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Teacher) Becision On Labor
Affiliation Expected Soon

Next Monday, February 15, last votes of members of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation on
labor affiliation will be in the mail. Within a week after that date, states the Federation secre-
tary, the results will be tabulated, and the decision of the teachers as to whether they will
affiliate with labor or remain a group without trade union connection will be annouriced.

If they decide to join with or-
ganized labor, further discussion
will follow regarding the group
to which the BCTF will affiliate.

“Many teachers are now in favor
of affiliation, although a few are

opposed to such a move,” A. T.
Alsbury, president of the Van-
ecouver branch of the Federation

told The People. “The economic
station and continued low salaries
of teachers have brought many to
the opinion that they should ally
themselves with those whose prob-
lems are similar, such as organized
labor.

“Teachers across Canada are
very much concerned about the
growing crisis in education, and
feel that they must secure the
support of those friendly to edu-
eation, in order to obtain long
overdue and much needed improve-
ments. Trade unions have always
shown a desire to have educational
opportunities extended.”

That teachers and trade union-
ists have much in common is the
growing belief among teachers,
Aisbury felt, one problem which
they share being the fight for bet-
ter living standards.

Demand that ali teachers be as-

sured a decent standard of liy-
ing and that “the present gross
discrimination between teachers in
different school. districts must
cease” was placed before the pro-
vincial executive council in Vic-
toria last Tuesday by a delegation
from the BCTF headed by A. T.
Alsbury and Harry Charlesworth,
general secretary.

The brief presented by the dele-
gation demanded:

: aes this province shall pro-
vide sufficient money to insure
that every child in British Colum-
bia shall receive such educational
opportunities as will enable him
to develop his capacities and abili-
ties to the utmost limit in order
that as a future Canadian citizen
he may make his maximum con-
tribution to Canadi.n progress and
society.
7 Fee this province shall estab-
lish a system of education fi-
mance as will provide for an equit-
able distribution of educational
costs on a just and uniform basis
for all school districts.

In a recent pamphlet, Statement
of the Present Situation Regarding
Edueation in British Columbia,
published by the BCTF, it is point-

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those who are deserving of our help!

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Whites and attractive patterns in soft and fused collars—
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Vancouver, B.C.

ed out that except in the years
between 1877 and 1888, when the
province met the whole cost of fi-
nancing public education; “the
general method has been one by
which the local school authorities
have been mainly responsible for
such financing, with the assistance
of provincial government grants.”

Because the provincial govern-
ment has delegated its educational
responsibilities in large measure to
the various .school districts, with-
out in any way guaranteeing that
each district would be able to se-
cure necessary finances, “it pre-
vails that a child's educational op-
portunities and his future depend
very largely on the place of resi-

|dence of his parents during his

school years.”

The war has created a demand
for specialized training for the
armed forces and war industries,
increased efficiency on the part of
school graduates in every profes-
sion or vocation, the statement con-
tinued.

At the same time the war has
caused a shortage of efficient,
qualified teachers, proper school
equipment, adequate school build-
ings and proper health facilities.
Teachers in smaller, poorer com-
munities are being discriminated
againt in four ways. They receive
a smaller starting salary, get no
annual inerease in salary or
cost of living bonus, and receive a
smaller retiring pension.

As a result, these teachers, wor-
ried and dissatisfied, must move
from district to district in search
of security, leaving only inexperi-
enced teachers available for un-
graded rural] schools where experi-
ence is most essential, and where
assistance of experienced colleagues
is not to be had.

“There is only one way to meet
and conquer ... the problem. All
teachers must be assured a decent,
adequate living,” the statement
concluded.

“A child goes through his school
years only once ... The children
and youth of today will have the
difficult task of building and living
in the world of tomorrow. Without
the finest educational opportunities
their task will be hopeless. We
must and can win the war without
sacrificing our children’s future.”

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CHEQUES
Cashed

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bank, bring your Pay
Cheques to the Army &
Navy. We shall gladly

cash them for you. There
is no obligation to buy.

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DEP’T STORES

Vancouver and Westminster

Homeless Russian

Children

Nazi soldiers, insufficiently clothed for the fury

of the E

sian winter, take blankets from the beds and coats from

backs of Russian children.

Aid To Kvussia
Doubles Quota

Canadian Aid to Russia total for. British Columbia
reached $251,000, oversubscribing the original quota by $151
it was announced this week The final figure is expected t
exceed this, according to P. A. Woodward, provincial chai

of the fund.

Vancouver, with a quota of $50,-
000, has raised $118,030, with many
organizations still to make their
returns. Proceeds from the Aid to
Russia Ball and raffle amounted
to $6,661.

Woodward congratulated the
smaller communities throughout
the province. “The results have
been most gratifying and reflect
with great credit the sympathy
of the people of British Columbia
for the plight of the Russian ci-
vilians,” he said.

Following are the quotas and to-
tals received to date from com-
munities outside Vancouver:

Quota Total
Armstrong .....$ 500 $ 845.26
Brilliant —2 = 200 458.79
Britannia 5,000 1,259.00
Burnaby 5,000 1,368.59
Chilliwack - 1,000 844.10
Castlegar  —--~ 100 100.00
Chemainus _.... 500 949.32
Courtenay . 2,200.47
Cranbrook .... 1,015.00
Cumberland __. 500 2,277.30
Duncan 3,919.54
Enderby -— 400.00
Fernie -... 1,029.31
Fruitvale 430.75
Ganges w+... — 300.00
Golden 50 50.00
Grand Forks ... 500 378.59
Haney 22] =: 1,000 650.00
10co). = 200 200.00
Kamloops - 2,000 3,859.45
Kelowna ... 2,000 3,336.00
Kimberley -... 1,000 650.00
Ladysmith — 500 781.63
Langley 2. 500 2,000.00
Miche] -.._...... 1,000 1,950.00

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Salmon Arm
Trebles

Nanaimo) so 3,500 2,
Nelson. 2,000 2,
New West. 6,000 10
Worth Van. 3,500 4
Qcean Falls __ 500 2
Oliver: 352s se 300
Penticton — 2,000 i
Pioneer. = 250
Port Alberni —. 2,000 4
Port. Alice == 1-000 al
Powell River ... 1,000 2
Prince George — 1,000
Prince Rupert — 3,500 T
Princeton
Revelstoke
Richmond at
Rossland 2
Salmon Arm 500 EE
2 SO Uamish: se. = 250
Summerland 500 1
Terrace’. <= 300
PNA es eee SON ser b
Vernon) 2 === -22;000 3
Victoria. = = A00002 4 at
West Van. —...... 2,000 1
Woodfibre —_- 500
Miscellaneous .~ —— ~— 8

Quota

SALMON ARM. — With ar
inal objective of $500, the ce

of Salmon Arm have

contr

over $1,500 to Canadian Aid t

sia,
nounced.
The committee,

local committee officia

headed b

Mayor, reported that an add

$80 from White Lake,

$75

Gleneden have also been se
making a total of over $1,651

at the

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