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WOMEN IN INDUSTRY

Few jobs for

3,000 seek work in city

Where’s Rosie the Riveter? Two years ago as airplane,

plants closed down and shipyards tapered off production this!
. But few except those women j.

who acquired a new understanding of their role and rights

question was on everyone’s lips

LIVING COSTS

UE asks for

price control

“Further proof that the emerg-
ency session of parliament in De-
cember must restore price con-
trols and subsidies” is how the
United Electrical Workers’ Union
-(UE-CIO) views the September
rise of 2.8 points to 142.2 in the
Cost of Living Index.

‘The UE points out that full
impact on low income families
of the 71.3 rise in foodstuffs
Prices since 1939 is not reflected
in the overall index, since food
costs represent a larger propor-
tion of the budget in these homes.

“Under this pressure and with
the projected increase in the price
of milk the Cost of Living Index
will undoubtedly go higher than
the figure of 145 forecast by Fi-
nance Minister Abbott for the
end of this year,” the union states.

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women as

through union membership were
concerned about Rosie’s future.
If war industries were no longer
able to provide Rosie with an op-
portunity to practice her new
skill, she could still take her
pick of jobs in offices and light-
er industries.

Today, in British Columbia at
least, Rosie lacks even this choice.
In fact, she’s lucky to have a
job at all. Whatever the employ-
ment situation elsewhere in the
country, there are less than 500
jobs for women listed with Na-
tional Employment Service in Van-
couver. And there are 3,000 women
looking for work.

Up to two or three months ago
there were still vacancies for sec-
retaries, stenographers, bookkeep-
ers and saleswomen. Now, if Rosie
has gone back to her -typewriter,
she'll find herself one of some
500 women and girls trying for
the less than 50 openings listed
at Nationah Employment Service
last week.

Maybe Rosie had an idea when
she quit her shipyard job that
she would be glad to exchange
lier riveting gun for a frying pan.
But the Hon. Douglas Abbott has
fixed that. The way living costs
have been going up since price
controls were removed, pretty soon
there'll be nothing to put in the
frying pan unless Rosie goes back
to work to bolster the family in-
come. ;

Rosie doesn’t mind keeping
house, much as she resents de-
nial of her right to work in in-
dustry, but she doesn’t want house
work, the only occupation where
there are more jobs than appli-

ts.
ar in all, Rosie’s future doesn’t
look too bright. By this time she’s
probably thinking back to her|
union days in war industry and
thinking it’s time to put the ex-
perience she gained to good use.

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Nursery school

These tots are standing out-
Side the United Nations nursery
school, set up by their parents
exclusively for Children of UN
delegates and staff members.
for these kids “one world” is
already a reality.

CLOTHING
Knitwear ideal
for children

Knitwear deserves greater use
in children’s readymade clothing,
says Clarice Scott, clothing spe-
cialist of the U.S. department of
agriculture. Miss Scott finds that
knitwear has many advantages

garments. Its elasticity makes it

of freedom of action without bulk.
Its insulating properties offer ex-
tra warmth in winter, yet be-
cause it is porous, cotton knit-
wear is comfortable also for sum-
mer wear. It is easy to wash and
requires no ironing—a boon to
mothers, Because many kinds of
knit fabric are less expensive

to manufacture than woven fabric,
their use.should reduce the cost
of children’s garments. ©

Knitwear has improved‘in dur-
ability in recent years since run-
proof knits have been’ developed.
No longer do small. breaks. or
tears lead to runs—and the mend-

Miss Scott suggests that knit-
wear is suitable for infants’
wear, rompers, night clothes,
small boys’ suits, helmets.

OUR EDUCATIONAL
I was thinking the other day
of school children comin
a couple of blocks away. I
enough to be returning from school
after dark I should be very anxious
about her safety after hearing
and reading about the cases of

degenerates attacking school child-
ren.

As it is, Vancouver School Board,
confronted with a greatly increased
enrolment of 6-year-olds falls back
too readily on the doubling-up
arrangement instead of conduct-
ing a vigorous campaign for emer
gency construction now.

* * *

I WISH some of our “weighty”
citizens could study a country

where children are given every
opportunity to develop and learn
in a happy, constructive fashion.
The Soviet Union recognizes the
fact that every child has the
right to all the education he de-
sires. Till the age of seven, the
education and character training
of the Soviet children is done in
nurseries and kindergartens. From
the age of seven to ten, they are
taught in the elementary schools
and up to the age of fourteen
they attend a junior school. -

At this point they are given a
choice of going on to senior school
for three years, of going in for the
professions or taking a job. There
is no question of either inability
to continue studies for lack of
funds or of not finding employ-
ment when the training period is
completed.

Soviet children are taught in
their own mother tongue—the
Soviets had to give alphabets. to
several backward peoples—but the
courses are the same everywhere.
Painting, dancing, music, form a
regular part of every curriculum.

Most attractive period perhaps
is the time set aside for “games
and exercises, Every little tot has
to spend a substantial part of
his day in the open, playing or
just frisking about. Mora smal

A proper balance is struck be-
tween home and school life, with
public | training complementing
domestic upbringing. Educational
and psychological experts even in
this country agree that it is much
better for both mother and chil@
if they are separated for a. period
each day. .I wager there are not
the thousands of misfits jand de-
generates in society in. the Soviet
Union such as we find here— GG.

system is terribly inadequate,
as I watched the second shift

g home from the elementary school

know if little Katy were old —
PATTERN FEATURE

Maclnnis promises
to seek controls

Angus MacInnis, CCF member
for Vancouver East, assured a
delegation of women from
Vancouver. , LPP. . Neighborh
‘Council last week that he w
support the campaign for restora-
tion of price controls when par-
lament reopens next month. ‘

Headed by Mrs. Effie Jones, the
delegation sought MacInnis’s back-
ing: fora number of demands, most
important of which were restora-
tion. of :price -ecdntrols, return of
subsidies::and.im- particular the
milk subsidy; and. a low-rent hous-

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of the ‘Federation

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