Page Four THE PEOPLE’S AD VOCATE BIG CANNERIES ATTACK GROWERS, WORKERS Tired Of Waiting Residents Of McBride To Finish Road PRINCE GEORGE, BC, Sept 8 —FPor 25 years various provincial governments have been promis- ing McBride residents a road from MicBride to Jasper. The passing of 2 quarter of a century finds 18 miles of the Yellowhead Highway to Jasper still uncom- pleted. So, despairing of government action, the long-suffering people ef MicBride announced last week- end that if the government did not undertake to compete the road this year, they would do the job themselves. A committee headed by Dr. L. IN. Greene has been formed to collect funds and supplies along the McBrideEdmonton route and sufficient supplies to feed 50 men for six weeks have already been obtained. Prince George residents have pledged to supply men, provisions and gasoline and the provincial government will be asked to loan road-building equipment. Labor Seeks Farmers Aid ‘Good Wages In City Give Better Markev SEATTLE, Wash, Sept. 8—Urg- ing cooperation between fhe dirt farmer and organized labor, the Committee to Defeat Initiative 130, labor crippling measure, today laid the facts on the line. “The biggest market for farm products is the city werlkers,” the communication said. “But they must have fair wages or they can’t buy what the farmers produce. “Good wages mean a bigger market and better prices for the farmer,’ it was declared, and far- mers and labor are in the same boat together. Spiking the attempt of the mono- polists to trick the voters into be- lieving that farmers are backing the measure, the action of the Washington State Grange, the real dirt farmers of Washington state, was cited. At their convention they condemned “corporation far- mers.” Farmers in eastern Washington today see their cherries rotting on the trees because the warehouses declare there is no market for them, and their pear crop threat- ens to go the way of the earlier fruits. Earlier this month the Associ- ated Farmers consulted by dis- traught farmers facing loss of their season’s work, admitted they had no solution to the most pressing problem of marketing their crops. The action resulted in a joint eonference being slated between the CGommitee for Industrial Or- ganization and the farmers to de- vise means of saving the perishable crops. Name Delegation NANAIMO, BGC, Sept. 8—Mayor Victor Harrison, Ald. C. P. Knox and Ald. S. Drake will represent Wanaimo at the Union of British Columbia municipalities convention vhich opens at Nelson on Sept. 14. Accompanying the delegation will be City Clerk Harold Hackwood. ARMS FOR SPAIN i AMLOOPS, BC.—The recent action of big British Columbia cannery owners in refusing to operate their canneries for canning of tomatoes unless wage seales established by the |X wage board were cut has drawn public attention to the monopoly exerted in this in- dustry. As a result of this sitdown strike conducted by big business, their price $2 a ton, while minimum wages, alr For two years, since its inception in 1936, t obtain- Barly in the struggle it was recognized that the majority of growers were little if any better The minimum wage board set wages for work- ers which were far too low to afford a decent living standard. ‘Marketing boards set prices for growers which brought them inadequate returns oz their products. off than the workers in the canning industry... Thus it was that the union laid down and has consistently fol- lowed a policy of fighting for a fair price to growers at the same’ time as it struggled to obtain a fair wage for workers. Twice this year the union has met the minimum wage board to submit its brief covering wages Urse Grower=Worker FORCE ALL PRICES DOWN and hours in the industry. A minimum of 3746 cents an hour for women employees, 50 cents an hour for men employees and equal pay for youth working on the same jobs as adult employees was asked. Time-and-a-half after eight hours was also made a demand in order to keep hours in the industry down to a reasonable level. Action : The minimum wage board how- ever, advanced substantially the same arguments as the employers. The canneries, it was claimed, were unable to pay higher wages because of competition from east— erm Ganada. The union pointed out that this argument could not hold good in ‘the cases of large com- panies such as Canadian CGanners, which owned 84 canneries through- out the Dominion, in addition to subsidiary machinery and paper earton manufacturing companies. The smaller canneries, the union explained, could not possibly com- pete with Ganadian Canners, re- gardiess of what wage scales were set. In Ontario and Quebec, Cana- dian Canners had in the past tew years absorbed many of the small- er operators and it was logical to expect the same process