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ROYCE WINS
NEW POST

OTTAWA (CPA) — Miss

~ Marion V. Royce of Toronto
has been named to head the
new Women’s Bureau of the
Department of Labor. The
newly appointed Director will
start her duties in September.
Announcement of ‘the forma-
tion of a bureau to deal with the
special problems of working
women was made nearly a year
ago. Since that time, the civil

service commission has been
seeking a suitable person to head
the section.

Miss Royce, now principal of
Moulton College, is a graduate of
McMaster University, Hamilton
and Ontario College of Educa-
tion..She has been a staff mem-
ber of the world YWCA and has
had considerable contact with the
specialized agencies of the Unit-
ed Nations, particulary the In-
ternational Labor Organization.

COFFEE PRICES
BOOSTED STILL

No one can agree on what is

going to happen to coffee
prices.
There's even disagreement |

over exactly what has happen-
ed in the past hectic few
months.

But the coffee drinker knows
one thing for certain: He’s still
paying more than ever for it.

The optimists say Brazilian
stocks of coffee appear larger
than expected, that price could
start to slide early next year and
consumer prices a year from now
may be well below the present

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level.

Spot coffee beans in New York
presently are nudging the 90c Ib.
level and the housewife can pay
up to $1.45 for ground coffee.

The pessimists buttress a
strong case with these argu-
ments:

Brazil has set the coffee ex-
port price for the next year at
87c lb.; increased output in Brazil
and other nations is possible but
certain; North American
consumers are adjusting to higher
prices and taking up the slack in
demand which developed earlier;
European demand has increased.

RETAIL SALES TUMBLE

OTTAWA (CPA)—Evidence
of what government officials
call a “levelling off” in the
economy is apparent in the
drop recorded in value of re-
tail sales during the month of
April. Sales during the month
fell by nearly $14 million to
$1,031 million to $1,031 million.

Hardest hit were dealers in

motor vehicles, appliance and
radio stores and building ma-
terials and lumber, whose sales
dropped by 11.2%, 11.8% and
11.6% respectively. «

Wholesale dealers also noted
a decline of 2% in sales during
the month compared with April
1953. The largest decreases
were in footwear, clothing, dry
goods and hardware,

Italian Unions
Plan Housing

BRUSSELS (CPA) — The
Italian Trade Union Federa-
tion (CISL) has produced a
detailed plan for providing the
2% million dwellings which it
is estimated will be needed to
solve the housing shortage in
Italy over the next ten years,
the International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions reports.”

CISL proposes the construction
of 200,000-250,000 housing units

per year, with a yearly invest-
ment of $2,250,000.
Rent Controls

The plan calls for government
expropriation (with compensa-
tion) of building sites, for the
extension of rent control for a
further ten years and for the
financing of the sclieme by a tax
of 10%-15% on the rents of resi-
dential property and 20% on
business premises.

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VITALLY INTERESTED in the proceedings were these-ladies in attendance at the recent member-

ship meeting of Local 1-80, IWA. (Left to right): Mrs. E. Lundeberg, President W.A. Camp 6; Mrs.
George Smythe, Ist Vice-President, W.A.; Miss S hirley Clarke, bookkeeper, Miss Sally Thompson,
stenographer, both IWA members and on the staff of the Local Union.

Fewer Wives At
Work In Canada

OTTAWA (CPA)—Three in
every ten workers in the Unit-
ed States are women, according
to the U.S. Department of

Labor. In Canada, however,
Labor Department statistics
show that the proportion is

only just over two out of ten.

While women workers total 19
million in the U.S., or around 30%
of the total foree, women workers
accounted for only 1,190,000, or
22%, out of the total Canadian
labor force of 5,392,000 during
May this year.

One major difference between
the U.S. and Canadian working
forces of women is the number

of married women employed. In
the U.S. more than half of all
women workers are married, but
in Canada the proportion of mar-
ried women has dropped from
37% in late 1945 to just over
32% recorded early this year.
In 1945, 35% of all U.S. civilian
workers were women. This fell
to 28% in 1947, but over the last
three years the percentage has
remained around 30. Canadian
women workers accounted... for
24% of the total labor. force in
November, 1945, and the percent-
age stood at the same level in
1947 but has since dropped to the
fairly steady level of 22%.

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Vancouver General
Sister Alison Brown and Stella Lau-
maillet of the WA Local 1-217, IWA,
vi “d the following patients in the
Vancouver General Hospital, distributing
candy, cigarettes and copies of the B.C.
Lumber Worker:
WARD E
Knott, Knott Brothers Logging—Hand
injury.
Higginson, O'Brian Logging—Hand and
broken pelt
Storey, Chemainus—Knee injury.
Henderson, Bay Lumber—Leg injt
Pimlott, Sooke—Leg injury.
Laktich, Port Alberni—Leg injury.
Libeon, Smithers—Toe injuries.
WARD S and T
Island—Leg

Roberts, Nelson
injuries.

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WA BOWLING TEAM WINNERS of the 1954 Dawson Creek Ladies League, left to right: Mrs.
Stubley, Miss Anne Tikkenin, Mrs. Dorothy Hart. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Mae Close
and Mrs. Donna Hawkins, who as star bowler went east last year for the Western Cana-

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Byrd, Prince Rupert—Arm inju
Melnic, Kennedy Lake—Leg injr
Quaye, Cranbrook—Broken back.

Madras, MacMillan & Bloedell—Stomach
trouble.

RACE
BARS
FOUGHT

TORONTO (CPA)—A show-
down on the discrimination
practiced against colored resi-
dents of Dresden, Ontario, may
result from the first complaint
filed under the recently passed
Ontario Fair Accommodations
Act. The complaint, filed by
A. R. Burnett of Dresden, Sec-
retary of the National Unity
Association, charges that a
Dresden restaurateur refused
to serve him and some friends
because they were Negroes.

Earlier this year Mr. Burnett
headed a delegation to the pro-
vincial Cabinet asking for legi:
lation to outlaw racial diserimi-
nation in the province. Com-
plaints that Dresden’s Negro
residents could not get a meal in
the town restaurants or obtain
the services of barbers and
others, aroused nation-wide in-
terest. Dresden has Canada’s
highest proportion of Negro citi-
zens. B

The incident complained of in
the statement filed with Labor
Minister Daley followed an at-
tempt by Burnett and two mar-
vied couples to have a meal in a
restaurant. They were asked by

ies;

the proprietor to leave.

Exempt
Funds
Upped

employee pension funds were
contained in Bill 467, recently
passed by the House of Com-
mons and Senate. Three an-
nual limits were increased from
$900 to $1,500:

$1500 Deductible

—If you are an employee, you
may have $1,500 deducted from
your earnings and transmitted
to an approved pension plan in
respect of your services for the
year, and you may deduct this
from your taxable earned in-
come.

—If you are an employee, you
may now contribute $1,500 to an
approved pension plan in respect
of prior years’ service when you
were not a contributor, and de-
duct this, from syour
earned income.

—If you are an employer, you
may contribute $1,500 to an ap-
proved pension plan in respect
of each employee's current ser-
vices, and write this off as an
operating expense.

Accumulated Contributions

Another change clarifies the
right of an employee to deduct
accumulated contributions in past
years, in respect of non-contri-
butory service, at the rate of
1,500 per year in 1954 and sub-
sequent years if he had been un-
able to deduct these contributions
from gross income in previous
years.

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