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NDP’s WADDEL
scat GRANT

VANCOUVER — New Democratic Party
M.P. Ian Waddell (Vancouver Kingsway)
has presented the labour-sponsored Jubilee
summer camp for children with a $200,000
Canada Works project grant.

The grant was made to Camp Jubilee on
Waddell’s recommendation in consultation
with the Canada Employment and Immi-
gration Commission. it will be used to pay.
labour costs for extensive renovations to the
camp which is run by a group of trade union
volunteers.

Situated on Indian Arm in Burrard Inlet
about 15 minutes by water taxi north of
Vancouver, Camp Jubilee was first opened
in 1935. The idea was to provide inexpensive
summer camp holidays for children from
lower income families in the Vancouver
area.

When completed Camp Jubilee will pro-
vide holidays for as many as 500 children
per summer.

Watch this paper for details of the Camp
Jubilee reopening and registration informa-
tion.

DEATHS SPUR
UNIONS

By WILLIAM BOEI

Every 11 days on average last year there
was a death in the work force of B.C.’s
logging industry, Workers’ Compensation.
Board figures show.

And this year the pace is picking up, an
official of the International Woodworkers of
America said.

But despite such alarming statistics, the
unions in all three industries complain, the
B.C. government is reducing manpower at
the WCB, the agency charged with promot-
ing and ouitaahyy industrial health and
safety.

WCB pnResman Charles Stansfield
said there were 33 fatalities — an
average of one every 11 days — last
year in logging and related activities.
The WCB allowed 240 claims for per-
manent disabilities resulting from
logging accidents or illnesses out of a
total of 7,035 claims allowed.

Verna Ledger, the IWA’s health and
safety director, said the number of logging
fatalities so far this year is “well above last
year.”

She said 1983 saw relatively few fatal
accidents because much of the industry was
shut down by the recession. “They have
jumped right back up again this year,” she
said. “We have had three in the last few
weeks in the Port Alberni local alone.”

She said one reason fatalities are up is “a
lot of pressure on people to produce. “People
are afraid for their jobs,” she said.

—from Times-Colonist, July 13/84

12/Lumber Worker/Summer, 1984

FORESTS
WAKE
JOBS

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Special to The Globe and Mail

- VANCOUVER — Reported cases of child
abuse in British Columbia rose by almost 20
per cent between 1981 and 1982, figures to be
tabled in the Legislature this week show.

The 1983 annual report of the Ministry of
Human Resources shows that in 1982, there
were 1,536 cases of child abuse for which
there is some degree of corroboration.

In 1981, there were 1,286 such reports and
the 1980 figures was 987, according to
ministry spokesman Joan Abrams, who
released the figures.

Details of the continuing rise in the level
of reported child abuse come on the heels ofa
United Way report that criticized the provin-
cial Government’s elimination of two
assessment teams concerned with the
problem.

“We are nowhere near plumbing the
depths of this (child abuse) problem,” the
report said.

Mrs. Abrams also released figures on the
use of the ministry’s province-wide Help-
line, a 24-hour telephone referral service
staffed by social workers.

Those figures, compiled on a fiscal-year
basis, show that 10,053 calls were made in
1982-83: 194 related to sexual abuse, 756 to
physical abuse and 675 to neglect.

This compares with 12,879 calls in 1981-
82, of which sexual abuses totalled 168,
physical abuses 756 and neglect 675.

The two clippings below are from the “Globe & Mail”,
Tafler story appeared on Page One of the section, The ny
Page Two, so that if you clipped either story you got the other on the

The compositor THiahe have been inviting readers to consider the De

VICTORIA — Creating new
rather than newjobsis the top priority of the
B.C. Government’s new economic recovery
program.

The Government’s wide-ranging blue-—
print for economic growth stresses increas-

riers” to the labor market and cutting gov-
ernment regulations.

Government involvement “should be dir-
ected away from simply subsidizing jobs
and income and toward wealth-creating
activities,” says the report on reviving
B.C.’s faltering economy.

The report, obtained this week by The

- Globe and Mail, indicates the Government
has no new plans for the short term, but is
looking at economic development programs
to be introduced next year or in the next five
years.

The Government outlined four priorities
for new ideas to stimulate the economy to be
presented by deputy ministers to a Cabinet
meeting at Cowichan Bay last weekend.

NONE OF THEM INCLUDED JOB
CREATION.

e The proposals had to be specific and
practical, stating how and when they could
be put into effect.

e Any extra spending should be offset
through increased revenue or the elimina-
tion of other programs.

e The new ideas should be directed
“toward wealth-creating activity which

strengthens competitiveness.”

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or
working Ganadians

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than ever, working Canadians must
stick together.

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you and your family? The Liberals and
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