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. | 2... | w w | i 1 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 co. Hall Rentals CLINTON HALL ENDER AUDITORIUM AUUC - 805 East PENDER Painters! Supplies TED HARRIS Florists | 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. = Ss - = PE Ne Sa RE Te OE