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DEPRESSION:
TRADE POLICY

SUICIDAL

“SEE STORIES ON PAGES 1 AND 6

Living standards in British
Columbia have deteriorated and
living costs have soared as a
result of Canada’s suicidal trade
policies. Moreover, we have plac-
ed ourselves in the extremely
precarious position where the
livelihood of a large percentage
of our people could be wiped out
by even a moderate recession in
one single market, the United
States,

Take a look at these economic
facts:

@ Twenty-six British Com-
monwealth countries bought B.C.
canned salmon in 1939 — only
15 in 1950.

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countries which

Bar protested

More than 400 delegates and
observers attending the B..C
Peace Conference unanimously
adopted a resolution protesting
the barring from Canada of
Mme. Isabelle Blume, Belgian
MP, who was scheduled to ad-
dress the parley. Country-wide
protests have been flooding Ot-
tawa since the ban was an-
nounced,

Need world trade
to open up markets
to B.C. industries

bought small-to-average amounts
of canned salmon in 1939
bought none at all in 1950 and
1951.

® Our total exports of can-
ned salmon in 1939 totalled
1,235,000 cases; in 1949, 670,-
000° cases; and in the first 10
months of 1951, only 500,000
cases, '

@ Lumber exports have yari-
ed as follows: for the 10 years
preceding the war, 45 percent
to the United Kingdom and 26
percent. to the United States:
for the four post-war years,
only 30 percent to the United
Kingdom and 53 percent to the
United States; and in 1950, just
eight percent to the United King-
dom and 84 percent to the Un-
ited States. (Dean Lowell Bes-
ley of the University of British
Columbia, who supplied the
above statistics, also said: “If
the United States can increase
its production by 10 percent, it
will need no Canadian wood.’’)

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In pictures at top

® Action shots at top of page,
taken at the third Annual
B.C. Peace Conference in
Pender Auditorium over the
eigen, show, left to right:
. Willard Uphaus, national
artic of the American
Peace Crusade, who address-
ed a mass meeting on the eve
of the conference; Ray Gard-
ner, secretary of the B.C.
Peace Council, shown deliver-
ing the_main report; Fraser
Wilson, well-known Vancou-
ver artist, working on the
huge mural which covered
one entire wall of the audit-
orium; Emil Bjarnason, of
the Trade Union Research
Bureau and Homer Stevens
of the Fishermen’s Union,
presenting papers.

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