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Women’s Auxiliary, Local 1-363, IWA, receives charter from Local President S. Wessberg, at Courte-
nay, B.C. The newly-chartered unit was the recipient of congratulations on services rendered to the
Local, and especially to the sick and injured in hospital. .

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CAN WE HELP YOU SHOP? |

We are not sorry for IWA/women who live in out of the way places. Indeed, we envy them the quiet
and beauty of rural British Columbia, away from the noise and the hurry of the city, where people have
little time to be kind or neighborly.

But we do wonder how they manage about shopping, and how prices compare with those of Vancouver, Take
clothes, for instance, for themselves and their families, and household equipment. How do they buy? Do they

e& mail order catalogues, or do they deal at the general store?

LAKE .COWICHAN
SOCIAL EVENING

The Women’s Auxiliary, Local
1-80, IWA, Lake Cowichan,
joined with the men of Local 1-80.
at a successful card party held in
the Community Hall recently.

There were ,five tables of
bridge, three ‘of cribbage and
three of whist. After the games,
refreshments were served by- the
Ladies’ Auxiliary.

Prizewinners were — Bridge,
men’s first, Mr. W. Tiesu; conso-
lation, Mrs, J. R. Sidg wick
(sub.); ladies’ first, Miss Ellen
Marley; consolation, Mrs. J. F. T.
Saywell. Cribbage: men’s first,
Mr, A. Atchison; consolation, Mr.
R. Alberts; ladies’ first, Mrs. B.
P. Wiklin; consolation, Mrs. E. E.
Trueman. Whist: men’s first, Mr.
A. Peterson; consolation, Mr.
Axel Thesen; ladies’ first, Mrs.
M. Ternes; consolation, Mrs. E.
Powers.

Somehow we expect people in
the country to have gardens and
to grow their own vegetables and
raise their own chickens. But
apart from these things, what do
they pay for food, compared to
our prices?

We are trying to get a true
picture of living costs where the
buyer cannot dash out to take ad-
vantage of a “special” in coffee
or soap, or to be on hand at 9
a.m. when a store has an opening
sale of children’s boots 6r over-
alls,

Here our papers run budgets
for a family of four, showing
how to buy food for a week’s
meals, watching such items as
are in season, and therefore at
their cheapest.

In the country, women don’t
run out to the corner store for
small quantities of sugar, tea,
flour or potatoes. They buy in
bulk.

We know that. We’ve lived in
the country, but it was a long
time ago, when wages and prices
were different.

Will you tell us the score NOW.
Maybe we can help you with your
shopping problems.

1-217 MEETS IN
DISTRICT OFFICE

Wonten’s Auxiliary to Local 1-
217, held their monthly meeting
on June 1, in the bright new
Board Room of the District Of-
fice, 426 Main Street, 13 members
in attendance.

Reports of the Hospitals Com-
mittees were heard, visits being
paid once a week to the General
Hospital and St, Paul’s Hospital,
with--special visits to the T.B.
Ward.

A report on the meeting of the
Local Council of Women was also
given. President Jacqueline
Clarkson asked the representa-
tives to take part in any commit-
tee work in connection with the
Council for which they had time,
or in which they were specially
interested.

Next Social Event will be held
in North Vancouver at the home
of Sister Ruth Bullock, 358 West
16th Street. Phone North 1015-R.
Lawn bowling if the weather is
fine. If not, knitting.

- Sick and Injured Visited

VANCOUVER GENERAL

The following patients were
visited and cigarettes and copies
of the B.C. Lumber Worker dis-
tributed, and Sister Gladys Cole
and Sister Jean MacKenzie re-
porting:

Stan Quays—One of our old-tim-
ers. Had a bit of a set-back,
bat is very cheerful and doing

Peter Hardcastle, Co mox Log-
ing, Nanaimo — Peter came
‘rom St, Paul’s last September

and has been in and out since
with a broken back,

Roy Wakelin, Salt Spring Island

he ag in May 2, with broken

David Klener, Bloedel, Stewart &
Welch, Campbell River — Bro.
Klener has a broken back and
ae been in hospital for some

ae.

