B.C. LUMBER WORKER

C__ Sick

Sisters E. Spooner and M.
brook of the L.A. Local
IWA, visited the “following | p
tients in the Royal Columbian
Hospital, January 8th, distribut-
ing candy, cigarettes ‘and copies
of B.C, Lumber Worker:

Den, Smith, Fraser Mills—Cheer-
ful,

R. Webb, Hammond.

Dayid Aston, P.V_

¥. Blair, Talisis—Operation.

J. Jnnz, Capilano. i

Dan Bodnar, Hammond—Accident.

A, Vatelet, Hammond — Broken

leg.
nd Yarrow, Lamb's Logging —

Arm injury.

Wernand Pilon, Canadian Forest
A. Allegretto, Alaska Pine—Opera-
tion.

Sisters Gerd Erlendson and
Frances Love of the LA, Local 1-
457, IWA, visited the following pa-
tients In the Royal Columbian
Hospital, Jan. 22 to 29, distribut-

ing candy, cigarettes ‘and copies

of the B.C. Lumber Worker.

Stewart, Canadian White Pine —
Car accident, i

A, Vatelet, B. G, Forest Products—
Broken jeg.

Carl Anderson,
Shoulder injury.

Don Smith, Fraser Mills—Bacly in-
Jury.

W. Parry, Canadian White Pine—
Car accident.

Frank Binir, Tahsis— Throat op-
eration.

B, Yarrow, Lambs Logging.

J. Holt, Flavelle Cedar.

RH. Kolodinski, Alaska Pine — Im-
proving.

Jervis Inlet —

L J t D
M. Stoppler, Port Kells.
J, Dalgleish, Fort, Langley.

RK. Lochndorf, Canadian White
Pine—Car accident.

J. MeCorquodale, P.V.

©, Everett, B.C.’ Forest Products.

Marry Hill, Port McNeil — Doing
weil.

Sisters Esther Spooner and Mar-
garet Seabrook of the LA, Local
1-357, TWA, visited the following
patients in’ the Royal Columbian
Hospital, Jan. 15, distributing
candy, elgarettes and copies of the
B.C, Lumber Worker.

Reuben Israel, Phillips — Opera-
tion.

RW. Turris, Mohawk — Leg in-
jury. é

J. MeCorquodale, P.V.—Dropsy.

H. Ducharme, Fraser’ Mills.

A. Bjerkseth, Valley Lumber.

H. Still, Pt. ’McNeil—Improving.

R. E. Watt, Plavelle—Operation.

J. Sandberg, MacMillan & Bloedel.

Flavelle—Im-

Kan Wing Young,
proving.
D. Smith, Fraser Mills—Back in-

jury.

a. Watelet, Hammond—Broken leg.

© Anderson, Louise Bay—Improv-
ing.

S. Vanschagen, McLean Logging,
Hope, B.C.

D. Winder, McLean Logging, Hope.

J. Janz, Capilano,

E. Yarrow, Lamb's—Arm injury.

F. Blair, Tahsis.

E, DeConti, Shooks.

UL, Oxtenstad, Fraser Mills.

J, Holt, Flavelle—Operation.

R. Kolodinski, Alaska Pine — Op-
eration,

M. Gislason, Bentinck Plywood —
Car accident.

Barnett

Named
Again

Tom Barnett, M.P. for Co-
mox-Alberni, was named unani-
mously at a nominating con-
yention of the Comox-Alberni
Constituency C.C.F. Associa-
tion, to be their standard-bearer
in the next federal election.

Nominated by Frank Telford’

of Coombs and Stan Jowsey of
Alberni; Barnett,a resident of
Alberni, will be seeking a second
term in office. Colin Cameron,
M.P. for Nanaimo, addressed the
gathering, declaring that the can-
didate had established a solid
and respected position in the
House of Commons in Ottawa.
He pointed out that the CCF
had reason to exist as a political
party only if it offered a work-
able alternative to the capitalist
system, labelled as being immoral

sin the Winnipeg Declaration of;

this year.

In accepting the nomination,
Tom Barnett set as a realistic
objective for the CCF in the com-
ing federal election, the capturing
of the place of Official Opposi-
tion.

Barring a quick deterioration
in the general economic climate
between now and the time of the
election, Mr. Barnett conceded it
was likely the Liberals would be
returned to office. When a period

of _major economic and social |

stress develops, the speaker pre-
dicted the present hodge-podge of
support for the Liberals would
fall apart and the political align-

TOM BARNETT, M.P.

“|. . has a clear-cut policy”

ment of voters across the coun-
try would be more sharply divid-
ed between progress and reaction.

There should be no question, he
added, of the need of strengthen-
ing the Opposition side of the
House with more members, who
are prepared to oppose thé in-
creasing domination of the econ-
omy by a few large corporations.
“Only the CCF has a clear-cut
policy of protecting and develop-
ing the heritage of the citizen
for the citizen,” Mr. Barnett con-
cluded.

