Yes, madam, and what will it be today?

Safeway proiits soar
with soaring prices

By BERT WHYTE

total sales ameunted to a new

joint steering committee.
a resolution urging the steering
committee. to reconvene the shop
stewards as a first step in extend-
ing the drive to.force the Coalition
government to withdraw the pre-
mium hoist or place the question
before the electors.)

A picket line in front of the
parliament buildings Mfonday af-
ternoon attracted widespread at-
tention in Victoria. Clad in hos-
pital nightshirts’ and pyjamas,
and carrying bedpans, hot water
bottles, icebags and crutches, a
dozen picketers had MLA’s and
government employees leaning
out of windows watching them
stage their colorful protest. Sev- *
eral MLA’s stopped to speak to
picket line members on their way
in and out of the House.

The pickets handed out copies of
an “Open Letter to Premier Byron
Johnson from Nigel Morgan, Labor-
Progressive party provincial lead-

‘a partisan

Legislature picketed as
MLA‘s reject mammoth
labor hospital petition

VICTORIA, B.C.

The mammoth trade union petition against increases in hospital insurance payments,
carrying the signatures of 205,770 British Columbians, was received on Monday night by
the legislature, but a motion that it be discassed on the floor was voted down 34 to 9.
Next step in the .trade union campaign will be decided’ upon at a meeting of the
(Vancouver Trades and Labor Council on Tuesday night passed

tion dedicated to health—and not
racket to extort more
and more taxes ander false pre-
tenses.

“As elected representatives of the
people, your government must car-
ry out the will of the people or
resign. That is why the supporters
of the petition, who represent ap-
proximately half the number who
voted in the last election, are de-
manding you do. The Labor-Pro;
gressive party associates itself with,
and fully supports that demand.”

Throughout the province scores
of individual and community peti-
tions continue to be circulated and
mailed in to ‘Victoria, and thous-
ands of chain letters and individual
letters are arriving daily on, the
desks of the cabinet members and
MILA’s.

An example of how trade unions

can help to protect their mem- .

Ukrainian Canadians
fake over Eric Graf
hall in Port Alberni

PORT ALBERNI, B.C.
Effectively immediately; Eric
Graf Hall here will be operated
by the local branch of the Asso-
ciation of United Ukrainian Can-
adians. A five-year lease was
signed last Saturday.

Terms of. the lease provide,
among other things, for a con-
tinuation {of past policy of rent-
ing the hall to any organization—
labor, political or religious—with-
out discrimination. The lease also
provides for free use of the hall
as a headquarters for any union
on strike for better wages or

peak of $180,540,000 as compared
with $98,107,000 in 1949,” the i : ‘fe
report begins. It goes on to The. people of this province are
say: “At the end of the year bitterly opposed to the policies of
there were 184 retail stores,, 13, AROME Spvcrument fp: ERG) Saar Ee
principal grocery warehouses, -;SU¢ of Hospital Insurance. Three
two produce warehouses, three | years of maladministration, bungl-
bakeries, a fluid milk plant, a jing and squandering of hospital
coffee roasting plant, a fruit can- |Tevenues (while failing to provide
nery and a jam and jelly plant adequate hospitalization) have been
in operation. in Garuda |crowned by adoption of the most
unpopular measures ever taken by
|any government in the history of
| this province,

“What are you going to do Pre-
OTe and imines amine HS |mier Johnson? It is not enough
A erciene nd) Sa towel to say, as the press quotes you say-
$50 i! on - aso tes , . jing in New Westminster, ‘I’m so
SUAS 59 O68 SOTO REL MOAT. | sure hospitalization is worthwhile

common « share” earings (all | that I’m willing to stake everything

eld by the parent concern) rose | ney # 4
; x on it.’ If you refuse to withdraw
rom $73.33 to $90.63. | and if you are sincere about stak-

bers against BCHIS increases is
the provision written into the con-
tract between Mine-Mill and Con-
solidated at Trail and Kimberley,
which provides that the company
Pay one-half the medical-hospital
plan costs, for both single and
married employees.

Canada ‘ideally suited’
to influence peace

OTTAWA | petition for such a pact to the Can-

Few if any governments are | a@dian government, we had in mind
“more ideally suited than our own | that Canada is in a unique position
to call on the five great powers to to make this proposal to Britain,
meet for the purpose of concluding the U.S., France, the Soviet Union

working conditions.

The new leasees have agreed
to maintain and improve the hall
over the period of the lease and
the first project is reported to be
the installation of a furnace in
preparation for next winter’s ac-
tivities.

Visit any busy shopping dis-
trict in Vancouver and you'll
find a Safeway store. Glance
at the company’s annual report

1 which appeared in the April 14
issue of The Finacial Post and
you will find that the mammoth
grocery chain is doing right
Well by itself at your expesnse.

