ROY : nila = I 5 VOL. 12. No. 34 ih i ii J FORTIS 2 52° PRICE TEN CENTS There are lots of gendarmes but few scabs in France. Piva: ~e-witness story © th France I found flan, will to win’ By PETER FRYER ROUEN Last Fp; dozen of Friday | toured the strike-bound nerve-centre .of half-a- meeting to a union headquarters, from a ND strj ‘ : ‘ Stibaby, trike to a Picket line, I found everywhere the same inde- It 4 liter ® Situation in the Seine- HY €partment of France peal of the French Norkers hen the five million he Laniet © are striking against Warq ae decrees can look for- Throy omplete success, foung ie , Seine-Inferieure I themieg, CKS, railway depots, Steer; g Works, textile and en- aly sed. actories completely Among the 100,000 strikers in this department are thousands of unorganized women and _ girls, many of them 14 and 15 years of age, who earn starvation wages, and who have never in their lives before taken part in an in- dustrial struggle of any kind. They are united, determined, Continued on page 6 See STRIKE Confession was true, “*nders tells press Sar LONDON yh Sa an eae British business- A tment oN the Hungarian dip “ er serving three na: S. ca of a 13-year es- al eae arrived in Lon- sing Not pean hight and said 4 pe poate the confes- Dle’g 7. efore aq Budapest question: “Did UP treyocet You w : q ” ere sayi d bot en a anders, who ee ed Deg fro Nd well when he : die’ Bavitiy? Privately charter- eS ‘ans Ove at Croydon squtter Wered: “Sure » > he x . Mig that ye Peasized this by thro, SOntro) een in com- hag pebout pest faculties b 1 0 time Sa ene Jal. At ni Nders ang ysically illtreated IS family were Goins ere on pa mee SANDERS” EDGAR SANDERS ADULTERATED BUTTER SOLD FOR D UBLE TS VALUE Butter mixed illegally. with vegetable oils is being sold across Canada — and some of it has been purchased and stockpiled by the federal government. Customers who unknowingly buy the adulterated butter are paying about twice what it is worth. _ Some five weeks ago federal health department officials seized 400,000 pounds of adulteratedbutter in Montreal, and indicated that 10 Quebec creameries and dairies would face court charges. To date only one company, Crescent Cheese of Montreal, has been charged. This week Ottawa admitted that the federal government itself, which buys mil- lions of pounds of butter every year under the prices support plan, has probably been an unwitting ‘‘dealer” in bootleg butter. A Vancouver Province Ottawa bureau writer, Reg Hardy, reported Tuesday this week that government officials also admitted that the racket recently uncovered has probably been in operation the last year and a half. Hardy called it “'the biggest food adulteration ride ever perpetrated upon the Canadian public.’’ W. H. Hill, B.C. regional director of food and drugs division, department na- tional health and welfare, says that no B.C. butter is shipped to Montreal and no Mont- real butter is shipped here. But this week a Vancouver resident walked into the Pacific Tribune ‘office with samples of alleged “‘butter’’ which he had purchased at a well-known city market within the past month, and which‘ when exposed to light had turned white, the color of lard. “I paid the full price for this butter, which was sold under the brand name of two. big Valley dairies,” he stated. “I don’t know what's wrong with this so-called butter, but I wish you would investigate. I do not wish to accuse the companies whose names are on the wrappers, for it is possible that some inferior product was sub- stituted by the storekeeper at the market.”’ To test his purchases, this citizen put smears of the two famous brands of butter in a glass jar, along with a sample of tinned butter. The tinned butter remained yellow in color and retained its taste; the other two brands quickly turned into a lard-like sub- stance when the jar was exposed to the light. Ottawa excuses the long delay in taking action against the butter racketeers (it is alleged that the government was “tipped off” to the swindle by members of the dairy trade more than a year ago) by saying that “‘the usual tests ’ did not reveal the pres- ence of vegetable oils. Since then a new test has been devised which detects the added 1 ients. cen aE the long-suffering public has been paying top prices for adulterated butter while the busihess racketeers have been making enormous profits on their fraud- ulent product. had i Dp Rene PP seit li il ainmainlilialell aia Li . _——e Tee 2) ¥ ites | 3 E 3 4 ‘bo linit bho icenaiietinietetil tie Nn een err = ia)