LOCAL 1-71 MEMBERS
VOTING ON STRIKE BALLOT

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

WELDWOOD SAWMILL CREW

ADOPTS KOREAN YOUNGSTER

Thirty-five IWA members
and two foremen employed at
the Weldwood Sawmill in
Quesnel, have joined together
to adopt a seven year old
Korean boy through the aus-
pices of the ‘Foster Parents
Plan,’ one of the numerous
humanitarian agencies which
devote their efforts to feed-
ing, clothing and schooling,
children left homeless in the
war-torn areas of the world.

The Foster Parents Plan
operates by a number of in-
dividuals forming into a group
and contributing one dollar
per member per month for the
upkeep of a starving or or-
phaned: child.

When a group adopts a
child, The Foster Parents
Plan agency keeps a record of
those who contribute, provides
a history of the child plus a
photograph and all the neces-
sary information to communi-
cate with the adoptee. ;

When the child writes to
his foster. parents they receive
the original letter plus a
translation supplied by the
Plan. As an indication of the
expanse of this operation,
37,000 letters per month are
being translated.

The child adopted by the
Quesnel group is Kim: Chi
Moon, who lives in a card-
board and canvas hovel with
his mother and 13-year-old

KIM CHI MOON
Seven year old Korean boy who
was adopted by 35 members of
the Weldwood Sawmill crew in

Quesnel under the Foster Parents
Plan.

sister. Prior to his adoption
by the group, Kim, his sister
and mother lived on, the 31
cents a day she made working
in a popcorn factory. (Kim’s
father died in 1967 after the
family fled from Nort

Korea). :

With the money from the
Quesnel employees, Kim can
now attend school and the
family has sufficient funds to
allow them to function as a
family-unit free from want.

The man responsible for
starting the group at the mill
and who did most of the or-
ganizing, Job Steward Earl
Allen, reported that the adop-
tion move has brought the
crew closer together and
everybody in the mill is tak-
ing an active interest in Kim’s
progress.

Even the Company has
taken an interest and has sup-
plied a glass case in the saw-
mill lunchroom in which to
display the various letters,
pictures, etc., which the crew
receives from Kim. ;

Allen added that the Plan
will forward individual re-
ceipts as donations are tax
deductible, but no one in the
mill is interested. As one East
Indian put it, “This is a
Korean boy, but maybe some-
one is doing the same for a
bay in India.”

COAST STRIKE VOTE RESULTS

Loggers, 1-71
Duncan, 1-80 __.

Port Alberni, 1-85

Victoria, 1-118
Vancouver, 1-217
New Westminster, 1-357
Courtenay, 1-363
Haney, 1-367

Total

LIGHTER SIDE

Two English magistrates
were cycling home together at
night, without lights, when
they were stopped by a police-
man, They were duly charged
and, when their cases came
up for hearing the next day,
they agreed that each should
Jeave the bench in turn to
have his case heard by the
other,

The first went into the dock,
pleaded guilty and was
promptly fined ten shillings.
When they had changed
places, the second magistrate,
after pleading - guilty, was
shocked to receive a 15-shill-
ing fine. “That’s a bit unfair,”
he complained. “I fined you
only ten shillings.”

“I know,” replied his col-
league haughtily. “But there’s
entirely too much of this sort
of thing going on. This is the
second case we’ve tried to-
day.”

—The English Digest

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