Ltd. 1950

jer.” The letter said:

ee

“Canada Safeway
~The

SHOPPERS”
~ GUIDE

: Ladies’ Wear

Safeway is an American out-
iit (Safeway Inec., Maryland)
which fills the pockets of its
coupon-clippers while it empties

Net profit for 1950 is shown as

jing ‘everything’ on it—then why Yip lana People’s China.”
S LADIES $2,740,018, up half a million from | not stake an election? The people ch at cert iis Bem page j
ILVER Ss : the preceeding year. Tetal as- | want hospital protection. They teatan fold cone” capeioet “Dr. Endicott spoke along with
MARY’S “sets of the company are approxi- | want the BCHIS to become what Vekeradist SE SA8 vin aiid eatin our|Dr. Christopher Woodard, World
if mately $20,000,000. it was intended to be—an_ institu- x |Peace Council spokesman from

; Fuel a,j |London, England, who was climax-

UNION FUELS jing a flying tour of Canada.

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aa |Coalition can’t win again recs

_ EAST END TAXL re: & T at | }
so Grits, Tories prepare

“In the first place we are a mem-
| ber of the British Commonwealth
|of Nations. Secondly we are close
neighbors with the: United States.
| Thirdly one of our two great na-

| Cafes
MILO

; ia & |tions in this country is French- t i
ZENITH }speaking. On top of that, our ie |
oO iss } |neighbor across the pole is the So- Le a
, © ‘ we ates -
Jewelers ‘ ; Viet Union, and our great neighbor +4

; ‘ . : ;across the Pacific is China. ; a
“Finance Minister Herbert Anscomb’s announcement, as- Tory leader, that his party | '

CASTLE JEWELERS

Will sput with the Liberals before the next election reflects the deep crisis which the io en aa eine ae Sevan
G. L. MASON pro-war, anti-people’s policies of the Coalition are producing,” Nigel Morgan, LPP Pro- pads pont sipeapatt Deere ai
Markets cincial leader, stated this week. ; j enunciated in Ottawa. Tt places i
: : “Anscomb and Premier Johnson | haa not the right-wing CCF lead-, before-welfare stand the CCF lead- anada in a position of unparal- a:

see the handwriting on the wall. |

leled danger should world conflict
| ers

_ GRANDVIEW

They know the Coalition cannot betrayed the confidence of their | ership takes. ensue. It gives us a rare historic

io ss : ; | supporters and blocked united peo- “T appeal to the thousands of| opportunity to play a decisiv
Barristers we kde ee aot eu bbe: ple’s action which would have | CCF supporters to repudiate those ae in wicpecntioe dint een i
STANTON & MUNRO Bake both parties now try to foist | Bromght the Coalition to account. | policies of their right-wing leaders, | the peace spokesman continued.
the blame for the criminal policies| “A good ‘example of how the to join with the other eR
Mortici on the other,” Morgan charged. _| right-wing, pro-war policies of the | tion forces to compel a change ani
an ‘ “In this way they hope to hood- | CCF leaders has saved the day for build a united labor-farmer people’s
SIM E asi Baa ivi ir | the Coalition’ was evidenced last | Coalition which can end the pre-
MONS & McBRID wink the people into giving their | ion | Sent big business dictatorship over
big business polices another five- | week when the CF trade union & idk p
Plu bi ter i ite of their hospital | officialdom joined with the old-line government policies. |
m ing shor pe te wbtoioak sales tax; | burocrats to block organizations of “The fact that the ‘Withdraw or
MAX GOLDBERG & Hat eras ea gifts to the Yankee |a united labor and people’s lobby | Resign’ petition cut across all party

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TED HARRIS
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EARL SYKES

war-trusts; the boost in BCElectric
power rates; and their defiant re-
jection of labor’s demands for im-
proved labor legislation, amend-
ments to the Compensation Act,
and of farm demands for assist-
ance in the winter-kill disaster and
reform of unjust taxation meth-
ods,” he said.

those policies, which have together
culminated in one of the biggest
political upheavals in this province,
could shave been foisted on the
people without support of both the
Tories and Liberals will not be for-
gotten,” Morgan stated... “And
neither will the fact that they could

never have got away with

“ hat ‘not one of, 7 ‘
Bubthe ‘tact th | business policies they have rail-

| to back up and force the govern-

| mentsto recognize the hospital peti-

tion. A massive, fighting-mad lobby
(which would not take NO for an
answer) could well have proven de-
cisive in compelling the govern-
ment to back-down or resign,” he
declared. re

“Both the Liberal and Tory poli-
ticians must be ousted, and the big

roaded through in complete viola-
tion of the wishes of the majority
of the electorate, must be repudi-
ated and removed from the stat-
utes. The CCF has not proved the
alternative to the Coalition’s be-

them cause of the anti-unity,

trayal of the people’s interests be-
warfare-

lines and gained such widespread
support that practically half those
who voted in the last election sign-
ed it within one week, shows con-
clusively that the people want a
change.

‘It also shows that British Col-
umbia can have a change, and that
an electoral alternative can be built
out of the struggle that is growing
around the popular demands of the
people on immediate pressing needs.
It is around the fight for peace
pelicies and these issues of im-
mediate concern that united action
can be developed which will sweep
the Tories and Libérals, and their
lackeys in the labor movement, out
of the way.”

= Sunday, April 22, 8 p.m.
E TATRA HALL

= QUEENSBORO

E also

FILM SHOWING

Speakers: Maurice Rush
Steve Endicott

Auspices: National Feder- =
=ation of Labor Youth ands

wabor Progressive Party. =
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