US. wheat dumping

Will go on,

says Ike

By NELSON CLARKE

_ Ike Eisenhower, or the people who write his speeches for
im, labor under the delusion that Canadian farmers are a
Particularly stupid lot, incapable of remembering anything that
4ppened before this year’s crop was planted.

The president’s defense in
ttawa of the wheat give-
“Way policies of his govern-
Ment fell into three parts.

1. Hungry people have re-
teived food in the form of
Wheat,

What the president didn’t
*8y is that no hungry people
ave received wheat from the
Alted States without sticking
ir head into the anti-Com-
MUnist, cold war noose of the

S. state department. For a
eu of grain, they were
Sked to forfeit their freedom
‘nd their peace:

€ spoke of the™ sale ° of
Wheat by the United States for
cal currencies,

Much ‘of such local currency
ae used to pay the expenses
i 9Perating U.S. military posts
the unfortunate country to
Ich the wheat was sold.

é U.S. wheat, said Eisen-
oo had it‘ remained in dead
ihe age would have had a de-
stn influence on the
d market.
" Could hardly have had a
a. depressing influence in
48e than it had dumped on
© World market as it was.
pce from that, this whole
pect begs the main ques-
Y How has the United
€S come to have such huge
fat surpluses.”
os fact is that before the
10 World War, the United
S was a minor factor in
eae wheat market, sel-
i; _ UPplying more than 12 to
oe and in some years
Y becoming ‘an importer
Wheat. Since the war, the

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United States has emerged as
the principal exporting nation,
shouldering Canada out of its
long held position.

This was a deliberate policy
of the U.S. government to en-
courage an enormous expan-
sion of wheat production in
order to place an important
political weapon in the hands
of the U.S. foreign policy
makers — the architects of the
cold war.

3. “The funds which we
have made available to recipi-
ent countries,” said Eisen-
hower, “should help to raise
standards of living and create
enlarged markets for all of us.”

In this argument. we are
asked to ‘believe that the
United States is going out to
develop markets by encourag-
ing greater consumption of
bread grains. After they’ve
developed them, out of the
sheer goodness of their heart,
they will give them to us.

Eisenhower’s speech should
convince Canadians once and
for all as to how pointless it is
to plead with the United States
for a change in their wheat
sales policies. One might as
well conduct an argument with
Pike’s Peak.

It emphasizes again the need
for the Canadian government
to boldly embark on the de-
velopment of new wheat mar-
kets in all countries by all
possible means, to expand our
sales to the socialist countries,
and to offer genuinely disinter-
ested aid, free of political
strings, to all nations needing
our wheat.

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“Nigel Morgan, LPP provin-
cial leader, will speak on the
Middle East crisis at a public
meeting in Pender Auditorium
this coming Tuesday, July 19,
at 8 p.m. The LPP is also ar-
ranging other meetings on the
war crisis at Vancouver Island
centres and in the
Valley.

CCF blasts

intervention

MONTREAL — Emergency
resolution introduced at the
opening session of the CCF
national convention here
blasted U.S. and British mili-
tary intervention in the Mid-
dle East as an “irresponsible
risk of nuclear war.”

The delegates also condemn-
ed Ottawa for condoning and
supporting such policies.

The ‘resolution lauded the
“legitimate aspirations” of the
Arab peoples for freedom
from outside domination and

said that “Great Powers’ as
well as the neighboring
staies” should stay out of
Iraq.

It called for a summit meet-
ing and an international Mid-
dle East development com-
mission designed to _ boost
living standards.

Only such a broad and con-
structive approach to the
problems of the whole area
can end the legacy of hatred
and distrust that threatens to
engulf the whole world,” said
the resolution.

The seven-point resolution
blamed the Middle East crisis
on failure of the Western pow-
ers to evolve a “constructive
policy.”

IWA head reports
on wage negotiations

Vancouver Local 1-217 of
International Woodworkers of
America held a specially-call-
ed “extraordinary” session
Thursday of this week in the
Pender Auditorium, with time
arrangements: made to accom-
modate all shift crews.

IWA district president and
negotiations chairman Joe
Morris was slated to report on
the progress of wage negotia-
tions with Forest Industrial
Relations. International presi-
dent Al Hartung was also bill-
ed to address the special ses-
sion,

Fraser

Public pressure helped

reduce phone boost

B.C. Telephone’s demand for a 9.5 percent increase in
phone rate was scaled down last week when the Board of
Transport Commissioners, following lengthy hearings, brought
down an award of three percent. Strong public protests against
further phone hikes, particularly from organized labor and the

Civic Reform Association, was
undoubtedly a strong factor in
the transport eommissioners’
decision not to. grant the com-
pany the large increase it
demanded.

Main argumentation of BCT
president McLean and other
company representatives for a
big hoist in ‘phone rates (an
argument.similar to that ad-
vanced by the B.C. Electric be-
for the Public Utilities Com-
mission for higher -electricity
rates) was that BCT profits
must be “sufficiently attractive
to investors” to bring in new
capital.

The Civic Reform Associa-
tion brief presented at the
hearings showed that the BCT
profit rate in 1957 was 6.4 per-

cent, while those of its parent
and grandparent companies,
Anglo - Canadian Telephone
Company and Associated Tele-
phone and Telegraph, were 8.9
and 24:6 percent respectively.

Dissatisfied with the three
percent award, B.C. Telephone
is preparing to seek a further
increase, threatening that un-
less another increase is grant-
ed, layoffs of ‘employees and
reduced development of ser-
vices are “inevitable.”

Under the new rates
domestic phone bills will be
increased up to 25 cents per
month while business phones
will cost an additional 55 cents
per month or more. Long dis-
tance calls will be upped tive
percent.

Mrs. Eira Dixon dies
following long illness

Following a _ long _ illness,
Mrs. Cordelia Eira Dixon of
2131 Grant Ave., Port Coquit-
lam, passed away on July 17
in her 54th year.

Mrs. Dixon, well known in
Vancouver labor and cultural
circles, came to B.C. with her
family from Cheshire, England
in 1939. For a number of years
she took an active part in the
B.C. Housewives League and
was a member of the Womens
Auxiliary of the United Fish-
ermen and Allied Workers
Union.

A highly talented pianist,
Eira Dixon was a popular
figure in Vancouver music
circles and gave freely of her
great talent to working class
social activities.

Eira Dixon is. survived by
one son, Vaine in Vancouver
and one daughter, Mrs.
Toporowski of Port Coquitlam,
and one grandson. A sister is
resident in England.

Private funeral services

Heard crack
‘like rifles’

A “loud sharp crack like the
sound of three rifles going off
simultaneously” was heard by
a marine basin watchman
more than 12 hours before the
Second. Narrows Bridge col-
lapsed.

Walter Scoradynsky told th>
royal commission investigating
the disaster.that he
heard the noise, which “sound-
ed like steel cracking.”

July 25, 1958 —

were conducted in the Mt.
Pleasant Chapel with crema-
tion following.

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