By DORIS

Beauty Hides
‘Slum Horrors

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

FRENCH

OTTAWA—This lovely capital city is splashed with
gay paint colors — Tulip Drive is at its finest. At the
Sweeping approach to the new Mackenzie King bridge a
squad of men are laying a carpet of turf—presto! a green

lawn.

I don’t think Canada’s taxpay-
ers really mind the astonishing
sums of money that go into mak-
‘ing Ottawa so green and bright.
It’s an extravagance for which
we can pardon the men on Parlia-
ment Hill who take in our dollars
so inexorably every April.

I imagine even the citizens of
Charlottetown and Prince Rupert
feel that way. Though perhaps
they envy the families who live
here,—what a pleasure to make
one’s home in a city so lavishly
parked and beflowered!

Well, the truth is, some people
are never satisfied.

Homes Needed

Ask the City’s Welfare Coun-
cil, which has just completed an
indignant brief on Ottawa hous-
ing. Right now our capital is
short 5,000 houses, while 4,000
existing dwellings need major re-
irs. Just take a walk up a
k street...

At least one-third of Ottaw
families earn less than $3,000 a
year; therefore can’t afford a
CMHC house which is the only
kind currently being built. The
‘ity has so far ignored the pos-
sibility of a subsidized - rental
housing program.

Nothing
Left To

Ri

OTTAWA (CPA) — Inform-
ation to help the poor consumer
who is subjected to a battery
of high-pressure advertising
ought to come from the Na-
tional Research Council, M. J.
Coldwell, CCF National Leader,
said in the Commons this week.

Tests are being made regularly
on domestic products, but the
publie is not informed about the
results. Surely private industry
should not be the only one to
benefit by government research,
Mr, Coldwell said.

Eaten Away

“Those of us who went over
the National Research Council
building two or three years ago
will recall that we saw certain
experiments that were made in
connection with certain widely
advertised products a certain
number of times, the clothes were
eaten away; they were destroyed.
Why should not the consumer of
Canada know that some of these
great-
can cause serious

_| situation represented a

Homeless Tots ,
The Children’s Aid Society has
103 children in its care, deprived
of family life, merely because of

lack of housing. (Public custod:
of these children costs the city
about the equivalent of $112 per
month for each family involved—
a rent subsidy would cost con-
siderably less!)

And out at Rockcliffe Emer-
gency Shelter 126 families are
going to be evicted at the end of
June because the federal govern-
ment needs the buildings for
fence purposes. Those families
have had two years’ notice to
move out, so Ottawa’s arch-Tory
mayor, Charlotte Whitton (once
an eminent social worker—God
save the mark!) says they just
aren’t trying to find other homes.

Challenge Evaded
The Ottawa Citizen say
“For more than 20 months the
direct
challenge that the city evaded.
The municipali hould have
worked to arrange adequate al-
ternative housing by building low-
rental quarters. But the city left
the Rockcliffe tenants to find, in
most cases, the only alternative
shelter that exists: congested
lum homes, or accommodation in
lodging houses or with relati
This too often involves the spli
ting up of families and a whole
new series of social problems tha'
must be solved at the. commun-
ity’s expense.”

Sort of
tulips

the shine off the

Recip

By PEG STEWART

Here’s a particularly good de:
sert for warm weather. It is un-

th cream, or with

fresh fruit. If you make it in in-

dividual moulds or dishes, you

can stretch it out to serve eight,

ie don’t try that unless it fol-

0

it LEMON DELICIOUS,

3 egg yolks

1 teaspoon grated lemon rind.

4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon gelatine

44 eup cold water

14 cup lemon juice

3 egg whites fly beaten.

Beat the egg yolks till thick

and lemon coloured, Add lemon

peel and beat in sugar. Soften

gelatine in cold water, and dis-

solve over hot water. Add dis-

solved gelatine and lemon juice

1 gg yolk mixture. Fold in
: ‘ or six

a substantial dinner. I call future?

Women’s Auxiliary
1-424, IWA, Prince George, elect-
ed at their Annual Meeting, June
rd, the following officers who
were installed by J. Holst, Inter-
national Organizer.

President, Mrs. A. MacDon-
old; 1st Vice-President, Mrs,
G. Hunter; Secretary, Mrs. H.
Neal; Treasurer, Mrs. N. Crab-
tree; Warden, Mrs. P. Ska-
licky; Conductor, Mrs, W.
Bargy; Trustee, 3 years, Mrs.
. Estes; Trustee, 2 years,
S. Warnes; Trustee, 1
Mrs. S. L. Hobson.

| Chairmen for
| committees:

| _ Entertainment,
Jones; Catering, Mrs.
ers; Visiting, Mrs.

the various

Mrs. D.

