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iga rivers of the Komi Autonomous In the USSR me ee Seat of a crisis here in lumber

; .and even conservative U.S. figures estimate that USSR lumber Jeon wat increase from 44.1 billion board feet in 1971 to more. i

n - >——__0n board feet by the mid-1980's.

—Tass photo

GROUND BEEF, HAMBURGER

Only the price varies

By H. K. WARREN

Following the announcement last ‘week in the Vancouver Sun that “Canada needs more Beryl Plumptres’’, food price researcher H. K. Warren offered Mrs. Plumptre some of his own research into her startling announcement that perhaps hamburger was not hamburger as people thought. Warren’s letter to Mrs. Plumptre follows:

I was greatly interested in your

press release of a few weeks ago |

stating that you had found that ground round was not round steak ground up, nor was ground chuck chuck steak ground up.

I do not think that there is a consumer who is so naive as to be under any such illusion. In fact, it would be on a par with assuming

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i Cont'd. from pg. 1 Mra, CUY Or indirectly for half {te Stren ot depends heavily on Pty in ee of construction ac- I thitea Stor maior markets — the Me gs Europe and’ Japan. he cent of production Cent is He US: roughly 20 per Munn ended for domestic {Pr Ption and the remaining 15

‘Harts. td Japan. U.S. housing [ets 3 . US.

Meany’ Not expected to go ap- Yar» Ver one million this tigure Y more than half the

uh angyodWorkers will be the te nium est hit by the effects te Ctisig Meting lumber market, Rifar und to have an one yond the province’s Alre. Industry.

ead , Nag chaeorest employers,

up some of the

Micha’. 8 sold in Europe,’

highest profits in their history, are preparing to use the crisis as a means of forcing concessions from the provincial government on royalties paid for timber resour- es.

: Reacting to the demands of the employers for government con- cessions on royalties, the Com- munist Party said this week, the labor and progressive movement should see that no such concessions are made.”

The Party pointed out that with the profits the companies have

4,000 woodworkers jobless

provincial and municipal ad- ministrations to get housing construction underway im- mediately.”

The Communist Party also emphasized the need to diversify Canadian trade relations to end heavy reliance on the U.S. market which is now in serious trouble in the wake of enormous military commitments and expenditures in Vietnam. ‘‘Canada should send trading. missions to the socialist

~and newly-developing countries and provide long-term credits. to get our lumber products moving

’ . reported in recent years “‘there’s _ again,” it said.

need for cutbacks in royalties. _ What is needed,” the party stated, “is a crash program to provide 300,000 new low-cost, low- rental housing units for the Canadian people; cutbacks in interest rates; and cooperative programs worked out between the

“These are the demands that

need to be taken up. Without . decisive action by all levels of government, it is going to be a long, hard winter for thousands of workers.” (See next week for a full page feature on the lumber crisis and

Mestic

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|PUBLIC MEETINGS

\| f "cerning people employed las merit workers or domestic help.

Standing Committee on Labour and Justice will be holding nd don ound the province in October to look into the status of Pop Workers in British Columbia. Current labour legislation suc’

fam a Ant to Organize, the right to worker's compensation and Wiebe A eUsseq ©mestic workers under the present Minimum Wage Act will be

n a * foy Ou ; Anes WWeake coment about the meeting in your area will be appearing !n @

Enquiries may be directed to:

Mr. Colin Gabelmann

Chairperson

Select Standing Committee on Labour and Parliament Buildings

oo Victoria, British Columbia

Justice

the program of the Communist Party to meet it.)

ANDERSON

Cont'd. from pg. 1 " adian sovereignty and deman Sn of Anderson to Canada. The trade union movement and all democratic-minded persons should send their protests to their member of Parliament and Prime inister Trudeau. aie wwe can’t afford to take this lying down. First, because Anderson’s freedom — and Canada’s honor — are at stake. Second, because if we allow the American authorities to get away with this flagrant violation of our territorial rights, it will encourage patie to commit serious violations.

