By W. C. BEECHING

REGINA — Western Can- ada’s major farm organizations have now agreed on a great petition campaign and a mass delegation to Ottawa to fight for deficiency payments.

Recently in Alberta, Agri- cultural Minister Harkness said that there would be no point to a mass delegation because his government has already decided against deficiency pay- ments, and _ besides, “it will give people in the East the idea that if these men can af- ford to spend money on a trip to Ottawa they aren’t as hard up as they think they are.”

And so, as the crisis de- velops, tough talk replaces the, honeyed promises of a Golden Era.

But the farmers are deter- mined. A conference in the board room of the Saskatche- wan Wheat Pool in Regina, convened by the Inter-provin- cial Farm Union Council, at- tended by representatives of the prairie Wheat Pools, farm unions, and Federations of Agriculture, reached agreement ment on the petition which is now being circulated. Within the next few weeks an esti- mated 15,000 farmers and bus- inessmen will be out securing signatures. ‘

‘The petition, pointing out

PATRONIZE CEDAR FUEL & TRANSFER ' Pltone: 566-R-3 Cedar, B.C. }

-ROOFING

& SHEET METAL

REPAIRS Duroid, Tar and Gravel Reasonable Gutters and Downpipes NICK BITZ BR. 7-6722

$s NEW LOCATION ; . DOWNTOWN 599 WEST GEORGIA Vancouver, B.C.

Castle Jewelers Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Dis- =~ count to all (73%; Tribune Read- *; wns ers, Bring this a ad with you. *3

Farmers unite on big petition drive

that farm costs have risen 51 percent in the past 10 years, calls on the federal govern- ment to provide deficiency payments on wheat, oats and barley grown in the years 1957 and 1958.

This is the answer the farm- ers have conceived to meet the heavy exploitation of wmon- opoly capital. It is an incom- plete answer, but it means that the farmers of the West are at last uniting in rejecting the official line of ‘big busi- ness that the family farm must g0, to be replaced by big pri- vately and factory owned farms, integrated more closely with the factories.

In Saskatchewan 56 TV broadcasts will be held, eight mass meetings, and 50 smaller ones,

This. is the biggest effort among the farmers of the prairies since the farm strike movement of 1946. It is an out- right demand for the federal government to assume res- ponsibility for Canadian agri- culture.

Although the farm move- ments do not see it, essentially it is a demand for a different kind of spending by the fed- eral treasury, a demand for spending on the welfare of the people rather than on warfare.

It would be better if the

farmers saw this more clearly,

and directly opposed the ex- cessive war expenditures and the inflation it has helped to cause. It is certain that the federal government will use “the need for defense” theory

as an argument against assist- .

ing the farmers.

A mass delegation, backed by hundreds of thousands of signatures, will be a powerful factor in winning changes in government policies. If that mass delegation has the. sup- port of Canada’s trade union movement and is accompanied by,;the unemployed, it would hold the promise of being that much more, successful.

Gas Installations

FURNACES — STOVES WATER HEATERS

Harry C. Weinstein

GAS CONTRACTOR

692 East Hastings MYJtnal 3-5044 Res.: AL. 2991L,

FREE ESTIMATES

Los Angeles to tackle refineries ; in long battle over smog causes

LOS ANGELES—Record smog: here this win

on proposals they have hitherto been reluctant to adopt.

The County Air

Pollution Control District is now working on a plan to force refineri

to manufacture a “cleaner” kind of gasoline.

By April 1 new regulations to reduce unhealthful residués from gasoline by lowering the olefin emissions will be pro- mulgated. ‘

Then the bfg fight will start.

Smith Griswold, pollution control director, has told county supervisors that instal- lation of equipment and over- haul required to produce the “cleaner” gasoline will cost each ea, about $2 million.

There are 13 major refin- eries affected, making a total cost to the industry of an esti- ‘mated $26 million.

Nobody expects the big oil companies to accept that kind

of expenditure without a strug. gle. =

A year ago the gime of- ficials were insisting that backyard incinerators were the main smog contributors. Six months ago, the incinera-

Se is forcing do- nopling officials to

_ would rid the air of pollution.

tors having been junked, thi were equally sure that on Yee expensive gadgets attached to each automobile exhaust

Last week Griswold sai he’d come to the conclusion “the oil industry must be com pelled to clean up its fuel” ber | fore the three million automo- bile owners here are asked to install expensive exhaust a

vices. 4 ® aS

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

A charge of 50 cents for eauh insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each addi- tional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notice will be accepted later than Tuesday nook of the week of publication.

