Page Four THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE January 28, 1933 Huge War Orders Placed Japan Looks To U.S. For Steel, Oil Needs By ELIOT JANEWAY Federated Press Financial Writer Japan has caused inestimable losses to American cotton farmers. semi-mun with the China. Now American steel, oil and other munition and itions vendors are again preparing to supply her Wherewithal to continue her devastating war upon For years J, apan was a leading consumer of American raw cotton. tween keeping the wolf from The half billion bales a year ports Provided the cotton farmers with a very handsome surpluis— handsome enough in many cases to make just the difference be- the door and letting him in. Similarly, the several million feet of lumber whick wUs north western Sawmills sold the Japanese rayon industry each year pro- vided a stabiliz- ing influence * upon that not #liot Janeway very stable in- dustry, and gave work to thou- sands of workers who mifht other- wise have been unemployed. Now Japan’s the cotton and the rayon branches of her textile industry—of which she was so justifiably proud until War came. She can no longer af- ford to buy “peaceful” raw mate- rials. Where Germany has had to “choose” between guns and butter, Japan’s choice has boiled down to ene between cotton or steel, and naturally the generals and the rest Have chosen steel. Cotton textiles, once expected to conquer the world’s markets, are struggling along at a fraction of capacity, with the authorities hav- ing recently reduced the permis- sible cotton import quota by an- other 30 per cent. With the rayon ' industry also staggering along at nearer half than full capacity, also because of the war-provoked raw material shortage, Japan has no need of—that is to say, no money for—American lumber or pulp for rayon-making. Accordingly, the war has ruined she bought in southern benefits of recovery recede in both Japan and in the sick American cotton and lumber industries. Steel Exports Soar But what of the steel trust and the oil trust? They, true to their best tradition, are lapping up the rich cream skimmed off the milk of the former American trade with Japan. Following up a year in which Japanese steel purchases here broke all records—risine from a paltry 48,000 tons for January through November, 1936, to all of 844,729 tons in the same period of 1937—the first week in 19388 saw Japanese purchases of 75,000 tons of steel scrap. it also saw further inquiries for contracts from leading steel mills, notably Bethlehem, which readers will recall to have occasionally traficked in munitions in the past. Readers should note that Japanese purchases of steel scrap in the United States last year, not to be confused with her purchases of steel products, totaled an addition- al 1,800,000 tons. Qil today is busy again. This column reported during September and October that Japanese agents had made military, naval and avia- tion oil purchases totaling 337,000,- 000 gallons: And now, while the east coast hums again with activi- ties of anxious Japanese steel pur- chasers, the west coast is again the scene of oil bidding between leading international oil companies operating there and their custo- mer, Japan. An embargo can bring Japan to her senses, and put an end to traf ficking in death. it is the best as- surance that cotton and lumber ex port markets can be restored to farmers and timber workers. Add Clause To Agreement Boss Loggers Manoeuvre To Prevent Organization Ihatest manoeuvre of the keep its camps closed to union organizers is to require loggers shipping out through the notorious Black’s Loggers’ Agency to sign despatch slips carrying a new clause reading: “It is understood I will not invite or allow any person on the premises or in the camp without the owner’s permission.” This clause has been added since} the winter lay-off, the PA learned. The matter is being taken up by the International Woodworkers of America with the provincial de- partment of labor. Union officials see in this an at- tempt to offset the attack made last session by Colin Cameron, | MLA (Comox-Alberni), on logging } operators who make private prop- Boss Loggers’ Association to erty of crown-granted land. In- timidation is also seen in that agreement to this clause is obliga- tory to obtain work. Maintenance of the blacklist sys- tem at Black’s for a number of years remains a sore spot for BC loggers, the BC Lumber Worker states, and its abolition is rated an urgent task facing the union. MP’s In Fascist Raids ‘The Bloody Murderers!’ Exclaims British Member By JOSEPH NORTH BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 28 (Delayed)—Clutching a doll in her arms, the wide-eyed tot sat on the curbstone, Vet Report Allowances Commission Favors $30 Monthly Married, $18.75 Single Unem- ployment Payments. MANY RESTRICTIONS Federal unemployment al- lowance to the amount of $18.75 a month for single ex- servicemen and $30 a month for married is the outstand- ing recommendation in the final report of the Veterans’ Assistance Commission which will be presented to the fed- eral government in the next few weeks for ratification, Fred Tyler, secretary, Vancouver Ex- Servicemen’s League, announced this week after studying a copy of the report recently received at the league’s headquarters, 47 West Broadway. This allowance will only be given to jobless veterans who served in an actual theatre of war, were domiciled in Canada at time of en- listment and who are not in re- ceipt of pensions, the report spe- cifically states, at the same time declaring that all dependent chil- dren will remain charges to local relief funds. Registration at government em- ployment service stations is obli- gatory, the report reads, and a veteran must be prepared to accept