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Vancouver 4, B.C. iF . : I ee Weren’t for the custom of record- Sio S What they say in U.S. congres- “ hearings, no one would believe it co ld €ver happen, A look at some is- § ae Of the Mule-and-elephant press of ;. cuntry shows that it did. fer litt 480 a rebel Carpenter said, “Suf- ae children to come unto me...” has ihe ay of alleged enlightenment that even it Modified by the proviso that Way og children mustn’t get in the Sacred pecs, because profits are more Rett the health and happiness oe 5 aity—child or adult. MNtroyeresent Salk anti-polio vaccine eo anti-po and Wer within a U.S. Senate Labor Salk’s re committee on whether Dr. ttibuteg po © humanity should be dis- Teads lik Tee to children under 20 years, dark oe Some horror story out of the ayrtuced to est 5 Con int being debated by these H-bomb- ditig the «22ed morons is: if we distribute il Salk Vaccine free to children that have Ms Socialized medicine,” and if we happen MS ized medicine” what is to the pj ae the billion dollar profits of toa millign® trusts? What may happen Potentj, 100 polio-stricken children — or Well victims of this dread disease— Polio S another. question. Profits “lution. ¢ are apparently a much better han no pe and no profits. Wh oa VUE his = Dr. Salk made the first tests era} 4, eteat discovery available to sev- children, including his os Spcuk every cent he had or k Sclanti to do so, he knew as every 'd triumpn ny Wes that his discovery But aaa Over a deadly scourge. dv’. trusts © approached the big U.S. gction of Urging them to begin pro- hats wh his vaccine on a big scale, attituge 42% the profits-before-children “i an ale apparent. Each want- 1 ctine, paelad Monopoly of the Salk on for Nd each turned Salk’s proposi- Haq Da Production down. oe < a alk been working on some witty mS horror ‘weapon to blow hu- ae ell and provide the Pentagon its “peace through ty “tip billions of dollars vane? into fen readily available. But ein o ep oduction “of an anti-polio x Probapn’ children on a mass scale “dicing a end up with “socialized iat not bev § Vsi Onner, head of the Infantile 1S 3 futon of qundation, who invested $9 St Salk . © Institution’s funds in the we men ain’ Production, and other th Persona) ne Individuals who made . Yaccing «vestments to help make wi “Untiegs nave beén buried with the ane’ ing eins of infantile paralysis. Dye the Cutter oe of the first Salk vac- lig Ction «+°t, Laboratories went’ into St g eae - The result — a long ofa s children because / of the Minal o, v2, ust, which already had | -ONViction ‘for selling adulter- ializes Ut 1949. tins Profits Medicine” versus mono- » And little children the vic- Rhacuiey re). : 3 . Laurent little in the record of the fit &n One p Sovernment to praise, ‘but tue before eads the U.S. record on pro- Suq : Polio victims, one can feel Salk ee Country thas taken this ety. and made it freely Daly Clalizeg out the discordant notes Para, NOfits. 4 Medicine” versus mono- . © mar the hopes of every ry Canadian home. . ’ its simple essentials, the been for the daring action — available, the Salk vaccine - Howe wants to be a czar HE rate at which Canada’s re- sources come under foreign control shows no signs of diminish- ing. At the end of 1954, according to the most recent Bureau of Stat- istics report, foreign investment in Canada, most of it U.S., has almost doubled since 1945. That year the figure stood at $4,900 million, To- day it is just under the billion dol- lar mark — $9,547 million to be exact. 6 ' Last year the United States pour- ed another 520 million into this country, including $191 million in profits made and left here. No wonder the federal govern- ‘ment insists on giving Trade Min- ister C. D. Howe unlimited dictat- orial powers over Canada’s econ- omy. The job of protecting this huge U.S. investment and ensur- ing that it earns maximum profits could never be left to the tender mercies of parliament — not by a government committed to the in- tegration of the Canadian economy with the USS. C. D. Howe has long been known as “‘the American in the Canadian scabinet.’” Giving him such sweeping powers is like giv- ing the pirates of Wall Street carte blanche to pick our pockets of any- thing they want. State monopoly capital has be- come a tremendous power in this country. Hundreds of ‘millions of taxpayers’ dollars are being poured into the arms and related industry. The government is now big busi- ness... How the OCF can argue in sup- port of Howe — one of the most antilabor men in the cabinet — that this is a “‘socialist’’ move is beyond all normal: powers of com - prehension. The move to extend Howe's