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POLLUTION OF AIR AND WATER. Photo shows a pulp mill in the Prince the recent election

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ere pouring pollution into the sky and water. The large pond in
mill, Th e mill is covered with scum from chemical wastes from the —be given to improving our
ape ae proposed Canada Water Act is a step forward but much “environment,” the reaction of
nds on its firm implementation otherwise it will remain a scrap of :

Paper,

—R. Doran photo

Public gouged

by big bakeries

et hree of the major bakeries in B.C. announced, within hours of
a8 er that the price of bread will be hiked one cent a pound
8ing store prices to 27 cents for a 16-ounce loaf and either 38 or 39

Cents for a 24-ounce loaf.

The three giant monopolies,
aoe Obviously acted in
ee to up prices, are
: fees loastmaster, Mother
ach _ and Weston Bakeries.
et. ad almost the same
ae recent wages won by
ee Workers. But since they
stick aed cannot make that
wh ey added ‘‘and generally

eased costs of materials.”

ae latest price increase
federal a few weeks after a
hat wi cabinet. minister said
inc ith declining wheat prices
.~anada an increase in the

Price of
: b
Unjustified. read would be

Th
fees announced boost in bread
Race at the same time as
ureau of statistics in

Ottawa reported that higher food
prices pushed the cost of living

index up another half a point to —

126.9 in August. The July index
stood at 126.4.

The index, which is based on

1961 prices equalling 100, was
120.7 in August last year. This
was a gain of 6.2 points.

In January, 1967, when the
bakery monopolies upped the
price, the PT showed that
whereas the wage increase at
that time would cost McGavin
Toastmaster Ltd., $432 a day, the
company would make $2,500 a
day through higher prices. The
same profiteering is continuing
to this day with no action by
Ottawa to stop the monopoly
practices of the big bakeries.

5 |

TRIBUTES TO

HO CHI MINH

See pages 4, 6 &7 —

POLLUTION

Socreds drag
feet on action

By MAURICE RUSH

The Social Credit government gives every indication that it intends to continue to
drag its feet on effective action to halt the spread of pollution in B.C.

Despite the widespread de-
mand for action by the public,
and assurances by the Socreds in
campaign
that priority consideration will

the B.C. government to recent
federal initiatives is cause for
serious public concern.

The ‘cool reaction by Re-
sources Minister Ray Williston
to the proposed Canada Water
Act, which is a step forward in
coping with the serious pollution
problem on a_ national scale,
indicates that the Socred govern-
ment is putting roadblocks in
the way of any real effective
action.

The Canada Water Act, which
may not come _ before
Parliament for some months
yet, proposes a federal-pro-
vincial plan under which water
management areas would be set
up and authority would be given
to fine polluters up to $5,000 a
day.

Whether the new act would be
effective or not depends on the
co-operation of the provinces
and firm implementation to
enforce pollution measures and
impose stiff fines for violation of
such measures. The main culprit
in polluting our water and air is
the big monopolies. The new act
would only be effective to the
extent that it establishes rigid
controls over these monopoly-
owned industries.

This is one of the major
reasons the Socred government
is cool towards the federal pro-
posal. It does not want to compel
the big monopolies to cut into
their profits to instal anti-
pollution devices at industrial
sites. Nor does it want to give
the kind of financial aid the pro-
vincial government must give
if municipalities are to find the
means to build adequate garbage
and sewage disposal facilities.

The fact that municipalities
cannot find the money needed for
sewage disposal facilities and
that effective pollution controls
cannot be carried out on a piece-
meal basis by each separate
municipality, has caused many
city councils to adopt resolu-

tions urging a different approach _

by the B.C. government. Such
resolutions are going before the
upcoming Union of B.C. Muni-
cipalities convention — in
Kamloops, at which pollution is
expected to be one of the hottest
issues.

B.C. Resources Minister Ray

City memorial service

Williston has been using the
arguement of ‘‘provincial
jurisdiction’”” as a means of
undermining the new proposed
federal act before it even gets
going. When it was first
announced by federal minister
See POLLUTION, pg. 2

for Vietnam leader

i

A memorial service in honor of Ho Chi Minh will be held in Vancouver

- on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. at the Pender Auditorium (Loxér

Hall), 339 W. Pender St. Speaker will be Maurice Rush, PT associate

editor, who interviewed Ho for the PT while in Vietnam in December,

1965. The above photo was presented to Rush on that occasion.

peed in Ho's handwriting reads: ‘Fraternal greetings, Ho Chi
inh.”

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