Photo shows railway tracks being laid in People’s China
with latest equipment. Thousands of miles of new railway
tracks are pushing into all corners of the country. At one
time B.C. forests provided large numbers of railway ties.

Now, trade is practically non-existent.

FARM
NOTES

This is an item about pork
barrel profits for pork packers.
It has been learned that the
federal government is planning
to sell more than 90- million

pounds of surplus pork back
to the packing houses.

canned pork from the packers
under a price support system

the packers at a_ substantial
discount. The result will be
(a) the packers will make a
double profit, and (b) the con-

CP National Committee
hold meeting in Toronto

A plenary meeting of the na-
tional committee of the Com-
munist Party of Canada was
held in Toronto over the East-
er weekend. ;

The committee heard a re-
port by Tim Buck, the party’s
general secretary, on behalf of
the national executive. It cov-

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ered the work of the party
since the convention and pro-.
jected some of the major tasks
facing it in the months ahead.
discussing
this report, the plenum consid-
ered a_ resolution on party
building and the final draft
of the party’s new program
adopted in principle at the Oc-
;| tober convention.

sumers (that is, working peo-
ple) will pay dduble—once as
consumers and once as tax-
payers. Just one more example
of how the big monopolies use
the federal treasury to help
themselves to fat profits.

In a radio broadcast earlier
this month the Saskatchewan
Wheat Pool warned that var-
ious interests unfriendly to-
wards the co-operatives are

tection of hospital workers, for

Women delegates meet
Government at Ottawa

A delegation of women from B.C., Ontario and

Representing B.C. at the’

(which ensured a high profit to conference were Mrs. R. Doh-
the packers). Now it will appar- erty of Vancouver and Mrs. |
ently sell back this pork to M. Schule of Nanaimo. The
most serious issue recognized
by Mr. Starr was the problem

of unemployment.

Other issues raised by the
women were the need for pro- |

the portion retained as loans
‘from memibers. Their aim is to

preparing to launch another

assault on the position of co-
ops with respect to income
taxes. These big business in-
terests want the government
to compel the co-ops to pay
out all their patronage in cash
or else pay income taxes on

destroy the cooperatives.

Quebec; representing the national conference for Inter.
national Women’s Day, held in Toronto, April 8-9, took its
message to Ottawa’s Parliament Hill on April 11, to meet
with Labor Minister Starr, and deputies to the ministers

The| of health and welfare and the secretary of state for
government purchased this| external affairs.

——

disarmament, and for a range
of social legislation to provide
for family security. A fuly
health plan was also called for,
Deputy Health Minister Cam,
eron blamed the public, no
profiteering, for high drug
costs.

=
Farmers meet

Members of the delegation
to Ottawa from the Interproy,
incial Farm Union Coungj
spoke at an interesting publi
meeting sponsored by th
Farmers Union Local No. 40¢§
They reported that the Main
achievement gained for pro,
ducers was the enforcement 9
the Anti-Dumping Act passeq
some years ago.

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