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THE PEOPLES ADVOCATE

Wheat Growers Win Partial Victory On Minimum Price

Mass Pressure Forces
Gov't To Boost Prices
To /O-Cent Guarantee

(Special to

the Advocate)

OTTAWA, Ont.—Pressure from almost every farm, labor and
political organization in the western wheat belt won a partial

concession in the demand for

80-cent wheat this week as the

government announced its intention to raise the guaranteed
price from 60 to 70 cents a bushel.

As predicted in informed parliamentary circles, resentment
against the proposed 60-cent guarantee finally broke out among
Liberal party back-benchers, representing prairie ridings, who

have reportedly been staging a2
mass revolt in recent Liberal cau-
cuses.

Hirst to break out of the party
traces was Dr. Harry Fleming,
Liberal member for Humboldt,
Saskatchewan, who directed a
slashing attack on the wheat pol-
jey of the government. Declaring
that the welfare of the entire na-
tion as well as of the prairie prov-
inces depended on an 8Q-cent mini-
mum fuarantee, Dr. Fleming
stated the West was not prepared
te accept less and announced his
intention of supporting the CCE
want of confidence amendment to
the budget.

Wext to bolt party ranks was
Barry Leader of Portage, who
urged the 80-cent price and de
manded a reduction in prices of
farm machinery. One other Lib-
eral member, J. A. MacMillan cf
Mackenzie, while apparently
afraid to step outside altogether,
did deciare for the 80-cent mini-
mum.

These facts, added to the recent
trip made by” “Premier Bracken of
Manitoba, who headed a strong
delegation from western provinces
demanding 80Q-cent wheat at Fort
William, brought pressure on the
government to a head and un-
doubtedly influenced the hasty de-
cision to boost the price 10 cents
in an attempt to sidetrack the
srowipng anti-Liberal feeling flood-
ing the wheat country.

The general opinion of observers
here, however, is that the western
farmer will not be satisfied with
the sop and will continue to fight,
and it is believed, win, the 80-cent
minimum guarantee.

NEW WESTMINSTER — Relief
recipients will not be obhged to
dig graves as part of their relief
work, the City Council decided re—
eently after hearing F. T. Neilsen
of the Workers’ Alliance.

|"BIGGEST MAY
DAY IN YEARS’

CUMBERLAND, BC “The
best yet” was the expression
heard in this live mining town
during and following the great
May Day demonstration, Monday.
Stores and mines were closed
down tight for the day. The pro-
vineial government would not con-
sent to the closing of the schools,
but the kids attended to that. Only
a handful of pupils went to class-
rooms, so the teachers shut up
“shop” for the day.

Promptly at 10 am., the parade
began, hundreds of children in the
lead. Floats bearing serious, satir-
ical and humorous slogans, most
ef which were directed against
reaction, fascism, and aggression.

First prize, $25.00 for working
class organization fioat, went to
the Miners’ Union. Second prize
was won by the Communist Party,
while the CCE received a special
prize, as did the Rod and Gun
Club. Other prize winners in the
parade were: Current Events, Bert
Davis; Best Comic, Mrs. Jas. Rob-
ertson; Character representation,
@ group of Chinese girls; Ladies’
Auxiliary (U.M.W.A.) received a
special prize.

Ghildren’s sports during the af-
ternoon and a football game be-
ginning at 4 pm. drew a large
crowd.

In the evening there was a mass
meeting in the Oddfellow’s Hall,
which was addressed by Harrison
Brown, Colin Cameron, MLA, and
Malcolm Bruce, with the veteran
miners’ union president, Dick Coe,
in the chair.

A monster dance in Recreation
Hail wound up the greatest May
Day celebration and demonstra-
tion in the history of Yancouver
Tsland,

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AUSTRALIA WORKS TO PREVENT DROUGHT _ ||

CNR Break Compensation
Board Rule On Track Work

gang of track layers working be-
tween here and Basque was made
this week by members of the crew.

Clause eight of the act demands
that all employers having 100 or
more men in their employ at a
place more than five miles from
a hospital shall provide satisfac-
tory means of transportation to
nearest place where medical at-
tention and hospital accommoda-
tion is available.

