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City women to build consumers.
: body to curb price ‘decontrols’

A one-day b ete bs : 2, was called for by 900 women at a
ir Syenlivets. ee ott Be Council (CCL) to protest to the government

-the rising cost of living. The meeting, held
on April 23 in the Boilermakers’ Hall, also called for the reinstitution of price controls,

to the presentation by ‘western
women of a brief to the federal
government calling for the rein-
stitution of price controls at 1945
levels, the renewal of milk subsi-
dies and the retention of rent
control.

a ee a thorough investiga-

5 nto. the production and

Stribution of milk.

er the same time the women’s

Re ing was told that plans are

, Ri Proceeding to set up in Van-

: ization a B.C. consumers’ organ-

ordinat which will serve to co-

curbin e€* all possible action in

, ng government’s policies,

be the ely aimed at undermining

Beate: ealth and welfare of Can-
: _ People,

ae oiston to call a one-day buy-

Boa ane in Vancouver followed

e €ceived from the Winnipeg

Sewives’ Association that they

dian women that their children
are not getting enough milk to
maintain their health, she quoted
in comparison figures of profits
of milk companies, which showed
that the Borden Milk Company in
1946 made a net profit of 19%
million dollars—a 51.9 percent in-
crease over 1945 profits.

The meeting also heard H, B.
Coverdale, president of the Old

“are

aes be initiating a similar Age Pensioners’ Society, word the
aries approximately May 10 and concern of the old age pensioners
d that Vancouver would on the rising cost of living.

follow suit,

ee did follow suit, when
red wome rs.
eae Croy and ee on Mor-
Se fo delegates to the recent
BDBoH cp a Finance Minister
ganization women representing or-
lay the Ss all ‘across Canada to
tee people’s protests before
et eicred representatives, tell
$i he “callousness and utter lack
Concern on the part of the
_ 50vernment to their representa-
tions,
nag wave of protest rose from
se Meeting _as Mrs. Morgan
a ted that Abbott had told
he delegation the government’s
pny Was one of ‘cautious de-
Sntrol,’ following which the next

Se

The women applauded word
that a delegation of veterans’
widows had proceeded to the fed-
eral government to protest that
their $30.00 a month allowance
now was entirely inadequate and
asking for an increase to $40.00.
The meeting voiced its support
for their representations.

Child victims of
war need help

At least 30. million. children in
Europe and an equal or greater
number in China and the Philip-
pines are in desperate need of
food, clothes, medical supplies and
‘lother items ‘necessary for their
health and well-being. |

Undernounishment and disease
are rampant among these child

MARGE CROY |
Chairman, Women’s ‘Price
Control Committee

day he proceeded to lift the con-
trols on many of the day-to-day
needs of the Canadian people, a
list which took him “what seemed
like fifteen minutes to read.”
The audience clapped vigorous-
ly when Mrs. Morgan debunked
the “shortage plea” of business by
stating instances where the prices
on foodstuffs had been allowed to
go up and then “out of the thin
air the goods appeared”; and
called for penalties upon those
who create these shortages in
order to raise the prices and heap
bigger profits for themselves.
, Citing statistics that in a recent
survey of 1500 children, one-third
were found not to be receiving

Now they are madmen
The older hands in the la-

¥ movement will probably ||the recommended amount  of.|victims of the war. Infant mor-

Se the article by the || oranges, citrus fruits, green and |tality has doubled or trebled in
t jouw n- many areas. 2

Jo rialist, Hlya Ehre! leafy vegetables, tomatoes and Nf Stakianrd . for

To bring the ‘
children of jwar-affected coun-
tries to a pre-war level would
cost a staggering amount, per-
haps .several billion dollars, ac-
cording to a report on the
International Children’s Emer-
gency Fund established last
DecemHier by the United Nar
tions General Assembly.

“The children of Europe and
China were not only deprived of

rg, written at the time of
th. great slump of the early
x irties, in which he exposed
“ela in Denmark they were
ee: to slaughter the pigs
or lack of markets for bacon,
and use the remains as fertiliz-
€rs to grow food to feed cows
Whose milk they were unable |
to Sell owing to the slump, as
& result of which the cows:
Were slaughtered and their .car-

whole grain cereals, Mrs. Morgan
recalled Prime Minister King’s
statement that “government pol-
icy could be changed if such a
change was found to be in the
interests of the people.”