any work offered. local relief authorities will be held responsible the new federal allowance veterans. Must Still Seek Aid. In the opinion of Tyler, who has had considerable experience in handling veterans’ relief problems, an ex-serviceman after receiving the federal allowance will be com- pelled to seek clothing, medical and dental care, and supplemen- tary child care from local relief offices or charity organizations. Tyler maintains that 24,000 vet- erans will be affected at an esti- mated cost of $7,000,000. At the present time there is a large num- ‘ber of small pensioners receiving $18.75 a month under present reg- ulations, with free hospitalization and clothing assistance. Weed for active veterans’ organ- izations to assist men to get their rights under new regulations will soon be felt, Tyler declared, the new requirements needing study and clarification. Reflection of the viewpoint prey- alent in Canada that veterans should be total federal charges is shown in the report of the Vancou- yer Honorary Committee to Ot tawa over the signature of Lieut. Gol. Buell, who mentions the plight of the 54 veterans who were sen- tenced to Oakalla jail last fall. On Unfair List Declaration that White Lunch cafeterias in the city are still un- fair and should not be patronized by unionists was made at a meet- ing of Local 71, International Woodworkers of America, this week. Seek Mail Route NANAIMO, BG, Jan: 28—At the meeting here last week-end of Wanaimo-Cedar Farmers’ Institute a committee was appointed to press for installation of a rural mail de- livery to Quarterway, East Well- dressed in her Sunday best, while blood streamed down from @ wound in her forehead. A British member of parliament, here with a number of colleagues to see the war in Spain for himself, looked up at the sky where Mussolini’s black raiders had been and said: “My God! inals, those bloody murderers!” The raid, the fifth conducted by Mussolini’s air squadrons from | Majorca against the Spanish capi- tal in 24 hours, took a fearful toll of lives. : | The first time the black bombers ' came over, the British member, sitting at lunch in the Majestic de Inglaterra Hotel, did not even rise from the table. ‘Why, this is not much of a raid,” he said. ‘I do not even have to leave the room.” The fascists, however, bomb the | populous working class sections of the city, and the last time their planes unleashed their storm of death on the city officials tools the group of MP’s to the scene of the bombing. T went with them. Mothers were screaming for their children buried uuder the debris of a bomb-wreck- ed building, while fathers fought with caribineros who guarded the ruins while searching parties bur- rowed for the bodies of the inno- Those bloody cae This instance of the British MP shows how little the world realizes as yet the horrors of totalitarian warfare. A Labor member, yet even he did not know what an air raid meant until he heard the droning of the bombers, the dull thunder of high explosive bursting at the other end of town, and then saw the victims taken from their wrecked homes. The loyalist victory at Teruel has provoked the fascists into a mad fury of desperate revenge. Five raids on Barcelona in a single day is a record, but Sagunto, Valencia and Tarragona are all bombed al- most daily. When Franco meets defeat upon the battlefield—which he does when- ever the odds are “fair’—he takes it out with “stupendous” victories over women and children in the cities, the towns and the villages. SEE THE Loggers’ Cigar Stand ington and Jingle Pot areas, in ac- | cordance with a resolution passed. Recommends for any obligations not covered by | to =4 ON THEFARM FRONT Only I1 Percent Have Power Finds U.S. Lagging In Rural Electrifcation NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—(FP).—Only 11.6 per cent of US farmers had electric power available other than individual farm lighting plants in 1935, as compared to 100 per cent in Holland and 90 per cent in Germany, Alexander Kuhnel writes in Technical America, organ of Engineers, Chemists and Tech The article, titled Technology> and Farming, is based on reports of President Roosevelt’s national resources committee. In adapting new discoveries to its needs, US agriculture “remains today appallinsly inefficient and disorganized,” Kaihnel writes. But, he adds, it is not the farmer’s fault. Wars have created sudden de- mands for farm products at the very moment when manpower has been drained away from farms. De- pressions have dumped thousands back on farms when markets were at the bottom. Despite these handi- caps, American “agriculture’s out- put per worker increased 41 per- cent from 1910 to 1930. Industry’s increased only 39 percent. Large-scale farm operation would mean some economies, but under existing conditions, the advisability of rapid advance in this direction is a highly debatable point, the author thinks. Such a trend would involve the release of hundreds of thousands of farm workers, for whom other employment would not be easy to find. Should production greatly increase, a demoralizing surplus would result. Equipment Inadequate With farming likely to continue for a long time on the basis of family-size units, “mechanical farm equipment is woefully inadequate. The machines in general are far too costly, too large, too cumber- some and too intricate to be eco- nomically adaptable for use on the individual farm unit. A 4-row corn planter becomes a white elephant on a farm which raises but 10 to 20 acres of corn. The average farm tractor is an expensive luxury when it stands idle 90 days in every 100.” Pncouraging developments; in- clude cooperative ownership of ex- pensive farm equipment and co-op farm management associations. “Yet the most important need is