Ist Issue, November

11

Sick

St. Paul’s

Sister Bobbie Sharpe of the LA,
Local 1-217, IWA, visited the fol-
lowing patients in the St. Paul's
Hospital, Oct. 24th, distributing
candy, cigarettes and copies of the
B.C. Lumber Worker.

Ray Bush, Kelowna—Leg injury.
A. Hendrickson, Shore Bay—Arm

‘and hand injury.

Charles Le Drew, Charles Creek

Logging—Knee ‘injury.

Jim ‘Fentie, Prince George—Back
injury.

Al. Robins, Quesnel—Injured wrist.

George Mastrom, Prince George—

Bone graft.

Bernle MacDonald, Powell River—
Head injury.
Floyd MeMahon,

injury.
¥. Ballantyne, Beaver Cove — Leg

injury.

Nanaimo General

Brothers Joe Downey and Dick
Dawes of the Nanaimo Sub-Local
of Local 1-80, IWA, visited the fol-
lowing patients in the Nanaimo
General Hospital during October
distributing candy, cigarettes and
copies of the B.C, Lumber Worker.
Mrs, Elia Sculthorpe, Northwest

Bay—Thyroid operation,

Mrs, Evelyn Adair — Recovering
from*car accident, _.
Mrs, Bernice Soperg—To have op-

eration. f
Left funny books for the children

as follows: Jerry Counter, Terry

Crucil and Steven Kovack.
Richard Seward—Bruised skin.
Howard Balance—Brulsed knee,

King’s Daughters

Financial Secretary Ed. Linder
of Local 1-80, IWA, visited the
following, patients, ih the ting’s
Daughters Hospital, Nov. 7th, dis-
tributing candy, cigarettes’ and
copies of the B.C, Lumber Worker.
Gulzar Singh, Mesachie Lake, B.C.
Richard Paddle, Ford Rd, Duncan,
Wrnext Potter, Duncan, B,C.
James Jim, Kuper Islan
Lorne Martin, Williams Lake, B.C.
Andy Anderson, Lake Cowichan.
Mrs, Joe Hancock, Gordon River.
Mrs, Al. Jakovickas, Youbou, B.C:
Mrs, ‘Harold Steinhauer, Glenora.
Mrs, Gertrude Lundgren, Chemai-
nus, B,C.
Mrs, Penrl MacGregor, Duncan.
Mrs, Richard Van Essen, Courte-
nay, B.C,
Mrs, Gary Fox, Lake Cowichan.
Mrs. Gordon Lawson, Honeymoon
Bay, B.C.
Mrs, Norman Mitchell, Duncan.

Royal Columbian

Sisters A. Fagerdahl and G.
Swan of the LA, Local 1-857, LWA,
visited the following patients 4
the Royal Columbian Hospital, 0

hevelstoke —Leg

tober 25th to November ist,’ dis—

tributing candy, cigarettes’ and

B.C. LUMBER WORKER

List.

copies of the B.C. Lumber

Worker.

E. Watt, Flavelle Cedar — Leg
trouble.

G, MeIntyre, Port Moody—Broken

leg.

W. Basaraba, Eburne Sawmill —
injury. :

J. Tylenbrock, B.C, Mfg. — Head
injury. a

A. Street, Fraser Mills—Back in-
Jury.

B, Hansen, Hammond Cedar—Car
accident.

N. Richardvon—Injured arm.

J. Holt, Flayelle Cedar—Operation,

¢. Krefting, B.C. Forest Products
'—Operation.

A, Vous, Trio Woodworking—Op-
efation.

Phillips Parsons, McKay & Flana-
zan—Heart trouble,

Gordon Philcox, Fraser Mills—Op-
eration. *

W._ Gustafaxon, Plavelle Cedar —
Back injury.

W, Karpins, L & K. Sawmill—In-
jury.

A._Jneobson, Flavelle Cedar —
‘Shoulder injury.
Sisters A. Fagerdahl G.

Swan of the LA, Local 1-357, IWA,

visited the following patients in

the Royal Columbian Hospital,

November ist to 8th, distributing

candy, cigarettes and copies of

the B.C, Lumber Worker.

W, Katasonoft, Highgrade Sash &
Door—Injuréd_ finger.

M, Demehuck, Faris Lumber Mill
—Operation:

Milton Lis, Port Mann—Operation.

0. Bergen, Royal City Mill—Opera-

ion.

Henry Remillard, Fraser Mills —
Leg cyst.

C. Krefting, B.C. Forest Products
—Operation.

Gino Qartine, Alaska Pine—Opera-
tion,

J. Holt, Flavelle Cedar—Operation.

B. Wnnsen, Hammond Cedar—Car
‘accident.

A. Wass, Port Moody—Operation.

EY SURES ES ‘Mills—Back in-
jury, ¥

W._ Gustafson, Flavelle Cedar —
Back injury.

Marpole

Ww. Hneley,
Broken jaw.
Rohert Bliss, Western Plywood —

Knee injury.

and

‘Acme,

N, Richardson, Haney — Broken
ribs.

Henry Martin, Fraser Mills—Heart
attack.

G. Mathews, B.C. Forest Products
‘—Chest condition.
©, Watt, Flavelle ‘Cedar — Leg
rouble,
P, Parsons, McKay & Flanagon—
Heart trouble.
Jncobson, Flayelle Cedar
‘Shoulder injury.
ehwab, P.V.—Blood poisoning.
Phileox, Fraser Mills—Stomach
‘ouble.
, Harpin, L, & 1K, Sawmill—In-
jury
J. Davidson, Alaska Pine—Ill.

