~~ ee WOMEN RAISE DEMAND Equal pay for equal work WOMEN ENGINEERS in Welsh factories are getting angry over the delay in meeting their wages claim. At Teddington Contro] Factory, Cefn Coed, Merthyr Tydvil, all the women have signed a petition demanding that an execu- tive member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union should visit South Wales to explain the reason for the delay. They point out that women are working alongside men do- ing the same job but at different rates of pay. “In fact, we are undercutting the men’s rate,” they say. The women engineers at Cefn Coed are also demanding that the AEU executive seek an immediate meeting with the em- ployers for the five shillings increase to be paid to alj engineer- ing workers irrespective of sex. * * * . THE SWEDISH CONFEDERATION of Labor will atempt to establish the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women workers, which is already enforced by law in many east European countries, President Axel Strand of the SCL told a special women’s wage conference in Stockholm. Until last year, Strand said, it was looked upon as “perfectly normal” for Swedish women to get lower pay than men. They were regarded askind of secondary workers who generally gave up their jobs to allow men to go on working when employment ; got low, or were recruited into factories when employers wanted cheaper labor, Union activity has now narrowed the gap between men’s and women’s wages, which generally amounted to as much as 33 percent before 1946, Strand revealed. ARMS SHIP PICKET UBC students thanked UNIVERISTY OF B.C. students who picketed the Federal Building here last september to protest the St. Laurent government's policy of Sending planes and arms to Chiang Kai-shek’s crumbling Kuomintang regime have just received a warm message of thanks for their action from the National Students Federation of China. Bazaar held by Handicraft Guild “You. not only showed the Warmest comradeship towards A SUCCESSFUL bazaar was held in Burnaby on Monday, De- the fighting Chinese students... but also voiced the common will of the peace-loving people of Can- ada by your action,” the message ‘stated, The message expressed the hope that Canadian and Chinese students would draw close togeth- er in their common fight “against war and for the rights of young People,” URED EN 2 UO LENE PSE DEH ERE UE DE ME UE ENE EE HE NEE UE NE NE ENE EE Labor Ladies’ Handicraft Guild. — First prize, a quilt, was won by Mrs. Greer, of South Holdom Avenue, with ticket No. 901. Sec- ond prize went to Mrs. Unurh, of Frances Street, who held ticket ‘No. 999. Miss F. L. Brown, of Pat- ' terson Avenue, won third prize. Compliments of the Season! 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This is why the Women’s International Democratic Federa- tion was born, uniting 80 million women of 51 nations. “Today, barely three years after the armistice, the peoples are still kept in slavery and misery, terror and wars are still ruling at many points of the world. All over the world millions of women are weeping for their lost beloved, and millions of women are again trembling for theirs because. those for whom war means only ex- orbitant profits are preparing for ‘a new war. They try to make be- lieve that a war to be started against the Soviet Union and the democratic states is natura] and inevitable, “This is not true. War is neither natural, nor inevitable. Only a handful are those criminals to whom it brings profit, and without the people, they, too, are impot- ent. For the cause of freedom and peace many forces are lined up. If united, they will conquer. “On this front we women are those who can work most, who can fight most. After all, it is our task to give life and therefore it is our holy duty more than that of anyone else to preserve peace. “On December 1 our second in- ternational congress will be held _ GREETINGS : Standard Electrical - & Furniture Ltd. 45 & 55 W. Hastings St. MERE MERE RENE Ss SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL OUR PATRONS AND _ FRIENDS HASTINGS BAKERY 716 Hastings St. East 4191 Main Street 4068 East Hastings HASTINGS 3244 & in Budapest. Those millions of women who will have themselves represented here must make their voice heard all over the world. “Women, mothers, all over the world, if you do not want to live any longer in perpetual anxiety OUR CHILDREN instead of joy, we. call you! Sup- port with all your efforts, with all your soul, our work for demo- cracy, social justice, and for peace! The common aim which unites all women and all people is the guarantee of our victory.” Exhausting parents THERE ARE SOME parents, now as during my own childhood without question, children, No situation is ever presented, no question of any kind is ever an- swered, without a long pointed moral being drawn. There is no warm child-parent relationship, no patient attempts to help the child unknot his own preplexing problems, no intimate chatter, very little, if any, play or nonsense, There is only the relationship of a labor college instructor and his gradually unwilling pupil. The dining table becomes a podium, the living room a lecture hall. The answers are presented, some- times over and over long before ~ the questions are thought of. There is no opportunity for the © child to make an attempt to figure out anything for himself, solutions are sharply brought out before they were aware there was a problem. Since there is no room, and no time for seemingly unimportant personal problems, these prob- lems become elevated to the world sphere. Thus the question of a new Coat becomes a treatise on economics, and childish curi- osity about the moon, a good dis- cussion of socialist science, : * * * 7 SUCH PARENTS and there are enough of them in the progressive movement to merit discussion, are failing their children. They have . been denied the sympathetic un- derstanding and guidance they need to develop. into healthy adults. To brush aside their child- ish worries, their fears and grop- ings and curiosities as inconse- quential in the broad scheme of things is to say to them, in effect, “You are nothing, you are unim- portant.” ; Denied the friendship, the nor- mal parent-child relationship they have a right to, many of them PACIFIC. S56600°—~ ee not so frequently encountered when their attitude was accepted who because they have so little time with their make every moment count for the things they believe in. grow up with a resentment against their parents, and the cause which made their parents lose sight of them as children and regard them merely as pupils. — Not all of them Carry this re- sentment on, of course, and I sup-_ pose that there are a great many who Carry on in the fight, but I can name at least a dozen such adults and teen-agers who are merely passive onlookers, worn by ‘the struggle before they ever en- tered it. How much better it would be if. parents, even with little time, used that time to give the child — the-reassurance and help and lové he needs! As each problem arises, it can be explainea, in the child’s — terms, at the level of his under- standing, arousing his curiosity, and encouraging him to search for answers as well. Such chil- dren could be eagerly looking forward to the time when they march at their parents’ side. - This is the third column in the. discussion of children of progres- Sives. This subject will continue for somé time. Readers are in- _ vited to send their comments or questions—VERA MORRIS. __ SEASONS’ GREETINGS from Jack Coon Cooney, Mer. =a Loggers’ Annual Ball } . Sponsored by Local 71" and Hiring Hall WOODWORKERS . INDUSTRIAL UNION - OF CANADA THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1948 HASTINGS AUDITORIUM — DANCING — 9 To1 — MUSIC BY AMBASSADORS — a Valuable Prizes DSBRBNSBOSEHHSES EE FERRY MEAT MARKET Vancouver, B.C. FREE DELIVERY Supplying Fishing Boats Our Specialty aan 1740L |. Nite Calls GL.