A tea party-has been planned
by the Auxiliary for June 19th,
| in the CCF Hall, commencing at

3 p.m. with a home-cooking sale
| and variety table.

of Local}

J. Pet- |

Cc Sek

Vancouve!

et Kamm of the
IWA, visited the

E
| Yer Gene
distributing can
copies of the B.

er:
TB. WARD i
©, Elman, Seymour Inlet — Fine.
i. Innes, Terrace — Fine.
Duinian, Copper Canyon — Had

operation. Doing well,
J. Hitchens, Goodwin Johnson —
Fine.
e ANNEX
N. Ducharme, Prince George —
Fine,
M. Brindle, McGregor Logging —
Fine.
Burgman, Holberg.
Lind, Englewood
HEATHER ANN!
, Delaire, Arthritis — About the
same.
LD. & H. WARD
0. Mercer, Prince George — Up
and around.

| A, Krone, Prince George — Fine.
| W. Sims, ‘Lakbrey Logging—Polio,
| _ improving. z

| w. Ganner, Turner Logging —

in
A. Walsuk, Booth

proving.

Sister Margaret Kamm of the
| WA Local 1-217, IWA, visited the

Logging—Im-

| following patients in the Vancou-
ver General- Hospital June -8th,

distributing candy, cigarettes and
copies of the B.C, Lumber Work-
er:

‘T.B. WARD

Seymour Inlet — Up

any
ing around,
x, Terrace — Fine,

| L. Duinlan, Copper Canyon—Doing

| _ fine.

J. Hitchens, Goodwin Johnson —
Fine,

ne.

‘és George —

B.

Rygh, Alice Lake Logging —
Fine.
HEATHER 4
L. Delaire, Arthrit
same.
LD. & H. WARD
| W. Sims, Lakbrey Logging—Polio.
| in’ wheel chair,

— About the

nner, Tu: Logging—Op-

ion, Fine.

the following pa
Royal Columbian

a
| cop
| Bob Hansen, Mar
| Cliff Ducek, Flavelle Cedar.
|W. Traweeet

H. Frome,
Bernard Smit
| Shingle,

aw mil
ic SI

Fthe

| Royal Columbian

(7) an

x General

ACW uck, Booth Logging—Im-
proving.
Krone, Prince George — Fine.

isters’ Vi Lamarche.

Wood of the WA Local 1.

visited the following patients in

Vancouver General Hospital

during May, distributing candy,

cigarettes and copies of the B.C.

Lumber Worker:

Joe Dark, Fine.

D. Watts, 1b, L. Sauder Co.—Look-
ing well,

Homer Lorrain, Parkside Lumber
Co. — Crushed leg.

BI May, Morgan Logging—Doing

ne.

J. D, Robertson, Ladysmith—Tine.

A. Curruthers,’ Chamus Bay —
Looking well. »

H. Sjolander, Courtenay—Progres-
ing slowly.

Emmett Holmes, L. & K, Lumber

ooking very well. .

'T. Davey, Gibson—Condition good.

K, Penger, Port Hardy — Doing

ne,

A. Kerotash, Cranbrook — Very
‘cheerful.

J. Toth, Progressing slowly.

Ray Hoffner, Condition good.

Ray Earl, Jorgenson Logging —
Going Home.

A. Martindale, Forward Bay
‘Condition good.

W, Holonke, Camp Wosk—Cheer-

aye, Cranbrook—Very cheer-

. Schiller, Parsons Logging —

Leg injury.

S. Jiacometti, Cranbrook — Arm
injury.

©. Benz, Looking well,

Eli Mustonen, Hollberg — Knee
injury.

M. Brondway, Vancouver — Very
good,

Ray Failey, Port Alberni — Head
injury

Mazur, Yukon Lumber — Very

cheerful, E

B. Dick, Burns Lake — Condition

loyd, Salmon River—Finger

k, Northern Cedar Co.
—Looking well.

D. Rourk, Fleetwood Logging —
Cheerful.

Carl Cook; Looking well.

Matt Laktieh, Leg and back in-
juries. ?

