Page Four

THE PEHEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

September 2, 1938

Minister Interviewed

Control! Of
Feed Prices
Is Sought

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC,
Sept. 1—Hon. J. G Gardiner, fed-
eral minister of agriculture, failed
to give any satisfaction to a dele-
gation of poultrymen who inter—
viewed him here last weekend to
ask federal assistance for the
poultry industry.

Exorbitamt cost of fed as con-
trasted with low returns for eggs
was one of the main points raised
by the delegation.

Charles Raine, Surrey, urged the
federal government to pez a mini-—
mum price to producers for eggs.
Tf the government protected.
prairie farmers by gging wheat
prices, it should be possible to af-
ford some similar protection for
egg producers, he said. He stressed
the need for control of feed prices
to prevent profiteering.

H. Bolivar, speaking for katch-
ery men, asked that present Sas-
katchewan regulation requiring
all chicks to come from blood-
tested flocks be relaxed.

This regulation, he stated, was
unnecessary for chicks consigned
to the prairie broiler market and
hatchery men were of the opinion
that the restriction should apply
only to chicks ‘shipped for breed-
ing.

On this point, Hon. J. G. Gar-
diner promised to take the matter
up in Saskatchewan on his way
east, but he declined to pledge any
government effort to control feed
prices or fix a minimum price for
eges.

Exporters complained that Brit-
ish Golumbia was losing a large
market in Britain through regula—
¢ions requiring processed eggs to
be so marked. Australian cold-
storage eggs, unmarked, were be-
ing shipped io Britain in huge
quantities, it was stated.

The minister stated he would
take the matter up with British
authorities, but said the alternative
might be development of cold
storage facilities in this province.

Utilities To
Be Regulated

Victoria Adopts Bylaw
After Expert Reports

VICTORIA, BG, Sept. 1—The city
council last Friday finally passed
its umtilities bylaw, empowering
the city to control all utilities.
Minor corrections made in the
wording did not fundamentally
alter the measure.

The bylaw will create a new city
department, a standing committee
composed of the mayor and twa
aldermen, and will function just
as the firewardens or police com-
missioners do. Working with this
commission will be an active
group, which will probably include
a technical superintendent and a
small staff with a secretary and
assistant versed in the practical
and theoretical matters under their
jurisdiction.

The committee will have regula-
tory powers over activities and
rates of utilities operated in the
city of Victoria. It will determine
and establish fair rates for various
classes of service, and will have
power to determine and enforce
adequate and proper rendering of
service. It will also he responsible
for establishing standards of con-
struction and maintaining utility
facilities so as to protect the
rights, lives and property of the
citizens and its employees.

Last, but most feared by BE
Electric coupon-clippers is the
power granted in this new city,
bylaw to supervise, regulate, ac-
quire and operate electric, gas,
water and transportation utilities
in the interests of the eitizens of
Victoria.

Paper Apologizes To Union

Apologising for

the implication.”

In a letter
union counsel, Editor Thos.
Green stated that his reporter

printed a front page statement to
the effect that “it was a bad error
as there was no proof to support

to John Stanton,

Ww.
“saw
a number of persons being brought
from Blubber Bay for medical at-
tention to Powell River and was

in the water.”

Powell River and
sewerage matter
matter,

the sickness at Blubber Bay-

ef Powell River Lake,

informed by sundry persons, Dames
unknown, that these persons were
sick as a result of soap being put

A Chinese laundry on the shores
supplying

dumped by striking employees of Startling revelations regarding
the Pacific Lime company, the] Powell River’s water supply were
Powell River News this week]| uncovered last week by Golin Cam-—

eron, M.1..A.,amnd John Stanton dur-
ing their visit to the town. A re-
cent epidemic of stomach flu in
- Westview,
caused by the presence of solid
jin the drinking
was held responsible for

ACCUSATION RETRACTED

POWELL RIVER, BG, Sept. 1—
its false accusa-—
tion that pollution of the reservoir
at Blubber Bay was caused by soap

drinking water for Powell River
and Westview, has a septic tank
that for some time has been out of
commission and, according, to in-
vestigators, sewage runs directly
from the laundry to the lake.

Gonnaught Laboratories, it is
elaimed, have investigated the
Powell River water supply and on
at least two occasions recom-—
mended to the provincial health
director, Dr. H. E. Young, that
either a chlorination or filtration
plant be installed.

According to competent medical
authorities, the condition is bad

enough to cause an epidemic, par-
ticularly typhoid, which could wipe

Growers Unite
Co-Op Is
Formed At
Chillrwack

out half the town-

N EW. WESTMINSTER, BE,
Sept. 1i—The New Westminster
British Columbian here is next in
line for an apology to striking
employees of the Pacific Lime com-
pany at Blubber Bay.

