‘Women’s news
and viewpoint

By RUTH DOHERTY

“The health of every individual
is a social concern and respon-
sibility,” says the report of the
royal commission on health serv-
ices, Although it is reported that
“this philosophy is at variance
with the opinion of most Canadian
doctors,” it is not at variance
with the opinion of a great many
Canadians.

The Canadian Labor Congress
and the Hall Commission favor
an integrated plan covering edu-
cation, preventive measures
treatment, rehabilitation and re-
search, The CLC believes it
should also be portable, contin-
uous, and available to all with-
out financial deterrents, and
administered through group
treatment centres, ____

We can all think of areas where
health care could be extended and
improved without impinging on
the rights of the individual, doc-
tor or patient, in our Canadian
way of life,

Eskimoes and Indians in iso-
lated regions would be included
in such a plan and it is certainly
time we gave up pussyfooting
around the edges of the cesspool
which we have made in this area,

It has been said that death
from cancer of the cervix in
women has been halved by the
Smear test and free laboratory
facilities. Convenient clinics
such as those for chest x-rays
would probably reduce the danger
of this most common form of
cancer to the vanishing point,

Although we are told again
and again that a regular physical
check-up is essential to good
health, how many private pre-
payment plans include this serv-

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‘ice, A universal plan could also
include dental, optical and
chronic care,

The right of the parent to con-
trol over his child is sacred in
our society except when the par-
ent provides his son with a glass
of beer, but a gentle hint from
the school medical officer con-
cerning proper nutrition might
be beneficial to the health of the
child, especially if a week or two
at a health resort could also be
prescribed, free of charge,

A comprehensive health plan
could also include housing, out-
patient care and homelike centres
for aged and handicapped, Many
women whose families are grown
could be retrained to provide
compassionate and understanding
care for such centres, thereby
solving the related problem of
careers for middle-aged women,

However, there are powerful
interests opposing any such plan,
The B.C, Social Credit League
has urged the government to in-
troduce a partial rather than
comprehensive medical scheme,
This would mean a scheme such
as that in Alberta which subsi-
dizes existing private plans, and
resulted in increased premiums
there, We must let it be known
that this isn’t good enough,

When they ask you where the
money will come from, well,
the commission’s economic con-
sultants reported that a compre-
hensive health scheme-could be
financed by increased revenue
resulting from a reduction in un-
employment from 5% to 4%, The
Economic Advisory Council in
its report has said that such a
reduction can and must take
place,

An awareness is developing in
our society that there are re-
sponsibilities which the individu-
al owes to society and conversely,
that society owes the individual,
Ideally, society and the individu-
al should be one and the same,
and technology in the medical
field as in industry had developed
to the point where the collective

way is the least costly inthe end.

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GAGLARDI GOES THROUGH PICKET LINE

Kamloops strike in fifth month

By RAY McINNES

KAMLOOPS — On Saturday,
Jan, 23rd Mr, and Mrs. George
Frolek celebrated their 60th wed=
ding anniversary. Many distin-
guished visitors called to pay
their respects. The Hon, P.A.
Gaglardi, members of local bus-
iness and municipal councils, to
mention a few.

There were truckloads of flow-
ers and many friends, It was
open house to everyone — every-
one, that is, except a group of
Mr. Frolek’s workers who stood
outside on Halston Road, cele-
brating an anniversary of their
own, It was four months to the
day that the workers in the Fro-
lek mill went on strike after he
refused to recognize the exis-

CHARLES STEWART, veteran B.C. Com-
munist and well-known trade union-
ist, suffered.a slight heart attack re-
cently-and is now recuperating in hos-
pital. Stewart is one of the most loved
and respected figures in the B.C. labor
movement. The PT joins with his many
friends in wishing him a speedy and
complete recovery.

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tence of a legally certified union
in his plant.

It really wasn’ta very different
day from any other for the work-
ers, as they have been main-
taining a picket lime outside the
plant, which adjoins the Frolek
house, 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, since the strike
began,

The workers, their weather-
beaten placards a signal of their
grim determination, have, de-
spite overwhelming odds, noticed
some signs of victory,

Many scabs, who are operating
the mill at about half capacity,
have been quitting . . . Extra
watchmen have been hired and
supplied with rifles. Nightly they
patrol back and forth across
Halston Road, past the picket
line,

Once in a fit of excitement,
one of these watchmen fired three
shots at goodness knows what.
It would be incorrect to say that
this gun-toting does not worry the
picketers, With the memory of
Kapuskasing and the death of
ithree men on their minds, the
courageous strikers know full
well what can happen when you
put guns in the hands of such
people,

There has been support from
members of other unions who
have refused to cross the picket
line. Electricians, carpenters,
plumbers, teamsters, almost all
railway workers (except offic-
ials) have turned back after
reaching the line;

The strike goes on. Now init’s
fifth month, The small band of
pickets who maintain their often
dark and lonely vigil along Hal-
ston Road are determined to win,
despite threats of violence, de-

spite guns, despite lack of police ~
protection and despite the bull- —
headedness of the mill owner and
his son, who will not sign a
union agreement of any kind.

To talk to the courageous men
who maintain the Halston Road
picket line, there can only be
felt an assurance of victory...
there can only be a feeling of
deep admiration for these heroic
fighters,

The Hon, P.A, Gaglardi, while
leaving the Frolek party, became ~
vexed at a youth who took a pic- —
ture and vainly tried to snatch —
the camera. Failing in his ef-
fort, Mr, Gaglardi then loudly
denounced the strikers. The
police looked on,

U.S. labor
veteran dies

The workingclass of the U,S, —
and Canada have suffered agreat —
loss in the untimely death of ©
Brother Bert Dietz, long time —
resident of Seattle, Wash, i

Bert Dietz played a leading role ~
in the founding and building of —
the IWA and the CIO, He was 2 ~
talented journalist and writer
for the labor press and a con-
sistent fighter for peace and
working class progress,

In addition to being a sincere ©
and dedicated trade unionist,
Brother Dietz was a staunch —
supporter of Socialist ideals; for —
the day when the exploitation of

I join with his many friends in ~
tribute to his memory, andshare 4
with their grief in this great loss, q

—Harold Pritchett.

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