Evictions don’t bother him

Pressure groups like this helped to smash rent controls in
the United States and, less demonstratively but nonetheless ef-
Tectively, they have been lobbying at Ottawa, as the report that
©ontrols are to end by March next year testifies. But the un-
*Nswered question remains: What is the government doing to
“Upply low-rental housing and eradicate slum conditions such
*8 belatedly shocked Vancouver aldermen this week?

CHI
SHILD CARE

A place to play in

_. WITH THE POPULARITY: of nursery schools and more
'nformation available on the needs of young children, considerable
“mphasis has been placed on social play. Parents are aware, quite
“otrectly, that even the very young child needs to play in company

With
: “mselves and they should have
he °Pportunity of doing so.

A’ letter

suggests that with
familie,

aitio, living in crowded con-

Ms it is virtually impossible
oe ahy number to be alone.
~“*8e children especially need a
“ping hana,

There should be times, if at.

! possible, when the child can
Ye “periods of absorbing play

Ww
ithout the distraction of the

Roise and movement of the rest
*f the family. It may be neces-
My to clear a spot in the par-
“nts? bedroom, or a corner of
pt Kitchen, somewhere, where
te, aN little while a child can de-
°n his own developing re-
ees without the aid or hind-
Ree of his sisters and brothers,
Ueles and aunts.
tren two children share a
fom, it should be divided in
© Way so that each has some
of the room as his own.

ta,

Th
‘ ey Sould have separate toy

8h
elves or tables or even the bed

oul
®reas. be used to mark the two

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others. However, there are times when children want to play by

good idea if there is a discrep-
ancy in the ages of the children.
The older one can then spend
time in his own room in the
evening without disturbing the
younger. :

* * *

THE PLACES children can
play in should be worked out for
their benefit, and should be
places wheré the child can go
when he wants to be by himself,
rather than spots where parents
send children in order to be rid
of them.

Continually driving a child into
his own area in order that par-
ents can have some peace and
quiet, or in order to encourage
him to play by himself will only

end in his refusing to g0. In-

stead of a place of interest and

-a chance for some independent

play, it bécomes a place of ban-
ishment.

That is one reason (among

several) why I can’t agree to
isolation as a disciplinary meas~-
ure. To punish a child by isolat-
ing him in his own room, or
any other room customarily
used for play, is to make the
room a hateful place to be. Cer-
tainly, with its association of
punishment it’s hardly likely to
be an attractive place to wander
into and play for an hour or two.

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~ Women have equal rights
in the New Democracies

THERE is a generation of

women who have never known

the inferior economic status to
which our “democratic way of
life’ ‘consigns women because

they are economically their own
“masters.”

In Europe I met young Russian

women, officials’ wives and of-
fice girls, who found our atti-

tude almost incomprehensible.
These Russian girls were very

“feminine.” But

ifsg

“smart,”
their. bearing was proud
new way, because they felt no
need of assertion on account of

very.

their sex.

The attitudes and deportment
of Western European women, es-
pecially the society dames, they
found quaint and unbelievable,
something they had read about in
books as we view savage cus
toms.

It is not, however, of the wom-

en of the land of socialism I

wish to write; but of what is be-
ginning to be done in those coun-
tries of the new democracy, from
which I have just returned, which
are in a transition period to so-
cialism.

Emancipation of women in
these countries starts with the
industrial workers, men _ and
women. In Polanki, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia and the other
people’s democracies it is estab-
lished by law that every women
worker gets equal pay for equal
work with men—and equal op-
portunity. Thces more and more
women continue to work after
marriage and are economically
independent. The family budget
is doubled, and the men like it.

But this is only the beginning
of the problem. There remains
the home to think of, and the
care of the children.

* * *

LET ME take you to one large
factory which employs several
hundred women, the Csepel fac-
tory near Budapest in Hungary.

There is a hospital in the fac-
tory grounds where pregnant

women receive all necessary pre-

natal care. It has a maternity
section with up-to-date equip-
ment, where the babies of the
workers are brought into the
world by the best doctors the
state can provide, and all this
service is free.

Post-natal care is also provided
and mothers get six months’ hol-
iday on full pay. A generous free
milk ration is “on the factory”
both during pregnancy and while
the mother is feeding her baby.

