“ the coast. On December Ist, BADLY DAMAGED BY A FALLING TREE, Green Gold is seen here on the ways at a Coal Harbour shipyard awaiting repairs. Owned by Local 1-71, IWA (the Loggers’ Local) Green Gold is used to service the members in the logging camps up and down while tied to one of the floats at Sullivan Bay, the boat was struck by a falling hemlock tree. Damage to the boat is in excess of $3,000 but fortunately is completely covered by insurance. THIS VIEW SHOWS THE DAMAGE TO THE HULL PLANKING and the broken remains of the cabin. The boat was not sea-worthy following the accident and the Local was forced to ship it to Vancouver via the Northern Prince. 3 ‘et cat ALL THAT REMAINS OF TH ; 1-71 officials state that the boat will be back in operation to service the camps some Se et. time in the early new year. AUT Hospital Patients New Guinea Pigs? Next time you’re in hospital, would you like to be a human guinea pig? Be given new drugs without your knowledge in order to “test” the drugs? You may very well be, if the president of the Canadian Phar- maceutical Association has his way. Dr. Roger Larose, head of the outfit, said in a Vancouver inter- view that “if a drug is good, such as penicillin, then it has to be ted on people.” . eat penicillin isn’t universally “good"—some people are allergic to it and can’t take it. Dr. Larose also said that if a patient is told he is receiving a new drug that he “is sure to re- act subjectively.” No wonder! Dr. Larose, incidentally, is dean of Pharmacy at the Univer- sity of Montreal, He was attend- ing the convention of the Cana- dian Pharmaceutical Association when he made his remarks which contrasted strongly with those made publicly, to delegates, by Dr. G. F. Archambault, presi- dent of the American Pharma- ceutical Association. Dr. Archambault stressed that legislation is needed to ensure that drugs are not tested on human guinea pigs without their knowledge. ~ CREDIT UNION DIRECTORY t Credit IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C. berni District Credit Union, Head Office: 211 Argyle St., Port | “a sey B.C. Alberni Branch: 280 Merrifield St, Alberni, B.C. __ IWA 1-217 Savings, Broadway & Quebec Streets, Vancouver 10. IWA (NLW.) Credit Union, Room 21, 774 Columbia Street, New cal 1-118, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria sus & District Credit Union, 80x 229, Chemainus nay Credi Union, Box 952, Courtenay 1 & District Credit Union, Box 717, Duncan eorge & District, 1046 - 4th Avenue, Prince George | Vancouver 9, B.C. DON’T WANT SPECIAL TREATMENT BUT Attacks On Canadian Co-ops Claimed Worst In World “Co-operatives in Canada are suffering one of the most vigorous attacks which has ever been launched upon our democratic institutions,’ Dr. R. S. Staples, President of the Co-operative Union of Can- ada told more than 900 per- sons attending the annual banquet of the United Co- operatives of Ontario in Tor- onto. “Tt sometimes seems that there is a concentrated at- tempt to isolate the co-oper- -atives from the accepted sec- tors of the Canadian economy, to condemn us who believe in the co-operative way to outer darkness as though we were morally reprehensible or the victims of some dreaded . disease.” “Co-operatives do not have and do not want treatment which is not based on a fair and firm application of the law,’ the CUC President ped 3496 Cambie Street, CLARKE’S FLOWERS FRESHER...LOVELIER...FOR ALL OCCASIONS 100% UNION SHOP ; Free Delivery — TRinity 4-9416 said, “A co-operative and profit-business exist for a fundamentally different pur- pose. They cannot be forced into the same economic mold. Members of a co-operative establish their organization to provide themselves with a service at its proper cost.” Dr. Staples made several key points in setting the rec- ord straight regarding the statement that co-ops are not paying their share of income tax. These points were: 1. Most co-operatives in Canada pay income tax (the exception to this being new co-ops in their first three years of operation). 2. The only co-operatives in Canada which pay no income tax are those which have no income. 3. The tax rates are the same for all corporations, sim- ilar in size and type ,both co- op and non-co-op. 4. No co-operatives can ac- quire general reserves out of saving without paying income tax. : Dr. Staples pointed out that the CUC in preparing a pres- entation for the forthcoming Royal Commission on Taxa- tion had made some very re- vealing discoveries. “It has come to light,” he said, “that co-operatives in Canada are in a less favorable‘ position with respect to income taxa- tion than are the co-operat- ives in the other countries that we have studied. It may be there is no country in the world that discriminates against co-operatives Irke Canada does.” Ladies Only WOMEN should operate elec- tronic brains, since these ma- chines “get along” much better with women than with men.—The manager of the electronics com- ponents division of a large cor- poration, | ; ; :