B.C. LUMBER WORKER

HE Wonders!

“Wf wonder, quoth the maiden with a
Aree

Could I look in my ear with my
P

eye.
I know I could do it
If 1 put my mind to it;
You never know what you can do
Hill you try.”

KIDDIES’ CAMP

One of the worthiest_ working
class jects in B.C. needs
$4,000 in a hurry—and needs it
badly.

The organization is the Chil-
drens Jubilee Summer Camp
Association which has a site and
buildings at Orlomah Beach.

Thousands of children from
less fortunate families have holi-
dayed there under the supervision
of volunteer workers.

New huts and a new dining
hall are a “must” for this year if
the work of the Association is to
be carried on.

{ The 125-acre camp with 600
of shoreline is situated on

e North Arm of Burrard Inlet.
Books are audited twice yearly,
and all member organizations
have an opportunity to help this
very fine co-operative effort.

At Vancouver Labor Council
recently, Brother Syd Wybourn
and Mrs. Cook, executive mem-
bers of the Association, appealed
for delegates to go back to their
locals and get promises that
donations would be forthcoming.

All the work at the camp is
voluntary. Help the children to
enjoy their holidays at Orlomah!
Give to the Jubilee Summer

Association! Without your
ey can’t reach that $4,000

Cam}
help
target.

Local 1-363 WA

Complimented

Annual report of Local 1-363
gives great praise to its Women’s
Auxiliary for providing funds,
through socials and dances, to
buy comforts for sick and injured
z loggers in hospitals.

Although comparatively few in
number, the WA has held regu-
lar meetings throughout the year.

2 An especial success was the
¥ arrangement made for visiting
Lourdes hospital.

Owing to the distance from
Campbell River, a committee of
IWA members were elected for
this purpose and funds have been
supplied by the Auxiliary.

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IWA

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JINGLES DON’T BUY FOOD

That little jingle, believe it or
not, was recited in the House of
Commons on March 6, by Prime
Minister St. Laurent as he wound
up the debate on the emergency
powers bill. He recited it for the
benefit of some of his own sup-
porters who were urging him to
institute price controls even if
the government was confident
they wouldn’t work, “just to try
them and let the people see they
do not work.”

Mr. St. Laurent thought this
would be a project “like attempt-
ing a look into one’s ear with
one’s eye.” The government
might consider it under the emer-
gency all-out war, but the pres-
ent all-time high cost of living
(which took a three point jump
ast month) is not an emergency
in the Liberal-reckoning.

Four speakers volleyed the
government that day, before the
emergency powers bill was
passed.

Profiteering Protected
Roy Knight (Saskatoon) de-

|clared that the government “by
its talking of controls and its re-
fusing to do anything about
| them, has itself given an impetus
'to the very rise in prices which
they desire to check.” He press-
ed the case of old age pensioners
| and people on small fixed incomes
desperately trying to survive on
their meagre resources, and
stated that business interests
were upping prices to take ad-
vantage of present opportunities
and to ensure a very profitable
margin if controls should ever
come.

“This present inflation is a
threat to our whole economy,”
the Saskatoon member warned.
“Tt is confiscating the savings of
our people; it is reducing the real
value of bonds and insurance
funds. It is enemy action of the
most potent kind, and it can
scuttle the defence program on
which this government is em-
barked at the present time. It is
the greatest domestic problem
which confronts us: at the
| moment.”

“Once more,” Mr. Knight de-
clared, “I indict the government
for its apparent callousness in
regard to it, and demand that
even at this late hour they put a
stop to it.”

Quit Stalling

Stanley Knowles (Winnipeg
North Centre) followed with
some figures. on the declining pur-
chasing power of folk on small
income, “As at February 1,
1951,” he said, “with the cost of
living index at 175.2, in terms of
1935-89 dollar values, $40 had
shrunk to $22.83.”

He argued that on this basis
the present $40 old age pension is
not enough. But before the gov-
ernment gets around to thinking
about the pension, “it must bring
in price controls to protect that
money from going any lower.”
He demanded that the govern-
ment “quit making excuses, quit
stalling, and bring in price con-
trols.”

87 SE Or951 Ge
“No, my husband doesn’t believe in
price control, or rent control—or any
other kind, for that matter!”

TATE.

In Sidney, Australia, union
leaders hoped a precedent hadn’t
been set by waitresses at the
Albion hotel in nearby Coota-
mundra. During a terrific heat
wave the waitresses took off their
dresses and served dinners in
their bras and panties.

Green is the most comfortable
color for the eyes and nerves—

especially Folding Green.