There is a factory creche where
babies can be left under the
supervision of trained nurses. In
the spotlessly clean cots the little
ones lie in airy rooms, or toddle
in toddle pens. Their mothers re-
reive time off to feed them at
the necessary intervals. Even the
baby clothing is supplied free of
charge. :

For older children of the wom-
en workers in this factory there
are kindergartens with meals and
milk provided free of charge, and
beds for afternoon sleep, and of
course trained _ kindergarten

_ teachers.

Not only that, there are also

playrooms and» girtounds where
the schoolchildren
(most of the workers in this fac-

tory live close to their work) af-

can come

ter school hours under trained
supervision for play, off the
streets.

This factory is no single ex-
ample. I have seen this picture
over and over again in the
people’s democracies. :

Thus
these countries

a working mother in
is beginning to
get “nursery” facilities and lack
of worry about her children when
she

is otherwise engaged, such

as only the wealthy have in the © ;
nly y _ 20 minutes as against days in

capitalist world.
< an *

WHAT ABOUT shopping? In

many larger factories I visited
in Czechoslovakia, they now have
a special department, run by the
workers themselves through theif

shop committee with the cooper-
ation of the management, where
shopping, especially of goods in
short supply, can be done, and at
wholesale prices on a non-profit
basis. This will extend.

What about cooking? The ma-
jor hot meal is eaten in Europe
at midday. Formerly the wife
cooked this and took it to the
factory herself for hubby.

Now large two or three course
meals are served in the factory
canteens. In Poland this meal is
free of all charge. To its quality
I can testify, I’ve eaten them.

Women’s . household work is
getting less and less.

. * * *

I WAS greatly impressed while
I was in Poland by the coopera-
tive flat movement which is being
sponsored and financed by the
government. I visited one great
flat-block of this nature in War-
saw — there are also cottage
housing schemes, but most Euro-
peans live in flats. #

A three-roomed flat with kit-
chen cost about $1.35 a week,
bachelor flats with kitchen 60c,
and all had modern conveniences.
Rental of all types of home, co-

operative or otherwise, through-
out Poland, averages only 6 per-
-cent of income.

Attached to these flats are up-
to-date creches and kindergar-
tens. The whofe control is demo-
cratic.

Central heating, hot and cold
water, gas cookers and hot-water
sinks cut out much labor.

But most impressive of all, I
thought, was the joint laundry.
The ‘housewife (or bachelor for
that matter) can either wash for
herself with the modern washing
machinery and drying rooms
there installed (the whole prio-
cess of drying a big household
washing, I was told, takes only

winter by the old European meth-
od in the attic), or, if she prefers,
she can have it laundered at the
rate of 2 lb. of washing for 4c,

6% * *

THIS economic independence
of the women, and relief from
the worst features of household
drudgery, makes for fuller and
happier family life. It is, I be
lieve, the beginnings of what will
soon be genera] throughout the
world, .

It is for this new world of the
‘future that women of all coun-
tries must work and fight.

—GERALD PEEL.

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Oldtime. Dancing
To Alf Carlson’s Orehestra
Every Wednesday and Saturday
Hastings Auditorium
Phone HaAstings 1248
Moderate Rental Rates
For secials, weddings, meetings

Russian People’s Home—
available for meetings, weddings
and banquets at reasonable rates.
600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087.

CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS—
Open every day. New Modern
Beauty Salon—i763 E. Hastings.
HAstings 0094.

Dance, Clinton Hali—
2605 East Pender. Dance every
Saturday night. Modern and

SALLY BOWES—
INCOME -TAX PROBLEME
Room 20, 9 East Hastings:
MA. 9965.

DR. R. L. DOUGLAS HAS UPEN-
ed a new office at 9 EAST HAST.
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Phone TA. 5552. All old friends
cordially invited to drop in for
a visit.

VERY SMART INBOARD MO-
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6 or after 11 pm. J. Krasnikov.
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WHAT’S DOING?

Lithuanian Literary Society—
Pinic, Sunday, July 24, 1 p.m.
Lulu Island, No. 2 Road and
Maple. Take No. 17 car to Mar-
pole and No. 2 bus leaves every
2 hours. Everybody welcome.

' Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra
Hall is available for rent,
HAstings 3277.
MEETINGS—

Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club
meets last Friday every month
at 7.30 p.m., in Clinton Hall.

OPEN AIR DANCING AT SWE-_
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Dancing from 912. Arne John-
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