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Farmer’s viewpoint
Editor, Pacific Tribune—
‘When the majority of bank-
rupt dairy farmers refuse to
ask for a price increase of milk
—that ought to be news,

Well, how’ come; , one may
ask, you always complained.
After all you are doing all

right. What is the news behind
the news?

The answer evidently is that
the Fraser Valley Milk Produ-
cers’ Association at last refuses
to be pushed. around by a
small minority, of producers, a
partial one-man Milk Board and
Some 20: so-called dairies, which
buy milk from the FVMPA and
throw lies and dirt back at it.

This illustration shows where
the dairy farmer now stands.
During the war, when the gov-
ernment paid a subsidy on live-
stock grain, the price varied
little. Here is the price on three
items: dairy feed $88; ground
barley, $34; bran, $29 a ton. But
as soon as the subsidy was re-
moved the price started to
climb week by week, month by
month, until the present price
is: dairy feed, $60; ground bar-
ley, $60, and. bran,. $50 a ton.
The price .on other farm-con-
sumed grain is in proportion
just. as high, I. am inclosing
feedhouse bills so you. can veri-
fy my statement... (Receipts
from Buckerfield’s Ltd., verify
the writer's figures.—Kd.).

The livestock feed companies
are run by hard-boiled business
men, who will buy as cheap as
they can and sell for as high a
price as they can get and now
they are cashing in, for their
elevators, doubtless, were filled
at the right time. There is no
price difference in their grain
either. The present price inves-
tigators should .look into this
by all means!

Please observe that the pres-
ent price increase of two cents
a quart of milk is sought by

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independent dairy farmers, city
dairies and middlemen grocers.
What share of that big money
do you think the farmer will
get? Even, suppose, that the far-
increase, his

mer gets a cent

post-war increase will be about
28 cents whereas the feed price
increase amounts to 70 percent.
The independent farmers. and
the city dairies have always been
travellers when the
FVMPA sought price equaliza-
tion by court action. They had
their laugh when the FVMPA
lost its case. Now, when every-
body is stuck in the fence, with
price ceilings in front and floor
ceiling on milk back of them,
the FVMPA has its little laugh

for it can use its surplus milk

in various by-products, perhaps
profitably, for exeperience has
shown that every price increase
is followed by decreased milk
consumption. :

The proposal to make milk
sold in the city a public utility
will be received cautiously by
farmers, because they have
learned to distrust price fix-
ers, who do not care for the
Past or the future of the in-
dustry but whose sole object is
to fix something for today. As
long as the price of feed grain

is not fixed, that long the
scheme makes no sense. Sub-
sidy .on feed grain, plus fair

farmers’ price, plus distributor
control is the logical plan for
continued milk and butter sup-
ply. To insure it the dairy farm-
ers do not care what the price
is this week, ,or what it will
be. two weeks hence, but what
it will be at least two years
from now as will. It takes two
years for a heifer to become a
milking .cow. So if all the cows
in the Fraser Valley were sold
at once you couldn't get a
quart of milk from the Valley
for two years. The short range
price fixers may succeed in do-
ing that very thing.
F. K. MERGOP.

MacMillan ‘pups’
Dear “Mr. Editor—

Sitting in the bunk-house to-
night I read MacLean’s Maga-
zine about H. R. MacMillan, the
“Tycoon of the Tall Timbers.”

By yimminy! I believe that
$25 dog he stole down in the
States must have been a bitch,
because he has been selling B.C.
a lot of pups for a long time
now. :

Yours for a closer “look-see,”
’ SVEN OLSEN.

An open letter

Dear Brothers—

The exclusion of American or-

ganizers assisting in our organ-

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Canadian workers to the peri-’

lous position of their unions, In-
ternational or Canadian. It
should teach us that the King
government like all of its pre-

decessors is a direct agent of
capital, and has no_ interest
apart from capital, and the

only interest it has in the work-

ers is, as a class to be exploit--

ed for the benefit of monopoly
capital.

It should also teach us the
futility of protesting this crim-
inal act aimed at the trade
union movement, to such a gov-
ernment whose only recognized
majority is capital.