AY

Co-op School
Helps “Mom"

By EILEEN ROBINS
Some time ago, when our elder daughter was just en-
tering the “terrible twos”, somebody suggested that Nurs-
ery School might be just the thing for getting vid of some
of her surplus energy. My husband and I thought this an
excellent idea and began to investigate the situation.

We ‘found that in our city
which has a population of just,
over 250,000, there were less than
half a dozen nursery schools. Of
these, less than half really

catered for the “before three’ age
groups, which, according to the
most eminent pediatricians, is the

age group which “needs” nursery
school most.
Model Mother

I don’t pride myself on being a
model mother, nor would I want
to be, for perfection fools nobody,
and certainly wouldn’t fool my
very smart 3-year-old, but it did

Hospital
Now Cu

The Editor:

Over six months ago this Lo-
cal Union raised the question of
the hospital visiting at the Dis-
trict Executive Board. It should
be mentioned that over the years
this matter has been raised from
time to time with a view to find-
ing a solution to the problem.

Sixteen Hospitals

For over eight years, Local 1-
217’s auxiliary has consistently
visited injured IWA members at
the hospitals in Vancouver. Back
in 1948, there were only about
eight hospitals to be visited, but
with the increased number of hos-
pitals built, there are now over
16 which must be covered by our
Auxiliary.

A survey recently indicated
that from over 2,000 patients
visited, 187 came from the Van-
couver Local Union, The Auxili-
ary requested financial assistance
to help them in their work. The
only assistance that was forth-
coming came from Local 1-424.
Many Auxiliary members became
discouraged with the lack of sup-
port on a Disrict scale, to the ex-
tent that the membership in Van-
couver Auxiliary dwindled
sharply. Like anything else, the
end was inevitable. When the
membership dropped to nine
members, the gallant ladies found
themselves with an impossible
task.

Visits
rtailed

Hospital visiting has been con-
ducted week after week, month
after month, year after year,
with each and every woodworker
being visited once a week regard-
less to which hospital he may be
confined. As a result of this un-
fortunate turn of events, the ex-
ecutive committee of this Local
Union has found it necessary to
relieve the ladies of their com-
mitments and responsibilities in
hospital visiting.

No Further Visiting

I therefore regretfully inform
you that, as of this date, there
will be no further hospital visit-
ing, distribution of cigarettes,
chocolate bars, and papers at any
of the Vancouver hospitals.

It is hoped that we will be able
to reorganize the distribution
from the Local by the first of the
year, but at that time we will
only visit injured members of this
Local Union.

Might I respectfully request
that you publish this letter in the
Lumber Worker and would ap-
preciate your office expressing
our regrets to the rest of the
membership in other Locals, but
in view of the circumstances, we
have no alternative but to take
the steps forced upon us.

_ S. M, HODGSON,
Secretary, Local 1-217.

T.B. HITS:

POOR
FIRST

OTTAWA (CPA) —‘Statisti-
cal studies in Canada and-other
countries show that tuberculosis
is becoming increasingly a dis-
ease of older people and that
it is more likely to be found
among ‘the poor than then the
rich, Health Minister Martin
stated here recently. He an-
nounced that the federal gov-
ernment would assist the prov-
ince of Ontario in a special TB
detection program. i

Mr. Martin said that while On-
tario had made great advances in
controlling TB, the fall in the
number of new cases discovered
was not as great as the decline
in the TB death rate.

The Ontario government has
developed a program of chest x-
rays for all people receiving old
age assistance, blind and disabled
persons’ allowances, mothers’ al-
lowances and direct relief. About
47,000 people will be eligible for
the service, The Minister empha-
sized that the program would call
for voluntary co-operation and
would not be a condition for re-
receiving assistance under any of
the security programs.

occur to me that this wag a very
poor state of affairs, In addition
to the lack of schools, the fees
for those in existence were exor-
bitant. We decided that Anne
would have to wait for her nurs-
ery school.

Then some friends of ours,
hearing about all this, came to
see us one night. “How much do
you want Anne to go to nursery
school?” they asked. “How much,
in time and money and effort and
labor, are you prepared to pay?”
“Well . . . ” we were doubtful.
But by the time our friends left
to.go home,-we had been sold on
their idea. It was this: that we
should begin to participate in a
“co-operative” nursery school in
which they were very much in-

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Initial Outlay

I was staggered at the relative
simplicity of the whole thing.
There are so many sets of par-
ents, so many children. Each par-
ent contributes what he can af-
ford toward the capital outlay of
the school. Fathers are respons-
ible for carpentry and general up-
keep of the school building;
mothers sew and type, phone and
buy. Each set of parents, in spite
of their initial outlay, continues
to pay monthly fees for their
child-fees, incidentally, which are
far lower than the fees of com-
parable establishments in Ottawa.

Here is the best thing about it

all: we can decide whether or not
Anne is getting the right kind of
training. We can decide if the
fees should be raised or lowered.
We run the school, pay the teach-
ers’ fees, make the toys—in fact,
the school belongs to us, and to
the parents of the other children
(30 altogether) who attend. The
teachers are the best available—
in charge is a Gesell-trained
graduate of the Yale Clinic. Per-
haps we are lucky in that she,
too, believes in co-operation.

Of course, there are disadvan-
tages — my husband grumbles
about having to go off and “build”
things on the weekend, just so
that the children can destroy
them during the following week.

ES

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