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. Women’s Page IWA Wives Could Tel Women’s Page | Him 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. 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