In addition to this an emer-
gency first aid room is to be pro-
vided and not used for any other
purpose. This room should be
kept sanitary at all times and be
in charge of a competent first aid
man whose certificate is satisfac-
tory to the board.

These conditions demanded by
the Workmen’s Compensation
Board do not exist on the extra
gang, the men claim. The first
aid man is engaged at other work

(Special to the Advocate)

ASHCROFT, BC, May 4.—Flagrant violation of the Work-
men’s Compensation Act by the Canadian National Railways
in not providing the necessary first aid emergency room or
transportation facilities m case of serious injury among an extra
@and would not be ready

immedi-
ately to render first aid.

The only conveyance for injured
men are hand cars or a speeder,
which are not considered by the

men as satisfactory means of
transportation.
Besides paying the compensa-

tion levy the men are led to believe
that they are obliged to pay $1.50
per month medical fee. Meals are
charged to each man at the rate
of 75 cents per day, which they
claim are of poor quality.

VICTORIA, May 4—Hon. W. D.
Herridge, former Canadian envoy
to Washington and sponsor of the
New Democracy movement, will
address a public meeting in the
Empire Theater on Hriday. The
Democratic Book Club is sponsor-
ing his appearance here.

Gaining Knowledge From Sun Eclipses

By J. B. S. HALDANE
N WEDNESDAY, April 19, the
sun was eclipsed. in Lon-
don, the eclipse began at 6:30 pm
(summer time) and about a third
of the sun was covered at 7:15.
As the sun was low in the sky it
Was quite safe to look at it with-
out darkened glasses.

A little more of the sun was
hidden from Scotland than from
England, but nowhere in Britain
was half the sun’s disk dark. In
many cases when the sun is
eclipsed we read of expeditions
going to some remote island or
desert to observe it. But this
time there were no such expedi-
tions, because the eclipse was no-
where total.

)

WN ECLIPSE of the sun occurs,
ef course, when the new
moon comes exactly between the
sun and the earth. Sometimes
the eclipse is total in some parts
of the earth, that is to say the
moon hides the whole of the sun.

But on April 19 observers in
Alaska and perhaps the crews of
a few ships in the Arctic Ocean
saw an annular eclipse.

That is to say the moon did not
cover the whole sun, but where
the eclipse is deepest a ring of
sun was visible round the moon.

It is a rather remarkable coin-
cidence that the sun and moon
have almost exactly the same ap-
parent size, though the moon
usually covers a little more of
the sky. if the sun and moon
were always at the same dis-

@ 2 line through the centres of the

sun and moon reached the earth
somewhere.

But actually the earth moves
round the sun, and the moon
round the earth, in orbits which
are not quite circular, nor indeed
quite elliptical. When the sun is
as far away as possible and the
moon as near as possible, a total
eclipse may last as long as seven
minutes.

When the sun is near and the
moon is far, as last week, the
eclipse is annular.

Ss

OWHERE else in the solar

system does this happen. The
moons of the planet Mars are
too small ever to hide the sun.
Some of those which go round
Jupiter always cause total
eclipses on that planet, for their
shadows can be seen crossing its
face, as an actronomer on Venus
could see the shadow on the
earth caused by a total eclipse.

Still odder is the fact that there
was a first annular eclipse of the
sun. The average distance of
the moon from the earth is gra-
dually increasing, and when it
was nearer it could always hide
the sun completely.

In the same way there will be
a last total eclipse. But the first
annular eclipse happened a long
time before there were any men

to see it,

And the last total eclipse wiil
be many million years hence,
when our descendants will pro-

tances from the earth, then all
eclipses would be total provided

bably be very unlike ourselves,

something of which only histori-
cal specialists even learn.

The date can be roughly cal-
culated, but the calculation
would take me several hours,
and I am busy in connection with
A.R.P.

Se

T TS lucky that man evolved be-

fore the last total eclipse, for
total eclipses have helped knowl-
edge and assisted progress.

They were very alarming
events, so men tried to deal with
them in various ways, such as
beating gongs to scare the dra-
gon which was trying to eat the
sun. And when it was possible
to predict them this meant a
great imerease in human self
confidence.

