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Each bite you take

Soviet artist Hnatiuk

offers lasting memory

BY JERRY SHACK

Dmitro Hnatiuk, People’s Art-
ist of Soviet Ukraine and the
USSR, demonstrated a wealth of
talent to a rather sparse audience
at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre
on Saturday, October 13. Hnatiuk
was accompanied in a most sensi-
tive manner by his vocal teacher
of many years, Rosalia Elvova,
who is a vocal pedagogue at the

_ Kiev Conservatory of Music.

Hnatiuk’s lyric baritone dis-
played an almost unbelievable
range of expression and shading
as he treated his listeners to
everything from Ukrainian and
Russian folk songs to operatic
arias by Dankevich, Lysenko,
Verdi and Meyerbeer.

His amazing display of the
vocal art was all the more com-
mendable because of the sharp
difference in climate with which

-he was confronted. His native

land has a dry, piercing cold
climate; here he ran into the
humidity which Vancouverites
have iearned to live with. Yet,
the only indication of this diffi-
culty came when he leit the stage
several times to rinse» with hot
tea. :

But it was not his voice alone
which impressed the people of

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this city. His training, stage
presence, stature and his very
history (he was discovered on a
collective farm in Western
Ukraine) demonstrated the virile
socialist system at its best.

At a reception following the
concert, held at the Ukrainian
Hall, this point was brought out
by the national treasurer of the
AUUC, John Boychuk, who said:
“As I listened to our dear guest
sing the song ‘My Sheep,’ it was
obvious to me that, had it not
been for the Soviet system, he
mignt still be singing his songs

to a flock of sheep instead of.

people.”’

The only criticism that can be
offered of this remarkable event
is the fact that the theatre was
not filled to overflowing.

LOIS MARSHAL, leading Cana.
dian operatic singer is presently
touring the Soviet Union and is
being widely acclaimed for hei
excellent performances.

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SAT., OCT. 27, 8 p.m.
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Roll back prices!
Stop profiteering!

By ALF DEWHURST
“No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the

manufacturer,
wages in cash, than he is set
of the bourgeoisie,
pawnbroker, etc.”

so far at an end, that he receives his

upon by the other portions

the landlord, the shopkeeper, the

—Communist’ Manifesto [1848]

Never were the above words
as true as they are today when
the manufacturer, the landlord
the shopkeeper and the loan
shark are all tied together in
that vast financial and industrial
complex called monopoly capital.

‘The motto of the profiteering
monopolists who control produc-
tion and the market is to charge
the public all the traffic will

- bear!

We call to witness none other
than the Royal Commission on
Price Spreads of Food Products
set up by Prime Minister Diefen-
baker in 1959. On page 26 of
Volume 1 of its report the com-
mission gives as its opinion ‘‘that
the tendency for retail food pric-
es to move upward can be at-
tributed primarily to increasing
population and incomes, i.e., to
expanding consumer demand and
there is nothing in law to re-
quire sellers to take less than
the maximum price (my’ em-
phasis—A:D.) they can get.”
THE GUILTY ONES!

The “‘sellers’’ investigated by
the royal commission are the
big food processing companies
and chain stores. They, the big

food monopolists, are respon-

sible for steadily increasing
prices as they ruthlessly pursue
their search for maximum pro-
fits. They are the guilty ones!

If there is “nothing in law to
require sellers to take less than
the maximum price they can
get,’’ neither is there anything in
law to require buyers to pay that
maximum price.

If the federal government will
not act on its own accord to halt
this legalized robbery then the
people should act to do so.

It is high time that monopoly
profiteering on the necessities of
life was stopped and_ prices
rolled back!

TAX EXCESS PROFITS

The people have the strength
to do this. Organized action on
the part of housewives, trade
unionists, pensioners and all
working ’ people can mount a
great people’s struggle against
monopoly profiteering and force
prices down.

Through leaflets and petitions
at shopping centres and in the
neighborhoods, by letters to the
press, resolutions at union meet-
ings, delegations to MP’s, city
councils, provincial parliaments
and the federal parliament the

For

“THE COURIERS” RETURN

EVENING OF FOLKSONGS
at the

Queen Elizabeth Playhouse
Sunday, October 28, 8:30 p.m.

Tickets available at: Co-op Bookstore, Inquisition Cafe,
Duthie’s Bookstore, O’Day Bookstore, Van. Ticket Centre
~ Ltd, (Queen Elizabeth Theatre).

Sponsored by: BC Festival Committee

An

people can demand action ™
stop monopoly profiteering %
the necessities of life.

The people should insist thal
the federal govenment fix ™
law the maximum rate of Pf
allowable by food process!
companies, textile and cloth!
manufacturers, wholesale,
bing and retail firms.

They should demand that
federal government impos¢
excess profit tax on all firms © ot
nected with the production y
conusumer goods. a

The people should insist 0?
immediate withdrawal of the ¥
port surcharges which are P?

als

of price increases. Instead 5
port surcharges the federal 8°
ernment should establish impor
quotas as the best method of
couraging home manufacture
‘The people must demand i
end to all sales taxes (fede
and provincial) which resul
higher prices. Instead the oN
enments can
gains taxes as.a means of § of
ing revenues now raised by *
taxes.

PEOPLE’S ACTION th
But, above everything els®
people must organize themser
to fight back against the ee
fiteering monopolists. ‘ big
Demonstrations around the
chain stores and at shopPins
plazas right across Canada is: :
language best understood by “@ :
monopolists and governm! a

alike. e
Mass picket lines and DU”
strikes can also be highly ©
tive. So can thousands ©"
thousands of letters directe®
federal MP’s, the government :
to the heads of chain she
meat-packing and food-proce?”
companies. ;
There is room for every
the fight against monopoly of
fiteering! Organized custo”

Ve
action can bring prices dows

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