Tories ditching even limited price supports By NIGEL MORGAN Poultry farmers of B.C. got a taste this week of what) Tory policies mean to the Canadian farmer, as the Diefen- baker government switched over to its new plan for deficiency payments. On October 1 the federal government discontinued its ‘Price Stabilization Board” policy of purchasing eggs in order to create a floor under prices, in favor of a new so- called “deficiency payment’ plan. Instead of purchasing eggs at the current support level of 44 cents per dozen Montreal and Toronto price, egg prices will henceforth be allowed to find their own level on the market, with the government making up the differernce if the average price to producers across the country falls below the prescribed support level. Farmers, realizing the props have been taken away from them in an industry that has been hard-hit for several years, are up in arms. Chief objec- tions to the new plan include: - @ Deficiency payments will not be based either on the far- mer’s eggs or the price he re- ceives for his eggs, put on the “national weighted average producer price’ which farm- er’s calculate to be 11 cents below the present ‘support price” of 44 cents. The actual amount of payment therefore will be based on the amount which the national weighted average falls short of the 33 cents support level. ; ® Deficiency payments will only be paid to those register- ed with and shipping through a registered licensing station; and then only on Grade “A” large eggs. ® Deficiency payments will be limited to 4,000 dozen eggs per farmer — or about two weeks production for most of the average full-time poultry- men in B.C. @ Payments will only be made at the end of the year, which means a long delay for the farmer who has to meet his monthly feed bill. And since there will be no indica- tion of. what the final return may be there will be no pos- sibility of using delivery slips to obtain loans or credit. Government spokesmen in- sist they are not discarding price support, but every poul- try farmer in the countryside knows from this experience they might just as well. In addition Ottawa has. now indi- cated similar changes are now being considered for hogs and other agricultural productions. Tories boost majority in British election LONDON—Prime Minister Macmillan led the Tory party back to power in Britain’s general election last week, increasing its majority to 100 seats although failing to register any increase in the Conservative popular vote. While the Tories polled 49.4 percent of the popular vote (as compared to 49.9 percent in 1955) the Labor Party dropped from 46 percent in 1955 to 43.9 percent. Only increase was registered by the small and in- effective Liberal Party, which upped its percentage of the popular vote from 2.6 to 5.8. Sir Oswald Mosley, pre-war fascist leader who has been trying to make a_ political comeback in recent years, was decisively defeated in a bid for election as an independent. Sir Winston Churchill, 84, won back his seat at Woodford with a 14,000 majority. _ Now that the government has been returned to power there is a general feeling in the air that a Summit meeting will be arranged in the near future. Macmillan’s main elec- fion plea was that his visit to Moscow had paved ihe way for the Khrushchev - Eisenhower exchange visits and helped to ease international tension. Washington ~ is obviously pleased with the Tory victory in Britain. and it is felt by many political observers that Eisenhower’s television fire- side chat with Macmillan dur- ing his early September tour of Europe helped the British prime minister put across his line as “the peacemaker.” Big business circles were de- lighted with the Tory victory, and share prices jumped to near-record heights when. the London Stock Exchange open- ed the day after the election. Steel prices zoomed by as much as. 16 shillings a share. During the election campaign the La- bor Party had hinted that it might nationalize steel. B.C. Federation of Labot to publish own newspaper B. C. Federation of Labor plans to publish its own newspaper in the not too distant future. This was decided by delegates attending last week’s convention of the BCFL, but the resolution left it up to the incoming executive to decide if it should bea monthly, bi-weekly or daily publication. Cost of publishing .a daily would likely be prohibitive, but BCFL leaders have been considering® publication of an eight-page weekly for some time. -Probable tost would run in the neighborhood of a quar- ter of a million dollars annual- ly. The motion read: ‘“‘Whereas, there is an ever-increasing need for ‘working men and women to place their case squarely and properly before the general public, and where- | as the daily press,- which is]. controlled by big business, con- tinues to slant -labor news in favor of the employers, there- fore be it resolved that the Federation intensify its activ- ities toward establishing a provincial-wide union mnews- paper, and be it further . re- solved that the incoming. ex- ecutive. study and decide if this union newspaper should be|| - a monthly, bi-weekly or daily publication.” % * a Robert Smeal, 39, toria, was elected president of the 126,000-member BCFL, polling 271 votes to 84'cast for Tom MeGrath, financial secre- tary of Ironworkers Local 97. Smeal is at present business manager for Canadian Airlines Flight Attendants Association. Pat O'Neal was returned by acclamation as secretary-treas- urer. of the federation. Joe Morris, district president of the IWA, retained his post of first vice-president, defeat- ing William Stewart of Local 213, IBEW, 287 to 76. Russell St. Eloi, business manager for Local 170, Plumb- China's economy PEKING — China now plans to fulfill.this year the major targets of its second five-year plan which was originally not scheduled to be completed un- til the end of 1962. The forward surge of the Chinese economy was. review- ed at a plenary session of the central committee of the Com- munist Party of China held at Lushan, Kiangsi,. under the guidance of nzao Tse-tung. The central committee not- fed with satisfaction, that “in the first half of this year, the total output value of industry increased by 65 percent and the volume of railway freight increased by 49 percent com- pared with the corrésponding period of last year.” of Vic-' ——ft PAT O’NEAL ers, was .elected second vice- president by acclamation. Mel. Kemmis, Bakery Work- ers, was returned by acclama- tion as third vice-president. Ray Haynes.of Retail, Whole- sale and Department Store Union defeated William Stew- art of Marine Workers» to re : | tain his post as fourth vice- president. a Guest speaker Ed Weston president of the. Washington | State Federation of Labor, told ‘delegates that the new U. S. labor bill “is the child of the. {American Manufacturers Asso — ciation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce” and said labor south of the border is facing * *% * lition of B.C.’s 60 m.p.h. speed zones was endorsed by BCFL delegates. It said the number of serious accidents had increased “since the new limit was introduced,” because the general standard of our roads does not permit such “a speed. eo ee Another mously endorsed by delegates demanded that the federal gov- ernment publicize the names of all companies convicted under the Combines Act. There is no hesitation on the part of Ottawa, it noted, to give publicity, into ‘any and all probes of trade unions and their officers. A-fallout in Montreal world's worst—Pauling MONTREAL—More than 1,000 Montrealers met in Gesu Hall recently to hear Dr. Linus Pauling, famous U.S. scientist and Nobel Prize winner, warn that some govern- ments and big business interests were still busy smooth- ing the path to atomic war. He expressed confidence, how- ever, that the people of the world would guarantee that the future would be one in which there will be no more war. : Montreal, Dr. Pauling de- ‘clared, was the centre of greatest radiation fallout in the world, which comes from the bombs already exploded, and which has already con- demned to premature death or deformity in the generations to come some 1,500,000 children. In addition to this disaster, he said, the tests and bomb manufacture have deprived.the peoples of the world of wealth equivalent to the income of one-third of the population of the world; and stock - piled bombs total 20 times:as-much as is needed to destroy the world entirely. Surely, Dr. Pauling argued, there are no people insane enough to oppose him, in his crusade against further atomic tests. “We must all do our part,” he said. “We must fight for sanity, for. self-preservation; for world preservation.” : “We must work for the sue cess of the Geneva conference on bomb tests, and then for an international agreement to pre vent outbreak of nuclear war.” The meeting was sponsored by the Montreal branch of the Canadian Committee for the Control of Radiation Hazards. October 16, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2 “its toughest fight in 48 years.” A resolution demanding abo: resolution unani- sss island