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Viheoivdd B.C.,, Friday, January 30, 1948

ee Five Cents

Roll back prices or resign’

FLOOD OF PROTES: S

DEMANDS GOV'T ACT

soins

Policy seated

@ Charge that violence
against the Jews is being led
by such “faithful collabor-
ators of Hitler” as the
Grand Mufti of Jerusa-
fem and the Arab High
Committee: is made by the
General Federation of Jew-
ish Labor in Palestine in a

“cable sent to Vicente Lom-:

’ Bardo Toledano, president ot
the Latin American Feder-_
ation of Labor. Denouncing ©
British policy’ in’ Palestine,
the cable declares that the
Arab. people themselves want

| peace and that the Jewish
state desires to live at peace _
with its Arab Des

Arabs is shown leaving He-
_ wron, Palestine, for Jerusa-
lem to carry om the unde-
clared war’ against the Jews,

Japanese ouster hit

as denial of rights

ay Prion of the provincial government in ordering discharge of all Japan-
ése persons employed in logging camps has met with a wave of protest from or-
ganized labor and many organizations in the province that see in this order a
threat to Canadian citizens’ right to work.

In a wire sent Thursday to Premier Byron Johnson, International Wood-
workers of America, B.C, District Council executive board vigorously protest-
ed “application at this time of regulations prohibiting Japanese persons from
working in B.C. woods.”’

“We request,” the wire continued, ‘’that the .

“What can | do about prices?” This is the
question housewives across the country are asking
as they watch the changing price tags in the grocery

‘stores and measure their housekeeping money

against ever-increasing. prices,

Part of the answer is contained in wae house-
wives, banded together in the Housewives Consumer
Association, workers, through the campaigns
launched by their unions, and farmers, in their co-
operatives and. gener ‘organizations are already

aoe

‘This: ‘is: the picture this week:

bee age Nanaimo, delegates to the intoruabiiacs
Woodworkers’ Federated Auxiliaries convention

“unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the

austerity: plan: and demanding that the King gov-
ernment either “roll back Prices to the level of 1946
or resign.’

In Toronto, the Housewives eansiies Associa-
tion has initiated a nation-wide petition for one mil-
lion signatures, and in Vancouver this week officials
of the Vancouver branch were making arrange-
ments for a campaign to organize the protest of
housewives into a single demand that will become
the personal concern of every B.C.. member of par-
liament.

What harrassed housewives and others could
do about prices was put forward by the Pacific Tri-
bune last week. With the issue now before parlia-

ment, the need for immediate action is impera-

tive.

@ Get a meeting of your group to discuss ac-
tion on prices.

@ Senda wire, letter or postcard to your MP.

@ Volunteer your services for the Housewives
Consumer petition campaign.

jovernment immediately make provisions for waiv-
ing these regulations until the opening of the leg- —
islature and at that time Jegislative action be taken

A brief outlining of the |WA‘s position is being :

More armed forc es in Far North

BY MARK FRANK

2repared for presentation at a later date, according
to Bert Melsness, |WA international board member,

who asserted that several fundamental rights of the

individual were being suppressed by the government
order,

“First,” Melsness told the Pacific Gacane pi
takes away unjustifiably the employment of some

800. persons, majority.of whom are members. of our
(CONTINUED ON .PAGE 8 — See JAPANESE)

; ‘OTTAWA. — Canada’s now has greater armed
forces operating in, the far north than at any
‘time’ in’ her history, according to an official army
headquarters release.

: Majority of the men are stationed in Arctic ana
sub-Arctic’ regions'in the Northwest Territories
“and the Yukon, along the Alaska Highway and at
“the Joint Experimental Racy at Churchill, Man-
' ttoba.: * ‘

in addition, almost 200 men of the Active Force
are participating in or training for. two winter

' training exercises ‘far from civilization, it was an-
nounced, ‘

These are Exercise Moccasin, an eight weeks’
camping venture in’ the frozen wastelands south
ef Churchill and Exercise Haines 2, a two. months’
cold weather training scheme conducted by men,
of the PPCLI, the 2nd Armored Regiment (Lord
Strathcona’s Horse) and the Royal. Canadian En-
gineers. in the vicinity of Whitehorse, Ay

A chain’ of radio stations links northern oltt-
posts. Army personnel’ now man 24 remote sta-
tions.in the far north. >