power for an unlimited period is fraught with danger for Canada and should be strongly opposed. We need a merchant navy T the beginning of 1954 Can- A cca's ocean-going dry-cargo fleet consisted of 47 ships totalling 276,521 gross tons. By January 1, 1955 the fleet had shrunk to 20 vessels of 95,649 gross tons, the smallest in 35 years. The decline is still continuing. ; Yet only seven years ago Can- ada had 145 ocean-going vessels of 928,598 gross tons — many of the ships having been built in war- time. : At thee 1955 meeting of the Canadian Shipowners Association, president M. G. Angus noted that b opportunities for employment of ' Canadians in the seafaring trades -are now practically nonexistent; all the effort and money ,spent try- ing to create an effective Canadian merchant navy have been, for all practical purposes, dissipated. Says Harbour and Shipping: “Tt is only natural that many Cana- dians must be asking what purpose is served in spending many hun- dreds of millions of dollars a year in building and maintaining an escort ‘navy if its only purpose is to protect foreign shipping. If Can- ada does not need its own merchant shipping, why does it need a navy?” Opportunities - for. extending trade with all countries exist, and recent developments, such as the wheat deal with Poland, indicate that such trade will grow. Along with public pressure for development of trade is needed pressure for restoration of a mer- chant fleet operating on Canadian registry, employing Canadians and paying Canadian taxes, so that our wheat, lumber, fish and other ex- ports will be carried to their des- tinations in Canadian bottoms. Hal Griffin : # * wee are the skin and bones retained when salmon is canned? This is a simple question and one that any British Columbia fisherman and most housewives who do their own can- ning could answer. But since Major General G. R. Pearkes, Conservative “member for Nanaimo, raised it in the House of Commons the other day it has become almost a major issue. Fisheries Minister James _ Sinclair seized upon it to give a lecture to press gallery correspondents and the topic is now being discussed in the press across the country. Obviously, Major General Pearkes considers the retention of the skin in canned salmon unsightly and a detri- ment to sales. Ironically, his very rais- ing of the question may prove to be more detrimental to sales than the ap- pearance of the salmon has ever been. Og seg 5° Pearkes has made an issue of a ques- tion touching the livelihood of thousands of people in this province. There is still prejudice against the cheaper but no less nutritious varieties of pink salmon. Given the choice, most of us will take the red sockeye, although apart from its more appealing color we might be hard put to explain why. And on the fresh fish market, white spring salmon, which back in the thirties sold for five cents a fish as compared with 40 cents for sockeye, has limited sales. Yet some consider it to have the finest flavor of any fresh salmon. “Pearkes has certainly done no service to the fishing industry,” Homer Stevens, secretary of the United Fishermen and Allied Workes Union, said when T dis- cussed the question with him this week. “Until now most people have never given a second thought to the appear- ance of canned salmon, except for the color of the flesh. Now they are likely to be more critical. Perhaps they will agree that the skin is unsightly and want it taken out. “If' they do, they will be throwing out a good part of the food value of the fish.” 7 te a That's the answer to Pearkes’ ques- tio. The skin and bones are retained for their food value, the skin for its oils, the bones for their calcium. They give canned salmon the unique flavor which makes it a favorite even with people who have no particular taste for fresh sal- mon. And in Britain, where canned salmon is still an under the counter item, fresh salmon is an unheard of delicacy in most homes. _The highly mechanized salmon can- ning industry on this coast would find it difficult to eliminate the skin. Now the salmon go through what is known as the “iron chink” (a name acquired during the shameful white chauvinist Period in this province’s history) where the heads are cut off and the entrails ‘gouged out. Then they are washed and cut into slabs. From that point the Process is almost completely mechaniz- ed, unless the salmon are for choice pack, in which case they go to the hand- packing line. : “As eStevens commented, Pearkes should have ascertained the facts before raising a question which is by no means as simple as it appears. : PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 8, 1955 — PAGE 5