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THE PHOPLE’S ADVOCATE

BCFGA C

Valley

Producers
Organize
First Meeting

This Week at
Cloverdale

Grganization of all Fraser Val-
ley farmers into one federated
growers’ association is the am-

bitious plan announced this weel }
by Col. A. W. Mcielan, member *

of the BC Coast Vegetable Mar-
keting Board.

The campaign is intended to
get under way late this week
with a meeting at Cloverdale
Athletic Hall Friday night. Other
meetings are planned for Rich-
mond, Langley, Ladner and other
vesetable growing centers.

As the drive progresses, it is
intended to set up local vege—
table growers’ organizations in
each Eraser Valley municipality,
following which all groups would
be welded into one powerful
central organization.

Such an organization would
then be 3 valuable weapon by
the farmers for making repre-
sentations to the Marketing
Board.

Much optimism. is expressed
that the new organization, once
established, will prove of great
value in raising the farmers’
living standard, though not, it is
pointed out, at the expense of
the consumer. Increased profit
on produce will come through
narrowing down the price mar-
gin between producers’ and con-
summers’ price.

As an example of the present
spread in vegetables not covered
by the Marketing Board, farm-
ers point to the fact that while
the retail price for carrots is $40

a ton, the grower gets only
$7.78. Other vegetable prices
show a similar margin, amount—

ing in some cases to 150 percent.

URGES BOOST
IN CIVIC WAGES

CUMBERLAND, BC, Jan. 19.—
Wage increases for all civic em-
ployees were sought by Aid. S. L.
Robertson at the first meeting of
fhe council for 1939, particularly
for trick drivers and the city
elerk, but action on the matter
was deferred pending a meeting of
the civic finance committee.

Alderman Robertson stated the
local rate for truck drivers was
$4.40 per day and was of the opin-
jon that the city driver should re-
ceive the same. Other members of
the council stated that the rate
for government truck drivers was
$4 a day. :

The progressive alderman Tre-
ceived the support of Ald. D. A.
Bannerman on the question of
raising the clerk’s salary, and it
was suggested that the elerk might
act as secretary for the school
board.

Aldermen S. kL. Robertson, J.
Watson and A. J. Taylor were
Sworn in, and committees an-
nounced by Mayor Maxwell were:

Finance, W. P. Symons, J -Wat-

son and S. &. Robertson; works
board, D. A. Bannerman, J. Wat
so nand S. LL. Robertson; health,

G Shearer, W. P. Symons and A.
J. Taylor; light, J. Watson, G.
Shearer and DD. A Bannerman,
fire wardens, A. J. Taylor, W. P.
Symons and D. A. Bannerman.

Bulb Growers To
Hold Spring Show

Annual meeting of the Bradner
and District Horticultural and
Bulb Growers’ Association was
Geld last week in the home of the
secretary and the following officers
elected: President, J. P. Carr, Mt.
Lehman; vice-president, N. Au-
burn, Bradner; secretary-treasurer,
Edwin Baker, Bradner.

R. Donaldson, Bradner, and Cc:
G Ferguson, Mt. Lehman were
elected along with the table of-
ficers to the executive committee.

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ATTENDS
CONVENTION

Len Shepherd, CCE-MLA, slated
to speak at this week’s conven-
tion of the Surrey Workers and
Farmers Association.

VALLEY WORKERS
IN CONVENTION

Special te the Sdvoecate
SURREY, BGC, Jan. 19.—Annual
convention of the Surrey Workers’
and Farmers’ Association was heid
here this week with a record at
tendance of delegates and visitors
from every point in the municipal
ity.

One of the biggest organizations
of its kind in the Fraser Valley,
the 1939 convention marked an-
other year of progress in municipal
affairs, having established itself as
one of the most influential groups
in the community.

Wednesday's convention was
opened by Councillor Lom Binnie,
labor-progressive member of coun-
cil who was re-elected last Decem-
ber at the top of the poll with
backing of the Association.
Councillor Binnie set the keynote
for the meeting in an address urg-
ing a public works program for
Surrey backed by federal funds,
laying down a program under
which the organization could take
a more leading part in the promo-
tion of municipal welfare.

Other leading speakers included
Len Shepherd, CCE-MILA for the
district, Reeve John Hunter, Fred
Tyler, secretary of the BC Federa-—
tion on Unemployment, and Pred
Garr, Gommunist Party organizer.
Elizabeth Dobson, one of the
younger members of the Associa-
tion, took delegates through an in-

teresting half-hour discussion on
bringing women into activity in
progressive organizations, and re

ceived endorsation of her plan to
increase the number of women
members in the Surrey Workers’
and Farmers’ Association.

