B.C. LUMBER WORKER Scck St. Paul's ‘ Sisters Violet La Marche and ive Whitehouse of the WA Local 1-217, IWA, visited the following Patients in the St. Paul's Hospital tributing candy, cigarettes and copies of the B.C. Lumber Worker, », Jeune Landing — ‘Empire Mills—Bro- W. W. Higgens, Tahsis Shingl dia ‘spinal injury. cat Grant Mark, ‘Franidin River — pthun injury ‘nderson, MacMillan & Bi Fractured back, ee B, Colwell, Franklin River—Knee injury. J. Erickson, Lambs, Sechelt—Bro- wien shoulder. R farry Peleck, Anola Logging, Kamloops—Broken, back eo" N. Vancouver General Sister Lucy Robinson of the WA Local 1-217, IWA, visited the foi- lowing patient in the North Van- couver Hospital, distributing andy, cigarettes and copies of the B.C, Lumber Worker, Hankon Berntsen, Lions Gate Mills—Broken leg. Vancouver General Sisters Alison Brown and Mabel Anderson of the W.A. Local 1-217, IWA visited the foliowing patients in the Vancouver General Hospital November 25th, distributing candy, cigarettes and’ copies of the B.C. Lumber Worker. * ANNEX 8. Olson, MacMillan & Bloedel — Operation, R. Bentile, Smithers—Hand injury —Out. F. Schmidt, Kamloops—Back in- jury. Coming along, E. Norlen, Columbia Logging — Amputation, Looking weil. Lit dD o B. Hudson, J. R. Murray—Stomach trouble. Awaiting operation. E, Warrisén, Operation. Out time of visit. LD. & H. WARD ML. Sjotander, Comox—Operation. A. Walsuk,’ Booth Logging — ‘Cheerful, G. Larson, Prince George—Look- ing well. A. Krone, Prince George—Out at ‘time of’ visit. W, Ganner, Tiirner Logging—Do- ing well. at %. Wanas, Fraser Mills — Back |. injury. Not too well, K. Lina, Chemainus — Throat trouble—Receiving treatment. HEATHER ANNEX L. Delaire, R. J. Morgan — Arth- ritis. Coming along. Prince George Sisters Swain and Stavely of the WA Local 1-424, IWA, visited the following patients in’ the Prince George and District Hospital dis- tributing candy, cigarettes and copies of the B.C. Lumber Worker. Ernest Brin, Buckhorn Lake Saw- mill, Reyal Rochan, Shelley Sawmills— broken foot. & Pete Tanischuk, Stevenson Saw- mill—eye injury, Ollie Bakken, Nagle Lake Sawmill. Ernest Kennedy, B.C. Spruce Sales —leg and arm injuries. Robert McLean, Fichtner Lumber, 2nd Visit to Hospital: Tanischuk, Stevenson Saw- mill—going home, Ernest Brin, Buckhorn Lake, feel- ing fine., Kenneth Schell, Sinclair Mills — injured back. Kenneth Schwendinen, Shelley — improved, Ernest Froese, Vanderhoof, B.C.— improved. Emily Jaruls, Dennis Sawmills, Summit Lake, B.C.—burnt face and arms. Pete | ATTENTIVE IWA POLITICIANS at the Nanaimo CCL Institute Banquet are, from left, John Squire (M.L.A.), Mrs. Squire, and Tom Barnett (M.P.). WEST G REETS FAR EAST OTTAWA (CPA)—Tom Bar- nett, CCF member of Parlia- ment for Comox-Alberni, was able to disprove Rudyard Kip- ling’s poem about east and west never meeting, when he took a trip to Newfoundland recently. The British Columbia MP is, of course, a trade unionist. He is a member of Local 1-85 of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO-CCL). Therefore, When he was on a fact-finding tour of Canada’s tenth province, he decided to look up some fel- low unionists. Tom met some members of the United Steelworkers (CIO-CCL) local at Bell Island, Nfld. and was invited to attend one of their meetings. He brought greetings from his local, which operates on Canada’s extreme West Coast, to the Steelworkers, who were or- Alex B. Macdonald Barrister & Solicitor Notary Public 751 Grenville Street ganized more than 4,000 miles away in the same country. Mr. Barnett’s local and the Bell Island Steelworkers’ local are the two most widely separated bodies affiliated with the Canadian Con- gress of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Wives At Work Get Raw Deal By PEG STEWART There's n6 doubt that some people will abuse any priv- ilege if they have the chance. There are natural born cheaters and pilferers, and the rest of us have to take steps to protect ourselves from them. But we don’t have to take away everyone’s rights to protect ourselves against the dishonest few. We don’t have to close the highways because