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Comment

Give labor its share

THERE is evidence everywhere

that the new inflationary
period we are entering is already
causing hardship to millions of
Canadians.

Prices are going up daily and
there is no sign of relief. from
high and even higher taxes.

The Canadian Labor Con-
gress is reported to be studying
a plan of action and it is to be
hoped that it will put before
the government proposals to
meet the situation — and mobil-
ize the united power of the en-
tire labor and farm movement

behind them. Among such meas’ .

ures being discussed by labor aad
farm organizations are: :

w Return to cost-of-living
escalator bonuses to all workers,
whether represented by unions
or not.

k* =Cash advances to farm-
ers for farm-stored grain; plus
interest-free loans. Full parity
prices.

i Price controls on essen-
tial foods such as milk, with sub-
sidies to farmers as and when
required,

i Full investigation into
price spreads and the huge pro-

fits being made by food distribuz,
tion and other corporations.

M Acapital gains tax, grad-
uated to hit the big stock man-
ipulators and real- estate specur
lators. This would siphon off
sizeable sums from presently
untaxed income. Such a tax must,
of course, exempt private home-
owners who sell at a higher price
today than they paid years ago.

MM An increase in Family
Allowance commensurate with
the purchasing power—in other
words, a 50 percent increase. At
the same time, such Family Al-
lowance should not be consider-
ed part of income. They should
not be taxed.

These are measures needed—
together with substantial wage
increases—to ensure that Can-
ada’s working people will not be
priced out of the market.

But basically, the direction of
Canada’s economy must also
change. We must. manufacture
more of our raw materials at
home to. satisfy the home mar’
ket, provide more goods and
more productive employment.

anager — RITA WHYTE

S most of my friends know, I
A am much more at home in a
midden than I am at the race-
track. And my knowledge of

sports is confined to soccer,

which I once played with more

~ energy than skill, and such pur-
suits ‘as mountain climbing, for
which I must confess to a wan-
ing enthusiasm, :
Over the past few weeks, as

a candidate for the legislature,

I have had to listen 2 epee

sople posing as experts on SUD~-

forts they could profitably study
to pretend that I know anything
about grass hockey. I know only
that it-is a minor sport in this
country, largely because it is ill-
suited to our climate, and that
the Coast is the one place where
it has any following.
But I can tell you something
about the girls who play grass
hockey and what they accom-
plished during a tour of Aus-
tralia last summer which stands
out as a triumph for ‘Canadian

amateur sport.

‘There are eight women’s grass

hockey teams in this province —
seven in the lower mainland and
one on the Island, in Victoria.
This compares with more than
1,000 teams in England, 300 in
the United States and 300 in
Australia.

When the Greater Vancouver
Women’s Grass Hockey Associ-
ation accepted an_ invitation
from the International Federa-
tion of Women’s Grass Hockey
Associations to take part in the
sixth triennial at Melbourne, it
undertook something which at
first seemed beyond the capacity
of a small organization with a
very limited following.

Somehow its members had to
raise enough money to take a
team of 15 and their manager to
Australia and back.

They held teas and conducted
rummage sales. They collected
waste paper. until their. base-
ments. were. overflowing. On
weekends they scoured’ the
countryside for beer bottles ac
they transported them on the ski
lift from cabins on Grouse
Mountain. They became experts
on‘the salvage value of bottles of
every description and of junk
in general. :

They took jobs as babysitters
and acted as ushers for the Van-
couver Basketball Commission.
They solicited contributions from
organizavions and individuals.
They even got a small donation
from the provincial government.

As one team member told me,

“We did anything and every-
thing that was legal.” And at the
end of 18 months they had raised
$9,000, with each team member
contributing an. additional $200
towards expenses.
YW SHIR

Their reception in Australia
justified their enthusiasm. In
Melbourne, 5,000 people turned
out to the game and everywhere
they went they drew crowds of
1,000 to 2,000. Melbourne opened

its Olympia Park — the first
time it had been used — for a
game.

A women’s grass hockey trien-
nial, it seems, is a contest in
which there is no winner and no
trophy. But it says something
for the quality of the Canadian
team that its scores against
countries which have thousands
of players to draw from. amazed
Australian sports writers. Can-
ada tied Scotland 1-1, lost to
Treland 3-0, to England and Aus-
tralia 2-0 and New Zealand 4-2,
and beat the Netherlands 3-0.

Now ... well, they are think-
ing about the next triennial to be
held at Amsterdam in 1959.' And
if ever there were an argument
for more generous - government
assistance to amateur sports the
girls of the Greater Vancouver
Women’s Grass Hockey League
have provided it.’ As-one Aus-
tralian sports writer observed,
“The team is the best ambassador
Canada has sent as yet.”

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