In its weekend edition, the Brit-
ish Columbian reprinted the false
story frém the Powell River News,
charging strikers with having con-
faminated the water and caused
sickness to “at least ten persons.”

Co-Ops Show

WASHINGTON, DC, Sept.
Asricultural cooperatives

ae
in

administration.

owned coperatives

cooperatively
plies,
a patronage dividend on the year’
business.

handle farm

operatives, who have just

the typical

or three hundred farmers pay
$6,000
ness.
jimited dividends on their

owned by farmer members.

Gooperatives

to oranges

Steady Climb

Market Farm Products,
Pay $25,000 Dividends

48
states are not only marketing farm
products for their members and
purchasing farm supplies coopera-
tively, but paying them cash divi-
dend of more than $25,000 annu-
ally, according to US Farm Credit

Over 4,000 of the 10,752 farmer-
which place
one-third of America’s farm pro-
ducts on the market each year and
sup-
turn back to their member

Officials of the 12 banks for co-

dividend-paying asso-
ciation with a membership of two

patronage dividends amounting to
er $7,000 on a year’s busi-
Most of these co-ops also pay
stock

in which farmers
are selling everything from onions
and buying virtually
every type of farm supply, paid the
expense of the 1936 business, the
year covered by the survey, and

ers for their fruit.

s
Ss

com- -
pleted a nation-wide survey of figures. 5
farmer cooperatives, report that

degree.
S

pondent.
But apart from the

definite charge against

Growers Get Only
40 Cents On Box
(Of Apples At $1.65

VERNON, BC, Sept. 1—Charges made by Godtrey Isaacs,
Oyama grower, of the existence in
and vegetable marketing combine brings sharply to the fore the
miserable returns obtained by the majority of Okanagan grow-

Figures on last year’s record apple crop released by the BC
Fruit Board show that the average return to growers was some-—
thing less than 40 cents a box.

For apples that sold on: the prairies at prices ranging
$1.65 to $1.85 a box, the grower in the Okanagan received
from 30 to 50 cents, with the average return as shown by board

Growers here are unanimously of the opinion that operators
of the combine have affected their returns to a considerable

For a long time it has been ap-
parent that “something was dras-
tically wrong,’ as one grower ex—
pressed it to an Advocate corres-

inescapable
fact that returns were always far
below expectations base@ on wea-
ther and market conditions, grow—
ers have been unable to bring any
jobbers
who, it was obvious, were reaping

had $38,686,000 left over. Out of | a rich harvest. That is why they
this $25,380,000 was paid to the|are now unanimous in their dae-
fammers as patronage dividends, |mand for a thorough investigation

and $13,306,000 was plowed back
business to
provide additional operating capi-

into the cooperative

tal.

A larger percentage of oil and
gasoline coperatives paid patron-

age dividends to their members
than any other type. Over 1,050
associations in 26 states operate

coop filling stations and sell oil

of the charges preferred by Isaacs.
The crop this year will not be
much below that of last year when

British Columbia of a fruit

from

all records were broken. Adverse
conditions this spring have given
way to ideail weather and trees
everywhere are heavily laden with
apples. But while retail prices will
probably hold up to the 1937 level,
the question every srower is ask-

ing is: What return will IT get?

Tt is the same story in all the
fruit-growing districts, the same
with peaches, with pears, with
apricots and with plums. Retail
prices are no lower and returns TO
the grower no higher and, as a re-
sult, growers everywhere are dis-
cussing a system of cooperative
marketing in order to bring an end
to this ruinous situation.

Union Traces Holdings

and gasoline as their main busi-
ness. About three-fourths of these
associations paid patronage divi-
dends in 1936 ranging from $1,000

Wall Street Dominates

California Beet Industry

to $50,000 per association.

farmer.

Drainage Scheme

May Be Extended

PITT MEADOWS, BC, Sept.

—egislation will be introduced at
the next session of the provincial
or-
ganization and extension of drain-

legislature to enable further

age schemes.

This information was received by
the council here following applica-
tion of 32 Maple Ridge farmers for
Meadows

inclusion in the Pitt

drainage scheme.

In a letter to the council Dyking
Inspector Bruce Dixon stated that
the application had been given fav—

orable consideration, but expresse
the opinion that

taken.

the house.

Over
560,000 farmers made a saving on
their oi] and gasoline purchases for
the year which averaged if per

legislation was
necessary before exteneion of the
drainage project could be under-
The scheme, he said, would
be taken up at the next session of

lied Workers of America.
Between

fornia beet workers will

fected by the decisions.