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that a sawmill operator would reduce his logs to sawdust rather than sell them as lumber. ;

One would have thought that, when the Prices Review Board was established, the consumer might expect some redress from the gouging that is being practiced by the large retail food outlets.

The Food and Drug Ad- ministration under the Depart- ment of Agriculture has established that hamburger must contain not more than 30% fat, and that ground beef must contain not more than 15% fat. After your press release I became interested in just how much actual food there is in ground meats on the market.

It is to be noted that all ground meats are sold under various names, ground round, ground chuck, ground shoulder and so on. A survey of 16 supermarkets in the heart of Vancouver gave the

following results, taking one half

pound of meat (220 grams) and cooking it at 350 degrees, just as it came from the package:

@ Woodward’s downtown store, Vancouver; “ground hamburger’;

99c per pound; 220 grams raw, 110 '

grams cooked.

e Woodward’s downtown store, Vancouver; ‘‘ground shoulder’; $1.26 per pound; 220 grams raw, 112 grams cooked. :

® Woodward’s downtown store, Vancouver; “‘ground round”’; $1.59

‘200-mile limit now’

United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union president Homer Stevens, attending the UN Law of the Sea conference in Caracas, Venezuela as a member of the Canadian delegation, was quoted in.an interview there as saying that Canada must unilaterally declare a 200-mile economic zone off the Pacific coast rather than wait for a future UN conference to work out a global ocean treaty.

He added that any delays in reaching international agreement may be disastrous for the B.C. fishing industry.

Canada’s chief negotiator at Caracas, J. A. Beesley, is op- timistic this country will gain control of all fish and mineral resources within a 200-mile zone under a new treaty, but Stevens said B.C. fishermen view such hopes as ‘‘a carrot’on a stick”’.

per pound; 220 grams raw, 120 grams cooked.

@ Woodward’s downtown Store, Vancouver; ‘‘burger plus’”’ (soybean meal added): .79¢ per pound; 220 grams raw, 180 grams cooked.

e Safeway, Kingsgate Mall, Vancouver; ‘regular quality ground beef’’; .98c per pound; 220 grams raw, 120 grams cooked.

@ Super-Valu, 17th and Fraser, Vancouver; “‘ground beef’: $1.09 per pound; 220 grams raw, 113 grams cooked.

@ Super-Valu, same location; “ground beef’; $1.29 per pound; 220 grams raw, 124 grams cooked.

® Super-Valu, same location; “juicy burger” (soybean meal added) ; 220 grams raw, 120 grams cooked. ~ j

® Shop-Easy, 43rd and Fraser, Vancouver; “ground beef”; .89¢ per pound; 220 grams raw, 120 grams cooked.

@ Shop-Easy, same lo¢ation; “ground beef”; $1.25 per pound: 220 grams raw, 110 grams cooked.

@ Shop-Easy, same location; “ground beef”; $1.53 per pound;

220 grams raw, 120 grams cooked. -

@1.G.A., 13th and Main, Van- couver; “ground beef’; .89c per pound; 220 grams raw, 119 grams cooked.

e1.G.A., same location; “ground round’’; $1.69 per pound; 220 grams raw, 112 grams cooked.

So you see, Mrs. Plumptre, it doesn’t matter what the label may Say or what the price may imply; the actual content of meat varies but very little. In fact, you may note that some of the higher priced ground beef may actually yield less meat than the cheaper varieties after cooking.

Don’t you think it’s about time that retail outlets should be required by law to designate their ground meat by a more descriptive — and accurate — term than merely ‘‘ground’’?

As you see by the figures, the experiment — carried out over a period of two weeks — was con- ducted to determine the actual meat content in cooked ground

meats. The result, of course, is

shown in shrinkage. I was not

immediately concerned with °

proving whether or not the ground meats available on retail shelves conform to regulations, although the results speak for themselves. I was concerned primarily with the actual amount of food received by the consumer for the money spent.

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