Communist candidate says:

INTERIOR

ACTION NEEDED ON

PROBLEMS

By NICK KLIM
Communist Candidate North Okanagan

Premier Bennett, on his recent trip to England, made |
fhe statement that he wants people with guts to come to |
B.C., to open up new businesses and help develop the prov- |
ince. Mr. Bennett forgets that products have to have mar- |

kets; besides we have people with guts in B.C. who have
taken up farming, fruit-growing, logging, etc., who are

being driven into the ground

because of no markets and no

fair returns for their products.

What we need is not people!

with guts to come to B.C. We
need people with brains in
Victoria, with the interests of
the farm and laboring people
in their hearts,

We need people in Victoria
that, will see that the farmer in
this province gets a fair shake.
At present the British Colum-
bia Fruit Growers Association,
the monopoly front through
which the big packers grab all
the fruit in the Okanagan, are
assisting in the process of im-

porting American surplus ap- |
oS

ples into our country for sale
across the counter, while su-
perior quality Okanagan apples

are going into the juicer with |

buddy of Hitler) and the B.C.
Electric. Just look at the High
Arrow Dam deal that the Ben-
|nett government along with
| U.S. interests and the B.C.
| Electric are trying to pass off
1on the people of B.C.!

This is what the High Arrow
| Project would mean: impound-
;ed waters would flood 40,000
| acres of agricultural land, de-
|stroy 29 communities and
|establishments affecting 7,000
| inhabitants; it would destroy
|logging industries, mean loss
of cheap power to Canada; loss
of future industrial develop-

ment for employment in the
Okanagan and Kootenays.

disastrous result to the Okana-! =

gan farmer. In addition to this |

they have placed extra inspec
tors at the door

local apples on arrival.

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on the Canadian market has
slieed tomato

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mediately the last
neries may be forced to clos
their doors. More than six we
equipped canneries have fold
ed up in the last two year
On top of the d
Federal government has
nounced that this will be the

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—
or

last year of government grants |

to Okanagan tomato growers.

Farmers do not want to ex- |

from
want

ist on so-called welfare
the. governments. They
markets
parity prices. This requires a
different approach ‘by govern-
ments to the world market.

The logging industry in the
valley is in a slump. Small op-
erators are especially hard hit.
The big operators are putting
the squeeze on them, refusing
to buy their lumber then repos-
sessing their equipment. Many
of them have had to lay up
their trucks because of high
licence fees.

The only people, it seems,
who can get preferred treat-
ment from the Socred govern-
ment are the big monopolists,
like Axel Wenner Gren (ex-

of packing |
houses and are downgrading |

canned goods dumped |

and vegetable |
production in this area in two. |
if some steps are not taken im- |
two can- |

umping, the |

an- |

for their products and |

| NICK KLIM

|

These are just some of the
problems facing the Okanagan-
| Kootenay regions of B.C. While
|they await solution at the ex-
}pense of the farmer, cannery
worker, logger, business man
and entire community, the
Federal government continues
to pour $1% billion of the
taxpayers money down the
sewer on useless armaments.
No money to help the loggers,
farmers, fruit growers, build
the schools and facilities sore-
ly needed by the people—just
fat, juicy plums for the arma-
ments manufacturers.

These problems need imme-
diate solutions. Immediate sol-
utions are available. What is
needed is Communist represen-
tation at Victoria to see that
these solutions are worked
through. We are the only party
i that offers a real solution to
| the problems of the people.

Story behind headli

exposes monopoly tri

When Crane Ltd., Grandview Highway, announced that it was going to close uP
shop because of a strike by its employees, members of the Wholesale, Retail and De
partment store union, the Vancouver daily press had a hey-day. Higher wage demands
chase another industry out of B.C., they lamented.

Here is the real story the
dailies somehow failed to men-
tion.

