‘Strachan™

of the Medical Director

before:

(1) Undertaking any
long orunusual
course of treatment;

(2) Referring patients
for X-ray treatment
and X-ray examina-
tion except for acute
traumatic emergen-
cies;

(3) Arranging sp ecial
clinical laboratory
investigations;

(4) Arranging consulta-
tions;

(5) Undertaking major
surgery except in
emergencies.”

This interferes directly in
the personal relationship be-
tween doctor and patient and
means that your family doc-
tor cannot treat you as he
sees fit. Imagine a Prince
George doctor not being able
to send his patient for an
X-ray or to see a specialist

"LOOK HERE,ZUB=IN FUTURE YOU'LL JUST
HAVE TO FOLLOW REGULAR GRIEVANCE PRO-

CEDURE..." eee

IT ALL BOILS DOW

until he has satisfied M.S.I.

in Vancouver that he is com-
petent to make these deci-
sions.

How many times have we
heard the doctors and private
plans say, “Government med-
icare will mean your doctor
will have to get permission
before he can treat you.”?
And here in black and white
we have M.S.1L, which is
completely operated and ad-
ministered by the B.C. doc-
tors, destroying the doctor-
patient relationship.

Again I offer the proof of
the pudding. Saskatchewan
has no such clause; neither
does the British National
Health Service.

Finally I would say there
has been no “obscurity” in
New Democratic Party medi-
care plans, as suggested by
CHQM. .

I presented a detailed brief
to the Royal Commission on
Health Services and our con-
vention laid down a point-
by-point program with the
press media present, with no
fine print in it.

Our moral outlook on med-
icare is quite clear. We do
not believe in means tests for
medicare and we subscribe
fully to the views of the late
Pope John who said medi-
care is “a human right.”

He Knows

The teacher asked the class
to write in one sentence what
a newspaper does. One small
boy turned this in:

‘Tt tells you who won and
who’s been murdered.

have

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nearly 60

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A. Band Corporation computer sient as
automation has already reached the point of no

and that the pace will accelerate at an astronomical rate over

the next decade.

The scientist, Richard Bellman, meeting in
Chicago, that banks could ears & cut their staffs in half cae

said at a

that pe basic industries could automate much more
if they chose. He added that some industries are prac ing
selbseoniaet because of the social consequences but that re-

straint won’t last.

Bellman disagreed with the contention that automation

will create many new jobs or skills.

n his view, jobs resulting

from automation will be few and at vastly lowered levels of

interest.

A mere two percent of the population — those at the helm

of industry — will be able to produce whatever is consumed,

according to the speaker.

For most, he implied, a life of aimless idleness may be

in. prospect.

Bellman disparaged the idea that retraining is a long-term
answer for automation. He said that the new technique will
bring changes in the social structure as great as those ushered
in by the industrial revolution.

The scientist suggested that there must be a change in the
national ethic so that all persons will have the right to food,
clothing, shelter, and medical care whether he works or is
forced into idleness. He added. that life’s biggest reward in
the new world ahead may be the privilege of holding a job of

any description.

I.U.D. Bulletin

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

“Agreement.

2. That all job training op-
portunities will be posted;

3. That the Company will
notify all job training appli-
cants of their selection re-
gardless of whether or not
the applicant was a success-
ful candidate;

4. The categories covered
by the job training memo-
randum
the important machines used
in logging, and the provision
is ineluded that additional
jobs may be added by mutual
agreement;

V1 4 AFH ¢ IMG
ESTION

Paris & Sons

years. it was

then, and still is now, the

logging boot that

money can buy.

UNION-MADE IN B.C.

PIERRE PARIS & SONS

51 West Hastings Street
Vancouver 3, B.C.

Family Teamwork in Craftsmanship since 1907

include almost all’

5. Rates of pay which will
be paid trainees during their

‘training period;

6. Trainees must receive in-
dividual job training with a
fully-qualified operator and/
or instructor; and protection
is provided for the job rate
being paid to trainees left to
operate the machine without
the benefit of an instructor;

7. The principle that the
Company has the right to de-
termine whether or not a per-
son has the capabilities to
finally qualify for the posi-
tion for which he is training
has been extended to also
provide that the trainee him-
self may elect to return to his
previously held job at any
time during this training
period.

8. The provision provide
that this job training program
will not be used for the pur-
pose of employing combina-
tion categories.

Another significant devel-
opment in the 2 strike was the
return to work June 7, of
approximately 15,000 locked-
out employees at the opera-

tions of Weyerhaeuser,
Crown - Zellerbach, Interna-
tional Paper and Rayonier.

The four companies, mem-
bers of the Big Six, locked-
out the workers in retaliation
for the unions striking the

U.S. Plywood and St. Regis
Paper Company.

Following the lockout, the
unions filed unfair labour
practice charges against the
companies with the National
Labour Relations Board. Be-
cause these charges are still
pending, the unions ordered
their members to return to
work when the companies
opened their plants so as not
to jeopardize their case.

If the Board finds in favor
of the unions, the companies
will be liable for the back pay
of their employees during the
time of the lockout which
would amount to millions of
dollars.

The unions believe this is
the reason the lockout was
ended although the com-
panies state they opened their
plants because it was no
longer necessary to maintain
the association’s integrity.

STATIN Mu

Statistics

“Statistics may be likened
to bikinis,” says an Ameri-
can doctor. “What they re-
veal is enticing, but what
they conceal is vital.”

Any statistics we come
across are like a bathing
suit circa 1910 with a hole
in the knee.

STILL UA

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