me TIM ATlri i aaaali Codd outlines LPP proposals Mrs. Morgan urges 2-cent milk price slash at hearing Drastic decline in milk consumption directly attributable to high Prices must be reversed by maintenance of price controls at the con- Sumer and producer level, and an immediate reduction in the price Liberal policies creating first class farm crisis’. - NOTCH HiLL, B.C. “Every farmer is plagued today by a paradox of low prices for everything he produces, and high prices for everything he buys,” says Henry Codd, LPP candidate for Okanagan-Revelstoke. ‘ Codd, who has run his own farm here for man ears, knows the problems of his constituen __. Of milk by two cents a quart, Mrs. Mona Morgan, LPP candidate for intimately. During the present election campaign 2 hes travelled Aiaenout the riding talking a gz Vancouver Kingsway, said at the B.C. Milk “Board shearing in Peter | the farmers, and he is convinced that “a first class crisis is brewing.” Pan Ballroom on Wednesday this week. = “Liberal ' politicians boast that ‘Presenting a brief on behalf of the LPP, Mrs. Morgan argued that | the farmer has never been so well off as he is under the present gov- ernment,” Codd told a Pacific Tri- bune representative who interview- ed him at his home here this week. “Yet last April 8 James Gardiner, minister of agriculture, admitted in the House of Com- mons that not more than 15 per- cent of the farmers of Western Canada made enough money to pay income tax. Some prosperity!” distributors should absorb « this _ tWo-cent Joss, but added: : Get your name on civic voters list Vancouver voters shouldn’t over- look the civic election next De- cember in the federal election flurry, : “In the event that the distri- butors produce satisfactory evi- dence that they cannot bear the full two cents, ‘the provincial government should subsidize\the difference, as a stop-gap meas- Ure until such time as a federal Subsidy is re-introduced.” The 1953 civic voters list will remain open at City Hall for the next three weeks. Citizens missed in the sketchy house-to-house can- Indicative of the farmers’ prob- lem are the prices of farm machin- ery, equipment and supplies, Godd Mrs. Morgan pointed out that|vass conducted last spring now | continued. He gave these ex- When a federal subsidy was in ef- have a chance to get their civic amples: fect, fluid milk consumption reach- franchise. “A 12-foot, self-controlled com- €d an all-time high. Don’t delay! bine which cost $2,800 in 1945 can’t be bought today for less than $6,000. . “Bindery twine, an important item on a modern farm, cost 12 cents a pound a few years ago, but the price is now more than : Here Henry Codd (right), LPP candidate for Okanagan-Revel- ' stoke, discusses the crisis in the Okanagan fruit-growing industry with John Klim in the latter’s orchard at Vernon. Tragic accident costs Viet life of Harry Seland — A tragic accident caused the death of a veteran in the labor Movement, Haakan (Harry) Sel- 8nd, 60, on Sunday this week. A 25-year‘old woman living in an adjoining room at 1946 Main Street apparently turned three burners of her. domestic gas stove Wide open. The woman, Mrs. Lor- Taine Esther Mayall, was found dead in a sitting position on her chesterfield — but the fumes had also seeped through into Seland’s *00m and snuffed out his life as _’€ Was taking an afternoon nap. Born in Norway, Harry Seland fame to this province in 1924, Working in camps and mills and taking an active part in the labor movement as a member of the old Communist party and the Labor- Progressive party. He was a mem- ber of the IWA and of the Sons of Norway. A reader and supporter of the Pacific Tribune, Seland had been an “Honor Press Builder” each year, raising more than $200 in the annual financial campaigns. Funeral services will be held at Roselawn chapel, Broadway at Commercial Drive, at 10 a.m. Sat- urday, August 8, with Nigel Mor- gan, LPP provincial leader, paying a final tribute. Please omit flow- ers by request. supplies freight rates have skyrocketted, tripled. “Prices of all machinery and have risen_ sharply, taxes have gone up—but the re- turn from the sale of farm pro- ducts has fallen off badly. “Cash income from the sale of farm products for-the whole of Canada dropped by $38. million last year. Significantly, the gov- ernment’s own figures show that a $11 million drop was suffered by B.C. farmers.” “What is the cause?” Codd was asked. “Loss of markets,” he replied promptly. “Overseas markets for wheat, cattle, pork, poultry, and dairy products have been surrendered by the Liberal gov- ernment under the Marshall Plan. At the same time an in- \creasing volume of U.S. fruit