EILEEN SCANS
SALARY LISTS

By EILEEN ROBINS

I don’t suppose too many people were surprised when
recently-published statistics disclosed that engineers had
taken first place as the highest paid people in Canada. I
imagine they will be the highest paid for a very long time
to come, for, under pressure of knowledge that Soviet Rus-
sia is concentrating on developing her engineers and scien-
tists, the Western Nations are forced into developing their
engineers and scientists at top speed, and demand from
business, industry and government for these people is

growing all the time.

I don’t feel too outraged about
all this, do you? After all, some
of those engineers and scientists
are contributing to an easier life
for more of us—new gadgets, el-
ectronic kitchens, ete. The rest of
them, presumably, are looking
after us in other ways—health,
welfare, defense and so on. The
training of a top-flight engineer
or scientist is one of the longest
and costliest, so I suppose they
deserve a break when they finally
make the grade.

Worthwhile Occupation

Architects, however, were
grouped with engineers as high-
est paid salary-earners and this
did surprise me. However, all
things being equal, I wouldn’t
feel too strongly about it. I sup-
pose designing dream homes is a
reasonably worthwhile occupa-
tion.

The trouble is, though, that all
things aren’t equal. For right at
the bottom of the list of salary-
earners—the lowest paid—what
do we find? Women nurses —
whose annual income, during 1954
—was at the fantastic low of
$1,993.00. Nobody, but nobody, is
going to persuade me that nurses
are less important than architects
to our way of life. You’ve only
got to think what life would be
like without architects and what
it would be like without nurses
to realize which group is more
valuable. And I’d bet that most
architects would agree with me.

External Matters

Now, after I saw these statis-
ties in the paper, I expected an
outery of letters, statements,
broadcasts and editorials. I have
seen one wishy-washy editorial
which suggested that nurses
ought to receive higher pay. I
heard one statement—in a speech

given in Ottawa by Professor
Frank Scott of McGill University
and not even reported in local
newspapers. And that’s it. I sup-
pose everyone is too busy think-
ing about external matters even
to have noticed that here at home
we have a very large under-priv-
ileged group.

I can see two solutions to a
deplorable situation. The first is
a truly national, and comprehen-
sive health scheme, which would
insure that hospitals receive ade-
quate funds with which to pay
adequate salaries to their staffs.
The other is that the Federal
Government allow sufficient mon-
ies to the provinces to allow suf-
ficient monies to municipalities to
allow sufficient monies to the hos-
pitals, Any way you look at it,
it shouldn’t be an insurmountable
problem in a nation of Canada’s
wealth. I certainly hope that
enough people think about it for
long enough to do something
about it,

One last word this month.
Christmas is getting very close
now — already most of us are
touched with a little of the magic
that warms all of. us at this time
of year—snowshine, candle light
and goodwill to all men. In spite
of all our grumbles and com-
plaints about this, that and the
other, most of us really are very
lucky. We live in a country
abundantly blessed with the good
things of life, including 2 meas-
ure of freedom which perhaps we
don’t altogether appreciate.

May I suggest, very humbly.
that we all try to spread some of
that happiness as far as we pos-
sibly can. A donation, however
small, will be most gratefully re-
ceived by the Mine Disaster Fund

Health
Benefits
Upped

OSLO (CPA) — Changes in
the scope and coverage made in
Norway’s national health plan
have now extended the benefits
of the plan to every citizen.
Before July 2, last, about 340,-
000 citizens — mostly self-em-
ployed persons—were excluded.

Featuring free choice of physi-
cian, the program provides medi-
cal care, hospitalization, surgery,
maternity benefits, remedial ther-
apy, as well as cash payments
during sickness. Membership is
obligatory for all, regardless of
occupation, social status, or in-
come.

No Time Limit

Under the amended act, there
is no time limit on hospitaliza-
tion, and in the case of cancer,
tuberculosis, polio and arthritis,
cash benefits will be paid beyond
the 104-week time limit for ma-
jor diseases. Ordinarily, the in-
sured is entitled to cash benefits
for 52 weeks.

In other reforms, housewives,
though still considered as depend-
ents, can take out supplementary
insurance with cash benefits dur-
ing sickness. And all members
will be paid one-third of their
benefits in cash, as long as they
are hospitalized.

“Extension of the program to
cover the last 10% of Norway’s
3,400,000 population will increase
expenditures by some $16 million
annually, to a total of $80 mil-
lion. In the case of wage-earners,
employers pay 60% of the prem-
ium, while the State and the
workers pay 20% each.

at Springhill, Nova Scotia, where
in a good many homes this year
Christmas won’t be quite the
same. Buying a box of UNICEF
Christmas cards—price $1.00 —
will help a child somewhere —
a child who probably doesn’t even
know what Christmas means, but
who would certainly appreciate
the food and medicines our dol-
lars will help to provide.

Charity begins at home, they
say—but the further it goes, the
greater its value.

April, 1956.

Packed with Pride in B.C

UNDER THE UNION LABEL!

AYLMER.
BOSTON BROWN BEANS

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