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Decciocsatitncetibelinss

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At Mabsebe talks os

In this picture a ChineSe volunteer pins a Mao Tse-tung emblem
on an American soldier at Kaesong. U.S. and other correspondents
have been obliged to concede the friendliness of Chinese volunteer
and North Korean soldiers stationed at Kaesong under arrangements
made for conduct of cease-fire talks. : ;

B.C. will have milk rationin

“The suggestion recently made by Re of the big dairy farmers that.
y a pressure move to force

consumers to meekly accept new price increases,”’

get more.”’

SY

August 27 deadline
for strike of 60,000
metal. miners in U.S.

DENVER

Some 60,000 nonferrous metals
workers throughout the US.,
members of the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers, will strike this Mon-
day, August 27, following refusal
of operators to offer adequate
wage increases in four and a half

months oi negotiations.

Ootsa

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Lake settlers

boo Alcan offers —

At a stormy meeting, held here on August 1:

be flooded out when the
Company of Canada,

WISTARIA, B.C.

of settlers in the Ootsa Lake District who are to

Nechako dam is completed, Louis Du Bose, vice president of the Aluminum
was drowned out by angry protests as he attempted to explain how the company

had arrived at the prices he quoted to the farmers.

First price announced, and, Du
Bose said, the lowest, was $8,000
for a man with 160 acres. This
was in payment for buildings,
land, and compensation for mov-
ing and setting up in another area.

Du Bbtse found it difficult to
answer the questions that poured
in. How can a settler move and
rebuild for such a sum? Does
the company take into considera-
tion the deflated value of the dol-
lar? . Doesn’t the company con-
sider the land of any great value
to it? Why aren’t. settlers to be
compensated for years spent in
building up their farms? What
about the prices for land paid by
the Cellulose Corporation at Ter-
race, or prices paid by oil com-
panies in Alberta?

“After being kept in suspense
for the last two ‘years as to their
future, we find it rather difficult
to believe that we are being brush-
ed to one side with so little con-
siderations, one settler remarked
after the meeting. “Is it any
wonder we are indignant over the:
lack of support we're receiving

from the provincial government?

The government seems afraid to
interfere in any way with the
company to protect our rights as.
settlers.

“Du Bose certainly did ac-
complish one positive _ result,
though one he had scarcely plan-
ned on. We have become more
determined than ever to stand un-
ited and demand what we believe
to be fair and just compensation

for siving up our homes and means
of livelihood.” ~

AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED

, Reception for Mrs. Rodd:

A Peace Pact celebration and reception in honor of Mrs.
Nora Rodd will be held this coming Tuesday, August 28, at
8 p.m., in Swedish Hall, Clark and Hastings.
by Vancouver Peace Assembly.

It is sponsored

‘

Peace service awards will be presented to all petitioners
with 100 signatures or more. —

Mrs. Rodd will speak-briefly and there will be a cultural

program. Admission is 50 cents, which includes a buffet supper.

£.

‘Women.

son added.
ernments to see to it that our vital
dairy industry does not suffer from

. a shortage of dairy feed and hay.

Strict control by the federal gov-
ernment to prevent the big feed
companies from going on a price-
gouging spree will help. And the
payment of a milk subsidy by the
provincial government’ will also
help. Both governments will be
accessories to the crime if they
do not act now to end the con-

‘ditions which are causing many

dairy farmers to slaughter their

herds.”’

I; is expected that the demand
for a provincial milk subsidy rais-
ed by Island farmers recently will
be one of the main demands dis-
cussed at the Conference for Ac-
tion Against High Prices spon-
sored by the Congress of Canadian
The conference, which
is to be held Friday, August 31,
in the Electrical Workers Centre,
promises to be an outstanding event

in the people’s fight against mono-.
poly profiteering and government- -

inspired inflation. Scores of or-

ganizations, including old age pen-—

sion groups, trade unions, cultural
organizations, women’s groups and
community organizations, have sig-

nified their intention of sending their
full quota of delegates.

The conference committee pre-
paring for the big event plans to
have the hall decorated with ban-

ners and cartoons depicting popular ~

slogans in the fight for decent living
standards. The display committee
is preparing eight different displays
comparing the rapid increase in the
cost of living. Outstanding amongst
these will be live models showing
what it costs the average mother, to
outfit her kiddies for school.

ig issue
at forthcoming

g next spring is simpl
ce i Mrs. Agnes Jackson, sec- —
retary of the Congress of Canadian Women, charged this week. ‘‘Our child-
ren need more not less milk and the Congress is going to fight
“Excellent grain crops are expected on the prairies,’ Mrs. Jack-
“Tt is up to our gov- |

paper to potential new readers —

until they do

Calling for
new readers

Paper, paper, hear the newsboy
‘shout. :
Paper, paper, what's it all about?
Read the Sun or Province, you

won find out.

x

Paper, paner, whai’s it worth 10
you
To get the news behind the news
and know it’s true?
Get‘a PT. sub, that’s all you need
to do. Pak
Whatever this verse may lack .
in literary quality, few of out
readers will quarrel with its sentl-
ment. For that matter, there ar
hundreds of working class people
up and down this province who
will agree with it once they aré
shown a copy of the Pacific Tit
bune and given the opportunity
to judge for themselves.

The job begins with getting our

and so far too many of our
readers are keeping it to then
selves. Or we must conclude from
results, This week ve received

subs, 18 from the city and 23
from the province. This is hold-
ing our own, on the ayerage °
the past few weeks, but it’s not :
adding very much to the one
thousand new readers we ask
for—and can get if all our pres
ent readers lend a hand.

“Cour expunges ; -
contempt order

Mrs. :-Gladys Hilland, former
IWA official, was held to have
purged her contempt of a court
order when she appeared before
Mr. Justice J. V. Clyne in Supreme
Court chambers last week. Mr.
Justice Clyne expunged the con-
tempt order after it was reported
to him that, $5,000 had been paid
into court.

Earlier, in Vancouver Police
court, theft charges against Mrs.

Hilland weré@ dismissed. :
Announcing “dissolution of the
defense committ Ivan Birch-

Exorbitant bail demanded |

ard, secretary, this week issued
a statement thanking the many

supporters who had contributed William C. Mathes,

Los Angeles, has refused to lower

In denial of the American precept that a man is “innocent until proven guilty,” U.S. Federal Judge
the outrageous $450,000 over-all bail set for 10 ®

to its fund and asked for all out-
standing collection sheets to be
turned in.

1% American working class leaders arrested and jailed under the Smith Act, U.S. “thought control”
legislation, Pictured above are six of those arrested. They are (left to right): Ernest Fox, Lore
Starvas Stack, Albert J. (Mickey) Lima, Rude Lambert and Al Richmond. Richmond, executive editor
of the Daily People’s World, was arrested at his desk in the labor daily’s San Francisco office.

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