Reduced arms budget

demand of Sask. CCF

REGINA

As the Saskatchewan election campaign draws to a conclusion, Premier T. C. Douglas
and other provincial government spokesmen are taking a stronger offensive against the

federal government.

Douglas is pressing his demand that 25 percent of the arms budget be used to ex-

tend credits to enable needy countries to buy food from Canada.

acceptance of sterling in payment
for Canadian farm products.

CCF spokesmen are condemn-
ing Trade Minister C. D. Howe’s
natural gas policies which are
supported. by Social Credit.
They are linking up this na-
tional issue with that of power
development in Saskatchewan,
leading a strong attack on the
“free enterprise” policies of
both their Liberal and Social
Credit opponents who want to
turn back the development of
gas and power in Saskatchewan
to private interests.

The Liberals are finding diffi-
culty in coping with the CCF
attack, and Social Credit is hav-
ing its troubles getting rolling
despite the excursions into this
province of Premier W. A. C.
Bennett of B.C, and Premier E.
C. Manning supported by no less
than nine Alberta cabinet minis-
ters. :

These parties are hitting at one
main point, that the government
is giving inadequate assistance to
the municipalities, and that the
burden of rising municipal taxes
can no longer be carried. *

Municipal taxes represent a
serious problem in Saskatchewan.
Between 1945 and 1955 the per
capita tax in rural municipalities
increased from $28.60 to $82.00.
In cities it jumped from $31.81
to $60.

At the same time,
main unsatisfactory

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in many

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He is also demanding the

areas, there is a shortage of school
class rooms in many communi-
ties, and generally there is a
widespread feeling that services
have not improved to the extent
that taxes have risen.

This problem is not fully an-
swered by arguments which show
that the situation is even worse
in Manitoba under.a Liberal gov-
ernment and in Alberta under a
Social Credit government. 2

The average tax per quarter
section in Saskatchewan is $87
as compared to $134 in Manitoba
and $115 in Alberta.

The per capita rural municipal
debt stands at $25.92 in Manitoba,

$28.01 in Saskatchewan
$28.01 _in -Saskatchewan
municipal debt in Alberta has
climbed to fantastic levels in
these last few years.

The CCF uses | these figures
in reply, coupled with the argu-
ment that the costs of farming
generally have risen greatly in
the past few years, and that farm
machinery costs for instance have
risen proportionately more heavi-
ly than have taxes. On the basis
of these facts they have brought
out a pamphlet which proclaims:

“Taxes aren’t squeezing the
farmer.”
The Labor-Progressive party,

which in supporting the re-elec-
tion of the Douglas government
has withdrawn all but two of its
candidates, is critical of this CCF
pamphlet, arguing that the farm-
ers are not going to be convinced
that they are not being squeezed
by taxes simply by being told it’s
, Worse elsewhere and that they’re
' being squeezed worse by Massey-

| -
| Harris.

| LPP provincial leader Nelson
: Clarke, whois contesting a Re-
gina seat, puts it this way:

“Both farmers and city peo-
ple are insisting that something

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be dene to reduce municipal
taxes and the failure of the
| government to deal adequately
with this problem is the source
of their greatest weakness —
one that may jeopardize CCF
election in a number of con-
stituencies.”

Lorne Lynn is the second LPP
candidate, running in Saskatoon.

The LPP is campaigning for
recognition of the need to con-
duct a strong fight for the as-
sumption by the federal govern-
ment of the cost of elementary
education.

Clarke points out that “70 cents
out of every tax dollar is collect-
ed by Ottawa. It is now possible
to reduce expenditures on arma-
ments and divert millions of dol-
lars to serving the social needs
of the people.”

The Saskatchewan CCF has re-
mained silent on this point while
CCF MPs in Ottawa have fought
for years for federal aid to edu-
cation.

Clarke adds another sugges-
tion: “Even before the federal
government can be made to move
in this direction, the province
could enact legislation to bring
additional revenues from the de-
velopment of our natural re-

sources. This would help relieve
the burden and give us better
roads and more hospitals.”

The LPP is urging the CCF
to strengthen its position on this
issue ‘in the interests of a peo-
ple’s victory on June 20.”

Leaving the United States
visit to Canada,
abolition

this week for a tive-aay state

President Soekarno of Indonesia said
of the U.S.-sponsored SEATO pact would be a

“contribution to peaceful relations the world over.” Here U.S.
President Eisenhower is shown shaking hands with Hohammed

Guniur,
presidential party’s visit to the

Soekarno’s 13-year-old son,

during the Indonesian
White House.

Farm policies ruinous —
say LPP, CCF leaders —

CLOVERDALE, B.C.
Members of Cloverdale Farm-|
ers’ Union jammed Liberal Hall’

here last Friday to hear CCF, ;

1 LPP and Socred spokesmen de-|

bate the needs of Fraser Valley |
farmers and explain their party’
programs.

LPP provincial leader Nigel
Morgan and CCF provincial lead-
er Robert Strachan sharply at-
tacked the federal government’s
trade, tax and gas pipeline poli-
cies, and roundly criticized: in-
adequacy of provincial assistance
by the Socred government to
hard-pressed farmers.

Loss of traditional market out-
lets and falling cash income ac-
companied by rising production
costs is destroying the family
farm, Morgan charged. He ac-
cused railways, truckers and fed-
eral tax collectors of squeezing
“every last cent’ out of the
farmers, citing the $70 excise tax

and $17 federal sales tax on a
$350 kitchen range as one ex-
ample “of how the farmer is be-
ing milked.”

Morgan advocated policies of
greater state assistance in the
form of long term low interest
loans to assist fruit, vegetable
and berry growers victimized by
last year’s winter kill.

“Hay should be made avail-
able at a reasonable price for the
coming winter,’ said the LPP
leader. “Hay sold here for $80
to $90 a ton last year, and it will
go even higher this year unless
action is taken immediately by
the government.”

CCF provincial leader Robert
Strachan said the government
should organize a “haylift” to
combat expected shortage of hay
and forage, and should “procure
and move in fodder supplies at
a reasonable price.”

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