VANCOUVER, B.C. tatborisea as second class mail by vo, NON erties: Office Department, Ottawa Economic crisis may BER sapabl Spread to all West L : : Saas IN—The United States is facing am economic crisis c i . . . famous ot being solved by rearmament, in the opinion of the let economist Professor Eugene Varga. M Peacg’s TREAL — “Jobs and Of 4 this is the keynote bein 3 fighting campaign Peal, nauucted in the Mont- anq SUtuencies Hochelega by : : @wrence-St. George Rate "Progressive candi- Prank amille Dionne and Rens Tenton, kno ile Dionne is a well- Whe, gure . in Hochelega Votes ws LPP received 1,600 hj the last election — “andiq received by any .LPP Fran, & across the country. the g, -enton has contested Ristrigg Lawrence-st, George Proyj,.' both federal and ty elections. the , Mt statement issued by SUDpor, Candidates describes &nm an the Duplessis gov- ACtig Beets “the most re- Fount, Y and corrupt in the tives ~~ for the Conserva- in ‘the kiss of death” ew A : labo, Of Duplessis’ anti- Tecord, as This crisis — one of over- production at the moment — will certainly involve other capitalist countries, particu- larly Britain, France and Western Germany, where con- ditions already exist for such a. crisis. Professor Varga expressed these views during an inter- view given to the Moscow correspondent of the East Ger- man paper Neues Deutsch- land, published by the paper last week. Professor Varga said that in the first nine months of 1957 the U.S. had managed to com- bat over-production by varl- ous methods, including in- creasing stockpiles of goods and the amount of goods pur- chased on credit. However, by October of last year it could no longer keep up the pace. In Decem- ber last, industrial production was 7 percent lower than that of December 1956 and unemployment had grown and continued to increase. Although U.S. leaders were pinning all their. hopes on Continued on page 6 See CRISIS 10¢ Led by B.C. Federation of Labor, officials, a mass labor lobby will meet with the legislature’s standing committee on labor in Victoria this coming Monday to press for action on unemployment. The standing committee on labor has been invited to meet lobby delegates in the lower ballroom at the Crystal Gar- dens. If the MLAs fail to ac- cept the invitation, the entire delegation — which is ex- pected to number between 200 and 300 — will converge on the legislative buildings in a manner similar to the action taken by Island dairymen this week. ““On Sunday some 100 dele- gates will attend our annual labor workshop in Crystal Gardens,” BCFL secretary George Home told the. Pacific Tribune.” On Friday at 9 a.m. they will be joined by other members of the delegation. All unions have been asked to take part in the lobby, and we are expecting a big turnout. “On Monday afternoon there will be a report-back meeting and discussion at Crystal Gar- dens. “On Tuesday at 9 am. all MLAs have been invited to meet with us at Crystal Gar- dens and discuss the Work- men’s Compensation Act and its administration.” These Island dairy farmers who invaded the legislature this week brought with them a new minister of agriculture — the “Hon. Maud,” a Holstein cow. island dairy farmers invade legislature with demands VICTORIA, B.C.— An angry, shouting crowd of 350 Island farmers and their wives (plus a Holstein cow ironically nick- named “The Honorable Maud, the new minister of agri- culture”) stormed the legisla- ture Monday this week to pro- test abolition of their milk price differential. The cow stayed outside and was milk- ed on the legislature steps (“Bennett's beeri milking us long enough — let him clean it up,” said one farmer) but the irate farmers and their wives stormed inside, brushed past guards and began bang- ing the main door into the legislature, crying “We want Bennett!” Robert Strachan, CCF lead- just beginning his He paused, er, was budget address. cocked an ear, looked across the floor of the House at Agriculture Minister Newton P. » Stacey and said, ‘Per- haps the minister of agri- culture would like to make a statement?” Stacey looked up, grinned nervously, but said nothing. The banging and chanting continued. “We want Ben- nett!” ‘We want the cabinet!” Speaker Hugh Shantz in- structed Sergeant -at- Arms Denziel Ashby to the intruders.” Ashby scur- ried out, while John Tisdale (SC, Saanich) slipped from his seat and went to try to pacify the leaders of the demonstra- tion, many of them his own constituents. “That’s the temper of the farmers of B.C. today,” com- “take out mented Strachan as the bang- ing ceased but the shouting continued for the next half hour. Attorney - General Robert Bonner, badly shaken, order- ed that the RCMP constables be called to stand by. The protest demonstration, organized by the Vancouver Island Dairymen’s Association, was launched over the Milk Board’s action last week in cutting out the 71-cent per 100-pound subsidy on Island produced milk. Starting from the Hudson’s Bay Company parking lot, a eavaleade of some 40 cars and farm trucks wound its way to the legislative build- ing behind a_ tractor-towed Continued on page 6 See ISLAND