Wolk i. No. 33. Five Cents Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, September 27, 1946 Formerly PACIFIC ADVOCATE dmonton solons gripe on farm strike stand — the Alberta any suffering through lack of giving serious consideration Farmer’s Union to overcome milk resulting from the farm- ers’ non-delivery strike, a recent meeting of the Edmonton City Council passed a resolution, which in effect condemned the Strike committee and urged the use of increased police forces against ' the striking farmers. Reports from strike headquarters indicate that the ABW regards this resolution as nothing Jess than 2 studied insult to those farmers on strike. it is pointed out that in passing suck a resolution the city council Was merely acting as the mouth- Piece for the Manning government and reactionary business interests, aud not expressing the sentiments af the people of Edmonton, who are solidly behind the farmers’? de mand for parity prices. The council’s prejudice was clearly shown by the fact that the big dairies and strike-breakine milk producers were invited to send representatives to the meet- ing, but the AFU, which originally. offered a very reasonable and con- Sidered proposal on milk supplies for children and institutional needs, Was not invited. The Labor-Progressive Party here has issued a statement condemn_ ing the action of the city council, pointing out that victory in this Struggle for parity prices would contribute to the prosperity of Western agriculture, and to #d- menton as a key center. The LPP urges that Hdmonton City Gounci! JGin wilh Alberta labor in pressing Cttawa to grant the farmers’ Ge- mands. Richards appointed to end Province dispute Appointment of Justice A. E. Richards as commissioner to investigate the dispute between the Southam Company and the International Typographers Union, which now in- volves mewspapers in five cities, was welcomed this week by Harry Finch, ITU Canadian representative, with the Statement : “We feel now that the eva- sion on the part of the Southam Company which has led to in- terminable delay in the past will be met by the commissioner’s power to subpoena.” Fineh pointed out that ITU of- ficials, including President Wood- ruff Randolph, had been ready to meet Southam officials “at any place and any time.” Meantime, in Vancouver, where the Daily Province is now feeling the effect of a four-month strike, attention will again be focussed on the issue when 12 trade union- ists; arrested during a mass pic- ket demonstration last July, come before the Assize Court next week on charges of unlawful assembly. Labor, through the B.G. Feder- ation of Tabor and other organ- izations, has been demanding that the charges against the trade unionists be dropped, Im Vancouver police court this week Dave Bartlett, a member of the Newsvendors Union, all of Whose members have refused to handle the scab Daily Province, Was sentenced to one month in Jail on charges of assaulting Fred Zieffle, 233 Abbott Street. According to evidence given, Bartlett got into an altercation with Zieffle, one of a number of vendors selling the Daily Province Who have appeared on downtown Street corners in recent weeks, and tore up his papers. Defense counsel asked the ceurt to give Bartlett suspended Sentence, but on the charge of assault he was given 30 days without option of fine and on a Second charge of wilful destruc- tion of property 20 days or $15 fine, both sentences to run con- currently. PREMIER JOSEPH STALIN “Tt is only military and political adventurers who are talking of a new war today. and their many fol- lowers among civil servants.” This is how Premier Joseph Stalin re- plied this week to one of a series of questions submitted by Alex- ander Werth, Moscow correspond- ent of the London Sunday Times. Declaring that he believed it en- tirely possible to have friendly co- operation between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies for a long time, Stalin said, “I do not believe in the danger of a new war.” Of the atom bomb Stalin said he did not consider it to be “as seri- ous a power as certain political KING’S LABOR POLICY SCORED BY CONGRESS By MEL COLBY WINDSOR.