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THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

October 7, 1838

Probe Of Combine Charges To

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GROWERS WIN
DEMAND AFTER
MANY DELAYS

Association Asking
For Investigation
Into Marketing Of
Tomatoes

VICTORIA, BC, Oct. 6.—
(Special) .—Concerted pressure
by British Columbia fruit and
vegetable growers on federal
and provincial governments for
a probe of marketing operations
in the industry brought results
this week.

Attorney-General
mer, on his return from Ottawa
Monday, announced that federal
authorities had agreed to initiate
a preliminary investigation and de-
clared himself confident that a full
probe under the Combines Inyesti-
gation Act would follow.

Ired by repeated delays, growers’
organizations have bombarded Vic-
toria and Ottawa with demands
that the charges made by Godfrey
Isaacs, Oyama grower, at a meet-
ing in Yernon some weeks ago, be
investigated immediately.

Gordon Wis-

Tsaacs charged that a combine,
eontrolled from Winnipeg, was
strangling the fruit and vegetable
industry in the four western proyv—
inces by its operations. His charges
were backed by the British Colum-—
bia Fruit Growers Association and

were amplified by additional
charges made by various other
growers’ organizations in the In-

terior, the Fraser Valley and Van-
couver Island.

Details of the charges were Sent
to Victoria and Ottawa, but Ottawa
took the position that a provincial
enquiry under the Sales on Con-
sigsnment Act would suffice, while
Victoria urged a federal probe be-
cause operations of the combine
extended beyond BC boundaries.

When the federal government's
hesitancy to act became apparent
jast weekend, growers organiza—
tions immediately sent fresh pro-
tests, adducing further evidence of
the combine’s operations.

United action of BC growers to
foree an investigation of opera—
tions of a2 combine said to be con-
trolling the tomato industry in this
province was urged by the Van-
couver Hothouse Tomato Growers
Association at its annual banquet
at the Hotel Georgia last Friday.

The association sent a demand to
Labor Ministers Norman Rogers
for a thorough probe of the com-
bine’s operations.

Among those attending the ban-
quet was D. Godfrey Isaacs, whose-
charges precipitated a general de-
mand for investigation. Isaacs, in
a forceful speech, urged greater
cooperation and organization
among farmers in order to secure
better returns for their products.

Housewives’ Branches
Formed in Valley

CLOVERDALE, BC, Oct. 6
Surrey locals of the British Goluna-
bia Wousewives League are n1O0Ww
being organized. The first meeting
of the Hjorth Road local will be
held at the home of Mrs. Levi
Farnsworth, Hjorth and Farns-
worth roads, Oct. 11. at 2 pm.

OCfficers Elected

SOUTH WESTMINSTER, BC,
Oct. 6—Mrs. L. A. Shepherd, wife
of Len Shepherd, CGF MLA for
Delta, was elected correspondence
secretary of the Parent-Teacher
Association here, at its last meet-

ing.
Other officers elected were: J.-
Wrightman, president; Mrs. BG.

Shepherd, vice-president, and Miss
M. Dibley, recording secretary.

Be Launched

Attends
Congress

WILLIAM GALLAGHER, M.P.

He spoke at the British Com-
monuwealth Peace Congress at
Glasgow, Scotland, last week.
Seven hundred delegates from
all parts of the British Empire
attended the congress, hig h-
light of which was issuance of 2
manifesto calling upon SBritish
peoples toe resist fascist aggres-
sion.

ESTIMATE BIG
APPLE CROP

PENTICTON, BG, Oct. 6—Fruit
growers in the Okanagan Valley
will be faced this year with the
problem of disposing of the biggest
apple crop since 1934, according to
figures released by the BC Fruit
Board.

The estimated crop exceeds that
of last’ year by 433,218 boxes.

Following are comparative fig-
ures showing number of boxes of
each variety.

1937 1933
CGopicers 7. =~ 48,812 53,617
Duchess -..----- 67,904 50 929
Wealthy .---.-.-- 323,464 280,871
McIntosh .....-- 1,829,169 1,890,899
Jonathan ......- 674,652 715,103
Wagener ..----. 100,470 110,353
Banana eo 55,818 5a,990
Spyz) 71,037 139,446
Ghebetes 55555575 45,991 50,607
Early Sundries - 95,481 132,259
Spitzenberg ...-- 50,765 60,508
Delicious .....-- 614,797 709,215
Stayman .....-- 77,630 85,832
Homes: =... --.-- 292,172 279,973
Late Sundries 28,613 80,864
Winesap ...---- 239, 664 251,873
Wewtowm ...---- 342,501 433,819
4.948940 5,382,158
Ratepayers Endorse
Summerland Loan
SUMMERLAND, BC, Oct. 6—

Ratepayers here have authorized
the municipal council to borrow
$154,000 to permit completion of a
new water system. The council
has already spent $80,000 on re-
placement of old water mains with
metal pipes.

Applications for the loan will be
made under the Municipal Assist-

ance Act.

“Protect Growers Interests’

BC Tree Fruits Named
Sole Marketing Agency

Under this arrangement, ship-
pers will be obliged to place all
erders before British Columbia
Tree Eruits, Ltd., which is grower-
owned and controlled. The board
will follow a “one-desk” scheme
whereby shippers will be named as
sub-agents by the company, all
collections being made by the com-
pany and shippers paid by the com-
pany for orders filled.

Main operations of the
selling agency will be
through the office here-

single
handled

KELOWNA, BC, Oct. 6.— Announcement was made last
weekend that British Columbia Tre Fruits, Ltd., personnel of
which is the same as the BC Fruit Board, set up under the
Natural Products Marketing Act, has been designated as the
sole agency through which tree fruits in the area under the juris-
diction of the BC Fruit Board may be marketed.

