A farmer's view

‘Marketing boards are
our bargaining agency

By DICK REIMER
Recently the figures on cash returns to B.C. farmers :
were quoted as being $50,000,000. Some time previous to —
this the value of. our flue cured tobacco was set at $75,000,-
000. Figures for the poultry industry on a national scale
are commonly given as $350,000,000. If to these figures —
we add the cash value of other agricultural commodities
such as grain, dairy, beef, hogs, fruit and vegetables, the
total figures would be staggering.

Step towards disarmament

Ban the bomb’ U of fT
delegation urges Dief.

OTTAW A—Five representatives of the University of
Toronto this week met Prime Minister Diefenbaker and
presented him with a petition signed by 630 faculty mem-
bers and 2,500 students urging Canada “to press in the
councils of the world for an immediate and permanent end
to the testing and production of nuclear weapons.”

The petition said that
“problems involved in the es- { ament, ” said delegation ae
tablishment _ of international | David Gauthier. ““We indicated
inspection can be solved if; our concern with the geograph-
there is a sincere desire for | ical spread of nuclear weapons
agreement” and such action) and the prime minister shared
would “constitute a first step! that view.
towards disarmament, in| “Fundamentally, we were in
which lies our only hope of | general agreement with him
survival in a nuclear age.’ | except that we deel there

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Bruce Ballard was returned |
as president and all members
of the previous executive .were
returned to office in Tunnel
and Rock Workers local 168
elections Sunday.

Ballard defeated Pete Rich-
ley 230 to 71. Other easy win-
ners were Scotty McNicol,
vice-president; Harold Croft,
financial secretary; Doug Cow-
in, recording secretary; Harry
Armstrong, Preston Campbell
and Gordon Hunter, executive
board members; Jack Webster
and George Borody, trustees.

There is one thing-.all of
these figures have in common
—they do not give a break-
down as to who got what! The
purpose, of course, is to create
a general and false impression

is not too difficult to under-
stand why in a number of cases
marketing boards are suspect:
ed of operating in the inter-
ests of these monopolies, rath- —
er than in the interests of the

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“We were favorably impress-| should ke more urgency in
ed with Prime Minister Diefen-} trying to reach international
baker’s ‘concern about disarm-| agreement.”

Sask. Farmers’ Union
endorses disarmament

SASKATOON — Delegates to the Saskatchewan
Farmers’ Union convention which met here last week,
acting on behalf of the 12,000 members they represented,
added their voice to the growing world-wide demand for
total disarmament.

They adopted the special
resolution brought in by their
executive which urged the
Canadian government “to press

for world disarmament with
adequate inspection and con-

benefit of the Canadian people
and all humanity.”

The resolution stressed that
“no nation could emerge as
victor in a world war fought
with modern weapons” and
that such a war “could con-

Narrows Bridge

of 18 members of the Hoisting

ployed by Dominion Bridge

hike.

Railway, Transport and Gen-
eral Workers
Canadian Labor Relations
Board for certification in tke
case
Straits Towing Ltd. boats and
for
Packers
ships.

that the agricultural industry
is a healthy one. The ‘Ontario
Farmers Union has protested
these methods because they are
misleading the public. .

Another tie-up of Second
construction
may result from a strike vote

and Operating Engineers’ Un-

ion local 115. Th , al -
soe eta poner eet Farmers across Canada for

many years have attempted to
solve their marketing problems
by organizing marketing
boards and producer marketing
co-operatives. While these have
done a good job, they are un-
able to remove the underlying
causes of the inequalities.

Co. Lid., voted 12 to 6 in favor
of strike action for a wage

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Canadian Brotherhood of

has asked the

These causes are to be found
in the fact that the processors,
packers and chain stores have
been allowed to monopolize the
industry and dictate prices on
what the farmer sells in the
Same way that monopolies dic-
tate the prices of the things
the farmer needs to keep his

of 50 engineers on

some 10 engineers on
Steamship Co. Ltd.

The men are members of the

farmers.

While there may be grounds
to justify these suspicions in a
few cases I think that in ge
eral they are making an hone:
effort to obtain adequate re-
turns to the grower but have
failed to achieve the desired
results because they are fac-
ing forces too powerful to over
come.

We can’t get away from the —
fact that until something more _
effective can be found, mar-
keting boards are for the most
part the only bargaining —
agency producers have.

SPUN EN EN NED OD ED AD ee,

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§ To All Our Friends

q Peace and goodwill

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Sources saved thereby be put; ation of humanity and the Rneineene pee rene farm and home going.. 8 to all peoples
to constructive use for the) higher forms of animal life.”| ition and bargaining rights.| ‘Under these circumstances it |i ME & a Martin

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