(The above patients have been
in the Infectious Diseases Hospi-
tal Ward for some time, and have
not. been visited before, as we
were unaware of our lumber
workers being in that ward,
Please have nurses contact
the local unions with news of
your whereabouts! J,M.)

Nels Berglund — Brother

lund has been on his back for

George Sddler, Booth Logging
Co., Loughborough Inlet — Do-
ing fine. Had poisoned fingers.

John Sharwin, Englewood —
Stomach trouble.

Jean D’Aoust, New Westminster
—Getting along fine.

Russell Plows, Roland Spencer
Logging, Grantham’s Landing
—Doing very well. |

Murray Fleck, B.C. Forest Prod-
ucts, Sam Brown Lake —
Smashed foot, Taking treat-
ment.

Stephen Barac, Comox Logging
Co., Ladysmith—X-rays taken
of back. Expects to take treat-
ment. z

|James Harvey, Langley Prairie—
Back injury three years ago.
Repercussions.

Alee Babichuck, W. A. Gibson,
Tahsis — Leg broken in acci-
dent.

ST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL _

Sisters Phoebe Olsen, Pat Full-
james and Helen Sim report that
they visited the following pati-
ents in St. Paul’s Hospital, dis-
tributing cigarettes and copies of
the B.C. Lumber Worker:

J. Dredge, Garibaldi — Shoulder
and arm injury; going home
this week.

E. McBride, Anderson Sawmill—
Toe injury, going home this
week,

ee — Knee in-
jury. .

G. Ford, Malahat Logging—Arm

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Knee injury. Coming along

slowly..

|J. Armstrong, Howe Sound Lum-
ber—Back in hospital, but feel-
ing all right.

J. Andrews, Empire Mills—Doing
fine. Leg in cast. <

A. Peterson, Port Renfrew—Con-
dition fair.

Stuart Carlson, Robertson &
Hackett — Live grafting on
legs. Coming along fine.

B. Wendelin, Lake Logging—Op-

eration on ribs. Fair.

W. Isinger, Englewood — Doing

fine. Out soon.

A. Green, Elk River—Arm in-
jury. Doing well. .

W. Davidson, Port McNeil—Do-
ing well.

J. Bresenaham, Stave Falls —
Hopes to go home soon.

J. Edwards, Port Renfrew — Up
and around.

W. Lundgren, Comox Logging—
Knee injury; doing well.

J, Larwick, Elk River—Knee in-
jury. é

Fraser—Feeling well; out soon.-

NORTH VANCOUVER
GENERAL

Sister Ruth Bullock, Women’s
Auxiliary, Local 1-217, reports
visiting the following and giving
cigarettes and copies of the B.C.
Lumber Worker:

Bert I. Claybo, West Vancouver
—Seriously injured _Februray
8 at Lionsgate Mill, Bro. Clay-
bo is at last beginning to e
progress. He wishes to express
thanks to the membership of
the Local and to the Women’s
rnewhgied for their kindness to

>| week.

Instanced by him were recent
exemptions extended to Queen
Charlotte Island logging compa-
nies on account of alleged diffi-
culties in maintenance of logging
roads.

“The Hours of Work Act is in-
tended to protect workers against
compulsion to work more than a
forty-four-hour week. The [WA
agreement provides further pro-
tection, stipulating a forty-hour
Legal extension of the

Mitchell Protests Overtime

Criticism of the methods employed by the
Relations in granting exemptions from the Hours of Work Act to
logging operators was voiced in a statement recently issued by
George Mitchell, District Secretary-Treasurer, IWA.

Board of Industrial

work-week should only be per-
mitted in a definite emergency,
and only by agreement with the
union with satisfactory provision
for overtime pay, he contended.

“Removal of the blanket pro-
tection afforded by the Act en-
ables companies to exert com-
pulsion and reverses the modern
trend toward reduction of hours
of work so necessary to spread
available employment.”

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