637 IN—363 TO GO|

Are you a_ slacker? Have |on schedule with ottr objec-
you done your part so far in | tive
circula-} some of the clubs, particularly

the » Pacific Tribune
tion drive?

Some Press Clubs have ‘done
€xcellent work, some are just
Not pulling. their weight:

here do you fit in? Can you
Say that you have done all
You could? Can you say that
Your Press Club has really
| ®°e out to ensure that we

* COntinue to publish an alter-

reached. However, _ if |
on lower » Vancouver Island, | 4
the Okanagan . and -Kootney |
regions’ don’t show more. en-"
ergy; the’ excellent “work done |
by other clubs» and regions }<
can be cancelled out.

This is an appeal to all clubs |
all subscribers and supporters.
Dedicate the next.few weeks: |
to building the P.T., ensuring

| NOTES

B.C.F.A. Convention
The annual convention of

SS | the B.C. Federation of Agri-

- Labor backs Mine-Mill
| fight in US. court case

In a courtroom in Denver,
| Colorado, on March 14, 1960,
| nine officers of the Mine, Mill
| and Smelter Workers. Union
};were sentenced to heavy fines
j and jail sentences:

A hoary three year old ins
| dictment. was. dredged up in
ithe middle of a crucial strike
between the ‘miners union and

the 12 page alternate, so: that
your paper can do a better job

ee you cannot. answer all ; in tt nee GRGad
: 4 A
€se questions with a firm |7*0% YOU mm the y |

S-dlet us ask you this one,| CLUB OF THE. WEEK —You
Suld you. like to feel that| guessed it — Seamen’s Club
You, or your club were respon-| again, they now. have 31 in
i sible for the failure of this| on a quota of 15. 27 of them
Tive, . and ‘the consequent | new, and are now setting out
Reed to. revert toa straight.| to triple their quota, Any chal-
ght Page paper? lengers?
| We don’t wish to push any Next. week the full figures

Panic buttons. There is every | will be published.. Make sure
Possibility to finish the drive | your’ club showing is! good.

it Bete 12 page paper?

MRS. JESSIE’ JACKSON

. candidate in Toronto for |

Board of Control, said last |
week the arms budget should
be cut. 50 percent and _ the
money used to» wage war on}
unemployment.

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| ated a legal’fund from mem-

| that many chain

Lprices to
|produce and they

culture will be held inthe! -
jthe big Americ: 20 =
| Empress Hotel, = : pert $32

Victoria, “eek T aa* Gn Ait
rusts. Under this indictment
Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. |issued by authority of a orn
>) 2 ees
Ia es mete addition to offic- | | vision of the Taft-Hartley Act
oe en pais rank and file|\ hich was repealed three
rmeérs sare invited: to-attend | jonths before their trial, the
and participate inthe discus- nine were sentenced
sions. :
B.C.F.A. Fights’ ’Loss Leaders’ |
The BCFA has. accumul-

In ' spite of this action the
union went on to victory in
the strike. Since then a wide
movement of support has de
veloped in both the United
ies Act before the courts. Grates an Cenilg, 7ae ne

It is common knowledge | Mine: si leqsenss Mangas

ES the. major unions in the U.S.
dairy ~ and have publicly supported the
union’s fight.

ber organizations to test the
Minimum Loss for Commodit:-

low-priced. meat,
poultry products as bait to
draw more customers into|_ Last week the Vancouver
their stores, knowing that once | Labor Council voted to donate
they are in the store they |$100 to the defence fund and

| will also buy many items on} decided to give their full sup-
| which the chain stores make | gered to ane defendants:

| very high profits. Thus what
[the consumer makes in. the | posed any increases in tariffs
| one purchase. he loses on oth-
|ers. Farm leaders

— ——— ee en

|on: inorganic chemicals in its
point out}|presentations to the hearing
that loss leaders are used as|NOw being held by the Tariff
a means of. bringing down,Board. The CFA pointed out
farmers for their) that the chemical industry in
object | Canada is under foreign con-
| strongly to this practice by | trol and ownership to a major
the big stores, | degree, further that it already
The Minimum Loss for Com-| has a high degree of protec<
modities Act has been on the | tion through the patent priv-

petatute books of B.C. since | ileges it enjoys. A tariff would

| 1937 but has apparently never | destroy the provisions which
| been tested. It is supposed to|at present allow free entry in<
prevent practices such as|to Canada of insecticides, pest-
“loss leader” selling, but B.C. |icides and herbicides and of
provincial: governments. have | the chemicals used in their
never been anxious to enforce | manufacture,

Increased tariffs would only
CFA Opposes Tariff Increases |mean higher profits for the
The Canadian Federation of | chemical companies and. high-

Agriculture has strongly op-er prices to farmers,

GREENWELL RUNS FOR PARKS BOARD

Donald (Dusty) Greenwell announced Monday that he
will be contesting a seat on'the Parks Board in the forth-

| coming. Vancouver Civic Elections.

| “I feel that the citizens of
| Vancouver. must be made
aware of the need to maintain
the present parks and for the
creation of new ones,” said
Greenwell, “as an indepen-
dent candidate for Parks
Board, I pledge to continue
my year round fight for great<
er recreational facilities for
the people of this city and és«
pecially the youth.

“I feel that the people living
in the East End of the city
should enjoy equal recreation-
| al facilities as the other parts
of the city and when elected
iI intend to see that this is
DONALD GREENWELL | done.”

October 28, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7