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Vol. 7, No. 33 oS 28 Vancouver, B.C., Friday, August 13, 1948 Price Five Cents

LIBERALS SEAL DOOM
BY PRICES SELL-OUT

The trusts are shoving beef prices, higher yet. Living
costs—and the people’s anger—are_ hitting record heights.

The King-St. Laurent government denounces as “Com-
munist-inspired” the nation-wide demand for price roll-
backs. They’d like to make the fight for decent living stand-
ards “subversive.” At the Liberal convention the St. Laur-
ent hierarchy snuffed out a fleeting squawk on prices.
“Better to have 7O-cent butter and people with jobs
than 35-cent butter and no jobs,” said Trade Minister C. D.
Howe.

There you have the government view—if the people
have jobs, plunder them with monopoly prices till they’re
on depression standards anyway.

The people’s view is different. Those who labor in in-
dustry, farms, shops and offices know they’re working and
producing enough to deserve life’s essentials; have no desire
to sacrifice the color in their children’s cheeks to the profit-
eers who fatten on the malnutrition of a generation. The
byelections show the reckoning is coming.

With even the government’s cost-of-living index at
156.9 and food at 201.3 (though housewives know they’re
really paying three dollars for what they bought with one
in 1939) the situation is intolerable. What can be done now?

Nigel Morgan, provincial leader of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party, has shown the way with his wire to the Curtis
commission on prices requesting hearings on the coast.
The Vancouver Labor Council and B.C. Federation of Labor
have joined the demand.

Curtis has already thanked Morgan by wire for his
“suggestion that labor and farm, organizations appear and
that commission conduct hearings throughout country. Both
suggestion will be carefully considered.”

Add your voice. Sign and mail the coupon below today.
Organizations can speak up too. :

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| Dear Prof. Curtis

Prof. C, A. Curtis,

| Chairman, Royal Commission on Prices, /
OTTAWA, Ont.

Dear Prof, Curtis: ]
Skyrocketing prices are slashing my living standards. I’m

worried stiff about it and want action. Specifically, I want your |

l commission to come out here to British Columbia to hear what
| our unions, consumer groups and farm organizations have to

say about it.

70-cent butter and people with jobs than 35-cent butter and no Yours sincerely,
D. C. Howe. Jobs or no jobs, butter is still too dear when

trols and curbs on profiteering would provide jobs. and

“Better to have
jobs,” says Trade Minister
you can’t afford it. Price con

butter too. : ‘ | ce