WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER > ¢ Promised By CCF If Elected . One of the top issues in the current election campaign is the proposal of the CCF Party to introduce immediately a Medical Care Plan with full coverage. “No other party in the Campaign has pledged itself to implement a platform plank as sweeping as that assured by the CCF,” says B.C. Federation of Labour officials. CCF leader Robert M. Strachan’s pledge made at the outset of the Campaign was “under a CCF Government, no family, and no person in the Province will go without proper medical care. In a statement issued to the electors, the B.C. Federation of Labour points out that “millions of dollars now received from Ottawa for Health care are being used for vote-catching purposes by Social Credit Government.” Funds Diverted It is also alleged by the Feder- ation that much of the 2% Sales Tax now being collected in British Columbia for health care is being pooled for accumulated financial surpluses. Indicating that the Social Credit Government is not prepared to implement any promises regarding Health Insurance, the following Statement is quoted from“ the Social Credit Union of electors, January, 1958 — “There may be a strong movement behind this Health Insurance scheme, but you miay be assured that Social Credit is lending no weight to it, the fact is quite the contrary.” Mandate Already Given Twenty three years ago the people of British Columbia voted in a plebiscite in favour of a Health Insurance Plan. They didn’t get it. j In 1955 Premier Bennett pro- posed a Provincial Health Service if the Federal Government par- ticipated 50-50, In 1957 he proposal. In 1960 the Social Credit Gov- made the same ernment is making tentative pro- posals of this nature knowing that the Federal Government cannot participate, until the prov- inces indicates a willingness to participate. It is estimated that 40% of the population in this province, mainly low income families, have no health plan coverage at all. The principles to be incorpor- ated in a CCF Health Care Plan are: The free choice of Doctors. Coverage for all. Comprehensive medical ser- vices. Major emphasis on prevention. Encouragement of diagnosis, and treatment. early Promotion of medical research and education. Co-ordination with other health programs. Direction of medical treat- ment by qualified Doctors. Direction of economic aspects by Government. In a communication directed to the Federation by Dr. Brock Chrisholm, M.D., former Director to the World Health Organiz- ation he states: “Tt seems that there is a gradually spreading belief in many countries rat complete medical care of the highest standards should be available to all citizens, and without the hazard of financial cata- strophe to individuals in the case of serious or long-con- tinued illness. The obvious Success of the experiment in England has stimulated that Conciliation Boards Start In Interior IWA dispute with the lumber operators in the Northern and Southern Interior has now been referred to Conciliation Boards, Hearings of the Conciliation Board in the Southern Interior got under way August 22, with Mayor H. E. Sang of Cranbrook as Chairman. Vancouver barrister Wm. E. Philpott is Chairman of the Northern Interior Board due to start its proceedings during the week commencing August 29th. A Real Fish Story Newest story on the cold war states that goldfish and tropical fish entering the United States from abroad must have special permits to prove that they were not bred in Communist China. Unionists Aid In Campaign Labour's partnership with the CCF in the present election campaign has enlisted the aid of well-known trade unionists from outside the province who have had Political experience. George Home, Director of Poli- _ teal Education Canadian Labour Congress arrived early in the aign and will remain through- Director of Public Relations, Cliff Scotton, CLC, is also on hand to assist with prob- lems of television, radio, and public relations generally. United Steelworkers’ Bert Gargrave, and Packinghouse Workers’ Jim Bury stepped off the plane on the 17th inst, and rolled up their sleeves ready for work in territory that is familiar to them. It is an open secret that a num- ber of IWA Business Agents are finding that their training in union organization work is proving of inestimable value in staging a political offensive in their own areas. As an observer remarked, “CCF political experience plus trade union organizational knowledge is a pretty formidable combination.” “The Party That Gets Things Done” § Pearson TB Hospital grounds will be landscaped this year, eight years after completion of the building. Tenders for the job will be opened by Works Minister W. N. Chant, Aug, 31. belief and intention very greatly. I believe that this development is inevitable and desirable, that the highest standards of medical care need not be threatened, and that the patient-doctor re- lationship, which is so neces- sary to good medical practice, need not be di- sturbed ...” Your Vote Does Count Any voter who is ever inclined to doubt that his one vote can be meaningful in an election should take a look at the senatorial race in North Dakota. Representative Burdick apparently won by fewer than 100 votes over Gov. Davis. One vote’s difference in each of the state’s 2300 precicts could have reserved the result. The moral is: Every vote does count. Particularly one’s own. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. a. Je Ta TOP LEVEL CONFERENCE discusses IWA plans to aid in the election. of a CCF Government September 12, following the unanimous endorsation of the CCF by the IWA Regional Delegate Conference meeting August 6, in Vancouver. 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