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CCF Proposes Province-Wide Marketing Agency Set-u

TRADE BOARDS /Annual Convention Adopts Concrete
Five-Point Farm Relief Program

A central marketing board for BC comprising both producer-consumer representation to
control the manufacture, sale or purchase of any natural commodity was written into the farm
program of the CCF at its weekend convention in Vancouver opening June 23.

Brought in as a section of a six-point farm program, the proposed marketing board or com-
mission would be established to guarantee a price to producers on such products as may come
within the provincial field and to have authorityto regulate production where a price is guar-

DEMAND SCHOOL
TAX RELIEF

Chilliwack Meet Scores
Increasing Tax Load
On Farm Property

CHILLIWACK, BC, June 29.
— Demand for revision of school
taxation in order to obtain
school costs from sources other
than the land was contained in
a resolution endorsed by the
Associated Boards of Trade on
the Lower Mainland and Fraser
Valley at the quarterly meet-
ing.

Delegates were unanimous in
the stand that land taxation has
reached the saturation point for
education costs and something
must be done to redistribute or
fing some other source of financ-
ine the costs.

William Wright of the South
Burnaby Board of Trade stated it
was not fair to the landowner to
contribute one-third of the costs
while thousands who derive direct
benefit pay nothing.

“We have the richest farm land
in the world right here in the Val-
ley, but when we pay three or four
dollars an acre in taxes we are
paying what we do not earn,” de-
elared L. M. Eyres, MLA for Chil-
liwack.

Several delegates considered this
statement conservative as they
were paying from $9.75 to $16 an
acre in taxes, while one delegate
from Abbotsford said “half his
taxes went for education and the
other haif for relief.”

Belief that school taxes would be
& major point of discussion at the
Union of BC Municipalities con-
vention was held by the Chilliwack
MLA.

Action by other groups or organ-
izations will not lessen the board’s
determination to press for a better
deal for the farmer by having
some of the already heavy tax load
lightened.

The meeting also expressed dis-
pleasure over the government's at-
titude in not declaring any assur
ance for improvement of of Gd
Street, a vital road between the
Valley highway and the United
States.

Boycott Japanese Goods!

anteed.

In outlining his proposai to the_
convention, Len Shepherd, MLA fory
Delta, stressed the need of bringing
recovery to the farm areas, declar—
ing that the principle of marketing
control was now becoming recog-
nized as a necessary part of farm
recovery. He referred particularly
to the present controversy raging
ever sale of milk on the fluid
market, pointing out that CCF ef
forts to assist the small farmer in
defeating the big dairies in their
fight for an injunction would give
the movement a big victory.

“Tf we accomplish nothing else
than to settle the fluid milk question
we will have done a great deal,”
Shepherd said.

“The demand of the farmer for
marketing control is caused largely
by the fact that not enough of the
consumer’s dollar is reaching the
producer, while the middle man is
getting more than his share.

‘Marketing boards are at least a
limited result of collective action on
the part of the farmers. We be-
lieve that in these days of govern-
ment regulation and prohibitions of
various kinds for practically all
other goods and services, agriculture
must be protected in some measure
from the law of ‘supply and de-
mand’.”

Also endorsed were five other
specific points in the farm program
calling for: (1) Revision of agricul-
tural taxation with a view to re-
moving the cost of education and
other services from the land; (2)
encouragement and establishment
by the provincial government of an
experimental cooperative farm; (3)
a health insurance plan to include
farmers and their families; (4) a
co-relation of farm policy in certain
isolated districts to development of
local industries; cooperative cream-
eries and canneries, forest industry,
tourist trade and public works, in

order to make isolated rural dis-
tricts as near self-supporting as
possible; (5) setting up of a stand-

ing committee on agriculture within
the CCF.

Importance of that point relat
ing to development of local in-
dustries was stressed by Mir.
Shepherd. He cited the instance
ef such isolated farming com-

munities as existed on the Prince

George line of the CNR, where »

dairy farmers, due to transporta-
tion difficulties, are unable to ship
their milk to the fluid market.