DOCTORS, LAWYERS CAN,
BUT UNION MEN CAN’T

Parliamentary attempt by S
Centre,

tanley Knowles (Winnipeg North

CCF) to remove discriminatory income tax regulations

which bans union men from deducting union dues was defeated

in the House by 84 votes to 56.

The GCF member claimed that
his resolution was “to end class
legislation and to extend, to all

persons, the right to deduct for |
income tax purposes the amounts

necessarily expended in the earn-
ings of a livelihood, where those
amounts were in the nature of
fees to unions or societies or
associations.”

Parliamentary Assistant Jimmy
Sinclair argued that the govern-
ment “had to draw the line some-
where” and had excluded those
on straight salaries from claim-
ing such deductions.

Mr. Knowles pointed out that
exemptions had already been

made such as clergymen operat-
ing cars, transport workers on
salary who had to “lay over”
away from home, and some
travelling salesmen,

He maintained that to allow
people on “gross incomes — not
straight salaries—to claim deduc-
tions, was unfair’and unjust.

The Knowles amendment would
give deductions not only for
union dues, but teachers’ profes-
sional dues to their societies and
the fees of any other, farmers,
engineers, accountant, etc., who
had to pay fees in order to carry
on their particular occupation.

A voice culturist says smoking
makes any woman’s voice harsh
and shrill. If you don’t believe
it’s true, try dropping a cigarette

“Nice fellow,” said Joe talking
about Bill. “But have you noticed
he always let’s his pals pick up
the bill?”

Said the other, “He's got a ter-
rible impediment in his reach.”

St. Joseph’s, Comox
Sisters Forsman and Lidberg,
|of the W.A., Local 1-363, IWA,
visited St. Joseph’s Hospit:
Comox, on February 24 and dis-
tributed cigarettes, candy bars
and copies of the B.C. LUMBER
WORKER to the following:

M. Hagg—Operation; cheerful.

John Winger — Chest cold;
cheerful.

John Miner, Sr. — Heart
ltrouble; feeling better.

St. Paul’s Hospital

Sisters M. Wood and K. Wood,
of the W.A., Local 1-271, IWA,
visited the following patients in
the St. Paul's Hospital and dis-

tributed cigarettes, candy and

ed the B.C. Lumber

_'T. F. Chance, Honeymoon Bay
Injured leg; doing fine,
W. Black, Prinee George—Go-
‘ing home.
Lidberg, Tom Brown Lake
red left arm; doing well.
_Nelles, Franklin River —

for old injury;

J. Bresnaken, Prince George—
Looking fine.

G. Onusko, Prince George —
Cheerful.

King’s Daughters

Financial Secretary Ed Linder
visited the following patients in
the King’s Daughters’ Hospital,
Duncan, on March 8 and distri-
buted comforts and copies of the
B.C. Lumber Worker in language
editions:

Mike Benko, Harris Creek —
Still in cast,

Carl Fowler, Honeymoon Bay

\|—Very cheerful.

Frank James, Gordon River—
Illness. a

Elmer Aronson, Hillerest Log-
ging Co.—Very cheerful.

Francis Murphy, Duncan —
Hernia operation.

Earl Grayelle, Lake Cowichan
Illness.

Lee Hon Chu, Honeymoon Bay
—Sore leg.

W. A. Dougan, Kapoor—Get-
ting on well and cheerful.
Mike Underwood, Duncan,

Lourdes Hospital

Sick, Injured IWA Men Visited

the B.C. Lumber Worker to the
following patients:

Wm. Adkins, Camp 5, B.S. &
W.—Axe cut on knee; in one
week; doing fine.

Bruce Chambers, Camp 5, B.S.
& W.—Appendix removed; doing
well.

Kaj Ameborg, Camp 5, B.S. &
W.—Compound fracture of right
leg; in Monday, reset today; very
painful.

Wm, Beardsworth, Camp 5,
B.S. & W. — Pneumonia; doing
fine.

Chas. Siklis, Salmon River
Logging, Kelsey’ Bay, B.C. —
Power saw cut on right hand;
doing fine,

General Hospital

1-217, IWA, visited the following
patients in the General Hospital

copies of the B.C. Lumber
Worker:

Charlie Turner, Comox — Op-
eration; awaiting results.

weeks.
gressing fine.
Bron Wateake
ro, Wal Alert Bay—V¢
cheerful and doing fine,”

Sisters Elsie Gray and Jean} —
Mackenzie, of the W.A., Local |.

and distributed cigarettes, also |

Nandor Nelson, Powell River—|_
Expects to leave for home in two |

B. Eagle, Williams Lake—Pro- | |
itula, Hope—Doing well. | |

Hooray, and up she rises
4

increase in food prices, April 1946-Oct. 950,

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