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HEALTH CARE CAMPAIGN. Members of the Women’s Activities Department of AFL-CIO‘S Committee on Political Education
conduct a shopping centre campaign in Philadelphia. Purpose of the campaign is to secure petitions urging Congress to enact

the Anderson-King health care bill.

For Mature Women

Labour Booklet Outlines
Problems Of Job Seeking

The problems of the mature woman entering or re-entering the
labour force are outlined in a booklet produced by the woman’s
bureau of the labour department in Ottawa.

The booklet suggests 18 job cate-
gories which a mature woman might
consider.

Bureau director Marion V. Royce
says she has two main concerns on
this topic. They are the need for fa-
cilities for the training of adults and
secondly that women should recog-
nize they can’t do a good job with-
out training or retraining.

Job Training

If a woman was serious in her
quest for a job she was advised to
visit the nearest National Employ-
ment Service office where she could
find out what types of jobs were
available in her community and seek
advice about job training.

The mature woman seeking a job
should first “look at her capacities
objectively and try to measure their
usefulness in the labour market.”
Skills acquired in housekeeping and
household managements, or hobbies
such as dressmaking or photography,
might lead to a new occupation.

Refresher Course

If a woman was returning to an
occupation in which she had pre-
vious training, a refresher course
might suffice. Correspondence
courses or a series of day or night
classes for adults were often the
answer for women who needed to
uperade their academic or practical
skills,

“Where no suitable pre-employ-
ment training is possible, a woman
should look for work where she will
have a good initial supervision and
training on the job,” the booklet ad-
vises. “For many of the service jobs
filled by women, this latter type of
training is all that is available.”

Job Categories

Job categories suggested in the
booklet are cashier, dental assistant,
food supervisor in a hospital, hair-
dresser, medical laboratory technolo-
gist, medical record librarian, nur-
sing assistant, occupational therapist,
occupational therapy assistant in the
mental health field, office worker,
radiological or X-ray technician,
real estate agent, salesclerk or sales-
person, seamstress, teacher, visiting

homemaker, waitress and writer.

Women not pressed by economic
need could become useful in volun-
tary service. The possibilities in-
cluded teaching English to new-
comers to Canada, assisting the staff
of a day nursery for children of
working mothers, helping the pro-
gram of a recreation centre for
elderly people or working on a plan-
ning committee of a social agency.
It was preferable to choose an
agency with a training program for
its workers.

Women’s Rates

Higher

LONDON — The “equal pay”
campaign has gone into reverse with
men telephone operators for govern-
ment defence departments demand-
ing the same pay as Women opera-
tors.

Traditionally in Britain women
have always campaigned for equal
pay with men, who are higher paid,

New Plan

However, under a new pay plan

approved by the Treasury women
operators now receive nine pennies
a week more than men on a top
weekly wage of about 10 pounds
($28).

The difference will widen to about
14 shillings three pence — ($1.30)
in favor of the women from July 1.

Outnumber Men

Women telephone operators in
this category outnumber the men by
about four to one.

Unlike the U.S, many male tele-
phone operators work both on the
regular telephone exchanges and on
government and private  switch-
boards.

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TWA (N.W.) Credit Union,
Westminster

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IWA Credit Unions and other Credit Unions

supported by IWA Local Unions in B.C.

Alberni District Credit Union, Head Office: 211 Argyle St., Port Al-
berni, B.C, Alberni Branch: 280 Merrifield St., Alben, BC.

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8, IWA (Victoria), 904 Gordon Street, Victoria
SS & District Credit Union, Box 229, Chemainus
Cowichan and District Credit Union, Lake Cowichan, B.C.
Union, Box 952, Courtenay
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Standards
Exposed

Those high medical standards
that make it unethical for doctors
to treat our elders under a social
security health plan aren’t stand-
ing up too well.

Some doctors, according to the
Food and Drug Administration,
have sold out to the “ethical”
drug companies. FDA Deputy
Dir. Kenneth L. Milstead has an-
nounced that a crackdown is on
the way.

FDA says that its targets on
the medical front will include
doctors who:

® Arrange for tailored studies
which permit a drug promoter to
advertise that a product has been
clinically tested although only a
few uncontrolled observations on

a few patients have been made.

© Rent themselves out to drug
firms as “consultants” for a fee
and then agree to rig drug-test
procedures so that the results will
be as predetermined.

@ Use as_ treatment-for-pay-
medicine drugs labelled “for in-
vestigational use” without sub-
mitting proper clinical reports re-
quired for necessary evaluation
of the drug’s benefits or harmful
effects.

Milstead said that FDA now
has several cancer remedies under
review, but named no actual

drugs in a speech to the Yonkers
(N.Y.) Academy of Medicine.

“We intend,” the FDA official
said, “to use every enforcement
facility available to the Govern-
ment, including the statutes which
prohibit the giving of false reports
to the Government, to deal with
physicians we find engaged in
these activities.”

—1.U.D.