We are still, mostly in the
fong-beating stage as. regards
politics and economics. It is not
generally thought that history is
a science and prediction possible.

On the contrary, Marxists who
try to do so are treated much as
people were treated a few thou-
sand years ago who said that the
black cirele creeping over the
sun was not a dragon or a devil,
but only the moon.

e@

HWE success of the scientific

method of predicting eclipses
was a great step forward. As
soon as the theory was so accu-
rate that an expedition could be
sent to a spot where a total
eclipse was due, a lot more infor-
mation became available.

and capitalism will be a tradition

When the sun’s disk was cov-

© of the very remote past, perhaps © ered, solar prominences, that is

to say luminous clouds a long
way above the edge of the sun,
were seen, and also the corona,
a glow stretching out still fur-
ther.

More recently Minstein predict-
ed that the light from stars pass-
ing close to the sun would be
bent out of its path by gravita-
tion. The idea was not new, in-
deed the French revolutionary
leader Marat had thought, on
quite insufficient evidence, that
light was deflected by gravita-
tion.

However, Ejinstein’s prediction
was accurate not merely as to
the bending of the light, but as
to its magnitude.

But the observations are not
yet accurate enough to make it
certain that Einstein was quite
right.

(a)

URTHER work may show
that his theory will have to
be slightly modified. Other re-
cent developments include pho-
tography of the corona from
high-flying airoplanes, which en-
able details to be seen which are
invisible from the earth’s surface,
and observations on the effect of
eclipses on radio transmission.
In fact there is so much to be
learned from total eclipses that
we may be glad that annular
eclipses are rather uncommon.
But at least we can predict them.
So no fruitless expeditions will
be sent to Alaska, whereas we
eannot yet predict the weather
except for a few days ahead.

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STEAM BATHS

Looking down on the Warra-
gamba Dam, a subsidiary to the
main water conservatories in New
South Wales. Construction work
has been speeded on this project
as the country prepared to face
unseasonable cold weather fol-
lowing the hottest summer on
record, which brought with it
drought and devastating forest
fires.

Canada’s wheat belt couid stand
to see construction of similar pro-
jects as a means of rehabilitating
drought-stricken farm lands.

PORT ALBERNI, BC, May 4—
After weeks of planning in num-
erous committee meetings Ald. J.
M. Grossland, chairman of the fin-
ance committee, brought in the
1929 budget which keeps the tax
rate on land down to 55 mills—
the same as last year—which was

first and largest May Day pa
rade in the history of the Oka —

OK VALLEY HAS
SUCCESSFUL

MAY DAY MEET ©

Vernon Labor Holds
Big Parade; Kelown;
Mayor Participates
By FIFI TORNBLAD
VERNON, BC, May 4.— "Th

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nagan Valley was held here las ©
Sunday. More than 300 peopl —
carrying colorful banners an |
placards paraded through th |
main shopping district to Poi
son Park.
People from one end of the val.
ley to the other entered the parad ;
with their cars! bearing banners oj’ i
the organizations they represent —
ed, while floats were entered hy /
the unemployed, Communist Part:
of Canada, the Chinese Aid fo |
War Relief and an individual +
group. Ae
At Polson Park Mayor O. L {|
Jones of Kelowna, Mr. Prior |
principal of Oliver High School
T. Anderson for the unemployed
S. Freeman for the Chinese Aid 7
and F. A. Qxenford of the Com
bunist Party addressed the gath- 1
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‘ering of 1200.

Softball games and running
races for the children wound up —
the day’s celebrations. Free candy ©
was distributed to all children |
Free coffee and tea was supplied ~
for the basket picnic held shortly |
after. 4

Friends of the Mackenzie-Pap-
ineau Battalion benefitted from a4
raffle which realized $25.

VICTORIA, May 4—May Day.
was celebrated here with a large
meeting in the Chamber of Com-
merece building which was addressed —
by William Gateman of Hotel ang”
Restaurant Employees Union
Local 28, Fred Fox of the Com-
munist Party and Sam Guthrie
CCF, MLA. News of Mrs. Laura
Jamieson’s election in Vancouver
Genter was enthusiastically ‘wel-

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