skyrocket
at lumber yards

By ART McKENZIE

Lumber price increases
over the past year have added

much as 50 pen cent. Western
red cedar is up 100 per cent
and the clear lumber is virtu-
ally unobtainable.

wholesale (contractor) price
and 20 per cent for retail. The
dealer expects to reduce these
markups to obtain orders for
larger quantities.

A lumber yard that paid $90

B.C. Forest Products Ltd.
reports its sales for 1972 were
23 per cent higher than for
1971 and its net earnings were
doubled,

Sales were $163.9 million

compared with $133.3 million

day krait pul

enzie started unbleach
production in mid-December
and will start bleaching oper-
ations this week, Barclay an-

nounced.

Three work stoppages in}

Cause and effect

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= oe aed material have risen
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challenges to meet:

“Tumber seems to goupevery
week,’ one retail lumber yard
proprietor stated, “There’s no
end to it.” .

There’s no end to the profits
either. B.C. Forest Products,
one of the first companies to
report, announced that their
profits were doubled for 1972.

Net earnings for 1972
amounted to $10.8 million up
from $5.5 million in 1971 and $1.3
million in 1970. And the prices of
lumber are still climbing.

Meanwhile, back at the bar-
gaining table. = «

decided to take the planters and
benches out of Pigeon Park, it
was reported that this action
was taken due to complaints
from adjacent merchants that
‘“«skidrow derelicts’’ used the
park and made the area un-
sightly.

Why they favored the place I
find it difficult to understand.
The whole area is as drab as a
dead man’s hand. But the ‘‘skid-
row derelicts’’ respected the
trees and planters and not one
was ever vandalized. And the
park was one place where they
could go and sit down for a good
conversation with their buddies
and get a respite from the drab-
ness of the one room they occu-
pied in the run-down walk-up in
which most of them live.

If the merchants were as con-
cerned as the reports indicated,
then when the city took out the
planters and benches, they
should have smartened up their
own premises and shown their
concern.

A. Cordoni, Maple Ridge,
writes (in excerpt — perhaps
expressing the thoughts of those
who have fought long and hard to
bring the tragedy in Vietnam to
an end and are now beginning to
see their efforts bear fruit)

The child of every land must
know, -

Now is the time for all to sow
Thoughts of love

So that all may grow and live to
love

And be loved;

A chance for happiness to seek

A chance for happiness to life's

YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH

The big chicken gouge

By H.K. WARREN -

So the House of Commons is
finally ‘‘coming to grips’’ with
the question of food prices —
under pressure from the opposi-
tion. But now we discover, after
the government quibbled about
the composition of the com-
mittee that is to probe. the
matter and bring in a report,
that it is going to take three
months before the report is
brought in.

Why any delay? Mr. and Mrs.
Average Consumer could bring
inareportinthree minutes! The
prices are completely out of
control and reflect only one
thing: the greed and inordinate
desire for profit of the big food
monopoly chains.

One of the best illustrations of
this isin the poultry industry. In
past articles I have tried to
expose the unprecedented gouge

that is being practised in the

beef industry. But the gouge and
the greed is not confined to beef.
It reaches into every area of the
meat industry: beef, poultry,
pork, lamb— you name it.

According to the Poultry
Market Report issued weekly by
the Department of Agriculture,
chickenis purchased live in Van-
couver at 3¢ a pound for fowl and
21¢ for broiler chicken:

There is a 70% recovery in
edible meat in the slaughter of

poultry. This means that a,

chicken, bought at 3¢ a pound is
worth 3.9¢ after it has been
slaughtered.