Sy acouver Island candidates TOM SEIBERT Setoria Teeek in the Hungry Thirties trug ponent was a leader in the Work: © of the unemployed: for Secon eke wages. Then the he Vol World War broke out, ang UMteered, went overseas, Slice se? Wounded in action. &d in ee War Seibert has work- lang .. Storia shipyards and Is- ah acti mills, and has become temp, “© fighter against the at- to start a third world ERNEST KNOTT Nanaimo W. S. E. MORRISON Comox-Alberni A pioneer builder of the In- ternational Woodworkers of America, Ernie Knott, 33-year- old logger, is the son of a Nanai- mo coal miner. He is a founda- tion member of the Nanaimo Joint Labor Council, is married and has one daughter. During the. Second World War Knott served for more than three years in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Commander W. S. E. Morrison retired from the Navy in ‘945, and has since been active in community affairs. A member é6f the Engineers Institute of ~ Canada for 20 years, Commander Morrison is a former commis- sioner of the Village of Parks- ville (where he lives), second vice-president, B.C. Command, Canadian Legion (1947-48) and second vice-president, Farmers Institute of V.I. (1949). and vegetables and canned goods is being dumped in Canada. During the first six months of 1952 some $56 million worth of U.S. fruit and vegetables were unloaded on the Canadian mar- ket.” Codd explained that “more and more” the Canadian farmer ‘is be- ing hedged in by Ottawa’s “made- in-U.S.” policies. Okanagan Valley apple growers expect to be able to market most of their crop’ this year because of the U.S. crop failure “but the future looks hazardous indeed.” “Ottawa has made us depen- dent on the single U.S. market which is an exceedingly vulner- able one,” continued Codd. “Re- cent U.S. tariff restrictions shut Canada’s oat crop and dairy pro- ducts out of the U.S. overnight. A similar move on apples, which growers here fear might develop next year, would leave our fruit industry in the biggest crisis it has ever experienced.” Canada needs a new farm policy. and the Labor-Progressive party has such a policy, said Codd, out- lining these as the main points: @ Liberate Canada’s export trade from the iron collar of the U.S. dollar; end the self-imposed blockade of half the world and restore .again the single world market; regain the lost British, Commonwealth and Asian markets by means of barter trade and agreeing to exchange a dollar’s worth of our surplusses for a dol- lar’s worth of imports from any Commonwealth country. Cowichan Lake pioueer dead LAKE’ COWICHAN, B.C. A man who helped to create the tradition of Lake Cowichan as a militant progressive centre is dead here after a long illness. Einar Neva, a long-time resident of this community and a veteran worker for -progressive causes, passed away on July 24 at the age of 62 years. Born in Sweden, Einar Neva came to Canada as a young man and worked most of his life in the logging and later the fishing industry. He is survived by his wife, Sophie, two sons, Sven and Nels, and three grandchildren, all of Lake Cowichan. @ Guarantee a floor price to all agrictultural producers ade- quate to cover costs of production and a decent living to every farm. family; amend the Agricultural Prices Support Act to guarantee a - fair return to the primary pro- ducer. @ Divert the millions now wasted on war to raise the peo- ple’s living standards, boost the home market, build up Canada’s productive forces, and guarantee the health and welfare of Canada’s greatest asset—the people. @ Support the demands of the farm movement for a_ greater voice in all government market- ing. agencies, the reduction of freight rates, and for protection against monopoly profiteering by the packing industries, transporta- tion companies and equipment and fertilizer manufacturers. Ad cites low wage paid by. fruit firm Slade & Stewart strikers, now starting their eighth week on Pick- et lines, have had their battle pub- licized in an advertisement pub- ‘lished in the daily press by Van- couver Labor Council (CCL). “Workers at Slade & Stewart average $194 a month, or $1 an hour,” says the advertisement. “The average wage in the indus- try is $240 a month or $1.40 an hour, while the B.C. average wage is $270 a month. “This firm has a 44-hour week —but 72 percent of B.C. workers now enjoy ‘a 40-hour week.” The advertisement points out that 90 percent of the employees voted for this legal strike after one year of fruitless negotiations. IN CASE OF RAIN “UNITED LABOR PICNIC GOES ON AT CLINTON HALL 2605 East Pender SUNDAY, AUG. 9 PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 7, 1953 — PAGE 7