in BC. Canadian Canners Has 84 Plants In a special meeting with the minimum wage board on the ques- tion of tomato cannng recently, of ficials of the union were shown telegrams from the Vegetable Marketing Board stating that prices of tomatoes had been cut $2 a ton but thut operators were holding out for a wage cut. A wire from Wernon Board of Trade de- elared that the crop was rotting in the fields and that great hard- ship on growers would ensue un— less the minimum wage board ac- ceded to cannery operators’ de- mands. The sitdown by the big cannery operaters was successful because there is no legislation compelling -them to operate their plants der such conditions. At its last meeting, Local 105 of the union placed itself on record as believing that only cooperation of growers and cannery workers could defeat the big canneries in their. attempts to force down the price to growers at the same time as they demanded a wage cut of the workers - Fishermen Near Starvation Giant Corporations Bring Poverty To NS Villages HALIFAX, NS, Sept. 8.—Stories of the poverty-stricken lives of mining and fishing folk in Nova Scotia have recently been featured in eastern newspapers. Descriptions of entire vil- lages on the verge of starvation, of terribly depressed mining areas, of poverty and distress in the homes of the people of the Maritimes, were all too accurate. But there is another side to the story that the millionaire-owned newspapers did not mention. That story is one of giant cor- porations draining the life blood of a province. Ten thousand fisher- men.on the eastern coast are on the verge of starvation, despite the denial of Premier McDonald. The fishing trust is making tre- mendous profits. Thousands of miners are earning a few dollars a week. But the Dominion Steel Corporation which owns the mines and steel mills is piling up im- mense wealth. The poverty or the fishermen is not due to any natural catastrophe. Gatches of fish are as plentiful foday as ever. But the develop- ment of giant fishing trusts, which is a more recent development, has ruined the fishermen. In 1937 a further centralization of fishing corporations on the east eoast took place. The Maritime-National Fish, Iid., was incorporated, bringing together the National Fish Com- pany and the Maritime Fish Cor- poration. Chairman of the board of direc- tors is J. McG Sewart, president of the Acadia Sugar Company, and prominent Conservative, who was nominated by Bennett as attorney for the Rowell Commission. With him on the board of direc- tors of this gigantic fishing trust is G S. Mathews, manager and director of the Canadian Packers Ltd., Ganada Packers Ltd., and Canadian Packing Company. This corporation is responsible for the poverty of the fishermen. Operating huge steam trawling fleets, it has ruined the small fish- ermen who fish in smacks. It buys the fish from the fisherfolk, at prices that kept them on starva- tion levels. It operates fresh, smoked and frozen fish business and manufactures fish meal and allied products in plants at Digby, Halifax and Port Hawkesbury. It controls the National Fish Com- pany and the Maritime Fish Cor- poration and their subsidiaries. The lives of the miners and steel workers of Nova Scotia are con- trolled by the huge Dominion Steel and Goal Corporation. Its direc- tore include Sir Herbert Holt, Sir Charles Gordon, J. H. Gundy, Hon. C. P. Beaubien, Hon. J. P. B. Cas- grain and numerous others of Can- ada’s big shots. The sway of these corporations which control the main industries of Wova Scotia, has transformed the fertile lands of old Acadia into a poverty stricken area of human misery. eady inadequate, were lopped ten percent. he Jam, Fruit and Vegetable Canners Union has fought to better conditions and wages in an industry where long hours and poor pay growers were forced to cut Housewife Is Deceived By Labels The housewife, entering a store and seeing hefore her on the shelves cans bearing a score of daifferent brands, often thinks in maming a particular brand that she is getting something differ- ent. Im some cases this may be true. But in the majority of cases she is merely getting the same thing under a different namie. September 9, 1988 = Bie wholesalers, such as the T. Eaton company, David Spen- cer, Lid., W. HB. Malkin and Kelly Douglas and company, have their own Iabels placed on canned soods coming from different fac- tories and grown in various parts of Canada. These goods are placed on the shelves alongside exactly the same products bear- ing other labels. “ Ganadian Canmners has literally hundreds of different brands. By law the factory number must be stamped on the box or carten in which goods are delivered to wholesaler or retailer, but the housewife will not fina this on the label, nor could she be ex- pected to know what factory it represented even if it were Car ried. Liberal Raps Forest Waste Murray Condemns Huge Annual Loss of Timber SQUAMISH, BC, Sept. 8.