Last year Crane Co. (U.S.
fifth ranking manufacturer of
plumbing fixtures) was bought
out by Thomas Mellon Evans
(related to the big moneyed
Mellon interests). Evans imme-
diately began knocking togeth-
er a piumbing-fixture empire

ckery

with Crane as a base. In the
course of elbowing his way in-
to the Briggs Mfg. Co. of Mich-
igan (sixth largest manufactur-
er of plumbing fixtures) he
ran into anti-trust laws. The
will hear evidence this month
that Crane acquisitions in the
U.S. federal trade commission
plumbing fixture field are les-

August 14th is Picnic Day-|
Feverish activities are evident!
in Vancouver and the Fraser
Valley as the calendar ticks off
the days separating thousands
of lower mainlanders from
their Gala Labor Picnic,

Summer sluggishness to the
contrary a score of determined
aspirants for the twin titles of
Miss B.C. Labor and Farmer,
along with their hard working
supporters are planning socials,
picnics, garden parties, weiner-
roasts, cultural events, and
buttonholing their friends and
supporters; each with the ob-
jective of clinching the 1960
title.

Committees are meeting day
in and day out to plan the cul-|
tural program; look after the
minute details that provide the|
food for the International Kit-|
chen for which the picnic is|
so famous; decorate the|
grounds; arrange the sports!
see that the kiddies- have the
day, of their year and that
Mom and Dad go home with
the warm glow of a wonderful
day spent with wonderful
people.

A highlight of the picnic
will be an address by Homer
Stevens, Sec’y of the Fisher-
man. and Allied Worker’s Un-
ion. He has just returned from
a visit to the Soviet Union as
a member of a delegation from
his union: Nigel Morgan, Prov.
Leader of the Communist
Party will address the gather-
ing along with Henri Lahti
executive member. of the Scan-
dinavian Central Committee of
Vancouver.

Here is a partial list of the
candidates for Miss B.C. Labor
and Farmer; Bayview, Selma
Lahti; Drydock, Rebecca Bey-
non; Electrical - Kensington,
Jean Waugh; Hastings East,
Betty Greenwell; Grandview,
Caroline McFarlane;; Olgin,

Gala picnic program
tops all past records

Kay Edwards; Norquay, Mae

Taylor; Pt. Grey, Yvonne
West; Waterfront, Ruth Win-
nerlow; N. Burnaby, Hatti
Dove; S. Burnaby, B. Chubo-
tuck; N. Van., Peggy Hall. Miss
B. C. Farmer — Surrey, Karin
Hardwick; Ft. Langley, Lynne
Burnell.

The champions will be
crowned at*Bear Creek Park
on Aug. 14th. From now till
then spirited competition is
the order of the day.

We suggest you circle your

calendar now Labor Farmer
Picnic 11 a.m. through to 8

p-m. Aug. 14th. See you there.

sening competition.

Since Evans took over Crane
Ltd. he has closed 43 of its 130
branches. Pickets striking
against Crane at its annual
meeting carried signs ‘Money
Mad Evans Has No Heart.”

Crane’s earnings jumped
from $2,167,345 in 1958 to $6,-
517,746 in 1959, a 300% in’
crease. Reports indicate that
this trend continues for thé
first quarter of 1960, 67c pe
share compared with 38c fot
the same period last year. Ad
to this a $5,000,000 dollar im
vestment in the acquisiton of
three new plants in Europe
and you get some conceptio®
of the scope of this big plumb:
ing monopoly.

It is obvious that the mod
est demands of a small grou?
of workers had nothing to 4d
with the decision of ths greedy
monopoly to close down ib
Vancouver operation. The
question that begs answer i®
how much longer are peoplé
going to allow such absenteé
landlords to cut off the livel!
hood of workers at will? A®
we might add, how mu
longer are we going to permit
the daily press to cloak ai
assist this procedure?

At the Canadian Manvpacturer’s Ass'n Conferences .

David McCord Wright, eco-
momics professor at McGill
jwniyersity, Montreal. rapped
labor unions yesterday ‘for
eating up too much of the
profits from increased
productivity.,

} The fact is, Mr. Wright
‘asserted, “today there may be
weonsiderable exploitation of
feapital by labor.”

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July 22, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pae?

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