ech nahh voice = olin cagesrertit Home “-~Women’s Activities “ Family AUXILIARIES IWA women ask roll-back NANAIMO, B.C.—Following up their lead in the campaign for roll-back of prices to 1946 levels, delegates to the BC. District Council of the Federated IWA Auxiliaries pledged members “to work for the defeat of all present members of parliament who do not support a roll<-back of prices, anda to support those candidates who endorse labor’s program.” Two resolutions on price con- trols and political action urged the re-establishment of subsidies on milk, meat and grains, main- tenance of rental controls and a 100 percent excess profits tax. Unanimously condemning ship- ment of arms to such countries as China, delegates backed this up with a decision to raise $100 to- ward sending medical equipment to Madame Sun Yat Sen. Trade relations “with all friendly and democratic countries’ was urged aS a principal means of preserv- ing world peace. _Resolutions passed asked for in- creased unemployment insurance benefits, family allowances and widows’ and old age pensions; and amendments to the Municipal Act to make qualifications for voters the same as in provincial and federal elections, except in money » by-laws, All district officers were re- elected for another term by ac- clamation. Mrs. Edna Brown as president, Mrs. Marge Croy and Mrs. Tobie Hogarth as first and second vice-presidents, Mrs. Mona Morgan as_ secretary- treasurer, Mrs. Edith Malbon of Camp 6 Youbou auxiliary, was elected as three-year trustee, - Minerva Miller will ‘broadcast on prices Minerva Miller, nationat com- mittee member of the Labor-Pro- gressive Party and the party’s provincial director of education, will speak over station CJOR here this coming Thursday, February 6, at 7.30 p.m., LPP provincial headquarters announced this week. The broadcast is part of the LPP campaign for restoration of full price controls and subsidies. CHILD REFUGEES Spanish child every care in ren given Russia By DULCE SMITH Nine years ago the people’s government of Spain fell, be- trayed to Franco’s fascist armies by the governments of the democratic countries. crime was that they had foug their democratically elected gov- ernment, fled into exile. Few countries offered them refuge. Some stayed in France, others went to Mexicc. Still others found haven in the Soviet Union, What has happened to the more than 2,000 Spanish children who went to the Soviet Union is told in a report given in Paris by San- tiago Carrillo, general secretary of the Federation of United So- cialist Spanish Youth (JSU), on his return from an inspection tcur in the USSR. Telling of the celebration held in Stanislavsky Theater, Moscow, to mark the tenth anniversary of the children’s arrival, he said: “There were more than 2,000 Spanish young people present, many of thetmn already qualified engineers, teachers, doctors, art- ists. Among them were seated members of the Soviet govern- ment trade unions and the teach- ers whe during these ten years have. devoted themselves to the task of making of these children cultured and useful men and wo- men. : ‘“Many millions of rubles were allocated by the Soviet govern- ment for clothing, nourishment and education of the Spanish children after their arrival at the port of Leningrad in 1937, “Special school books were pub- lished fcr them in Spanish by the ministry of education, including an anthology of classical and) modern Spanish literature such as schoot children in Spain had probably never possessed,” ; Carillo said the children were housed in magnificent buildings surrounded by woods in the neigh- borhood of Leningrad and Moscow, alsc in the Ukraine and the Cri- mea. In summer they. were sent to holiday homes and Pioneer camps near the Black Sea. kk * “When war came in 1941,” he continued, “they were evacuatea with their schools to Central Asia ] oJ Dy e It’s cold in Miami, too With sub-zero temperatures reported from cities im various parts of the U. 8. and Canada (all but Vancouver and Victoria, of | course), even sunny Miami admits that it’s cold there, too. Here a couple of happy kids find a welcome sign on their completely unequipped for 35-degree weather. ? FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948 Thousands of Spaniards, whose only ht three bitter years to defend for safety, but some were caught in the siege of Leningrad. These children were given preferential rations over Soviet children by the authorities and were the first to be evacuated when the road over Lake Ladoga was constructed. “Many of the clder children, now 18 to 20 years old, wished to join the defense, recognising the same brutal enemy who had raped their loved Spain, but the authorities would not allow this. However, in Leningrad some were able to slip away and volunteer by falsi- fying their age and nationality. Among them was Reuben Ruiz Ibarruri, son of La Pasionaria, who fell fighting in Stalingrad. Others were permitted on -their own insistence to work in the, war factories.” All through the war the major- ity of the Spanish children in their sheltered schools in Central Asia received exceptional allowances in food and clothing. As soon as it was safe they returned to their original homes to enter Univer- sities and other educationa) insti- tutions and those who had worked in war factories resumed their education. Today Some 1,500 are studying in universities or secondary. col- leges and more