LPP asks aid for growers Assistance for B.C. strawberry growers, who suffered disastrous losses in last month’s early cold spell, was asked. by the Labor-Progressive party this week. LABOR BRIEFS Strikers at the Grinnel Com- pany of Canada plant at 1150 Raynur have asked Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) for help on the picket line, charging that city police have been used in an attempt to break the strike. The 18 strikers, members of Local 535, Retail, Wholesale and Department . Store Employees Union (CIO) hit the bricks De- cember 8 after turning down a company bid of a basic $5l-a- week wage. The union is seek- ing $60. - “Ina city that has seen an officer murdered and is full of crime ~it doesn’t seem right that police should be used to help break strikes,” union leader Bud Hodgins told a VLC meeting Tuesday this week. x q 5° 3 Vancouver City Council’s con- ciliation committee will open its 1956 negotiations with civic labor unions Friday this week. Vancouver Civic Employees Union, Outside Workers, will meet first with the committee to discuss the union’s demand for a dime across-the-board hike and: other concessions. Council some time ago an- nounced a hold-the-line poli- _¢ecy on wage demands. x 5g > ' Last week the IWA won cer- ‘tification at Passmore Lumber Co., Cranbrook, defeating the WIUC. This week a vote was taken at Kootenay Forest Pro- ducts, Nelson, and the WIUC held its certification by a close vote, 77 to 71: The IWA intends to apply for another ballot after ‘Vas well as on Vancouver Island, LPP leader to speak| dustrializing Pass.” He will discuss the pos- sibihty *of establishing a_ steel In a letter to Agricultural Minister Kenneth Kiernan, Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, pointed out that the need for re- establishment aid is: greater even than it was in the 1948 floods. “Reports from the Fraser Val- ley indicate thirty million plants -have been lost, in that over compared with six million 1948,” Morgan noted. “A great disaster has hit this sector of the farm economy and govern- ment assistance is~urgently re- quired. “The Labor-Progressive party respectfully urges that immedi- ate consideration be given by the government to rehabilitating stricken farms with plants, pro- viding long-term loans to cover costs of fertilizer, gasoline and other supplies needed to bring the land back into production, and granting a subsidy to tide farmers over the next two years before new plants will bear.” With practically all plants in the Fraser and Creston valleys, frozen out, packing plants as well as farmers have been hit hard. Growers are now con- fronted with the problem of re- planting their land with the six to seven thousand plants to the acre required. MICHEL, B.C. Ben Swankey, Alberta LPP leader, will speak in Michel on Sunday, December 18, on “In- the Crow’s Nest six months. s Beane |, Tom Barnett, MP (CCF, Comox- Alberni) expressed support for industry -in the area, }coal and ore deposits in eastern 'B.C. and western Alberta. utilizing ! unemployment insurance for fish- ermen at a meeting held in Campbell River recently under auspices of the Quathiaski local of the United Fishermen and Al- lied Workers Union. Barnett said he agreed with the union position that “where there’s a will, there’s a way? to apply unemployment insurance to the fleet. PATRONIZE CARNEL‘’S COFFEE SHOP 410 Main St. Operated By GEORGE & WINNIFRED GIBBONS ~ CONSTANTINE FINE CUSTOM TAILORING Ladies’ and Gentlemen Rm., 118, 603 W. Hastings St. PA, 5810 Vancouver 2, B.C. NEW ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings St. CHRISTMAS. SHOPPERS Help your paper by making your Christmas purchases from both our regular advertisers and the following merchants: LINWOOD COMPANY Lingerie, shirts, Chinese imported silk goods, gifts 106 East Hastings ECONOMY STORE | Men’s furnishings 141 East Hastings The fact that the Moran Power Development Company, incor- porated in the province on July 14 this year, is conducting en- gineering surveys at Moran, was first, disclosed by Highways Minister P. A. Gaglardi in a speech at UBC and subsequently confirmed by Lands and Forests Minister R. E. Sommers, who vanced some months ago.: Shareholders and directors of the Moran Power ‘Development Company are given as Hans A. Eggerss of New York, former president of Continental Can Company, Douglas .E. Andrews and A. Hans Swinton, law part- ners of Vancouver. Associated with them are Prof. Harry War- ren, head of the geology de- partment at UBC, whose paper to the fifth B.C. Natural Re- sources Conference first raised the project to pyblic’ promin- ence; and Russell Potter, former Utilities - Commission. Reports that Continental Can was interested in the $500 mil- lion project brought a quick de- Labor-Progressive party since the disas said the proposal had been ad-}, member of the provincial Public. + : : ES | Minister James Sinclair entered This map shows both the Morgan Dam project and _ the Fraser diversion. : Moran'Dam controversy points need for Fraser River Authority Need for establishment of a Fraser River Authority, as consistently advocated by the trous floods of 1948, has again been demonstrated , during the past two weeks by revival of the Moran Dam project. Siete suggested Columbia- nial from the company’s presi- dent, Frank Whittall, who added his voice to the protests from fisheries interests. Stating that his company was opposed to the project because it would “cut Fraser River fishing by 55 percent,” Whittall said: : a, lot of damage to the fishing industry: which relies on the runs in. the, Fraser River and Puget Sound.” .” . ss 4 » : Moran Power Development fident that it could overcome the problem presented’ by the salmon runs‘ through, use of elevators to lift the fish over the dam on their way.up river to spawn and by flushing the fingerlings .through the bines as they headed down river to the sea. Last week Federal . Fisheries the controversy by releasing a report based on a three-month study conducted by the federal fisheries department and the “We are convinced it would do}. Company was reported to bécon:: tur-. Salmon | International Pacific Fisheries Commission. The report’s conclusion was that it would cost in excess of $300 million to protect ‘the — salmon runs, that even this would save only a fraction of the fish and that salmon runs would dwindle until, the Fra- ser River specie, became extinct. Then Premier W. A. C. Bennett came out with a statement that if power development threaten- ed the, Fraser River salmon runs, estimated at $50 million a year, his government favored a policy of “fish before power- Commenting on. the federal fisheries report. and noting that he had not yet read it, Bennett added: : “If what I’m. told is true, then there will never be any license given by this goverD- ment.” : ‘° But this week, indicating that the issue is far from resolved, j the Bennett government put 4 ; reserve on all lands betwee? 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