THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

KNOWLES CONDEMNS
PENSION LEGISLATION

The federal government is
so administering the new sup-
plementary old age pension
legislation that one depart-
ment is taking away with one
hand the money which it is
supposed to hand out with the
other.

This is the charge made in
the House of Commons by
pensions expert Stanley
Knowles, NDP, Winnipeg
North Centre, a member of
parliament who has led the
fight for better pensions over
a period of almost 30 years.

Mr. Knowles claimed that
$30 a month old age pension
supplement — the so-called
guaranteed income supple-
ment — is provided by the
Department of Health and
Welfare under Minister Mac-
Eachen, and taken away by
the same minister under the
Canada Assistance Plan.

Mr. Knowles gave a con-
crete example;

“This was a case where a
person in British Columbia
was drawing $75 a month old
age security and $30 a month
as an extra social allowance
which was paid by the prov-
ince of British Columbia. She
applied for the guaranteed in-
come supplement of $30.

“The minister told her, the .

application form told her, the
instruction book told her, and
the Act told her that she
could apply for the guaran-
teed income supplement al-
though she was getting the
$30 a month supplement from
the province of British Co-
lumbia.

“What happened? Her case
was assessed by officials in
British Columbia, and in the
end they cut her provincial
allowance down to $1.65. As a
result of this great, new piece
of legislation this woman who
had been getting $105 a
month now gets $106.65 a
month.”

The Winnipeg M.P. cited
another example where
money provided by Mac-
Eachen’s department is taken
away by the Department of
Veterans’ Affairs:

“Veterans were told that
they could apply for the guar-
anteed income supplement
and that they could get it be-
cause a war veteran allow-
ance does not count as income
for the purpose of the guaran-
teed income _ supplement.
When those same people, who

“OMNICARE"

OTTAWA — Within 20
years Medicare will probably
be replaced by a medical plan
which will pay for all health
services, according to a uni-

‘versity director.

Dr. A. J. Rhodes, director
of the University of Toronto’s
school of hygiene, told the
Canadian Public Health As-
sociation’s annual meeting
that Omnicare would be next.

He also said the public
health profession should begin
a campaign to change its dull
image to encourage young
persons to enter the field.

were encouraged by the min-
ister’s statement and by the
red print on the application
form to apply for the guaran-
teed income supplement, even
though they were getting the
war veterans allowance, made
their application they dis-
covered that, as a result of
getting the guaranteed in-
come supplement under the
old age pension, their war
veterans allowances were cut

- back.”

“What is necessary,” said
Mr. Knowles, “is to change
the whole basis of this supple-
ment and put it where we
tried to get it last year, on
a basis as of right, whereby
the full $105 per month will
be paid to all who are of pen-
sionable age and over.”

He pointed out that at the
moment only 430,000 pension-
ers are drawing the full sup-
plement of $30 on top of the
basic pension of $75, 270,000
are drawing an average of
$18.95, while 540,000 Cana-
dians age 68 or over are not
getting any portion of the
supplement.

AN’ SOME DAY ... WITH A LITTLE HELP . . . ILL BE OUT OF THIS DEPARTMENT!

ONLY IN CANADA, U.S.,
IS CERTIFICATION NEEDED

Canada and the United
States are the only countries
in the world where employers
are compelled by certification
to recognize collective bar-
gaining rights of employees.

This North American phe-
nomenon is probably related
to the reluctance of some em-
ployers to recognize unions
and their rights to collective
bargaining, it is noted in a
new publication by the Can-
ada department of labor.

In any other of the indus-
trial countries (e.g. England,

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France, Sweden) issues of
recognition are on a voluntary
basis without outside persua-
sion, Edward E. Herman re-
veals in ‘Determination of the

Appropriate Bargaining Unit’.

Mr. Herman is associate
professor of economics at the
University of Cincinnati. His
extensive study of Canada’s
11 labor relations boards (10
provincial and one federal)
was underwritten by the de-
partment of labor’s economics
and research branch.

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LOCAL SICK LISTS

Sisters Alvie Archibald and Betty
Trineer of the LA of Local 1-357 IWA
visited the following patients in the
Royal Columbian Hospital and dis-
tributed candy, cigarettes and copies
of the Western Canadian Lumber
Worker.

Howard Hall, Timber Preservers;
George Knorr, Timberland Lumber;
Wesley Goodman, Timberland Lum-
ber; Bill Cardenell, Hammond; Har-
old Shields, McMillan Bloedel; Clar-
ence Moore, Flavelle Cedar; John Po-
tocky, Pacific Pine; Myrl Dirkson,
Crown Zellerbach; Stan Pollard, Elk
Falls; Adrienne Romeinne, Toba In-
let; Ivor Holdon, Toba Inlet; George

Mcintyre, Crown Zellerbach; Allen
McDonald, Douglas Plywood; Bert
Ettinger, Douglas Plywood; Ray Hef-
ferland, Crown Zellerbach; Robert
Reeves, McMillan Bloedel; Robert
Perdue, Crown Zellerbach; Victor
Daoust, Capilano; John Lutch, Van.

Plywood; Lawrence Kucille, Bell-Craft
Woodworks; Norman Belanger, Queen

Charlottes; Jules Martin, Crown Zel-
lerbach; George Lawrence, Mohawk
Handle; Patrick McEnaney, Crown
Zellerbach; Thomas Payne, Timber-
land; Frank Kurucz, Crown Zeller-
bach.

Financial secretary Ed. Linder of
Local 1-80 IWA visited the following
atients in hospital June 1, distribut-
ng candy, cigarettes and copies of
the Western Canadian Lumber Work-
er.

NANAIMO HOSPITAL

Albino Bassanelo, Nanaimo; Chick
Ward, Nanaimo; George Ehrlich, Port
Alberni.

LADYSMITH HOSPITAL

Mrs. Ruth _ Dickenson, Nanaimo;
Mrs. Elma Conti, Ladysmith; Miss
Carol Dick, Ladysmith; William Mil-
ligan, Cedar; fan McMurtrie, Sr.,
Ladysmith (retired woodworker);
Robert Francis, Port Alberni; Mrs.
John Conti, Ladysmith; Mrs. Olive
Pollock, Ladysmith,

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