than 400 are being educated in the new labor reserve schools. About 700 are already working in factories and of these the majority are taking courses in the correspondence institutes for special skills, or are returning to the technical institutes and even to the universities for further studies after their practica) ex- Perience, as is commonly done in the Soviet Union. In all their training the young Spaniards share the same rights to a stipend covering full main- tenance with vacation and medi- eal protection such as is provided for the young Soviet citizen, and no €conomic problem is allowed ta hinder the pursuit of their studies. Last year 77 graduated in var- ious professions, engineers, doc- tors, Another 500 of the younger chil- dren are still taking their junior grades in the four magnificent residential schools put at their by the Soviet govern- @ This is the first of two ar ticles taken from a report trans- lated from Spanish. Next week Dulce Smith will tell of Santiago Carrillo’s visit to the Spanish ref- ugee schools. H Czech women gain by insurance scheme PRAGUE. — Czech housewives will receive old age pensions at 65 and full allowances when sick, whether they are insured them- selves or are dependents of in- sured persons, under the national insurance scheme due to become law in March. With all insurance now nation- alized, the new law covers all citizens équally regardless of their occupation. Mothers get payments when they are unable to work and newborn babies each receive 2,500 crowns ($48) and a com- plete outfit of baby clothes. Individual contributions _under the new scheme will not increase because the government is paying @ third of the cost. Not every one can do this Need a place to live? Well, so did Edward De Peter, sophomore at St, Michael’s College, Vermont, and his wife. The got out of this predicament by having twins and what with the resultant publicity and the efforts of sympatheic classmates they managed to find an apartment. But ‘this is the exception. House-hunting couples usually find landlords cold to their pleas as soon as they mention children. EVERY TIME I wash dishes I try to think hard about something useful, such as, what does “austerity” mean to our family, or, shall we have stew or liver for dinner, which is the austerity program’s effect on our budget. If I start think- ing about the dishes I usually end up by calculating how often I've washed a certain cup or plate, and arrived at the astound- ing conclusion that the dish pass- es through my hands in the dish- pan 1095 times a year, and I become so indignant about it that I have quite a time overcoming the impulse to break it there and then, The other day. I was contem- Plating the problems of house- wives in general when I started to think about the word “house- wife” itself. The more I thought about it, the more I . disliked its connotation, as though a woman were married to her house. However, the more I ar- gued against it the more appar- ent it became that the word's meaning was correct. Finally I looked it up in the dictonary which informed me that a house- wife is a “domestic economist.” I'm not going to argue with the dictionary about its defini- tion of a housewife, but I'd like to expand it a bit and add on all the other things a house- wife must be. As an example, I would add: baby sitter, carpen- ter, cleaner and presser, cook, designer, dietician, diplomat elec- trician, farmer, housekeeper, in- jventor, mechanic, nurse, psychol- ogist, seamstress, sociat worker, and washer woman. * * * e WHEN YOU think of the mil- lions of women employed in the one profession you would expect that such a trade would be more publicized. So I looked up Bart- lett’s Quotations to see what. some notable had to~-say about the housewife and I was quite hurt to find that not one had any- thing particularly brilliant to say about her. Everyone seems to take her so much for granted that she cannot even shine in her own field. There are books written about outstanding scien- tists, explorers, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and every other con- ceivable profession, but I have yet to see a book devoted to an outstanding housewife, as such. And so too, they award prizes to outstanding scientists, explor- ers, etc, but what about the housewife? , The only time we get remem- bered is at election time, when politicians suddenly realize that a good half of the voters are women. Now it’s no gopd voting for someone who promises you the moon as well as a free baby sitter in every home. But it is about time some of us put on our thinking caps and figured out who will in the way of raising our liv- ing standards — and easing our do the most for us| - problems as mists.” I'm sure that the housewife ish't likely to vote for anyone who stands for a policy of in- flation and decontrol. We’re going to back those who wil protect our standards of living by rolling back prices and raising the fam- ily allowances. Right now we can start campaigning to beat King “domestic econo- in his policy of “less for the peo- ple, more for the profiteers” by speeding up all.forms of protest ‘and pressure. Let’s get behind the Toronta housewives’ campaign for securing 1,000,000 signatures for a price control petition —B.G. PATTERN FEATURE i, €y, WS ~ SESS SS SS SS SS SS SSssg SS ASSEEG YY Wy, 2Y, y y LA WMH © Yy York 18, N.Y. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7%.