By W. C. BEECHING

REGINA — Western Can-
ada’s major farm organizations
have now agreed on a great
petition campaign and a mass
delegation to Ottawa to fight
for deficiency payments.

Recently in Alberta, Agri-
cultural Minister Harkness said
that there would be no point
to a mass delegation because
his government has already
decided against deficiency pay-
ments, and _ besides, “it will
give people in the East the
idea that if these men can af-
ford to spend money on a trip
to Ottawa they aren’t as hard
up as they think they are.”

And so, as the crisis de-
velops, tough talk replaces the,
honeyed promises of a Golden
Era.

But the farmers are deter-
mined. A conference in the
board room of the Saskatche-
wan Wheat Pool in Regina,
convened by the Inter-provin-
cial Farm Union Council, at-
tended by representatives of
the prairie Wheat Pools, farm
unions, and Federations of
Agriculture, reached agreement
ment on the petition which is
now being circulated. Within
the next few weeks an esti-
mated 15,000 farmers and bus-
inessmen will be out securing
signatures. ‘

‘The petition, pointing out

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that farm costs have risen 51
percent in the past 10 years,
calls on the federal govern-
ment to provide deficiency
payments on wheat, oats and
barley grown in the years
1957 and 1958.

This is the answer the farm-
ers have conceived to meet the
heavy exploitation of wmon-
opoly capital. It is an incom-
plete answer, but it means that
the farmers of the West are
at last uniting in rejecting
the official line of ‘big busi-
ness that the family farm must
g0, to be replaced by big pri-
vately and factory owned
farms, integrated more closely
with the factories.

In Saskatchewan 56 TV
broadcasts will be held, eight
mass meetings, and 50 smaller
ones,

This. is the biggest effort
among the farmers of the
prairies since the farm strike
movement of 1946. It is an out-
right demand for the federal
government to assume res-
ponsibility for Canadian agri-
culture.

Although the farm move-
ments do not see it, essentially
it is a demand for a different
kind of spending by the fed-
eral treasury, a demand for
spending on the welfare of the
people rather than on warfare.

It would be better if the

farmers saw this more clearly,

and directly opposed the ex-
cessive war expenditures and
the inflation it has helped to
cause. It is certain that the
federal government will use
“the need for defense” theory

as an argument against assist- .

ing the farmers.

A mass delegation, backed
by hundreds of thousands of
signatures, will be a powerful
factor in winning changes in
government policies. If that
mass delegation has the. sup-
port of Canada’s trade union
movement and is accompanied
by,;the unemployed, it would
hold the promise of being that
much more, successful.

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Los Angeles to tackle refineries ;
in long battle over smog causes

LOS ANGELES—Record smog: here this win

on proposals they have hitherto been reluctant to adopt.

The County Air

Pollution Control District is now working on a plan to force refineri

to manufacture a “cleaner” kind of gasoline.

By April 1 new regulations
to reduce unhealthful residués
from gasoline by lowering the
olefin emissions will be pro-
mulgated. ‘

Then the bfg fight will start.

Smith Griswold, pollution
control director, has told
county supervisors that instal-
lation of equipment and over-
haul required to produce the
“cleaner” gasoline will cost
each ea, about $2 million.

There are 13 major refin-
eries affected, making a total
cost to the industry of an esti-
‘mated $26 million.

Nobody expects the big oil
companies to accept that kind

of expenditure without a strug.
gle. =

A year ago the gime of-
ficials were insisting that
backyard incinerators were
the main smog contributors.
Six months ago, the incinera-

Se is forcing do- nopling officials to

_ would rid the air of pollution.

tors having been junked, thi
were equally sure that on Yee
expensive gadgets attached to
each automobile exhaust

Last week Griswold sai
he’d come to the conclusion
“the oil industry must be com
pelled to clean up its fuel” ber |
fore the three million automo-
bile owners here are asked to
install expensive exhaust a

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wish to correspond with pen
pals in British Columbia.
Write to: USSR Novosibirsak
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PRIZES WON AT THE LOG-
GERS’ BALL, held at Hast-
ings Auditorium, December 22,
were: First prize, suit of clothes,
ticket no. 6269; 2nd prize, port-
able radio, no. 6417, A Birnie,
48% E. Cordova S.; 3rd prize,
Indian sweater, no. 6765, R.
Sinclair, R.R. 1, Qualicum; 4th
prize, wrist watch, no. 6762, A,
Lystad, Chamis Bays 5th. prize,
no. 7034, logger’s boots, Wm.
Klemola, Camp N, Beaver
Cove; 6th prize electric razor,
no. 4964, Henry Phikkanen,
1000 Cotton Drive; 7th prize,
“Something Scotch,” no. 6081,
N. Sherlock, Balnioral Hotel.

ISLAND Loggers’ Dance prize

awards: First prize, ticket no.

79, Delf Brown,. Nanaimo; 2nd
prize, no. 900, Victoria; 3rd
no. 2332, Harry McNairn, Well-
ington;; 4th, no. 535, Morton
Faincgbury, Cassidy; 5th, no.
567, R. Lachie, Cedar; 6th, no.
1692, Mito Lzazt, Nanaimo; 7th,
no 693, George Altice, Duncan;
8th, no. 2292, D. MacAiley,
Nanaimo; 9th, no. 962, F, Sed-

gavick, Victoria; 10th, no. 802,
Red McKay, Nanaimie 11th, no.
1265, Joe Wilson, Nanaimo;
12th, no 925, Rictonis: 13th,
no. 866, Victoria; 14th, no, 858,
Victoria; 15th, no. 812, -Gay
Thibedeau, Duncan; 16th, no.
1250, Tom Peat, Coombs; 17th,
no. 1934, Eddy Creelman, Al-
berni; 18th, no 2290, Bill Raf-
fle, Sedar: ‘19th, No. 140,
D. Paterson, Nanaimo; 20th,
no 2384, Ray Ganerton, Na-
naimo; 21st, no. 462, Jeanne
Gerard, Nanaimo: 22nd, no.
1832,Mary Guati, Alberni; 23rd,
no. 1836, Brian Gusg: Alberni;
ge no. 541, ‘Honey’, 155 Vic.
SNe asics 25, no 1025, Vic-
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Bairnd, Nanainios 27th, no.
1288, Victoria; 28th, no. 80, J.
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‘The Committee wish to thank
all the merchants who donated
prizes and all those who help-
ed to make the Island Loggers
Centennial Danee a _very suc-
cessful one.

COMING EVENTS—City
Soviet Film

JAN. 18 cam HEARTS”

will be shown at the Russian
People’s Home — 600 Camp-
bell Ave. on Sunday, Jan. 18
at 7 p.m. English ‘sub- titles.
Everybody welcome.

JAN. 18 — Soviet film

DRUMMERBOY
with English sub-titles will be
shown Sunday afternoon, Jan.
18 at 3 pm. at the Clinton
Hall — 2605 East Pender St.
Refreshments will be served.

Everyone welcome. Auspices
Niilo Makela Club.

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