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ject hecbartment does not
SandrinayssPayer should!
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lis year 7 OPerated for profit,
lor the 5 Supplies furnished free
lor the pes of welfare patients
Day fro Se of all the patients who
ttee their own pockets. The
run wr °’ Were all there were
This entire hospital.

ftom formation is gleaned
4M infor Sandringham Tabloid,
last pene: bulletin * issued
lave he by CUPE workers who
Months | OM strike for 10

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State warge is made in a sworn

8D, by registered nurse
the Bc Abolit, who worked in
1968 to Pital from September
“Whar vary 1970.

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Adis: ying is this
he stration attempted to
Mivata ,.osPital for the -70
hth ents who paid fees
"Om the Tee supplies received
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tharged. Menced it,” the nurse

his
‘leg Charge alone. shauld be

. dua :
hnching to bring the penny-
ad of fy wnisters of Health,

Saari elfare, Loffmark and
» Into a sharp investi-

gation of what goes on at
Sandringham. But this has not
been done.

There are 90 patients today at
Sandringham. Thirty are on
welfare and the remaining 60
pay private fees. The company
gets $9.25 a day from the various
levels of government for each
welfare patient. The private
patients pay in fees anywhere
from $12 a day to $18 for an
average of $15.00. Hence the
total monthly income at
Sandringham is $35,325.00.

National Nursing Homes
managed Sandringham for the
two wealthy owners until June 30
of this year. They took 7 percent
of the take as their “‘take”’.

That 7 percent would cover the
modest demands of the workers,
says the Sandringham Tabloid.
In truth, the union demands are
more than modest; a nurse-aide
with two year’s experience is
asking only $2.00 per hour!

In fact the modest demands of
the union would indicate that the
nursing staff are “low man” on

the wage totem pole, with
orderly, maintenance and
kitchen staff at the-top.

‘top’ is something less than high
at Sandringham, a& the modest
demands of the union show:

oy
PAT
Wtseaide oS No. of Presentrate Proposed rate
jyrths seniess than 3 people per house per hour
Weeaide ae 7 $1.50 $1.50
Wtsaide” 3tol2months 10 1.50 1.60
MSe.aj e 12to24 months 7 1.50 1.75

‘ » OVer 24 months 5 1.50 2.00

Org 1 2.50 2.75

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tenance Man ee 25

FRIDAY, JULY 30,1971

SANDRINGHAM -FREE SUPPLIES-
‘BUT NOT FOR THE PATIENTS

2 C0) ;
lctoria gua ttee Struck by the
wis apuncil of Churches has
metkers wre Supported the
gemse veo (mand so little for
fon sf S. They have had
yrs, PPort from the labor
wea for . the Social Credit
jallace b ak Bay, Dr. Scott
an ‘4, elieves there should
the Vestigation’’.
orm rettingham Tabloid
“help: aders as to how they
Sen
ifebo qa ; letter to James
“Mang, ister of Labo
theneaf that he use his
Say bring the company

to the bargaining table. 2. Send a
letter to your member of the
Legislature and to Premier
Bennett, demanding the same
thing. 3. Send a letter of support
and enclose a financial contri-
bution if you can to the Sandring-
ham strikers. 4. Order special
bulk copies of the Tabloid for use
in lodge, church group, com-
munity organization and local
union.

The address is: The Sand-
ringham Tabloid, Local 1311,
CUPE, 777 Broughton, Street,
Victoria. :

An inquiry needed NOW. . . Seebelow. . .

SANDRINGHAM HOSPITAL PICKET,

below comparative union wage scales.
administration continues to reap a double pro
received from the government covering all su

‘profit’.

Tribune

Vol. 32, No. 30

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ten months hitting the bricks for a modest ee increa
Meantime according to the ‘Sandringham Tabloid’ hospital

fit by charging certain patients a fee, on top of the welfare

ch patients. That, plus sub-standard wage rates spells a fat

Freedom for Angela Davis”

The Toronto Committee for
Angela Davis, just formed has
issued an appeal that will be sent
to hundreds of Canadians. The
appeal calls for sponsors from
the committee, for participants
in the work, and money to meet
the large legal expenses of the
trial and the small expenses of

the committee.

A letter which is part of the
appeal briefly sets out the his-
tory of the ‘Angela Davis case. It

then asks:

“Why is Angela Davis handled
with such severity, when many
criminals (including the
admitted murderer Lt. Calley)
are treated with great consid-
eration? She is a militant Black
activist, a member of the Com-
munist Party who advocates
black-white unity in the struggle
against racism and oppression,
a brilliant and popular assistant
professor of philosophy at the
University of California at Los
Angeles, until fired by the

Regents over the official
objections of faculty, students,
and administration. The
American establishment is
determined to crush her because
she is a youthful symbol of hope
and a potential leader in the fight
against racism, war and colon-
ialism.

“The international movement
in support of Angela Davis is
growing as people realize that
the fundamental issues go far.
beyond present political strug-
gles in the United States. We
believe that the campaign to free
Angela Davis should be a
forceful expression of the fact
that as long as even one person is
imprisoned and persecuted for
her thoughts and political beliefs
none of us can be truly free. In
this spirit the undersigned ask
your support.”’

The appeal is signed by George
. Carter, Barrister; Ursula M.
Franklin, Metallurgy and
Materials Science, University of

Toronto; Wilson A. Head, Social
Welfare, Atkinson College, York
University; James Laxer, New
Democratic Party Federal
Council; Lee Lorch, -Mathe-
matics, York University; Ken--
neth O. May, History of Mathe-
matics. University of Toronto;
John Hanly Morgan, Minister,
First Unitarian Congregation;
and Charles Roach, Barrister.

Cuba fights
against malaria

In 1929 more than 60,000 cases
of malaria occurred in one
Cuban province alone — Oriente.
By 1961 the number of malaria
outbreaks in the entire country
was down to 3,230. Cuba had its
last case in 1967. In comparison,
using 1966 figures, El] Salvador
had 68,000 cases; Paraguary
32,990; and Colombia 22,148.

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