“Here is a specific instance where
establishment of a dairy industry
to manufacture butter, cheese and
related products is needed,” he said.
The same thing applies to other
natural products from such areas,
as a means of giving these com-
munities an economic base. In such
eases also, institution of public
works projects is a vital part of
such industrial development.”

Assumption by the government
ef education costs now levied on
farm land was equally emphasized
by the CCF member.

The survey made by the CCE
Committee on Agriculture showed
the primary producer had suf-
fered more from the pauperizing
effect of the present economy
than any other section of the
working class, Shepherd stated.
Not only has he suffered from a

Grastie reduction in markets, but
be has also been subjected to
severe competition due to many

people having been forced out of in-
dustry and who have turned to
subsistence farming

Being in most cases an owner of
property as well as a worker, his
taxes have increased while his in-
come has decreased, while in all
parts of the province buildings,
fences and equipment are run down
and farm lands are practically un-
saleable.

“We believe, therefore, that re—
vision of taxation on farm lands
with a view to removing the burden
on land is of the utmost necessity.”

Funeral services were conduct-
ed Tuesday from Harron Brothers
chapel for Clifford Marshall Ever-
ett, who passed away Sunday at
2621 Alma Road in his thirty-third
year. Rev. W. B. Willan officiated
and interment was made in Ocean
View Cemetery.

The deceased was until the past
year active in the progressive labor
movement.

Mr. Everett was a native of Bri-
tish Columbia and leaves to mourn
his passing two brothers and a
sister.

STUNTING PLANE
SCARES FOWL

Special to the Advocate

BRIGHOUSE, BC, June 29.
Havoc among poultry breeders of
Lulu Island is being wrought by
pilots zooming their planes to
within a short distance of chicken
runs and scattering them in all di-
rections, causing considerable dam-
age to the birds and loss in egg pro-
duction to the owner.

Ten days ago a plane occupied
by two men roared low over the
ranch of Miss A. Head, where 100
chickens were thrown into wild con-
fusion. Some of the birds in their
flight crashed against the fences
and other objects and as a result
have stopped laying.

A protest was lodged with Air-—
port Manager Templeton, but he
did not know what planes or pilots
were out during that day nor could
he direct the owner to the proper
place to register the complaint.

The District Inspector of Civil
Aviation, where complaint was reg-
istered, asked for further informa-
tion as to the extent of damage
and the markings on the plane.

It is evident that if the poultry
breeders are to be allowed to eke
out an existence then pilots who
derive delight from seeing chickens
and other fowl scattered should be
grounded.

OTTAWA, Ont. — Appointment
of Mr. Justice Gordon Sloan as a
royal commissioner to investigate
the use of salmon’ traps at Sooke
on the British Columbia coast was
announced this week by the Fed-
eral Department of Fisheries.

The appointment follows the
Weill, veteran independent mem-
ber for Comox-Alberni, and the
campaign of fishermen’s unions to
have the traps, which are licensed
by the Dominion Government,

abolished.

A Startling Discovery

I> When a current is passed througsh¢man laboratory to my knowledge,

WIS is a sensational article.
In these articles

am sorry.
qT try to keep to facts. But oc-
easionally facts are sensational.

A discovery has just been made
which may revolutionize human
life as completely as the steam
engine, and much more quickly.
The odds are against its doing so,
but uot more than ten to one, if
so much, So it is wroth writing
about it.

In a recent article, I described the
recent work on splitting the nuclei
of uranium atoms. A certain num-
ber of them explode when neutrons
collide with them.

Weutrons are among the so-called
elementary particles, that is to say,
particles which have not yet been
broken up, such a5 electrons,
protons, and perhaps 2 few others.
This does not mean that they will
never be broken up.

Ordinary atoms hola together
when they collide at a speed of
about a mile a second, as they do
in air. When the temperature is
raised, and the speed of collisions
goes up to ten miles or so a second
they cannot hold together, but
electrons, that is to say, elementary
particles with a negative charge,
are torn off them.

