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Union opens holiday camp

Workers. enjoy a boat ride at the International Fur and Leather Workers’ newly built vacation
‘amp on White Lake in New York state. Swimming, fishing, basketball, volley ball and tennis courts
—they’re all there when workers take their more than earned holidays.

SIMPLIFY COOKING, WASHING CHORES

q Soviet women campaigning

MOSCOW
ie ability of women to pro-
vee oe and contribute to So-
ings ire would be considerably

“ased if they were not forced
oe so much time on vari-
ae Ousehold duties, Olga Koz-
oo anal in an article which

“Tn Y appeared. in Pravda.
ge his famous article, ‘The
nes Beginning, V. I. Lenin
ee out the need for more
oy ve reorganization of the
a of life. ‘The woman,’ he
4 Ne them, ‘continues to remain
pa me Serf, in spite of all the
Ne liberating her, for the petty
aera’ Which chains her to
Re one and nursery and
that Reps her stamina by work
mech 1s ‘unproductive, petty,
ae mg, dull and depressing in
Lat ee oppresses, stifles,
un 88 and humiliates her,’
he Soviet state, as'no other

sta 5
mae In the world, has done
Hen for the actual emancipa-

of women, But in the work
any organizations there are
Us shortcomings which oft-
force the working woman
Pend her spare time and en-
1 to poor advantage.” states
88 Kozlova,

et us take, for example, the
Sration of food. It still takes

of m:
Serio
en

tos

Prep
a gr

e
servige’ Single people receive
simph * Now, but families are
While. forgottien. Mean-
Such | €ssentially simple matters

es delivering meals to the

eee Mproving their quality,
“Si under consideration.

of th ore the war the ministry
ly Sy food industry had wide-

i eloped the production of
but Prepared food products.
th ft for some reasch. oF
thie) it is slow in restoring
Vice petreanaly. important ser-
“The ve. Population.

f © Ministries of trade and

the
food : 3
tangini industry could achieve
vi

“Usly face the task of ac-

mm: ; °
lieg Odating the workers’ fami-
€n masse.”

1
np Kozlova points out:

© questi j
‘ becomin on of laundries is

Working ever more acute for

of acre see Many directors

not <> 2nd plants, however,

to this attach much importanec

Cor preueetion and do not ac-
“pa; Proper attention.

et
Such a us take, for example,

the Sree textile enterprise as
~ STeKkhovo - Zuyevsky Cotton

© results if they would’

Textile Combine. There are
laundries there, but what do they
amount to? They are simply
rooms where there is hot water.
There is, however, no trace of
any machine that would facili-
tate heavy work.

The workers of the ministry of
light industry do not take the
trouble to calculate how much
energy is expended by the work-
ing woman in_ these so-called

‘“aundries.” and how much lessi

she produces at the enterprise
after having washed clothes. If
such a calculation were made,
this question of mechanizing
laundries would undoubtedly be
brought up: for immediate dis-

cussion.
“The question of the exten-
sive mechanization of daily

work is one of great signifi-
cance for the state and requires
an immediate solutiom The
ministries producing basc con-

OUR CHILDREN

to ease ‘household drudgery”

sumer goods must tackle the
problem.

“What is meant is that it is
not only necessary to satisfy
the demand for gootis whose
production has always been or-
ganized, but also to manufac-
ture new products which would
facilitate the daily work of
women, as well as to propagan-
dize and advertise this produc-
tion to a greater extent.

“It would be advantageous to
the ministries of food and light
industries and the bureau of in-
dustral cooperation to base the
selection of products mot only
upon the requrements off com-
mercial organizations, but also
upon the advice of women —
women workers, collective farm
women, and women engaged in

_ intellectual work — as to what

should be produced in order to
save more time and to ease the
daily duties of women.”

What should teenagers read?

WITH THE. despicable book of the despicable Igor Gouzenko
now in various high school libraries, I have heard several parents ques-
tion the advisability of allowing their teen-agers to read it.

