-IWA Ladies Auxiliary Local
91 convened its first meeing af-
ter a two-month summer recess.
A program of activities «was
mapped out and a membership
drive started.

It is planned to resume the
Saturday night Whist Drives,
starting with the first Saturday
in October. Dances will be held
once a month at the Meriville
Hall. On October 18, the first
dance of the season will take
place.

A sale of home cooking and
sewing will be held on Novem-
ber 17. A shipment of 72 quarts
of jam were sent to the Solar-
ium and birthday gifts were sent
to our two adopted children
there. @

Details of a miembership drive
have been worked out. A letter
will be sent to all female rela-
tives of union’ members, followed
by visits of our Auxiliary mem-
bers. Teams have already been
chosen for the canvass!”

the membership meeting
Sister J. Green will address ‘the
members on “Racial Prejudice,”
and Sister Kravik on “Legisla-
tive Action.”

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THESE YOUNG REFUGEE children proudly pose in their new
clothes which are part of a gift of 2300 bales of garments sent
‘to the Middle Bast for distribution through UNRRA. The Na-
tional Clothing Committee is conducting a drive from October 1
to 20 in Canada’ to collect serviceable used garments for shipment
overseas to Europe and China before winter sets in. In connection
with the drive a film “Friends in Need,” produced-y the National
Film Board is beg shown to labor and farm -people: throughout
Canada on the Industrial and Rural-Circuits of-the National-Film
In addition, 2 British Ministry of Information film: “The
Star and tHe Sand,” a film showing the relief work of UNRRA. in
a Yugoslav eamp:in Wiypt will’be presented in many centres in ai

The members were glad to
hear that Trixie Ware has finally
sueceeded in securing the’servicés | “’
of a plastic surgeon for a facial
operation. Miss" Ware is-in Van-
couver now, awaiting admit-
tance to ‘the General: Hospital.

The sisters of the Auxiliary |.
express the hope that the mem-
bers of the Vantouver Auxiliary
Hospital Committee will pay a

‘ visit to Trixie, They are all

keenly interested in the. success
of the operation on the young

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‘Union fee har Workers

- These -are the ones “the land-cannot: forget}

Her straight, strong sons; tall as the fir trees are.
(The price of two-by-fours is blood and sweat.)
These are the homeless ones; their luckless star
Burns bright alone over the western dark.

The picket lines across ‘their hungry youth,

The lockout and injunction’s evi] mark

Shut them from love and fame, from all but truth.
Under the snowy peaks that spoke the sky,

Faller and rigger, union labor leader,

Boomman and sawmill stiff and plywood worker,
Cutting the forest down for you and I.

(The price of two-by-fours is blood and sweat.)
Laughing and grim, audacious and soon to die,
These are the men who feel with no regret,

At Everett, Seaside, in Accident Statistics;

Unsung heroes out of the Long-Log Country,
Hard-biceped, handsome, thumbing their nose at Fate;
Sons of the Skidroad, tall in the western rain,
Blue-collared workers who know how to dream and hate,
Haywood and Pritchett, Everest, Joe Hill, Murnane.
These are the strongest ones, workers and sons of workers,
Their epitaph when their brief sun is set,

The price of two-by-fours in blood and sweat.

—JULIA BERTRAM.

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Survey Conducted Of
B.C. Home Requirements

Analyzing the findings of their “Canadian Homes” Survey by
the five main geographic regions, Lever Brothers Limited haye
revealed how living conditions in moderate and low-cost homes
compare with each other in different parts of Canada and with

the country as a whole.
throughout British Columbia and
the rest of Canada and inter-

| viewed housewivés to find out

how their homes meet their
household needs in terms of
shelter,” feeding and cleaning.
Amongst many other findings
Lever’s report that, probably as
a result of the cheapness and
availability of .sawdust as a
fuel, fewer B.C. housewives have
gas or electric ranges. Qwner-
ship of this equipment is lower
in B.C. than in any other of the
five main gedgraphie regions ex-
cept the Maritimes. ~

Hot. -running. water figares;
though naturally not so high as
cold, are. still: high enough: to
give us a comfortable national
lead. The deficiency’ in-cities is
six per cent, in small towns, 13
per cent, and on farms 18 per
cent. Bathtubs and wash basins,
though also more plentiful here
than elsewhere, still offer mar-
keting opportunities to manu-
facturers of this” equipment.

Besides a~province-wide short-
age of gas and electric ranges,
equipment for cooling food,
whether mechanical or ice, is
also owned by fewer people in
B.C. than in any other region
except “thé” Maritimes and
Prairie Provinces. Reporting no
cool storage of any kind are 15
per cent of city people, a quarter
of village folk and three per
cent of farmers. The all-Can-
ada average of people without ice
or mechanical refrigeration is
18 per cent, 40 per cent and 66
per cent of city, town and farm
people.

Whilst nearly everyone has
a sink, many women, particular-
ly in cities, report they aré
builé much’ too low for comfort.

Overerowding, which is’ Can-
ada’s worst” housing headache,
has not. missed B:C.- Aggravat-
ing it here are boarders, lodgers
or ‘hired help’ which crowd one
in every eight city homes. This

Women researchers visited homes

wartime shifts in populations, as
investigators found no surplus of
living accommodation anywhere
in Canada.

In an. evaluation of the state
of house interiors, Lever investi-
gators, found more than half of
British; Columbia~ moderate ‘and
low-cost homeS” cracked, soiled
and in-need of paint, paper and
general refinishing, Almost one
in every six housés in the Pacifie
Province cities and smal}! towns
is so run down that only major,
repairs or’ ¥eplacements’ will ‘re-
store the original appearance of
walls, floors and ceilings. ‘Farm
houses tend to-have better kept
interiors than those in more
densely populated ‘entres. *

WEA To Hold
Fall Classes

Fall classes of the Workers’
Educational Association are due
to open October 15 in the Nor-
mal School in Vancouver.

Highlight of this fall’s work is
@ special six months’ speakers’|
class which started October 8th.’
Vern Yeager, well: known form- |
er organizer of the IWA,vis' the
tutor!

Other’ courses, which will be
led by prominent labor and pro-
fessional speakers, will include;
Full Employment, the Road to
Security, led by Emil Bjarnason;
M.A. B.A., Director of the Pa-,
cific Coast Labor Bureau; Co-
ops and You; Canadian Unions

land, World Unions—Their Con-

tribution to Democracy; Child

Psychology and OpenF'orums on

Current Issues. Further infor-

imation on these classes can be

obtained from the WEA, Do-j-

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