“We must show them, in no
uncertain terms, that a change
is in the best interests of the
people,” she concluded.

Set

OR cares capt create ees ae

fed to. pigs. Mrs. Marge Croy traced for the|food for several cruel years, but

Capitalists were always meeting the steps which led up|lived in a constant state of terror,

leves, he wrote, “and now || ~ witn of the “massacre of

[ent Anke bipatatona civilians and of the horrors of

e— ELITE CAFE scientific warfare, and exposed to

= Where You’re Always the progressive lowering of

Be eee Seis "ee t sure of oo standards of social conduct,”

ee N | N GOOD FOOD, GOOD SERVICE }| stated the UN committee report

2 CA AD A ; 950 Granville St. MA. 9522%|/recommending establishment of
: ; the fund. | }

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‘WM. GREEN and C. E, LOUIE
Est. 1904

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Notary

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Voicing the concern of Cana-}|.

“My parents’ conversation,
turned almost always upon the
meet. Prices were continually
a campaign against the high
mining basin. The campaign soon
reached our village. The house-
wives hurried from door to door,
trying to organize for action. My
mother was one of the most ar-
dent and, at one of the meetings,
she was elected as delegate by
the women of Noyelles-Godault.
“A demonstration was organized,
and marched through the streets
of the village; headed by the Red
Flag and chanting:

‘Butter at 30 sous.

‘Milk at 4: sous.

‘Bggs at 26 sous.’
“They marched from shop to
shop calling upon the retailers to
agree to these prices.
“One market-day, all the women
of the village decided to go to
Henin-Lietard. As soon as they
reached the market place a dis-
pute broke out between the sell-
ers and the women, and a stall
was upset. This was the signal
for trouble, and from every side
carrots, parsnips, potatoes and
fruit began hurtling through the
air. As for us children, we jump-
ed into the baskets of eggs and
stamped them with our feet, us-
ing as missiles whatever came to
hand, and thoroughly enjoying the
destruction of all these delicacies.
“We could not understand, then,
that those who were really re-
sponsible for the rise in the cost
of living were the big capitalists,

Thorez recalls talk was
always of living ‘costs

as in all working-class homes,
daily problem of making ends
rising, and in September 1910
cost of living started in the

ed once more in turning the
wrath of the consumers against
the petty shopkeepers.

“During one of these demonstra-
tions against high prices, there

er called Dieudonne was killed.
As a sign of mourning and pro-
test all the women took to wear-
ing red and blue ribbons.”

So writes Maurice Thorez in
Son of the People, one of the
most refreshing and exciting bi-
ographies I have read in the last
little while.
every page of this little 200-page
bok reveals the unassuming and
plain-spoken manner of a worker,
born in a little mining town of
France, going about his various
jobs, dealing always with the
most essential problem at hand—
how to best ease the burden of
his fellow-workers.

Exciting, because what thriller
can match the rise of this lad
from the path of his grandfather
“whom I salute as the embodi-
ment of modest, courageous, ir-
reproachable militancy, and above
all for his loyalty,” to that of
one of the foremost leaders of his
people.

In other words, if you suddenly
realize you’ve never read the biog-
raphy of a leading Marxist, I
cannot think of one I’d recom-

the speculators who had succeed-

mend more highly.—K.C.

Marching women
craft plant marched in the
hopes and strong’ hearts.

peace and security
ished in the smoke

women,

w~

In 1945 these women workers
from the Vancouver Boeing Air-

May Day parade with high

They thought that when their
loved ones returned—and many didn’t—a new era of ©
would dawn. These hopes have van-
of broken promises, high prices, lack
of homes, and the imperialist threat of a new war. May
Day, 1947, will redeem its pledge to those marching

was a police charge, and a work-—

Refreshing, because

May Day Greetings
from
Se
Victory Square
LPP Club

JOHN STANTON
Barrister - Solicitor
Notary Pablie

502 Holden Bldg. — MAr. 5746
. Night: ALma 2177-M

May Day Greetings

from

141 E. Hastings

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“UNITE TO FIGHT FOR LABOR’S RIGHTS”

FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1947,

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