Fishermen fight against -

harmful trade policies'
threatening their living

The rising cost of living and increased cost of 0
for price increases for salmon this year, 0
United Fishermen and ‘Allied Workers Union held in Vancouver this week emphasized.

perating boats will force fishermen to fight
the officers’ report to the eighth annual convention of

“This

convention will provide an opportunity for the delegates representing salmon fishermen to work
out a full set of proposals for the 1952 salmon agreements,” said the report. “We therefore do not

DENTAL CAVITIES REDUCED

Fluoridation sweeping
U.S., Canadian cities

“One in every four persons liv-
ing in USS. cities. will have sodium
fluoride in his drinking water
by next year under present plans
to add the chemical for better
teeth in young children,” reports
an ‘Associated [Press dispatch this
week. It goes on ‘to say that add-
ing fluorine is under. considera-
tion in every state except Ne-
vada, New Mexico and Utah.
Those three have natural fluorine
‘in water. .

In Canada, too, the issue ha
become a national one. Expeti-
ence of Brantford, Ontario, where
fluoridation was introduced in
1945 (with from 1 to 1.2 parts per
million of fluorine put into ‘the
water supply) shows positive re-
sults in less tooth decay. Water

fluoridation has ‘been adopted by.

two more Ontario communities,
Fort Erie and Thorold, and many
other centres are considering it.
Four Alberta cities and towns
will likely introduce fluoridation
this year. It has the endorsation
of the Saskatchewan Department
of Health. It is being seriously
considered in Montreal and Tor-
onto, Canada’s largest cities.‘
Nevertheless, opposition groups
have been successful to date in
‘blocking fluoridation in a num-
ber of places. Seattle recently re-
jected it by 2-1 in a plebiscite
vote. Vancouver City Council has
turned down plans for fluorida-

tion here.
* * x

The Financial Post, which no

one will accuse of being an advo-
ate of socialism or socialized
medicine, reviewed fluoridation
plans across Canada in its issue
of March 15, 1952. It says, in
part:
“Canada’s laboratory of fluori-

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dation is three Ontario ‘cities:
Brantford, ‘Sarnia, ‘Stratford.
Brantford ibegan to put sodium
fluoride in its water in 1945. The
department of national health and
welfare at Ottawa and the pro-
vincial department both launched
an experiment in cooperation
‘with local authorities. They kept
continuous track of tooth decay
in school children in Brantford
and in Sarnia, which has no fluor-
ine in its water. They also com-
pare children in Stratford, with
1.3 parts /per million of ‘fluorine
in its water. Stratford children
had 68 percent less tooth decay
than Sarnia children in 1948.
Brantford children are having
less and less decay; 5.7: percent
of children 9-17 years there had
perfect permanent teeth in 1948,
17.1 percent in the latest study. ...

“Canadian ‘communities with
fluorine in their water naturally
include St. Mary’s, Ontario, and
St L.awrence, Newfoundland. The
area around St. Pierre, Manitoba,
has natural fluoride content of
from two to ‘four parts per mil-
lion—higher than dentists recom-
mend. Children there have much
less tooth decay than other Mani-
toba children.”

Native Indians

\back fisherman

on compensation

Speaking as fraternal delegate
from the Native Brotherhood of
B.C.,-Guy Williams ‘told delegates
attending the United Fishermen
and Allied Workers Union’s con-
vention here this week that “the
Native Brotherhood’ is fully be-
hind your move in demanding
compensation for all fishermen.”

Williams pointed out that acci-

dents and casualties are high in].

the fishing industry and widows
particularly require financial aid
when bread-winners are lost.
“Compensation for all fishermen
will be one of the greatest gains
ever made by fishermen if it is
won,” he said.

‘propose to go into details or to

make specific proposals in this
report. However, we believe we
should deal briefly with the main
issue which will arise in our
negotiations this year, i.e., the
question of markets for canned
salmon. .

“Last year the salmon pack
was close to two million cases,
of which close -to 500,000 cases
remains unsold at time of writing.
The British Commonwealth and
other markets have ‘been dras-
tically curtailed or eliminated due
to trade restrictions, lack of U.S.
dollars and the armaments race.
The people of Britain undoubt-
ediy still have a desire to eat
our canned salmon but they are
being forced to tighten their belts
instead.

. “Our past export markets for
canned salmon in the British
Commonwealth countries and
such European Countries as
France and Italy have been
undermined. Any effort to re-
store our past important mar-
ket for salt chums in China is

being rendered impossible by
the U.S. blockade of trade with
Hong Kong and China proper
and the effort we should be
making to establish new mar-
kets in those countries of East-
ern Europe whose population
in the past was too poverty
striken to provide a sales out-
let, is being obstructed by thé

hot and cold war policies of
the United States.

“The fishery companies, while
bemouning the fact. ‘that their
markets are shrinking, say very
little about ‘Canadian foreign pol-
icy. They are spending $300,000
on the advertising of canned sal-
mon to the Canadian public. We
are not quarreling with this ad-
vertising campaign ‘but we ‘know
we cannot expect our domestic
market to absorb our entire pro-
duction of canned salmon. *

“The companies should not
expect that if a market crisis
is created by the harmful poli-
cies on trade and foreign rela-
tions against which our mem-
bership has consistently warned
and fought, that the fishermen
and shoreworkers will accept
lower prices and reduced living
Standards on the plea that our
markets have disappeared.”

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Robeson to sing

Some 10,000 Vancouver and
Lower Mainland citizens are ex-
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Sing at the Peace Arch on May
18. Robeson, who was recent-
ly prevented by American auth-
orities from visiting Vancouver
to sing at a Mine-Mill conven-
tion, this week confirmed his
promse made at that time to
sing at a border rally.

Mosher action
causes uproar
in CCL council

A. R. Mosher’s firing of J. E.
McGuire, national secretary of
the Canadian Brotherhood of
Railway Employees, while ‘the
latter was sick and unable to
defend ‘himself before the union’s
executive board, caused an up-
roar in Greater Vancouver Labor
Council (CCL) on Tuesday night
this week.

The issue was raised by Bill

Stewart of the Marine Workers,

who asked council to investigate
“authenticity of press reports” on
the McGuire firing. Over strong
opposition from the chair he won
council support for his request.

A second attack against Mosh-
er came from William Doherty of
Local 4, Canadian Communica.
tion Association, who charged
Mosher with raiding tactics and
walked out of the meeting after
informing delegates: that his or-
ganization had voted to withdraw
from the CCL.

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BURNABY, B.C.
A brief on peace and disarma-
ment ‘was presented to Burnaby
municipal council by a delegation
from Burnaby Peace Assembly
on Monday ‘this week, calling on
council to send delegates or ob-
servers to the B.C. peace confer-
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the way in which they had re-
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more publicity and speed-up of —
“Civil Defense” activities in the —
municipality.

Outstanding was the fact that
in a council with a CCF majority,
it was left to a Non-Partisan
councillor, Gerald ‘Charlton, to
reply to the “civil defense” dele-
gation. A proponent of the “peace
through strength” ‘idea, Charlton:
Warmly welcomed the “Civil De-
fense” brief and ‘advocated more
action “even to bring it to the
children in our schools.”

As for the peace brief, it was

politely “received” and put on the
shelf.

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