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Board hearings hint _ new 2-cent milk jump

ver and District Trades and Labor Council a resolution submitted by Division 101 of the Street Rail- waymen’s Union urging adoption of a producer subsidy for dairy herds was endorsed as well.)

A feature of this week’s hearing was the sharp conflict between counsel for Safeway Stores, seek- ing to establish a store differential, and the distributors. Safeway in its fight to get into a position to capture the city. milk market pre- sented a large amount of factual evidence to show distribution costs are exceedingly high and consumers in an extremely difficult position.

. Professor Ronald W. Bartlett, ag-

ricultural economist from Illinois, completely demolished arguments presented by the distributors’ wit- ness, Dr. Robert Clark, that in- creased prices do not necessarily reduce consumption of milk. Re- ferring to an American market he said that when you have 75° dis- tributors as against 22,000 farmers you have to take measures “to pre- vent the distributors from gypping the farmers.” . Skip-a-day delivery will not produce any great saving unless other economies in process- ing and distribution are carried cut, he stated.

Following are some of the points emphasized in the LPP. brief pre- sented by Nigel Morgan:

“The problem of rising milk prices, with the resultant dwind- ling of per capita milk consump- tion, is one which vitally affects the well-being of thousands of fam- ilies in the community. _On Sep- tember 13 the Metropolitan Health

Committee. stated that ‘almost half the children in the Greater

Vancouver area aren’t as healthy |

as they could be because they don’t drink enough milk’—a truly alarm ing situation. :

“The LPP is strenuously oppos- ed to any further increase in the price of milk to the consumer. Not only must prices not be allowed to increase, but ways and means must be found immediately to cut the prohibitive costs of this impor- tant food. If milk is to remain one of our basic foods, ways must be found to bring milk from the farmer to the consumer at the lowest possible cost.

“We are opposed to any increase in the distributors’ spread, because in the absence of proof to the con- trary, we believe the middleman’s rake-off is already too high. If the distributors are really in such @ serious financial position, then what have they got to hide? With a spread of approximately 9.023 cents per quart for standard milk ‘(3.5 percent) and homogenized milk (3.5 percent); 9.12 cents for special milk; 16.873 cents for cereal cream; 31.746 cents for table cream and 80.821 cents for whipping cream, it will take a very thorough sub- mission of financial statements of the distributors and their various costs of distribution to convince the public that they are losing money.

“To increase the spread means a further increase to the consumer,

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Higher prices mean still further reductions in consumption. And reduced consumption means fur- ther discouragement to the farmer, increasing the already hazardous rate of elimination of dairy stock, and hastening the drying-up of the source of milk supply.

“It is a well recognized fact that |*

volume of sale is closely related to a fair return. Less than a month ago the Milk Board granted an interim increase to the primary producer. Evidence given. here establishes the fact that there was an approximate 12 percent drop in milk consumption following that order. Now a further increase of two cents is under consideration. Yet such an increase, and the re- sultant reduction in consumption, can well cancel out the increase previously granted to the primary producer.

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“We say it is the fundamental duty of a milk control agency to guarantee to the farmer a fair return and at the same time pro- tect the consumer against prohibi- tive prices.

“The LPP is convinced that only through the reintroduction of a government subsidy to help the farmer meet the rising cost of feed, machinery and labor can the source of milk supply be preserv- ed. And only through provision of such a subsidy can sufficient milk be brought within reach of a large section of the community and con- sumption ‘raised to the level neces-

sary for the maintenance of good health.

“The LPP is strenuously opposed to the proposal of skip-a-day de- liveries. Alternate day deliveries would work a great hardship on many households.

“Distributors claim they cannot Operate at a’ loss. Neither can thousands of families in this city afford to pay more for milk.

“The LPP proposes that the Milk Board should recommend to Van- couver city council that it exercise the right provided in the city charter to ‘buy and sell to the pub- Hoo. amiuk <= ann. os acquire and develop the necessary real property for the purpose.’ In the interest of the health and welfare of its citizens, the City of Van- couver should take over and pro- vide the public with a unified, effi- cient system of milk processing and distribution at cost.”