Lighter Side

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duct that costs a dime to make, sells

for a dollar and is habit forming.
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only keep it to themselves!
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to, if you live as people used to.
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Always try to drive so that your

license will expire before you do.
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Sign in the window of a simple
furniture store: “Use our easy pay-
ment plan—l00 per cent down and
then nothing else to pay.”

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WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

Catholic Priest Urges Women’s
Nagging To Aid Labour

Father Nearing, director of the social action department of the

Canadian Catholic Conference has urged the Catholic
League to “start nagging as a national

Women’s
organization of Catholic

women,” and “come to the aid of Canadian labour in this moment

of crisis.”

Rev. Nearing, of Ottawa, was
speaking to the Saulte Ste. Marie
diocesan CWL convention here in

May.
27% of Force

Good reason for the CWL to
begin, suggested Father Nearing, lies
in the fact 1.7 million girls and
women, 14 years of age and over,
now make up 27 per cent of the
total labour force in Canada. And
most of them are unorganized.

“Let us clearly understand that
trade unionists, under certain condi-
tions, have a natural right to with-
hold their labour, or to strike; and
let us think more of them, not less,
if, at times, they find themselves
obliged to use this painful means of
obtaining justice for themselves and
their families—and, indirectly, for
the many unorganized workers who
benefit by their sacrifice.”

Father Nearing emphasized that
Pope Pius XII defended “the right

to form a strong association” of

workers. “For only a strong associa-.
tion can effectively protect the rights
of its own members and at the same
time give attention and effective sup-
port to those other movements, out-
side itself, that contribute to the

common good.

Not Strong

“One reason why labour is having
so difficult a time at present to make
an effective contribution to the poli-
tical life of Canada is the fact that
it is not as strong as it ought to be
in 1962.

“It does not have the money, the
trained personnel, the research
facilities, or the educational pro-
grams that are necessary for effec-
tively accomplishing its national as-
pirations for the common good. This
is a matter of serious regret and,
perhaps, of more serious conse-
quences.”

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IWA, by Sister Margaret Dean. They are Mrs. Grace Hislop and Mrs. Polly Benson.
Standing beside Mrs. Dean is Mrs. Gladys Sjoberg. ;

FRANK WILSON, Conductor of Local
IWA Sub-Local Ladies Auxiliary officers at Youbou June 13. Ladies are Margaret
Dean, Chairman; Doreen Applin, Recording Secretary; Gladys Sjoberg, Financial
Secretary; Doris Raynor, Ist Vice-Chairman; Mrs. Pella Werema.

1-80, installing the elected Youbou

Sick List

King‘s Daughters

Sisters Gladys Sjoberg and Doreen Ap-
plin of the LA of Local 1-80, IWA, visited
the following patients in the King's
Daughters Hospital June 16, distributing
candy, cigarettes and copies of the West-
ern Canadian Lumber Worker.

Don Scott, Nitinat; E, Pickard, Dun-
can; Edward R. Elliott, Duncan; C. F.
Dent, Youbou; H. Eaton, Duncan; Terry
Gregson, Duncan; Otto Ehrenreich, You-
bou; Frank Willkins, Lake Cowichan;
R, E. Fultz, Duncan; M. Kral, Youbou;
Dick Oliver, Youbou; 8. Schlicke, Dun-
can; Mrs. A. Thorne, Duncan; Mrs. H.
Elliott, Lake Cowichan; Mrs. G. A, True-
man, Cobble Hill; Mrs. W. Miner, Lake
Cowichan; Mrs. A. Greffard, Youbou;
Mrs. Elaine White, Nitinat; Mrs. Doreen
Nagy, Lake Cowichan; Mrs, E. M. Blan-

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chard, Duncan; Mrs. K. Teasdale, Dun-
can; P. Burnside, Duncan; Dolores Carl-
son, Lake Cowichan; Lucy Eckert, Lake
Cowichan,

The Ladies’ Auxiliary also visit the
children and distribute chocolate bars and
candy to them.

Sisters Margaret A. Dean and Grace
Hislop of the LA of Local 1-80, IWA,
visited the following patients in the
King’s Daughters Hospital June 23, dis-
tributing candy, cigarettes and copies of
the Western Canadian Lumber Worker.

Mike Kraal, Youbou; K. MacKenzie,
Duncan; C, McMurtrie, Lake Cowichan;
A. Nolan, Lake Cowichan; Carl Thoresen,
Duncan; Don Scott, Nitinat; Ernie Pick-
ard, Duncan; Mrs, Lochmanetz, Honey-
moon Bay; Mrs. Wm. Pattie, Lake Cow-
ichan; Mrs. Kusters, Duncan; Mrs. Stra-
nack, Honeymoon Bay; Mrs. Cadwallader,
Duncan; Mrs. Genereaux, Cobble Hill;
Mrs. Koenders, Duncan; Mrs. Mainweiler,
bs a Mrs. L. Tremblay, Port Ren-
rew,

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