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BEHIND THE NEWS

India Estimates Her
Jobless At 40,000,000

Author Sees Strength of Congress
Party Among Indian Masses Growing

THE

Rowese, India.—There are 40 million une

according to an estimate

Fiven taking into account the low standard o
100,000,000 are estimated to lack adequate food, clothing and

shelter.

NEWS

made by Sir

Moving a resolution on unemployment in Bombay Legislative
Council, S. C. Joshi commented that no government in the world

had ignored unemployment, but in India,

unfortunately, “neither

the central government nor the provincial governments have

taken any

serious steps to tackle the problem.”

THE STORY

By C. F. ANDREWS

(Leading Anglican Theologian, Author ana Traveller)

Bees India.—To come baclz to India, as I have done, even
after a few months’ absence, is to be aware of a great and

salutary change.
hard to judge.

How far this change will be permanent, is very
Everything will depend on the coming year.

“Congress”—as it is now familiarly called by everyone—has
come into power in seven out of eleven provinces, and its range

is likely to go farther still.

At the beginning of the present
- century, the apathy of the villagers
was extreme. To-day, it is in the
villages that the strength of Con-
gress lies. That is why it nearly
Swept the country in the last elec-
tions. The one personality that,
more than any other, has brought
this change to pass, is Mahatma
Gandhi,

Those in the villagses, who now
have the vote, have almost invari-
ably voted for the Congress, except
where some religious interest was
paramount. The voters were well
aware how greatly the Congress
leaders had suffered in the na-
tional cause and gave them over-
whelming majorities. The one cri-
terion for election has been the
suffering undergone. Thus the long
years of repression and imprison-
ment have strengthened the Gon-
gress hold upon the country.

As someone recently said in my
hearing, “There are only two par-
ties now, the government and the
Congress,”

Mahatma Gandhi has passed the
test for suffering far beyond any
other. There are those, much
younger in age, who have followed
his example. The Congress Presi-
dent, Jawaharlal Nehru, is one of
them. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan is
another. Subash Bose, who is likely
to be the next Congress President,
is a third. All these three are loved
and honored for their fearless en-
durance of imprisonment on be-
half of their country.

Among the older members of
the Congress, the names of C.

Rajagopal Achari, Vallabhbai Patel
and Rajendra Prasad are promi-
nent and many others might be
mentioned equally noble and patri-

[ out in the foreground of the pic-
ture on account of all that they
have endured, the rank and file
have taken their full share of the
hardships and this has made a
common bond of sympathy which
unites them together in the great
struggle for freedom.
Will Gain Strength

Whether the national struggle is
renewed in the near future, in the
form of passive resistance and im-
prisonment on a large scale, or
whether the recent constructive co-
operation with the government of
India continues, the same. result
in the end will follow. The Con-
gress is certain to gain strength
and numbers.

The impending conflict, which is
now being anticipated both by the
government of India and the Con-
gress leaders, will be with regard
to the central federal constitution.
Here the struggle will be fought
out to the hitter end, and the good
work done by the Congress minis-
tries in the provinces will’ be used
as the final agrument to prove that
they are quite capable of taking
full responsibility at the centre also.
On this matter, the Congress Pres-
ident, Jawaharlal Nehru, has al-
ready thrown down the challenge.

“IT can say,” he writes, “on be-
half of the Congress that there
cannot be any negotiation with the
Viceroy or the British government
for the inauguration of the fed-
eration. Mahatma Gandhi has
never discussed the question with
the Viceroy and neyer will discuss
it. Anybody, be he a Congress min-
ister even, will be a traitor to the
country, if he in any way facilitates
the inauguration of the federation.”

otic: And, while the leaders stand

DPEsenrvatlves.

iv lian 1U pee

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mployed in India,
M. Vavesvadayya.
f living, more than

ON THE FARM FRONT

Starvation

Takes Heavy
Stock Toll

Many Prairie Farmers
Face Further Losses If
Feed And Fodder Not

Forthcoming.

500 AT MEET

MELVILLE, Sask., March 24.
—Unless feed and fodder
reaches them immediately, hun-
dreds of farmers in this district
will lose at least 25 per cent of
their stock. Already they have
lost 25 per cent from starvation.

This was the situation outlined
to a meeting of the Farmers’ Wel-
fare Association here when 500
farmers from this district packed
Olympic Hall to demand action
from the authorities.

