; ; ; £7 bt Salta oee G,: June i6, 1939 THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Page & Sheet Metal Works LAKES & NINNIS. Furnace Repairs and Sawdust Burners 952 Commercial Dr. High. 2250 ~ Dr. J. M. Campbell | Waturopathic Physician | Short wave diathermy and other electro-therapy measures for re- lief of illness. Thorough exam- ination before any treatment is begun. Se SEy. 5790 227-8 Vancouver Bik. 736 Granville St. Y— ff READ ‘THE FISHERMAN’ The Qnly Trade Union Paper in the Fishing Industry Published every other Tuesday by Salmon Purse Seiners Union and Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Union. Rates: $1.00 Year — 60c Six Mos. i164 East Hastings Street JOHN STANTON Barrister, Solicitor, Notary 503 Holden Building ig EK. Hastings St. Trin. 4464 HASTINGS BAKERY High. 3244 716 East Hastings Street 4068 E. Hastings Street 1708 Commercial Drive Quality Products at Mioderate Prices We Deliver to East End and Grandview Homes e “Thrifty Housewives Shop at Hastings Bakery!” e 100% Unionized On the air: _ LABOR NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Presented by AL PARKIN Sponsored by the People’s Advocate in cooperation with —- Dr. R. Liewellyn Douglas Dr. Deuglas TUESDAY and FRIDAY 5:45 P.M. over CKMO wit a —<————— Call it Home! 445 GORE AVE. SEymour 0308 Hotel East : Continued MONOPOLY quarts of milk are distributed in Vancouver per day. This distri- bution is Carried out by approxi- mately 550 wagons, practically all of which overlap each other’s territory. As many as 38 wazons have been counted distributins milk on the same street. This extremely wasteful and monsensical method of distribu— tion adds to the cost of distribu- tion. Another practice which adds to the cost of milk to the consumer and lowers prices to the producer is price-cuttine competition entered into by the independents in their efforts to capture the whole of that part of the market represented by such big consumers as hotels and restaurants. This market ab- Sorbs 30 percent of the total, and the struggle to capture it is con- ducted by means of rebates. While the recognized rebate is 25 percent, it is stated on good authority that many dealers go far above this figure in order to sell their product. This reduced price to the big consumer can result only in decreased returns to the producer and higher prices to the small consumers. Se NO let us examine the posi- tion the majority of the Fraser Valley farmers are placed in as a result of this so-called “free competition.” Out of every 10 cents paid for a quart of milk in Vancouver, 6 cents goes to the distributor and only 4 cents to the farmer who produces the milk Of all the milk produced in the Fra- ser Valley, only 40 percent can be sold on the fluid market; the rest must be sold at a much lower price for manufacturing pur- poses. Gf this fluid market, which absorbs only 40 percent ef the total milk produced, 70 percent is now controlled by a few hundred independent pro- ducers and producer-vendors while the remaining 30 percent must be shared between the 2300 farmers who belong to the Fra- Ser Valley Cooperative, the great Imajority of whom also ship to the fluid market ‘This result is that a2 constantly decreasines amount of the milk produced by the cooperative farmers is sold on the fiuid market. e He” has this affected the aver- age farmer? It is estimated that more than 90 percent of the dairy farmers in the Fraser Val- ley have their farms mortgaged. The prices the farmer pays for his feed and farm implements is constantly increasing because of monopoly control and tariff Ppro- tection for the manufacturers, while the price the farmer re Ceives for his milk steadily de- creases. Several of the pioneer dairy farmers of the Fraser Val- ley have already fone into bank= ruptcy. Yet in face of these facts the independent dairies howl for the Tight of what they mis-call free competition, and brand market— ing control as “fascism.” And not only the independents, but the financial interests as well, rave against government inter- vention. What they really fear is the curbing through govern- ment intervention of their unlim- ited and wasteful profit-making. The “Financial News,” comment- ing om the issue, states: “It is mainly interested in the Milk Board as indicative of a trend— a dangerous trend—toward rigid- ity, decadence, the preservation of the unfit in business, and the practice in one line of business of what is strikingly parallel to the fascism of Germany and italy.” There you haye the voice of BC Big Business. It too calls interference with profits “fas- cism.” Se eee nee. do not be misled by the propaganda of the inde— pendents and Big Business. The wasteful competition and at- tempts to monopolize the fluid market on the part of the inde pendent dairies which will ruin many dairy farmers and probably raise prices to the consumers as well, should be corrected by some form of marketing control. If the Single Agency cannot do this, other means will have to be found. But first it should be given the opportunity to at least attempt to remedy the present eriminally stupid system of milk distribution. East the Constituency Communist Vancouver Committee of |Party is publishing a small month- Ss ly bulletin on questions of inter- eB ge tion’s position and to allow the a public an opportunity of discussing est affecting the voting public. To further explain the organiza- it, two open air meetings have been arranged for Friday evening (tonight), one at Windermere Park, Fourth Avenue and Win- _dermere and the other at Norquay Park, Kingsway and Wales Road. Both meetings are scheduled for 7 pm. SPECIAL! While You Wait... Men’s Half Soles and Rubber Heels Empire Shoe Repairs 66 East Hastings Street SE GYM SOLONS TO CONFER SOON Physical educationalists from all parts of Canada will gather in Van- couver for the four-day national convention to be held at the Provin- cial Wormal School, Twelfth at Cambie, on June 19 to 22 inclusive. The week from June 19 to 24 has been proclaimed Wamncouver's first “Fitmess Week” by Mayor Iyle Telford. An attractive folder sets out a full program of activities for the delegates, and judging from it there will not be a dull moment, The theme of the Ganadian Phys- ical Education Association conven- tion, which is sponsored by the British Columbia branch, is “Na- tional Bitness.” Purpose of the meet is to bring Physical educationalists together to discuss the promotion of physical education and recreation and the recommendations will be forwarded to the respective sovernments for the desired changes. Continued ‘LITTLE SHIPS’ over five tones; as well as some 300 fish packers, a total investment of approximately $7,000,000. : Figuring in canneries and other investments, British Columbia fish- ing is a multi-million dollar indus- try, one that should be protected from every angle, which is just what the organized intend to do, despite the canners. So the little boats and their owners who will be leaving for the Srounds in a few days will be head- ing north with a new hope this year, which even bad weather and backbreakins, dangerous work will not diminish. They ll fish for some six weeks at “Rivers and Smiths.” They] take chances with the weather, follow the run out- Side when they should be able to. Stay tied up at the cannery, “make their set” when the big seas from the Queen Charlotte Sound almost throw them out of the small cock-— Pits of their 30-foot Sasboats. some will be lost overboard, some will “disappear at sea” (there were around eight gillnetters lost up there last Season), but theyll keep fishing, and if they're lucky they'll finish that six weeks with a few hundred dollars, ready to follow the run south into the Gulf of Georgia and the Fraser River until well into the fall. Upon their efforts depends a biz Part of the prosperity of the proy-— ince. And in view of recent de— velopments in union organization, upon their’ success in extending unionism on the fishing gsrounds and in the canneries lie much of the hopes of the BC labor move- ment Vancouver Mothers’ Council meets every Tuesday at 2 pm in O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer Street. Mac-Pap Bulletins By JEAN CAMERON Friends of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion Piens for the picnic on July 9 are proceeding. A further meet- ing of delegates is to be held next Wednesday evening at the Mac-— Pap office, Room 43, 615 West Hastings, and we want as many organizations as we can get to be represented. The picnic is only a few weeks off and much is to be done yea. Let’s have a big turnout. A few of the posters advertis- ing the event are distributed and we sure they will meet with 2p- proval in the design.