The American way of life Morgan, a cripple, Living in a one-room shack in Phoenix, Arizona, Mrs. Charles Organ and her five children gaze wistfully at an empty soup can. sold his blood to buy food for his starving family, residents of a migrant labor camp where more than 100 children Were recently found suffering from starvation. ithe full effects of the crisis. Full text of the statement Victim of the cold war, Canadian agriculture is sliding into the worst calamity in history. Markets for hogs, eggs, cheese, vegetables, fruit and tobacco, have collapsed; prices have been forced down. Eas- tern farmers are already feeling Wes- tern wheat farmers are not far be- hind, The worst is yet to come, unless a drastic change is forced in gov- ernmental policy. The market cri- sis threatens to ruin Canada’s growers: to bankrupt agriculture in the entire West. Yankee big business is putting the skids under the Canadian farm markets. 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Hastings St. PA. 3855 Vancouver, B.C, 9588 Nite Calls GL. 1740L the wheat and dairy farmers. The |freight rates have been increased |40 percent in two years, gouging ‘millions from the farmers. The 'CPR aims to destroy the Crow’s Nest Pass agreement. | A powerful gang-up is operating ‘to open the Winnipeg Grain Ex- ‘change in 1950 to put Western |farmers at the mercy of the hated grain speculators. Agriculture Minister James Gar- diner brutally told the Canadian Federation of Agriculture con- vention at Niagara Falls in Feb- ruary: “I am _ promising you nothing in the way of future markets.” In eleven words Gardiner sum- imed up the awful Liberal betrayal cold war gang of Wall Street. The farmers face crisis because of Truman’s cold war which being desperately pushed toward a shooting war. ; As the Canadian engineers of this war drive the Liberal govern- ment, with the support of Tory Colonel Drew, and the CCF’s M. J. Coldwell and T. C. Douglas, have surrendered. Canada’s farm _ pro- ducts, espécially our wheat mar- kets, to Yankee big business. The Winnipeg Free Press admits that future Canadian sales of wheat to Britain wiil likely drop more than 50 percent to below 100,000,000 bushels. Wall Street bankers dominate capitalist world trade through the Marshall plan and the Internatio- nal Wheat agreement. Surplus Yankee wheat gets priority and is cutting out Canada’s wheat mar- kets. We are not allowed to sell any farm product for any curren- cy except the Yankee dollar. We from barter agreements. Liberal policy, backed by the Tories’ and the CCF leaders, blocks Canada from developing immense trade in many farm products with China, Europe, the Soviet Union — markets of 800 million people. While our export markets are thus destroyed, the home market for farm products is being rapidly cut. away by mounting unemploy- ment in our cities — which is also the result of Wall Street’s cold war. * * * 1946 warned farmers that if the cold war continued, this would hap- pen. We say to the farmers that farm disaster can be averted only by Canada breaking away from U.S. cold war domination, which not only robs us of our markets but threatens to take farm lads for military service under Yankee officers. All this — as part of the hor- Yible atomic war conspiracy direc- ted against the Soviet Union, our northern neighbor, in the vain hope that Gut of world wars the system of capitalism -— undér U.S. domi- nation — can be saved. The LPP calls upon Canada’s of farmers’ interests to the Yankee | is are barred by the Marshall plan The Labor-Progressive party in reads: \ Buck warns growers facing ruin unless — policy change forced —TORONTO Assertion that unless a drastic change in governmental policy is forced the market crisis threatens to ruin the country’s growers and bankrupt agriculture throughout western Canada is made by Tim Buck, LPP national leader, in a statement issued here this week. - farmers to resist this policy of eco- nomic disaster and national catas- trophe. Pearce is tne only way. to save Canadian farming and assure farm markets. : the success of the people’s battle against shrinking markets, falling prices, rising costs — against the return of the “Hungry Thirties” and “Bennett buggies”. : The monopolies are driving to unload the burden of the crisis on the backs of the farmers and wor- kers. Canada’s farmers through the united action of their organi- zations should see to it that the cost of the crisis is borne instead by those big business interests who have grown rich from “farming the farmers” for a generation. Parliament must be compelled at this session to end the cold war ‘and end the ban on trade with the peoples of the world. The LPP ;appeals to every farmer in his or- . ganization to support this program: | | | ments, take up independent trade with the world |2 Canada must break with the | Wall Street cold war, support | in the UN, the ban on atomic | weapons, and through the United Nations achieve trade between all nations to buttress peace. af Canada must end its depen- dence on the Yankee dollar, and by credit and barter arrange- The federal government must put a floor under all fa pric- es, including a minimum floor price no lower than $1.75 a bush- el for wheat for the next three crop years, paying an additional _ 25 cents a bushel for wheat mar- keted under the Five Year Poo!. Federal responsibility for mar- keting of the wheat crop must be maintained and widened — to protect farm producers of hogs,. apples, cheese, potatoes and other commodities. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange must not be al- lowed to take over wheat mar- keting. 5 The freight rate increases must be cancelled; freight rates must be reduced; the Crow's Nest Pass rates must be kept inviolate. Canada’s western oil resources must be nationalized and de- veloped to provide cheap gas and oil for Canadian farmers. 7 $100,000,000 must be voted by Parliament to carry through a three-year plan of land and water conservation, especially in the Prairie -provinces, to fight and conquer the drought menace. _ | Farmers are on the move. The |LPP pledges them its full support in their battles against their tra- ditional enemies the bankers, the CPR, the Grain Exchange and the packing and farm machinery | trusts. Farmers gathering in their local bodies and committees all across Canada should take action to press for the above program. Demand that every MP give attention to the farmers’ welfare, not to Yan- kee H-bomb warfare. Join with labor, your partner in the great industries of Canada, in common struggle against the’ com- mon enemy. Farmer-Labor unity will win peace, justice, and pros- perity for Canada. Join the Labar-Progressive par- ty, the only party fighting in your interests for the security and in- dependence of Canada against the big business profiteers and mer- chants of death. : Peace is the only way to assure Public must take over BCElectric Effie Jones, head of the Civic Reform Association, lashed out this week at the Public Utilities Commission ruling that the BCEl- ectric dime fares were now consi- dered “permanent”. “The BCER knew when it boos- ted its fares to a straight 10 cents last July that the so-called ‘inter- im increase’ would remain,” charg- ed Mrs. Jones. “The PUC has now confirmed the company’s demand.” “The long-suffering public has yet to learn of a single instance when the PUC has disallowed any act of the BCER, or indeed rejec- EFFIE JONES A rubber stamp PUC ted any of its statements, financial or otherwise. “Obviously the thing to do now is to take transit management into our own hands. This year the council can be forced to use its | contract with the BCER to end the constant spiral of higher fares and profiteering. Mrs. Joneg pointed out that presi- dent A. E. “Dal” Grauer, in pre- senting the BCE annual report last week, crowed that the company made net profits of $2,203,258 in | the past year. Gross revenue of B.C. Power Corporation in 1949 was $39,632,303, an all-time peak, up 7.38 percent from the previous year. B.C. Power “A” shares ear- nings were $2.24 per share. E. H. SKEELES Transfer & Fuel CEDAR, B.C. NEW ADDRESS 9 EAST HASTINGS Corner Carrall I invite you t visit my’ new office. I hav no connection with. other (Office. Phone TA. 5552 : DR. R. LLEWELLYN DOUGLAS PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 24, 1950 — PAGE 7