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-LIQUOR’S THE PROBLEM _

When Labour Minister Fern Guindon spoke to the
Ontario Building and Construction Trades Council, he told

A union manager received a government questionnaire
which asked, among other things, “chow many members do
you have broken down by sex?” :

The manager wrote back, ‘‘Liquor is more of a problem

REPEAL OF ACT
VICTORY FOR WOMEN

Women’s rights groups won
a major victory with the an-
nouncement by Labour Mini-
ster Wm. King that legislation
controlling female employ-
ment in B.C. has been
repealed.

Regulations under the
Factory Act dating back to 1945
prescribed the conditions
under which women could
work and stated specifically
that women were prohibited

-from lifting objects weighing

more than 35 pounds in the
course of their work. That pro-

-vision has barred women

from a wide range of jobs and
has been a contentious issue
with women’s groups who said
it was blatantly discrimina-
tory. ;

Labour Minister King said
his department is undertaking
a study of working conditions
and plans to enact new regula-
tions under the Factory Act to
cover standards .of heating,
ventilation, sanitation,
illumination, lunch room
facilities, and other factors
affecting the health, safety and
comfort of employees.

CLAIMS ASSOCIATION

HIGH FOOD PRICES
GOVERNMENT'S FAULT

The Consumers’ Association
of Canada has accused the
federal government of contri-
buting to the increases in the
cost of food.

The Association, in a brief to
Beryl Plumptre, chairman of
the federal Food Prices
Review Board, says that ‘‘it
would be unreasonable to sug-
gest that the Canadian govern-
ment could have prevented all
increased food prices, but it is

entirely reasonable to expect

the government not to add
undue pressure.”

As an example, the 40,000-
member Association says, the
government has not taken
measures to increase food pro-
duction. It says hog farmers
found that hog raising was not

economically practical, but the
government did not provide
subsidies or deficiency pay-
ments. As a result, ‘“‘this has
been reflected in the increased
slaughter of breeding sows,
many of them pregnant. This
can only mean fewer hogs, less
pork and higher prices.”’
Removal of the wheat sub-

-sidy ‘‘in face of world shor-

tages” has “aggravated an
already untenable situation.”
The brief notes that the

‘government reversed its policy

only after the increases in
price of vital wheat products.

Permitting increases in rail-
way freight rates also contri-
buted to rises in the cost of
wheat, according to the
Association.

The provincial government
has passed an Order-in-Council
transferring titles of 13 parcels
of land under the West Coast
National Park Act to the
federal government.

The land transfer was part of
a continuing process by which
the provincial government is
assembling land for inclusion
in the Phase III portion of
Pacific Rim National Park,
which stretches approximately
50 miles along the Vancouver
Island coastline between Port
Renfrew and Bamfield.

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NEGATIVE
WELFARE
ATTITUDE

Canadians’ negative attitude
to social welfare and unem-
ployment insurance programs
must be overcome if the
government is to improve the
quality of life in Canada, ac-
cording to former Immigration
and Manpower Minister Bryce
Mackasey.

Speaking to the Women’s
Canadian Club of Hamilton, he
said, “the stigma placed on
those who are on welfare is a
stigma people put there, not
which the government put
there.”

He said measures such as the
Local Initiatives Program
suffer from blanket criticism
because Canadians are unwill-
ing to tolerate unemployed per-
sons and assistance programs.

Canadians’ regressive atti-
tudes are a hangover from the

1930’s, he said. huntin’ season.

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