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WOMEN’S ‘ACTIVHIES

LONDON—The strategy and
hopes of Conservative women
Are not difficult to perceive.

Women have a. majority of
votes in Britain. And women
ate having an extremely diffi-

Cult time. Housewives have to
Stand in queues, rack their
brains for ways of providing

Sty meals from food supplies
that are monotonous to the
last degree; obtain clothes on
8n inadequate supply of cou-
Pons; run homes for which re
Placements of furniture, linep
and kitchen utensils are diffi-
Cult to obtain. . . .

So women must be discon-
tented. Being discontented, they
Must blame the government. If
they do not blame the govern-
Ment, they must be persuaded

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Tories try to exploit women’s discontent

to—and to vote against the La-
bor Party at the next elec-
tion. And as they have the ma-
jority of votes, Labor will be
defeated.

Then the Conservative Party
will be returned and all good
Tory women will be happy
again.

So the first resolution on the
agenda at a recent national
conference here was one called
‘The Housewives’ Burden’.

This referred. to the “ever-
increasing burden placed on
the already weary shoulders of
the housewives of this coun-

try” and blamed the govern-
ment for “continued lack : of
food, fuel, housing, clothing

and household goods.”
But the resolution was not

good enough for some dele-
gates who added amendments
demanding “more to purchase
on the home market”, and call-
ed on the Conservative Party
“to publish a Housewives’
Charter proclaiming in simple
terms the methods by which
they would ease this intolerable
burden.” :

The resolution and amend-
ments were adopted with en-
thusiasm. For the Tory women
want the charter as a useful
weapon in their campaign for
the professed purpose of “mak-
ing a nuisance of ourselves
until we get what we want.”
The first part of that purpose
they will most certainly ac-

complish.

Dancers try new step

Strikin
ew

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Simon Legree’ are members of the United

new stunt in front. of one of the struck studios
refusal to settle with them. The ‘chain gang’ prisoners and
Office and Professional Workers (CIO). ?

FILM REVIEW

Soviet documentary portrays Nuremberg
trials against backdrop of Nazi crimes

Sur times.

will last a thousand years,”
em oasted to his followers at
late, °TS in 1938. Hight years

th ® court representative of
featctlied powers which had de-
Most of azi Germany in war sent
erg , °4 the surviving fascist lead-
lows © their just fate on the gal-
Picteg € story is powerfully de-
“din The Nuremberg Trials.

Bp

is. evced by the Russians, this
corg mo full-length film re-
Since tp, ‘he. trials yet released,
He British and the Ameri-

Di ve not completed their
ig cures. But this apslag picture
fro, © than a series of episodes
Of mi} the trials. From hundreds
‘Ua. > °f films taken during the
ful cgi Period of the trials skil-
dramathne has selected the most
the no ,Scenes: Far more of
is ta. t the picture takes to run
he up by flashbacks to the
crimes against humanity
Shang ch the Nazi leaders were

AY, AUGUST 29, 1947

In The Nuremberg Trials, which is to ha
ate Theater here for one week, starting with a
Ncouver movie goers have an opportunity to see one 0

ave its first British Columbia showing at
midnight show Sunday, September 7,
£ the finest documentary pictures of

Thus, as Goering, Streicher,
Funk, Keitel and the others in
turn occupy the attention of the
court, the scene changes to show
the concentration camps, the gas
chambers where their victims per-
ished by the thousands, the mass
propaganda artifices that led a
nation to accept such things. And
to remind those who incline to ac-
cept anti-Semitism and racism

i ti-
nerally, who fall in with an
ibe ara anti-communist devices,
of the ultimate horrors of fas-
cism there are the mattresses

made of human hair, the lamp-
shades made of human skin, the
soap rendered from human flesh.

No Hollywood publicity agent
has yet written a blurb without
concluding with the words, “This
is one film you won’t want to
miss.” But The Nuremberg Trials
deals with life as millions have
known it, and Hollywood in gen-
eral is remote from life. This is
a film that no one concerned with
the future of our own and the
next generation can afford to
miss.

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Talking things over

The daily round

THE KIDS next door came racing jn ‘the other day
with the glad tidings ((for them,.that is), that school was

starting a week late.
health authorities felt. that

To me that meant :that the local

the polio epidemic is still

serious and therefore advised the School Board to delay the

‘opening of school.

Now this may be a very sound
decision to safeguard the health
of thousands of children, but

what .burns me up is that no one)
}seems. to advise the directors of)

the Pacific National Exhibition
Committee that it should, in the
interests of the youngsters them-
selves, cancel their proposed chil-
dren’s day. This seems to me to
be asking for trouble. Sure, there
would be a-_lot of disappointed
kids and the exhibitors . would

lose out, but what is that com-

pared to the loss of a few lives.

* * *

I WAS
Women’s Auxiliaries of the IWA,
through their district board meet-
ing last weekend, sent a strongly
worded resolution to both pro-
vincial and federal governments
asking that more money be set
aside for research into the causes:
and cures of .such diseases as
polio, cancer and arthritis. It’s
significant that the big insurance
companies are establishing a fund
for research into polio, but this
also emphasizes the failure of our
governments to allocate for safe-
guarding the nation’s health, the
money they allocate for other
questionable research work.

Kk’ *

DO YOU know that 80 percent |

of us are getting an inadequate
amount of Vitamin B? After find-
ing this out I hied me to my
corner grocer and purchased a
package of wheat germ which is
one of the best sources of this
vitamin that aids digestion, appe-
tite, steadies the nerves and .as-
sists in the proper use of energy
foods by the body Try it in flour

mixtures such as cookies or rfuf-|

fins, or sprinkled on your. cereal.
One to two tablespoons ‘a: serving
should do the trick.

Incidentally,
subject of vitamins, never use
soda in cooking vegetables. It

destroys some of the vitamins and
flavor.

* * *

BUTTER PRICES are increas-
ing in leaps and bounds these
days, in fact they are rising so
quickly that even-the storekeep-
ers (but not the wholesalers),
can’t keep up with them. It seems
to me that it is time for an
honest to goodness all-out boycott
of this precious stuff. Either that
or an organized move to have the
government rescind the regula-
tions restricting the sale and use
of margarine. The majority of
working class families in the Us.
are using margarine -and also
those in Newfoundland where
ae: sells at 85 cents a pound.—

glad to see that the,

while I’m on the’

LIVING COSTS

_ New Price Peak
“JULY 19
9947

BUILDING
MATERIALS
UP 31.9

JULY 20
1946

JULY 19

1947
JULY 20

1946 FOOD PRICES

UP 18.3

Rising prices in the U.S. de
picted by this chart have beer
responsible for the recent in-
vasion of Windsor, Ont., by De- .
troit housewives, thousands of ©
whom have been lining up for
buses daily to -shop in the Ca--
nadian city. But with butter up
to 65 cents, perhaps going to—
70 cents, and other prices in -
Canada still soaring, Americans
will have to look elsewhere for .
cheaper food. Like Canadians, -
‘their only hope lies in an org-
anized fight for controlled prices. —

LPP urges gov't
assume cost of polio

Suggestion that a special service
be set up jointly by Vancouver
City Council and the provincial
government “whereby persons havy-
ing any symptoms of polio could
get free medical examination by
competent doctors,” and that the
eost of treating polio victims be
borne hy these two bodies was ad-
vanced by the Vancouver Com-
mittee of the Labor-Progressive
Party last weekend.

Forwarding its proposal to the
city hall and Victoria, the com-
mittee pointed out that the “very
expensive treatment and long

hospitalization required for polio
patients has -worked an extreme
hardship on most of the families

aifected ‘thus far.”

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