Yet this same fowl is priced at

31¢.a-pound wholesale in Lower
Mainland outlets! Similarly,
broiler chicken jumps from 21¢ a
pound at the producer level to
56¢ wholesale.
_ I checked prices at the I.G.A.
store at 13th and Main. These are
the prices on chicken segments
in the meat case:

OS eee ete $1.05 Ib

Thiehs<% 555 ose $1.05 Ib

Breasts. See aa $ .89 1b
CANADA ELECTIONS ACT

Electoral District of Vancouver-South

SUMMARY OF RETURN OF ELECTION
EXPENSES

There is below set out, as required by
Section 63 (6) of the Canada Elections Act,
a summary, signed by the official agent,
of the return of election expenses made to
me byhimonbehalfof Kevin SeanGriffin,
one of the candidates at the recent
election ofa member toserve in the House
of Commons of Canada held in the above-
mentioned electoral district, which said
return is on file at my office and may, on
payment of a fee of twenty cents, be there
inspected and extracts taken therefrom at
any reasonable time during the six
months next after the eighteenth day of
January, 1973, being the day upon which
the said return was furnished to me.

Dated at Vancouver this 18th day of
January, 1973.
W.H. Harriman, Returning Officer
Summary of Return of Election Expenses
of Kevin Sean Griffin

Receipts
contributions, etc. $921.92
Promised unpaid Nil
contributions, etc.
Total
Payments
Candidate's personal
expenses $200.00
Portage Nil
Telegrams Nil
Petty claims Nil
Hire of premises Nil
Services 81.47
Travelling expenses :
and hire of vehicles sis
Goods supplied :
Advertising 400.00
Total $921.94
~ Delayed Undisputed Claims: NIL
Disputed Claims: NIL

Dated at Kinistino, Sask., this 10th day
of January. 1973. i

WINGS? ee poe $ .63 1b.
Necks, BaCkS = 2c $ .49 lb.
GibletS®: 245.4. ies $ .49 Ib

I bought a 66¢ package of
chicken wings containing four
wings. Since the average
chicken weighs three pounds and
the wholesale price is 2l¢ a
pound, four wings cost me more
than the supermarket paid for
the whole chicken!

Trotskyites up
to old tricks

The Trotskyist-led Vancouver
Vietnam Action Committee is
up to its old disruptive tricks
aimed at splitting the peace

forces on the basis of false posi-

tions.

Last week the committee
issued a statement which, while
paying lip service to the
struggle of the people of Viet-
nam for national independence,
actually condemns the peace
agreement and indirectly opted
for continuation of the war.

Completely ignored in their
statement is the fact that the
peace agreement — with all its
shortcomings and __ political
issues left to be solved — was
signed by the representatives of
the people of North Vietnam and
the National Liberation Front.

‘ In the U.S. the Trotskyites

issued a statement which
echoed Nixon’s claim that the
pact was a defeat for the libera-
tion forces and claimed the

leaders of Vietnam are ‘‘selling -

out’? because they signed the
agreement.

Only the people of Vietnam,
who made the big sacrifice in
their struggle for freedom, have
the right to determine the
course of developments in their
country — and not the Trotsky-
ites who seemed prepared to
fight the war to the last Viet-
namese.

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Of Canada

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I spent about one hour in the
supermarket and about two
hours looking over the weekly
report from Statistics Canada. —
Should it take a committee of
MP’sand senators three months
to discover what is wrong and
what should be done about it?

To add to the gouge, poultry
suppliers announced that prices
were due to increase because of
an increase in grain prices.

But all grain prices according
to Statistics Canada are in the
decline.

Panco Poultry Ltd., the
processor that shapes most of
the prices in Vancouver, .is a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
Federal Grain Company.
Federal Grain is well aware of
the grain market and prices. Any
propaganda as to increased
costs of grain is an outright lie,
refuted by statistics.

Present price levels on poultry
are unjustified and exorbitant;
any price increases would border
on the criminal.

OBITUARY

George Carr

The PT was saddened to hear
of the passing of George Welling-
ton Carr who died December 17, ~
1972 at the age of 92. George,
who had travelled around the
world many times working as a
timber cruiser was active in the
Canadian Labor Defense
League in Edmonton in the
1930’s organizing meetings and
arranging legal defence. He
died before he could see the end
to the war in Vietnam which
would have been the culmina-
tion of his lifetime support for
the peace movement.

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