The Labor -\Progressive party summed up its proposals as fol- lows:

ds To reject the application for a further increase in the price of milk requested by the distributors.

2. To recommend to the appro- priate government authority or authorities the reintroduction of a producer subsidy on milk to make it possible to bring down the price of milk to the consumer and yet ensure that the farmer shall re- ceive a fair and reasonable return for this vital food.

3. To recommend to the ‘City

| of Vancouver the establishment of

an appropriate agency in accord- ance with provision embodied in the city charter to provide a single, unified and efficient system of dis- tribution.

: 4. To reject the application for introduction of every-other-day de- livery. :

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Some 2,200,000 Chinese peasants are working on a mighty project to chain the Huai river in Honan, Anwhal and Kiansu

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Canadians send

greetings to SU

A direct message to the people of the Soviet Union on the occasion of their 34th anniversary celebrations was sent last week by Dyson Carter, president of the Canadian-Soviet Frienship Society to Prof. I. Denisov, president of WOKS, cultural interchange society. Text of

the message follows:

Peace calendar features photos of world leaders

The 1952 Peace Calendar to be distributed by the Canadian Peace Congress within the next few weeks, features new photos of six of the world’s outstanding peace leaders.

Among them, of course, is Can- ada’s own “Jim” ‘'@ndicott—Dr. James G. Endicott, leader of the growing peace movement in this country. 7

Biographical material on Dr. Endicott prepared by the Peace Congress office, explains:

“In 1918, in muddy, battered France, signalman James Endi- cott, tired of war and destruction, decided to devote his life to the expression of international brother- hood through the Christian minis- try. He would follow in the foot- steps of his missionary father.”

Dr. Endicott was born at Kiating, China and returned there later in life as a United Church mission- ary. :

The Peace Calendar includes also, portraits of Mme. Sun Yat- sen, Paul Robeson, Mme. Kosmo- demyanskaya, Soviet teacher and mother of the heroine Zoya of the Soviet partisans, Prof. Frederick Joliot-Currie, and Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury. The calendar wil] retail at 50 cents.

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“The issue of German rearma- ment casts a shadow over every home in Canada,” J. B. Salsberg told a radio audience last week, in urging a round table conference of the Big “Five powers to head off the drift to German rearma- ment and world atomic war.

He said rearmament of Germany was a vital part of the arms race that is robbing Ontario citizens through . higher taxation, high prices, low pensions and_ layoffs.

“To° us who live together in peace and harmony in the riding of St. Andrew and Bellwoods this is not an acadamic question. Whether we shall have peace or war is a matter of life or death to us here and to the people from whom we sprang and who have suffered so much at the murder- ous hands*of the Nazi armies only a few years ago,” said Salsberg.

“Let us “prevent disaster before it overtakes us. Let us have mem- bers like A. A. Macleod and my- self in the legislature who will

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On 34th anniversary of the So- viet state the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society extends. to VOKS and to the whole Soviet neople congratulations and hearty good wishes.

We congratulate your nation for its. unswerving devotion to the cause of world peace, for the ma- jestic peaceful construction . pro- jects which the Soviet people are carrying out, and for the-continu- ed rapid rise in Soviet standards of living. The calm and determin- ed way in which the Soviet Union plans-and builds for lasting peace is an inspiration to the people of every land. :

On’ this occasion our society sends warm thanks to VOKS, ‘to the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, and to countless Soviet people, for the hospitality shown to our visiting delegations. Many thousands in Canada have for the first time. heard from our delegates truthful reports about the Soviet Union, and this is hav- ing a profound effect in strength- ening the fight for peace in our country.

May the day soon come when Wwe can welcome Soviet delega- tions to our land. May the 35th year of your nation’s life bring success to your great constructive endeavors, and thus mightily strengthen peace throughout the world. . : :

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WHAT’S DOING

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