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NATIONAL CONFERENCE IN MARCH

Charter for Peace proposed by
Canadian Congress of Women

DRAWING UP of a _ Peace
Charter for Canadian Women
will be one of the main. tasks
of the Second All-Canadian Wo-
men’s Conference which meets
dn Toronto March 9: and 10. A
conference call, sent out last
Week by the Congress of Can-
adian Women, invites all wo-
men’s organizations to send dele-
Sates and observers.

Congress president Mrs. Rae
Luckock, just back from the
Second World Peace ‘Congress,

. Said she anticipated a big re-

Sponse. (Last year’s conference
had 279 delegates.)

She noted that two great ques-
tions stood before Canadian wo-
men. These were:

Upholding of the UN Charter
and cooper ition of all nations
and people to make it effective.
Canada’s women, French’ and
English-speaking, can contrib-
ute mightily to assuring peace
in the world.

Finding ways and means to
safeguard Canadian families and
children from the ill effects of
undernourishment, bad housing,
the propaganda of violence, rac-
ism and war.

“T am sure every Canadian

WELL, THE February sales
are in full swing in most of the
Stores these days. After the
pre-Christmas prices it does give
you a jolt to realize how -badly
taken the customers were in the
last hectic days before the holi-
day. Toys are selling at nearly
half the cost,- shirts, ties, slip-
Pers and such are greatly re-
duced in price. Not that you
Can expect any kind of a_bar-
Sain, sale or no sale, the fact
remains . that customer resist-
ance does have an effect on
prices,

Watch for wool sales in par-
ticular and if at all possible
tuck away a few balls of that
nylon mixture wool now selling
at 29 cents. I’ve just used up
a lot of odds and ends of wool
In a frightening striped sweater
that the kids seem to think is
beautiful, bless their uncultured
tastes,

_ Another little money saving
idea is to purchase one of those
neat rolls of stuffing for a com-
forter (I saw them advertized
In a store window at 79 and 98
Cents for a 72 by 100 inch com-
forter) and then go to town on
all those odds and ends of ma-
terial and old clothes you have
tucked away, and run up 4
nice patchwork quilt. That way
you save all of five or six dollars
that a new comforter would cost.

* * *

I SEE the head of Swift's
“Martha Logan” service is try-
ing to give some advice to house-
Wives concerning the high cost
of meat. She says there should
be a family conference every
Night on the next day’s meals—
I wonder if she has them at her
house! She goes on to say that
men must be educated in cur-
Tent food costs, and not to wor-
Ty too much about the men-
folk, for after a few educational
trips to the market with you,
they will lose some of their at-
titude about what they will and
will not. eat.

This poor deluded woman must
be living in a vacuum, Hasn't
She hear about all the working
men asking for higher wages
for the very purpose of trying
to meet the higher cost of meat?

but I could tell her that if
they tried lowering their prices
we wouldn’t have to take her
ladvice and eat kidney, heart,
tripe ‘and other “meat special-
ties.”

You know, during the war
when meat was rationed we at

least had enough money to buy
steak once a week, but now,
although butcher shops are lad-
en with steaks and chops we
haven’t the price. Reminds me
of Alice in Wonderland—‘Jam
tomorrow, jam _ yesterday, but
never jam _ today.’—B.G.

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Smiling Korean women greet Chinese volunteers

woman and evéry women’s org-
anization will join with. us in
demanding that parliament intro-
duce subsidies on milk, bread
and the necessities of life; that
it increase family allowances
and legislate equal pay for equal
work.”
* x *

SIGNED by Mrs. Rae Luck-
ock, president, and Mrs. Libbie
Park, executive secretary, the
call reads in part:

“Bvery Canadian woman .wants
peace and a world in which her
loved ‘ones will be free from the
pain and fear of war. This na-
tional conference will discuss
every possible idea to defend
peace, to bring about the firmest
unity and action of all Canadian
women to save our country and
the world from the horror of a
third world war.

“We are convinced that Can-
ada’s women can be an effective
and truly decisive force in ach-
jieving peace; we appeal to all
women, to all women’s organiza-
tions to come together with us
in this endeavor and to place
before this conference their
ideas, their proposals upon ways
and means to avert war, to save
peace.

“One of the aims that we. sug-
gest. this conference should un-

-dertake is the, drawing up of a

Peace Charter for Canadian Wo-
men, which, we suggest, should
be presented for consideration to
the government of Canada short-
ly ,after the conference.”

| WOMEN OF THE PEOPLE — 1

~ Dora Bjarnason

ae, DORA BJARNASON’S hair is white but her smile
iS full of youthful vitality. She is known to many wo-
Men in this city for her steady faithful work in the
‘Coneress of Canadian Women, and before that, in the

VWousewives’ Consumer Association. But it is only of
bs récent years that she has’ been able to devote herself to
cog itn 3 ee . ,

organizational work.

Pa See

* The major job of Dora’s life has been bringing up
hier ‘Seven children. They are all married now and have
@iven her seven grandchildren. They all shine in their
chosen fields of work, which range from music and dress

designing to labor organizing. A proud achievement!

ng the Hungry Thirties she had to take board-
pmient the income from her husband's car-sell-

she says, “I think they must have marked
* but in those hard years there was little oc-
casion for smiling.

Talkime to her, you feel that this modest hard-
working® Woman never felt sorry for herself through all
the strami@and worry of raising a large family during
the depression.

Sinee GOming to Vancouver one of Dora’s most viv-
id tecollections was the RCMP’s attack on the unem-
ployed whoStaged the famous Post Office sit-in strike.

“THE ‘then ‘were perfectly orderly until the police
tear-gassed them,” she recalls. “Then they went wild!”

Dora is proud of the fact that she and her husband
were foundation members of the Labor-Progressive
party. When reproached with doing more work than is
good for her health she always promises to, be.careful
but adds, “Nothing is too much trouble if it'll. get. us
peace and lower prices. It’s for the children, that’s why
it’s so important.” ‘

“Naturally, this nutrition , econ-
mist does not mention the mil-
lions: of dollars of profit being
Made by the firm she works for,

Their homes are in ruins and even in the ruins there is no Army tell their own story.
security from American bombers, but the smiles on the faces of raid < ¥ 7
these Korean women and children who have emerged from their China News Agency following liberation of Jai Chen, Kun U Ri, by j lf

hiding places to greet Chinese volunteers of the Korean People’s the Korean People’s Army.

This picture was taken by the New iE Ht

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