Qn the suggestion of Council-
lor Binnie, telgrams were des-
patched to Tom Mooney and to
Governor Culbert L. Olson of
California, congratulating the
Wew Deal leader on his splendid
stand regarding the granting of
an unconditional pardon to the
famous labor prisoner.
Attendance at the convention
was assured when -the Surrey
council, acting on the request of
the Association, granted relief
workers one day’s holiday.

Well Known Speaker
Tours For League

CRANBROOK, BC, Jan. 19.—Mr.
Arnold Robertson, son of Sir Hugh
Robertson, noted Scottish musical
eritic, will tour BC under joint
auspices of the Canadian League
for Peace and Democracy and the
CGhinese Benevolent Association-

Talking pictures of war-torn
China and Hitler’s seizure of Aus-
tria will be shown during the
speaker’s tour westward which
commences here January 23 then
to Kimberley the next evening

and Creston on January 26.

PENTICTON, BC, Jan. 19.—Heralded as marking the most important period in its ex-
istence is the three-day British Columbia Fruit Growers Association convention at Vernon early

next week.

Issues which delegates will have to face and thresh out is the central selling agency as
advocated by the Association in opposition to a system of srowers’ exchanges as proposed by

the “Ginger Group.”

é Growers’ exchanges were put forward by the “Ginger Group” as a solution to the poor re-
turns which growers say is due to the present method of selling, which is controlled by a

jobber-shipper combine.

Some growers have charged that
shippers have received their claims
for fruit before their shipment had
a chance to reach its destination,
and is generally referred to by the
producers as the “claims racket.”

These matters will all have a gen-
eral airing when the delegates con-
vene for their three days of Sessions
on Tuesday. Whether delegates de-
Cide on the growers exchanges or
the central selling agency it is felt
that both plans will get sympathetic
hearing and the good points of the
rejected plan incorporated in the
accepted selling scheme.

Vernon local of the BCFGA re
cently decided in favor of the cen-
tral selling agency with only two
votes recorded in opposition.

‘ers’ associations will also attend the

onvention Facing Many Important Problems
(Delegates Expected To Favor New |

Move To Form Central Sales Agency
As Means Of Ousting Combines

Attending the sessions at Vernony
will be Hon. K GC. MacDonald, Min-
ister of Agriculture, who will hold
a watching brief and thus obtain
the tenor of the meeting, and care-
fully listen to any mention of the
plan for subsidizing the growers as
requested by one group.

Some srowers had requested that
they be subsidized or the price of
fruit pegged, since the government
had pegged the price of wheat. This
question arose since the signing of
the Anglo-American trade agree-
ment, which growers claim leaves
them out in the cold.

Delegates from other fruit srow-

convention reporting on the ex-
periences they have gained.

Fishermen’s Cooperatives Meet

UBC Announces Extension
Course On Co-op Movement

Designed to serve the special interests of fishermen, a course
on cooperatives has been arranged by the Extension Department
of the University of British Columbia, according to an an-

nouncement this week.

lectures will cover a three-day
period during January 26, 27 and
28, according to present plans.
Professor Shrum, who is in charge
of the extension courses, has ar
ranged for Dr. Nelson MacDonald
of St. Francis Mavier University in
Wova Scotia to be chief instructor.

Dr. MacDonald is nationally
known for his studies of the co-
operative movement, and has had
extensive practical experience
among fishermen in the Maritimes.

The UBC lectures will be pre-

ceded by a conference of BC co-
operative fishermen’s groups to be
held in the city during January 23,
24 and 25. Representatives will be
present from the Worth Island

Trollers’ Association, Prince Ru-
pert Fishermen’s Co-Operative,
Kyuquot Trollers’ Co-Operative

and the Seattle Fishermen’s Co-
Op Incorporated.

A special session will be held to
deal with consumer co-op prob-
lems, and other sessions will be
open to representatives from such
groups.

Residence Legislation
Sought For Transients

OTTAWA, Ont.—Readjustment of provincial residence leg-
islation particularly as it affects the payment of relief, was set
as an objective by the recent meeting of the Canadian Welfare
Council which discussed the problem of transient unemployed. |

A. S. Hardy, chairman of the
national committee of mnon-resi-
dents outlined to the press a series
of proposals the committee will
consider for better registration of
unemployed, the establishment of
training centers and the placement
of unemployed men in industry.

“The workers should not be sub-
ject to loss of established legal resi-
dence and at the same time pre-
vented from acquiring a2 new one
within a reasonable period,’ Hardy
stated.

Twelve national agencies, he
said, would be meeting January
94-25 to discuss the desirability of
comparable legislation being en-
acted in each province. The legis-
lation should provide protection
for that important two-thirds of
the working population engaged
in primary industry and subject
to seasonal layoffs.

