answers have been received:

?

Q—My Unemployment Insur-
ance book is kept by my em-
: ployer, and I never see it. How

am I to know that he is puttifig
the stamps in it?

Ee. A—Ask to see your book. You
are entitled to examine it, at 2
time convenient to your employer,
but not more often than twice a
month. If you leave your pres-
ent job, get your book and make
sure that it is properly stamped
up to the day you left. If not,
you should file a complaint with
the local office of the Commission.

>

Q—I was temporarily laid off
from my employment but did not
immediately claim benefit because
I expected, at an early date,
either to resume work with or to
obtain new employment with, my
former employer. When this did
not materialize, I claimed benefit
and requested that my claim be
antedated to the day following my
Jay-off. My application to have
my claim antedated was not al-
lowed. Can you explain why?

A—In order that an application
for a claim to be antedated may
succeed, the claimant must show
good cause for the delay in mak-
ing his claim for benefit. The ob-
vious reason for your delay was
that you expected, at an early
date, either to resume work or
obtain new employment from

your former employer. Appar-
ently you felt that there would
be little advantage in filing claim
for benefit for what appeared to
be a short period of unemploy-
ment. You have therefore, not
shown just cause for delay in
making your claim for benefit.

?

Q—My wife has been unem-
ployed for five months, during
which time no employment was
obtainable in her home town. If
‘a job is offered to her away from
her home town will she be. dis-
| qualified if she refuses to accept
it

A—The length of time a claim-
ant has been unemployed and all
the other circumstances of the
case must be taken into consid-
eration. Generally speaking, after
a period of five months’ unem-
ployment, if a claimant insists on
obtaining employment in , her
; home town, where no employment

opportunities are available and
: refuses employment in another
¥ city where employment is avail-
able, she would be considered to

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haye restricted her area of ayail-
ability to such an extent that she
could not be considered to be
available for work and would be
subject to disqualification.

?

Q—Two insurance books have
been issued for me in one year.
Should I turn one in, and what
about the contributions in it? -

A—Take both books to the
nearest local office of the Com-
mission. Ask that one book be
cancelled and contributions trans-
ferred to the other. Contributions
made for you should be in one
book, f =

?

Q—1I have been paying into the
Unemployment Insurance Fund
and I left my job recently. Now
they say I can’t draw benefit be-
cause I left voluntarily. Is that
right? .

A—If you left your employ-
ment voluntarily ‘without just
cause that is a ground for dis-
allowing your claim.

j|Non-Union

Closed Shop!

The Medical profession seems
to be the same everywhere—one
of the tightest “closed shops” in
existence, ‘|

From Nova Scotia comes the
story of the determination of
these most co-operative people to
get a proper health service with-
in the reach of all.

In November of last year the
Provincial Government issued a
charter to the New Waterford

Here are some brief statistics
from the Workmen’s Compensa~
tion Board for 1948:

‘Wage loss from temporary dis-
ability, $7,600,000; average time
loss, temporary disability, 40
days; Average weekly wage loss,
$42; number of cases, 31,700; av-
erage age, 37 years; B.C. pay-
rolls, $560 millions; number op-
erating firms, 20,000; accidents,
1948, - 75,000; fatal (one each
working day), 259; Active First

See ee eT
Aid Attendants, 2,700; widow’s
pension, $50 per month; average
total cost, $11,000; each child’s
pension, $12.50; average total
cost (child’s pension, $14,000; av-
erage total pension per fatality,
$25,000.

- Of Course Not! —

Sightseer: “Sit down in front!”
Drunk: “I can’t sit that way.”

Co-operative Health Services Ltd.

A Board of twelve directors was
appointed, and an advisory com-
mittee of six representatives
drawn equally from the United
Mine Workers, the Co-operative
Union and the St. Francis Xavier
Extension Department.

Several meetings were held
with the local doctors, and one
with the local Medical Society
headed by the officers of the Cape
Breton and Nova Scotia Medical
Association.

The organized profession ex-
pressed bitter opposition to the
co-op on the grounds that it is a
threat to the economy of private

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Labor as it is in this country is
independent and proud. It has not
to ask the patronage of capital,
but capital solicits the aid of la-

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