T U.S. bulldozer is shown laying pipe on the ga _ Texas gas fields. The Canadian section enters Ontario at Q gas line that will link Toronto with line from the veenston near Niagara Falls. U.S. firm bosses job, Canadians dig ditches Canadian workers are digging the’ line from Queenston to Toronto — An “‘arrangement’’ US. firms handling the job makes “Sontract to build the Consumers Gas Morgan says Tories ‘up dead end street’ —the split between the provincial and national and the expulsion of Rod’ Young by the CCF pro- ovide fresh evidence of the big changes that n political relationships in B.C., and of the crisis besetting the cold-war politicians,” said LPP pro- Nited States. Canadian members of the AFL Olsting Engineers laying down Pipe on the line are receiving al- Most $2 an hour less than for simi- & work done in New York City ~and the men on the job are not *t all happy about the situation. I An AFL business agent, H. W. ‘Ngham, said last week that top- Tates on the project are $2.35 an ur for shovelsmen and side-boom ators compared to $4.25 for Contracts in New York City. hy ampers are getting $1.40 an our; pot firemen—$1.90. , This was confirmed in talks with Canadians working on the line it- al opposite the Canadian Nation- Exhibition grounds on the Lake- Ore Highway. | A “dozer” (bulldozer) operator Said he was getting 50 cents an Sur less than the U.S. rate be- aise the job he had been given as that of driving the excavator % the pipe trench. _ I'm really: a ‘dozer-operator’,” b declared. “But there’s lots of Ree s... Americans on the job ere? tue Teported that he had heard € union was taking it up with ig ot Officials said the company Permitted under the contract to pring in “key men” to boss the ‘Upp candidales to he nominated fon tbor-Progressive party plans of ee nomination of a minimum ay candidates in B.C. for the ahe provincial election moved Eas again this week with an- ncement that LPP meetings at lang ooPS Okanagan-North, Ross- een and Nelson-Creston have hea to put candidates in the dusecision to nominate was made of T48 the recent provincial tour PP leader Nigel Morgan, and Nstituency meetings to complete eq Mnations are now being arrang- ower Mainland and Vancouver *nd constituencies are expected the me candidates shortly since. dateree plans to have 40 candi- Viner the field before its _pro- “lal convention October: 15. section of the line. TORONTO ditches of the 21-mile Consumers’ Gas pipe bossed by engineers and straw-bosses from the within the AFL Hoisting Engineers’ contract with this possible. Gragg Inc. of Oklahoma have the “Two recent events Tory leaderships, vincial executive—pr are taking place 1 of policies that is No break appeared in sight in sht in the three-week old bakery si: str.ke in Vancouver ana as the flow of “hot” bread from U.S. points dwindled to a trickle and a real bread shortage loomed. Bakery driver-salesmen made idle by the lockout of AFL bakery workers in the city’s major plants have asked Labor Minister Lyle Wicks to intervene in the dispute. * * * Duncan Local 1-80 of the Inter- national Woodworkers of America has rejected the secret deal made by district officers in the recent contract negotiations which would rmit the district officers to take e . Fear any local union if the bosses requested it. The local also refused to accept the scale of tracesmen’s pay and asked that it be re-negotiated to give more protection to the men involved. * * * Duncan IWA charged racial dis- crimination in the employment of East Indians at the Youbou opera- tions of B.C. Forest Products. Un- jon spokesmen said there is a policy of “freezing them out.” * x * A third man has entered the Congress presidency with the an- nouncement that A. F. MacArthur, president of the Ontario Federa- tion of Labor is in the running. Also in the field are Claude Jodoin of Montreal and R. K. Gervin of Vancouver. Nanaimo vineial leader Nigel Morgan this week. “Both events indicate how far the leaderships of these two parties have drifted from the peo- ple. - Both events are destined to have far-reaching effects on future political developments. “Underlying all the charge$ and counter-charges, the crisis in the CCF stems from widespread fiis- satisfaction over the right-wing policies of the CCF leadership. The preliminary skirmish at the recent CCF convention showed it was a fight which could split the CCF down the middle. “The devastating Tory split is a sign of the times. Capping events in B.C. which started with the breakup of the Johnson-Anscomb Coalition, it shows regardless of what may happen to the Tory party nationally, it is a spent force as far as B.C. is concerned. “What happened of course, is ‘the inevitable end of a party that trades party patronage and person- al privilege to Big Business for slush funds and power to betray the people’s interests, oppress labor ‘and block social advance. “The Tory party is up a dead end street in B.C., and the Liberals and others who ‘are drifting along with the policy of betraying B.C.’s interests to the U.S. expansionists, the power monopoly and other big business interests won’t be far be- hind them. & “The people created the crisis for the Tory party by repudiating their policies and demonstrating their demand for a change. Un- less they get the change of policies they voted for, other changes are in the making.” Farm news ‘Accept sterling for our app les’ __ Effect of the cold-war Marshall Plan policies of the St. Laurent government on the fruit growers of B.C. was effectively demonstrated in a recent Facts & Figures bulletin of the ‘B.C. Fruit Growers 1,715,787 boxes of apples exported in 1953 boxes were shipped overseas. Not a single box of apples went to B.C.’s traditional market, the Unit- ed Kingdom, nor to Europe. Apple exports listed for 1953 were: U.S., 1,589,443; Malaya, 47,- 200; Venezuela, 27,765; Brazil, 20,800; Hong Kong, 7,720; West Indies, 7,199; Bermuda, 5,600; Philippines, 5,480; Indonesia, 2,- 580; Ceylon, 1,100 and Alaska, 900. What will happen to B.C.’s Okanagan and Creston Valley apple crop this year if the U.S. harvests the bumper crop expected is a subject for real concern. With the economic well-being of the farmer as dependent on inter- national trade as it is today it is understandable that the B.C. Fruit Growers Association, B.C. Federa- tion of Agriculture and other farm organizations are pressing the gov- ernment, for action to reopen the Commonwealth markets by accept- ing sterling. * * * During the first half of this year the Fraser Valley Milk Pro- ducers Association reports that while it provided 93,000 pounds more butterfat than for the same six months in 1953, its members received $100,000 less. “Unhealthy competitive prac- tices” brought about by the Socred government decontrol of milk and reduced wholesale milk prices were blamed by D. R. Nicholson, FVMPA president. Reports show that the two cents per quart differential allowed for “across-the-counter” store sales has resulted in a 29.47- percent increase in the wholesale market (ie. for milk sold by stores in- stead of being delivered to the door by the dairies). LPP plans to contest 35. seats in Alberta BLAIRMORE First LPP nomination for the next provincial elections will be held in Blairmore on Sunday, Aug- ust 8, at 8 p.m. in the Union Hall, when a candidate will be selected for the provincial constituency of Pincher Creek-Crow’s: Nest. The sitting member is William Kovach, Social Credit. The Labor-Progres- sive party announced last May that it intends to contest at least 35 seats in the next election. The convention, which is open to the public, will be addressed by Arthur Roberts of Drumheller, George Solomon of Edmonton and Sam English of Michel, B.C. Two major topics of discussion at the meeting will be the current crisis in agriculture and a policy to save the coal mining industry. CONSTANTINE FINE CUSTOM TAILORING Ladies’ and Gentlemen , Rm., 118, 603 W. Hastings St. PA, 5810 Vancouver 2, B.C. S. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 “Johnson: Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 ZENITH CAFE 105 E. Hastings Street Vancouver, B.C. 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