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Successful Picnic

By STU HODGSON

Financial Secretary Local 1-217

As in previous years the highlights of Local 1-217’s picnic
were the races, the ponies, the gallons of ice cream and pop.

August 3rd turned out to
be the sunniest Saturday ex-
perienced this year and the
2500 plus attending the big
Local Union picnic went
home well satisfied with the
organizational efforts of stag-
ing this annual event.

The committees choice and
selection of sports events en-
sured maximum participation
on the part of those attending.
The most crowded events are
always in the young age
group — with prizes for all
regardless of how they come
in.

The schedule of events
commenced with the ball
game between Western Ply-
wood and J. R. Murray, both

members of the Local Union
inter-plant softball league.

The picnic was opened by
Vice-President Bob Clair,
with addresses by Mrs. Pat
McKibbon, President of the
Ladies Auxiliary, and Marg
Eaves, Chairman of the Local
Social Committee. The picnic
was under the active direc-
tion of the Social Committee
and those assisting Marg were
Joyce Stewart, Russ McKib-

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bon, Kehar Sekhon, Ed
strom and many others.

Bob Clair acted as master
of ceremonies and Doug
Evans was in charge of
sports. Refreshments were
largely handled by Egan
Foulds, Len Vroom and sev-
eral other volunteers. Coffee
and tea were ably handled by

Ed Renstrom and his good
wife.

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BY

Tom Barnett, New Demo-
Party MP for Comox-
Alberni, was turned down
once again by the govern-
ment in his move to have
such items as tools, trans-
portation and clothing, de-
ducted from loggers’ taxable
incomes.

During the debate on the
Budget resolutions, Barnett
moved that the income tax

be amended to allow all
workers to deduct the follow-
ing from their taxable in-
come:

“(a) Expenses necessarily
incurred by him for board
and lodging by reason of his
employment at a distance
from the place where he

maintains a self contained do- -
mestic establishment.

and nimble feet.

ships.

GOOD

to the new Champion

& HIS DAYTON'S)

.» ARITSTRY IN TONS LEATHER

MADE RIGHT HERE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Now that Danny Sailor has re-
tired from active competition,
there’s a mighty big gap to be
filled by a man with a big heart
lt could be
YOU. Why not try? And let
DAYTON’S give you the same
sort of help and encouragement
that enabled Danny Sailor to

win his many world champion-

LUCK

WANTED: A NEW CHAMPION

CAN YOU FILL THIS MAN'S SHOES?

live away
form the duties of
ployment. %
(c) Expenses incurred by
him for depreciation and re- —
placement of tools and special
equipment or clothing which |
are necessarily required by
him in the performance of _

TOM BARNETT, MP

the duties of his employ-
ment.”

Barnett prefaced his re-
marks by saying: “Under
other provisions we have
been concerning ourselves
with the granting of certain
taxation concessions to cor-
porate taxpayers, and it might
be appropriate if we were to
spend a little time concern-
ing ourselves with matters
relating to the far larger
number of individual taxpay-
ers,”

Barnett pointed out that he
started raising this matter
when the Liberals were last
in office and he hoped he
would at last be successful in
convincing a Minister of Fin-
ance “that as long as any
form of expense account liv-
ing is allowed in this coun-
try, then under the same
terms and conditions ex-
penses incurred in the course
of earning a living should be
allowed to more Canadians
no matter what the source of

their income may happen to
be.”

Finance Minister Gordon
tried to turn Barnett aside
by asking what the proposed
amendment would cost.
Douglas Fisher, MP for Port
Arthur, pointed out that Mr.
Gordon’s answer was not
good enough since senior offi-
cials in the Department of
Finance were well aware that
the present situation was un-
fair. “The reason it is not fair
is that construction workers
have the privilege of charging
expenses incurred by living
away from home as a deduc-
tible item, yet people doing
exactly the same kind of
work in the logging and the
bush industry cannot take
advantage of this privilege.”

Barnett’s amendment was
not accepted by the Minister
of Finance.

Older Workers
Hardest Hit

Ninety-one thousand Can-
adian workers over forty-five
years of age are reported out
of work as of June 15. Twen-
ty-three thousand of these
have been without work for —
six months or longer. ©