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28

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1958

ae VANCOUVER, B.C.
uthorised as second class mail by

the Post Office Department, Ottawa

IWA parley seeks
recognition of China

Hi es
S€sg éh on the agenda of the IWA B.C. district convention In

of

incre
It j

Years rPected that in this

tions eine contract negotia-

the twa the forest industry
will press for a 10

and various

lumber Spokesmen for the
i a Seaside claim that
due 5 iit high prices are
Mands” € “unreasonable de-

of organized labor, the
©onvention and its dis-
ae a have already made
ustry oe Wage rates in the
When co ee. VELY modest”
Profit Mpared with the high

mus of the Operators.

that itiopomesmen emphasize
icles of he price-rigging pol-
th big business, rather

trict ]
it ce]
ing

“an w spe
Stble 4ges, which is respon-

fa a inflation and the
in Ustry: ump in the lumber
ina 2 The IWA is deter-
es us net to let the employ-
ae ao present unemploy-
aing Mtuation “to deny the
- pene to us.”
ti 1S address to the conven-
ep tilas Labor Minis-
ot id e Wicks, expressed
aa that organized
See a on back page
A CONVENTION

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meget Week in Vancouver’s Hotel Georgia are the issues

d of Bega which has hit the lumber industry hard, the

ases fe trade and foreign policies, and substantial wage
meet rising living costs.

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What is an original Social

Crediter?’ Premier Ben-
nett’s comment on Mel Bryan,
‘He wasn’t an original Social
Crediter at the start like me”
has left people wondering. The
Social Credit League was run-
ning candidates in B.C. in the
forties when Bennett (above)

was still a good Conservative

and some consider him a rank
usurper. But apparently Social]
Credit dates itself B.B. or A.B.
—Before or After Bennett.

By HAL GRIFFIN

VICTORIA, B.C. — After six years in office Premier W. A. C. Bennett’s

Social Credit government is in serious difficulties.
political philosophy, it has re

A government without any real
lied upon expediency and until now political expediency

has meant imposing even heavier. taxes than the discredited and defunct’ Liberal-

Conservative coalition and bribing th

government spending.

Now relative prosperity is
vanishing and the spectre of
unemployment is haunting the
legislature. Scandals centring
upon former Lands and For-
ests Minister Robert E. Som-
mers and Attorney General
Robert Bonner nave tarnished
the Social Credit halo. And
now some of the former Con-
servatives and Liberals who
rode Bennett’s hastily as-
sembled Social Credit band-
wagon to victory in 1952 are
beginning to wonder where
they are going.

The Conservative victory in
last year’s federal election,
which stopped the Social Cred-
it bandwagon at the Alberta
border, has caused many So-
cred supporters to question the
party’s future and they have
not been reassured by the
Manitoba Social Cre-
dit organization’s decision not
to nominate any candidates in
the forthcoming federal elec-
tion. -

Rumors of differences with-

So we're just
back to normal

MONTREAL—It’s not a re-
cession. It’s a return to “nor-
mality,’ R. M. Fowler, presi-
dent of Canadian Pulp and
Paper Association, told the as-
sociation’s ‘annual luncheon
last week.

“Tt do not think it is temp-
erary, and I do not think it
need be a recession. I think
it is a return to normality, in
an economy of abundance
after 19 years of abnormality
caused by war and its after-
math,” Fowler said. .

“We now have more pro-
ductive capacity in the world
than. is needed to satisfy
world demand,” Fowler con-
tinued. This posed the “clas-
sical dilemma of a capitalistic
society. The sum total of in-
dividual decisions to expand
capacity exceeds the normal
growth of demand and pro-
duces over-capacity.”

in Social Credit. ranks and of
discontent among the back-
bench MLAs broke into the
open this week when Mel Bry-
an, one of the two Social
Credit members for North
Vancouver, crossed the floor
of the legislature to sit as an
independent.

e voters with their own money through high

No other Social Crediter re-
sponded parting
challenge to “stand up and
be counted,” but it is an open
secret and the source of con-
stant speculation in political

to Bryan's

Continued on back page
See SOCRED

shown in bottom picture.

Mel Bryan, Social Credit member for North Van-
couver, is shown in top picture taking his seat in the
‘opposition after he crossed the floor of the House
Monday this week. He gave as the reason for his
action the government’s ignoring of his demand for res-
ignation of Attorney General Robert Bonner for his
handling of the charges against R. E. Sommers, both

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