_—. 15c VOL. 37, No. 33 (— te q i] ‘e id ic te Friday, August 15, 1975 TORIAL | ter a Atom i Dae ‘| 28s of the two Japanese cities >reenpeace hits discordant note €readers of the Tribune have asked us what our opinion is of the enpeace Foundation which last week launched a campaign to e the federal Bey rn into Sosing West Coast ports to freighters. € leaders of Greenpeace organized a sail-past Sunday of the et freighter Kurilsk now in port loading fresh produce for Soviet boats. On Monday morning they placed a picket line on the hter in an attempt to halt loading by longshoremen and team- | ese activities by the Gresnpeace Foundation have caused concern : ng Many progressive people in B.C. who fonneny supported -~_ ies of the Foundation. eenpeace was originally started as part of the campaign in BC St U.S. nuclear tests at Amchitka. The idea of financing a boat to. to Amchitka to ) protest the nuclear explosion on the spot caught on ecceived wide public support. Later, Greenpeace shifted its ac- s to the South Pacific to. protest French nuclear tests and ed support around the world for its fight to halt nuclear testing. — recent months the Greenpeace Foundation turned its attention to the whales. The whales, like many other marine species which - ¢ overfished by all maritime countries, are endangered nen have long urged international agreements to preserve : halibut, herring and other species from overfishing. Every sive person will support the need for conservation. But if such” vereignt} th Pacific years ago incidents between | ‘deep sea trollers and Sovi vessels some 40 miles off the B.C. coast Jed to Soviet aie By MAURICE RUSH The cost of living in Canada took another sharp rise in July going up 1.4 per cent, with food costs ac- counting for half the increase. This latest hike pushes food prices even higher in Vancouver which already has the highest food costs of any major city in North America. The July increase announced by Statistics Canada is almost the same as for June which saw a 1.5 per cent rise. Increasing at the rate of almost a point and a half each month, Canadian consumers: face the frightening prospect of 1975 being one of the worst years on record with a possible 15 to 18 per cent rise. With food prices - generally accounting for half the increase each month, the food bill at the end of 1975 will be ‘astronomical. Nor is August expected to be any better than July. The coming months will show. the effect of the special 10 cents a gallon excise tax * on gasoline announced in the June 23 budget. The effect of the higher domestic crude oil prices will add plving a firm rebuff to what was ed a ‘flippant and arrogant”’ tabled last weekend by the lSheries Association, UFAWU 7 {amon fishermen voted 85 per cent 1 Fi rejection in a two-day vote i lied Tuesday night. € negotiating committee had } cqnommended rejection after in Mpany negotiators had made poly no changes to previously- Cted offers, merely taking the Se y similar prices and stretching them out over a two-year agreement. Fishermen had earlier twice rejected the one-year pact offered by the Fisheries Association even though the negotiating committee had recommended acceptance. Shoreworkers and tendermen did, however, accept one year agreements from the companies, voting 78 and 76 per cent respec- tively that the salmon strike will tee We pay tribute to the Hinnoty of: the victims of te Shima and Nagasaki, we must Nelear hy that the danger of a ar holocaust is much greater Nat any time in the history 1C power.” these words New West- NDP MP Stuart Leggatt 00 people observing the 30th Tsary of the atomic bom- nvith weekend that their vigil was an e®2sion of linking up the terrible tang of 1945 with the most Ny tous developments in clear technology today.” te Batt called the bombings omnost Significant event in the Ory of mankind’ and called ~ Trident threatens new |Hiroshimas warns MP F upon continued public vigilance “ and action to ensure that those tragedies would never be repeated. _ In sounding this warning, he urged _~ the crowd to protest the con- struction of the Trident submarine base at Bangor, Washington. “This base presents the greatest single danger to world peace that exists today,’’ he said. . The Bangor base will ~ac- commodate 10 Trident sub- marines, each one equipped with 406 independently guided nuclear warheads. The _ destructive capacity of each submarine is enough to destroy the entire in- dustrial potential of the Soviet Union, or wipe out all of the major See TRIDENT pg. 7 remain in full force until an agreement is reached with the fishermen. UFAWU negotiators wired the Fisheries Association Tuésday night following the tabulation of . See UFAWU pg. 8 another five cents a gallon to gasoline and push fuel prices up in the weeks ahead. : These latest rises in food prices: will: hit B.C. especially hard. Because of monopoly control of the market by three major food chains, prices in B.C. are now far above the national average, with Vancouver leading the way. Studies recently released show that food prices in Greater Van- couver vary from seven to 15 per cent higher than in the other two large metropolitan areas, Toronto and Montreal. Prices here are 11 per cent above those in Montreal. The situation is illustrated by taking a few basic foods such as milk and meat: Last month a half- gallon of milk in Vancouver was $1.17 (it has gone up two cents since then), which was 10 cents more:than Toronto; 16 cents more. than Montreal; and 22 cents more than Winnipeg. ‘The spread in meat prices is even more startling. Most of the meat used in Canada comes from Alberta which is closer to Van- couver than Montreal or Toronto, yet according to Statistics Canada Vancouver’s prices are about 17 per cent higher than: Toronto and seven per cent higher than Mon- treal. The price of meat in Van- couver is the major single -food item pushing up food costs. Attempts by the supermarkets to blame labor costs for higher prices covers up their own guilt and do not accord with the facts. This is shown by the fact that while labor costs in B.C. are 4:5 per cent above See PRICES pg. 2 eo Southern poet John Beecher, described by one critic as “a mountain of a man crying for justice,” will give a reading of his powerful verse August 18, 8 p.m. in the Fishermen’s Board Room 138 E. Cordova in Vancouver. ’ Did B.C. Tel need the 10 per cent interim rate hike granted it by the Canadian Transport Commission at the end of July? Pleading its profits were not big enough to attract capital, CTC granted the increase and scheduled further hearings in September on an ad- ditional increase. Last Friday B.C. Tel released its financial statement which showed that net earnings rose 15.4 per cent in the three months ended June 30. Net profits for three months of _operations amounted to $6,879,000. NO MORE HIROSHIMA NDP MP Stuart Legatt, ssidiessine the Hiroshima Day vigil at the Courthouse last Friday sponsored by the Peace Action League, warned: “The Trident base is the greatest single threat to. world peace today.” (See —Sean Griffin photo story pg. 7).