FARM
NOTES

D. REIMER

in the Farm and Ranch Re-
view in its May issue advises
members of the Alberta Far-
mers Union to get their publi-
cation “Organized Farmer
back on-the track”. He main-
tains that .Organized Farmer
“is doing a good job as an
information and communica-
tions journal but it’s editorial
column has become a private
sounding board for the ‘left
ideas’ of president Ed Nelson.

He further asserts that mem-
bers of our democratic society
“look with suspicion — on
one who rails against our free
enterprise: and calls. for a
change in our system.” If he
had not stuck: his: head in the
sand he would have seen long
ago that more people today
look with suspicion on those
whe uphold the. policies of
the food packing monopolies,

mortgage institutions, feed
‘and flour mills, implement
manufacturers etc., who are

in an unholy alliance to stran-
gle farmers and ‘labor alike.
Or any other group they. are
able to dominate.

This publiciation has repeat-
edly attacked organized labor
and apparently does not go
along with organizations of
farmers as such. Farm journ-
als should, in the opinion of
Farm and Ranch concern
themselves with information
and cOmmunication. Nothing
more than that. The editor
has no truck with socialism
and it is not difficult to see
why. In a foot note to a sub-
Seribers letter the editor stat-
es that his subscription rate
would be many times the pre-
sent price, were it not main-
tained largely by advertising.
This answers many questions.

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De Gaulle passes decree

aimed against workers

OBITUARY

The writer of an editorial |

On Saturday, May 8, Powell
River and District lost one of
its finest sons with the sud-
den passing of Hans Johnson.

Born in Norway in 1904,
Hans Johnson emigrated to
Canada in 1924 and settled in
Wildwood Heights two years
later. For close to 30-years he
worked in the grinder room
of the Powell River mills,

Hans Johnson was known
through the entire district and
in his union as a progressive
citizen in thought and action.
In each annual financlal cam-
paign for the Pacific Tribune,
Hans could always be counted
upon to give the ‘PT’ that ex-
tra financial boost it needed
to keep rolling.

The staff of the Pacific Trib-
une join with a Powell River
union member who wrote us
on the sad passing of Hans
Johnson.

“To his wife Dora we ex-
press our deepest sypathy and
would like her to know in her
sorrow that the work and help
of Hans Johnson to his fellow
workers of the Powell River
district throughout the years
will never be forgotten.”

The Farm and Ranch edi-
torial board has never, to my
knowledge, explained why ap-
ple growers receives 55c a
box for apples and the con-
sumer pay 16c per pound. Or
why the poultry man sells
eggs at an average of 28c to
30c per dozen which are pass-
ed over to the consumer at 52c
to 56c. They have not explain-
ed the reason why breakfast
cereals manufactured out of
the product of grains retails
at 20c to 32c per 14 or 15
ounce packages, and relate
those prices to farmers re-
turns.

. Perhaps the aversion of the
editorial board of Farm and
Ranch Review to socialism is

-based. on their fear that their

Iuerative. advertising .revenues

} would. be cut off and they

would wind up picking pota-

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PARIS — Using his wide
emergency powers, General
de Gaulle last Friday decreed
requisitioning of workrs in
nationalized industries and
public services, in face of a

wave of wage strikes.

The decree empowers. Min-
isters concerned to order work-
ers to stay at work or strikers
to return to work under pain
of fines or jail. Dé Gaulle’s
decree was decided on at a
crisis Cabinet meeting after
500,000 workers in national-
ized industries. ended their
wage strike.

Over a million civil serv-
ants and teachers are due to
hold a 24-hour general work
stoppage on Tuesday, June 6.
The decree is seen as a move
to attempt to break the wage
movement.

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correspond. in Berlif

By arrangement with the Canadian Tribune the 2
happy to announce the appoinitmerit of Max Reich 45”
special Berlin correspondent.

Peking, and now that important and newsworthy capil
the heart of Europe — Berlin.

Max Reich is eminently qualified to serve as out
respondent. He has been a keen student of internal!

Europe and was active for a time in Canadian bee
cultural circles.

Hundreds of Africans were} Republic on May 31, weley
arrested. in night police swoops) ed to terrorize: people ag
on African townships _last| taking part. in three. @ dah.
week,-.and wholesale arrests! strikes and other pre
are still continuing. planned to start on May

In Johannesburg alone more} The majority of those ° ,
than 600 were seized and! ed were charged with noth
crammed into five barbed-wire ducing their hated pass”,

ft. by, 1, ft. were remanded in custo®

The. arrests, less than a fort-| two weeks. The prisonels ig
night before Premier Verwo-| sentenced at the rate %
erd ‘celebrates’ his apartheid} every 90 seconds.

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, FOR 1961
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