Reports stated that stock in
some cases had to be hoisted up
in slings in order to keep it alive
until feed arrived. Because of goy-
ernment regulations that stock
must be cut to a minimum, plus
loss of- stock from starvation,
many farmers would be unable to
Carry out spring seeding, it was
stated.

Resolutions endorsed called for
seed grain of at least 1144 bushels
of wheat to the acre, 216 bushels
oats, 142 bushels barley, all grain
to be cleaned seed, and a grant of
$3 per farmer for garden seeds, not
including potatoes; 800 Ibs. of hay
to the seeded acre and one bushel
of feed oats to the seeded acre,
and an allowance of 15 cents per
seeded acre te cover the cost of
necessities at seeding time.

Municipal Relief Administrator
Sheppard promised to take up the,
question of feed for pigs and
chickens after farmers had de-
clared their “pigs would not eat
straw nor their chickens green
grass.”

Fatality
Stirs Town

Mission Residents Send
Resolution To Premier.

MISSION, BC, March 24——A re-
cent accident here which led to
the death of one girl and caused
serious injuries to another when
an automobile was driven past a
school bus, has aroused the whole
district, and the following resolu-
tions, passed at a meeting held
last week, have been sent to Pre-
mier T. D. Pattullo and Mission
municipal council:

“In view of the fatal accident
at Mission in which one girl was
dilled and one badly injured, we
request that you immediately pass

such legislation to make it a
criminal offense, punishable by
both fine and imprisonment, for

any motor vehicle to pass any
school bus in the act of taking on
or unloading pupils on any high-
way or road in the province of
BC.”

The meeting ordered a similar
resolution sent to the municipal
council, requesting passage of a
by-law to protect children on the
highway.

Copies of the resolutions were
also ordered sent to the press.

iBoard’s Policy Outlined

floor.

quiet reception after the uproari-
ous meeting at Ladner last week,

Col. MeLelan utilized the opportun-
ity to outline the objectives of the
board.

Col. Mclelan assured those pres-
ent that “the board was not taking
the gamble out of spud growing,

but was giving the grower an idea
of the consumption in local mar-
Kets.” The local market, he Said,
consumed 12,000 tons, which could
be supplied by 3,000 acres of land,
and the gamble remained in export
stock, feed, starch, and a possible
improvement in the
market.

He stated that all farmers were
limited to 10 percent acreage. The
new grower was a problem, he
opined, and such farmers must be
eut to a minimum. He declared
however, that land with a potato
quota would have an enhanced
value, for the simple reason that
land with no quota would have less
value.

That the famous Ashcroft potato
came under the Interior Market-

Obviously well pleased by the -

Board Chairman A. Swenson and.

Vancouver.

Few Farmers Attend
Cloverdale Meeting

CLOVERDALE, BC, March 24.—Only 25 farmers attended
a meeting called this week at the municipal hall here by the
Mainland Potato Marketing Board to adjust potato quotas on a
10 per cent acreage basis. There were few protests from the

ing Board and therefore was

| denied to the Vancouver and New

Westminster market by reason of
$11 a ton freight and commission,
Was presented as an advantage by
Col. MeLelan, who added that the
mainland board had recently cut
its price to kéep out Asherofts.
Growers of this variety, having no
stock to feed, were forced to dump
them.
- The board could not increase the
market, the speaker said, to which
a farmer in the audience rejoined:
“T guess not. You never did any-
thing for us and you never will.”
in reply to a query, Swenson
was doubtful about the price of
potatoes being $20 a ton this year,
Suggested that the farmer could
gamble on the market, but the
board could not guarantee to take
any surplus. He thought the gov-
ernment might make more laws
to govern the export market, to
take it away from control by brok-
ers.

Farmers were asked by the
board to report any neighbor sell-
ing over his quota, “not to be a
spy but to protect his own quota.”

Aid For Volunteers

Many Towns In Province
Contribute To Friends

The fortunes of Spain’s republican army, the heroic part
played by the International Brigade and particularly the proud
record of the Canadian battalion are closely followed by thou-
sands of British Columbians living in the smaller towns of the
province. This is borne out by the experiences of many speakers
who have toured the province for Spain’s cause in the last

eighteen months.