Mrs.
network,

1

traceable back to
Rockefeller interests,
jmmense land holdings.
by

ent organizations.

fair wage for beet workers,

da

12,000 and 14,000 Cali-
be at-

Sasuly charged that one
the
Chase National Bank and John VD:
controlled a
number of sugar companies and
The sec-
ond network, she said, was headed
the American Sugar Crystal
company, which had many depend-

The union’s efforts to secure 4
Mrs.
Sasuly stated, were directed at the
large growers who were well able
to afford the scales demanded. The
small grower, squeezed by monop-
oly interests, was 45 much a vic-
tien of the big interests eontrolling
the industry as the worker him-

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 1—Charges that two huge
Wall Street sources dominate the beet producing industry of
California, squeezing both the small grower and the agricultural
worker, were made here before Department of Agriculture hear-
ings to determine 1939 wage scales by Mrs.
representing the United Cannery, Agriculture Packing and Al-

Elizabeth Sasuly,

self.

“We are interested in seeing the
small grower obtain a fair return
just as we are interested in se-
euring fair wages for the workers,”
union spokesmen stated.

The hearings were conducted in
compliance with the US federal
Sugar Act, which requires growers
to pay “fair and reasonable” wages
before they can obtain federal sub-
sidies.

Figures produced by the union
showed that beet growers earned
an average total income of $285 a
year under present conditions.
They were forced to remain avail-
able from early spring to late fall,
thus eliminating any opportunity
they had of obtaining work in
other fields, yet they were fortun-
ate if they got 80 days’ work a
year.

Surrey Plans

$10,000 Loan

South W estminster
To Get Water System

CLOVERDALE, BG, Sept. i—
Surrey Council has endorsed a
scheme to provide South Westmin-
ster with a water system and plans
to apply for a loan of $10,000 under
the Municipal Improvements As-
sistance Act.

At the last meeting of the coun-—
eil, Councillor Ben Shepherd re-
ported that (Greater Vancouver
District Water Board had approved
the proposal to supply water to
South Westminster residents liv—
ing near the Pattullo Bridge and
stated that preparations to obtain
necessary Signatures were being
made.

Im order to finance the scheme,
signatures of at least 100 water,
users will be required. With this
number of guaranteed users, at an
annual cost of $24 a connection,
the scheme would be self—liquid-

CHTILLTWACEK, BC, Sept. i-—
Prime mover in formation of the
Fairield Cooperative Producers’
Association here last week was
H. S. Lewis, well-known progres-
sive in this district and active for
a long time in the CCE.

As reported in the Advocate last
week, the association was formed
following refusal of canneries to
give prune growers a price for
their 350-ton crop which would
enable them to obtain a fair re-
turn.

Ganneries offered only $30 a ton
delivered at WNew Westminster
while growers asked $35 a ton.
The canneries’ price would give
eTowers a return of only one cent
a pound in the orchard.

First results of cooperative ef
fort through the new association
have already been seen in a VYan-
eouver order for 800 cases of
prunes. This week an experimental
shipment of three cars containing
36 tons of prunes packed in 1i7-Ib.
boxes was made to Safeway Stores
at various points on the prairie.

Twenty-four growers have signed
for five to ten shares in the new
association at ome dollar a share
and it is expected that the associ-
ation will grow rapidly with ex-
tension of its activities.

Wext year it is planned to
elude~ cooperative marketing
berries.

Directors as elected by the Erow-
ers are: W. H. Vines, president;
T. &. Herron, G. A. Skelton, HS.
Lewis and James Swan.

Langley Wins
Exhibit -Award

The challenge cup and $425 cash
award in the district agricultural
exhibit at the Canadian Pacific
Exhibition here was won by Lang-
ley.

Burnaby took second prize, C€o-

in-
of

ating in 10 years.

qQuitilam third and Surrey fourth-

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ROW BOATS, DINGHIES; SKIFFES,
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CAFES

THE ONLY FISH — ALL KUNDE
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20 Hast Hastings St

REX CARE = JUICY STHAEKS,
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LOGGERS, WOREERS — WHEN
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MONUMENTAL

MATIN MONUMENTS
money here. Histimates for ceme-
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NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN

DR. H. GC. ANDERSON—ALL NAT
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osteopathy and electrotherapy.
Free consultation and examine
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OILERY—2 QTS. CALIFORNIA,
25¢c; Russian Oil, per qt. 2Z5c;
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CHIMNEY SWEEPING

$150 CLEANS MAIN FLUE
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DRUGS

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FOR SALE
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Res., Marpole 365-X.

FUEL
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