| ath (i ba eet ties bt ell | a y fi ] iiitv) ED) | ) ED Ni Gy ey Uy Vol. 7. No. 11 Vancouver, B.C.) Friday, March 12, 1948 Five Cents FEOOD WORK MAURICE // DONT eine TRADE AND THE JEWS // When the King govern- ment s presented with the petiti n signed by one mil- lion deople, 200,000 of them from 8B.C., urging restor- ation of price controls at 1946 levels a delegation from organizations in this prov- ince will be present in the capital, This decision was made here this week by a representative prices confer- ence called to promote and direct the petition campaign. Closing date for the pet- ition here is March 25 and it will be presented early in Anril when the House- wives Consumer Association wil be holding a national convention at Ottawa, . Attending the conference here this week were rev- resentatives of seven AFL and four CIO unions, two old age pensioners’ groups, six branches of the House- wives Consumer Association and four veterans’ groups. The conference set up a continuations committee of 15 members to work with the Housewives Consumer Thomas Potts Graham, 36 year old. clerk convicted in assize court here of seditious libel aris- ing out of the distribution of anti-Jewish tracts, was sentenced this week to three months im- prisonment and ordered deported at the end of his term. “This country does not want those of your ilk,” Chief Justice Wendell B. Farris stated. “But Association in carrying out ’s swamped by protests SALES TAX HITS AT INCOME GROUPS VICTORIA, B.C.-—Although the Coalition government has not made any formal an- nouncement in the legislature, its plan to in- troduce a three percent provincial sales tax at the present session is already drawing heavy fire from many quarters. Following the initial protest made by the B.C. Federation of Labor, Victoria Labor Council (CCL), at.a special meeting last Fri- day, denounced Mayor Percy George and aldermen in the capital for their endorsation of the sales tax and demanded that all Vic- toria MLA’s oppose the proposal in the House. - Similar protest was voiced this week by delegates to Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) when they adopted a resolution op- posing the sales tax and forwarded it to Van- couver Trades and Labor Council (TLC) for support, B.C. Federation of Labor, introducing the resolution, estimated that the sales tax would take $15,000,000 a year from working people. George Mitchell, vice-president of Vancouver: Labor Council, declared that the tax would add $5 a month to the average family’s living costs, and George Hone, council president, pointed out that the State of Washington, held out as an example by the Vancouver News-Herald, had started out with a one percent sales tax, increased it to three per- cent and might now seek five percent. ' Protests against the sales tax proposal have come from the Vancouver Civic Reform Association, which has sent a wire to all a program including: © A complete canvass of Vancouver, with petition ‘stands to be set up at all main intersections and in all shopping centers. @ A campaign to have letters sent to MLA’s retail Harold Pritchett, secretary of the protesting any increase in milk prices demanding opposition to a provincial sales tax, © Sending of a large deleg- old ation to Ottawa when the national petition is pres- ented to the government.. Two resolutions were sub- Anti-Semite given three Vancouver MLA’s seeking “vigorous opposi- tion” to the measure in the House. It has come from Vancouver Junior Board of Trade, Victoria Junior Chamber of Commerce and Junior Boards of Trade on the lower main- land whose delegation told the cabinet that the proposal was not in the public interest because it would bear hardest on those in lower income brackets least able to afford it, Victoria Building Exchange is opposing the tax because it contends that costs are already too high. i In the House this week, the government was given an indication of the feeling against the sales tax in. small. business and labor circles alike when J. H; Corsbie (CCF, Peace River) condemned the proposal and declared that all organizations in the Peace River were opposed to. it. By Mindful of the: coming -election, many: Coalition members are voicing their fears of public reaction in caucus, Few of them can. afford politically to dismiss: the issue as cas- ually—and callously—as A. R:- MacDouga} (Coalition, Point Grey), who informed the House, “I am not. impressed. with the argu- ‘ment that a sales tax would bear more hevily’ on the man with | the affluent.” What will impress the government even to the point of compelling a reluctant policy’ change is the flood of protests now pouring into Victoria as organizations and individ- uals answer the call to wire or write their MLA’s. iy ns ee a small income than on Parley backs petition drive mitted to. the conference by Vancouver Heights branch of the Housewives Consum- er Association and endorsed by delegates, one calling for age pensions of $60 at 60 years and the other ap- Proving any action to tac- ilitate the. sale of margerine in this country, and I do not see any reason why Canada should be saddled with the expense of your board and Graham was arrested on De- cember 381 last by city detectives Eric Hickens and Archie Plum- mer following investigation of mimeographed anti-Semitic tracts sent to a number of organiza- tions and individuals, among lodging for any great period.” them several trade union leaders, It was revealed at the trial that he had arrived in Van- couver from Britain in July, 1947, and had planned to go on to New Zealand. Letters in his Possession showed that he was corresponding with anti-Semites in the U.S. and had connections with the “Australia First” move- ment. months Oust the Coalition See Feature Section