NOTICES

DEADLINE FOR COMIN G EVENTS COLUMN — All copy must be in the Pacific Tribune office not later than 12 noon Tuesday.

YOUNG SOVIET STUDENTS wish to correspond with pen pals in British Columbia. Write to: USSR Novosibirsak Region, Bagan High School. International Chib. ~

PRIZES WON AT THE LOG- GERS’ BALL, held at Hast- ings Auditorium, December 22, were: First prize, suit of clothes, ticket no. 6269; 2nd prize, port- able radio, no. 6417, A Birnie, 48% E. Cordova S.; 3rd prize, Indian sweater, no. 6765, R. Sinclair, R.R. 1, Qualicum; 4th prize, wrist watch, no. 6762, A, Lystad, Chamis Bays 5th. prize, no. 7034, logger’s boots, Wm. Klemola, Camp N, Beaver Cove; 6th prize electric razor, no. 4964, Henry Phikkanen, 1000 Cotton Drive; 7th prize, “Something Scotch,” no. 6081, N. Sherlock, Balnioral Hotel.

ISLAND Loggers’ Dance prize

awards: First prize, ticket no.

79, Delf Brown,. Nanaimo; 2nd prize, no. 900, Victoria; 3rd no. 2332, Harry McNairn, Well- ington;; 4th, no. 535, Morton Faincgbury, Cassidy; 5th, no. 567, R. Lachie, Cedar; 6th, no. 1692, Mito Lzazt, Nanaimo; 7th, no 693, George Altice, Duncan; 8th, no. 2292, D. MacAiley, Nanaimo; 9th, no. 962, F, Sed-

gavick, Victoria; 10th, no. 802, Red McKay, Nanaimie 11th, no. 1265, Joe Wilson, Nanaimo; 12th, no 925, Rictonis: 13th, no. 866, Victoria; 14th, no, 858, Victoria; 15th, no. 812, -Gay Thibedeau, Duncan; 16th, no. 1250, Tom Peat, Coombs; 17th, no. 1934, Eddy Creelman, Al- berni; 18th, no 2290, Bill Raf- fle, Sedar: ‘19th, No. 140, D. Paterson, Nanaimo; 20th, no 2384, Ray Ganerton, Na- naimo; 21st, no. 462, Jeanne Gerard, Nanaimo: 22nd, no. 1832,Mary Guati, Alberni; 23rd, no. 1836, Brian Gusg: Alberni; ge no. 541, ‘Honey’, 155 Vic. SNe asics 25, no 1025, Vic- oe 26th, no. 220, E. W. Bairnd, Nanainios 27th, no. 1288, Victoria; 28th, no. 80, J. Munehulit, Booa be ‘The Committee wish to thank all the merchants who donated prizes and all those who help- ed to make the Island Loggers Centennial Danee a _very suc- cessful one.

COMING EVENTS—City Soviet Film

JAN. 18 cam HEARTS”

will be shown at the Russian People’s Home — 600 Camp- bell Ave. on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. English ‘sub- titles. Everybody welcome.

JAN. 18 — Soviet film

DRUMMERBOY with English sub-titles will be shown Sunday afternoon, Jan. 18 at 3 pm. at the Clinton Hall — 2605 East Pender St. Refreshments will be served.

Everyone welcome. Auspices Niilo Makela Club.

BUSINESS PERSONALS

34 TRANSFER - 1420 Commer- cial Drive. Call Nick, HA. 4058,

OLYMPIC STEAM BATHS | a 1956 LTD. ie 404 E. Hastings St., Vancouver ‘ MU 4- 0720 PP A good clean place to relax

0.K. RADIO SERVICE — — Specializing in TV repairs. Latest precision equipment used. 1420 West Pender St. MU. 4-1012.

HASTINGS BAKERIES LTD. _ —Scandinavian products a specialty. 716 East Hastings — Street. Phone MU. 4-9719. —

THE STEAM ROOM — Drake’ St. at Granville. (Yale Hotel), BATHS — MASS- AGE THERAPY. The working man’s Remedial Centre. MU. 3-0719.

REGENT TAILORS LTD. — ia

Custom Tailors and Ready to wear. For personal ser-

vice see Henry Rankin at

324 W. Hastings St, Van- —

couver 3. MU. 1-8456.

HALLS FOR RENT

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME -

_Available for meetings, wed- dings, and banquets at rea- sonable rates. 600 Campbel, Ave. MU. 4-9939.

CLINTON

HALL, 2605 East Pender. Available for ban- quets, Weddings, “Meetings, etc. Phone HA. 3277.

PENDER AUDITORIUM

. (Marine Workers)

339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone MU. 1-9481

January 16, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 6 __