the development of cheaper, small- er capacity machines, of machines with multiple application—in gen- eral farm machines economically feasible on the man-sized farm unit.” “The farmer is the foundation of ou reconomie structure,” the writer concludes. “Prosperity for him is inevitably passed on to the nation. Poverty and ruination for the farmer make national prosperity utterly impossible.” Farmer = Labor Unity Is Ursed BUTTE, Mont:, Jan. 28—(UNS) —Plans for closer cooperation be- tween farmers and workers and for the launching of a drive to bring unorganized workers of the state into industrial unions were highlights at the first regular con- vention of the Montana CIO In- dustrial Union Council held here. State Senator Garrison, active member of the Harmers Union, called for a program of farmer- Jabor unity in a speech to the dele- gates, and urged that unions and organized farmers groups send representatives to each others’ con- ventions. the Federation of Architects, nicians, a CIO affiliate. Poultry Notes Experienced poultrymen usually take inventory in January and February with a view to utilizing best birds for the breeding pens and eliminating those showing sluggishness, weakness or disease. Overcrowded Schools Hit Situation In Fraser Val- ley Municipalities Cause Of Widespread Dissatis- faction. LANGLEY, BC, Jan. 28—Serious overcrowding in schools through- out Fraser Valley municipalities is giving rise to widespread dissatis- faction among farmers. Ti is estimated that eleven schools in Langley municipality alone are overcrowded, with the result that children have to travel long distances to school and pack cold lunches - The minimum school tax of six dollars is also being protested by many small farmers who feel that the burden should be equitably dis- tributed. Decision to build a new junior high school at Langley has already been made, but erection has been delayed until after the expected plebiscite next summer. Fresh blood through the procur- ing of healthy males will revitalize the whole flock. In BC it is an easy matter with the large number of breeders who specialize in high standard stock for breeding pur- poses, at prices ranging from four to ten dollars per bird. In the light breeds, one male to 15 birds is considered sufficient; for heavier breeds such as Rocks and Rhode Island Reds, one male to every ten birds. Use of trapnests makes it easy to eliminate birds which lay ab- normal eggs but in any case ab- normally shaped eggs will not give hatching results. Feeding in the next three months has a great bearing on breeding results. Some poultrymen breeding for eggs production prefer May hatchings, claiming that pullets hatched in May will lay through the winter, whereas March hatched birds often moult late in the sea- son and do not lay again until Spring. Others discount this theory and go in for more early hatchings. It is strongly recommended from experience that breeding stock be given plenty of exercise, with pro- vision of sour milk or buttermilk and a supply of greenstuff. A great deal of information re- garding the mating of breeding stock their selection and care, can be obtained from the poultry division, department of agriculture, Victoria, on request, as well as from firms specializing in poultry supplies. Drop In Field Crops Is Shown OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 28—A drop of ten percent from the 1936 level is shown in the Dominion bureau of statistics’ third estimate of Can- ada’s field crops showing their farm value at $553,823,100. British Columbia’s field crops show an increase in total value of $331,400. Figures for 1937 are placed at $16,592,500 as compared With $16,261,100 for 1936. The bureau estimates hay pro- duction at 13,030,000 tons and sugar beet output at 418,000 tons. Both figures are slightly lower than those for 1936. A larger potato erop of 42,547,000 hundredweight for 1937 as compared with 39,614,- 000 hundredweights in 1936 shows a value of only $27,143,000 as against the 1936 figure of $45,125,- 000. Boycott Japanese Goods. Weed for this school was made an issue by W. Sholdra, candidate for Langley council in the munici- pal elections, who urged an inte- rest-free loan from the government to expedite building. Another Serious Drought Feared SIOUX FALLS, SD, Jan. 28.— Fear that another serious drought may devastate farm areas this year was expressed in recent statements by US department of agriculture officials. Predictions were based on below normal rainfall in a dozen states. A lack was reported in Minnesota, Worth Dakota, South Dakota, Wis- consin, Iowa, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, INebraska, Mis- souri and Illinois. On the other hand, Dr. C. C. Ab- bott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recently predicted that America is headed into a wet cycle which will last for several decades. He based his prediction on a life- long study of efforts of sun spots on the weather. The last serious widespread | exouent was in 1936, although last year crops were either badly dam- aged or completely ruined in large sections of the Dakotas, Montana, Webraska, Kansas and Colorado. ryt Oppose Tolls NEW WESTMINSTER, Jan. 28. —Abolition of tolls on the new Pat- tullo bridge across the Fraser was urged by District “h” H'armers’ In- stitute at its annual meeting here Ss CLASSIFLED ADVERTISING — alll whe ADVERTISING RATES Classifiea, 5S Hines 25c, Display advertisements, 75c per colum: inch. on application. AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE WHITE SPOT SERVICE STA- tion. Complete Automotive Serr ice. Shell Products. Phone Mar pole 683. 8091 Granville St. BAKERIES Joyce Rd. carries full line of pies, cakes, bread. 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