Use oil for last time

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Wife of a farmer near Humboldt, Tennessee, Mrs. Chester
Williams lights the wick of her kerosene stove for the last time.
The Williams family is the millionth customer of TVA power
and is replacing the old stove with an electric range. Systems
using TVA power have been serving 10,000 new customers a

month. *

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BYLAW REPEAL DEMANDED

Farris ‘orates’ in park--
but police stopped Effie

Senator J. W. deB. Farris made a
mer New Brunswick residents at Stanley Park
afternoon——and there wasn’t a cop or detective in the

political speech to 600 for-
Park duck pond Saturday

crowd.

Among the citizens who heard the senator speak was Mrs. Effie

Jones.
City detectives attempted to stop
her speaking to 40 women on the
Same spot, on the grounds that
“political speeches were not al-
lowed.”

“My talk wasn’t even a politi-
cal speech, but a report on a
Peace conference in Toronto,”
Said Mrs Jones. “Yet I was in-

terrupted by two officious detec- .

tives, and could not continue un-
til I had led a protesting group
of women to see the park super-
intendent, Mr, Stroyan.” ,

Senator Farris declaimed about
“the threat of the domination of
the state over the individual” and
“the threat of falling markets for
our goods.” He advocated “great-
er production and thrift” on the
Part of workers.

The excuse advanced for inter-
Tuption. of Mrs. Jones’ speech was

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She was there for a purpose.

Just a few short weeks ago

that a park bylaw prohibits all.

public statements on the grounds.
Yet Senator Farris held forth for
half an hour without interrup-
tion, and nearby, ex-Alderman
Willard Greyall delivered a
lengthy oration to the Enderby
Association. I

“I don’t deny the right of these
gentlemen to speak,” said Mrs.
Jones. “I defend: thein right to or-
ate to their hearts’ content But
I also demand that this right be
extended to all citizens.”

Many groups and organizations
have asked that the restrictive
park bylaw be rescinded. This
week Civic Employees Union Lo-
cal 28 passed a resolution sup-
porting this demand and con-
demning any restriction on the
right of free speech.

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MARRIED. WOMEN MUST RESIGN

ALARMED by~ the economic
situation and the threat of an-
other depression, B.C.’s Civil Ser-
vice Commission revealed mental
bankruptcy this week in publiciz-
ing a callous plan to fire all mar-
ried women civi] servants when
the slump comes.

A high-ranking official of the
commission told reporters: “We
don’t want them (married women
who are civil servants) to get the
idea they are firmly implanted in
their , jobs.”

Many married women entered
the civil service during the crucial
war years. Now they are being
told that, having contributed their
services, when needed, the govern-
ment intends to kick them out of
their jobs and back into the kit-
chen,

There’s a stumbling block in
the Sex Disqualification Act of»
1931, but the commissioners think
they have found a crafty way to
get around the terms of the act.
Their plan: to force all married
women employees to hand in ad-
vance resignations as a condition
of employment. When the com-
mission figures the time is ripe

-to get rid of women employees,
it will simply “accept” the resig-
nations on file.

The Sex Disqualification Act
provides that no person shall be
disqualified by’ reason of sex or
marriage from holding a public
post,

The commissioners ~ brazenly
boast that their plan will enable
them to subvert the spirit of the
act, while still paying technical
lip service to it.

Women throughout the prov-

ince are expected to raise a storm
of protest against the discrimina-

tory machinations of the Civil
Service Commission.

The axe which the commission-
ers propose to hold over the heads

of married women in the civil ser-

B.C. Civil Service Commission
subverts act protecting women

vice will also threaten the jobs
of all married women workers in
British Columbia. For the pattern
set by the government will un-
doubtedly be followed by industry.