there are some drunken and dangerous drivers—or even because there are some crooked contractors working on them. Let’s take a look at Unemploy- ment Insurance. If you’re in in- surable employment — which is most of industry—you pay in to the Unemployment Insurance Fund, so you, or other workers, can draw money when they’re out of work. There’s no choice about this— it’s a check-off out of your pay. And there are rules and safe- guards to protect the Fund from dishonest people. That’s fine. But it doesn’t work the same way for everybody. And that’s not so good. Married Woman Suppose you’re a woman, and you get married. Then, suppose that for personal reasons, you change your job. Then there’s a layoff and you’re out of work. The gal at the next machine was married two and a half years ago. She can collect unemployment insurance. So can all the men concerned, married or bachelors. But not you, sister! Not unless you qualify under Regulation 5A of the Unemployment Insurance Act. Special Category The government doesn’t trust you. I don’t know why, but they seem to. think that women who have been married less than two years are the most untrustworthy of all citizens — they just sit around plotting to beat the Un- employment Insurance Act. If their husbands are chisellers, there’s machinery to catch up with them, just as there is if they’re reckless drivers or petty thieves or anything else that’s bad for their fellow citizens, But women who have been married Jess than two years are placed in a special, uncomfortable category. Ontario Case A case that illustrates this very clearly occurrd in Ontario » = “4 G WHITE BREAD SS SANDWICH WHITE BREAD. BALANCED NOW ENRICHED As an aid to better nutrition all G.B. White Bread BRAARAARATAAaAaaAs recently. A’ young working wom- an got married and moved to her husband’s home town, which was 17 miles from the place she worked. Pretty soon she found it was difficult to get back and forth, because the bus service was poor. So she changed her job—she went to work where ‘she now lived. But in a couple of months, in November, 1953, there was a lay- off. She applied for unemploy- ment insurance. The Insurance Officer disqualified her to June 20th, 1955—her second wedding anniversary, because she didn’t qualify under Regulation 5A. She took the case to a Board of Referees—she was turned down. She took it to the umpire in Ot- tawa, She was turned down. Good Faith But the umpire said, in his judgment, “I do not think that this claimant’s good faith can he doubted . . . she has also satis- factorily established that she was out of work through no fault of her own, and that she had just cause within . .. the meaning of the Act, of voluntarily leaving her second last employment . . . but... she fails to meet any one of the conditions laid down in Benefit Regulation 5A... THAT PARAGRAPH GOES MUCH FURTHER THAN SECTION 43 (1) OF THE ACT... I would therefore suggest to the Unem- ployment Commission that it take remedial action in those respects whenever it sees fit to revise Benefit Regulation 5.” There’s more to it than this little story. There are other cir- cumstances under which women married less than two years are disqualified from collecting Un- employment Insurance. Women’s Groups Surely, with so many married women working, and so many working women getting married, women’s groups should get busy and study this question — union groups, auxiliaries, women’s clubs, even Local Councils of Women. BAZAAR - PLANNED One new member, Dorothy Pickering, was initiated at the regular meeting of the Wo- men’s Auxiliary of Local 1-424, IWA, Prince George, held Dec- ember 2nd, in the CCF Hall. Preparations were made for a Bazaar to be held on December 11th, and for the Children’s Xmas Party December 12th, Plans were discussed for a Whist Drive to be held December 16th. “OLD DOC” Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas has moved his Dental Office from 9 East Hastings St. to 712 Robson St., Vancouver, B.C. NEW ADDRESS xs) PRUDENTIAL all the members of Lo¢al Nem PL A reminder that whether G. G. 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