Proposals to-be considered in-
clude creation of central registra-
tion bureaus at all concentration
points of non-residents; issuance
of registration cards to establish
lezal residence; creation of a vol-
untary service corps for the spe-
Cial training of able-bodied employ-
able men with voluntary enroll-
ment for limited periods; initiation

of such other special training,
works, settlement and occupa-
tional projects as may be justified
by the classification revealed

through registration.

No Market Control
Of Seed Potatoes

Marketing of certified seed po-
tatoes will not be placed under
control of the BC Coast Vegetable
Marketing Board this year, accord-
ing to a decision by the BC Certi-
fied Seed Potato Growers’ Associa-—
tion

This information was conveyed
to members of the Marketing
Board at a joint meeting in Van-
couver this week.

Reason for the opposition is
lack of organization among the
potato srowers, delegates S. J.
Grey and S. MH. Ford explained to
the board, which would make it
difficult to place them under con-
trol.

A recent meeting of the Associa-
tion had suggested that the Potato
Board shoulda undertake market-
ing of the 1938 seed potatoe crop
thus introducing a measure of con-
trol this branch of potato

prowing-

into

It has now been decided to leave
this matter in abeyance until next
year.

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BIG ATTENDANCE

VERNON, BG, Jan. 19. — A rec-
ord number of delegates are ex-
pected to attend the annual con-
vention of the British Columbia
Fruit Growers’ Association which
convenes here January 24 and will
continue for three days.

The 1938 convention will also
mark the golden jubilee celebra-
tion of establishment of the Asso-
ciation, and officials have an-
nounced that a large number of
prominent men have signified their
Willingness to address the gather—
ing.

Among those definitely slated to
speak are Hon. K GC. MacDonald,
Minister of Agriculture; Dean A. M_
Shaw of the Dominion Marketing
Service, Ottawa; LL. Hutchinson,
son, president of the Alberta Wheat
Pool; E. D. Barrow, president of
the BG Ghamber of Agriculture;
Dr. A. FE. Barss of the UBC; Mar-
kets Commissioner A. J. Grant;
J. B. Shimek, vice-president of the
BG Goast Growers’ Association; ,
R. G. Palmer, superintendent of the
Experimental Station, Summerland,
BC a;nd members of the Provincial
Fruit Board-

The British CGolumbia Chamber
of Agriculture will open its annual
meetins directly after the BCRPGA
sessions close.

More than 60 resolutions have
been forwarded to the resolutions
committee and it is believed a large
number of these deal with the
major problem which will confront
the convention—marketinge of fruit
through a single agency controlled
by the growers themselves, a de-
velopment which has strong support
in the Okanagan as a result of the
exposure of the jobber-shipper com-
bine.

Inquest :
Shows CPR
To Blame

Trainmen’s Death
Due To Evasion
Of Safety ules

Special to the Advocate

CRANBROOK, BC, Jan. 19—
Inquest into the deaths of fire—
man Charles Ross MacDonaid
and engineer Arthur Bolt, both
of this city, who were killed re—
cently when their train was de
railed by a rock slide near NeL-
son, brought out several’ facts —
which were toned down by the |
daily papers for the benefit of, |
the CPR. z

Owing to the dangerous condi- ~
tion of this section of the Kao {|
tenay line, where rock slides
have disrupted schedules every
winter, the 25 miles per hour run-
ning schedule was objected to by
the railway brotherhoods.

A request was also made for
a speeder pilot to precede all
traffic but both were ignored by
the CPR.

The twenty tons of rock which
fell from a height sufficient to
smash it into fragments could
have been heard by a track:
walker at a distance of from two
and a half to five miles.

Bolt was Killed outright while
his fireman died later of scalds,
and trainman larson» injured
when their train hurtled down
the embankment. :

A short time before the fatal ©
accident MacDonald shared his
meal—vwhich proved to be his
jast—with an unemployed man
named Kennedy.

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CRANBROOK, BC, Jan. 19 (Spe-
cial).—Unemployed citizens of this

district have recently organized
into the Cranbrook and District
Unemployed Association.

Relief allowances issued in the
home town of Hon. FE. M. McPher-—
son, Minister of Public Works, bave
made this step necessary. The third
winter without a clothing allowance
also find many relief workers with-
out fuel, another “saving” to the
government and smunicipality. ;

Fifty percent of the public school
children suffer from malnutrition.
This condition, exposed a year ago
by the provincial nurse, is agsra-
vated by the treatment accorded
relief recipients.

Officers of the new unemployed
organization are Bill Hitter, presi-
dent; W. George vice-president; and
G. Benson, secretary

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