That is why a flame conducts
electricity.

But at moderate speeds, say 4
few thousand miles per second, col-

lisions only break up the é atoms
temporarily. They soon pick up
their lost electrons. When the

speed rises to tens or hundreds of
thousands of miles per second, the
nuclei, or cores of the atoms are
sometimes broken up.

the heavy variety of hydrogen at |
a voltage of half a million or so, |
the atomatic nuclei become formid-
able projectiles, and if they hit a
light metal called lithium they
break up its atomic nuclei and let
neutrone loose.

Weutrons can penetrate the nuciei
of many atoms even when moving
slowly, and cause still further
changes.

Generally they only chip a piece
off. But when they attack urani-
um, an element which is unstable
anyway, and produces radium,
though very slowly, when left to
itself, the uranium nuclei split up.

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4 oe new fact, first discovered by

Joliot and his colleagues in
Paris, is that when the uranium
nucleus splits it produces neutrons
also. In the experiments so far
made, very small pieces of uranium
were used.

So most of the neutrons, which
can penetrate even metals for some
distance, get out. But if the neutrons
are liberated in the middle of a suf-
ficiently large lump of uranium,

they will cause further nuclei to
break up, and the process will
spread.

The principle involved is quite

simple. A single stick burns with
difficulty, because most of the heat
gets away. But a large pile of
sticks will blaze, even if most of

them are damp.

Nobody knows how large a lump
of uranium is needed before it be-
gins to set itself alight, so to say.
But experiments are already under
way in two British and one Ger-

and doubtless in others in America,
the Soviet Union, and elsewhere.
Se

ie THE current number of

“Nature,’’ Jolict and Halban, a
French and German physicist work-
ing together in Paris, published an
SOS letter suggesting means for
slowing the process down, So as to
avoid disaster.

If the experiment succeeds sev-
eral things may happen.

The change may take place
slowly, the metal eradually warm-
ing up. It may occur fairly quickly,
in which case there will be a mild
explosion, and the lump will fly
apart into vapor before one atom
in a million has been affected.

Or there may be a really big ex
plosion. For if about one four-
hundredth of the mass of the ex-
ploding uranium is converted into
energy, as seems to be probable, an
ounce would produce enough heat
to boil about a thousand tons of
water. So an ounce of uranium,
if it exploded suddenly, would be
equivalent to over a hundred tons
of high explosives.

Of course, no one will begin with
an ounce. Still they may do a good
deal of damage. Most probably,
however, nothing much will happen.

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T MAY be, for example, that the
majority of uranium atoms are
stable, and only one of the several
isotopes (as the different sorts of
atom in the same element are
called) is explosive. If so, it will
take several years to separate the

isotopes,
Wevertheless, the next few
months may see the problem

A Science Feature
By J.B.S. Haldane

> solved in principle. Ii so, power

will be available in vast quanti-
ties. There will be a colossal
economic erisis in capitalist coun-
tries.

There is plenty of uranium in dif-
ferent parts of the world, notably
northern Canada, the Belgian
Congo, Czechoslovakia, and in sev-
eral parts of the Soviet Union.

So the owners of uranium ores
will make vast fortunes, and mil-
lions of coal-miners will be
thrown out of work. The Soviet
Union will adopt the news en-
erfy source on a vast scale, but
the rest of the world will have a
much tougher job to do so.

Fortunately, uranium bombs can-
not at once be adapted for war, as
the apparatus needed is very heavy
and also very delicate, so it cannot
at present be dropped from an air-
plane. But doubtless uranium will
be used for killing in some way.

S

AS INTELLIGENT reader may

well ask why; if uranium is
so explosive, under certain condi-
tions, explosions do mot occur in
nature. The answer is that uranium
does not oceur in nature in a pure
state. It is generally found com-
bined with oxygen, and neutrons
would be stopped by the oxygen
atoms to such an extent that an
explosion could not possibly spread.
[ IT repeat that this article is highly

speculative. I am prepared to bet
against immediate “success” in
these experiments. Wevertheless,

some of the world’s ablest physicists
are hard at work on the problem.
And the time has gone past when
the ordinary man and woman Can
neglect what they are doing.