Paul Gapka, Fraser Mills,

Canadian White Pine,

ell, Holberg Logging.

tend, Port Kells,

A. Anderson, Dominion
Chemical. 3

1. Servigny, B.C. Miz.

Tar &

Younger

port on one hand and greatly

on the other.

Analysis of the 1951 census re-
veals the changing age distribu-
tion of the Canadian population.

| Between 1941 and 1951 Canada’s

| population of working age (15-

4 years) increased by a-moder-
ate 15%. But the older age group

(65 years and over) increased

by 41.5% over the same period,

ile the children under 10 i
creased by a whopping 48.7%
under the influence of the great
increase in marriages and births
since the war. Strangest of all
the age group (10-19 years)
showed an actual decrease of be-
tween 1 and 2% during the
period. These are the depression
babies, relatively few in number,
now passing through the adoles-

} cent and early adult stage.

| Big Squeeze

| What do these statistics mean

| to our society and what are the
implications for the immediate

First of all, it means

| that the working age group is
being squeezed at both ends—by

increased numbers of children on
the one hand and a larger group
|of older persons on the other

‘hand. In 1941 the age group 15-

| 64 represented 6542 % of the total

| population; by 1951 the same age
| group had shrunk to less than

162% of the population. This
trend is almost certain to be con-
tinued into 1961, at which time
the slender cohort of depression
babies will all have moved into
the working age group.

You can readily see the implic-
ations. A greater and greater
strain will be placed on the work-

‘Crowds Older

OTTAWA (CPA) — The age group in Canada that
does the work—age 15 to 64 in Census calculations—is
going to find the burden heavier in the next period of
years, with hordes of post-war youngsters requiring sup-

Set

increased numbers of oldsters

ing age group to support the in-
creasing numbers of elderly per-
sons and children. In the case of
the elderly, the current movement
of population from the farms to
the cities is complicating the
problem. In farm communities
elderly persons do not present
the same problems in care and
accommodation that they do in
congested urban areas.

Retard Retirement

What are the answers to this
immediate problem of shifting
age distributions throwing an
added burden on the working age
group? One.is to retard the nor-
mal age of retirement and make
concerted efforts to provide con-
genial employment for persons up
to the age of 70, and even beyond
that age if their health is good.
Forced retirement at age 60 or 65
of persons in good health, apart
from being an economic loss to
the country, frequently works a
hardship on those persons if their
financial resources are slim,

Another possible solution is to
step up the immigration of per-
sons of working age, particularly
of persons in that abnormally
small age group of 15-25 years.
A third possibility is to expand
the labor force by the inclusion
of more and more women work-
ers, This has been happening any-
way, of course, and it may be
that the war-time phenomenon of

working wives will become an es-
tablished and normal development

Firms on the
“We Do Not Patronize List”
of the Victoria Labor
Council, CCL

Stewart & Hudson Ltd., Victorin,

B.
Firms on the
“We Do Not Patronize List”
of the Victoria Trades &
Labor Council (TLC-AFL)

Daminion Cafe, Victoria
Remington Rand, Victorin
Bond Clothing, Victoria
Rddie’s Ltd., Victoria

Arnold Bakery, Victoria

Roy Barker (Barber), Victorin,

Firms on the
“We Do Not Patronize List”
of the Vancouver Trades

and Labor Council
RESAURANTS:
Black Cat Coffee Shop.
Mayfair Caterers.
Stork Coffee House.
TAXIS:
Balmoral Taxi.
Broadway Taxi.
Forum Cabs Ltd.
PAINTERS:
H. V. Tourner, Chilliwack, B.C.
Vancouve r Painters &
Decorators.
T. Mackie.
BARBERS:
50 East Broadway
2007 Granville Street
865 Kingsway
1588 Kingsway
858 Richards Street
1767 Kingsway
Hotel Vancouver Barber Shop
530 Front St., New Westminster
109 East Brondway
PHOTO ENGRAVERS:
Graphic Industries Ltd.
BAKERIES:
Home Bakery Ltd, North Van.
Dandy Donuts Ltd. (Douglas
Bakery)
Montreal Bakery Ltd.
SIGN PAINTERS:
Victor David Neon Signy
David Decorators Ltd.
Charles David
David Hall Sign Co. Ltd.
TYPEWRITER COMPANIES:
Remington Rand Ltd.
Underwood Elliott Fisher Ltd.
Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Mitchell Printing & Publishing Co.
The Geo. H. Hewitt Co. Ltd.
Gordon Young (B.C.) Ltd.
Victoria Tile & Brick Supply Ltd.

of our Canadian society.