Polio on increase

Vancouver is hardest hit of any Canadian city by the polio

epidemic that is sweeping the continent. Two people have died;
79 more -have been treated at hospital. In the picture above,
George P. Voss, epidemic coordinator for the U.S. National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis, is showm in New York studying
a polio incidence chart for 1949. It shows a 38 percent increase
over the same period in 1948. Polio usually hits hardest in Aug-

ust and September.

Daily papers in Vancouver have attempted to “play down”
the local epidemic, urging readers to keep a “proper perspective”
and repeating that “there is nothing alarming in the present
outbreak.” There is, however, real cause for alarm. Of the 81
victims treated here, 59 are still in hospital, and new cases are
reported daily. Hospital authorities stated that 55 of the 81 con-
firmed cases are from Vancouver, four from North Vancouver,
two from West Vancouver, six from ~.Burnaby, four from Rich-
mond, two from Haney, two from Vancouver Island, and one
each from Port Moody, Agassiz, Crescent Beach, Abbotsford,

Gabriola and Cloverdale.

“WONDERFUL. PEOPLE, THESE HOUSEWIVES’

How women of London suburbs
helped out Canadian seamen

PERHAPS you are a_ busy
housewife, struggling to raise a

family and manage a home on an ~

income that’s always smaller
than your needs, and much as
you want to help you don’t see
what you can do in the fight for
better living conditions, and for
peace. Well, this account taken
from Women Today, a British
publication, may give you some
ideas:

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“It started for Stepney when
some housewives went to this
year’s International Women’s
Day meeting. The speeches, par-
ticularly those by the French
delegates, moved them very much.
These words, they felt, expressed
their own feelings about the pre-
parations for yet another world
war. So they made up their
minds to be represented at the
World Peace Congress in Paris—.
which meant ‘that they had to
raise money and develop interest
among their neighbors.

“On the front of some chil-
drens’ exercise books they stuck
a label saying: ‘This is a peace”
notebook. In it the women of

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Stepney are writing why they
hate and will oppose war If
enough women send messages
and give a small donation we.
shall send this book with others
to the World Congress.’

“They were all working-class
housewives, with homes to look
after, children to care for, shop-
ping, washing and cleaning to be

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done. But they managed to fill 62

notebooks and to collect enough
money to send Betty Passingham
as their delegate to Paris. How
was it done?

“When they took their children
to school, their notebooks went
with them. A notebook was al-
ways in their shopping basket,
and some shopkeepers agreed to
put one on the counter. Messages
were collected at the°clinic. They
took notebooks along to local
meetings organized for other pur-
poses, and then went from door
to door—and in doing so discov-
ered how really worried our wo-
men are about a new war.

“As a result of this work, a
group of housewives developed to
lead the peace campaign. They
arranged a pram poster parade
through the Saturday morning
market and got all the shoppers
talking. . E

* *

“THEN, after the Congress,
when they were busy arrenging
report-back meetings, a docker

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came to see Frances, the organ-
izer. ‘Some Canadian seamen in
a ship in port are on strike,’ he
said. ‘The shipowners have lock-
ed up the ship’s food supply. Cam
the Stepney housewives help?’

“Twelve hours later some téti
women, lugging great bundles,
made the awkward journey from
Stepney to the docks ...

“The seamen were touched and
thrilled. And when the court or-
dered the men off the ship ‘these
women arranged hospitality for
80 men and two women, showing
real organizing ability and won-
derful initiative They went into
the propaganda fight too, and ex-
plained to the women in the back

streets what the strike was
BPOUL sis

“Yes, wonderful people these
housewives! But there are won-
derful women everywhere .. .”

x x *

I was thrilled when I read

what these courageous hard-

working women are doing to help
our Canadian boys. They need
our help, too. They need it des-
perately. They are without funds.
They are sleeping in their union
halls, and living off scanty meals.
Surely housewives groups, Peace
Action committees and other wo-
men’s groups could do more than
they are doing to help. You too,
can organize food parcels or send
some financial] help to these grand
boys. — DORISE NIELSEN..

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 12, 1949—PAGE l1