Less numerous but the more
devoted are the many commit-
tees formed for the purpose of
keeping in close touch with Brit-
ish Columbia’s 200 volunteers, and
to see that gifts are sent periodi-
eally. In the records kept by J. GC.
Chivers, provincial organizer for
the Friends of the Mackenzie-
Papineau Battalion, the following

towns are registered as having con-
tributed to the Faster gift cam-

paign:
Websters Corners, $19; Quesnel,
$14.50; Victoria, $8; Blakeburn,

$7.50; Cranbrook, $13.60; Smithers,
$1.50; Atlin, $10; Gibsons Landing,
$4.52; Matsqui, $8; Port Alberni,
$5.70; Queen Charlotte City, $2.

US CoOp Wheat
For CoOp Bread

GALVESTON, Tex, March 24—
(FPP) Iwo hundred thousand
bushels of wheat were loaded here
for shipment to England, marking
an important step in international
coOperative trade.

The Union Equity CoQperative
Exchange, Enid, Okla., arranged
the shipment to the CoOperative
Wholesale Society, central organ-
ization of English CoOps. It will

be made into flour, baked into
bread and distributed through
CoOp channels.

Win Agreement

SEATTLE, Wash, March 24.—
New victories keep coming in for
the CIO Cannery, Agricultural,
Packing and Allied Workers.

Two contracts signed with ten
companies in the clam digging and
packing industry in this state
cover 1200 workers and provide
Wage increases to a base rate of
od cents per hour:

Alliance Aids
Prairie Family.

A. Levinsky and his family who
came to Vancouver from the dried-
out area at Kamsack in Saskatche-
wan and were refused relief or as-
sistance from local charities, have
found a champion in the Workers’
Alliance which canvassed outside
three city churches to raise funds
to feed them.

The Levinskys, whose seven chil-
dren range in age from 14 months
to 15 years, are living in a con-
verted barn on Kingsway with
two other families.

Strike Won

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 24.
—The six weeks strike of the pecan
shellers in San Antonio has ended
in victory for their union, a local
of the United Cannery, Agricul-
tural, Packing and Allied Workers,
CIO. The strike came to an end
with a contract signed by the em-
ployers giving sole collective bar-
Gaining recognition to the union.

1200 From
Prairies At
Chilliwack

Other Municipalities In
Fraser Valley Said Tak-
ing Census Of New

Settlers.
OTTAWA PROBE

CHILLIWACK, BC, March
24.—Approximately 1200 farm-
ers and their families from the
burned-out areas on the prai-
ries have come to the Chilli-
wack district during the past
three years, a survey made by
Municipal Clerk Leslie Brice at
the request of the provincial
government shows.

Actually 1040 persons have set-
tled in Chilliwack since 1935, ac-
cording to Brice’s report. These in-
clude heads of families, adult de-
pendents, dependents of school age
and children not yet of school age.
The report however, does not in-
clude non-dependents, farm labor-
ers without families and others
who, it is believed, would bring the
figure to 1,200.

A similar census of migrants
from the prairies is being conduct-
ed in other Fraser Valley muni-
cipalities, according to reports, but
no indication as to its purpose has
been given by officials:

OTTAWA, Ont., March 24—Hon.
Norman Rogers, minister of labor,
will investigate “the movement of
destitute settlers from the prairie
provinces into British Columbia,’
the House was informed this week.

The matter was brought before
the Elouse by Harry Barber (Gons.,
Fraser Walley), who stated that
large numbers of settlers were
migrating from the drought areas
and becoming a burden to BG
municipalities.

Packers Seek
Cheap Labor

Company Playing Both
Ends Against Workers

British Columbia employers in
the fruit, vegetable and canning
industry are lobbying to secure the
government's consent to further
reductions in the wage scales of
approximately 12,000 poverty-
stricken seasonal, according to in-
formation received by the Fruit,
Jam and Vegetable Workers’ Union
here.

In a report to Vancouver and
New Westminster Trades and La-
bor Council, the union’s delegate
stated that Dominion Packers is
the company seeking wage reduc-
tions “in order to combat Quebec
companies which pay low wages.”

“This company also operates in
Quebec,” the delegate reported,
“and in Quebee it says it must have
cheap labor in order to compete
with the Orientals in BC.”

KAMLOOPS, BC, Mareh 24. —
Kamloops municipal council has
leased 45.83 acres of level land five
miles outside the city for develop-
ment as an air field.

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