—World Peace’’—this was the demand of the 61st convention - of the Trades and Labor Congress this week- Convention delegates, in a resolu- tion emphasizing that “the peace, freedom and economic progress of the Gan- those aspirations on a world adian people depends upon the realization of scale,” demanded in the same resolution that Canada “strive relentlessly to retain the unity of the Big Three.” : The resolution expressed alarm Over the “dangerous, divisive and Wwar-menacing trend which is 2p- Parent at the present Paris Peace Conference,” and went on to pledge that the TLCG would “play an active and constructive role in influenc- ing and shaping our country’s for- eign policy to the end that the voice and influence of Canada shall be exercised for the democratic Solution of all outstanding prob- lems on the basis of the Atlantic Charter and the agreements ar- rived at by the Big Three at Yalta, Teheran and Potsdam.” The resolution stressed that the Canadian government must “speed- ily improve its relations with our allies and other democratic coun- tries who are willing: to cooperate with us and to establish favorable trade relations with those coun- tries ” The convention rejected the Tory policies of the Green bloc within the congress by unanimously re- electing President Perey Bengough and returning Secretary-Treasurer Pat Sullivan to office by a large Majority over J. E. Beaudoin of the Quebec Federation of Labor. In the eyes of reaction within the congress, Sullivan symbolizes the growing progressive trend of the TLC and a determined effort was made by the Tory element to se- cure his defeat. This was also true in the case of Ontario Wice-Presi_ dent J. W. Buckley who, with the entire administration, was return- ed to office by the convention. Hiarlier, the generally progressive temper of the convention made itself felt when delesates decisively Farmer-labor unity in the battle against big monopoly is not the exclusive property of western Canada in the non-delivery strike as the picture above testifies. Ontario farmers near Hamilton rejected the policies of AFI Presi- dent William Green by voting, with (Continued on Page 8) See LABOR POLICY Mass support for farm strike grows as cabinet ponders issue By WILLIAM TOUMI EDMONTON —Gathering even greater momentum,*the non-delivery strike of western farmers has entered its third week. The highlight of the week, in strike activity, was the call of the United Farmers of Canada, Saskatchewan Section, for direct action in Ppick- eting and taking an active part in the battle. Previously the UFC had expressed its sym- have given whole fields of farm produce to the Spicer, shop steward at the Westinghouse plant, can dig up carrots for the picket-line kitchen. strikers. Pat shows she persons are wont to think... . pathy and support and had left the initiative to its locals. “Our picket lines are report- ing everything quiet in Alberta, because nearly everyone is on strike,” commented a strike lead- er in Hdmonton. “The few scabs we had during the first weeks are staying at home, and to all intents and purposes are on strike now. with the rest of us.” In some districts picket lines have been called off temporarily because the tie-up is so com- plete. At St. Paul, in the northeast corner of the province, an anti- strike meeting called for the town, turned into a huge rally supporting the strike. Sangudo reports that merchants and townspeople are cooperating with the picketers. “One gent arrived at the picket line with a can of cream and announced his right, ability and intention to deliver his cream, and when he could not be persuaded was al- lowed to proceed. At the cream- ery he discovered that he did not have any cream to deliver. When he returned to the line, much calmer and wiser, he was handed his can of eream and told te go home.” So writes one of the pickets, At Radway a farmers’ meeting called by the strike committee could serve as 2 pattern of the hundreds of meetings that are being held. Pickets were detailed for duty, some of them being ordered to be relieved from threshing crews in the district te do their shifts. The local creamery was ordered to close its doors. The local butcher was not given permission to buy stock, beeause the sale of livestock is contraband. The miller was given permission to move a Quantity of grain from an elevator to the mill on condition that it went into storage and was not pro- cessed into flour until strike. 3 Wetaskiwin farmers got anoth- er foretaste of Manning’s “Bilj of Rights.” Two farmers were picked up on a picket line, os- tensibly for questioning. They were (Continued on Page 8) See FARM STRIKE after the Urge Province assume subsidy 4A demand from labor, consumers’ and other organizations that the provincial government assume re- sponsibility for the producers’ Sub- Sidy on milk sold for fluid con- Sumption is expected to follow the federal government’s decision, an- nounced Wednesday, to abolish its present subsidy of 55 cents a hun- dred pounds at the end of this month. Last week, Dean FF. M. Clement, of the UBC faculty of agriculture, Stated that the price of mir to consumers would increase “at least -- thre cents a quart” if the subsidy were discontinued. Prime Minister King’s statement Said the government was return- ing “control over the price of fluid milk wholly to provincial authori- ties.”