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JAPAN SALMON
DEAL SCORED

fight waged in the House by A. W. |

Regarding the placing of orders
by British firms for huge quan-
tities of canned salmon with Japa-
nese interests, the Provincial Com-
mittee of the Communist Party,
BC section, sent the following pro-
test to Prime Minister Mackenzie
Bang:

“Having regard for the wel-
fare of the Canadian people, the
Communist party wishes to bring
to your attention the injury be-
ing done to business, and espe
cially to the workers engaged in
the fishing industry in British
Columbia, by the action of Brit
ish firms, with the tacit approval
of the Chamberlain fovernment,
in placing orders involving many
millions of dollars for canned
salmon with Japanese interests.

‘Wot only does such patronizing
of foreign interests employing
labor at coolie rates of wages
work a hardship on BC~ labor
and business, but by furnishing
Japanese interests with huge
funds itaids and abets the miili-
tarists and government of that
country in continuing their ag-
gresion against the Chinese na-
tion.

“We urge, therefore, that your
government exert, all infiuence
at its command to put an end
to such anti-Canada, anti-labor
and anti-democracy practices as
that represented by the placing
of the orders referred to.”

Berry Market Looks
Bad For Growers

MISSION. BC,
ment weather is causing consider—
able losses to fruit growers in the
Fraser Valley and has greatly cur-
tailed shipment of strawberries to
the prairies and United Kingdom
markets.

Up to this week only 100 cars of
straws had been shipped to the
prairies, a decrease over last year
of nearly 60 cars. The quality of
these has not been up to the stan-
dards of other years owing to con-
tinued rains which limit the keep-
ing qualities of the berries.

Growers are being urged to pick
straws for jam making since the
British market is absorbing all the

june 29—Incle- ,

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CREDIT UNION
LEADERS TOUR
FARM AREAS

To Explain Setup Of |
Credit Unions To All
Groups Asking Aid

VICTORIA, BC, June 29-')
Promotion of credit wunioi
under a long range progra:
drafted by Attorney Gener,
Gordon Wismer, sponsor of tt
legislation Jast fall, will ge ¥
under way when three exper }
of the plan will tour the prov§
ince during the summer month}
explaining their workings an §
benifits to communities desirin
more knowledge. A

Two graduates of the Universit
of British Columbia, who have dz
tailed information of how the pia #
should work, and J. P. Hoge, th |
Attorney—General’s legislative coun
sel, will make the tour.

In Nova Scotia the credit unio; §
is said to be functioning quite sat
isfactorily and Mr. Wismer is de
sirous of having BC follow th
same example. :

Efforts haye been made in som 7
communities in forming credi 7
unions, but the full advantage ha:
not been taken because knowledgi 9
on its functions has been lacking

Under the new legislation : §
eredit union can be formed by <
group of people who band them }
selves together and agree to plac: |
certain monies in a joint fun: §
which is administered by a com
mittee from their own ranks.

Members can then borrow fron §
the fund at one percent a monti §
to purchase farm implements
seed, furniture or other necessar
things for which they haye not thi
ready cash. Large reserves can bi &
built up through the credit unio; :
which can be used to promote sale!
of the members’ products or use §
te buy in large quantities, thereb) |
blocking atempts of large corpar
ations to gain a monopoly.

CRANBROOK, BC, June 29 —
Announcement was made thi §
week by Communist Party official ©
here that Fergus McKean, provin {|
cial secretary of the party in BC |
had accepted the nomination as;

berries offered from other Euro! Labor candidate in the East Koot

pean countries, but even there | enay federal constituency, now re

gerowers are unable to fill their | presented by the Hon. H. E Ste

quota of former years. vens, Conservative.

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