a Perse ee en nn ee ee ee ea ee ee ee DORISE NIELSEN REPORTS FROM BUDAPEST Protest registered Housewives throughout the country, angered by the govern- ment’s refusal to control profiteering and high prices, registered their protest by boycotting higher priced meats in 1948, forcing a halt, at least, to meat packers’ price raising. Even butchers, feeling the pressure, joined in the protest. OUR CHILDREN e Children on picket lines THERE SEEMS .TO BE considerable difference - of opinion . among trade union and other progressive parents as to whether young children should be taken to a picket line when there is the possibility of violent outburst. By young children I mean those not old enough to really understand the situation fury, and take responsibilitys for their actions, as middle, or late teenagers might do. * When there is the least chance of a clash between pickets and police, or pickets and scabs, I would say children should not be taken to a picket line. The prim- ary reason is because of the real possibility of physical injury. They are not sufficiently develop- ed to take care of themselves in a sudderm outburst. In fact, they may actually be in the way. A worker defending himself against attack shouldn't have to worry about trampling a, child, frozen in terror, unable to run. Then there is the very import- ant reason of the possible harm through fright to a child when he is exposed to violence. The movies, books and horror programs sometimes affect a sen- sitive child, but the majority of them are able to shake it off mainly because it isn’t “really real.” They may add all sorts of the most horrible ideas to their Play, but the casual manner in which ‘they kill “bad guys” fifteen times in as many minutes and then “scalp” them, indicates they are as yet unacquainted with real terror, Faced with the rearing hoofs of & horse plunging into a crowd, or a policeman’s billy smashing Skulls of men they may know, fear in a child is many times More intensified than in an adult. Very few adults are unafraid at such times. Yet they understand and can rationalize. To a child an experience of this type may take years to -recuperate from, and some may never get over it. Fg Se IN TERMS OF the strike itself, the presence of children in the picket line adds nothing to the achievement of its aims. There- fore, one is forced to the conclu- sion that children are taken in the hope that they will recognize their future allegiance. It doesn’t always work out that way. One such experience may ‘so frighten a child-that he builds up a distorted picture of the trade union movement and keeps far away as an adult. There is a pos- sibility that after a violent scene on a picket line a child will really _hate the “enemy,” but such hatred could hardly be an ideal founda- tion fer a future trade union member, A really peaceful picket line would be a different story, a child would probably want to see what father and mother do, but I would avoid even the type of line where a tense anxious feeling*might be communicated. Take the children to festivals, labor picnics and other celebra- tions to give them the opportun- ity of seeing the comradeship and unity of working people; the im- pression of happy times will prob- ably be more lasting. —VERA MORRIS We Always Sell for Less Army and Navy will never know- ingly be undersold. We will meet Bae coe pretitor's price at any time, not only ceiling price but floor price, and we will gladly refund any differ- ‘ence. Army and Navy prices are guaranteed to be the lowest in Van- couver at all times. ARMY & NAVY DEPARTMENT STORES Vancouver and New Westminster ; | e ee Women’s congress inspiring THE SECOND CONGRESS of the Women’s International Demo- cratic Federation this month, which I attended as a delegate from Canadian women’s groups, was a greater and even more inspiring gathering than the first one in 1945. The conference was held in the magnificent Hall of Parliament in Budapest, a huge circular chamber lofty as an opera house, with raised dais and speaker’s rostrum, around which the delegates were arranged, and two galleries running completely around it. The Hungarian Women's Or- ganization arranged for some 4,000 Hungarian women to conte in groups to listen to the con- ference and they stood and look- ed down on the delegates from these galleries. Each delegate was provided with a set of earphones, and as each report was read, a transla- , tor spoke it again, so that every delegate was thoroughly aware of all that was said. It was one of the most thrilling and moving spectacles to look around at the great assembly. The English delegates and one lone woman from Australia sat in our row. Behind us were the women of Israel. Below and directly in front sat the Greek delegation. Besides one peasant woman in her na- tional costume were six others all in uniforms. One of them was a Greek woman doctor in uni- form and the others were young women guerrillas, We were as- tounded at their smart and fine uniforms till an interpreter smil- ingly told us they were American uniforms with the badges taken off. The girls needed warm cloth- ing for their journey—so their detachment went. out and cap- turned five American soldiers. That's how they were so well dressed. They said most of their army was clothed that way! Immediately to the right of us sat the delegates from Tran, one of them the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. She was a princess we learned, but no veil hid her beauty any longer. The women from Albania also were dressed in European clothes and their natural dignity and beauty was wonderful to see. Beyond them were the Koreans, both from the north and the south; the Chinese and the Hin- dus; the blonde Finns; and others from the Scandinavian countries, cdhtrasting in beauty— but not in purpose. The Soviet Representing more than 80 mil- lion women the assembled dele- gates voiced the deep and urgent demand of all women for peace. The WIDF, which has now work- ed for three years to mobilize women for peace and which hasi now been strengthened immeas- urably by this second congress, has become the most authoritative international organization of women. One Hungarian member of the Hungarian Women’s Democratie Organization told us her tragic Story. She was in a concenrtra- tion camp and reputed dead. Her husband in sorrow took his own life—and she learned of this only after her release. Somehow the sufferings of the women of Europe and Asia must be told to Canadians. We must learn how to avoid such misery for ourselves and our children. We must fight as hard as they are doing to prevent our country from taking part in any war plans. ma ; And one last word. Everywhere behind the iron curtain there is food—beautiful food. Some ra- tioning in Czechoslovakia still, but at prices which are low €nough for all to enjoy plenty. No rationing in Hungary at all and the stores are full of foods — of all kinds. Given a, few more — years of peace there people will ; surprise the world. Maybe that’s what some people in American _ and Canada are afraid of! —DORISE NIELSEN ie * x} DURING THE last day’s ses- sion when Madame Cotton, the famous French scientist, made a closing, speech, the Hungarian women in the galleries threw down hundreds of colored paper streamers, which became caught and tangled among the delegates, symbolic of the common ties of purpose for peace which bound us all. The French delegation included many women famous for their work in the Resistance movement such as Madame Claude Vallient Couturier, and the wife of Gabriel Peri, . Many of them had spent years in German concentration camps. 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