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The Victoria Peace Council sent
the following poem written by Mrs.
E. Stimson to the PT at the end of
May, but unfortunately, due to the
federal elections, we were unable
to publish it until now. The poem
deals with the protest at Comox
against nuclear warheads at which
time a local group including
children were organized against
the protest. The poem is entitled,
“Comox’’.

Desolate Comox —
Wooden Barracks
covering up stockpiled warheads!

Desperate people —

their eyes bulging

with fear,

lined up

in solid lines — ghosts of

Hitler’s elite troops!

We are the peace-makers,

they scream,

We are the guardians of
democracy and freedom

But most frightening of all

innocent children, totally
brainwashed,

exploited by their elders

to further their own cause’

death and destruction,

a thermonuclear holocaust!

Desolate Comox!
Could be a little heaven
with all the surrounding beauty.

But no, the depraved imperialists
decreed

that it must follow

the fate of

Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Sun's solution to food
price increases phony

By FRED WILSON

We canall be thankful for the job
done by Edith Adams and the
Vancouver Sun for their par-
ticpation in the 3rd annual ‘“‘food
editors’ food price comparison
survey”. Due to the survey of food
prices we now know that it costs
more to eat in Vancouver than in
Montreal, costing an extra $2.60 to
buy $28.44 worth of food by Mon-
treal prices.

The difference between Van-
couver’s high prices and Mon-
treal’s low price was discovered to
be “mainly in the meat’. Its a
“puzzling fact” for Mrs. Adams,
“when you consider that most of
the beef consumed in eastern
Canada is raised in the west.”

Perplexing indeed, but Mrs.
Adams continued her research and
found that ‘‘one of the reasons for
our high food prices definitely has
to be labor costs’’. This startling
conclusion is derived from
Statistics Canada’s July release

which showed that B.C. had the -

highest average weekly earnings
in the country, at $194.31 as
compared to $164.96 in Quebec.
And so we are left with the un-
written conclusion that if B.C.
workers earned less money
somehow prices would come down.
Mrs. Adams would have done

unionists in B.C.

Three Soviet trade unionists are
on their way back home with the
best wishes of the Canadian Area
of the Longshoremen’s Union and
of the hundreds of trade unionists
they met in their whirlwind tour of
B.C. last week.

Delegation leader George
Oleskevicth from Moscow, in-
terpreter Gennedy Korznikov, also
from Moscow, and Vasley Fomin
from the port of Odessa are
representatives of the 800,000
strong Sea and River Workers
Union. It is the Soviet counterpart
to the ILWU, who hosted the
Soviets in a reciprocal
arrangement following a
delegation of Canadian dock-

During their stay in B.C. the
Soviets toured the Vancouver
harbor and port facilities, met with
the National Harbors Board, and
were honored by a buffet dinner at
the Fishermen’s Hall, put on by the
ILWU. After leaving Vancouver
the group toured the harbors of
Victoria, Nanaimo and Port
Alberni. They brought greetings to
the Victoria and District Labor
Council, to the Duncan and District
Labor Council, met with Nanaimo
Harbor Commission and were
guests at a trade union banquet at
the ILWU hall in Port Alberni.

They were met by the Mayors of
Nanaimo and Port Alberni and
presented with city honors. While

"in Victoria the Soviet delegation

had an informal discussion with
minister of mines, Leo Nimsick,
during their visit to the parliament

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her Statistics Canada figures. If
she had she would have found that
wages in B.C. rose on the average
by 9.8% in the last year while food
prices rose 16.7% in the same
period. The fact is that B.¢€.
workers do earn less money than
they did a year ago by.the fact that
the cost of living has increased
11.4% in the last year. While the
buying power of the average
worker has been reduced by 1.6%
food prices have rose by nearly
double the average wage increase.
Its no wonder the whole affair
leaves Mrs. Adams puzzled.

The Sun could eliminate a large
part of its own confusion simply by
having the food editor get together
with. the business editor so that
they could work out a common
tale. For just a month ago the Sun’s
business section published a full
page report on corporate profits.
That report, while bemoaning a
“Jevelling off’? of profits at a
“respectable 152%’’, pointed out

that in 1973 corporate its i
it profits in
British Columbia were nearly
double the national average.

Equally endearing though is
Mrs. Adams suggestion to beat the
high cost of food. After a slick
attack on the incomes of those very
people who suffer the highest food
bill on the continent she advises
them to stop buying fresh fruit and
vegetables and choose frozen or
canned equivalents.

Little remains to be said of this
kind of “‘public service’ rendered
on behalf of the big business public.
The “food editors’ food price
comparison survey”’ turns out to be
a farce, telling people what they
already know, and providing a
device for a poorly orchestrated
attempt to stampede working
people against themselves.

Among the entourage of editors
employed at the Sun, an “honesty
editor’’ would bea welcome ad-
dition.

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