Above is a new self-propelled machine ‘built by the USSR

Research Institute for Mechanization of Agriculture. The
wheels have independent drives and can be set in such a
way as to ensure making a complete circle in about three
yards. Any farming implement can ‘be mounted on the

chassis.

North Van labor to act
on unemployment, taxes

North Vancouver labor

a public meeting with civic

will hold a meeting of un-| officials on the tax situation

employed, and will press for

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in the municipality. This
was decided at a meeting
April 7 of eleven unions
which met to establish ‘the
1960 Labor Civic Elections
Committee.

The meeting called by the
Vancouver Labor Council was
attended by ‘president Ed
Sims. An eleven-member com-
mittee was set up which in-
cludes representatives - from
the Longshoremen’s Union,
Marine Workers; Electrical
(IBEW), Plumbers, Office Em-
ployees and Carpenter’s un-
ions.

The Committee has decided
to act on any matters that af-
fect the municipality and will
make preparations for taking
part in ‘next December’s civic
elections.

* , Fleming,

NOTES

Over-all net farm income in
1959 declined by 7% from

1958, according to the budget
white paper tabled
House of Commons recently

in the

by Finance Minister Donald
while production
costs rose. At the same time
corporation profits increased
by 14%

Ki ee

The number of hogs on Can-
adian farms on March ist was
5,321,000, a decrease of 16%
from last year’s corresponding
total, according to the Domin-
ion Bureau of Statistics.

: Re er ae
Agriculture Minister’ Hark-
ness announced the federal
governments first deficiency
payments on eggs on April 4th.
He stated that there will be
an interim payment of 8e¢ per
dozen ‘on ‘up ‘to 1000 ‘dozen
Grade A Large eggs for the
period of January to March,
1960. Earlier he said that egg
marketings for this period
were down 7% from those in
the same period in 1959. For
the full three months of this
year the national average price
received by ‘producers ‘was
25.4c.a dozen on Grade A
Large.

5 ieee a

The C.P.R. has announced

area.

' Earlier Ald Jamieson claim-
ed assessment on the B.C.~EI-
ectric building had been cut
$150,000 this year and wanted
to know why. He also quest-
ioned why the assessment on
the CPR station has been un-
changed for the last 10 years
while residential assessments
had risen year by year. Jam-

City alderman hits low
BCE. CPR assessments

A fiilfairing before city council of downtown property
assessments was asked by Ald. A. E. Jamieson last week
after charging that they “appeared to be out of line with
residential property.” City assessor Don McQueen will be
asked.to ‘prepare a report on assessments in the downtown

ieson said the city is not get-
ting the taxes it should from
‘downtown.

Commenting on this year’s

and also an increase in net
‘earnings from $716,324 to $1,-
534,548.

Oe

450 Hereford cattle, round-
ed up from Alberta ranches,
formed the first shipment of
Canadian cattle to a socialist
country. They left on April
2nd for Rumania. Two further
shipments will be going soon,
to bring the total to 1100. The
Rumanian delegation which
toured Alberta and made the
purchases was reported to be

higher rail révenues for Feb.
1960 ‘as sip ce to Feb. 1959

pléased with the hardiness of
these eben animals.

city budget, Harold Pritchett, ‘
Vancouver Communist Party
secretary said: i

‘Nero fiddles while Rome
burns, this is the only way one
can define the NPA-dominat-
ed city council’s handling of
the 1960 budget. The recorg
$27.5 million budget repres,
ents a 12 percent increase Oven
last year.

“The council did not put up
the kind of fight needed tg
compel the provincial govern,
ment to increase its grants tg
the city, which remain th
same this year as in 1957. Noy
was any action proposed o
the high bank charges which
cost the citizens of Vancouvey
one and a half mills.

“The increase in taxes thi
year is not justified. The issy;
is not as Mayor Alsbury says,
that the public will have ty
choose between less civic sep
vices or more taxes. The issug
is to compel big business j
the city and senior govern,
ments to carry their fair sha
of the load,” concluded Prit,

chett.

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