It should teach us that this
is only a starter in a campaign
to drive the workers’ living stan-
dards to new lows, to smash
the entire labor movement and
again have a free hand to ex-
ploit to -the last ounce of
blood. We should redlize that
the present drive against LPP
and the Communists, is only the
beginning, that soon all fellow
travellers and left wing social-
ists will become communists in
the eyes of the King govern-
ment, and so on to every branch

of the labor movement until
anyone who does not support
the boss class in a loud voice
will be disposed of.

We ,the officers of the Tex-

ada Island Quarry and Mine

Workers’ Union, Local 816,
IUMMSW (CIO), believe that
the formation of a labor party
based on and responsible to
the trade union movement, is
long overdue. We believe this is
the only way we can halt the
march of reaction and preserve
our rights as free workers.
Therefore, we call on all work-
ers in Canada to take whatever

action they can in this regard. '

We call on all trade unionists
to demand their leaders get to-
gether and draft a unifying pro-
gram to be presented to the
rank and lle for approval, as
a step towards the Labor Party,
or step down and the rank and
file will elect those who will.
Fraternally yours,

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FILMS AND PEOPLE

Foreign films gaining

THE VOGUE for foreign films is worrying Hollywood

now, along with its loss of the foreign market.

A fan

magazine has been started, specializing in telling foreign-

film audiences about the pix from abroad.

Television is

reported very much interested in using of imported flickers.

And in one recent week, while
not a single new American movie

opened in New York, five from
Overseas put in their appearance.

* * *

AND SPEAKING of foreign
films, an interesting Soviet film,
General Suvorov, will have its
first showing in this city at the
Ukrainian Hall, 805 East Pender,
for two days, March 29-30. It is
a historical picture dealing with
the Napoleonic era and the story
is built around the Russian gen-
eral who’ defeated Napoleon's
armies in Italy. Although not a
new picture, General Suvorov
ranks high among Soviet films
produced during the past few
years. The film showing here,
open to all those interested in So-
viet films, is being sponsored by
the Association’ of United Cana-
dian Ukrainians.

* * *

PARENTS, writers, artists,.

teachers and unionists have or-
ganized the Federation of Aus-
tralian Literature and Art “to de-
fend Australian literature and
art against the menace of syndi-
cated American; comics, maga-
zines and other trash.”

Syndicated American comics
and magazines, reprinted in Aus-
tralia on scarce newsprint, have
thrown local writers and artists
out of work, forced the shutdown
of several Australian publications
and, because of their toll on paper

supplies, have contributed to the

Shortage of school textbooks and
books by Australian authors.

Federation President George
Godfrey says the new group “con-
siders it astounding that, in view
of Australia’s need to conserve
dollars, probably a million dollars
a year are wasted on reprinting
American literary and art mate-
rials which can properly be de-

INUIT ATE

She can ride, too

When asked what had
prompted her to participate in
last year’s Conference on the
subject of Thought Control,
held by the Hollywood Arts,
Sciences and Professions Coun-
cil of PCA, Actress Anne Re-
vere replied:

“IT have a strong belief in the
things for which my ancestor
Paul Revere rode his horse, and
I don’t believe that horse and
rider should go backwards to-
day.”

Can you put it any _ better

than that?

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scribed as moronic and debasing
to the standards which Australian
parents desire for their children.”

Some action along these lines is
long overdue in Canada, too.

* * *

WHEN IT COMES to trash, it
Would be pretty difficult to find
anything much worse than some
of the radio scripts for the U.S.
state department’s Voice of Am-
erica program. Here’s a sample
of a Spanish broadcast to Latin
America last month.

Voice (at the Cheyenne Fron-
tier Day celebration): Look!
what magnificent Indian girls!

Voice: Feathered and naked.

Voice II: What are they going
to do?

Narrator: Let me see the pro-
gram. It’s the hundred meter
race,

Voice II: Bravo! I bet ten dol-
lars that the one with the blue

_kerchief wins!

plan com-
that pro-

Even a Marshall
mercial couldn't sell

gram.

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