— Vancouver most - WOMEN TELL COUNCIL: . expensive city outside Montreal Prodded into action by a delegation of 30 women and children headed by Mrs. Marie Godfrey, B.C. president of the Congress of Canadian Women, done about rising prices, Vancouver social service committee _ demanding that something be decided this week to ask city council to raise with the federal Sovernment the need for pegging prices. Citing the federal cost of living index, Mrs, Godfrey told the com- Mittee that “it is more expensive to live in Vancouver than in any other city in Canada, except Mont- real,” “As women, we are becoming More and more alarmed at the Seneral trend indicated by prices © of basic foods jumping two and three cents a week,” she contin- ued. “According to prices obtain- €d through direct investigation at ' Woodwards, we have found that the cheaper cuts of meat have Tisen from 20 to 130 percent since 1948. Boiling beef alone rose 138 - Percent in the past two years; pot Toast 87 percent; round bone roast 51 percent; cottage roll 30 per- Cent.and sausages 20 percent.” Continuing, Mrs. Godfrey stated that butter had risen 137 percent, Potatoes 228 percent, eggs 155 per- Cent, sugar 41 percent, flour 135 Percent and cheese 116 percent. “All these are staple foods which form part of the basic diet of all families,” she emphasized, “We urge that city council peti- tion Ottawa immediately to put a Ceiling on prices,” Mrs. Godfrey Said, : Ald, Halford Wilson then moved & motion to the effect that city Council should find out what Ot- tawa intends to do about pegging Prices in view of the recognized Alarming rise in living costs. The Motion was passed. | oeeenteeneaeg - Paul’s Beauty Salon ® RENO’S CURLY CUTTING @ PERMANENT WAVING 2511 E. Hastings St. HA. 6570 Opposite Forsts (Upstairs) See ~—_—a—— Castle Jewelers Watchmaker, Jewellers -Next to Castle Hotel 752 Granville MA. 8711 A. 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If prices are allowed to go up T'll simply not be able to buy suffi- AL RN SS A Ge ALTRI EN IOI : Join the fight against high prices ENOL ME MAR A FS AE DEP EER In 1940, one dozen eggs cost 19 cents; today they’re 58 cents, Butter was thrc> now it’s 58 cents a pound. Coffee, higher. peunds for $4 cents; in 1940, cost 39 cents a pound against 85 cents today—and it's going Half a pound of bacon that cost 12 cents in 1940 is now 48 cents. No matter what you buy, the price is doubled, trebled, quadrupled, Did some one Say something about a wage increase? cient milk for them.” “Shouldn’t the milk salesmen and farmers be entitled to an in- ler. “We intend to go before the board and present our brief next Monday, at 10 a.m., in the Medical- Dental Building,” interjected Mrs. Viola Bianco, a member of the delegation. ‘We will speak on be- half of both the consumers and the farmers, and will ask that adjustments be made inthe dis- tributing end, as the distributors are making high profits.” “The distributors are losing: . money,” argued Ald. Showler. Ald, Gervin interrupted an ex- change of opinions on this point to say that “the question can be dis- cussed before the Milk Board.” The committee agreed to have a watching brief at the board hear- ing, and to present a case “if we see fit’ after the hearings have been held and a report is issued. The Congress of Canadian Wom- en will hold meetings in various parts of the city this week and prepare to carry on the battle against rising prices. “Our first task,” said Mrs. Godfrey, “is to organize a sizeable delegation of women and children to appear be- fore the one-man Milk Board hearings next Monday.” THE PRESIDENT of the Fraser Valley Milk Producers’ cpaque Te ubaea las EE Bache: Association, Deg: Nicholson, has just come up with an idea which is almost unique in these days of decontrolled prices and uncontrolled food profiteering. price of milk down. “As I see it, the one way to keep the price down is to sell »more milk,” he told the associa- tion’s annual picnic at New West- minster the other day. Now, as I see it, the way to sell more milk and so relieve what” Nicholson calls the ‘industry’s “biggest headache” of processing surplus milk in summer months, is first to lower the price. Statistics can often be made to do almost anything the person presenting them wants them to; but one statistic that can’t so eas- ily be twisted is that showing the steady decline in milk consump- tion in Vancouver and other cities with every jump in price since the war, If yours is an average fam- ily, you know that you’re making do with one quart although you really need two. * x 7 NOW ANOTHER increase is being asked. As ‘some of the dairy companies see it, the way to make His idea is to keep the more money out of selling less milk is to raise the price. And if your family is anything like mine, the children will be getting half a glass of milk instead of a full One because inflation—to pay for the bombs to blast them out of this “brave new world”—has taken out of your pay cheque what little elasticity it once had. You can stretch a pay cheque just so many ways, and you can’t stretch a pension cheque or un- employment insurance at all. But when you have quit trying to cover such things as replacing worn-out furnishings and still you can’t cover the essential fpod and clothing that means the difference between existence and privation, then there’s only one thing to do— get together and fight. One good place to begin is at the milk board hearing to be held in the Medical-Dental at 10 a.m. this coming Monday. —