 3650L.

Lost—
Cameo Bracelet at Hallowe’en
Party, John Goss Studio. Finder
please contact Fel Ashton,” MA.
5288. Reward.

Wanted—
Bicycle in good condition for girl
8 years old. Marine 5288.

WHAT’S DOING?
Dine with Effie Jones at the Bam-
boo Terrace, Pender and Main
‘and enjoy an eight course Chi-
nese Banquet on Monday, Tues-
day, Wednesday or Thursday,
November 8-9-10-11, at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets $1.50 each. Election
Headquarters, 339 West Pender.
—

Housewarming Party—
At Tom McEwen’s, Saturday,
November 6, from 9 pm. at
21385 West 6th. Don’t miss this
event of the season! Proceeds

Election Campaign.
Refreshment Social at 2544

Columbia, Saturday, November 6.
Cards, Mt. Pleasant Branch,

What’s Happening—
to Don McIntosh? Only Old Man
Mose knows! Watch this space
for further developments next
week,

1UC would

The general council of the

announced here October 27 tha:
Unions unless the

World Federation of Trade
“to suspend its activities,”

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WFIU, set up new body

—LONDON.

British Trades Union Congress
t it would withdraw from the

WFTU agrees

The .council said that the world
labor body should Suspend for a
year. At the end of that time or
earlier, an attempt should be
made “to. revive an international
trade union body,” the TUC de-
clared.

The TUC action was not unex-
pected. WFTU President Arthur
Deakin, head of the British Trans-
port & General Workers’ Union, has
charged that the worla labor organ-
ization is being used as a Russian
tool to extend communist influence,
The Marshall plan has also been a
cause of major differences between
the TUC and some WFTU affili-
ates.

At the same time the TUC called
on its 108 member unions “to count-
eract every manifestation of com-
munist influences within their un-
ions.” This action will 80 as a re-
commendation to individual unions,
which have the power to make
their own decisions.

The next meeting of the WETU
executive committee is scheduled
for January. It is considered
unlikely that it will decide to
Suspend its activities,

stated that Britain |’

But theré are plenty

Farmers heaaing into cisis as
Marshall plan cripples markets

Interprovincial Farmers’ Union Council

—SASKATOON
hasn’t bothered the farmers of
of signs that. this problem of

erious one again,” stated George Le Beau,

fact that the pound sterling is no
longer generally convertible into
dollars \are the reasons given for
the cuts in U.K. imports of Cana-
dian food products. Our insistence
on payment in hard currency and
our reluctance to arrange barter
deals are additional factors.

@ Apparently our Government is
quite content to depend more and
more on the American market,
During the first six"months of 1948,
Canadian exports to the U.S.A.
were up 384 percent over those dur-
ing the same period in 1947, At the
same time our exports to British

cent. In this connection it must be
remembered that the United States
has never been an important mar-
ket for many of the farm products
that we export. Moreover, particu-
larly in recent years, the U.S.A. has
so increased her agricultural pro-
duction that she is now in a posi-
tion to offer serious competition
in the food markets of the world.

@ It is now generally confirmed.
that this year’s harvest in Europe
is by far the best of any since pre-

war days. This will enable the na-
tions on that continent to conserve

cutting down on their imports of
agricultural products from North

America.

@ Many Canadian farmers had
hoped that the Marshall Plan (also
known by the initials E.R.P. or

E.C.A.)
acute dollar shortage, enable them
to continue finding ready markets
for the food they grow. But the
Congress of the United States has
stipulated that surplus American
foods must be sold before E.C.A.
funds are used for off-shore (Cana-
dian etc.) purchases,

Already Canadian flax and flour
exports are being seriously cut
by this restriction. For the first’
eight months of 1948 our exports
of wheat flour are down by 43
percent from the same period in
1947, The last issue of the Finan-
cial Post (October 23, 1948) agrees
that the worldwide shortage of
dollars and the restrictions on the
use of E.C.A. funds are import-
ant factors in this drop. As for
flax, the same paper reports that
we have a surplus:of perhaps 10
million bushels that will prob-
ably remain unsold because the
U.S.A. also has a surplus,

@ We must not forget that the
Canadian home market is still the
place where most of the food our
farmers grow is sold. On August
23, the Bank of Montreal Business
Review, noted that the real earn-
ings of over two million employees
of the larger firms in Canada’s
chief industries have been declin-
ing since early in 1947, This is a
serious threat to our farmers who
must be able to sell a lot of their
products here in order to live. ;
“The 48th annual convention of
the United Farmers of Canada
(Saskatchewan Section), which will
be held in Saskatoon on the 16th,
17th and 18th of November, and the
“Amalgamation” Convention of the
Alberta Farmers meeting in Cai-
gary starting January 11, will have

countries dropped by 7 percent and
| shipments to Europe fell by 19 per-

their meager supplies of dollars by ;

would, by relieving the |:

to give a good deal of serious at-
tention to this major problem of
markets for our farm products,”
continued Mr. Le Beau.

“They will have to decide how
the Marshall Plan and Canada’s
present trade policies are affect-
ing the farmers of this country,
and, in my opinion, they will have
to work out some alternative pro-
Posals. Otherwise the farmers are
in for another beating.”

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