I believe teen-agers, including the younger teens,

are old enough

to take responsibility for their own yeading material. Sometimes parents

are aware when the. child is very
young that this point will some
day be reached. In such house-
holds parents try to help a child
develop a wide range of interests
in his reading so that when he
reaches high school he has be-
come fairly selective in his
choice,

Often at this stage his taste
may run more to form than con-
tent, but this doesn’t rate par-
ental interference because with
maturity he will have better un-
derstanding. In the meantime he
is learning what to
what to discard.

One of the surest ways to get =

him to read any book is to for-

bid him to ‘do so. The normal
teen-ager on the threshold of be-
coming an independent adult re-
bels at being treated like a
“child.” Other good ways are* to
hide books, to talk of them with
knowing glances, or to high-~
handedly denounce 2 Rook: sted
“trash,” and not fit reading for
a “child of mine.”

The first two merely make the
pook tantalizing; the latter, a
more common way emong pro-

keep and:

gressives, brings hot resentment
at’ being treated like an idiot
with no judgment. Most children
will defend their judgment by
defiantly. reading the “trash,”
even in secret. \

A far héalthier plan is to en-
courage family discussions on
books, movies, radio and so ‘on.
The very youngest should have
a chance to voice opinion and
reaction, and his, opinion should
have consideration.

Such discussions are impor-
tant when a book of the Gou-
zenko type appears. It’s not hard
to debunk such books and auth-
ors. Other books and articles can
be used to point out the lies
and inaccuracies. :

Young people will feel much
more grown up if they choose
their own reading and feel free
to discuss it. — VERA MORRIS.

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Specializing in
Swee{ and Sour Rye Breads

342 E. HASTINGS ST.
PA. 8419

CANADIANS TO ATTEND

Pan-American peace congress
will be held in September

FROM THE headquarters of the Women’s International Dem-
ocratic Federation comes the news that a Pan-American peace con-
ference is to be held in Mexico at the beginning of September. (The
Canadian Peace Congress executive recently announced its intention
of sending a delegation to the conference.)

What a mighty congregation
of peoples there are in Argen-
tine, Cuba, the other Latin
American countries, the United
States and Canada who are will-
ing to work to make sure that
this beautiful continent is never
ravaged by war as Europe and
Asia have been! No wonder 2
decision has been made to cal!
these peoples together so that
they can work unitedly in their
common cause.

We in Canada share the re-
sponsibility, even to a larger de-
gree than some, since the United
States, war-planners have made
our northern areas a vast fort-
ress and arsenal in preparation,
for launching a new watr.

Senator Roebuck, former Lib-
eral MP, stated in Toronto on
May 18. “No one can say the par-
liament we elect on June 27 will
not be a war parliament.” An
American senator also said re-
cently, “With the signing of the
Atlantic pact we have the bases.
All we need now is the planes
to deliver the bomb.”

How many quiet women,
housewives, office workers, and
mothers were going about their
daily jwonk in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki when they and their
children’s lives were without
warning snuffed out. There was
no time for pleas, no time to
protect themselves or their chil-
dren, just ‘sudden searing and

. terrible death rained down from

the skies. And for certain men
in America, it méant just so
much more wealth in terms of
profits made out of the death
weapons and the planes that de-
livered them.

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Fifty million people were wip-
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war. How many next time?

: * * *

TO THOSE who would answer
that we can do -nothing to save
ourselves, I would reply that we

_ can,

: The issue of war or peace is
not decided by some supernat-
ural power. It is decided anc
planned by a small group of mor
tal men who would crush ou’
the lives of millions as» they
would an -anthill beneath their
feet, simply for what they can
get out of it in terms of money.
When such men plan, others
can change their plans, and we
women can have our place in
this.

We must help to change these
plans. We need to find strength
by joining with other men and
women who are willing to work
to save the peace. We can and
will succeed if this drive to en-
list millions for peace becomes
a crusade. There is much pre-
liminary work to be done, which
must be started immediately.
The men who plan war have
built themselves a great ma-
chine, Their voices are powerful
and far reaching: But the voices
of the world’s women are strong-
er. — DORISE NIELSEN.

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