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Vol 65. NO. 5) Vancouver, B.C., Friday, December 19, 1947 >> Five Cents

LABOR PUTS PICKET

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ON MUNITIONS SHIP

Raps arms sale to China

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Bruce Mickleburgh named
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as LPP candidate in Saanic

VICTORIA, B.C. — Bruce Ci ete
Mickleburgh, former school
teacher and a native son of
Victoria, has been nominated
as LPP candidate to contest
the Saanich byelection neces-
itated by annointment of
Norman Whittaker, Ccalition-

Liberal, to the Supreme Court
of B.C.

Nomination was made at a
public convention held Thurs-
day in St. Mark’s Church

Hall addressed by Nigel Mor-
gan, LPP provincial leader,
who is in the capital this
week to present a brief to
the Maclean Commission in-
quiring into the incidence of
School taxation.

In the 1945 provincial elec-
tion, Mickleburgh was a calrt-
didate in Prince Rupert.

BRUCE MICKLEBURGH

Farmers demand
' subsidies

__Aroused by the federal government's recent termin-
e strong protests from farm organizations, and the con-

return O

CLOVERDALE, B.C.
ation of subsidies, despit
sequent rise in feed costs Ww

poultry and hog farmers from al
valee theic condemnation of the government's po

hich threatens their |

ation of subsidies. The meeting was called si velief again,” declared one poultryman amid
the Surrey Cooperative to discuss the effect of joug applause.

the ending of the feed grain subsidy which With

has led to a 25 percent increase in the pric€ meeting adopted a resolution demanding that.
Cf wheat and other feeds during the past the government restore subsidies on feed
few weeks without any comparable increas rains and all other farm products from
in the prices farmers are receiving for their which they have been removed.

Produce. 4 Other

Poultry farmers throughout the lower ing were:
Fraser Valley have been
hit by the government’s
Price of eggs is determine
Of exports to Britain.

“It means that th

d first by the price

e government has just

: amount feed ;
Slashed our _ earnings ye ie the govern- Grain Exchange as detrimental to the in-
Prices have increased. 4 soon be back on terests of farmers throughout the country.

‘Ment get away with it, we

If parts of Surrey attended a meeting here to

particularly shh e That the existing export board for farm
action because products be continued and strengthened.

e@ That farmers bé allowed to participate
in marketing control of their products.

e That the government close the Winnipeg

A 26-year-old officer of the Chinese Nationalist Air Force, Lieut. S. Y.
Feng, who describes his duties in Vancouver as seeing that 15,000,000 rounds
of small arms ammunition and some hundreds of tons of air force ground
equipment are loaded aboard the Panamanian freighter, SS Colima, on Thurs-

day this week found that he had more than ordinary difficuities to overcome.
In no way deceived by government de- | whe fa cele

nials that the shipment, the second to be aneHviGane mee admit it, but ‘ies aiding the
made from Canada in recent weeks, had any etki Sasa Kai-shek Pee 38 Pees
political. motives, representatives of many ba we war BOG. wen st ae eg ee at
Vancouver trade unions, at an emergency See eon. Tnstead ERE RL BS
conference called on Wednesday by Van- fluence to bring peace to China tATOUER: te
‘couver Labor Council, decided to place a tablishment of a popular democratic dts
picket line around Ballantyne Pier, where ment, it prefers to bolster an undemocratic

the SS Colima is loading her $1,200,000 lethal ‘Sime which even George Marshall, the
American secretary of state, was unable to

carge, : :
ergs S defend,” Pri :
“It’s nonsense for the government to sttchett; Said :
claim that there are no political motives, Other members of the committee named

only economic considerations, behind this by the conference were: William White,
shipment,” declared Harold Pritchett, secre- President of Vancouver Labor Council, and
tary of the B.C. Federation of Labor and a John Turner, secretary; S. R. Mackenzie, °
member of the committee named by the of the International Longshoremen’s and
emergency meeting to lead the protest. Warehousemen’s Union (CIO); and Bert

“These arms are destined for the Kuom- Mel f I :
intang armies, who will use them in their elsness, secretary of the International

desperate efforts to avert utter defeat at the Woodworkers of America.
hands of the Communist armies. Our govern- (Continued on page 8—See PICKET).

ivelihood, some 1,500 dairy,

licy and demand the restora-

only seven dissenting votes, the

resolutions endorsed by the meet-