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- Women lobby. Victoria |

COALITION FACES PU
REVOLT ON PREMIUMS

Starting July 1, hospital insurance premiums
will be hoisted from $21 to $30 per year for single
persons and from $33 to $42 for married persons, a A
and patients will be forced to pay a share of their F ae
hospital bill for the first 10 days’ stay, Health and :
Welfare Minister A. D. Turnbull officially announced in ad
the legislature at Victoria this week. |

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The other side of this highly unpopular, Coalition
policy—the side seen by the public—found its official ex-
pression in Vancouver police court this week.

Standing humbly before Magistrate Oscar Orr on Monday, Philip
S. Ludeman, 297 East 23rd Avenue, facing a charge of failure to
pay hospital insurance for the latter half of 1950, told how he-—had
tried to get his sick wife into hospital from October until Christmas, h +)
but couldn't. ‘‘So from then on I just didn’t pay the insurance,” he aa
explained. : :

In addition to forking over $42 annually, Turnbull va
genially informed the House, a Vancouver husband would
have to pay ,an additional $35 for the first 10 days he or
his wife stayed in a hospital like Vancouver General.

“Guilty, $10 fine,” said Magistrate Orr impersonally, and the ay
unfortunate Ludeman was whisked over to the cashier to surrender a ae

Continued on back page — See PREMIUMS :

Hundreds to | |
attend peace ]
rally March 17

An opportunity for all citizens to participate 1
in the most lofty and vital of all causes — the pre-
servation of world:peace — is afforded by the
Second British Columbia Peace Conference, states
a press release issued by the B.C. Peace Com- |
mittee this week.

© In People’s China this year
Women celebrated the new The release continues:
freedom and equal rights they

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have won on International Letters provocation The conference, to take place in Clinton Hall here

Women’s Day, March 8. Here ; over the weekend of March 17-18, is to be a citizens’ |
Catholic sister Wang Shun- Anonymous letters received by a New Westminster woman forum on peace. The terms of representation are so un- 1)
Ching is shown speaking after whose son is with the PPCL 2nd Battalion in Korea were restricted as to make it possible for every citizen who is |
a huge parade of 40,000 women denounced as a provocation by Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial concerned with the drive toward war to tdttend and par- '
through the streets of Peking leader, this week. ; ticipate fully in all the proceedings.

‘to demonstrate opppsition to

, “Ww d press statement, organ said:
American aggression in Korea. In a sharply-worded p Mprgan

We feel that peace, not war, should be the first con-

Among the paraders were The LPP was in no way connected with the letters. cern of every government in the world, including our own !
thousands of women workers The LPP shared concern of relatives for the welfare of provincial government. But the question of peace or war
and peasants, women in Peo? boys in Korea. cannot be left to the governments alone, It is everybody’s |
Ple’s Liberation Army uniform, ; business. That is why we urge all citizens to attend our ot
Moslem women in white caps, The LPP sought withdrawal of Canadian troops from sacle a a we Rg he t = ae f i
housewives in silks and furs Korea and negotiations gor a peaceful settlement. conierence, to help tormulaté a common policy tor peace

2nd Budhist ad Catholic
nuns, se eee Continued on page 7 — See PEACE CONFERENCE