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eet Wife of a farmer near Humboldt, Tennessee, Mrs. Chester Williams lights the wick of her kerosene stove for the last time. The Williams family is the millionth customer of TVA power and is replacing the old stove with an electric range. Systems using TVA power have been serving 10,000 new customers a

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BYLAW REPEAL DEMANDED

Farris ‘orates’ in park-- but police stopped Effie

Senator J. W. deB. Farris made a mer New Brunswick residents at Stanley Park afternoon——and there wasn’t a cop or detective in the

political speech to 600 for- Park duck pond Saturday

crowd.

Among the citizens who heard the senator speak was Mrs. Effie

Jones. City detectives attempted to stop her speaking to 40 women on the Same spot, on the grounds that “political speeches were not al- lowed.”

“My talk wasn’t even a politi- cal speech, but a report on a Peace conference in Toronto,” Said Mrs Jones. “Yet I was in-

terrupted by two officious detec- .

tives, and could not continue un- til I had led a protesting group of women to see the park super- intendent, Mr, Stroyan.” ,

Senator Farris declaimed about “the threat of the domination of the state over the individual” and “the threat of falling markets for our goods.” He advocated “great- er production and thrift” on the Part of workers.

The excuse advanced for inter- Tuption. of Mrs. Jones’ speech was

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She was there for a purpose.

Just a few short weeks ago

that a park bylaw prohibits all.

public statements on the grounds. Yet Senator Farris held forth for half an hour without interrup- tion, and nearby, ex-Alderman Willard Greyall delivered a lengthy oration to the Enderby Association. I

“I don’t deny the right of these gentlemen to speak,” said Mrs. Jones. “I defend: thein right to or- ate to their hearts’ content But I also demand that this right be extended to all citizens.”

Many groups and organizations have asked that the restrictive park bylaw be rescinded. This week Civic Employees Union Lo- cal 28 passed a resolution sup- porting this demand and con- demning any restriction on the right of free speech.

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MARRIED. WOMEN MUST RESIGN

ALARMED by~ the economic situation and the threat of an- other depression, B.C.’s Civil Ser- vice Commission revealed mental bankruptcy this week in publiciz- ing a callous plan to fire all mar- ried women civi] servants when the slump comes.

A high-ranking official of the commission told reporters: “We don’t want them (married women who are civil servants) to get the idea they are firmly implanted in their , jobs.”

Many married women entered the civil service during the crucial war years. Now they are being told that, having contributed their services, when needed, the govern- ment intends to kick them out of their jobs and back into the kit- chen,

There’s a stumbling block in the Sex Disqualification Act of» 1931, but the commissioners think they have found a crafty way to get around the terms of the act. Their plan: to force all married women employees to hand in ad- vance resignations as a condition of employment. When the com- mission figures the time is ripe

-to get rid of women employees, it will simply “accept” the resig- nations on file.

The Sex Disqualification Act provides that no person shall be disqualified by’ reason of sex or marriage from holding a public post,

The commissioners ~ brazenly boast that their plan will enable them to subvert the spirit of the act, while still paying technical lip service to it.

Women throughout the prov-

ince are expected to raise a storm of protest against the discrimina-

tory machinations of the Civil Service Commission.

The axe which the commission- ers propose to hold over the heads

of married women in the civil ser-

B.C. Civil Service Commission subverts act protecting women

vice will also threaten the jobs of all married women workers in British Columbia. For the pattern set by the government will un- doubtedly be followed by industry.

Polio on increase

Vancouver is hardest hit of any Canadian city by the polio

epidemic that is sweeping the continent. Two people have died; 79 more -have been treated at hospital. In the picture above, George P. Voss, epidemic coordinator for the U.S. National Foun- dation for Infantile Paralysis, is showm in New York studying a polio incidence chart for 1949. It shows a 38 percent increase over the same period in 1948. Polio usually hits hardest in Aug-

ust and September.

Daily papers in Vancouver have attempted to “play down” the local epidemic, urging readers to keep a “proper perspective” and repeating that “there is nothing alarming in the present outbreak.” There is, however, real cause for alarm. Of the 81 victims treated here, 59 are still in hospital, and new cases are reported daily. Hospital authorities stated that 55 of the 81 con- firmed cases are from Vancouver, four from North Vancouver, two from West Vancouver, six from ~.Burnaby, four from Rich- mond, two from Haney, two from Vancouver Island, and one each from Port Moody, Agassiz, Crescent Beach, Abbotsford,

Gabriola and Cloverdale.

“WONDERFUL. PEOPLE, THESE HOUSEWIVES’

How women of London suburbs helped out Canadian seamen

PERHAPS you are a_ busy housewife, struggling to raise a

family and manage a home on an ~

income that’s always smaller than your needs, and much as you want to help you don’t see what you can do in the fight for better living conditions, and for peace. Well, this account taken from Women Today, a British publication, may give you some ideas:

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“It started for Stepney when some housewives went to this year’s International Women’s Day meeting. The speeches, par- ticularly those by the French delegates, moved them very much. These words, they felt, expressed their own feelings about the pre- parations for yet another world war. So they made up their minds to be represented at the World Peace Congress in Paris—. which meant ‘that they had to raise money and develop interest among their neighbors.

“On the front of some chil- drens’ exercise books they stuck a label saying: ‘This is a peace” notebook. In it the women of

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Stepney are writing why they hate and will oppose war If enough women send messages and give a small donation we. shall send this book with others to the World Congress.’

“They were all working-class housewives, with homes to look after, children to care for, shop- ping, washing and cleaning to be

. done. But they managed to fill 62

notebooks and to collect enough money to send Betty Passingham as their delegate to Paris. How was it done?

“When they took their children to school, their notebooks went with them. A notebook was al- ways in their shopping basket, and some shopkeepers agreed to put one on the counter. Messages were collected at the°clinic. They took notebooks along to local meetings organized for other pur- poses, and then went from door to door—and in doing so discov- ered how really worried our wo- men are about a new war.

“As a result of this work, a group of housewives developed to lead the peace campaign. They arranged a pram poster parade through the Saturday morning market and got all the shoppers talking. . E

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“THEN, after the Congress, when they were busy arrenging report-back meetings, a docker

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came to see Frances, the organ- izer. ‘Some Canadian seamen in a ship in port are on strike,’ he said. ‘The shipowners have lock- ed up the ship’s food supply. Cam the Stepney housewives help?’

“Twelve hours later some téti women, lugging great bundles, made the awkward journey from Stepney to the docks ...

“The seamen were touched and thrilled. And when the court or- dered the men off the ship ‘these women arranged hospitality for 80 men and two women, showing real organizing ability and won- derful initiative They went into the propaganda fight too, and ex- plained to the women in the back

streets what the strike was BPOUL sis

“Yes, wonderful people these housewives! But there are won- derful women everywhere .. .”

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I was thrilled when I read

what these courageous hard-

working women are doing to help our Canadian boys. They need our help, too. They need it des- perately. They are without funds. They are sleeping in their union halls, and living off scanty meals. Surely housewives groups, Peace Action committees and other wo- men’s groups could do more than they are doing to help. You too, can organize food parcels or send some financial] help to these grand boys. — DORISE NIELSEN..

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