Ww.

to place representatives of

could protect growers’ interests.

in respect to it are all

the shippers,
complain
elected

because growers

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for him,’ Haskins said.

fH. Haskins, chairman of the
BC Fruit Board stated here that
the purpose of the move was not
to control interprovincial trade but
the
growers in a position where they

“The price to be asked for fruit,
allowances and rebates to be made
the
growers’ business and not that of
so no shipper can
have
representatives to do this

TOMATO BOARD
WOUND UP BY
GOVERNMENT

Tomato And Cucum=
ber Growers First To
Vote Opposition To
Control

ON TOUR

Hon. K. ©. Macdonald, min-
ister of agriculture, this weel:
formally ordered the British
Columbia Hothouse Tomato
and Cucumber Marketing
Board to wind up its affairs
and prepare an audited state-
ment of all accounts, following
rejection of government-con-
trolled marketing by growers.
The minister announced that

government supervision of tomato
and cucumber marketing would be

Many Programs Arranged

Parent-Teacher Groups
Seeking New Members

The practicability of the Parent-
Teacher Association is not under-
stood by many people. In its at-
tempt to improve home and school
conditions, the association can deal
with anything which affects the
welfare of the child. :

Im the handbook of the Nationa
home and school associations,
which cover ‘Parent-Teacher
groups, the policy outlined states
that “concerted efforts should be
made to raise the standards of
living of the people of Canada, es-
pecially those of non-skilled labor-
ers. School education must be
supplemented by home education
and home education cannot be ade-
quately given by parents who are
poverty stricken. *

“The minimum standard of lv-
ing should include not only the
provision for adequate food, cloth-
ing and shelter, unemployment in-
surance and health insurance, but

Throughout the province this week programs have- been
sponsored by individual Parent-Teacher associations to create
a better understanding in home and school. Competitions were
held in which mothers and children took part and events of a
social nature staged, designed to bring closer cooperation between
teachers and parents and interest more members.

and school education.

ment.)”

existing PTA groups.

funds raised by PTA members.

also provision for books and maga-—
zines and facilities for music and
sport and all other facilities which
would make possible the best home

“The young people of the coun-—

vineial and miumicipal governments
should strive vigorously to increase
the number of industrial openings.
‘Jobs for our youth’ should be one
of our great economic objectives.

Maich has already been done by
Children in
certain schools have been provided
with hot meals at midday, libraries
and gyms have been provided with

discontinued and the board dis-
banded.

In the recent vote, growers re—
jected the scheme 77-51, Lower
Mainland and Interior srowers gen—-
erally favoring control and -Van-
eouver Island growers, in the ma-
jority, opposing it. It is the first
time that growers have voted to
discontinue a scheme under the
Watural Products Marketing Act
once it has been in operation.
While operations of many of the
marketing boards have been under
severe criticism at various times
during the past three years and
erowers have more than once re-
fused to accept regulations laid
down by the boards, the demand of
srowers has generally been, not for
discontinuance of the schemes,
but for more democratic election of
the boards by producers and for a
better system of quotas and mar-—
keting.

try should be given opportunities

to become useful citizens. To live

a life of unemployment is most Use Of Japan Goods
demoralizing. ‘The Dominion, pro- For Prizes Rapped

LANGLEY PRATRIE, BC, Oct. 6
—Miuch unfavorable comment has
been caused in this district by the
fact that the majority of prizes

(The Federation realises clearly | distributed at the carnival “held
that youth unemployment is but | here under auspices of the Hlks
one phase of general unemploy— Lodge here were of Japanese man-—

ufacture.

McKean Speaks

SOUTH WESTMINSTER, BC,
Oct. 6—Ferfus McKean, provincial
secretary of the Communist party,

Production Costs Cut

Tobacco Monopoly Reaps
Huge Profits In Canada

industry a cheapening reflected

This is not always so, however,
when the industry is embraced in
the clutch of a monopoly.

The Imperial Tobacco Company
now pays only a third of what it
paid twenty years ago for its prin-

cipal raw material—raw leaf to-
bacco.
Wet the only price reduction

passed on to the consumer during
all that time is the price reduction
made on cigarettes in 1932 when
the government reduced the excise
tax on cigarettes from $6 per
thousand to $4 per thousand.

A similar reduction took place
later in the price of cut tobacco.

These reductions brought the re-
tail prices of tobacco products
back to the level on which they
had rested for decades prior to a
post-war price increase.

But on what basis was this cent-
per-cigarette price originally es-
tablished ?

By CHAS. MARRIOTT

TORONTO, Ont, Oct. 6—In most industries raw materials
are a prime item of manufacturing costs and in any competitive
in a lowering of the selling price
of the commodity manufactured.

Tt was established on the basis
of the cost of relatively high priced

imported leaf tobacco.
In the past decade

ada, replacing higher-priced

leaf to the manufacturer

and that the average

We also have

which produces more than

fits.

the use .of
Ganadian-srown raw leaf in tobac-
co products manufactured in Can-
im-
ported Jeaf, has greatly inereased.

When we consider that the aver-
age cost per pound of imported
during
the past 10 years has been 75 cents
cost per
pound of domestic leaf during the
same period has been 28 cents we
have reason to wonder why cigar-

ettes and smoking tobacco have
not become cheaper in this coun-
try.

good reasons to
understand why Imperial Tobacco,
two-
thirds of all tobacco products used
in Canada, enjoys such huge pro-

addressed a well-attended meeting
in the school here last Friday on
the Huropean situation. Fred Carr,
Fraser Walley organizer for the
party, was chairman.

Ted Gunrud, former or-
ganizer in BC for the Inter-
national Woodworkers’ Un=
ion, recently returned from
Spain after 18 months in the
Mackenzie Papineau Bat- i
talion ... i

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