— Con- demning wasteful logging methods and lack of conservation of British Columbia's vast timber resources, George M. Murray, MLA (Lib., Gil- looet), in opening Squamish and Wlowe Sound Fair on Monday, de elared: - “Destruction by fire of forest re— sources in 1938 meant loss of enough timber to supply the soft- wood market of Britain for two years. INo industry can survive in face of such colossal waste.’’ More important than conserva- tion of timber and minerals and of agricultural lands, Murray stated, was conservation of human energy- “Chronic unemployment,” he said, “consumes the manhood of a nation as surely as does a rampant forest fire the trees of the forest.” Royal City May Join Health Board NEW WESTMINSTER, BE, Sept. 8—The question of New Westminster entering the Metropo- litan Wealth Board will be dis- cussed with Dr. J. W. McIntosh, Vancouver's senior health officer, who has been invited to attend @ council meeting here on Sept. 20. The proposal was sponsored by Ala. W. M. Cook, elected with labor and progressive support at the last byelection. provinces to destroy the attained congress uniting within its repr and sincere workers, and so fit and make ready the labor move- ment in Canada to resist the growing fascist aggression against labor rights, and so advance and racy of our country,” Prior to the passing of this reso- lution, the recent conference com-— mittee meeting incorporated into the minutes a speech made by A. F- Whitney, president of the Brother-— hood of Railway Trainmen, in Min- neapolis. In his speecn Whitney urged unity of labor, especially between the AFI. and CIO, stating that the return of the CLO tothe APL meant the entry of the entire membership of the CIO into the federation. “Before peace can be enforced in America, organiezd labor must cease its internecine warfare,’ the trainman brotherhood head de- clared. “It must unite its efforts to extend the democratic process and to consolidate the peace forces. “In the last depression, when wages were cut and mass lay-offs were ordered, labor broke ranks and took flight; but now labor or fanizes counter-attacks and beats back wage cuts and dismissals. If this awakened Gulliver would but coordinate his movement, he could take the offensive and emerge as the protagonist for the highest type of democracy this country has. ever known. “As the representative of a great \Railroaders In City) Urge Labor Unity|| (|On Congress Meet| Unity in the trade union movement of Canada is the demand : of the Standard Railway Unions’ conference committee in a resolution forwarded to the 54th Trades and Labor Congress | of Canada opening in Niagara Falls next Monday. 4 “Resolved that the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, in maintaining the position as head of the international labor movement in Canada, give definite leadership to the people against the rabid attempts of the political henchmen in various a draft resolution declares. standards of our unions, by the esentation all bodies of honest protect the progressive democ- ; transportation bretherhood, not aft filiated either to the AFL or to the © GIO, I consider it my duty to do everything in my power to help the Green and Lewis forces bridge © their differences. “Qur prophecy fer democratic America is that the future will bring a Federation of American Labor, an organized labor move- ment of more than eight million strong, all unionists marching under one banner. “Such unity will be a challenge to every open-shopper, every con- niving and law-breaking industrial- ist. Such unity will be a challenge to every selfish individual beating his breast and lamenting a child labor law; such unity will challenge every enemy of society who uses his money and his influence te sabotage wages and hours legisla- tion, thereby cutting the earth from under the feet of those honest ly trying to make the country a better place in which to live; it will challenge the menace of American fascism; it will bring about an ex tension of the democratic process. “For in unity there is strength. In strength there is victory. In vic- tory there is peace. And in peace there is security~”’ » E CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING i ~X 4 / ADVERTISING RATES Classified, 3 lines 25c. Monthly and contract rates on application. BICYCLES AND REPATRS MONUMENTAL MAIN MONUMENTS — SAVE money here. Estimates for ceme- tery lettering. 1920 Main Street. BICYCLES, NEW AND USED— Baby Carriages, Sulkies, Doll Car riages, Joycyclies. Repairing of al kinds. Saws filed, eys cut, ete W. M. 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