303 delolelel Di DEEL Vol 65. NO. 5) Vancouver, B.C., Friday, December 19, 1947 >> Five Cents LABOR PUTS PICKET , ON MUNITIONS SHIP Raps arms sale to China “ a Bruce Mickleburgh named a s ; s ty 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-